Last Updated: March 17, 2025

Thanks for visiting Bright Coders! Bright Coders is an online academy that offers courses for students from ages 7-18 on programming.

This Privacy Policy describes how Mined, Inc. (“Mined”, “Bright Coders”, “we”, “us”, and/or “our”) handles the Personal Information we collect from and about you when you visit our website, brightcoders.com (“the Site”); when you or your children use our web application; or when you otherwise interact with us. It also describes certain legal rights you may have, subject to applicable law, and how you can exercise them.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information about identified or identifiable individuals, such as their name, mobile phone number, and email address, and includes “personal data” as defined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and “personal information” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

By using Bright Coders’ Service, you confirm you have agreed to the Bright Coders Terms of Use, to the extent permitted by law, and have read and understood this Privacy Policy. Any terms used herein and not defined will have the meanings given to them in the Bright Coders Terms of Use.

A Note for Minors: To register for Bright Coders classes you must be over the age of 18. Parents registering for Bright Coders on behalf of their child must give their consent at the time of registration to permit us to collect Personal Information from their child.

Information We Collect

****Information you give us directly

We collect information that you voluntarily provide in the following ways: ● Information collected when you request information or join Bright Coders. When you fill in forms on our Site including when you request additional information about our Service or contact our Admissions Advisors, we may require that you provide us with certain information such as your first and last name, email address, mobile phone number, address, and time zone, as well as your child’s name, age, and weekly availability; how you heard about Bright Coders; and any other information about your child that you believe is relevant for us to know. If you choose to purchase classes, we require that you provide us, or our third-party payment processor, Stripe, with your name, payment card information, and billing address.

● Information collected when creating your child’s account. If you enroll for our Service, we will provide you with access to the Bright Coders website. We will populate your family’s account with the information supplied during registration and ask you to set a password for that account that can be shared with your family. Later your child may choose to add information such as a username, profile photo, biographical information, location, projects s/he is working on, and videos about these projects. We advise students to choose a username that does not reveal their real name or any other information that could identify them. Other Bright Coders users will be able to see your child’s username, chosen avatar or profile photo, general location, and any other content they choose to make public.

● Information collected from instructors. When instructors join Bright Coders, we ask them to provide us with their email address, mobile phone number and create a password for their account. Like students, instructors can choose to add information such as a username, profile photo, biographical information, and their location. Over time, we may collect information about the classes instructors are associated with, their responses to surveys and feedback requests, and reviews from their students.

● Information collected when you or your child contacts us. When you or your child contacts us by email; through our branded social media accounts; through any integrated chat providers we may offer, or by telephone, SMS, or physical mail, we may collect your (or your child’s) name, username, email address, mobile phone number, physical address, and the contents of your communication which can include any information you (or your child) choose to provide. We may use that information for the purpose of providing the service or support requested, or communicating promotions or for marketing purposes.

● Information collected when registering for a competition (such as our online Hackathon), signing up to receive newsletters from us, subscribing to our blog, or completing a survey. When you engage in any of these activities, we may collect your name, email address, and mobile phone number as well as your child’s name, age, grade level, past programming experience, and any information you provide to us as part of that request (such as information about your user experience in response to a survey).

● Information collected when your child shares User Content. We collect any information that your child provides to us when he or she creates or publishes projects, records videos, writes comments, or posts on forums accessible to other Bright Coders students and instructors.

● Information collected via AI Functions. We may collect information you or your child provides that is included in User Content you or your child uploads or provides for use with the AI Functions. You should be aware that any information you or your child provides in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them, as well as by our third party service providers such as OpenAI, L.L.C. and Anthropic, and, since we have no direct relationship with any person other than you, you are responsible for making sure that you have the appropriate permission and legal basis for us to collect and process User Content.

● Information collected through your child’s participation in classes and other virtual events. To enable our virtual classes and other live events such as Bright Coders meetings, we use third-party services, such as Daily.co, to stream video and audio feed of interactions between students and instructors as well as the contents of any communications enabled by integrated chat functions. Certain information is captured incidentally through your child’s participation in such events, including your child’s image, voice, movements, physical environment, and any other information provided during the event. Ordinarily, neither we, nor Daily.co, retain this information. However, from time to time, we may record special events and make those recordings accessible to other users of the Bright Coders Service. If we do so, we will indicate that the event will be recorded.

● Information collected when you invite others to use Bright Coders. Our Service allows you to invite others to use Bright Coders. If you do this or are invited in this way, we will collect and store the invitee’s email address and/or mobile phone number in order to enable us to send an invitation via email, a call, or SMS. We will also let the invitee know who invited them to use Bright Coders and let him/her request that his/her information be deleted from our systems.

● Information collected when you scan your badge or otherwise leave your details with us at a marketing event. In these circumstances, we may collect details such as your name, company name, job title, address, mobile phone number, and email address.

● Information collected when you apply to work with us. If you apply to work with us, we will collect any information you choose to share in your application, including your name, email address, mobile phone number, physical address, employment history, and education history. Information we collect automatically when you use our Service We also collect certain information automatically as you navigate our Service.