Privacy Policy

Homeschool Fair is a directory of homeschool providers across the United States and an organiser of homeschool fairs. This policy covers homeschoolfair.org, the Homeschool Fair iPhone app, and the events we run.

Questions, corrections and deletion requests all go to info@mail.homeschoolfair.org.

If you are just browsing

Nothing that identifies you. We count page and listing views in aggregate so providers can see whether being listed is worth anything. Those counts are not tied to a person.

If you create an account or join the community

Your email address, the name you give us, and anything you choose to put in a profile or a post. We use your email to sign you in — we send a link rather than asking you to invent another password — and to send you things you asked for.

If you contact a provider

Your message, your name and your email are passed to that provider so they can reply. We keep a copy so you can see your own message history.

If you list a business

Your business details, contact information and anything you add to your listing. This is published deliberately — it is the point of a directory. Some listings were built from publicly available information before the owner claimed them; see Listings we created.

If you use School Tracker

Parents can keep their household’s School records: children’s first names, lessons, hours and notes. Only the parents in that household can see them. Our staff do not look at children’s records. We only help with the account itself.

Security and anti-spam

We use Cloudflare Turnstile on public forms to keep bots out. It receives your IP address and basic browser information for that check. We use it because it does not profile you or follow you around the web.

Payments

Providers who buy a subscription tier, a fair booth or a sponsored slot pay through Stripe. Stripe handles the card details — we never see or store your card number. We keep a record of what was bought, when, and for how much.

This site and app are for parents and providers, not for children. Children do not get their own accounts. A parent may add a child’s details to their own School Tracker; those stay private to that household. If a child has given us information directly, email us and we will remove it.

Please do not put your child’s full name, photograph or anything identifying them in a public profile or forum post.

Family profiles are members-only by default and their street address, postcode and map coordinates are stripped before anything is served publicly. This is enforced in the software, not by policy alone. A map is only ever shown for a business that meets families in person and has given an address for that purpose.

Some provider listings were built from publicly available information before the provider claimed them. Every listing says where its information came from. If a listing is about you or your business, you can:

• claim it and edit it yourself,
• ask us to correct anything that is wrong, or
• ask us to take it down on one of the grounds below.

We do not take a listing down simply because it was asked for. A listing is a record of a business that serves homeschool families, built from information that is already public, and a directory that dropped providers on request would be of little use to the families it exists for. We do take one down if the business has closed, the listing duplicates another, it is not a real provider, or it exposes a home address or another genuine safety risk. Use the link on the listing or email us, and a person will read it.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not give it to advertisers. We share it only with the services that make the site work:

• Stripe — payments
• Cloudflare — bot protection and content delivery
• Our email provider — sign-in links and the messages you asked us to send
• Providers you message — your name, email and message

We will also disclose information if the law requires it.

A provider can choose to connect their Instagram (or Facebook) account to their listing, so their latest posts show on it. This is always the provider's choice, and only they can do it.

What we get when you connect

• Your public account name and profile picture.
• Your most recent public posts: the photo or video preview, caption, date and link.
• A login key from Meta that lets us fetch new posts. We store it encrypted.

What we never do

• We never post for you, read your messages, or see your followers.
• We never sell this information or use it for ads.

How to remove it

Press Disconnect on your listing, or remove our app in your Instagram or Facebook settings. We then delete the login key and every post we saved. You can also ask us on the data deletion page.

When you delete your account, we close it straight away and stop any plan you pay for, so you are not charged again. Your account, household and School records are then archived for 6 months and permanently deleted after that. Your sign-in details (password, sign-in links, app notification keys) are deleted right away, not archived.

Changed your mind? You can restore your account yourself within 30 days, using “Restore a deleted account” on the sign-in page. After 30 days, email us and we can restore it until the 6 months are up.

A listing is different: if you owned one, it stays in the directory as unclaimed, following the rules above. Messages stay so both sides keep their history. Aggregate view counts are kept because they identify nobody.

• Ask for a copy of what we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct anything wrong.
• Delete your account yourself: Settings → Sessions → Delete Account. Or email us and we will do it.
• Ask us to take a listing down on one of the grounds above.
• Unsubscribe from any email we send.
• Disconnect Instagram or Facebook and have what we saved deleted (see the data deletion page).

One address for all of it: info@mail.homeschoolfair.org.

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If a change materially affects how we handle your information, we will say so plainly rather than quietly editing the page.