Our two apps report a student’s progress back to the Foundation so we can show funders the programs work. They never ask a student who they are, and nothing starts until a parent says yes.
Global MAP Foundation publishes two free apps for students. Each one is unlocked by an access code that only a parent or guardian can obtain, and it is issued only after that parent has read and agreed to what is on this page. Until a code is entered, the app sends nothing anywhere.
Once it is unlocked, the app reports what the student did — which lessons and cases they finished, how long they spent, and their quiz and assessment scores — against that code. It never reports who they are. The app asks a student for no name, no email address, no age and no phone number, and it collects no device identifier, no advertising identifier and no location.
Our website and program registration are covered by a separate privacy policy. This page is only about the two apps.
A parent or guardian registers their student on our website and checks a consent box there. Only then does the Foundation issue an access code, and only the parent receives it. There is no way to obtain a code without that consent on record, and the app cannot report anything without a code.
That is deliberate. It means a child is never the one deciding, and never the one asked.
After the code is entered, and only then, the app sends:
That is the whole list. The access code is a lasting identifier, and the Foundation can match it to the student named on the registration a parent filled in, so we treat everything above as personal information about that student and protect it accordingly. Nobody looking at the app’s traffic on its own could tell who the student is — the connection between a code and a real child exists only in our own registration records.
We do not record the internet address the app connects from.
Every grant application and every grant report asks the same questions: how many young people were served, how much of the program they actually completed, and whether they learned anything measurable. An app that reports nothing cannot answer any of them, and programs that cannot answer them do not get funded again.
So the Foundation uses this to count students served, see how far through a program they got, find the places where students give up, and compare a pre-assessment score against a post-assessment score. Those figures are reported to funders as totals and averages. We do not publish or share an individual student’s scores.
The apps also save things locally so a student can put the app down and come back to it — their place in a lesson, their settings, and a first name or callsign if they choose to enter one. Both apps work with that left blank. This never leaves the device, is not sent to us, and is deleted with the app.
Neither app shows advertising. Neither contains a third-party analytics package, an advertising network, a crash reporting service or a social login. Nothing is tracked across other apps or websites, and no data is ever sold or given to a data broker. The only place a student’s progress goes is the Foundation’s own server.
Med-Surg Discovery asks permission to send notifications. They are the pages from the simulated hospital ward and they are central to how the app teaches. Every one is created by the app on the device itself — none is sent through a server and none contains personal information. The permission can be declined, or turned off later in the device’s Settings, and the rest of the app works either way. Money Sense Discovery does not use notifications.
Both apps are written for students roughly ten to eighteen years old, and children under thirteen use them. Because the access code is a lasting identifier, what the app reports counts as personal information collected from a child, and we handle it the way that requires: a parent or guardian gives consent in advance, is told exactly what will be collected, and receives the code themselves.
A parent can withdraw that consent at any time. We will stop collecting, delete everything already collected, and the app will simply stop reporting. We collect no more from a student than the program needs to be measured, and we never make giving more a condition of taking part.
Progress records are kept for three years after a student’s last activity, which is the window a funder can audit a grant in, and are then deleted automatically. Registration details a parent gave us are deleted at the same time.
A parent can ask us to delete their student’s records at any point, for any reason, without explaining why. Email info@globalmapfoundation.org and we will do it — the deletion is immediate on our side once we have matched the request to the right record, and always inside thirty days. It removes the progress records, the registration and the access code together, and it cannot be undone.
Med-Surg Discovery is a simulation for students. Its patients are fictional. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose or treat anyone, and nothing in it is medical advice. It is not a substitute for care from a licensed clinician and must not be used to make a decision about a real person’s health.
Money Sense Discovery teaches financial concepts using a fictional currency in a fictional economy. It does not recommend any real product, institution, security or ticker, and nothing in it is financial, investment, tax or legal advice.
If this policy changes we will replace this page, and the version here is always the one in force. Where a change affects what we collect from a student, parents are asked to agree again rather than having the new terms applied to consent they already gave.
Questions, or a deletion request: info@globalmapfoundation.org or (619) 377-7594. Global MAP Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 92-1759981, based in San Diego County, California.