🛡️ Safeguarding & AI Boundaries

Darasa Live is designed for Kenyan students in Grades 1–9. We require a parent or guardian phone number during onboarding and capture written consent under the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019. No tutoring chat is enabled until that consent step is complete.

• Stay on KICD CBC curriculum topics for the student's grade band.
• Explain in age-appropriate language; default to English, switch to Kiswahili if asked.
• Show worked examples, ask follow-up questions, give CBC-style EE/ME/AE/BE feedback.
• Tell the student when it doesn't know something rather than guess.

• No personal advice on dating, relationships, body image, or politics — those go to the parent / guardian.
• No homework that bypasses learning — we coach step-by-step instead of just printing answers.
• No identity collection beyond first name, grade, county, and parent phone.
• No image generation of children, no voice cloning, no synthetic likenesses.
• No advertising, no third-party data sharing.Your child's chat is never sold or shared for advertising.

If a student types something that suggests distress, self-harm, abuse, or danger, the AI is configured to:

1. Stop the lesson and respond with care — not redirect to study content.
2. Share the Befrienders Kenya line (+254 722 178 177) and the Gender Violence Recovery (1195) hotline.
3. Encourage the student to talk to a trusted adult (parent, guardian, teacher, school counsellor).
4. Flag the conversation for parent notification on the next weekly report — without quoting verbatim, and only if the consenting parent has opted in.

We don't auto-call services on the student's behalf. Parents remain the responsible adult.

• Required: first name, grade (1–9), county, parent/guardian phone, parent/guardian name.
• Generated by use: chat messages, quiz answers, session timestamps, topic-completion records.
• NOT collected: precise location, contacts list, photos, microphone, school identifying details (unless voluntarily added in Settings).

• Read the full chat history at any time — go to /parent after logging in with the consenting phone.
• Subscribe to a weekly progress report on WhatsApp (Mondays 09:00 EAT).
• Delete the account and all chat history at any time by sending stop on WhatsApp or contacting safeguarding@darasalive.com.
• Lodge a complaint with Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner — odpc.go.ke.

We are at Stage 1 of 3on academic alignment. Here's the truth:

We'd rather under-promise here than fake it.

For safeguarding concerns specifically: safeguarding@darasalive.com. For everything else, the WhatsApp number on the homepage gets a human response within one working day.