For parents & guardians

Draft — August 2026 · pending legal review

The words we use, in one minute

How a quest travels

When the parent is the Navigator, the Guardian and the Navigator are the same person — one signup, same protections. And if a Navigator writes a quest of their own, the Guardian can have it set aside before the Explorer ever knows it existed.

Your role, in one paragraph

Ex-Orbita connects a young person with the caring adults in their life — and the first of those is you. Many parents are both the guardian and the Navigator — the one sending the small discovery quests — and we encourage exactly that: your own signup records your consent, and you simply lead the journey. And when the Navigator is someone else — an older sibling, an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent, a trusted family friend — you are the gate. No connection to your child can exist until you approve it, you can see everything that is ever sent, and you can end it at any moment. The sending adult may create the invitation — but nothing reaches your child until you say yes.

How your approval works

• The invitation comes to you — typically as a text from the inviting adult's own phone, with a private link made just for you. Links work once and expire in 7 days.
• The approval page shows you exactly who is asking, which child it concerns, what they will be able to send and see, and what you control. You'll confirm you are the child's parent or guardian before approving.
• Approving takes about 30 seconds and never requires an account, an app, or a password. That is permanent: a guardian never needs to install anything to stay in control.
• If you are the child's parent and also the one sending quests, your own signup records your consent — same standard, same record.

One thing to have ready: the Explorer's own Apple ID

The Explorer's universe lives in your family's own iCloud, so their iPad or iPhone needs to be signed in with their own Apple Account — that's what keeps their work theirs, private to your family, and off our servers entirely. Many kids already have one. If yours doesn't, it takes about ten quiet minutes, once: Apple's Family Sharing lets you create a child's account under your own, with your consent built in — Apple walks you through it step by step in Create an Apple Account for your child. No phone number is needed — an iPad works perfectly.

What you can always see and do

• See everything, always. Your window shows every quest ever sent to your child — whenever you look, without the Navigator being told you looked. It works from the same kind of private link, forever, or from the app if you choose to install it.
• Set aside a quest the Navigator wrote. Catalog quests are pre-vetted; if a Navigator writes their own quest, you can have it quietly removed from your child's sky. Your reason is never shown to the Navigator.
• Choose notifications. Get a text when a Navigator-written quest goes out — or choose quiet; your visibility never depends on notifications.
• Revoke at any time — including by replying to a text. Revoking immediately stops anything further from reaching your child.
• Export or delete the archive. It lives in your family's own iCloud — so keeping it, exporting it, or deleting it is genuinely in your hands. See Privacy.

What your child will never encounter

• No contact with strangers — only the adults you approved, and there is no open chat with anyone.
• No ads, no in-app purchases on the child's side, no external links out of the child's experience.
• No grades, scores, streaks, or leaderboards — there is no failure state anywhere in the product.
• No data collection by Yent — your child's work stays in your family's iCloud.

Why Ex-Orbita is listed as a regular app, not a "Kids" app

You may notice Ex-Orbita is not in the App Store's Kids Category, and we want to be straightforward about why. The customer and account holder is always an adult. An adult subscribes, an adult sends, and a parent or guardian must give verifiable consent before any child participates — the same pattern as family finance apps that parents administer for their children. Apple's Kids Category is an optional program shaped for apps whose primary audience is children browsing the store themselves; Ex-Orbita's front door is an adult's.

What matters is this: we voluntarily hold the child-facing experience to the under-13 protections anyway — verifiable parental consent under COPPA's standard, no third-party analytics or data sharing from child flows, no un-gated links or commerce anywhere a child can reach, and a privacy design where the child's data never touches our servers at all. The listing category is about who the customer is; the protections are about who the product serves. Your child gets the protections regardless.

Questions

Write to admin@ex-orbita.com — guardian questions and requests reach the maker directly. Every consent, every permission change, and every revocation is recorded, so your rights here are auditable — not promises.