Privacy Policy – Terms of Use

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://kidmedia.net

Kidmedia is an educational software development project founded in 2005 by special education teachers Pagratis Pavlidis and Christos Bitsis as co-founders with equal rights and responsibilities. Our mission is to create quality interactive learning games and educational tools specialising in children with learning difficulties, special needs, and disabilities.

Our Collaborative Network:

We maintain ongoing collaboration with Sesat Ltd (Cyprus) under a fiscal hosting arrangement, coordinated by Pantelis Makris. Sesat Ltd assists with administrative support, Erasmus+ programme coordination, and educational project development. This website operates independently while benefiting from this technical and administrative partnership.

Our Creative Team includes: Special education teacher Ioulia Dimou, early childhood educator and musician Valentini Pavlidou, musician-programmer Georgios Pavlidis, and programmer Konstantinos Bitsis.

We create applications that we first test in real classrooms, evaluate their effectiveness with actual students, and then publish them on our website. Our primary goal is to develop quality interactive learning games for children and teaching tools to support educators and parents. We focus on early learning stages and ensure all our applications are suitable for children with disabilities, featuring minimal verbal communication and adaptable difficulty levels.

Our Mission & Vision

Kidmedia.net provides completely free access to all educational content and interactive applications published on this website. Our vision is to become "the PhET of special education" - a global, free, research-based platform of interactive learning games and printable materials for children with special needs.

We are transitioning from a commercial subscription model to a non-profit approach supported by voluntary donations through the "Kidmedia Team Supporters" (KTS) association, established by the end of September 2025 to promote and enhance our educational work.

Funding & Support

This free platform is maintained through:

• Voluntary donations via KTS association
• European programme funding (Erasmus+)
• Revenue sharing from kidmedia.gr (Greek platform) - 20% supports kidmedia.net
• Educational collaboration partnerships

Donations are managed exclusively by the KTS association and used for website maintenance, content development, translation services, and ensuring continued free access to all materials.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, plus the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

For more information about cookies, visit: https://kidmedia.net/cookie-policy/

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Interactive Applications - H5P

All interactive online applications that we publish do not store personal data about your interactions or any information in our website database. We do not process or store personal data about your interactions with the H5P applications we publish on our website because we have not integrated the xAPI.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not share or disclose your personal data under any circumstances unless required to do so by court order or public prosecutor's order.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username) on their account page after logging in: https://kidmedia.net/my-account/. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To submit a request that we send you or delete your personal data from our website, please use the contact form or send an email to info@kidmedia.net.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Personal Data Manager

The general management and supervision of the kidmedia.net website is conducted by the co-founders as part of the Kidmedia educational project.

Mr Christos Bitsis, resident of Greece, has been appointed as the person responsible for all matters related to the management of personal data for the kidmedia.net website.

Complaints & Competent Authority

You can make complaints and any requests regarding issues related to the management of personal data by sending a message to the contact form or an email to info@kidmedia.net. The competent body for resolving disputes is the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Cyprus.

Terms of Use for All Digital Materials

Free Access Terms:

a) Free Usage Rights: All visitors have free access to all digital materials, interactive applications, and printable resources on kidmedia.net. No registration or subscription is required for basic access to educational content.

b) Account Registration (Optional): Registration is always completely free and provides additional features such as progress tracking, personalised settings, the ability to leave comments, and participation in community polls regarding the development of new projects and future translations. Account creation is entirely voluntary and can be completed at: kidmedia.net/free-registration

c) Email Communications: If you register for an account, you may receive occasional updates about new applications, educational resources, and platform developments (maximum 2-4 times monthly). You can unsubscribe at any time using the link provided in each email.

d) Newsletter Subscription (Optional): Stay updated with new kidmedia.net educational content and applications. Our newsletter's primary purpose is to inform subscribers about new content published on kidmedia.net. During registration, you can customise:

• Email frequency preferences
• Language selection (English/Greek)
• Optional updates about kidmedia.gr educational products
• Optional affiliate offers from kidmedia.gr partners

Important: All newsletter selections are entirely voluntary and can be modified or cancelled at any time. You maintain full control over what information you receive and how often. We clearly mark all promotional content and respect your privacy choices. No personal data is shared with third parties without your explicit consent.

e) Child Safety: The responsibility for minors' internet browsing belongs exclusively to supervising adults (parents, guardians, teachers). Our website contains no advertisements or easily accessible external links, but we strongly recommend systematic supervision by responsible adults. The Kidmedia team bears no responsibility for minors' online safety.

f) Healthy Usage: Computer activities, however enjoyable for children, should be used in moderation for health and wellbeing (physical and mental). We encourage adults to implement time limits and regularly monitor computer usage by minors. The Kidmedia team bears no responsibility for health issues arising from misuse of the website and its applications.

g) Intellectual Property: The website and all its content, including applications and printable materials accessible through the website, are the intellectual property of the Kidmedia co-founders (Pagratis Pavlidis and Christos Bitsis). Free personal and educational use is explicitly permitted. Commercial redistribution, sale, rental, or republication of content is prohibited without written consent from the copyright holders.

h) Service Availability: We make every effort to ensure our website is available 24 hours a day, with minimal interruptions. However, temporary service interruptions may occur (e.g., for upgrades or technical issues). No compensation is provided for service interruptions, though we may extend access periods at our discretion when applicable.

i) Data Privacy & Deletion: We promise not to disclose personal information to any third party or use it for any purpose other than platform administration, except with written user consent or when required by legal authorities. Users can request complete data deletion at any time by contacting info@kidmedia.net.

j) Account Management: Registered users can modify their account details through their profile page and can request complete account and data deletion at any time by emailing info@kidmedia.net.

k) Donations & Support: Voluntary donations to support this free platform are managed exclusively by the "Kidmedia Team Supporters" (KTS) association. All donations are used for website maintenance, content development, and ensuring continued free access. Donation receipts are provided by the KTS association.

Contact Information

General inquiries: info@kidmedia.net
Data protection matters: Christos Bitsis via contact form
Donations & support: Via KTS association (details provided upon platform launch)

Last updated: June 2025