Privacy notice
Last updated 29 October 2026
Genious is a free revision website. You can use every topic without an account. If you create one, we store what's listed below so your progress follows you between devices. We don't sell your data, show adverts or share your data with anyone for marketing.
Contact
Questions about your data, or a request we can't handle on your account page? Email privacy@genious.co.uk.
Who can have an account
You must be 13 or older to create an account. If you're younger, you can still use all of Genious without one.
What we store and why
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your first name, email address and password (stored scrambled, so nobody can read it) | To create your account, log you in, and send account emails such as "confirm your email" and "reset your password". |
| Your year group and school (optional) | To suggest the courses other students at your school take. We only ever show counts of three or more students, never names. |
| Your subjects, course, tier and exam dates | To show you the right content and, later, to build your dashboard and revision timetable. |
| Your answers, marks, quiz scores, and which notes, videos and past papers you open | To save your progress and show you which topics are strong and which need work. |
| When you use AI marking: the answer you asked it to mark, the mark and feedback, and a count of how many markings you've used | To mark your answer and show you where you gained and lost marks, and to keep to the daily limit of free AI markings. |
| Your IP address and browser, with each login session | To keep your account secure and stop people guessing passwords. |
We use these only to run Genious for you. Under UK data protection law (UK GDPR), our lawful basis is contract: providing the service you signed up for. For security logging it is our legitimate interest in keeping accounts safe.
Cookies
We use one essential cookie to keep you logged in. There are no advertising or tracking cookies. If you don't have an account, your progress is saved only in your own browser.
Who else handles your data
- Our server host, where the database is stored.
- Resend, which delivers our account emails. It only receives your email address and the email itself.
- Anthropic, which makes Claude, the AI that marks answers when you click Mark with AI. It receives the question, the mark scheme and your answer, but not your name or email address. Anthropic doesn't use this to train its AI models. Nothing is sent unless you click the button.
- YouTube: video thumbnails are loaded from YouTube, and videos open on YouTube, which has its own privacy policy.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while you have an account. When you delete your account, everything linked to it is deleted straight away. Database backups are kept for up to 14 days, then removed.
Your rights
- See your data: use Download my data on your account page.
- Correct it: change your details on your account page.
- Delete it: use Delete my account on your account page.
- You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
School list
The school search uses the Department for Education's Get Information about Schools register. It contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.