Terms & Privacy

Welcome to www.sparkworks.kids (the “Site”), operated by Cairn Partners, LLC (“Cairn Partners,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

The Site is informational, with one exception. This Site shares information about Sparkworks, our after-school critical-thinking classes. Signing up here is a request, not an enrollment and not a charge: it does not reserve a place and does not obligate you to pay. Enrollment happens separately, by private invitation link — that form is a contract and it does take payment. The agreement you sign there governs your enrollment, not this page.

Acceptable use. You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes. You agree not to: interfere with or disrupt the Site or its servers; attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Site or related systems; use any automated means to scrape, harvest, or collect information from the Site without our written permission; copy, reproduce, or republish content from the Site except as permitted under the Intellectual Property section below; or use the Site in any way that violates applicable law or infringes the rights of others.

No warranties. The Site and all of its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of harmful components, or that any information on the Site is complete, accurate, or current.

Limitation of liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cairn Partners, LLC and its members, managers, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or profits, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Site, whether based in contract, tort, or any other legal theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Links to other sites. The Site may contain links to third-party websites, including affiliate links to Amazon. We do not control and are not responsible for the content, policies, or practices of any third-party site. When you follow such a link, you leave our Site and are subject to the other site’s own terms and privacy policies.

Changes to these terms. We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. Changes are effective when we post the revised version with an updated “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted means you accept the revised terms.

Governing law. These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

Contact. Questions about these Terms of Use can be sent to privacy@sparkworks.kids.

Program and session fees are collected by Cairn Partners, LLC, which operates Sparkworks.

Signing up costs nothing. The sign-up form takes no payment. Tuition is paid when you enroll, on the enrollment form we send you.

If a class does not run. Each class needs a minimum number of children to run. If we cannot place your child, or we cancel a class or a session we are unable to reschedule, you owe nothing — and if you have already paid, we refund that amount in full.

Refunds and disputes. For anything other than season tuition: if you are unsatisfied with a service or believe a charge was made in error, please contact us. We will review your request and issue a full or partial refund at our discretion. Disputes should be directed to privacy@sparkworks.kids before initiating a chargeback with your financial institution.

If you have enrolled in a season. Once you enroll a child, refunds are governed by the enrollment agreement you signed, not by this page. Under the Season 2 agreement: if you withdraw before the first session, we refund you in full; if you withdraw after the season starts, we refund every session your child hasn’t attended, except one. A session your child simply misses isn’t a refund — we hold their place either way. To withdraw, email info@sparkworks.kids; we work it out from the day your email arrives, and if it arrives less than 48 hours before the next session, that session counts as one that’s been held. If we cancel a session, we reschedule it or refund that session. Future seasons may be offered on different terms — the agreement you signed is the one that applies to you.

All Sparkworks program content — including our curriculum, program materials, illustrations, and Spark of History images — is the proprietary work of Cairn Partners, LLC. All rights reserved.

Unless we have given you written permission, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, modify, create derivative works from, publicly display, or otherwise use any Sparkworks content, in whole or in part. This applies to the text, design, graphics, illustrations, and other materials on this Site and in our programs.

Viewing the Site and printing or saving pages for your own personal, non-commercial reference is fine. Anything beyond that requires our written permission.

To request permission to use any Sparkworks content, email privacy@sparkworks.kids with a description of what you’d like to use and how.

Sparkworks™ is a trademark of Cairn Partners, LLC, used in connection with our educational services. A trademark application for Sparkworks is pending with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Sparkworks name, wordmark, and associated branding may not be used without our prior written permission.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information Cairn Partners, LLC collects through www.sparkworks.kids, how we use it, and who we share it with. We collect only the information we need to respond to families interested in Sparkworks and to place children in classes.

Information we collect. We collect personal information only when you choose to give it to us, through one of three kinds of form — our email sign-up forms, our season sign-up form, and the enrollment form and agreement we send by private link once a place has been agreed. All three are completed by a parent or another adult; children do not interact with any of them.

Email sign-up (always completed by an adult). When you sign up to hear from us — including to register interest in the program — we collect your email address, the interest categories you select (Games, Materials, or Program), and which page on our Site the sign-up came from. No child interacts with these forms.

Season sign-up (always completed by a parent or guardian). When you sign a child up for a season, we collect your name and email address, and — if you choose to give them — your mobile number, a second parent’s or guardian’s name, how you heard about Sparkworks, the name of any family who referred you, and anything you write in the notes field. For each child you sign up, we collect the child’s first name only, the child’s grade, the weekly time slots the child could attend, a preferred slot if you pick one, the track that goes with the grade, and the season being signed up for. We use all of this to build the schedule and place your child. This form does not ask for a child’s last name and takes no payment. Enrolling is a separate step, on a separate form — see Enrollment and payment below.

Information collected earlier. A previous version of our registration form collected the parent’s or guardian’s name and, for each child, the child’s first name, grade, track, and the program cohort of interest. Information collected through it is retained and handled as described in this policy; to request its deletion, email privacy@sparkworks.kids.

We do not create accounts or passwords, and we never see or store card numbers — Stripe collects those directly. We do record the IP address a form is submitted from, to block spam. We do not knowingly collect any information directly from children.

How we use your information. We use the information you provide to: respond to your inquiry and follow up about Sparkworks programs; contact you about scheduling and program updates; and send you the launch and program updates you signed up to receive. We use sign-up information to build the class schedule, place each child in the appropriate class and track, and reach you about your child’s confirmed day and time. We do not sell your personal information.

Who we share it with. We do not sell or rent your personal information. We share it only with the service providers that help us operate the Site and run our programs, and only as needed for those purposes:

• Notion — stores the submissions from our forms.
• Stripe — processes tuition payments when we take payment for a season. Stripe collects the card details directly; we do not receive or store card numbers.
• Vercel — hosts our Site and provides cookieless web analytics and performance measurement (described below).
• Google Fonts — serves the fonts used on our Site; fonts are delivered by Google.
• Amazon — on our practice-resources page we include Amazon affiliate links to products we recommend. When you click one of these links, you leave our Site and go to Amazon, where Amazon’s own terms and privacy policy apply. We are an Amazon Associate and earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you; this is disclosed in our site footer.

We may also disclose information if required by law or to protect our legal rights.

Analytics and cookies. We use Vercel’s cookieless web analytics and speed insights to understand how the Site is used and how it performs. This includes information such as page views, click and form-submission events, referral and campaign (UTM) parameters, and performance measurements. These analytics do not use advertising cookies or cross-site tracking, and we do not use the Site to build advertising profiles about you.

How long we keep your information. We retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When information is no longer needed, we delete it or de-identify it.

Children’s information. Sparkworks serves school-age children, but our Site and forms are designed for parents and guardians, not for children. Children do not interact with our Site and do not submit information themselves. Everything we hold about a child was given to us by that child’s parent or legal guardian. We do not give children accounts or logins, we do not collect a child’s own email address or phone number, and we do not knowingly collect any information directly from a child.

From our season sign-up form. The child’s first name, grade, and which weekly times could work. We use it to build the schedule.

From our enrollment form. Once a place has been agreed we send the parent a private link. Because we then have the child with us in person, that form asks for more: the child’s name and grade, health information the parent chooses to tell us, an emergency contact, and who is allowed to collect the child. The parent completes all of it — the child never sees this form. We use it only to run the class safely, to reach the parent, and to release the child to the right adult.

How long we keep a child’s information. Health, emergency-contact and pickup information is kept separately from everything else and is seen only by the people teaching the class. We keep it while a child is enrolled and afterwards only for as long as it may still be needed; we do not delete on a fixed schedule. You can ask us to delete your family’s information at any time by emailing privacy@sparkworks.kids, and we will do it and tell you when it is done. We keep the signed enrollment agreement itself, and the record of when and how it was signed, until the child turns 18 and for two years after that: it is the legal record of an agreement a parent made on a child’s behalf, and under California law a claim brought on a child’s behalf can be made long after the child has grown up. That record holds the child’s name, grade and track and the parent’s answers to the agreement. It does not hold health, emergency-contact or pickup information.

Photographs. We take photographs in class only where a parent has agreed to it on the enrollment form, and we use them only for the uses that parent chose — private recaps to Sparkworks families, or publicly. The choice is entirely optional, it is never a condition of enrollment, and a parent can change it at any time by emailing privacy@sparkworks.kids. If you would like to review, correct or delete any of the information we hold about your child, email privacy@sparkworks.kids.

Accessing or deleting your information. You may ask us to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you or your child at any time. Email your request to privacy@sparkworks.kids and we will respond within a reasonable time.

Changes to this policy. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Contact us. For any privacy question, or to make a data-access or data-deletion request, email privacy@sparkworks.kids.