Bloom is a general-audience service for high-school families. A parent or guardian creates the household, invites the student, and can export or erase everything at any time, free.
1. Who Bloom is for
Bloom helps a family plan for college: transcripts, testing, a college list, applications, essays, and paying for it. That is a teenager-and-parent activity, and the product is built for it. Current-grade forms accept grades 9 through 12. The study surfaces — the ones a student uses most directly — are closed to anything outside that band.
Our marketing is pointed at parents and counselors, and we do not target advertising at minors anywhere.
2. How an account begins
Every Bloom account starts as a parent's account. There is no student signup path: a person arriving at the sign-up page becomes a parent, and only a parent — or a student the parent has already set up — can create a student's profile at all. A counselor cannot create one, and a visitor without a household is turned away with a plain message: student profiles are set up by a parent.
A student gets their own login only after the parent sends an invite and the student claims it. Parental involvement therefore comes first, before a child ever interacts with Bloom. The household is also paid for by the parent, by card, which is one more signal that an adult set this up deliberately.
3. We never ask for a birthday
Bloom does not collect a date of birth or an age, from anyone, anywhere. The closest thing we hold is a grade level, a graduation year, and what a student plans to do after high school — the facts a college plan actually needs.
That is a deliberate minimum, and it runs through the rest of the product too: income is sent to an AI model only as a bracket, an imported personal calendar keeps the time and drops the event's title, dictation is transcribed and discarded rather than recorded, and blank always means “you have not told us,” never a guessed value.
4. A student under 13
Because grades 5 through 8 exist in Bloom as historical records — an eleventh grader's eighth-grade algebra row — and because a parent can start planning before ninth grade, it is possible for a household to include a child who is 12. A pre-ninth-grade student is not billed.
When such a profile exists, it exists because a parent created it, a parent manages it, and a parent pays for the household. The child cannot sign up, cannot be the account holder, and reaches a login only if the parent chooses to send an invite. Information held about a child before that point was entered by their parent. This is the structure that parental consent is supposed to produce, and Bloom is built so there is no other way to get here.
5. What a parent controls
- Review. A parent can download the whole family's records — every student, every uploaded file, and a manifest of anything withheld and why.
- Watch. A household-readable activity log shows who accessed what, including us.
- Correct. Everything a family enters can be edited in the product.
- Delete. A parent can reset or delete an individual child's record, or erase the entire household in a verified, checked sequence. Export and deletion are free, need no active subscription, and are available today or in ten years.
One boundary runs the other way on purpose: a student's journal, Rewind, and their own chats are private to the student. A parent sees counts and progress, not the words. We think that is the right balance for a teenager doing hard, personal writing — and it never limits a parent's ability to delete the account.
6. No ads, no trackers
Bloom shows no advertising, builds no advertising profiles, and sells nothing about your family. There are no third-party advertising cookies and no analytics or tracking scripts — our public pages are tested to make sure they run no executable script at all, carrying only a non-executable, machine-readable description of the page for search engines. Family data is not used to train AI models.
7. The safety floor
Every finished AI answer passes a fixed, rule-based screen before a student reads it. When it matches signs of distress, Bloom adds the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline details to the answer — it never blocks the answer, refuses, or rewrites what was said. A crisis line is also visible in the product at all times, not only when something triggers it. The record kept when the screen fires stores which rule matched, never the student's words.
8. If something looks wrong
If you believe a child is using Bloom without appropriate parent or guardian involvement — including a login set up as a parent that is actually a child's — contact us through the support channel shown inside Bloom. We will look into it, work with the household's parent to put the account back on the right footing, and delete the records where that is what is required. We verify who is asking before we disclose or delete anything about a family.
9. What this page does not claim
Bloom does not claim a COPPA certification, a safe-harbor seal, a SOC 2 report, or any other certification it has not earned. What is described above is how the product is built; it is a statement of structure, not a badge. If Bloom ever earns a third-party attestation, we will name it here with its scope.
See also our Privacy Policy, our data practices in detail, and our Terms of Service.