What we record, and what we do not.
EduCraft is a private Minecraft server run by parents for a small group of children. This page describes every piece of data that exists because of it, why it exists, how long it lasts and how to have it removed.
Last updated 12 August 2026. This is the version that applies to the server as it runs today, not a template.
The short version
- Nothing is sold, rented or shared. There are no advertisers, no data brokers, no marketing lists and no third-party analytics anywhere in this project.
- This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. It is a static page. It has no accounts, no forms and no tracking of any kind.
- We never ask for a child’s real name. A Minecraft username is all we need, and it is all we want.
- The game server does keep records. Any Minecraft server must, to function and to keep players safe. They are listed in full below.
- A parent can have everything deleted. Ask, and we remove the username and its records. No conditions and no delay beyond the practical.
The website
This page and the rest of the site are static files. There is no database, no login, no comment box and no form. Nothing you do here is recorded by us, because there is nothing here capable of recording it.
Specifically, and verifiably by opening your browser’s developer tools:
- No cookies, no local storage, no session storage.
- No analytics or tag managers, and no advertising or social pixels.
- No third-party requests when the page loads. The typefaces are served from this site rather than a font network, so loading the page tells nobody else that you did.
Two honest caveats, because a privacy page that only lists the good parts is not worth reading:
Hosting. The site is served by GitHub Pages. To deliver any page, GitHub necessarily receives your IP address and browser user-agent, and it keeps its own logs under its own privacy statement. We do not receive those logs, cannot query them and never see who visited.
Links you choose to click. The modpack download is hosted on GitHub, and the launcher and access links point to Modrinth, Prism Launcher, ATLauncher and FullHearts. Following any of them is a normal visit to that company, governed by its policy, not ours. Nothing is fetched from them until you click.
The game server
Running a multiplayer server means keeping records. Minecraft itself writes some of them, and we add a small number deliberately, for safety and for fixing arguments about who broke what. Here is the complete list.
| What | Why it exists | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Minecraft username and account ID | The whitelist. It is how the server knows a player is allowed in, and it is the only identifier we hold. | Until access ends |
| IP address of each connection | Written by the server software on every join. It is how any internet service answers a connection, and it is what lets us tell a genuine player from the automated scanners that probe the port daily. | Days, then rotated out |
| Join and leave times, and playtime | Moderation and the in-game player list. Also how a parent can ask how long their child actually played. | Days, then rotated out |
| In-game chat | Written to the server log like any Minecraft server. It is how we investigate if a child reports something upsetting. | Days, then rotated out |
| Block and container changes | Who placed, broke or opened what. This is what makes griefing provable and reversible rather than one child’s word against another’s. | Kept with the world |
| The world save itself | The houses, farms and machines the players built. Backed up so a bad day is recoverable. | Kept, plus backups |
| Administrator actions on the host | Security auditing of the machine itself, so we can tell whether anything was tampered with. This is about the adults who run the server, not the children on it. | Days, then rotated out |
What the server does not have
No real names. No addresses, no dates of birth, no phone numbers, no email addresses for players. No voice chat and no recordings, because the server runs none. No payment details, because nothing here is sold. No location beyond what an IP address implies to anyone running any server. No advertising profile, because there is no advertising.
Children
This service is intended for children, and that shapes every decision above.
Access is granted by a parent asking on the child’s behalf, so a responsible adult is involved before an account ever connects. We ask that requests contain a Minecraft username and nothing more, and we ask parents specifically not to send a child’s real name. If one arrives anyway, we delete it and use the username.
We do not build profiles of children, show them advertising, recommend content to them algorithmically, or let them talk to strangers. The whitelist means the only people in chat are the handful of children already approved, which is the single most effective privacy control on the whole server.
If you are a parent and you would rather your child’s username were not stored at all, that is a reasonable position, and the answer is simply that they cannot join: the whitelist is the access control, so there is no version of this that holds no username.
Your choices
Ask us and we will, for any player you are the parent or guardian of:
- Tell you what we hold. It is a short list and we will show you all of it.
- Delete it. The username comes off the whitelist immediately, which also ends access, and the associated records are removed.
- Correct it. Usually a mistyped username, which we will fix.
- Take the builds with you. If your child made something they care about, ask and we will export it.
One limit worth stating plainly: rotating backups may hold a copy for a short period after deletion, and blocks a player placed remain part of the shared world unless you ask us to remove them too. We will not pretend a deletion reaches backwards into every backup the instant it is requested.
Keeping it safe
The server runs in a locked-down container with a read-only filesystem and dropped privileges, on a firewalled host. Administrative access requires a private network and an identity we control: there is no password-guessable door open to the internet. Only the game port is public, and reaching it still requires a real Microsoft account and a place on the whitelist.
The server software and every mod on it are pinned to exact, reviewed versions, so what runs can only change through a deliberate, recorded update. That is a privacy control as much as a security one: it is what stops a compromised third-party mod from quietly reaching the children on this server.
Asking us anything
Access requests, privacy questions and deletion requests all go to the same place.
If this ever changes materially we will update this page and the date at the top. There is no mailing list to notify, by design.
Not affiliated with Mojang
EduCraft is a private server run by parents. It is not an official Minecraft product, and it is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. Minecraft accounts, and the data Microsoft holds about them, are governed by Microsoft’s own privacy statement, not this one.