MEandMine
Product by MEandMine Inc.
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Our take (not a Learning Standard rating). This label applies to learning-science judgments throughout this overview.
Our take (not a Learning Standard rating)
While MEandMine uses daily emotion tracking and gamified check-ins to build social-emotional awareness, The Learning Standard has not yet evaluated its long-term efficacy. The app successfully prompts active reflection on feelings, but the transfer of digital self-regulation skills to real-world behavioral changes remains unverified.
Pros
- Requires students to explicitly label their emotions, which builds foundational emotional granularity.
- Uses gamification to motivate daily check-ins, increasing the consistency of well-being tracking.
- Provides teachers with aggregated emotional data to identify students who may need immediate intervention.
- Combines digital games with physical play kits to support multisensory learning for younger children.
Cons
- Relies heavily on self-reported emotion data, which can be inaccurate for younger children.
- Lacks clear evidence showing that hatching virtual pets translates to real-world emotional resilience.
- Requires consistent daily use by classrooms to generate meaningful algorithmic insights.
- Pricing and full feature access require direct contact with the vendor, obscuring cost for individual parents.
What Do We Know About MEandMine?
MEandMine is a classroom-focused tool that helps educators track student well-being, but its effectiveness in actively teaching self-regulation at home remains unproven. Your child uses the app to log their daily feelings and play short games designed to build emotional vocabulary. The program aims to turn abstract feelings into tangible concepts by having children hatch and train virtual emotion buddies. This approach leverages the psychological principle of externalization, making it easier for young children to discuss difficult feelings. However, parents should understand that this is primarily a data-collection and screening tool for teachers rather than a standalone curriculum for home use. The app requires daily interaction to feed its algorithm, which then flags at-risk students for adult intervention. While the physical play kits offer hands-on learning opportunities for children ages four to eight, the digital games rely heavily on screen-based rewards. If your child's school uses MEandMine, it serves as a helpful conversation starter about emotions, but it should not replace direct adult guidance in navigating complex emotional situations.
How Does MEandMine Work?
MEandMine uses daily emotional check-ins combined with game-based learning to teach self-regulation and social-emotional skills. Students start by inputting their current emotional state into the platform. Based on this daily data, the algorithm assigns personalized mini-games targeted to their specific emotional needs. As your child plays, they hatch and care for virtual emotion buddies, an activity designed to model empathy and emotional management. The platform limits these sessions to ten minutes, functioning as a transition activity to prepare students for academic learning. For educators, the backend system aggregates this daily input to create a well-being dashboard, highlighting patterns and identifying students who might require immediate support. For younger students, physical play kits accompany the software to provide tangible, hands-on activities that reinforce the digital lessons on resilience and critical thinking.
Strengths and tradeoffs of MEandMine
The biggest strength of MEandMine is its routine-building approach to emotional check-ins, while its biggest weakness is the assumption that digital gamification effectively teaches real-world emotional regulation. Daily emotional logging encourages children to pause and identify their feelings, a practice grounded in the science of emotional granularity. When children learn specific words for their emotions, they are better equipped to manage them. Teacher dashboards provide actionable insights, allowing educators to intervene when a student demonstrates a pattern of distress. However, the app relies heavily on extrinsic motivation through virtual pets. While hatching emotion buddies keeps children engaged, learning science warns that gamified rewards do not always translate to intrinsic behavioral changes. Furthermore, the reliance on self-reported data means the algorithm's effectiveness depends entirely on a young child's ability to accurately identify and honestly report their mood. Without adult mediation, the connection between a ten-minute digital game and actual classroom resilience may be tenuous. Multisensory play kits for the four-to-eight age range mitigate this slightly by bridging the gap between screen time and physical play.
Who Might Benefit From MEandMine?
Best for elementary school classrooms that need a structured, low-friction tool to track student well-being and identify at-risk children. Teachers benefit most from the aggregated data dashboards that highlight emotional trends over time. For students, particularly those aged four to eight, the combination of digital check-ins and physical play kits offers a gentle introduction to social-emotional vocabulary. However, it is less suited for individual home use by parents seeking a comprehensive curriculum, as the platform's primary value lies in its classroom-wide analytics and algorithmic teacher alerts.
Data Transparency
Does Not Meet Data Transparency Standard
MEandMine reaches Level 1 of 3 (Basic protections), below our data transparency standard. Reaching Level 2 needs the policy to document a data retention timeline and self-service deletion.
23 of 35 checks passed
Evaluated September 2026
MEandMine Kid's Privacy Policy →Level 1 · Basic protections
Does not sell data or target ads at students, limits sharing, and lets parents see and delete their child's data.
Level 2 · Parent control (meets the standard)
Families can get their data out, know who processes it, and know how long it is kept.
Not documented: a data retention timeline, self-service deletion
Level 3 · Direct data access
Families or schools can pull their own data through an API, in a stated format.
Not documented: an API for retrieving their own data, a named export format
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Parent Access6/8
Does the policy mention parents specifically?
“This Privacy Policy describes the way in which MEandMine Inc. (“MEandMine,” “we” or “us”) collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards personal information provided to us by students, parents, guardians, teachers and others”
Can parents view their child's data?
“MEandMine gives the ability to Teacher and Parent Users to access, review, delete, and restrict the use of their child's/student’s personal information maintained by MEandMine”
Can parents modify their child's data?
“Teacher and Parent Users, as well as educational institutions represented by a Teacher User, also may contact our customer support at any time to request access to, deletion of, or correction of any personal information we have collected from or about Student Users associated with their account”
Can parents delete their child's account?
“MEandMine gives the ability to Teacher and Parent Users to access, review, delete, and restrict the use of their child's/student’s personal information maintained by MEandMine”
Is there a dedicated Children's Privacy section?
The policy covers student data under a general "Student Users" heading in its collection section but has no dedicated Children's Privacy or COPPA section.
Does it reference COPPA compliance?
The policy mentions verifiable parental consent for children under 13 but never names COPPA.
Does it reference FERPA compliance?
“If the Student User is not linked to another Parent or Teacher, we will remove from the Student’s account all personally identifiable information, as defined under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).”
Is parental consent required for child accounts?
“We collect information about Student Users, under the age of 13 with the verifiable consent of their parent or legal guardian”
Data Portability3/5
Can users access their personal data?
“Personal information can be accessed and changed by contacting our customer support. You also can access and review certain account-related details by logging into your online account.”
Can users download/export their data?
“Right to know/access. Depending on your state of residence, you may have the right to know/confirm and/or access/receive in a portable format information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you”
Is there a self-service data access tool?
“You also can access and review certain account-related details by logging into your online account.”
Is a specific data format mentioned for export?
The policy only says "a portable format" and names no specific file format.
Is there an API for data access?
The policy mentions Google APIs only for data MEandMine receives, not an API for users to retrieve their own data.
Data Minimization2/6
Is data collection itemized?
“When a MEandMine Student User account is created, we collect the Student’s: ##### **\- First name** **\- Last initial** **\- Location (country, state or province)** **\- Grade**”
Can the app be used without a real name?
The policy says it collects the student's first name and last initial.
Can the app be used without an email?
The policy does not explicitly say it never collects student email, and it may get user information from single sign-on providers.
Does it state collection is limited to what is necessary?
“We are committed to collecting the minimum amount of information about Students as is needed to operate the Services.”
Is IP address anonymized or truncated?
The policy says it collects IP addresses and does not say they are anonymized or truncated.
Is location tracking explicitly excluded?
The policy says it collects student location (country, state or province) and approximate location from IP address.
Third-Party Protection6/7
Does it explicitly state no selling of data?
“MEandMine does not permit third-party advertising in our Games, and MEandMine does not sell, lease, or otherwise trade for value any personal information of Users.”
Are third-party providers named?
“We and our third-party providers also collect analytics data, for example through the use of tools such as Google Analytics, to measure traffic and usage trends for the website”
Are providers contractually restricted?
The policy says data goes to service providers but does not describe contractual limits on them.
No-targeted-advertising commitment?
“By contrast, MEandMine does not sell, lease, target advertisements based on, or otherwise trade for value any personal information of Student Users, including within the Games.”
Is AI/ML data sharing addressed?
“MEandMine application is not sharing Google SSO user data with Al models.”
Child-specific sharing restriction?
“We do not disclose the personal information of Students to third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.”
Cookies/tracking limited or opt-out?
“These individuals can direct us to stop allowing the collection of their information in this way by opting out of cookies through our cookie preference center, accessible within the footer of our website at MEandMinegame.com.”
Deletion & Retention2/5
Can users delete their account?
“Please be aware that a request to delete or cease collecting personal information or withdrawal of consent may lead to closing of the relevant User’s account”
Self-service deletion mechanism?
The policy only offers deletion through customer support or email requests.
Specific data retention timeline?
The policy mentions a retention framework but gives no specific timeline.
Auto-deletion of inactive accounts?
The policy does not address automatic deletion of inactive accounts.
Post-deletion handling described?
“If the Student User is not linked to another Parent or Teacher, we will remove from the Student’s account all personally identifiable information, as defined under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The Student will then be able to continue to use the Services without any associated personally identifiable information.”
Advertising4/4
Advertising model explicitly disclosed?
“MEandMine does not permit third-party advertising in our Games, and MEandMine does not sell, lease, or otherwise trade for value any personal information of Users.”
Free from third-party advertisements?
“MEandMine does not permit third-party advertising in our Games”
Children excluded from ad targeting?
“We do not allow third-party targeted advertising providers to collect information from the Student-directed portions of the Services.”
Ad-free option available?
“MEandMine does not permit third-party advertising in our Games”
What This Means
The policy review did not meet our data transparency standard. The checks above show the documented findings and unknowns. A missing statement does not establish how the app handles data in practice.
About this evaluation: Based on automated analysis of MEandMine Kid's Privacy Policy against 35 policy-disclosure questions, including questions adapted from the Common Sense Privacy Program's published evaluation questions. TLS is not affiliated with Common Sense Media, and this is not a Common Sense rating. Quoted text is copied from the policy; unquoted notes are our summary. Results describe what the policy documents, not the company's actual practices. Privacy policies can change: this review reflects the version we analyzed and does not determine legal compliance.
Sources and review method
TLS combines product information and editorial analysis to explain how MEandMine works, its tradeoffs, and the questions to ask before choosing it. Product features, an instructional rationale and evidence of learning outcomes are different kinds of information.
Formal Learning Standard assessment: not yet completed. Data Transparency findings are reported separately and do not establish learning effectiveness. Read our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions About MEandMine
Is MEandMine free?
No, MEandMine is not free. It is a commercial educational product designed primarily for schools and districts. The company does not list pricing publicly on its website; educators and administrators must contact the vendor directly to request a quote or schedule a demonstration.
Is MEandMine good for elementary students?
Yes, MEandMine is good for elementary students, specifically targeting the four to eight age range. The interface uses accessible language and gamified elements like virtual pets to engage younger children. The inclusion of physical play kits also caters to the developmental needs of early elementary students who benefit from tactile, hands-on learning experiences rather than purely screen-based interaction.
What does MEandMine teach?
MEandMine teaches foundational Social-Emotional Learning skills. Your child practices identifying and labeling their daily emotions, which builds emotional vocabulary. Through short, personalized mini-games, the app introduces concepts of self-regulation, empathy, and resilience. It aims to help children transition from heightened emotional states into a mindset ready for academic learning.
Has The Learning Standard evaluated MEandMine?
TLS has not yet completed a Learning Standard evaluation of how well MEandMine teaches. Its privacy policy has been reviewed for Data Transparency and reaches Level 1, Basic protections.
Is MEandMine COPPA compliant?
A COPPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with COPPA. Policy review note: The policy mentions verifiable parental consent for children under 13 but never names COPPA.
Is MEandMine FERPA compliant?
The reviewed privacy policy references FERPA. A policy reference alone does not establish FERPA compliance. Policy review note: The policy uses FERPA's definition of personally identifiable information when deleting student data.
Does MEandMine have a children's privacy policy?
No dedicated children's privacy section was found in the reviewed policy. Policy review note: The policy covers student data under a general "Student Users" heading in its collection section but has no dedicated Children's Privacy or COPPA section.
Does MEandMine sell student data?
The reviewed policy states that the app does not sell data. This is a policy statement; actual data practices were not verified. Policy review note: The policy states MEandMine does not sell users' personal information.
Can you delete your data from MEandMine?
The reviewed privacy policy describes account deletion. We have not tested the deletion process. Policy review note: Users can ask for deletion, which may close the account.
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