Children, photographs and consent
We sell schools an honest record of children's work, so the way we treat children's photographs and data has to survive being read out loud.
Last updated 4 September 2026
Every photograph here is real
Each photograph on this site was taken during our own sessions, in real schools, with real students. We do not use stock photography of classrooms, and we do not generate images of children. Where we do not have a photograph of something, we say so or we leave the space empty.
That rule costs us. A generated classroom would be prettier and free. It would also be a fake record from a company that sells honest ones, and we would rather show fewer pictures than that.
How a photograph reaches this site
We photograph in a school only with that school's agreement, and the school is responsible for the permissions its parents have given. Before a photograph is published we look at it again and ask whether a parent seeing it would be comfortable. If we are unsure, it does not go up.
We do not caption a photograph with a child's name. We do not name the school in the caption. We do not publish anything that identifies a child beyond their face in the ordinary course of their school day.
Having a photograph removed
If you are a parent, a guardian, a student, or a school, and you want a photograph taken down, write to info@hankernest.com with enough detail for us to find it, such as the page it is on.
We will remove it. We will not ask you to justify the request, and we will not ask you to prove anything first. We aim to have it down within two working days, and we will write back to confirm when it is done.
Children's records in our software
Separately from this website, we build a record system that schools use to keep their students' project work. It is not open to the public, and the rules it runs on are stricter than this page:
- The school is the Data Fiduciary for its students' data and we act on its instructions. Each school signs an agreement setting that out.
- Nothing about a child is published anywhere without a recorded consent, and consent to show a child's work is kept separate from consent to show their face. Either can be withdrawn, and withdrawal takes effect at once rather than when a cached link expires.
- There is no leaderboard, no ranking, no public student profile and no behavioural tracking of any kind. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act forbids tracking and targeted advertising directed at children, and we think the spirit of that goes further than the letter.
- Photographs uploaded by a school have their location data and other embedded metadata stripped on our server before they are stored.
If we get it wrong
Tell us. Write to info@hankernest.com with "Safeguarding" in the subject line and it goes to the founder, not to a queue. If you would rather not come to us, the Data Protection Board of India takes complaints about children's personal data directly.