Kid rules, short and simple:
- Use Young Researchers with a grown-up's permission.
- Keep private things private — don't type your address, school, phone number or passwords.
- Be a fair detective: write down where you found each clue.
- Ask a grown-up before visiting another website or signing up for anything.
- Be kind and respectful about everyone's families.
Accounts
Accounts can only be created by adults aged 18 or older, who give their date of birth and confirm they are not a child. Children may not create their own accounts. A parent or legal guardian may make up to three child profiles on their account; children use Young Researchers through those profiles. The adult is responsible for the account, for supervising their child's use of it, and for keeping the password and parent PIN safe.
The parent PIN
Adding, changing or removing child profiles, joining or leaving learning groups, and changing what the account is for all need the parent PIN. Don't share it with children. If it is forgotten, the account holder can set a new one by signing in again.
Learning groups
Group leaders (teachers, clubs, parent groups and others) are independent adults and are not checked, employed or endorsed by Holden's Archive. Leading a group, or adding a child to one, is covered by the Learning Groups Terms, which describe exactly what leaders can see and limit our responsibility for groups.
Using the kids' section
- Lessons are for practice and learning. Answers come from published historical sources, which can disagree.
- Work saved in Young Researchers goes into the account's private research and isn't published.
- Don't try to break, overload or misuse the site, or use it to bother anyone.
- Don't add information about living people other than yourself and your own family, and only with permission.
No shop
The shop and other paid features aren't available from Young Researchers. The kids' section is free.
Other websites
Links to other websites are provided to help with research. We don't control those websites and aren't responsible for them. Grown-ups should decide which ones their child may use.
Everything else
The main Terms of Use and Privacy Policy also apply, along with the Kids' Privacy Notice. If anything here conflicts with the main terms for the kids' section, these kids' terms apply. We may suspend access that breaks these rules. Questions? Contact us.