Designed from day one for under-13s
Geo Quest Adventures is intended for children aged roughly 5 to 12, and the entire site is designed around the principle that the safest interaction is the simplest one. We don't ask children to sign up. We don't ask for their name, age, email address or location. We don't have chat, comments, messaging, friends lists, profiles, leaderboards or any other social features. There is nothing on the site that another user can use to contact, identify or message your child.
Compliance with COPPA and UK / EU children's data law
We follow the principles of the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the UK Age Appropriate Design Code (the "Children's Code") and the EU General Data Protection Regulation as it applies to children (GDPR-K). In practice this means:
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from any user, regardless of age.
- We do not require an account to use any feature of the site.
- Quiz progress and stars are stored locally in your browser only — they are never sent to a server, and they cannot be tied to a person.
- We do not run any behavioural-targeting analytics on children. We use Google Analytics in a privacy-respecting configuration to count page views and understand which games are popular, but no advertising profiles are built from this.
- We do not allow user-generated content, file uploads, or any feature where a child could share personal information unintentionally.
How advertising works on the site
The site is free because we show display ads served by Google AdSense. We've taken several steps to make these ads as safe as possible for a young audience:
- The site is tagged in Google's systems as directed at children, which switches off personalised / behavioural ad targeting on every page automatically.
- Ads shown are contextual, based on the page topic (geography, education) — not on any profile of the visitor.
- Sensitive ad categories (gambling, alcohol, dating, weapons, etc.) are blocked at the publisher level so they cannot appear on our site.
- Ads are placed only in non-intrusive locations: the page footer and a single side rail on desktop. There are no pop-ups, no interstitials, no auto-play video ads, and no ads inside the games themselves.
- Ad slots are clearly visually separated from quiz content so children don't accidentally tap them.
If you ever see an advert on the site that feels inappropriate for a child, please report it via our Contact page. Tell us roughly when you saw it and what it advertised, and we'll block the advertiser at our end.
Safe content, reviewed by humans
Every country fact, image, flag and landmark on the site has been reviewed by an adult member of our team. We deliberately avoid content that's distressing, politically partisan or graphically violent. When we cover physical geography topics like volcanoes or earthquakes, we do so in age-appropriate language. When countries are involved in conflict, we describe the geography factually and neutrally.
We use illustrations and clean photographs for landmarks — never photographs of named children, never user-uploaded images, and never AI-generated images of people that might mislead.
External links
Geo Quest Adventures keeps external links to a minimum. The few we include go to well-known reputable sources — government education sites, Wikipedia, official tourism boards, or publishers like the BBC and National Geographic. We don't link to social media, chat platforms, or commerce sites. Even so, we encourage parents to use a kid-safe DNS or browser filter (such as OpenDNS Family Shield, Cloudflare for Families, or your device's built-in parental controls) as a belt-and-braces safety layer.
If something goes wrong
If your child encounters anything on Geo Quest Adventures that worries you — a broken link to inappropriate content, an ad that slipped through our safe-ad settings, a factual error that misleads, or anything that just feels wrong — please tell us immediately via the Contact page. We treat child-safety reports as the highest priority and aim to investigate and respond within 24 hours.
For broader online-safety advice, we recommend the resources at the UK's Thinkuknow, the US Common Sense Media, and Australia's eSafety Commissioner.