Puberry

Puberry is the first interactive and gamified EdTech puberty curriculum coupled with a starter kit designed to make learning about puberty fun!

Our mission is to eliminate shame and embarrassment surrounding puberty, by enabling youth to feel prepared, supported, and confident.

Our core values:

• Provide a safe space to learn and enable open, accurate, and inclusive conversations about puberty and overall youth health and wellbeing
• Promote mental and physical health and wellbeing through emotional intelligence and behavioral self-care practices
• Create a community for youth to feel prepared, supported, and confident entering and navigating adolescence
• Facilitate a sustainable, effective, and fun learning method to destigmitaze and eliminate shame surrounding puberty, periods, mental health, sexual health, and health topics overall
• Reduce STD, STI, and unwanted pregnancy rates by educating practical and health sexual behavior

Puberry is revolutionizing the way youth learn about their health. Our innovative app and puberty kits offer a unique learning experience that engages and inspires youth to take control of their well-being. By leveraging technology and integrating into school health curriculums, we provide an interactive platform that offers gamified and relevant content on a range of health topics. With Puberry, youth can learn how to make healthy choices in a fun and engaging way, empowering them to lead healthier and happier lives. Puberry enables young people to feel prepared, supported, and confident entering and navigating through puberty and beyond!

Puberry enables interactive, fun, and effective learning for youth in grades 4th - 12th.

• Gamified educational content
• Daily check-ins (mental & physical wellbeing)
• Digital period tracker (optional)
• Safe community to share your stories & ask anonymous questions
• Verified by health experts
• Extensive health curriculum (puberty, mental & physical health, nutrition, sexual health education, and more)

Puberry can be easily integrated into the classroom or used as a stand alone application.

For classroom integration and access to our teacher interface, please request a demo and/or contact us via email, at demetramallios@puberry.org.

Puberry is not yet available for download in the App Store.

We will update this as soon as we launch in iOS and Android app stores.

(Expected September 2023)

You will have a 30 minute introductory meeting with our Founder and CEO, Demetra Mallios to review the below agenda:

• We want to learn about your needs to best understand how Puberry can support you
• Introduction to Puberry
• We will share a demo of our web & mobile app, teacher interface, as well as curriculum overview and pricing options
• We will share more details regarding the Puberry Kits as well, and how we can utilize this supplemental resource as a way to generate excitement for students in the classroom
• Conclude with next steps
• Thank you! 😃

We hope to meet international demand in the near future, but are currently only available within the USA.

The Puberry app costs $6.99/month or $69.99/year for users signing up independently (without a school classroom).

For schools, there are tiered pricing plans that can be shared and discussed during a demo. We want to ensure that we are able to meet school and client needs with the best customizable plan and program possible.

For more information, please email us at demetramallios@puberry.org.

- Students / Youth ages 8 to 18+

- Parents

- Teachers & Schools where we can replace or support your current health curriculum.

Hi, I'm Demetra, Founder of Puberry, here to answer your questions! :)

I completely understand the importance of privacy and data protection, and I'm right there with you!
That's why Puberry is dedicated to keeping our users safe and anonymous.

Here's how our data and privacy work:

1. We are COPPA, HIPAA, and FERPA compliant.

• COPPA: The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a U.S. federal law designed to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13 online. COPPA includes parental consent, information disclosure, protecting any identifiable information. (Puberry only collects a user's username, email, and age (not DOB ) to setup an account, and requires parental consent).
• HIPAA: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is among the most stringent privacy protections in the United States, protecting medical information, or "protected health information" (PHI), such as the emotions calendar, journal, and period tracker within Puberry.
• FERPA: FERPA, or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, is a U.S. federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. It applies to all schools that receive funding under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. We follow FERPA, as there are students receiving Puberry through their school classroom as part of their health curriculum.

2.All users below the age of 18 must have parental consent, and during the sign-up process of the platform, the users will be prompted to have their parent's email and signature added, so that they can access the Puberry app. Parents will then receive the confirmation email stating that their child has signed up for Puberry with their permission.

• Parents can also sign-up for Puberry's parent interface, where you are able to connect your account to your child's to have full transparency over all the lesson content, the ability to hide or unhide lessons, and access to discussion enablers to make chatting about health and puberty a breeze with your child.
• Parents will not have access to the personal health information of their child's account, as this is protected by data privacy laws. 

3. When a user below the age of 18 is signing up for Puberry, they MUST create a username that is something other than their name. This is done to ensure further privacy protection in case a user leaves their computer screen open and to add an extra layer of anonymity within the platform. 

4.ALL DATA IS DE-IDENTIFIABLE, meaning that it's anonymized, so we can only see aggregate data (ie. 60% of users log-into the Puberry app before 9am EST). We will not connect the name and personal information of a user to their account. We don't collect birthdays nor names, just an email for account setup. 

5.We do not sell a user's personal information or data. We are extremely sensitive to privacy and data protection, as I am very adamant about that in my own life as well. I take this very seriously. It would go against our ethics and legal policies to share or sell a user's data and personal information, and this is something that I and Puberry will never do. 

We've taken many additional measures to ensure user safety and anonymity, beyond what is required, including usernames with no names, no birthdays, parental consent, parental access, and COPPA, HIPAA, FERPA compliance. 

When signing-up for Puberry, you will notice the extra layers of data protection we've added and listed above, which stand-out significantly, considering other platforms unfortunately do not proceed with as much care and privacy layers. 

Needless to say, we truly prioritize data privacy, and I would not create a health education resource any other way.

From a personal perspective, and as a woman, I want to ensure extra protection over my own health information and period tracking as well, so I created Puberry with that in mind, and use it daily to track my emotions and period too. I completely understand the need for safety and data protection and appreciate your question — It is very important.

If you have any further questions, please email me at demetramallios@puberry.org -- I'm happy to answer your questions!