Data Practices for Schools
This page answers the questions school administrators most often ask about ClassSense in one place. The full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service govern.
| What is collected | Account info (name, email, role, school name); student learning activity (answers, mastery scores, game activity, learning-style preference, nicknames); teacher-uploaded curriculum; parent–teacher messages; standard server logs. No advertising trackers. |
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| Purpose | Operating the adaptive learning service only. No advertising, no sale of data, no unrelated use — ever. |
| Where it lives | Fly.io cloud infrastructure, United States region. Encrypted in transit (HTTPS); passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. |
| Subprocessors | Fly.io (hosting & database, US), Anthropic (AI lesson generation & grading — API data not used for model training), Resend (transactional email). |
| FERPA | ClassSense operates as a service provider under the direction of the teacher/school ("school official" exception). Educational records remain under school control. |
| COPPA (under-13) | Students join only via teacher-issued class codes; ClassSense relies on school/teacher consent on behalf of parents, and collects no more student information than participation requires. |
| Access controls | Role-scoped: teachers see their own classes; parents see only their own linked child; students see only themselves. Parent links require a teacher-issued invite code. |
| Retention & deletion | Kept while the account is active. Teachers can delete courses/materials anytime; full account and data deletion on request within 30 days. |
| Breach notification | Affected account holders notified by email without undue delay after confirmation of any breach involving personal data. |
| Data portability | A copy of your school's data (rosters, mastery records) provided on request. |
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