Privacy

1. What is kept

Your account: your name, your email address and your password. The password is kept only as a one-way hash, so nobody can read it, us included.

Your profile: the name you choose, and a picture if you add one.

Your work: scripts, documents, notes, boards, characters, productions and anything you upload.

Your classes: the courses you are in and your role, what you post, send or hand in there, the notes and feedback on it, and any marks or awards a teacher gives.

Reports you send with Report a problem: your words, the page you were on, the app's version and your browser, and a picture of the screen if you add one. Only the founder reads them. A picture can show whatever was on the screen, other people's names included, so crop it to the problem.

Technical details: one sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in, and preferences such as the look and text size, kept in your own browser. Our hosting provider records technical details of each request, such as the address it came from, to keep the service running and safe.

2. Why it is kept

Only to run WritersBox for School: to sign you in, to keep your work, to show it to the people you share it with, and to keep the service safe. We do not use your information for advertising and we do not sell it or share it with anyone for their own use.

3. Who sees what

Your own work is yours alone until you share it. What you share in a class is seen by that class and its teachers; what you hand in is seen by your teachers; what you send to a person is seen by that person.

Teachers see the names and email addresses of the people in their courses. Classmates see names and pictures, not email addresses.

What is in a team studio is seen by everybody in it, and its owner decides who that is. It stays with the team studio when somebody leaves it, is removed from it or deletes their account.

Your Showcase page is seen by nobody until you choose: your classes, or anyone holding its link. It shows only the projects and details you pick, never your email address. Closing the link stops it working at once, and taking the page down deletes what it showed.

We do not look at your work ourselves unless you ask us to, to help with a problem, or the law requires it.

4. No AI, no trackers

There is no AI anywhere in the app. Nothing reads, studies or learns from your work, and no AI is trained on it. There are no analytics, advertising or tracking tools of any kind.

5. Where it is kept, and who helps

Your information is stored with our hosting provider, Cloudflare, whose servers may be outside Canada. Sign-up and password emails are sent through Resend. Neither may use your information for anything but providing that service to us.

6. How long it is kept

For as long as your account exists. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete it and your work within 30 days, except anything the law requires us to keep. Copies you shared into a class stay with that class, as a handed-in paper stays with a teacher, unless you ask us to remove them too. Work in a team studio stays with the team studio.

7. Your rights

You can download your work from each project (Export) at any time. You can ask for a copy of everything we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account and your work, by writing to the address below. We answer within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

8. Keeping it safe

Every page is served over an encrypted connection. Each person's studio is kept apart from everyone else's. Access to a class is checked on every request. No safeguard is perfect, so keep your own copies of anything important, as the terms say.

9. Age

WritersBox for School is for people 18 or older, or younger people whose parent or guardian has agreed to the terms for them.

10. Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app before the change applies.

11. Contact

Questions, requests and complaints about privacy: lbrander16@gmail.com.