Privacy

Your data stays with you

Plain language, no fine print: here's exactly what happens (and doesn't happen) to what you type into these tools.

The short version: everything is saved only in your browser, on your device. Nothing you enter — student names, rosters, scores, notes — is ever sent to us. We don't run a server that could receive it, and we don't use analytics.

Where your data lives

Class lists, rosters, rubrics, and saved sessions are stored in your browser's local database (IndexedDB). That storage belongs to your browser, on the device you're using — it isn't uploaded anywhere, and it isn't shared between devices or browsers automatically.

What we don't do

No accounts, no sign-in, no server-side database.
No analytics, no tracking scripts, no advertising, no embedded third-party widgets.
No network request ever carries student names, rosters, scores, or notes anywhere.

Pages do make two kinds of outside request, and neither one carries anything you've typed:

Google Fonts, on every page, for the typefaces used to render text.
A PDF library (jsPDF, from the cdnjs.com public code archive) — fetched by the Seating Chart Maker only at the moment you click Download PDF, and not at all otherwise. It's the code that builds the file; your chart is assembled into a PDF inside your browser and saved straight to your device. The chart itself is never uploaded.

Both requests ask for a file and receive it. No page content — no names, no rosters, no scores — is attached to either one.

Backing up your data

Because everything lives only in one browser, it can be lost if you clear your browser's site data, switch devices, or reinstall your browser. Use Export backup on the class lists page regularly — it downloads a single file with everything saved across every tool, which you can re-import on this or any other device with Import backup.

Safari note: Safari can clear storage for sites you haven't visited in about a week. If you use Safari, export a backup after major changes — don't rely on it as the only copy.

Sharing a hexagonal thinking activity

When you create a link to share with students, the activity itself is encoded directly in the link (after the #) — not stored on a server. That's why the links are long. It also means we never see, receive, or store the activities you create.

For FERPA-minded readers

Because no student data is ever transmitted to or held by Teacher Toolshed — there is no server to receive it — we don't create, maintain, or have access to education records in any legal sense. If your school's policies require that student data tools be reviewed, this is the strongest privacy posture available: the data never leaves your browser in the first place.

Questions

This is a small, independent project built by a teacher. There's no support team or contact form yet — for now, what's on this page is the whole policy.