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Privacy

Last updated [date of publication]

Honor the Class is a photo album for a school class. Parents add photos they took at school events; the room parent sends each occasion as a slideshow to the class's families. This page says what we keep, who can see it, and how to remove it. It is written for parents and principals, in plain words.

The short version

• Photos are seen only by families at your school with the class link, never by the public, and never by search engines.
• We remove location data from every photo before it is stored.
• We never use face recognition. People tag who is in a photo by hand.
• Any child can be left out of every photo, everywhere. The room parent turns this on, and no reason is recorded.
• No accounts, no ads, and we never sell or share your photos or information.
• We do not use your photos to train AI.

What we keep

• Photos parents add, resized and re-saved without their location or camera details.
• Names the room parent types for the class list, and names typed when someone tags a photo (for example a teacher, or "Santa").
• Class details: the school's name, the class name, the teacher's name, the school year, and the occasions the class picks.
• Email addresses, only if you give them: a parent who asks to get each slideshow by email, and a room parent who wants to be able to recover their link.
• A first name you may type when adding photos, shown as "From Jen".

We do not ask for, and do not keep, accounts, passwords, phone numbers, home addresses or birthdays.

Children

Honor the Class is used by parents and school staff, not by children. Children do not sign up or post. Photos of children are added by their parents or by other parents and staff at school events. If you are a parent and want your child left out of every photo, ask your room parent to mark them "never show", or write to us at [privacy@honortheclass.com] and we will do it. [Lawyer to confirm the COPPA position for a service used by parents and schools.]

Who can see what

• A class album can be seen by anyone holding that class's link, which the room parent shares with the class's families.
• By default, families at the same school can also see each other's classes, so siblings in different grades are in one place. The room parent can limit a class to itself.
• A child marked "this class only" is never shown to families in other classes. A child marked "never show" is never shown to anyone.
• Pages are never listed in search engines and are never public.
• A family's choices in "Make a slideshow", including the people they follow, stay on their own phone. We never receive them.

How long we keep it, and how to remove it

• The room parent can remove any photo from their class at any time, and can remove a child from the class list.
• At the end of the school year the room parent chooses to keep the album for the class's later years, or delete it. [Retention default to decide.]
• Anyone can ask us to remove a photo of their child, or all of a family's information, at [privacy@honortheclass.com]. We do it within [7] days.
• Every email has a link to stop further emails.

Who helps us run it

We use a small number of service providers to store and deliver the album: [Supabase] for the database and photo storage, [Netlify] to serve the site, [Resend] to send email, and [Stripe] to take payment. They process information only to provide their service to us.

Contact

[Honor family legal name and address] · [privacy@honortheclass.com]