Privacy Policy

EconLearn is built for students and educators. Our business model is straightforward: schools and teachers pay for classroom tools, and studying stays free for students. That means:

• We never sell student data
• We never show ads to students or teachers
• We handle all data in accordance with FERPA

Privacy is not an afterthought. It is central to how we build and operate EconLearn.

When providing services to schools and districts, EconLearn acts as a “school official” under FERPA with a legitimate educational interest in student education records.

• We use student education records only for the purposes for which the school authorized access.
• We do not disclose student records to third parties except as required to operate the platform or as directed by the school.
• We will sign a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) or Student Data Privacy Agreement with any school or district upon request.

We use data to:

• Provide the learning platform and its features
• Show teachers their students' progress and performance
• Return completed LTI activity scores to the correct LMS gradebook
• Generate classroom and school-level analytics
• Improve the platform based on aggregate usage patterns

We do NOT use data for:

• Advertising of any kind
• Selling to third parties
• Profiling students for non-educational purposes
• Training AI models on student data

EconLearn offers an optional AI grader for free-response questions (FRQs). It runs only when a student chooses to submit an answer for grading.

• What is sent: the answer the student submits, which may be typed text or a photo or PDF of handwritten work, together with the question prompt and its scoring rubric. The student's name, email, school, and account identifiers are not sent.
• Where it goes: to the AI provider we currently configure as the grader. As of August 2026 that is OpenAI; depending on configuration the grader may instead use Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or AWS Bedrock, in each case under settings that do not permit training on the submitted content. If the configured provider is unavailable the request may fall back to OpenRouter, which we configure to route only to model providers that do not log or train on request content; if no such provider is available the request fails rather than being sent. This page is updated when the configured provider changes.
• Training: we do not train AI models on student work, and we do not permit our AI providers to train on it.

When a signed-in student saves an attempt, we store the score and the rubric breakdown with their learning data. We do not store the submitted answer text or the uploaded image.

Teachers with classroom accounts can also submit student work (typed or photographed) to an AI-assisted scoring tool with their own rubric. The same protections apply: no student names or identifiers are sent with the work, providers may not train on it, and the AI's output is a suggestion that the teacher reviews and can override. Teachers are responsible for using this tool consistently with their school's policies.

• All data stored in the United States via Supabase (hosted on AWS).
• Data encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest.
• Access controls and row-level security enforced on all database tables.

• Schools and districts own all student data generated through their classrooms.
• Individual students own their personal learning data.
• Data can be exported or deleted upon request.

• Account data is retained while the account is active.
• Schools and districts can request bulk deletion of student data at any time.
• Accountless LTI activity records are retained while a school uses the integration and can be deleted at the school's request. The browser launch token expires after 24 hours and is stored only as a one-way hash.
• Individual users can delete their account and all associated data at any time.
• After account deletion, data is permanently removed within 30 days.

EconLearn is designed for high school students, typically ages 15–18.

• We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.
• If a school uses EconLearn with students under 13, the school must obtain parental consent in accordance with COPPA.

These are every third-party service (subprocessor) the platform uses, with the data each one receives:

We do not share student data with any of these services beyond what is strictly necessary to operate the platform, and we do not add a subprocessor that would receive student data without updating this page.

• Access, correction, deletion: any user (or a parent/guardian, or a school on behalf of its students) can request a copy of their data, corrections, or deletion at any time via the contact below or the in-account delete option.
• California: we do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising as defined by the CCPA/CPRA, so there is nothing to opt out of; we treat all visitors, including those sending a Global Privacy Control signal, the same way. As a service used by California schools we also operate consistently with SOPIPA: no targeted advertising to students, no student profiling for non-educational purposes, and no sale of student data.
• On-device study data: some features (for example the personal skill report) keep their data only in your browser's local storage. That data never reaches our servers, and clearing your browser storage removes it.
• International users: EconLearn is operated from the United States and data is processed and stored in the US. If you use the site from outside the US, you consent to that processing; the rights above are available to you regardless of where you live.

For privacy questions, data requests, or to request a Data Processing Agreement:

hello@econlearn.org

We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within two business days.