Student privacy

What Study Buddy does not require

• No real name
• No student email address
• No birthday
• No school or student ID
• No precise location
• No social profile
• No advertising profile

How progress works

Practice progress, flashcard status, saved responses, and mastery evidence are stored in the browser on the device being used. That makes it possible to resume without sending a student identity to a Study Buddy account.

Aggregate site analytics

Study Buddy uses Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate website usage, such as visits, page views, engagement, and broad feature use. Advertising personalization and Google signals are disabled in the site configuration.

Study Buddy does not intentionally send student names, email addresses, quiz answers, FRQ writing, or other typed study responses to Google Analytics. Page URLs sent to analytics are limited to the site origin and path rather than query strings or page fragments.

What students should understand

Browser-based progress can be lost if browser storage is cleared, the device is reset, or the student changes devices. A future optional recovery method, if introduced, should use an anonymous recovery code rather than requiring a real identity.

Optional feedback and problem reports

Study Buddy includes optional forms for reporting a problem, giving quick feedback, and rating a study session. These forms do not request a student name or email address.

When someone chooses to submit a form, the selected response, any feedback they type, and limited page context (the page path, page title, and current section) are transmitted to Netlify so the feedback can be reviewed and used to improve the product. Query strings and page fragments are not sent. Students should not include private or identifying information in free-response fields.

Changes

This public explanation will be updated if the product's data practices change. Last reviewed: September 21, 2026.