Privacy & Security
Student privacy, by design.
The safest student data is the data a tool never collects. TypeWriter asks for no student names, emails, or personal details — every student is just a class code.
No student names or emails. Ever.
Students are identified only by a class code you assign, like SMITH-p3-05. We never ask for, collect, or store a student's real name, email, birthday, or any personal detail.
Nothing here is sent to any AI.
Grading is human, and TypeWriter makes no AI calls at all. When AI helps you build an assessment, you bring your own — you use your AI tool and paste the result in. No student work, and nothing of yours, is ever sent to an AI service, sold, or used to train a model.
Encrypted and access-controlled.
Everything travels over HTTPS and lives in a secured, encrypted database. Passwords are hashed, never stored in plain text. Your assessments and your students' work stay yours.
Start as one teacher.
No student accounts to provision, no district data feed to set up. A teacher can pilot TypeWriter in their own classroom — and export or delete everything, anytime.
What we store
We keep the smallest amount of data needed to run assessments and return grades:
- Teacher account: your name, email, and a securely hashed password.
- Classes: a period, a class name, and a student count. We generate anonymous codes from these — no student names are ever entered.
- Student work: the responses students submit, plus the scores and feedback you give — all tied to the anonymous class code, never to a real identity.
What we don't store
We do not collect student names, emails, phone numbers, birthdays, photos, locations, or any other personally identifiable information. Because students sign in with a class code and a password they set themselves, a student never gives us a single personal detail.
How AI is used
TypeWriter makes no AI calls of any kind. Grading is done by you. When AI helps create an assessment, it is bring-your-own: you use your own AI tool, outside TypeWriter, and paste the finished result in. The app never sends student work or your content to an AI service, never sells your data, and never uses it to train a model.
Security
Traffic is encrypted in transit with HTTPS. Data is stored in a secured, access-controlled, encrypted database. Teacher passwords are stored only as salted hashes. Access to production data is limited to what's required to operate the service.
Your data is yours
From your Account page you can export everything you own — classes, assessments, and every student submission and grade — as a single file, anytime. From Students, deleting a class permanently erases that class's roster, assessments, and all student submissions and grades. When it's gone, it's gone.
A note on FERPA
TypeWriter is built around FERPA's core principle of data minimization — the strongest way to protect student records is not to collect them in the first place. Because we hold no student personal information, most of the risk that student-data laws address simply isn't present here. This page describes our practices in plain language and is not legal advice; districts with their own review processes are always welcome to evaluate the service.
Last updated: July 2026 · Questions? hello@typewriter.education