Privacy

Plain-language summary of current practice. Last updated August 8, 2026.

Students never make accounts. They join with a room code and a first name, and we never ask them for email, phone, or any other contact information.
Student work (answers, drawings, votes) lives only as long as the activity. It is deleted when the activity ends, with a 6-hour cleanup backstop.
Student names are never sent to the AI.
Nothing about students is sold, shared for advertising, or used to train AI models.

How an activity works

A teacher projects a host screen and students join from their own devices with a short room code and a first name (or nickname). Everything students type or draw goes to the game server, appears where the activity needs it (the projector, classmates' screens, the teacher's console), and is discarded when the activity is over. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to log into.

What we keep, why, and when it is deleted

What	Why we have it	Where it lives	When it is deleted
Student first names, as typed at join	So the teacher and the class can see who said what during the activity	Server memory, plus a snapshot that lets a game survive a server restart	When the activity ends or the room closes. Any leftover snapshot is swept within 6 hours.
Student answers, drawings, votes, and scores	They are the activity	Same as above	Same as above
Reconnect tokens	Let a student rejoin after a wifi drop without losing their place	Same as above	Same as above
Teacher room PIN	Pairs the teacher's private console with the room	Same as above	Same as above
Activity run counts: activity id, player count, start time	Tells us which activities actually get used	Database	Kept as usage statistics. Contains no names and no student work.
Teacher-created activities and recipes	Teacher-authored content, so it survives redeploys	Database	Until the teacher or the site owner deletes them. A structural rule keeps student work out of saved activities: nothing students submit is ever folded into a saved object.
Site feedback from the feedback widget	Suggestions and bug reports from visitors	Database	Until the site owner deletes it. Anonymous by design: the form has no name or email fields and asks you not to include personal information.

About the AI

Some activities send the class's collected answers to Claude, an AI service by Anthropic, to do one job: summarize, group, compare, or judge them for the next step of the activity. Before anything is sent:

Student names are replaced with anonymous ids. Real names never appear in any AI request.
Known contact patterns (email addresses, phone numbers, links) are removed from the text.
Anthropic does not use this data to train models.

Honest limit: if a student types personal information inside an answer, that text is part of the answer. Teachers can hide any submission from the live moderation panel before it is shown to the class or sent to the AI, and drawings always pass a teacher review before anyone sees them.

What stays on your device

Favorites, recently used activities, and the list of activities created on a device are stored in that browser's local storage. They never leave the device and we cannot see them.

Classroom safety

A content filter checks student submissions before they reach anyone.
Teachers see a live moderation panel on their private console and can hide any submission or remove any participant.
Student drawings never reach the projector without the teacher reviewing them first.
Teacher controls require the room PIN, with a lockout against PIN guessing.

Security

Connections use TLS. Stored data is encrypted at rest by our database provider (Neon). Production logs contain no student names and no student content. Our hosting provider (Render) may keep standard connection logs, which can include IP addresses, for a short period.

Who runs Jamyard

Jamyard is operated by [operator name]. For privacy questions or deletion requests, contact [privacy contact email]. Formal terms of service and district agreement documents are in progress; this page describes current practice.