K12 AI Connect Privacy Policy
Our Commitment
K12 AI Connect is built from the ground up with student privacy as a foundational design principle, not an afterthought. We believe the strongest privacy protection is not collecting data in the first place.
What We Do Not Collect
K12 AI Connect does NOT collect student last names, email addresses, student ID numbers, dates of birth, location data, browsing history, behavioral data, or any personally identifiable information. (The only exceptions, both described below, use a first name or nickname only — never a last name: saving a camper's creations so they can return to them on the next day of camp, and the optional, teacher-enabled Camp Showcase.)
What We Do Collect
- Class access codes with no student identity attached.
- Session-based generation counts that reset when the tab closes.
- Flagged content categories — not the content itself.
- General anonymous usage patterns only.
How AI Content Is Processed
Student prompts pass through our backend proxy briefly so we can apply safety moderation, rate limiting, and server-side credential management, then are forwarded to OpenAI's API (text, image, speech) or Apiframe / Suno (music) to generate a response. We do not write prompts or AI responses to any database, and we do not associate prompts with any student identity (we don't have one). OpenAI's API Privacy Policy specifies that API data is not used to train models by default.
FERPA Compliance
Because K12 AI Connect does not collect education records or PII, the platform operates outside the scope of FERPA requirements. Districts can deploy without a FERPA data sharing agreement.
COPPA Compliance
By default, K12 AI Connect does not collect personal information from children of any age. There are two narrow, short-term exceptions, both of which store a first name or nickname only (never a last name or other PII): saving a camper's creations so they can resume them the next day of camp, and the optional, teacher-enabled Camp Showcase. Both auto-delete when camp ends (no later than June 13, 2026). Schools acting under their COPPA "school official" authority enable camp use at their discretion.
Student Work and Creations
Outside of active camp, student content is saved locally on the student's device — not uploaded to or stored on K12 AI Connect servers. Teachers collect work through Google Forms within their district's Google Workspace. During camp, two temporary, first-name-only features (below) store creations on our servers so campers can return to their work and, if the teacher turns it on, share it in the showcase.
Saving Your Creations Between Camp Days
So a camper does not lose a story, character, or song when they close the tab or come back the next morning, K12 AI Connect saves their creations on our servers during camp. This save is tagged only with the class code and the first name or nickname the camper enters — never a last name or other personally identifiable information. It is used solely to show the camper their own work when they return, and all of it is automatically deleted when camp ends (no later than June 13, 2026).
Camp Showcase Exception
During active camp sessions teachers may enable a temporary showcase feature. Students may choose to save work — stories, art, music, and short animated movie clips — tagged with a first name or nickname only. All showcase data is automatically deleted within 48 hours of the camp end date. No last names, email addresses, or other personally identifiable information are ever stored.
Third-Party Services
- OpenAI API for text, image, and speech.
- Apiframe / Suno API for music generation.
- Google Fonts for typography.
No personally identifiable student information is shared with any third party — because we never collect any. The prompts a student types are sent to the AI provider that generates the response (this is how generative AI works), but they are not tagged with names, IDs, emails, or any other identifying data.
Data Security
K12 AI Connect runs as a browser-first web application backed by a thin same-origin proxy. The proxy exists so AI provider credentials never reach the browser, and so we can enforce safety moderation and rate limits server-side. Prompts and AI responses pass through the proxy in transit only — they are not written to any K12 AI Connect database. Outside of camp, student work (stories, art, music, and short animated movies) is stored in the student's own browser (localStorage on their device), not on our servers. During camp there are two temporary, first-name-only server-side stores: one saves a camper's creations so they can resume them the next day, and the optional Camp Showcase stores work a student explicitly chooses to share (including any short animated movie clips they add). Both are tagged with a first name or nickname only and are automatically deleted when camp ends (no later than June 13, 2026).
Contact
- Privacy questions
- legal@willchaseai.com
- Camp questions
- AICamps@willchaseai.com
- Website
- k12aiconnect.com
This policy may be updated as the platform evolves. The current version is always posted at k12aiconnect.com/privacy.