Privacy Policy

Who we are

Planning Period is a lesson-planning tool for K-12 educators. This policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, and the rules we ask every user to follow when working with anything that touches student information. It is written by us, the operators of Planning Period, and describes our own commitments.

Information we collect

We keep collection deliberately narrow. Today that means:

• Account details you type into the Join or Log in form: your school email address and the plan tier you select.
• Billing details you enter to activate a membership: name on card, card number, expiration, security code, and billing ZIP. These are used only to activate your membership and are not published or shared for advertising.
• Lesson inputs: grade level, subject, state, class length, number of lessons, teacher notes, and any curriculum or scope-and-sequence text you paste or upload so a plan can be generated.
• Generated output: the lesson plans, rubrics, and PDFs produced from your inputs.
• Local browser storage: your membership status and monthly plan usage count are stored in your own browser so the app knows what to unlock.
• Standard technical data your browser sends when loading pages, such as IP address and user agent, used for security and reliability.

What we do not collect

We do not ask for and do not want student education records. Planning Period has no student roster, no gradebook of record, and no student login. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use your lesson content to advertise to you.

How we use your information

We use the information above to:

• Create your account and confirm which features your plan unlocks.
• Generate, format, and export the lesson materials you request.
• Process membership payments and handle billing questions.
• Keep the service secure, debug problems, and improve features.
• Send service messages such as sign-in links and account notices.

AI processing of your prompts

When you generate a plan, your lesson inputs — including any curriculum text you provide — are sent to an AI model provider to produce the draft. Because that text leaves your browser for processing, do not include student names, student ID numbers, IEP documents, disability details, grades, discipline records, or any other information that identifies an individual student. Describe needs generically instead, for example "two students need sentence frames" or "one student has a read-aloud accommodation."

FERPA practices

FERPA is a federal law that protects student education records held by schools and districts. Under FERPA a vendor may only handle those records when the school designates it as a school official with a legitimate educational interest and keeps the vendor under its direct control. Planning Period is designed so that arrangement is not needed: the platform is built for teacher-authored planning materials, not student records.

Our commitments:

• We do not request student education records, and our forms provide no field intended for them.
• We instruct users, in-product and here, to de-identify any reference to a student before entering it.
• We do not disclose user content to third parties for advertising or profiling, and we do not create student profiles.
• If your district requires a written data agreement or a designated school-official arrangement before staff may use a tool, contact us before your team uploads anything and we will work through your district's process.
• If student-identifying information is entered by mistake, tell us and we will delete it from our systems on request.

Sharing and service providers

We share information only with the service providers that make the product work — for example hosting, AI model processing, and payment processing — and only as needed for them to perform that function. We may also disclose information where required by law.

Retention and deletion

We keep account and billing records for as long as your membership is active and afterward only as needed for legal, tax, and accounting obligations. Lesson inputs and generated plans are kept so you can retrieve your work; you can ask us to delete them at any time. Data stored in your own browser can be cleared by clearing site data for this site.

Your choices

You can request a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account and its content. Email us using the contact below and we will respond. Educators in states with additional student-privacy laws may have further rights; tell us which state you teach in and we will honor what applies.

Security

We use access controls and encrypted transport for data moving between your browser and our services, and we limit internal access to what staff need to operate the platform. No online service can promise perfect security, so we also ask you to keep student records out of the platform as the strongest protection available.

Children's information

Planning Period is intended for educators and other adults. Accounts are not offered to children, and students are not asked to use or sign in to the platform.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy we will update the date below and, for material changes, notify account holders. Questions, deletion requests, or district data-agreement paperwork can be sent to privacy@planningperiod.app.