1. Introduction & Our Commitment to Students
At KinetixEdu (operating via kinetixedu.com, "we", "our", or "us"), we recognize that your lecture notes, course materials, exam preparation summaries, and academic projects represent your private intellectual effort. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of data privacy, confidentiality, and security.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you access our website, applications, and grounded AI study services, how that information is utilized, and how we safeguard your personal and academic content.
Your study notes, lecture slides, and uploaded documents are NEVER used to train public foundation models. When you ask the KinetixEdu AI Copilot questions about your study content, queries are processed via private, zero-data-retention enterprise endpoints. Your data remains strictly isolated to your private account.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information strictly necessary to provide you with an optimal study workspace:
- Account Information: When registering, you provide an email address, name, and optional educational institution details to enable cross-device synchronization.
- Academic Content & Materials: Course folder names, Markdown lecture notes, uploaded PDF lecture slides, problem sets, bookmarked research links, study to-do tasks, and flashcards created within the platform.
- Local Workspace Data: To allow offline studying and rapid sub-second interaction, KinetixEdu stores active folder hierarchies, notes, and tasks in your browser's local storage (
localStorage). - Technical Log Data: Non-personally identifiable diagnostic information such as browser type, operating system, and error telemetry to maintain service reliability.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your data solely for educational service delivery:
- To organize and render your course folders, notes, study to-dos, and bookmarked materials.
- To index your course materials for context-grounded AI tutoring and citation generation.
- To compute spaced repetition (SRS) review schedules for active recall flashcards.
- To provide customer support and notify you of critical platform updates.
We do not sell, rent, monetize, or broker your personal information or academic materials to third-party advertisers or data brokers under any circumstances.
4. Student Rights & Regulatory Compliance (FERPA & GDPR)
We respect student rights across global jurisdictions:
- FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act): We comply with FERPA student privacy standards, ensuring that education records remain confidential and under the student's control.
- GDPR & UK Data Protection: European Union and UK users have the right to access, rectify, restrict processing of, and permanently delete their personal data.
- Data Export & Portability: You may export your lecture notes and course structures at any time in open Markdown and JSON formats.
- Right to Be Forgotten: You can delete your account and all associated course folders with immediate, irreversible purging from our servers.
5. Data Security & Encryption
All communications between your device and KinetixEdu servers are encrypted using modern Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3). All files, notes, and database backups are encrypted at rest using AES-256 standard encryption. Access controls strictly limit employee access to production infrastructure to an audited, need-to-know basis.
6. Contacting the Privacy Team
If you have questions, inquiries, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact our Data Protection Office: