Effective March 10, 2026
Protegz is built for students, and we take your privacy seriously. This policy explains in plain language what data we collect, why we collect it, and what control you have over it. This policy is part of our Terms of Service.
Protegz is an educational platform where students learn competition math by teaching an AI partner. We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have questions about this policy, email us at privacy@protegz.com.
When you create an account, we collect your email address, display name, and role (student or educator). Students also provide a grade level and competition level preferences.
When you coach your AI protege, we store the conversation so you can pick up where you left off and so your protege can learn from your teaching over time.
Messages are automatically scanned for content policy violations to help maintain a safe learning environment. When a message is flagged, we record the type of violation and its severity. Flagged content is redacted from coaching transcripts. Administrators can review flagged content for safety purposes. We do not use content moderation data for advertising or any purpose unrelated to platform safety.
We track which problems you have worked on and your coaching quality scores. This data powers the progress dashboard and helps educators monitor student growth.
We collect anonymous usage analytics such as page views and feature usage. This helps us understand how the product is used and where to improve it. We do not send your name or email to analytics providers — only a pseudonymous identifier.
If you try Protegz without creating an account, we track which problems you have attempted so we can enforce the trial limit. Guest conversations are not linked to any identity.
We use cookies and local storage to operate and improve Protegz. These fall into three categories:
Essential. These cookies are necessary for the service to function. They keep you signed in, remember your role and preferences, and maintain your session as you navigate between pages. If you try Protegz as a guest, an essential cookie tracks your trial usage.
Functional. We use local storage to remember settings like your daily session and coaching progress so the app loads faster and preserves your place.
Analytics. We use a pseudonymous analytics cookie to understand how the product is used. No personal information such as your name or email is sent to our analytics provider.
We do not use cookies for advertising, cross-site tracking, or to serve third-party ads.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We do not serve ads.
We use trusted third-party services to operate Protegz, including providers for hosting, authentication, data storage, AI model inference, and analytics. These providers process data on our behalf and are contractually bound to use it only to provide their services.
Your coaching conversations are processed by AI models to generate your protege’s responses. When we use third-party AI providers, we enforce zero data retention (ZDR), meaning they do not store your prompts or responses after generating a reply. We also select providers that do not use customer inputs to train their models. Analytics providers receive only pseudonymous usage events, not your name, email, or conversation content.
The specific services we use may change over time as we improve the product. We will always ensure that any provider we work with meets our standards for data protection.
Your account data and coaching conversations are retained as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we remove your profile and login access. Some data may be retained in anonymized form for product improvement and research purposes unless you request full deletion.
Protegz is designed for students, including those under 13. We collect only the information necessary to provide the educational service.
Students under 13 must have permission from a parent or guardian before creating an account. By signing up, the student confirms that a parent or guardian has reviewed this privacy policy and approved their use of Protegz.
When students join through an educator’s classroom, the educator acts in a supervisory role and consents to the student’s participation for educational purposes.
Parents or guardians may review their child’s data, request corrections, request deletion of their child’s account and all associated data, or withdraw consent at any time by contacting us at privacy@protegz.com. We will process these requests within 7 business days.
We limit the personal information we collect from students to what is needed to provide the service: a display name, grade level, and coaching conversations. We do not collect physical addresses, phone numbers, or photos from students.
We use industry-standard practices to protect your data, including encrypted authentication, HTTPS for all data in transit, and access controls that ensure users can only see their own data.
We may update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will notify you through the app or by email. The effective date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated.
If you have questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, reach out at privacy@protegz.com.