Kalvy is used by children, so this says plainly what we collect, who can see it, and what we do not do. If anything here is unclear, ask us.
What we collect
When an account is created we ask for a name, an email address, an Australian state, a school year and the exam being worked towards. That is all the account needs, and we do not ask for a date of birth, an address or a phone number for a student.
As Kalvy is used we keep the work itself: answers to questions, attempts at tests, writing, planning notes, how long each question took, and the marks and feedback a tutor gives. This is what makes progress and insights possible.
We record which version of our Terms and Conditions each person agreed to, and when.
Who can see a student's work
- The student, always.
- A parent or guardian linked to that student, who can see results, progress and work.
- A tutor assigned to that student, who can additionally set work and mark writing.
- Kalvy administrators, for support and for checking the quality of questions.
Nobody else. There are no public profiles, no leaderboards and no rankings, and one student can never see another student's work. These limits are enforced by the database itself, not only by what the screens choose to show.
Writing marked with the help of a model
A tutor may ask a computer model to suggest a mark for a piece of writing. It happens only when a tutor presses that button — never because a student submitted, never on a schedule.
What is sent: the piece of writing, the task it answered, the school year, and the word and spelling counts worked out on our own servers.
What is not sent: the student's name, email, age, school, state, any identifier, their other work, or their marks.
What comes back is a draft for the tutor. The tutor changes what they disagree with and publishes the mark under their own name, and the suggestion itself is never shown to a student. Spelling is checked entirely on our own servers, against an Australian English dictionary, and nothing about it leaves them.
A tutoring centre can turn this off.
What we do not do
- We do not sell anyone's information, and we do not share it for advertising.
- We do not show advertising in Kalvy.
- We do not track people across other websites.
- We keep counts of what happens — a test started, a question answered — but never keystrokes and never a recording of the screen.
- Our administrative log records what administrators did. It never records passwords.
Keeping and removing information
Work is kept so that progress over time means something, and a test result keeps its own copy of the questions as they were on the day, so a later edit cannot rewrite what a child actually sat.
If you want an account and its work removed, ask us and we will remove it.
Keeping it safe
Passwords are never stored by us in a readable form. Pages that need an account are not indexed by search engines. Access to work is decided by the database on every single request, so changing a web address cannot show anybody something that is not theirs.
Changes
If we change this statement we publish a new version with a note saying what changed. Older versions are kept.
Asking us
Write to hello@kalvy.io, or speak to your tutoring centre.