Trust & security center

We hold children’s learning data to the highest bar.

Jalanea Tutor works with families and neurodivergent learners, so security and privacy aren’t features — they’re the foundation. Here is exactly how we protect your data, honor your rights, and keep the platform safe.

Last reviewed: March 2025 · Questions? security@jalanea.dev

AES-256 & TLS 1.3
Encrypted at rest & in transit
COPPA & FERPA
Built for children's records
WCAG 2.1 AA
Accessible by design
Never sold
No data brokers, no ad trackers

Security & encryption

Every byte of your family’s data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at restwith AES-256. Encryption keys are managed by our cloud provider’s key-management service, rotated regularly, and never stored alongside the data they protect.

In transit

TLS 1.3 on every connection, HSTS enforced, and modern cipher suites only. No mixed content, no downgrade.

At rest

AES-256 on databases, backups, and file storage. Backups are encrypted and access-logged the same as live data.

How we limit access

Least privilege. Staff and tutors see only the students and records their role requires — enforced by role-based access control.
Strong auth. Two-factor authentication is available on every account, and required for staff with elevated access.
Everything logged. Administrative actions are written to an immutable audit trail — reviewable and tamper-evident.
See the Admin Console (roles, audit trail, moderation)

Data lifecycle & retention

We keep data only as long as it’s useful to your family or required by law, then delete it on a defined schedule. You can export or delete most data yourself, anytime.

Data type
Kept for
Then
Account & profile
While active
Deleted 30 days after account closure
Lesson & progress data
While active
Anonymized after closure; deletable on request
Session mood & sensory notes
12 months
Auto-purged rolling window
Support messages
24 months
Deleted
Billing records
7 years
Retained for tax/legal, then deleted
Audit logs
2 years
Rolled off, tamper-evident until then

Deletion requests are honored within 30 days and confirmed when complete. Backups are purged on their own rolling cycle so deleted data doesn’t linger indefinitely.

Children’s data & records

Because we serve children, a supervising adult always controls the account. Children never sign up on their own — a parent, guardian, or tutor creates the profile and shares a starter code.

FERPA — education-record handling

When we handle data on behalf of a school or district, we act as a school officialwith a legitimate educational interest under FERPA. That means the education records stay under the school’s and family’s control: we use them only to deliver the service, never for advertising, and we return or delete them on request.

Right to inspect. Parents and eligible students can review the records we hold at any time.
Right to correct. Ask us to fix anything inaccurate or misleading and we’ll amend it.
No re-disclosure. We don’t share education records with third parties without consent, except as FERPA permits.

PII & session-data confidentiality

We practice data minimization — we collect the least we need. Sensitive details like a learner’s diagnosis, mood check-ins, and sensory preferences are treated as confidential:

Personally identifiable information is access-controlled by role, masked in internal tools and analytics wherever a full value isn’t needed, and never used to target advertising. Mood and sensory data is used solely to adapt a learner’s own lessons.

Incident response

We plan for the worst so we can act fast. If a security incident affects your data, here’s our committed process — and our promise to tell you clearly and quickly.

1
Detect & triage — continuous

Monitoring and alerting flag anomalies. On-call staff assess severity and open an incident within the hour.

2
Contain & investigate — hours

Isolate affected systems, revoke credentials, and preserve logs to determine scope and root cause.

3
Notify — within 72 hours

If your data is affected, we notify impacted families and any required authorities within 72 hours of confirmation — in plain language, with what happened and what to do.

4
Remediate & learn — after

Fix the root cause, publish a post-incident review, and harden against recurrence.

Accessibility statement

Accessibility isn’t an add-on for a product built for neurodivergent learners — it’s the whole point. Jalanea Tutor is designed and tested to conform with WCAG 2.1 Level AA and to meet the expectations of the ADA and Section 508.

Full keyboard operability & visible focus
High-contrast & dark themes
Text resizing to 200% without loss
Reduced-motion & sensory controls
Screen-reader labels & landmarks
Read-aloud & easy-read font options

These controls live on every page via the accessibility button, and our full conformance approach is documented in our standards. Found a barrier? Tell us and we’ll prioritize a fix.

Read our accessibility standards

Ethics & community safety

ABA ethics & professional boundaries

Our tutoring is ABA-informed, and our tutors are held to professional ethical standards, including the BACB’s ethics code where applicable. We actively monitor for professional-boundary concerns — off-platform contact, dual relationships, or anything that could compromise a learner’s wellbeing — and act on them.

Boundaries first

Communication stays on-platform and is reviewable by the supervising adult.

Monitored & escalated

A compliance monitor flags concerns for human review and escalation.

Community content & moderation

Tutor-published content and community spaces follow a clear content policy: safe, respectful, evidence-informed, and appropriate for children. Content is reviewed before it reaches learners, and anyone can report a concern.

Published lessons are reviewed against our quality & safety guidelines.
A moderation queue routes reports to trained reviewers, prioritized by risk.
Clear consequences for violations, and an appeal path if we get it wrong.

Your data, your controls.

View, export, or delete your family’s data — and manage cookie preferences — anytime.

Data & privacy controls