Privacy: what's recorded
Every FocusBridge tool shows this same list in its settings, under "What's recorded". It says what each tool keeps, where, for how long, and what leaves the device.
Last updated November 5, 2026.
Never recorded, by any FocusBridge tool
- The websites you visit, what you type, or what is on your screen.
- Messages, photos you take, the camera or the microphone.
- Where you are.
- Anything for advertising. FocusBridge never sells your data.
Home Focus Parent
Home Focus keeps your children's photos, the people who can reach them and their focus minutes on this iPhone. FocusBridge never sees them.
Kept
| What | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your children's photos. | On this iPhone only. Not sent anywhere, and not in backups | Until you remove them |
| The people who can reach each child. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you remove them |
| The first name of each child you add yourself, when the school sign-in didn't find them. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you remove them |
| Focus minutes and finished nights for each child. | On this iPhone | 62 days |
| Each child's grade level, and how far you are in setup. | On this iPhone | Until you delete the app |
| Each child's school, or the colors you picked. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you change it |
| The apps you choose to pause, as Apple's private codes. FocusBridge can't read their names. | On this iPhone | Until you change them |
| Your email, your reminder time and each child's phone lock choice, once your school connects FocusBridge. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks or you choose Delete everything about us |
| Each child's grade level, once your school connects FocusBridge, kept with the school's records. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| If you sign out on all devices, or choose Delete everything about us while signed in: when you did, under a code made from your email, so old sign-ins stay closed. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 180 days after you do, even if the school asks sooner |
| If you link a child's phone: which child it belongs to, and this phone's key for the link. | On this iPhone (the key in its Keychain) | Until you unlink, or choose Delete everything about us |
| This phone's name and which phones it's linked to (never which child), so Focus Now reaches them. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you unlink, or choose Delete everything about us |
| Each Focus Now's start and end times, and when you end one early. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until your child's phone confirms it, or 24 hours at most |
| What each Focus Now is for ("Walk the dog", or the class and title of the homework), locked so only your child's phone can open it. FocusBridge can't read it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until your child's phone confirms it, or 24 hours at most |
| Work you add to your child's list (what it is, its class, when it's due and its Focus Time), locked so only your child's phone can open it. FocusBridge can't read it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until your child's phone puts it on its list, or 8 days at most |
| When Focus Time starts on your child's phone, or ends early there: only the times, so this phone can show it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until that Focus Time is over, or 8 hours at most |
| If you show a code for your child's phone to scan: only a check of the code that can't be turned back into it, and which phone used it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 2 hours at most |
| While your child's phone is set up beside this one: which setup step it's on, so this phone can say whose turn it is. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until setup is done, or 2 hours at most |
| If your child's phone is linked: a locked copy of the homework it shows: what your child adds, their SAT prep plan and the work from your child's school or course calendar (class, title, due date, minutes, plan, whether it's done and which one your child is working on now), with the first name of each parent linked to that phone, the newest Focus Now's times and, during setup, the step that phone is on. Only this phone can open it, so it shows here. FocusBridge can't read it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Replaced each time it changes. Gone after 8 days, when you unlink, or when you choose Delete everything about us |
| This phone's key for opening the homework from your child's phone (FocusBridge gets only the half that locks it). | On this iPhone (the key in its Keychain) | Until you choose Delete everything about us |
| The Focus Now you sent to each child's phone, so End still reaches it after this app closes. | On this iPhone | Until it ends |
| Feedback you choose to send: which question, your taps, an optional note (up to 500 characters), the app, platform and version, and the date. Not linked to you, your family or your child. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 12 months, then the note is deleted and only the counts stay |
| Backup copies of what FocusBridge's server keeps, so it can be put back after a failure. | FocusBridge's server and a backup service, in the United States, encrypted | 7 days at most. Anything deleted leaves the copies within 7 days |
Sent
- To FocusBridge's server, once your school connects it: your email, reminder time, phone lock choices and each child's grade level, to show tonight's homework in blocks that fit the grade.
- To FocusBridge's server, if you link a child's phone: this phone's name and each Focus Now's times, with what it's for locked so only that phone can open it, passed to that phone through Apple's notification service.
- To FocusBridge's server, if you link a child's phone: work you add to your child's list, locked so only that phone can open it.
- To FocusBridge's server, if you link a child's phone: a request for tonight's homework of the student that phone is linked to. The list comes back to this iPhone, which doesn't save it.
- From FocusBridge's server, once your school connects it: a teacher's update about your child's missing work, for 21 days after the teacher sends it. This iPhone doesn't save it.
- To focusbridge.app, once, if your child's school has given FocusBridge written permission to show its mascot picture: a plain request for that picture, which this iPhone then keeps. Nothing about you or your children is sent.
- To FocusBridge's server, only when you tap Send on a feedback question: your taps, your note if you write one, and the app, platform and version, with nothing that says who sent it.
Never recorded
- Your contacts list. You pick people one at a time, and only their names and photos are kept.
Home Focus Student
Home Focus keeps everything on this iPhone and sends nothing to FocusBridge, unless a parent links this phone or you link it to your school account or your Chromebook. Then FocusBridge's server passes a parent's Focus Now, or a focus session you start, between the linked devices, and tells a linked parent's phone when one starts or ends early.
Kept
| What | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your first name and grade. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you delete the app |
| Your photo, if you added one. | On this iPhone only. Not sent anywhere, and not in backups | Until you remove it or delete the app |
| Your focus sessions: when each started and ended, and how long you focused. | On this iPhone | 62 days |
| Which of tonight's assignments your Focus Time went to, so each one's circle fills. | On this iPhone | Until a later night replaces it |
| Parts of longer work you moved to another night. | On this iPhone | Until the work is due |
| How you chose to spread Focus Time for longer work, when your teacher lets you choose. | On this iPhone | Until the work is due |
| If you connect a calendar link: the minutes you set for its work, and your usual ones for each kind of work (like reading or a quiz), so the app can suggest them next time. | On this iPhone | Until you disconnect |
| Your SAT prep, if you add it: the test date and how many sessions. | On this iPhone | Until the test date |
| Your school, or the colors you picked. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you change it |
| Your Focus Time on your calendar, only if you turn it on: which calendar is Home Focus's, its blocks there, and the times you moved blocks to. | On this iPhone | Until you turn it off |
| Supports chosen at home, like shorter blocks or a quiet timer. Never the reason. | On this iPhone | Until they are changed |
| Your line for the focus screen, and the last name you type to find your counselor, if you use them. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you change or clear them |
| Your choices: showing your course on the lock screen, and a note when a break is over. | On this iPhone | Until you change them |
| Homework you add yourself: the class, what it is, when it is due, the minutes you pick, and whether you marked it done. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you delete it, or delete the app |
| If you tap a counselor, or App problem in Settings: your email app opens with the address filled in. Home Focus Student sends nothing, and keeps nothing of what you write. | In your own email app | As long as you keep that email |
| The parent code, kept only as a check that can't be turned back into the code. | This iPhone's Keychain | Until it is changed |
| The apps to pause and the apps that always stay open, as Apple's private codes. | On this iPhone | Until they are changed |
| If a parent links this phone: this phone's ID and key for the link. | This iPhone's Keychain | Until it is unlinked, or you choose Delete everything about us |
| If a parent links this phone: the link and this phone's notification address. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until it is unlinked or you choose Delete everything about us, or a day after the last code if no phone was linked |
| Each Focus Now a parent sends: its start and end times, and when a parent ends one early. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until this phone confirms it, or 24 hours at most |
| What a parent's Focus Now is for ("Walk the dog", or the class and title of the homework), locked by the parent's phone so only this phone can open it. FocusBridge can't read it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until this phone confirms it, or 24 hours at most |
| Work a parent adds to your list, locked by the parent's phone so only this phone can open it. FocusBridge can't read it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until this phone puts it on your list, or 8 days at most |
| When you end a parent's Focus Now early: which one and when, so the parent's phone stops its countdown. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 8 hours at most, or until a parent sends a new one |
| While you set up beside a parent's phone: which setup step this phone is on, so the parent's phone can say whose turn it is. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until setup is done, or 2 hours at most |
| Your homework, if a parent links this phone: what you and your parents add, your SAT prep plan and the work from your school or course calendar (class, title, due date, minutes, plan, whether it's done and which one you're working on now), with your linked parents' first names, the newest Focus Now's times and, during setup, the step you're on, locked so only your parents' linked phones can open it, so it shows there too. FocusBridge can't read it. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Replaced each time it changes. Gone after 8 days, when the phones unlink, or when you choose Delete everything about us |
| If you link this phone to your school account: the link, so a session started on either one runs on both. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until it is unlinked, or you choose Delete everything about us |
| The Focus Times of a homework session running on your Chromebook, sent to this phone. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until this phone confirms them, or 24 hours at most |
| If you link a Chromebook that isn't signed in to a school: the link, and only a check of the Chromebook's key. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until it is unlinked, or you choose Delete everything about us |
| Focus sessions you start on your own, here or on a linked Chromebook: only their start and end times and which one started them, so both lock and a linked parent's phone can show it. Never what the homework is. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until the session is over. If it is ended early, 8 hours after that at most |
| Backup copies of what FocusBridge's server keeps, so it can be put back after a failure. | FocusBridge's server and a backup service, in the United States, encrypted | 7 days at most. Anything deleted leaves the copies within 7 days |
Sent
- To a "Home Focus" calendar on this phone, only if you turn it on: your Focus Time, which your calendar app can sync like any other calendar. Anyone you share that calendar with can see it.
- To FocusBridge's server, if a parent links this phone: where to send this phone's notifications, and that each Focus Now arrived, so the parent's phone can show it. The server holds that for 10 minutes and never saves it.
- To FocusBridge's server, if you link this phone to your school account: when each homework session you run here starts, pauses and ends, and who ended it early, so your Chromebook runs it too and your teacher's report shows it.
- To FocusBridge's server, if a parent links this phone, or you link it to a Chromebook or your school account: the start and end times of each focus session you start on your own, and when you end one early, so your Chromebook locks too and the parent's phone can show it. Never what the homework is.
- To FocusBridge's server, if a parent links this phone: when you end a parent's Focus Now early, so the parent's phone stops its countdown.
- To FocusBridge's server, while you set up beside a parent's phone: which setup step this phone is on, so the parent's phone can say whose turn it is.
- To FocusBridge's server, if a parent links this phone: your homework (what you and your parents add, your SAT prep plan and the work from your school or course calendar), with your linked parents' first names, the newest Focus Now's times and, during setup, the step you're on, locked so only your parents' linked phones can open it, so it shows there too. FocusBridge can't read it.
- To focusbridge.app, only if your school has given FocusBridge its mascot picture: a plain request for that one picture, the first time it shows. Nothing about you is sent.
Never recorded
- What your own calendar events say. If you add Focus Time to your calendar, the app looks only at when you are busy and keeps nothing.
Campus Focus
Campus Focus keeps your calendar link and your plan on this phone. If you're in a class pilot and choose to share, only daily counts go to FocusBridge. What you share is used only for the pilot, its research and, as class totals, the suggestions the app gives everyone, and never in FocusBridge's public numbers.
Kept
| What | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your calendar link, or the calendar file you chose. | This iPhone's Keychain (a link) or this iPhone (a file) | Until you disconnect |
| Your plan: courses and due dates from your calendar or added by hand, your focus blocks, what you marked done, and what you marked "Not homework". | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you disconnect |
| The minutes and start days you set for each assignment, and your usual ones for each kind of work (like lab reports or quizzes), so the app can suggest them next time. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you disconnect |
| Your answers to Set your starting times: how long your last paper and a 20-page reading took, how a normal week goes, and which kinds of work are hardest and easiest for you. They only adjust the suggested times and are never sent to FocusBridge or added up into a score. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you redo them or delete the app |
| Routines you save: each name, with your weekly times and focus hours. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you delete them |
| If you give them: the name you go by, your own names for your courses, and the professors, office hours and advisor you type or paste, or your course calendar gives, for greetings, labels and help on this phone. They are never sent anywhere, not even to your laptop. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you clear them or delete your data |
| The days you took off, to count how many you took in the last month. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | 30 days |
| If you turn on Campus events: the kinds you picked, and the events you attend (name, place and times), so your focus blocks stay clear of them. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until each event is over, or you turn Campus events off |
| If you turn on Pick Your Arena: the work you finished this term (its title, course, due date and when you finished it), and how far its picture has come, so it never moves back. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until the term ends, or you turn Pick Your Arena off |
| For your recaps: this school year's focus time added up (by month, weekday, hour, week and course, with your first, earliest and longest focus block), the work you finished (its title, course, kind, due date and when you finished it), and your note to June if you write one. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | A year after the year's recap opens in June, or until you delete your data |
| Public calendar links you add with "Add a campus calendar", so this phone can read their events. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you remove them |
| Mornings you chose to start focusing earlier, from "Make room to focus?". | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until that day has passed |
| Which days "Make room to focus?" said were short of focus time, and by how many minutes, so it tells you each one once. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until there is time for that work, or it is due |
| A log of what the app did, to help fix problems. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | 62 days |
| The apps you pause, as Apple's private codes. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you change them |
| While the two-way calendar is on (it's on once you allow calendar access in setup, until you turn it off in Settings): your focus blocks, in a "Campus Focus" calendar. Dragging a block moves it, and deleting one counts as skipped. | Your phone's calendar, synced through your own iCloud or Google account, never FocusBridge's server | Until you remove them or turn the calendar off |
| While Plan around my calendar is on (it's on once you allow calendar access in setup, until you turn it off in Settings): when you're busy (start and end only, never titles) from your phone's calendars. | Read on this iPhone, and sent unlabeled only to your own laptop through your laptop code | Not stored |
| If you paste your own calendar's private link into the laptop extension: busy times, read every 15 minutes, times only. | Your laptop's browser extension | Until you remove the link |
| While your laptop shows its code to scan: a one-time private key and pickup secret for that code, so only your laptop can open what your phone sends. | Your laptop's browser extension, never sent anywhere | Until your laptop picks up your code or the code runs out after 10 minutes, and never past closing the browser |
| Sites you keep open during focus blocks on your laptop, including any you keep open from the "can wait" page. | Your laptop's browser extension | Until you remove them |
| Your school (your answer to "What school do you attend?"), or the colors you picked. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you change it |
| For Count my college: a random code the app makes the first time it counts (not your name, email or phone number), and the day it last counted. | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you choose Delete my data, which makes a new number next time |
| If you enter a pilot code: which pilot you joined (its course, not the code). | On this iPhone, and in your own iPhone backups | Until you delete the app |
| Only if you're in a class pilot and choose to share: daily counts of focus blocks planned, started, finished, skipped and ended early, minutes focused, and which of your own supports were on, under a random number with no name. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you stop sharing, or the research ends |
| Only if you're in a class pilot and choose to share: how many focus blocks you finished each day for work due on a later day. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you stop sharing, or the research ends |
| Only if you're in a class pilot and choose to share: how many focus blocks you moved to another time each day. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you stop sharing, or the research ends |
| Only if you're in a class pilot and choose to share: how many Focus Breaks you took each day. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you stop sharing, or the research ends |
| Only if you're in a class pilot and choose to share: for each kind of assignment (like a reading or a paper), the focus minutes and days ahead you chose each day and whether you kept the suggestion, never which assignment. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you stop sharing, or the research ends |
| If you use the Campus Focus web page or a professor's page: your email for the sign-in code, your calendar link, your course items and your plan. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 180 days after you last sign in, or right away when you choose Delete my data |
| Feedback you choose to send: which question, your taps, an optional note (up to 500 characters), the app, platform and version, and the date. Not linked to you. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 12 months, then the note is deleted and only the counts stay |
| The check-in, only if you choose to send it: your two 1 to 5 answers, what Campus Focus most helps you with, an optional note and an other line (up to 500 and 200 characters), and the date, under a random number with no name, email or code. Not linked to you or to your quote. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 12 months, then the notes are deleted and only the counts stay |
| A quote, only if you are 18 or older and check both boxes: your words, the name you type if you choose to be shown with one, and the month. Kept apart from your answers, so it can't be matched to them. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until you ask us to remove it, by emailing hello@focusbridge.app with the words you wrote |
| While Count my college is on (it's on until you turn it off in Settings, under Your college): the college you picked and the app's random code, by week, with no name, email, internet address, course or calendar. A college only ever hears its total. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 56 days, then only each week's number of phones at each college stays |
| Backup copies of what FocusBridge's server keeps, so it can be put back after a failure. | FocusBridge's server and a backup service, in the United States, encrypted | 7 days at most. Anything deleted leaves the copies within 7 days |
Sent
- To your school's calendar, to read it. Nothing is sent back.
- To your college's public event calendars, only if you turn on Campus events, to read them. Nothing about you is sent.
- To focusbridge.app, each time you open the app: a plain request for the list of colleges (their names, states and colors), signed by FocusBridge so the app can check it, and, once you pick a college from that list, a plain request for the file of every college in its state (their dates, help links and colors). That request tells FocusBridge the state, never the college. Nothing else about you is sent.
- To focusbridge.app, only when your college gave FocusBridge written permission to show its mascot art: a plain request for that one picture, until this phone has it. Nothing about you is sent.
- To FocusBridge's server, only if you're in a class pilot and choose to share: the daily counts above.
- To FocusBridge's server, once a week while Count my college is on (it's on until you turn it off in Settings, under Your college): the college you picked and a random code the app made. Nothing else about you is sent, and a college only ever hears its total.
- To a "Campus Focus" calendar on this phone, while the two-way calendar is on: your focus blocks, synced through your own iCloud or Google account, never FocusBridge's server.
- To your laptop, only when you copy the laptop code or scan your laptop's code. It carries your school, your calendar link, anything you added by hand, the minutes and start days you set and your usual ones, your setup answers, your busy times and the focus blocks you moved (times only), so keep it to yourself.
- To FocusBridge's server, only when you scan your laptop's code: your laptop code, sealed so only that laptop can open it. The server can't read it, keeps it in memory only, and forgets it when your laptop picks it up. A code works for 10 minutes, and the server clears one that's never picked up within a minute after that.
- To FocusBridge's server, only while your laptop shows its code to scan: your laptop asks every 2 seconds whether your code has arrived, with a number made from that code's key and a scrambled copy of its pickup secret, never the secret itself. To limit tries, the server keeps scrambled copies of your laptop's internet address and network, never the addresses, and forgets them within 11 minutes.
- From your own calendar to your laptop, only if you paste its private link into the laptop extension: busy times and focus blocks, times only, read every 15 minutes. If you share your Campus Focus calendar from iCloud as a public link, anyone with the link can see block times and titles, so you can turn off assignment names.
- To focusbridge.app, only when you tap Something's wrong (or, in a tester build, Send feedback): the app's version and whether it's on an iPhone or an Android phone, so the feedback form opens with them filled in. What you write in the form goes to FocusBridge through Google Forms.
- To your clipboard, only when you tap Copy what happened: the app's version, your phone's model and system version, and the last 30 things the app's log recorded (what it did and when, never your calendar link, course names or assignment titles). It goes nowhere until you paste it.
- To FocusBridge's server, only when you tap Send on a feedback question: your taps, your note if you write one, and the app, platform and version, with nothing that says who sent it.
- To FocusBridge's server, only when you tap Send on the check-in: your answers, and a quote if you chose to share one, together, with nothing that says who sent it. The server keeps the quote apart from your answers, with nothing that links one to the other.
Never recorded
- Your name or email with the shared counts, your course names, assignment titles, or times finer than a day.
- What your own calendar events say. With "Plan around my calendar" on, the app looks only at when you are busy and keeps nothing.
School Focus
FocusBridge keeps a record of when your focus sessions start, pause and end, and which supports were on. It never records the websites you visit, what you type or what's on your screen.
Kept
| What | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Student and teacher names, school email addresses, Google and Schoology account IDs, and class lists from Google Classroom or Schoology. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| Assignment titles, due dates and the focus time the teacher set. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| Your Google sign-in: the extension asks Google, through Chrome, for a pass that lets FocusBridge read your classes and homework. On Firefox and Edge it uses Google's own sign-in page and holds the pass in the extension's memory only. FocusBridge never sees your Google password. | On this Chromebook: Chrome keeps the pass, and the extension keeps nothing on disk | About an hour, then Google issues a new one; signing out of Chrome ends it |
| That same Google pass, sent with each request so the server can check with Google who you are: the server holds it in memory for 5 minutes and never writes it to its records. | FocusBridge's server, in memory only | 5 minutes |
| When a session started (and whether on a linked phone), paused, resumed, finished and was turned in, who ended it early (the student or a parent), and sessions never started. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| Each support the case manager set, such as extended time or a tool that stays open, and which supports each session used. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| A teacher's changes to a student's supports for one assignment, and the teacher's own words when turning one off. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| A student's grade level, if a parent sets it in Home Focus, so focus blocks fit the grade. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| Guardians' email addresses from Google Classroom, only while the teacher has parent emails on: for those emails, parents' homework list and teachers' updates in Home Focus Parent and on FocusBridge's web page for parents. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| When each phone was linked to a student's account, so a session runs on both. Never the phone's name or number. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until it is unlinked |
| On a Chromebook that isn't signed in to a school: its link to the student's phone, kept with that phone's link, and only a check of the Chromebook's key. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until it is unlinked |
| A focus session the student starts on their own: only its start and end times and which device started it, so the phone locks too. Never what the homework is, and never in a teacher's report. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | Until the session is over. If it is ended early, 8 hours after that at most |
| When a teacher sent reminders about missing work, and how many. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| With a reminder to guardians: which students it was about, and the teacher's note and sign-off, for the teacher's update in Home Focus Parent and on FocusBridge's web page for parents. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 21 days after the teacher sends it |
| A list from the school of case managers and the students they serve. | FocusBridge's server, in the United States, encrypted | 30 days after the school year ends, or sooner if the school asks |
| Tonight's focus sessions, so the lock works offline. | This Chromebook | Until the next update |
| Backup copies of what FocusBridge's server keeps, so it can be put back after a failure. | FocusBridge's server and a backup service, in the United States, encrypted | 7 days at most. Anything deleted leaves the copies within 7 days |
Sent
- To FocusBridge's server: when each session starts, pauses and ends, and whether the work was turned in. Never a web address.
- To FocusBridge's server, for a focus session you start on your own: only its start and end times, so your phone locks too. Never what the homework is, and never to your teacher.
- To your teacher: a report each morning with those times, turn-in status and which supports were on.
- To you, only when your teacher clicks Send: a reminder about missing work.
- To your guardians, only if your teacher turns that on and clicks Send: an email that names no student and asks them to sign in to Home Focus Parent or FocusBridge's web page for parents, where the teacher's update about the missing work waits for 21 days.
- To your case managers: an email when a teacher turns off one of your supports for an assignment. It names the assignment and class but not you or the teacher's reason; those wait on their case manager page, where they sign in.
- To the research team, only at a pilot school that signed a research agreement, and only for students whose parent gave permission and who agreed themselves: each week's focus minutes and session counts under a code number, never a name, email, class, assignment or time of day.
- To your school, only for that research: which code number is yours, so the school can send the research team its own records under that number instead of your name.
Never recorded
- Marks or scores on schoolwork, the work itself, or files you create.
- A diagnosis, the type of plan (IEP or 504), IEP or 504 documents, or why a student has a support.
- Home addresses, phone numbers, birth dates or photos.
Questions and requests
Deleting an app deletes what it kept on that phone. To ask what FocusBridge's server holds about you or your child, or to have it deleted, write to hello@focusbridge.app. If you use FocusBridge through a school, you can also ask the school. A school can ask us to export or delete its records.
Backups and the services behind FocusBridge
FocusBridge's server runs at Render, in Ohio. Each night it makes a second, encrypted copy of what it holds at Backblaze, in the United States (US East), and keeps the last 7 copies. When a record is deleted, the backups let go of it within 7 days.
Cronitor, a monitoring service, checks every few minutes that the server and this website answer, and learns when the nightly backup starts, finishes or fails. It sees no data about any student, parent or school.
This website
This website sets no cookies and loads nothing from anyone else.
If you use the sign-up form on the Join the pilot page, what you type is kept by Netlify, the company that hosts this website, and sent to FocusBridge by email. We use it only to write back to you about the pilot, never sell it, and delete it when you ask at hello@focusbridge.app.
The home page can show how many focus sessions have been held, in your state or in the United States. To pick which count to show, Netlify looks up your state from your internet address when the page loads. It is used only for that one page, and it is never stored or sent to FocusBridge. The counts themselves are rounded totals that never show a single school or student.