Privacy, in plain language

• The grade and subject you chose.
• For each student profile: a code or nickname, a symbol, the program type, and the accommodations you ticked.
• Your recent expectations, the expectations in your plan, and your print preferences.
• That the Founders window has been shown on this device, so it opens by itself only once.
• What you keep in your library: the sheets, projects, practice pages and supply teacher packs you have made.
• For a supply teacher pack: what you type on its cover page, such as the name of the class, the date and your notes for the day.
• For Class records: the expectations you tick as taught, the days your terms start, what each version of a set applied, and the day you first printed it.
• For the Classroom pages: your class list, as you chose to write it (a first name and last initial for each student, or a nickname and a symbol), where the furniture is and who sits in each seat, your rules for seats and groups (who is kept apart, who sits together, who sits at the front, the back or near the teacher, and who is shared out one to a group; no reason is kept for any of them), the groups you last made, your class jobs and whose turn it is, and what you type on the morning board (a greeting, a note, the day's schedule, the days coming up and the class jar). See the next section.
• While you work on a set of sheets: the changes you make to it, such as a question made easier or the wording of a question you edited. These are kept for this visit only and are gone when you close the tab.

In this browser, on this device, and nowhere else. Sideroad has no accounts and no sign-in, and it does not send profiles to us or to anyone. If you open Sideroad on another computer, your profiles will not be there. That is on purpose.

Last names, birth dates, Ontario Education Numbers, your school’s name, diagnoses, assessment results, notes about a child, IEP documents or student work. Sideroad has no field for any of them and nowhere to upload them. Wherever you type (the code or nickname of a profile, the wording of a question, the title of a project, the notes in a supply teacher pack), please keep real names and notes about a student out. On a profile and on a sheet, Sideroad checks what you type on your device and asks you to look again if a word could be a name.

A seating chart and a class jobs chart need something to call each student. For those two charts, and nowhere else, you may write your class list as first names. Sideroad keeps a first name and a last initial, such as “Maya R.”; if you paste whole names, the rest of the last name is not kept. The names stay in this browser on this device like everything else and are never sent to Sideroad or to anyone. No symbol is shown beside a name, and the class list is never joined to a student profile, an accommodation or a sheet, so a chart never shows which students have a profile. If you would rather use no names at all, choose nicknames instead. Remove the class list at any time on its own page, or erase everything in Settings.

No analytics. No advertising. No trackers. No scripts from other companies.

When you open Sideroad, your browser asks our server for the pages, the way it does for any website, and for the curriculum expectations of the grade and subject you choose. The server sends them. It does not receive your profiles, your sheets, your records or what you print. Everything is made inside your browser.

The pages themselves are kept on Amazon Web Services in Canada, in its Montreal region, and are handed to your browser by Amazon’s delivery network from whichever of its locations is nearest to you. Like any web host, that network sees the address your request comes from. Nothing you type in Sideroad is sent to it.

The form on the Contact page does not send anything itself. It opens your own email app with your message ready, and nothing leaves your device until you press send there. Once you do, we receive what any email carries: your name, your email address and your message. We use them to answer you and for nothing else.

Printing uses your browser and your own printer. A printed sheet shows the student’s code or nickname and the expectation code. Nothing else about the student is printed.

If you save a backup file in Settings, it goes to your own Downloads folder. It holds what is on this device: your profiles, your library, your records, and your class list and charts. Keep it where you would keep your own class papers. The Classroom page can also save a classroom file, so you can carry a seating chart or a morning board from home to school; it holds your class list and goes only where you save it, such as your own Google Drive. Sideroad does not send it anywhere.

Settings → Start over → “Erase everything” removes every profile, record, class list, library item and setting from this device straight away. Clearing your browser’s site data does the same.

If other people use this device with the same browser profile, they can open Sideroad and see the codes, the settings and what is in your library. That is one more reason to use codes in profiles.