CP3 Maths Website and TILES Board Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible for your information

Christian Parkinson (trading as CP3 Maths) is the controller responsible for personal data processed in connection with cp3maths.com and the public TILES Algebra Tiles Board.

Privacy questions and rights requests may be sent to support@cp3maths.com.

2. Scope of this policy

This policy applies to the public cp3maths.com website and the standalone Algebra Tiles Board website and progressive web app provided as part of TILES. It does not describe third-party websites, TES processing, or a school’s own processing of information when using classroom technology.

3. Information the Algebra Tiles Board does not request

The current public release does not require an account and does not ask you to provide a name, email address, pupil identifier, payment details or board content. It does not use advertising, behavioural profiling or optional analytics tools.

The Board does not offer messaging, public profiles or cloud sharing. The only current file-selection feature is the optional feedback screenshot described below; selecting a file does not send it until you submit the feedback form.

4. Information stored on your device

The Algebra Tiles Board uses local browser storage to remember the EULA version you accepted and the date and time of acceptance, together with your selected x or x,y tile set. It may also remember a non-empty board arrangement, the board view and the snap setting so that you can choose whether to continue your previous board when you return. These records stay in your browser and are not sent to CP3 Maths by the Board application.

A remembered board expires 30 days after it was last updated. Choosing to start with a clean board, clearing the board or clearing the site data in your browser removes that saved arrangement. The Board does not save the undo history as part of this 30-day record.

If the Board must leave its workspace to open a legal page, it may also hold a temporary restoration record in session storage. That record is removed after restoration and is treated as expired after 30 minutes. Normally the legal page now opens without closing the live board.

Your browser may cache application files so that the Board loads faster and can provide progressive web app behaviour. Clearing site data, using private browsing, changing browser or changing device may remove acceptance records, preferences, remembered board state and cached files.

5. Technical information processed when the website loads

When your browser connects, the hosting and security infrastructure may process ordinary technical request information. This may include an IP address, request date and time, requested page, browser or device information, response status, diagnostic information and security signals.

This information is used to deliver the website, protect it against misuse, diagnose faults and maintain a reliable service. CP3 Maths relies on its legitimate interests in operating and securing the Algebra Tiles Board, except where another legal basis is required.

Technical records are retained in accordance with the relevant infrastructure provider’s operational and security retention arrangements and only for as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes. CP3 Maths does not use these records to advertise to, profile or assess individual learners.

6. Optional feedback

You can choose to send feedback to CP3 Maths without an account or contact details. The form asks for a category and message but does not ask for your name or email address. Hosting and email-delivery infrastructure may still process ordinary request information, and anything you write or include in a screenshot may identify someone, so please do not include sensitive information or information about another person.

Two optional controls let you include a screenshot and limited technical diagnostics. Both are off by default. TILES does not create a screenshot of the app. If you choose to include one, you take and crop the screenshot on your device, then select that image from Photos or Files. TILES prepares the selected image locally for delivery and shows a larger preview so you can check it. The image is not uploaded until you send the feedback form. You should crop the image so it contains only the visible TILES app and check that it contains no personal, confidential or safeguarding-sensitive information. Diagnostics are limited to the TILES version and build, browser and operating-system family, viewport, display mode, current app and variable modes, tile count and up to five recent TILES application error messages. They do not include browsing history, unrelated activity, a persistent device identifier or local browser storage.

Feedback is delivered using Resend to the CP3 Maths support inbox, which is hosted using Apple’s iCloud Mail service. The selected screenshot is displayed inside the email and may also be carried as an inline email attachment. Feedback is used to investigate problems, respond where possible and improve the service. Feedback and optional attachments are kept only as long as needed for those purposes and for no longer than 12 months.

7. Essential storage, cookies and analytics

The Board uses the functional browser storage described above. Hosting and security providers may also use cookies or similar technologies that are strictly necessary to deliver, secure or protect the website.

The current release does not use optional analytics, advertising cookies or cross-site behavioural tracking. If optional analytics or other non-essential technologies are introduced later, this policy and any required consent controls will be updated before they are used.

8. Service providers and sharing

Personal data is not sold. The website is currently delivered using OpenAI’s Sites infrastructure, with Cloudflare providing supporting hosting, connectivity and security services. Resend delivers feedback email, and Apple’s iCloud Mail service hosts the CP3 Maths support inbox. These providers may process limited information to provide and protect their services.

You can read the providers’ own information at the OpenAI Privacy Policy, Cloudflare Privacy Policy, Resend Privacy Policy and Apple Privacy Policy.

Information may also be disclosed where required by law, to establish or defend legal rights, or to investigate a genuine security incident. CP3 Maths does not share Board usage information with schools, advertisers or data brokers.

9. International processing

OpenAI, Cloudflare, Resend, Apple or their approved service providers may process technical information or submitted feedback in the United Kingdom, European Economic Area, United States or other locations in which they operate. Where UK data protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer, processing must rely on applicable UK adequacy regulations, an approved international data transfer agreement or addendum, or another lawful transfer safeguard. You may contact CP3 Maths for further information about applicable safeguards.

10. Children and the Children’s Code

The Algebra Tiles Board is intended for educational use and is likely to be accessed by children. CP3 Maths takes the ICO’s Children’s Code (the Age Appropriate Design Code) into account and aims to place children’s best interests first.

The current Board supports this approach by collecting as little information as possible, using high privacy by default, providing no advertising or profiling, requiring no child account and providing privacy information in plain language.

Users under 18 should have permission from a parent, guardian, teacher or other responsible adult. Adults and organisations supervising use should avoid displaying unnecessary personal, confidential or safeguarding-sensitive information.

11. Sources, choices, lawful bases and automated decisions

Technical request information is generated when your browser or device connects to the service. Feedback content, a selected screenshot and optional diagnostics come directly from you when you submit the form.

The technical information needed to load and secure the service is necessary for the website to operate, but you are not under a statutory or contractual obligation to send feedback. Feedback, screenshots and diagnostics are entirely optional.

Where CP3 Maths processes technical personal data to operate and protect the website, or personal data contained in optional feedback to investigate problems and improve the service, the lawful basis is legitimate interests. Those interests are providing a reliable and secure educational service, understanding reported problems and making proportionate improvements. Information may also be processed when necessary to comply with a legal obligation or establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

The current public Board does not make automated decisions about users, profile learners or use personal data to determine access to educational opportunities.

12. Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights to ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability of your personal data. Because the Board does not identify users through an account, CP3 Maths may not be able to connect a technical hosting record or local browser record to a particular person.

Your right to object

Where processing relies on legitimate interests, you have the right to object to that processing. Email support@cp3maths.com and explain the processing you object to. CP3 Maths will consider the objection in accordance with applicable data protection law.

You can remove locally stored EULA acceptance, preferences, remembered board state and cached files by clearing the site data for the Board in your browser. Choosing “Start with a clean board” also removes the remembered board arrangement.

You may raise a concern with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Information about doing so is available at ico.org.uk. You are encouraged to contact CP3 Maths first so the concern can be considered.

13. Security

CP3 Maths and its infrastructure providers use reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect information processed through the public service. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.

14. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when the Algebra Tiles Board, its hosting, paid features or applicable requirements change. The version and effective date at the top of this page identify the current policy. A significant change will be brought to users’ attention where reasonably practicable.

15. Contact

Privacy questions or requests may be sent to support@cp3maths.com.

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