Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 4, 2026
- Students never make an account. They join with a room code and get a made-up nickname. We never ask a student for a name, email or anything else about them.
- If you load your class list to sort teams, it stays on your computer. Only class-list numbers ever reach us.
- Teachers sign in with Google. We keep your email, name and profile picture, your games, and your plan.
- Payments go through Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
- We don't sell data, and there are no ads or ad trackers.
1. Who we are
Classroom Showdown ("we," "us," "the Service") is a team review game for classrooms at classroomshowdown.com, operated by Leatherwood Enterprises of Tyler, Texas, United States. Contact: support@classroomshowdown.com.
2. What we keep about teachers
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Google sign-in: your email address, name and profile picture address | To sign you in and show who is signed in | Until you ask us to delete your account |
| The date you agreed to the terms | To know which terms you accepted | As long as the account exists |
| Your games: names, questions, answers, categories, pictures, folders, share codes, and any team setup (class-list numbers and optional team names) | That is the product: your library | Until you delete them or your account |
| Your plan: a Stripe customer id, and your subscription's status, monthly or yearly, price and renewal date | To give Showdown Plus to paying teachers, and to email yearly subscribers before they renew | As long as the account exists; Stripe keeps its own payment records |
| Support messages: what you send through Help & Support or email to support@, our replies, and the account email they go to | To answer you | Until you ask us to delete them or your account |
| Rooms you host: teams, points, rounds and buzz times | To run the live game | Deleted automatically about a day after the room closes |
Pictures. A picture you add to a question is shown on every student device in your room, so it is stored at a long, unguessable web address that anyone holding the address can open. Pictures are resized and re-saved before upload. Do not put students' faces or other personal information in a picture.
3. What we keep about students
Very little, and nothing that identifies a student:
- A random device id, made by the student's browser, so a phone that reloads stays on its team. It is not linked to any name or account.
- A made-up two-word nickname that the game picks at random, the student's team and monster picture, and their buzzes and points in that room.
- Team names, if the teacher lets teams name themselves. A typed team name is checked by OpenAI's moderation service before anyone sees it.
All of it belongs to the room and is deleted automatically about a day after the room closes.
The class list never leaves the teacher's computer. When a teacher loads a class list to sort teams, the names stay in that browser. The game only ever sends us numbers ("class-list number 7 is on team 2").
4. Children's privacy (COPPA) and student records (FERPA)
Students do not create accounts and we do not collect personal information from them, so COPPA's parental-consent requirements are not triggered by ordinary use. Because we hold no student names or records, we do not hold FERPA education records. Teachers and schools remain responsible for their own rules on classroom technology, and for keeping personal information out of questions and pictures.
5. Payments
Showdown Plus is paid through Stripe. Stripe collects your card and billing details on its own pages; we never see or store your card number. Stripe tells us your customer id and your subscription's status, interval and renewal date.
6. Who else handles data
| Service | What it does | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, sign-in and picture storage (United States) | Everything in sections 2 and 3 |
| Vercel | Hosts the website | Standard web request data (IP address, browser) to serve pages |
| "Sign in with Google" | Your sign-in; Google tells us your email, name and picture | |
| Stripe | Payments | Your email and billing details for Showdown Plus |
| OpenAI | Checks student-typed team names for inappropriate language | Only the typed team name, nothing else |
| Brevo | Sends our email: support replies and billing notices | Your email address, your name and the message |
| Anthropic | Helps sort and draft answers to support messages | The text of a support message you send us (never anything about students) |
We do not sell or rent data, and we do not use advertising or ad-tracking cookies.
7. What your browser keeps
Your sign-in session, your sort choice in My Games, and an unsaved draft of a game you are editing are kept in your own browser's storage so a reload doesn't lose your work. On a student's device the browser keeps the random device id and the room they are in. None of it is shared with anyone else.
8. Your choices
- Delete any game from My Games at any time; its questions are deleted at once.
- Download any game as a CSV from My Games.
- To delete your whole account, email support@classroomshowdown.com from your account's address. We delete the account, games, folders and pictures within 30 days and cancel any subscription. Stripe keeps the payment records the law requires.
9. Security
Traffic is encrypted (HTTPS). Each teacher's games, folders and pictures are fenced off by database rules so only that teacher can change them, and student devices can reach only the room they joined.
10. Changes
When this policy changes we post the new version here with a new date. Material changes are shown to you the next time you open My Games.