Privacy Policy for Bridgebuilder
Last Updated: 12/18/2025
At Parallel Paradigm, we are committed to protecting the privacy of the educators, parents, and students who use Bridgebuilder. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application.
1. Information We Collect
To provide a contextualized learning experience, we collect the following types of information:
- Account Information: Name, email address, and professional/parental status provided during the unique onboarding flows.
- Curriculum Data (Teachers): Instructional content and classroom sync codes used to link accounts.
- Phenomena Submissions (Parents): Photos, videos, text descriptions, or voice notes uploaded to be contextualized with the curriculum.
- Metadata: To properly process "novel phenomena," we may process time and approximate location data attached to uploads (only if permitted by your device settings).
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data strictly to:
- Authenticate your identity within the Teacher or Parent portal.
- Contextualize real-world phenomena with classroom curriculums.
- Provide automated guidance and steps for learning.
- Improve the Bridgebuilder processing engine.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties or use your content for targeted advertising.
3. Data Sharing and Disclosure
- Teacher-Parent Connection: Phenomena shared by a parent are only visible to the specific teacher authenticated via the unique Sync Code.
- Safety: We may use automated tools (such as the Apple Sensitive Content Analysis API) to ensure uploaded content is appropriate for an educational environment.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law or to protect the safety of our users.