Privacy Policy
Last updated January 9, 2025
Welcome to Studeli's Privacy Policy
We understand that your privacy matters, and we want to be transparent about how we handle your information when you use our educational platform.
Who We Are
We are Studeli (Studeli B.V.), an educational technology company from Amsterdam committed to creating personalized learning experiences. Our platform helps users create and share educational content, practice their knowledge, and track their learning progress.
Why This Policy Matters
This policy explains how we collect and use your information when you interact with our platform. Whether you're creating study materials, taking practice tests, or collaborating with others, we want you to understand exactly what happens with your data.
If you have questions about anything in this policy, please reach out to us through our contact page. We're here to help.
Quick Overview
- We use your information to create personalized learning experiences and help you track your progress.
- If you're under 18, you'll need your parent or guardian's permission to use our platform.
- We use artificial intelligence (through Anthropic's Claude) to help generate educational content and practice questions.
- Your learning materials and progress are stored securely and remain available as long as your account is active.
- As a Dutch company, we follow strict European privacy laws, but we work with global service providers to deliver our platform.
- You can sign in using Google, Facebook, or TikTok accounts if you prefer.
The Information We Collect
When you use our platform, we collect different types of information to provide and improve our services:
Information You Share Directly
When you create an account and use our platform, you share certain information with us. This includes basic details like your name and email address, but also the educational content you create, your learning preferences, and your progress through different materials.
Information From Your Learning Activities
As you use our platform, we collect information about how you learn best. This includes which types of content you find most helpful, your practice question results, and your progress through different topics. We use this information to make your learning experience more effective.
Technical Information
Like most online services, we automatically collect some technical information when you visit our platform. This includes things like your IP address and device type, which help us ensure our platform works smoothly on your device.
Social Login Information
If you choose to sign in using Google, Facebook, or TikTok, we receive basic profile information from these services. This makes it easier for you to access our platform without creating a new password, but we only receive the information necessary to create and secure your account.
You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Google APIs
We comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements, in how we handle information received from Google APIs.
How We Use Your Information
Educational Platform Features
Your information helps us deliver personalized learning experiences. This includes generating study materials, creating practice questions, and tracking your progress. Our AI technology, powered by Anthropic, helps create educational content tailored to your needs.
Account and Service Management
We use your information to manage your account ourselves and through Clerk, process payments through Paddle, and ensure you can access all platform features. If you've chosen to share your learning materials publicly, we'll also use your information to make these materials available to other users.
Platform Improvements
We analyze how our platform is used to make it better. Using services like Google Analytics and Plausible, we look at general usage patterns to improve our features and fix any issues. We always do this in a way that protects your privacy.
Other Purposes
We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, business transfers and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
Service Providers, Data Processing and Sharing
Sharing data
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- Service Providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, to contact You.
- Business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- Affiliates: We may share your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
- Business partners: We may share your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
- Other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with You and view your profile.
- With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
Key Service Providers
We work with trusted partners to provide our platform. Here's how we handle data sharing:
- Vercel - Platform hosting
- Supabase - Database services
- Paddle - Secure payment processing
- Clerk - Account authentication
- Anthropic - AI-powered educational content
- Google Analytics and Plausible - Usage analytics
We carefully select providers who maintain high privacy standards and comply with privacy laws. While we're based in the Netherlands, some of these services operate globally.
Special Features
AI-Generated Content
When you use our AI features to create study materials or practice questions:
- Your prompts are processed securely through Anthropic
- Generated content is stored in your account
- You control sharing permissions for the content
For more details about AI data processing, see Anthropic's privacy policy at Anthropic's privacy docs.
Learning Environments
When creating and sharing learning environments:
- You control privacy settings for your content
- Collaborative features only share necessary information
- Public materials are clearly marked
- You can change sharing settings anytime
Protecting Your Information
Security Measures
We take security seriously. Your information is protected using industry-standard security measures, including encryption and secure data storage. We regularly review and update our security practices to keep your data safe.
Data Storage and Retention
We keep your information for as long as you have an active account with us. If you delete your account, we'll remove your personal information within 30 days. Any public learning materials you've created will be anonymized or removed. Please contact us to request a deletion of your account.
For data regarding our external services, please refer to their privacy policies linked above.
Your Privacy Choices
Managing Your Data
You have control over your information. Through your account settings, you can:
- View and update your personal information
- Control what information is public
- See all your content
- Manage all your content
Cookie Choices
We use cookies to keep our platform working smoothly and to understand how it's used. You can control cookie settings through your browser, though some features may not work without essential cookies.
Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our service may use cookies.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookie Purposes
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
- Type: Session Cookies
- Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Functionality Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when You use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the website.
Legal Rights and Protections
As a Dutch company operating under European privacy laws (GDPR), you have strong privacy rights. You can for instance:
- Access your personal information
- Correct any incorrect data
- Request deletion of your data
- Object to certain uses of your information
You may have other or additional rights based on the country you reside in.
For Young Learners
If you're under 18, you'll need parent or guardian permission to use our platform. We take extra care with younger users' data and collect only what's necessary for learning.
Updates to This Policy
We'll notify you about significant changes to this policy through email or when you next log in. We encourage you to review this policy occasionally to stay informed about how we protect your information.
Contact and Support
Studeli B.V.
Bilderdijkstraat 118-3
1053KZ Amsterdam
Netherlands
Get in Touch
General privacy questions: Contact Us
For formal complaints, you can contact: Dutch Data Protection Authority
This privacy policy was last updated on January 9, 2025. We'll notify you about significant changes via email or when you next log in.