Privacy Policy

Who we are

Honeybee Planners LLC ("we", "us"). We're a small family business based in Florida, USA. You can reach us anytime at support@honeybeeplanners.com.

1. What we collect

Information you give us

• Your account. Your email address and a password. We never see your actual password — only a one-way scrambled version that even we can't reverse. Account holders must be at least 18 years old.
• Your family. The names of your children, their display names, and any per-child preferences you set up (like a default grading metric or a passing-score threshold).
• Your school work. The lessons you plan, the curricula you set up, the calendar events you add, the attendance you log, the grades you record, and the reports you save.
• Worksheet photos. When you use Scan & Grade, you photograph a worksheet with your device's camera. We store that photo so you can review it later and re-grade if needed.
• Saved formal reports. Any Year-End Evaluation or other portfolio document you compose and save in the Documents tab.
• Calendar import (optional). When you tap Import from Calendar, the app reads events from the calendar(s) you pick so you can copy them into your planner. The events you import become regular events in Homeschool Companion. We never read your calendar in the background, and we never write back to your phone's calendar.

Information collected automatically

• A secure session token kept on your device so you stay logged in.
• Standard technical information that comes with any internet request — your device model, app version, and the rough timing of the request — used only for compatibility checks and bug investigation.

We do NOT collect: your location, your contacts, your browsing history, advertising IDs, microphone audio, or any biometrics.

2. Children's data — important

Homeschool Companion is a tool for parents to plan their own homeschool. The parent is our customer. The parent decides what about their family goes into the app.

• A child does not create an account in Homeschool Companion.
• A child cannot enter personal information into the app on their own.
• A child cannot communicate with anyone outside their household through the app.
• A child sees no ads, no third-party content, and no social features.

Your child can sign in on their own device (iPad, iPhone, or Android tablet/phone) through a one-time pairing code you generate from your account. Once paired, the child sees the day's lessons you've planned for them and can mark them complete. Their interaction is limited to viewing those lessons, completing them, and optionally hearing text read aloud by the device's built-in voice. We do not collect any new information from your child during that session.

Because you are the account holder and the one who decides what about your child goes into Homeschool Companion, you provide consent for any minor's data we hold on your behalf. If you'd like us to delete your child's data at any time — for any reason or no reason — email support@honeybeeplanners.com and we'll remove it within 30 days.

3. How we use it

We use your information only to:

• Run the app for you (sync your data across devices, render your reports).
• Grade worksheet photos when you ask us to (described in §4).
• Send transactional emails — password resets, billing receipts. We don't send marketing email.
• Investigate bugs that you or another user report.

We do NOT:

• Sell, rent, or trade your data.
• Use your data to train artificial intelligence models.
• Share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
• Use your data for anything unrelated to running the app for you.

4. The services we work with

We use a small set of trusted services to make the app work. Each handles only what it needs to.

• Supabase — our database and file storage. Stores your account, your school data, and your worksheet photos. Supabase processes data on our behalf under their standard data processing terms. Your data is stored on servers located in the United States.
• Anthropic (Claude) — when you grade a worksheet photo, we send that photo to Anthropic's Claude API to read what's on the page and grade it. Anthropic processes the request to grade your worksheet and, per their API terms in effect at the time of processing, does not use API inputs to train their models. Anthropic retains the request only briefly for abuse-prevention purposes and then deletes it.
• Apple App Store and Google Play — handle your subscription and billing depending on which device you bought through. We never see your credit card. The store tells us only that your subscription is active.
• Your device's built-in speech engine — when the worksheet player reads questions aloud, the text is processed entirely on your device and never leaves it.

We do not use any analytics, advertising, social media, or crash-reporting SDKs.

5. Subscription and billing

Homeschool Companion begins with a 14-day free trial. After the trial, a subscription is required to keep using the app: $9.99 per month, or $99.99 per year. One subscription covers your whole family — every child is included. All billing is handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) depending on which device you bought through; we never see your payment information. To manage or cancel your subscription, open your device's store settings:

• iPhone or iPad: Settings → tap your name → Subscriptions → Homeschool Companion.
• Android: Google Play Store → tap your profile picture → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Homeschool Companion.

6. Your rights

At any time, you can:

• See your data. Everything we hold about you is visible inside the app.
• Correct your data. Edit it directly in the app.
• Export your data. Email support@honeybeeplanners.com and we'll send you a copy of your data in a portable format. We aim to respond within 30 days. We strongly recommend exporting before deleting.
• Delete your data. Use Account → Delete Account inside the app, or email us. We remove it from active systems within 30 days. Encrypted backups roll over on a regular cycle and become inaccessible after that — they exist only for disaster recovery and are never queried.

If you live somewhere with stricter privacy rules (California, the European Union, the United Kingdom, etc.), your local laws may give you additional rights. Email support@honeybeeplanners.com and we'll help you exercise them.

7. How long we keep things

We hold your data for as long as your account is active. If you cancel your subscription, we keep your data for 12 months in case you come back, then automatically delete it unless you've asked us to keep it longer. If you delete your account, we delete within 30 days.

8. Security

All data moves between your device and our servers over encrypted HTTPS connections. Your password is never stored — only a one-way hash. Your data lives in Supabase's hosted Postgres database under row-level security, which means only your account can read your own rows.

No system is unbreakable. If we ever discover that your data has been exposed in a breach, we'll tell you promptly. If something looks wrong on your end — a login from somewhere you've never been, an email you didn't request — email support@honeybeeplanners.com right away.

9. Changes to this policy

If we make a meaningful change to this policy, we'll let you know inside the app and update the "Last updated" date at the top. We aim to post material changes at least 30 days before they take effect. If you don't agree to a change, you can cancel and delete your account at any time.

10. Contact

Honeybee Planners LLC
support@honeybeeplanners.com