Privacy, by design

Your classroom is not a data product.

Seating Chart keeps student and classroom information on your iPad rather than in a Seating Chart cloud account.

Effective
August 28, 2026
Last updated
September 13, 2026

Privacy in brief

The essentials, in plain English.

These four ideas describe how the Seating Chart iPad app handles data.

You can still choose to create a backup, print, export, or share information using iPadOS.

  1. 01

    Your iPad holds the classroom. We don’t.

    Classes, students, seating arrangements, and classroom information are stored locally in Seating Chart on the iPad you use.

  2. 02

    No account required.

    Teachers do not need to create a Seating Chart account just to build classrooms, add students, or use the core app.

  3. 03

    No ads. No behavioral tracking.

    Seating Chart includes no advertising or third-party behavioral analytics used to profile teachers or students.

  4. 04

    You choose when to create a backup, export, or share classroom information.

    When you deliberately create a backup, print, export, or share supported information, Seating Chart prepares it for the destination you select through iPadOS.

Read the full privacy policy below

Privacy policy

The complete details.

This policy explains the app’s data practices and the separate boundaries that apply to Apple services, teacher-selected destinations, support, and this website.

01

Scope and privacy approach

This policy describes the data practices of version 1.0 of the Seating Chart iPad app. It also identifies website and support interactions where their practices differ from the app.

The core app stores and processes classroom information locally on the iPad without requiring that information to be transmitted to or received by the developer. Information can exist inside Seating Chart without being collected by us.

Information handled by Apple platform services or sent to a destination deliberately selected by the teacher is separate from information received directly by Seating Chart.

02

Information stored on your device

When you create a class, add a student, arrange a seating chart, or record classroom information, that information is stored inside Seating Chart on the iPad you are using. It is not uploaded to a Seating Chart account or developer-operated student database.

On-device classroom information is used by the app to provide its seating-chart and classroom functions. It may include:

  • Class names
  • Classroom layouts
  • Student names
  • Student photos, when a teacher chooses to add them
  • Seating Plans, seating assignments, and Seating Preferences
  • Attendance, Quick Records, Custom Field values, and Color By configuration
  • Other classroom information entered by the teacher
03

Imports, photos, backups, exports, printing, and sharing

Some useful classroom workflows deliberately involve information selected by the teacher or a destination outside Seating Chart.

Photos

If you choose to add a student photo, Seating Chart uses the image you select for that student’s classroom record. Access is requested only when you use a feature that needs it.

Imports

When you choose a supported roster or file, the app reads the information needed for that import. The file is not uploaded to a Seating Chart server.

Backup & Transfer

Seating Chart lets you deliberately create and export a Seating Chart backup file. A backup may contain student names, photos, Attendance information, seating information, Quick Records, Custom Fields, and other classroom information.

Seating Chart backup files are not encrypted. Store them only in a secure location approved by your school. After you export or move a backup, the privacy and security practices of the file provider or destination you selected may apply.

Backup & Transfer does not create a Shafor Studios cloud database, user account, or synchronization service. Restoring a backup replaces the Seating Chart data currently on that iPad; there is no merge.

Exports, printing, and sharing

When you deliberately print, export, or share information, Seating Chart hands the requested information to the iPadOS destination you select. That destination’s privacy practices may then apply, and Seating Chart does not control the information after it is sent there.

04

Apple services, device backups, and managed devices

Local storage does not mean information can never leave the physical device. Apple operates iPadOS, device backups, diagnostics, crash reporting, and other platform services. Apple’s own practices and the user’s device settings apply to those services.

Apple device-backup and device-management settings—and, for managed devices, school policies—control whether and how app information participates in those systems. These system backups are separate from backup files a teacher deliberately creates in Seating Chart. Seating Chart does not control Apple’s services or a school’s mobile-device-management configuration.

Schools and teachers remain responsible for configuring devices and using the app in accordance with their own policies and applicable requirements.

05

Information Seating Chart may receive directly

Classroom records stored locally in the app are different from information you deliberately send to Seating Chart through support or website interactions.

Support communications

If you contact Seating Chart support, we may receive the information you choose to send, such as your email address, message, screenshots, files, or other details. We use that information to respond and provide support.

Avoid including student names, photos, rosters, notes, or other identifying classroom information unless it is genuinely necessary. Crop, blur, or remove identifying information whenever possible.

This website

The Seating Chart website and iPad app are separate privacy environments. The current website is a static informational site hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes requests needed to deliver the site; that hosting activity is separate from classroom records stored in the app.

The current website does not provide a Seating Chart account or contact form and does not include advertising, analytics, or behavioral-tracking scripts. Published tutorial videos and captions are served as local website files. Support links open your email app; if you choose to email support, the Support communications section above applies.

06

Analytics, advertising, and third-party services

Seating Chart includes no advertising or advertising SDK and does not sell student or teacher information to advertisers.

The app does not include third-party analytics SDKs that build profiles of teachers or students or send classroom activity to advertising platforms. The core app does not collect advertising identifiers, location data, contacts, or browsing history.

Apple’s App Store information, platform services, diagnostics, and crash reporting are separate from developer-operated behavioral tracking. Services used by a destination deliberately selected by the teacher are also subject to that destination’s practices.

07

Retention and deletion

Locally stored classroom information

Teachers control classroom records stored within the app through the deletion controls provided by Seating Chart.

App removal and device behavior

Removing the app may remove locally stored app data, subject to Apple device, backup, restore, and managed-device behavior.

Information received directly

The current website does not accept classroom records through an account or contact form. Information you choose to send by email to support is separate from locally stored app data, and the Support communications guidance in Section 05 applies.

08

Students and school use

Seating Chart is a tool for teachers. Students do not need Seating Chart accounts merely to appear in a teacher’s seating chart, and the core app does not require a developer-operated student account system.

Teachers and schools are responsible for using the app and configuring their devices in accordance with their own policies and applicable requirements.

09

App Store purchases and payments

Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store. Seating Chart does not receive the customer’s App Store payment credentials, such as credit-card information. Apple’s applicable App Store practices govern those transactions.

10

Changes to this policy and contact

If Seating Chart’s data practices materially change, this policy will be updated to describe those changes. The effective and last-updated dates at the top of this page will be revised as appropriate.

Questions about this policy or Seating Chart’s privacy design can be sent through Seating Chart Support.

Contact Seating Chart Support