AWIWA — AI Study Buddy: Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 July 2026. AWIWA is a homework coach for children. This policy is written for parents, in plain language, and every claim below is enforced by automated checks in AWIWA's own build system.

The short version

• No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No advertising or third-party analytics. AWIWA runs on Cloudflare, which records standard operational request logs for the service, and the owner may switch on Cloudflare's own observability while running it. Those are infrastructure logs, not a product analytics system, and they are never used to build a picture of a child.
• Everything AWIWA remembers lives on your device (Chrome's local extension storage): the child's nickname and settings, per-child learning memory (topic names and counts only), the parent lock, and — if it was ever shown — a wellbeing note (kind and date only, never words).
• Homework your child adds stays on their device only: kept for at most 18 hours so an update or crash cannot eat an evening, then automatically shredded — a parent can erase it sooner at any time. That stored copy is never uploaded anywhere. Homework the child actually asks about is a different thing: it is sent to the AI to produce the answer, exactly as the next section describes.

What leaves the device, and why

• To generate coaching: page text, uploaded homework content (including photos and PDFs), screenshots captured at the child's request, and the child's messages may be sent through AWIWA's relay to the AI provider, solely to produce the coaching response.
• Retention: AWIWA keeps no conversation history and no content logs of its own. The AI provider (Anthropic) states that API content is deleted within 30 days under its standard commercial terms and is not used to train models — subject to the exceptions its own policies set out, which include keeping material longer where needed to investigate a policy violation or to meet a legal obligation. Those are the provider's terms, not a promise AWIWA can make on their behalf.
• Scan-from-Phone: photos are held on the relay for minutes and are deleted the moment the laptop collects them. A session nobody finishes is removed by a cleanup job that runs every 15 minutes and deletes anything older than 20, so the realistic worst case is roughly 20–35 minutes plus platform delay, with a one-day storage rule as a last-resort backstop. The link that opens on the phone carries a short-lived token in its address.
• Premium read-aloud (optional): only the text AWIWA speaks is sent to a voice service to make the audio. Homework text, images and the child's answers are never sent there.
• Curated videos: AWIWA links out to Khan Academy's own website; nothing is embedded and no data is shared with them beyond your visiting their page.

What we never do

• What the relay stores: to enforce daily limits it keeps counters against your access code — request and token counts, and whether a code is disabled or expired. For the free trial it also keeps a per-install identifier and a short-lived salted one-way digest of the network address (never the address itself), kept about two days. That is usage metadata, not anonymous numbers alone, and it is stated here rather than glossed over. No homework, no messages and no answers are ever written there.
• No sale of data, no advertising use, no profiling beyond the on-device learning memory a parent can view, copy, back up, or erase per child.
• No collection of browsing history, location, or contact details.

Parent controls

Settings include a parent lock (PIN), a full view of the learning memory, a per-child erase, a downloadable family backup (which by design can never contain keys, codes or PINs), and a full reset. Backups are files you keep; we never receive them.

Contact

Questions or requests: zauralakbar@gmail.com.

Chrome Web Store User Data Policy

AWIWA's use and transfer of information adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements: user data is used only for the single, user-facing purpose described above — coaching the student on their homework — and is never sold, used for advertising, or transferred for other purposes.