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Privacy & Terms

In plain language: Teacher Hive does not create student accounts and does not ask students for personal information. It never sells personal data or uses it to target advertising. Some apps can save the work students do inside them, such as responses or scores, using a teacher-controlled data layer; that data is used only to run the app, and the teacher can view and clear it at any time. Teachers are responsible for building apps that do not ask students for personal or identifying information. Apps are public by link, and everyone is responsible for the content and code they share.

This page explains how Teacher Hive handles data and outlines the expectations for using the platform. Teacher Hive is designed to be teacher-friendly, school-appropriate, and transparent.

Privacy Policy

Effective date: January 19, 2026

Last updated: October 16, 2026

What Teacher Hive Is

Teacher Hive is a platform for teachers to publish, share, and discover classroom web apps. Teachers paste or upload HTML to create an app, share a link with students, follow other teachers, comment on posts, and bookmark apps they want to revisit. Optional features called Superpowers let teachers add capabilities to their apps, such as saved data, AI, email, short links, and file storage. Some Superpowers require a Pro subscription.

Information We Collect

Teacher Hive collects only what is needed to run the service:

Student Data and What Apps Can Store

Teacher Hive does not create accounts for students and does not ask students for personal information. Students use an app through a direct link, with no login. Teacher Hive does not sell personal information and does not use anything students enter for advertising, profiling, or to train AI.

What Teacher Hive does not do:

What an app can store:

Because apps can save whatever students type, teachers are responsible for designing apps that do not ask students for personal or identifying information, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers, or location. Teachers affirm this before publishing a Connected App. Apps are also accessible to anyone who has the link, so they should not be used to store sensitive information.

When a teacher posts an app made by students, Teacher Hive credits only the students' grade level, and the teacher confirms the app contains no student names, photos, or other personal information.

How Teacher Hive checks apps: When an app is saved, Teacher Hive checks the outside sites it loads or links to against Google's list of unsafe sites and blocks any that are flagged. Teacher Hive also reviews the code of published apps regularly for problems such as exposed keys or student personal information, and may turn off an app that breaks these terms.

Google User Data

Teacher Hive offers Google Sign-In as one way to authenticate. When you sign in with Google, Teacher Hive receives only your basic profile information: your name, email address, and profile photo (if you have one set). Teacher Hive does not request access to Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, or any other Google services. You may also create an account with an email address and password instead of using Google.

How this data is used:

Your name and email address are used to create and maintain your Teacher Hive account, display your profile, and allow you to manage your apps. If you haven't added a profile photo, Teacher Hive uses your Google profile photo as your profile photo. It appears on your profile and next to your name around Teacher Hive, such as in follower lists and messages. You can upload a different photo or remove it anytime on Edit Profile. A photo you remove is not added back.

Data sharing:

Teacher Hive does not sell, rent, or share your Google account information with third parties for advertising or marketing purposes. Your data is only shared with the service providers needed to operate the platform, as described under Sub-Processors below.

AI and machine learning:

Teacher Hive does not use Google user data to develop, improve, or train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

Student Privacy and School Compliance

Teacher Hive is a tool for teachers only. Students do not create Teacher Hive accounts. Student interaction is limited to using apps shared by their teacher via a direct link. No login or account is required or permitted for students.

Connected Apps: Teachers who publish Connected Apps are responsible for ensuring their apps do not collect student personal information, including email addresses, full names, student ID numbers, or location data. Teachers must affirm compliance before publishing. Connected App data is stored per instance and is only accessible to the app's teacher owner and site administrators. Teachers can view and clear all stored data for their Connected Apps at any time.

Schools and Districts

Teachers can use Teacher Hive on their own, or as part of a school plan. A school plan lets a group (a school, a district, another organization, or a team of teachers) pay for Hive Pro for its teachers. Each teacher keeps their own account, and the group's plan managers, called Beekeepers, oversee the teachers on the plan. Teacher Hive still does not create student accounts or hold student records, and students use apps without logging in. Contact us about district agreements.

Schools and districts should review Teacher Hive the way they would any public web tool a teacher chooses to use, under their own acceptable-use and privacy policies. Because apps are public by link and students use them without logging in, teachers should not build apps that ask for or store student personal or sensitive information. If you have privacy questions, please contact Tony Vincent at tony@teacherhive.app.

School Plans

If you're on a school plan, your school's Beekeepers can:

A school plan can be split into campuses. A campus Beekeeper can do these things only for the teachers on their own campus. District Beekeepers, including the plan's lead (called the Queen Bee), can do them for every teacher on the plan.

Beekeepers can't see data that students enter in apps with the Connected Superpower.

When a Beekeeper changes or turns off one of your apps, you get an email naming them, and replies go to them. Actions on a school plan, by teachers, Beekeepers, and Teacher Hive, are recorded in an activity log for the plan. Only Teacher Hive staff can view this log, and each entry is deleted after 13 months.

If you leave a school plan, or the plan ends, your school can no longer see your apps. You keep your account and all of your apps.

Pro Subscriptions and Billing

Pro is an optional paid subscription that unlocks additional Superpowers and features.

AI Features

AI features are optional and turned off by default. To use them, you add your own AI provider API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini).

Email, Short Links, and File Storage

Public and Private Content

How We Use Your Data

Teacher Hive uses collected information only to:

Teacher Hive processes personal data solely for the purpose of providing the service requested by users. Your data is never sold and never used to target advertising.

Analytics and Approximate Location

Teacher Hive does not use Google Analytics or any other outside analytics service. It counts visits itself, on its own servers, as described below. No analytics, advertising, or cross-site tracking cookies are used.

No analytics scripts run on the apps students use. Published apps are served from apphive.us (newer apps each at their own address, such as your-app.apphive.us) as your own code, with no Teacher Hive analytics, tracking, or advertising scripts added.

Separately, Teacher Hive keeps its own first-party counts of app visits so it can show each app's stats to its teacher owner. For Pro analytics, an approximate location (country and region) may be derived from a visitor's IP address to show owners where their app is being used. This is coarse, aggregate location only. It is worked out on Teacher Hive's own servers using IP geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0), so the visitor's address is not sent to anyone else. Teacher Hive does not collect precise or GPS location and does not identify individual students.

Teacher Hive also keeps its own count of visits to teacherhive.app, without cookies. For each page view it records the page, the site that linked to it, the type of device, and an approximate location (the nearest town, rounded to about 10 km) worked out on Teacher Hive's own servers from the visitor's IP address. The IP address itself is not stored. Visitors are counted with a code that changes every day, so visits cannot be linked from one day to the next. These records are kept for about 25 months, then deleted.

Teacher Hive also counts how often its sign-up prompts are shown and how many new accounts they lead to. These are daily totals only. A new account notes which prompt, if any, led to it.

Email Notifications

Teacher Hive may send you transactional emails related to your account, billing, and activity on the platform. You can unsubscribe from notification emails at any time using the unsubscribe link included in each email. Unsubscribing from notifications does not affect required transactional messages such as payment receipts, or your access to the service.

Data Storage and Security

For a summary of how Teacher Hive protects school data, including its security program and breach notice promises, see Security at Teacher Hive.

Teacher Hive is built on Google Firebase and Google Cloud, operated by Google LLC.

Sub-Processors

Teacher Hive uses the following third-party services to operate the platform:

Teacher Hive does not share user data with advertisers or data brokers.

Data Retention and Deletion

Teacher Hive retains your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the service.

To delete your account and data, go to My Settings and use the Delete Account option, or email tony@teacherhive.app. If you delete your account in My Settings, it is deleted right away. Requests by email are completed within 7 days. Upon deletion:

Retention beyond 7 days may apply only where required for legal, security, accounting, or operational purposes.

Cookies and Analytics

Teacher Hive uses a session cookie solely to keep you signed in. It sets no analytics, advertising, or cross-site tracking cookies, and no third-party analytics scripts run on teacherhive.app or on the apps students use. Teacher Hive does not track individual students and does not collect student personal data.

If you press a sign-up button in one of these prompts, your browser keeps a short note of the page you were on and what you were doing, such as bookmarking an app, so you can pick up there after signing up. It stays on your device and is deleted once used or within a day.

Sponsored Content

Teacher Hive may show sponsored search results or banners to teachers on teacherhive.app. They are always labeled Sponsored and are never chosen based on who you are or what you search for. Sponsored content never appears in apps or anywhere students use them. Sponsors receive only totals of views and clicks, never information about you.

Third-Party Services

Teacher Hive relies on the service providers listed under Sub-Processors to operate the platform. These services are governed by their own privacy policies, linked above.

Apps made by teachers may load fonts, images, videos, or code from other services, such as Google Fonts. When an app does, the visitor's browser contacts that service directly, and the service receives the visitor's IP address. The app creator is responsible for ensuring those services are appropriate for school use and comply with applicable privacy requirements.

Your Rights

You have control over your content:

People in the EU and UK

Teacher Hive is run by Tony Vincent, Inc., 1406 Callahan Drive, Council Bluffs, IA 51503, USA. Under the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Tony Vincent, Inc. is the controller of the personal data this policy describes. Questions and requests go to tony@teacherhive.app.

Why Teacher Hive uses your data:

Where your data goes: Teacher Hive stores and processes data in the United States. When Teacher Hive's service providers move data from the EU or UK, they protect it with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension where they are certified, or with the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum. Email tony@teacherhive.app for details.

How long data is kept: Besides the periods in Data Retention and Deletion above, app visit records are kept for 90 days, after which only totals remain. Records of sent emails and server logs are kept for up to 30 days.

Your rights: You can ask Teacher Hive to show you your data, correct it, delete it, give you a copy to take elsewhere, limit how it is used, or stop using it for a purpose you object to. Most of this you can do yourself in My Settings. For anything else, email tony@teacherhive.app. Teacher Hive answers within one month. If a request is complex, it may take up to two more months, and Teacher Hive will tell you why. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live, or to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK.

Automated decisions: Teacher Hive does not make decisions about you by automated means that have legal or similarly significant effects.

Terms of Service

Last updated: October 30, 2026

Teacher Hive® is a registered trademark of Tony Vincent, Inc.

Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or using Teacher Hive, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create a Teacher Hive account. Teacher Hive is intended for teachers and educators. Some features require a paid Pro subscription or Builder access. Teacher Hive may limit, modify, or discontinue features at its discretion.

Your Content and Code

Teacher Hive allows you to publish web apps by uploading or pasting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

You are solely responsible for:

Superpowers

Superpowers are optional features you can add to your apps, including saved data (Connected Apps), AI keys, email, short links, and file storage. Some Superpowers require a Pro subscription, and some are available to Builders.

Connected Superpower

Builder and Pro users may create Connected Apps that use the Teacher Hive data layer (THive SDK) to store and retrieve data. By publishing a Connected App, you affirm that it complies with all privacy requirements and does not collect student personal information, including email addresses, full names, student ID numbers, or location data.

You are responsible for ensuring your Connected App is appropriate for classroom use. Teacher Hive may remove Connected Apps that violate these terms. Data stored by Connected Apps may be viewed or cleared by the app's teacher owner and by site administrators. Connected App data is subject to monthly usage limits and may be cleared by the teacher owner at any time.

Billing and Subscriptions

Pro is an optional paid subscription.

Acceptable Use

Apps and content published on Teacher Hive must meet the following expectations:

Embedded and Third-Party Content

If your app includes embedded content, external scripts, or third-party services, you are responsible for ensuring:

Backups and Availability

Reporting and Enforcement

If you believe an app or comment violates these Terms or poses a risk, report it using the Email Tony link on the site or the Report this app link on an app's Info page.

Teacher Hive may remove or disable access to any app, comment, or account, with or without notice, if it is believed to violate these Terms or create risk for users.

Accessibility

We design Teacher Hive's own pages and the apps Teacher Hive makes to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA, and we check them for accessibility when we update them. Apps shared by teachers are made by those teachers, who are responsible for them. We encourage every teacher to make their apps accessible, but we don't test or guarantee the accessibility of teacher-made apps. If an app or page doesn't work for you, use Report this app on the app's Info page or email hello@teacherhive.app.

Copyright

If you believe something on Teacher Hive, including an app or what is inside an app, uses your copyrighted work without permission, send a notice to Teacher Hive's designated agent: Anthony Vincent, Tony Vincent, Inc., 1406 Callahan Drive, Council Bluffs, IA 51503, USA. Phone: 402-850-5322. Email: vincent@me.com.

Your notice must include:

When a valid notice arrives, Teacher Hive removes or disables the material and tells the person who posted it. If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same agent. It must include your signature, the material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake, your name, address and phone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your address (or, outside the United States, any court where Teacher Hive may be found).

Teacher Hive ends the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright.

Limitation of Liability

Tony Vincent, Inc. is not liable for loss of data, loss of code, or damages resulting from use of the service.

Changes to These Terms

These policies may be updated as Teacher Hive evolves. Continued use of the service after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

If you have questions about privacy or terms, please contact Tony Vincent at tony@teacherhive.app.