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Privacy Policy

Desk Dollars is a classroom economy simulation app. It helps students practice managing pretend classroom money while teachers manage the classroom ledger, store, jobs, rent, and goals.

Student Data

Student data may include:

  • username
  • first name
  • last initial
  • display name
  • class enrollment
  • account number
  • balance
  • transactions
  • jobs
  • orders
  • rent and paycheck history
  • goals

Student data is used only to provide the classroom economy: signing students in, showing each student their own balance, recording immutable ledger transactions, processing store orders, assigning jobs, running payroll and rent, tracking goals, creating classroom reports, and printing student account or QR login cards.

Student pages show first name plus last initial only. Students cannot see classmate balances, leaderboards, or private admin-only records.

Teacher And Admin Data

Teacher and admin account data may include:

  • name
  • username
  • email address
  • password hash
  • admin role
  • classes owned or managed
  • administrative ledger actions
  • payment confirmation date
  • access request workflow status

Admin data is used to authenticate teachers and owners, enforce class access, identify who created administrative transactions, support teacher account management, and operate the owner-only super admin tools.

Access Requests And Payments

Before a teacher account is created, Desk Dollars may collect access request information so we can review the request, email payment instructions, confirm payment, and create the account manually. Teacher passwords are not sent through email; account setup may use a one-time link that lets the teacher choose a private password.

  • name
  • email address
  • school, co-op, or organization
  • district or group, if provided
  • access request workflow status

Payments are currently handled outside Desk Dollars through services such as PayPal or Zelle. Desk Dollars does not collect or store card numbers, bank account numbers, PayPal credentials, Zelle credentials, or payment account passwords. The app may store the date payment was confirmed and the date the teacher account was activated so the owner-only console can track the 30-day refund window.

Security And Use

Passwords are securely hashed and are not viewable after creation or reset.

Student data is stored securely.

Archive or deactivate removes a student from active classroom workflows while preserving history. Anonymization replaces student personal data with a privacy-safe placeholder and prevents future student login. Hard deletion is not the normal privacy workflow because classroom ledger, order, payroll, rent, and account history must remain accurate.

Desk Dollars does not sell, trade, rent, or share student, teacher, or admin data with anyone.

Desk Dollars uses privacy-focused, self-hosted analytics through Umami to understand basic app usage and reliability, such as page views, feature usage, and errors. Analytics data is aggregated and does not include student names, student IDs, behavior records, advertising identifiers, or cross-site tracking. Desk Dollars does not use analytics for advertising and does not sell analytics data.

The public teacher access request form may use Cloudflare Turnstile to help block automated abuse. Turnstile verifies the form submission through a challenge token and browser signals; Desk Dollars does not use Turnstile for analytics or advertising, and it does not send student ledger or classroom account records to Turnstile.

QR codes do not contain passwords and do not automatically authenticate students.

Privacy Rights And Deletion Requests

Depending on where you live, privacy laws such as the GDPR and California privacy laws may give you rights to request access to, correction of, export of, or deletion of personal data. Requests will be reviewed and handled in a way that respects applicable privacy law and the integrity of classroom financial history. For student accounts, deletion requests are normally handled by anonymizing personal data and preserving ledger-linked records under a privacy-safe placeholder.

To request account deletion or another privacy action, email the Desk Dollars team at [email protected]. You may also contact the teacher or administrator responsible for your classroom.

Deletion Request Template

Subject: Desk Dollars Privacy Request - Account Deletion

Hello Desk Dollars team,

I am requesting deletion of Desk Dollars account data under GDPR and/or California privacy laws.

Request type: Delete account data
Student or admin name:
Username or email:
Class name and teacher, if known:
Requester name:
Requester relationship to the account:

Please confirm receipt of this request and let me know if you need information to verify the account or complete the request.

Thank you.