Privacy

• Parksule stores your name, your email, and what you do while practicing. The practice answers are the point — they are what make the questions adapt to you.
• It has no advertising, no trackers, no analytics service, and no third-party scripts. One cookie exists, and it is the one that keeps you signed in.
• Nothing is sold, rented, or shared with anyone for marketing. There is nobody to sell it to and no money involved anywhere on this site.
• You can download everything Parksule holds about you, and you can delete your account permanently, both from your account page, without asking anyone.

Parksule Tutoring is a free, non-commercial project built and operated by Om Palsule and Jaden Park. It is not a company, a nonprofit, or a registered organization, and it does not charge for anything.

The site runs on a server the founders own and administer themselves. It is not hosted by a cloud provider that could read the database.

When you make an account: your name, your email address, and your password. The password is stored only as a bcrypt hash — the original is never written down, which means nobody at Parksule can tell you what your password is, including when you ask.

When you set up your studying: your grade level, what you say your goals are, how many minutes a day you want to study, which courses you enroll in, and the dates of tests you tell it about. All of this is optional and all of it is something you typed.

While you practice: which questions you were asked, what you answered, whether it was right, how many hints you opened, how long the question took, and — when a wrong answer matches a known mistake — which misconception it pointed at. From those, Parksule keeps a mastery score per skill and its history over time.

This is the part people are most surprised by, so it is worth being plain: Parksule keeps your wrong answers, on purpose, for as long as your account exists. A site that only remembered your right answers could not tell you what to study next, which is the entire thing Parksule is for.

If you book tutoring: the session time, what you said you needed help with, any problem you pasted in, the messages between you and your tutor, and the notes your tutor writes afterward. Your tutor can see your mastery scores and recent mistakes for the subject you booked — that is how they arrive already knowing what to work on.

If you apply to be a tutor: the subjects you want to teach, your experience, your availability, your date of birth, and your confirmation that you are 13 or older. Parksule does not ask for, and cannot accept, a photo of an ID.

A profile picture, only if you upload one.

No phone number, no home address, no school name, no payment details of any kind — there is nothing to pay for, so there is no card form anywhere on this site. It does not read your contacts, your location, your camera, or your microphone.

It also runs no analytics product. There is no Google Analytics, no advertising pixel, no session recorder, and no third-party JavaScript on any page. Nothing on this site reports your visit to another company.

Parksule does not send your work to any AI service. Not to OpenAI, not to Anthropic, not to Google, not to anyone. There is no such connection in the code.

The explanations, hints, and recommendations you see were written by people ahead of time and are selected by fixed rules running on Parksule’s own server. When the site tells you what to study next, that is arithmetic over your own practice history — not a model, and not a guess made somewhere else about you.

Parksule sets exactly one cookie, parksule_session. It holds a signed token that says which account you are, it lasts 30 days, and it is marked HttpOnly so page scripts cannot read it. Signing out deletes it.

That cookie is strictly necessary to run the site — without it there is no way to stay signed in — which is why there is no cookie banner asking permission for it. There are no advertising or analytics cookies to ask about.

Your theme preference is also saved in your browser’s local storage, and on your account if you are signed in, so the page is not white for a moment before it turns dark.

• You — all of it.
• A tutor you booked — your name, what you wrote in the request, your messages with them, and your mastery and recent mistakes in that subject. Not your other subjects, and not the sessions you had with anyone else.
• Staff and administrators — the small number of people who run the site and review tutor applications.

Students cannot see each other’s practice, scores, mistakes, or sessions. This is enforced on the server for every request, not by hiding links in the page.

Nobody, with one honest exception: the site sits behind Cloudflare, which carries traffic between your browser and Parksule’s server and shields the server’s home network from the public internet. Cloudflare therefore handles your connection and sees your IP address, as any network provider between you and a website does. Parksule does not have a Cloudflare analytics product enabled and does not send them your account data.

There are no other processors. No email service, no error-reporting service, no hosting company, no backup provider, no advertiser. Your data is not sold, rented, traded, or disclosed for anyone’s marketing, and there is no circumstance in which it would be.

Accounts are for people aged 13 and over. You are asked to confirm this when you sign up, and confirming it falsely is the one thing on this site that will get an account removed without warning.

This is not Parksule being unwelcoming to younger students. US children’s privacy law requires verified parental consent before collecting personal information from a child under 13, and doing that properly is beyond what two high school students can operate honestly. Turning under-13 accounts away is the truthful answer; pretending to handle them would not be.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child under 13 has made an account, email [email protected] and it will be deleted, along with everything attached to it. You do not need to prove anything first.

On your account page there are two buttons that need no one’s approval:

• Download my data gives you a JSON file containing everything Parksule holds about you — profile, enrollments, every practice attempt, mastery history, study plans, tutoring sessions and messages, and notifications.
• Delete my account removes the account and everything linked to it from the database immediately and permanently. It cannot be undone and there is no recovery window, because keeping a copy in case you change your mind would mean it was not really deleted.

What survives a deletion: messages you sent to a tutor remain in that tutor’s copy of the conversation, because it is their record of a conversation they were part of too. Nothing else does.

Parksule keeps your data for as long as your account exists, and no longer. There is no archive, and no analytics warehouse holding a shadow copy.

Passwords are hashed with bcrypt. The session cookie is signed, HttpOnly, and sent only over HTTPS in production. Every page and every action checks on the server who you are and what you are allowed to reach, rather than trusting what the browser sends.

Honest limit: this is a site run by two students on a home server. It is built carefully and the access rules are real, but it has not had a professional security audit, and you should not store anything here that you would be harmed by losing or having exposed. Practice answers are what it is for.

If what Parksule collects changes, this page changes in the same breath, and the date at the top moves. If a change is significant — something new being collected, or anyone new being able to see it — you will be told on the site rather than left to notice.

Questions about any of this, requests to see or delete your data, or a parent’s concern about a child’s account: [email protected].