Bill 194 Compliance Matrix
How Argraide meets Ontario's privacy requirements for educational technology.
Last updated: October 21, 2026
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Student contact details collected
Data Residency
Data must be stored in Canada
All data hosted in AWS Montreal (ca-central-1)
No transfer to foreign jurisdictions without consent
Student records never leave Canada. Requests to AI model providers (activity generation, translation, and the optional in-activity helper) are processed in the United States and carry no student names, usernames or account identifiers. Teachers can switch the helper off per activity, and a school or board can switch it off for all of its teachers.
Data Minimization
Collect only necessary personal information
Student accounts use randomized usernames and no PII. In optional live sessions, a student may type a first name or a nickname, or leave it blank to get a made-up name like "Calm Badger"; a typed name is shown only to the teacher and replaced by "Player 1", "Player 2" and so on 7 days after the session closes. Answer boxes hold at most 40 characters, so students never write sentences; typed responses and drawings are purged after 30 days.
Purpose limitation for collected data
Data used solely for educational progress tracking. No marketing or advertising.
Retention limitation
Names typed into live sessions become "Player N" 7 days after the session closes (a classroom link stays open for at most 24 hours); typed responses, drawings, device tokens and helper summaries are auto-purged after 30 days, and the anonymous per-Player results after one year. Students can delete their own account at any time; teachers and boards can request deletion of any student or class. Teachers can close their account from Settings, which anonymizes the profile immediately.
Student Privacy (MFIPPA/FIPPA)
Student names never required
Student accounts use random usernames. In live sessions a name is optional: a student may type a first name or a nickname, or get a made-up name like "Calm Badger". A typed name is visible only to the teacher and becomes "Player N" 7 days after the session closes, so it is not kept.
No collection of student emails
No email required. Sign-in is a random username plus a three-emoji code the student chooses, stored as a bcrypt hash.
No collection of biometric data
Not collected. No facial recognition, voice, or fingerprint data.
Parental consent for students under 13
Handled under COPPA's school-consent model: the school consents to educational use on parents' behalf and notifies families through its normal technology communications. We collect no student contact details, so there is no direct-to-parent collection.
Encryption & Security
Data encrypted in transit
TLS 1.2 or higher (1.3 where supported) for all connections. HTTPS enforced.
Data encrypted at rest
AES-256 encryption on database storage.
Secure authentication
Teachers: Supabase Auth with bcrypt hashing. Students: emoji codes stored as bcrypt hashes (never plaintext).
Access controls
Row-level security (RLS) policies. Teachers only see their own classes.
Zero-Knowledge Architecture
Student nicknames protected
Encrypted in the teacher's browser with AES-256-GCM. The server stores ciphertext only and never receives the key.
Key derivation
A 32-character random key is generated on the teacher's device the first time they save a nickname and is never sent to us. PBKDF2-SHA256 derives the AES key from it (1,000 iterations for device keys; 600,000 for legacy typed passphrases).
Decryption capability
Only the teacher's device, or another device they paste the key into, can decrypt. If the key is lost the nicknames cannot be recovered by anyone, including us.
Transparency & Accountability
Clear privacy policy
Published at /privacy. Plain language. Reviewed periodically.
Data Processing Addendum available
Available at /dpa for institutional customers.
Contact for privacy inquiries
support@argraide.com
Third-Party Services
Vetted subprocessors only
Supabase (Canada), Vercel (no student data), Stripe (teacher payments), PostHog (anonymous counts only on student pages), Resend (teacher email), Google Maps (teacher signup), and Google, OpenAI and Anthropic for AI. Full table in the DPA.
AI processing disclosure
AI generates activities from teacher prompts. The optional in-activity helper sends a student's typed question, the text on their screen and their progress in that activity to the AI provider, with no student identifiers. Teachers can turn the helper off per activity, and a school or board admin can turn it off for the whole organization.
Technical Specifications
Infrastructure
- • Database: Supabase (Postgres), Canada (Montreal) primary
- • Hosting: Vercel Edge Network
- • CDN: Vercel CDN (no PII cached)
- • Payments: Stripe (PCI-DSS Level 1)
Encryption Standards
- • In Transit: TLS 1.2+ (1.3 preferred)
- • At Rest: AES-256
- • Nicknames: AES-256-GCM (client-side)
- • Key Derivation: PBKDF2-SHA256 from a device-generated 32-character key (1K iterations; legacy typed passphrases 600K)
For formal verification or to request a third-party audit, contact support@argraide.com.