Privacy policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

TeachingTime is a tool for one-to-one online lessons. It is run by Melvin Eberle, who is responsible for your data:

This policy follows the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, for people in the EU, the GDPR.

What we store

• Teachers: email address, password (stored scrambled, never readable), the name shown in lessons, and the classrooms you create (a student's name or nickname, the invite link).
• Lesson content: the text pad and whiteboard of each classroom, writing on PDFs, and the files you upload (pictures, PDFs, audio), until you delete them or remove the classroom.
• Lesson times: when each lesson's call started and ended, to apply the free plan's limits.
• Feedback you send us, and technical error reports (page, browser, error message) when something breaks.
• Students don't need an account. The name a student types to join is only used during the call and isn't stored.

Video and sound

Camera, microphone and screen sharing go through LiveKit, our video provider, directly between the two people in the lesson. Calls are not recorded and not stored.

Who helps us run it

• Vercel (website hosting, and anonymous page-view counts without cookies), USA
• Supabase (accounts, database and file storage), USA
• LiveKit (video calls), servers worldwide, nearest to each person
• Cloudflare Turnstile (checks that sign-ups and logins aren't bots)
• An email provider, to send sign-up and password emails

They process data only to provide their service to us. Some of them are outside Switzerland and the EU (mainly in the USA); we rely on their standard contractual clauses or data privacy frameworks for this.

Cookies

Only one kind: the login cookie that keeps teachers signed in. No advertising or tracking cookies. Your browser also remembers layout choices (like panel sizes) on your own device.

How long

As long as your account exists. Removing a classroom deletes its board and files. To delete your account and everything in it, write to melvineberle@gmail.com; we do it within 30 days.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, and you can complain to a data protection authority (in Switzerland the FDPIC, in the EU the one where you live). Write to melvineberle@gmail.com.

Students under 16

Teachers invite their students. If a student is a child, the teacher is responsible for having the parents' permission for online lessons, and should use a first name or nickname for the classroom.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes; important changes are announced by email.

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