Trust
Your students’ work, in plain language.
A teacher-toned summary of how MarkScanner treats the work you and your students put into it. The formal version lives on the privacy policy page. This page is the short, no-jargon version.
Your students' work stays yours.
Only you can see the submissions you upload. Other teachers using MarkScanner can't see them. On our side, access to production systems is limited to MarkScanner's maintainers and protected by two-factor authentication where available.
We don't sell your data. Ever.
Not to advertisers, not to AI training companies, not to anyone. Your roster, your students' work, and your grading output are not products we sell.
Your students' work isn't used to train AI.
Scanned pages go to Google's paid Gemini API only to draft marks and feedback. On that paid tier, Google doesn't use your content to train its models, and we don't train models of our own on it. Like most AI providers, Google may keep inputs for a limited time for abuse monitoring and security. The privacy policy explains this.
Your data is stored in Canada.
Our database and file storage are hosted in Canada. Some services, including the AI provider, email, and analytics, may process data outside Canada. The privacy policy lists them.
You can delete anything, anytime.
A class, an assessment, an individual student, a single submission: delete it from your account, no support ticket required. Deleted items sit in a trash for 30 days before permanent removal, and backups expire within 90 days.
You can leave with your data.
Download class results as CSV and feedback sheets as PDF for any assessment, whenever you want. We don't trap you in. If you cancel, your account stays available for export for at least 30 days before anything is removed.
If you use "Try it out", the same posture applies.
When you use Try it out to send us a sample, your materials are used only to produce your sample results. Student names are optional. We don’t train any AI on them, we don’t share them with anyone else unless you opt in to letting us show anonymised snippets (student names redacted), and we delete them within 30 days of sending your results back unless you ask us to keep them.
Questions? Email us.
Real email, real reply. Write to hello@markscanner.ca and we'll get back to you.
Honest disclaimer
MarkScanner is a small operation in early days. We don’t have a SOC 2 report, a 200-page security questionnaire response, or a dedicated compliance team yet. We use sensible defaults (encryption in transit and at rest, scoped database access, paid AI-API tiers with training disabled), and we’re happy to walk you through any specific concern.
If your district or board requires formal security audits or signed data-processing agreements, please get in touch and we’ll talk about what’s realistic at our stage. The schools and boards page sets out what a privacy review needs to know.
Still have questions?
Email hello@markscanner.ca and we’ll reply. If you’d rather see MarkScanner work on your own quiz before getting into the privacy weeds, the “Try it out” page is the quickest way.