Privacy
Your students’ data stays on your phone.
Gradely holds names, scores and rosters — which is exactly why it holds them locally. Here is what that means, plainly.
In short
- Your gradebook lives on your phone, not on our servers.
- Nothing is collected automatically — no analytics, no ads, no tracking.
- Data only leaves when you print, export or back it up yourself.
- No cloud copy means no safety net: keep your backups.
What this app stores
Whatever you enter yourself — student names, guardian contacts, sections, classes, assessments, scores, and any exams and questions you write. Nothing is collected automatically, and there is no analytics or tracking built into the app. Separately, your teacher account holds the email address you sign in with, so that you can sign back in and keep your plan; your gradebook never passes through it.
Purchases
Subscriptions are bought and billed by Google Play or the App Store, so you never type a card number into Gradely and we never see one. To match a purchase to your plan, the store and RevenueCat — the service that handles purchases for us — receive an anonymous account id and the purchase itself. They do not receive your name, your email or anything about your students.
Where it lives
On your device only. The gradebook is a local database in the app’s private storage, and backups you create are written as files on that same device. There is no server copy of your data and no cloud sync.
When data leaves the device
Only when you make it happen — printing a report card or an exam, exporting grades, or creating a backup. Importing questions from a spreadsheet reads the file you choose on your device and nothing is uploaded. The app never sends anything anywhere on its own.
The risk of local-only storage
Because everything lives on this device, formatting your phone, resetting it, or losing it without a backup means this data cannot be recovered. There is no cloud copy to restore from. Back up regularly from Settings if that matters to you. Backups are encrypted before they leave the device; the data on the device itself relies on your device’s own lock and encryption.
Deleting data
You control deletion directly — removing a student, class, term, or clearing all app data all happen on this device, immediately, and cannot be undone once confirmed. Deleting the app removes the database and its backups with it. Deleting your account is separate: it ends your sign-in, releases your email address and makes your backup key unavailable, while a record of your plan’s billing history is kept because the stores may still refer to it. It leaves the gradebook on your phone alone, and it does not cancel a subscription — cancel that in Google Play or the App Store.
Photos and the camera
If you set a profile photo for yourself or a student, the app asks for photo library or camera access at that moment. The image is stored with the record on your device and is used for nothing else. Decline the permission and every other part of the app still works.
Children’s data
Gradely is for teachers, not for students. Children do not have accounts and cannot sign in. Records a teacher keeps about a minor stay on the teacher’s own device under the teacher’s and their school’s record-keeping obligations; we never receive them.
Changes
This policy may change as the app changes. If a future version adds optional cloud sync or backup, it will be opt-in, it will say so before it is switched on, and this page will carry a new date before that release ships.
Questions about any of this?
privacy@agradely.com