Privacy Policy

Selective Edge is operated by Yathushan Muraleetharan (ABN 38 917 736 686), trading as Selective Edge ("we", "us", "our"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store and disclose personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Contact for privacy matters: hello@selective-edge.com.au

We collect the following categories of personal information:

• Parent account information: the name, email address, password (hashed), and optionally phone number you supply when creating an account.
• Student profile information: the child's full name (given and family name), year level, current school if you choose to provide it, intended exam year and any target schools you set. We do not collect home addresses or dates of birth for student profiles.
• Performance information: answers to practice questions, writing pieces submitted, time taken, scores, tutor feedback and derived analytics about strengths and weaknesses.
• Exam integrity information (tutoring centre work only): where a tutoring centre has turned this on, and only while a student is sitting work that centre set them (homework, or a placement paper), we record when the exam page loses focus, when the browser tab is hidden and for how long, how long each question is on screen, how many times a question is revisited, and attempts to copy, paste or print the paper. We do not use a camera, microphone, screen recording, face detection or photo identification, and we never will. We do not record anything outside the exam page, and nothing is recorded during a student's own practice, drills or free-play at any centre, or for families who buy from us directly.
• Technical information: browser type, device type, approximate location (derived from IP), and basic usage logs for security and reliability.
• Payment information: when paid plans are live, payment details are handled by our payment processor (Stripe). We do not store full card numbers.

• To deliver the practice platform and mark submissions.
• To produce the parent dashboard, daily plan, topic mastery breakdowns and cohort comparisons.
• To send transactional emails (account confirmation, password resets, marking notifications).
• To improve the question bank, marking and platform.
• To meet legal, regulatory and tax obligations.

We do not sell personal information. We do not use student data to train third-party AI models. Writing is marked by human tutors, not AI.

Selective Edge is designed for children in Years 4–6 (typically ages 9–12). Children do not create their own accounts. A parent or legal guardian creates the account and adds student profiles for their children. By creating an account you confirm you are the parent or legal guardian of any student profile you add, and you consent to the collection and use of the information about your child described in this Policy, including the child's full name, which we use solely to identify their profile and personalise their experience inside the platform.

We do not market directly to children, do not show third-party advertising, and do not knowingly collect personal information from a child without parental consent. Student names are not displayed publicly anywhere, are never used in marketing materials, and appear only inside the parent's account and to the tutor marking the child's writing. If you believe a child has provided us information without parental consent, contact us and we will delete it.

We share personal information only with the service providers we need to operate the platform, and only to the extent required. Current sub-processors:

• Supabase, managed database, authentication and storage.
• Vercel, frontend hosting and content delivery.
• Stripe, payment processing (when paid plans are live).

Where a student belongs to a tutoring centre, that centre's staff can see the work their student does on the platform, including the exam integrity information described in section 2. That information is shown to centre staff only. It is not shown to parents by default, it is never used to mark, fail or void a student's work, and it is never included in the aggregated data we use to calibrate question difficulty.

We do not disclose personal information to law enforcement agencies except where required by law (e.g. valid warrant or court order).

Personal information is stored on managed cloud infrastructure with industry-standard access controls, encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest, and regular backups. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes. Service-role keys are isolated from the public web application.

No system is perfectly secure. If we become aware of a data breach likely to result in serious harm, we will notify affected users and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in accordance with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.

Our service providers may store data in countries outside Australia (commonly the United States or Singapore). By using Selective Edge you consent to your personal information being transferred and stored outside Australia for these purposes. We take reasonable steps to ensure overseas recipients handle your information consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles.

We keep your account information while your account is active and for a reasonable period afterwards to handle support, disputes and legal obligations. You can request deletion of your account and associated student profiles at any time by emailing us. We will action the request within 30 days, subject to records we are legally required to retain.

Exam integrity records (section 2) are deleted automatically 12 months after the exam they relate to. The summary a tutor sees, meaning total time away and the number of times the page lost focus, is kept with the exam result. The detailed event-by-event record is not.

You have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you and your child.
• Correct any inaccurate information.
• Request deletion of your account and personal information.
• Opt out of non-essential email (transactional emails will continue).
• Complain about how we have handled your information.

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@selective-edge.com.au. We will respond within 30 days.

We set our own cookies only as required to keep you signed in and to remember basic preferences, such as whether you chose dark mode. Those are necessary for the site to work and are not used to profile anyone.

We also use two measurement tools, and neither runs until you have said yes to it:

• Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC), which counts page views and a small number of milestones such as creating an account. It sets its own cookies in your browser and its data is processed in the United States.
• Vercel Analytics (Vercel Inc.), which counts page views without cookies.

We use neither for advertising, we do not sell or share what they collect, and we do not send them a name, an email address or anything else that identifies a child. Until you choose, both stay off, which means an undecided visitor is never measured. Declining costs you nothing: every part of the site works the same either way.

Your current choice, and the control to change it, is here. It takes effect immediately and needs no reload.

If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a privacy issue, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au. We ask that you contact us first so we have a chance to resolve the matter directly.

We may update this Policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified to account holders by email and the "Last updated" date above will be revised.