Privacy policy

Who we are

BWISE is a marketplace for knowledge-sharing services, run by Free Market Education, LLC. Teachers use the BWISE Learning app for iPhone to build classes and share them. Students register, pay, and open the materials on this website. This policy covers both.

The short version: we collect what it takes to run a class and get the teacher paid, we do not sell it, and we do not use it for advertising or tracking.

What we collect from teachers

• Your email address: to sign you in with a code and to send you notices about your classes.
• Your profile: the name, headline, bio, and photo you add. These are public on your teacher page.
• Your classes: titles, descriptions, prices, terms, cover photos, and the files and links you add as materials. Before a class publishes, an automated review reads it against our content rules.
• Payout details: you enter your bank and identity details with Stripe, not with us. We keep your Stripe account ID and whether payouts are turned on.
• Your earnings: what each registration paid, our fee, and when your share is paid out.

What we collect from students

• Your email address: from checkout, to create your account, send your receipt and sign-in codes, and let you open the class later.
• Your registrations and payments: which classes you registered for, what you paid, and any refund. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach us.
• What you open: which materials you open and when. This is the class's attendance record and decides when the refund window closes.
• Your ratings: the stars and any note you send. The teacher sees them.

What we collect from everyone

The services that host BWISE keep standard server logs, such as IP address, browser type, and the time of a request, to keep the service running and secure. We do not use analytics or advertising tools, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.

The app asks for the camera only when you choose to take a photo for a class. It stores a few display preferences on your phone, along with any teachers you have hidden from Explore. Hiding a teacher never leaves your phone and the teacher is not told.

Who can see what

• Anyone with the link: can see a teacher's public profile and published classes.
• A teacher: can see the name and email of each student registered for their classes, what they paid, and their ratings.
• Other teachers: can see published classes in the app's Explore tab, without prices or student details.

If you report a class from Explore, your email comes to us with the class and teacher it is about. We use it to review the class and do not pass your name to the teacher.

We do not sell personal information or share it for advertising.

Services we use

These companies handle data on our behalf, only to provide BWISE:

• Supabase: database, sign-in, and file storage.
• Vercel: hosts this website.
• Stripe: payments, refunds, and teacher payouts. Stripe's own privacy policy covers what you give it directly.
• Resend: sends our email.
• Anthropic: runs the automated review of a class before it publishes. It reads the class and its materials and does not use them to train its models.

We may also disclose information when the law requires it, or to protect people or the service from fraud or harm.

Keeping and deleting your information

We keep your information while your account exists. A teacher can delete their account in the app, under Account, then Delete account. That removes the profile, classes, and materials. If money from a student is still settling, the app says so and the account can be deleted once it is paid out or refunded.

A student, or anyone who wants their information deleted or a copy of it, can email hello@bwise.app. Records of payments are kept by Stripe, and by us where tax and accounting law requires it.

Security

Materials are stored privately and opened through short-lived links, only for students registered for the class. Access to data is limited by account. No system is perfectly secure, so tell us right away if you think something is wrong.

Children

BWISE is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update the date above. If the change is significant, we will email account holders.

Contact

Questions, requests, or concerns: hello@bwise.app.