[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":263},["ShallowReactive",2],{"legal-privacy":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":252,"draft":253,"extension":254,"meta":255,"navigation":256,"ogImage":257,"path":258,"seo":259,"stem":260,"updated":261,"__hash__":262},"legal\u002Flegal\u002Fprivacy.md","Privacy Policy",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":232},"minimark",[9,19,24,65,69,86,90,93,98,130,134,137,140,143,147,154,161,165,168,174,180,183,187,190,194,197,201,204,208,211,215,218,222,225,229],[10,11,12,13,18],"p",{},"This Privacy Policy explains how 1410 Technologies (\"we\", \"us\", \"our\") handles personal data in\nconnection with the 1410SMS platform (\"Service\"). It applies to information we process as the operator\nof the Service. For the school data a school uploads, the school is the data controller and we act as\nits processor under our ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"\u002Fterms","Terms",".",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"_1-information-we-process","1. Information we process",[25,26,27,35,41,47,53,59],"ul",{},[28,29,30,34],"li",{},[31,32,33],"strong",{},"Account and school data."," School name, contact details, branding, and the administrator's name,\nemail and phone number.",[28,36,37,40],{},[31,38,39],{},"School records."," Students, staff and parents, including names, contact details, classes, grades,\nattendance, fees and related records. This may include data about minors, entered by the school.",[28,42,43,46],{},[31,44,45],{},"Staff location."," Where a school uses staff attendance, a single location reading is taken at\nthe moment a member of staff taps to clock in or out in the mobile app. Separately, an\nadministrator setting the school's own pin may ask their browser or phone to read where they are\nstanding. See section 3.",[28,48,49,52],{},[31,50,51],{},"Staff devices."," Where a school uses staff attendance, we keep a record of the phone each member\nof staff clocks in from. See section 3.",[28,54,55,58],{},[31,56,57],{},"Usage and technical data."," Audit records of actions taken in the Service, each including the IP address of the request and what it was made with: whether the mobile app or a web browser, which one, the operating system, and, for the app, the installed version.",[28,60,61,64],{},[31,62,63],{},"Payment data."," Billing is handled by our payment processor. We receive and store transaction\nreferences and status, never card details.",[20,66,68],{"id":67},"_2-how-we-use-it","2. How we use it",[25,70,71,74,77,80,83],{},[28,72,73],{},"to provide, secure, and improve the Service;",[28,75,76],{},"to send transactional messages (e.g. email verification, invoices, receipts, exam and fee\nnotifications) and school communications you initiate;",[28,78,79],{},"to process subscriptions and payments;",[28,81,82],{},"to monitor, troubleshoot, and protect against abuse and fraud;",[28,84,85],{},"to comply with legal obligations.",[20,87,89],{"id":88},"_3-staff-location-and-staff-devices","3. Staff location and staff devices",[10,91,92],{},"A school may turn on staff attendance, which lets its staff clock in and out from the 1410SMS mobile\napp. Where it is used, three things follow: a location reading at each clock-in, a record of the\nphone it was made from, and a record of any attempt that was refused.",[94,95,97],"h3",{"id":96},"the-clock-in-reading","The clock-in reading",[25,99,100,106,112,118,124],{},[28,101,102,105],{},[31,103,104],{},"A reading is taken only when a member of staff taps the clock-in or clock-out button."," Nothing\nis read at any other time.",[28,107,108,111],{},[31,109,110],{},"The app never reads location in the background."," It cannot: it does not hold the background\nlocation permission on either platform, and it is not able to read your location while it is\nclosed or while you are using another app. This is a deliberate limit on what the feature can do,\nnot a setting.",[28,113,114,117],{},[31,115,116],{},"What is stored"," is the coordinates and accuracy of that single reading, how far it was from the\nschool's recorded location, and the result of the checks that ran. It is kept as the evidence\nbehind that attendance record, so a staff member can query a mark against what was actually\nrecorded.",[28,119,120,123],{},[31,121,122],{},"Who sees it."," The staff member themselves, and administrators at their school holding the\nrelevant permission. It is never shown to parents or students, it is not shared with any other\nschool, and we do not use it for advertising or sell it.",[28,125,126,129],{},[31,127,128],{},"Declining is possible."," If location permission is refused, the app does not clock you in and\nsays so. A school can still record attendance for you by hand.",[94,131,133],{"id":132},"a-clock-in-that-was-refused","A clock-in that was refused",[10,135,136],{},"When a check fails, no attendance is recorded: there is no clock-in, and nothing is added to that\nperson's hours. The attempt itself is still kept, in the school's own event log, and it carries the\nsame information the reading would have done: the coordinates, how accurate they were, and which\nchecks passed and which did not.",[10,138,139],{},"It is kept because a school with its pin in the wrong place, or a radius set too tight, only ever\nfinds out from the pattern of refusals. One person saying they could not clock in is a story about\none person; the log is what shows it is happening at the same gate every morning.",[10,141,142],{},"Its retention is that of the school's event and audit history rather than that of an attendance\nrecord, since there is no attendance record for it to sit behind: it is kept while the school's\naccount is active and is removed with the rest of that history when the account is deleted, as\ndescribed in section 6.",[94,144,146],{"id":145},"setting-the-schools-own-location","Setting the school's own location",[10,148,149,150,153],{},"An administrator setting the school's pin can type coordinates, or press ",[31,151,152],{},"Use my current location","\nand have the browser or phone read where they are standing. That is the one place the web app asks\nfor location, it is asked only on that press, and it is asked of an administrator configuring the\nschool rather than of anybody being checked.",[10,155,156,157,160],{},"What is saved from it is the ",[31,158,159],{},"school's"," pin and radius, not a record of where that administrator\nwas: the reading fills in two fields on a form, and the accuracy figure is shown so a poor reading\ncan be spotted and taken again. Declining leaves the coordinates to be typed in, and nothing else\nchanges.",[94,162,164],{"id":163},"the-phones-staff-clock-in-from","The phones staff clock in from",[10,166,167],{},"Where staff attendance is used, we keep a register of the devices each member of staff clocks in\nfrom. For each one we store an identifier the app generates for that installation, the platform\n(iOS or Android), the model, the operating system version, the app version, when it was last used\nto clock in, and its approval history: who approved or revoked it, and when.",[10,169,170,173],{},[31,171,172],{},"This is what closes buddy-punching."," A device belongs to one member of staff, and no two staff\naccounts at a school may hold the same approved device. Without that rule, location alone constrains\nthe phone rather than the person, and one phone at the gate can clock in a whole department, every\nreading genuinely inside the radius and every check genuinely passing. The model and operating\nsystem are stored so that an administrator approving a device can tell it is the handset they were\ntold about, which matters because reinstalling the app looks like a new device.",[10,175,176,179],{},[31,177,178],{},"A revoked device's record is kept rather than deleted."," It stops being able to clock anybody in,\nbut the entry remains, because it is what tells a school which handset made the records already on\nsomebody's timesheet, and what lets the same phone be recognised when it is passed to another member\nof staff.",[10,181,182],{},"Students and parents are never asked for location, on the web or in the app.",[20,184,186],{"id":185},"_4-service-providers","4. Service providers",[10,188,189],{},"We share data only with providers that help us run the Service, and only under appropriate\nsafeguards. Those are our hosting provider, email delivery (SMTP), WhatsApp messaging (Meta), our\npayment processor (Paystack) and error-monitoring tooling (Sentry). They process data on our instructions and\nonly as needed to provide their service.",[20,191,193],{"id":192},"_5-cookies-local-storage","5. Cookies & local storage",[10,195,196],{},"The Service uses essential browser storage (such as your login token) to keep you signed in and to\noperate core features. We do not use advertising cookies.",[20,198,200],{"id":199},"_6-data-retention","6. Data retention",[10,202,203],{},"We keep personal data for as long as a school's account is active and as needed to provide the\nService. Generated documents (such as invoice and receipt PDFs) are transient and are deleted\nautomatically after a short period. On account termination, we delete or anonymise data after a\nreasonable period, unless we must retain it to meet a legal obligation.",[20,205,207],{"id":206},"_7-security","7. Security",[10,209,210],{},"We use technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including encryption in\ntransit, hashed passwords, tenant isolation, and access controls. No system is perfectly secure, but we\nwork to protect your information and to respond promptly to incidents.",[20,212,214],{"id":213},"_8-childrens-data","8. Children's data",[10,216,217],{},"The Service is used by schools to manage student records, which may include minors. Schools are\nresponsible for obtaining any consent required by law before entering such data. We process it only on\nthe school's behalf to provide the Service.",[20,219,221],{"id":220},"_9-your-rights","9. Your rights",[10,223,224],{},"Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of\nyour personal data. If your data is held by a school using 1410SMS, please contact that school (the\ndata controller) first; we will support them in responding. You can also contact us using the details\nbelow.",[20,226,228],{"id":227},"_10-changes","10. Changes",[10,230,231],{},"We may update this Policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified through the Service or\nby email.",{"title":233,"searchDepth":234,"depth":234,"links":235},"",3,[236,238,239,245,246,247,248,249,250,251],{"id":22,"depth":237,"text":23},2,{"id":67,"depth":237,"text":68},{"id":88,"depth":237,"text":89,"children":240},[241,242,243,244],{"id":96,"depth":234,"text":97},{"id":132,"depth":234,"text":133},{"id":145,"depth":234,"text":146},{"id":163,"depth":234,"text":164},{"id":185,"depth":237,"text":186},{"id":192,"depth":237,"text":193},{"id":199,"depth":237,"text":200},{"id":206,"depth":237,"text":207},{"id":213,"depth":237,"text":214},{"id":220,"depth":237,"text":221},{"id":227,"depth":237,"text":228},"Learn how 1410SMS collects, uses, and protects school, staff, student, and parent data.",false,"md",{},true,null,"\u002Flegal\u002Fprivacy",{"title":5,"description":252},"legal\u002Fprivacy","14 August 2026","Po-jjh4ym5AiRzJrfLqyZFLK97b8Mlhd2BC50kmYb64",1787681158728]