What tag keeps, and who sees it

Tiles come up. So does everything here: on June 30, or the moment you delete it.

What we keep

tag keeps what you make on it, and only for that:

Your recordings and pictures. A walkthrough of your screen with your voice, a camera recording, a voice recording, a picture or a file you put up. A camera recording, or a walkthrough with the camera bubble on, shows your face. We store face imagery, and only as part of the piece you made. It is never used for anything else.
Your words. Text pieces, what you say is in a piece, your tags and highlights, your replies, and the words you react with.
Who you are to tag. Your first name, your student ID and your class periods, as the school's student list gives them, so tag knows which walls are yours. Your PIN is checked by the student list, not kept by tag.
Your choices. Whether you show your name on a piece, and whether you would rather not be called on.

When a file arrives, tag makes its own fresh copy and deletes the one you sent. The copy carries the picture and the sound and nothing else: no location, no phone or camera details, no recording time from the file.

What tag tells your growth record

Once a week, tag sends the school's growth record a few counts about you, and nothing else: how many pieces you put up and on how many days, how many of your calls you answered, how many of your misses named a different driver than your call, and whether you put up a walkthrough on a wall that asks you to explain something you built with a helper. No words, no recordings, no name.

It never sends whether you passed when tagged, whether you would rather not be called on, your camera or sketch choices, whether you showed your name, who you tagged or who tagged you, the reactions you got, or whether your call was right. Being wrong is part of the work. Your teacher sees your counts to know where to help; they are never a grade.

Who sees it

Your teacher sees every piece first, with your name, before anyone else does.
Your class (the class periods the wall is for) sees a piece only after your teacher shows it. On a sealed wall, nobody in your class sees anyone's call until the teacher reveals the outcome.
If you leave "Show my name" off, your class sees "a classmate". Hidden from the class is not hidden from your teacher.
Pieces play only inside tag, to someone signed in. There is no public link and no download button. A screen can always be recorded by someone else, so put up only what you are OK with your class seeing.
Nothing is posted outside your class by tag. Showing a piece anywhere else would need your family's consent first, through the school's own consent process.

What tag never does

No face recognition and no voice recognition. tag does not try to work out who is in a recording or whose voice it is.
No AI sees any media. No video, picture, frame, sound or transcript is sent to any AI or any outside service. Your recordings stay on the school's server.
No email and no notifications about you. If a classmate tags you, tag tells you the next time you open it.
No list of who was tagged, and no list of who never was.

Your teacher can turn the camera off for you, on your request or your family's. Then tag offers no camera, and your screen, your voice, text and pictures still work.

How it is deleted

You delete a piece any time, before or after it is shown, from the piece itself or from My pieces. Its file is deleted at that moment. Deleting a call deletes its answer too.
Every wall is deleted with everything on it on June 30 at the end of the school year, or sooner, a set number of days after the wall closes. Each wall shows its date. Save my pieces downloads everything you made before then.
When you leave the class list, tag erases everything of yours 7 days after the school's student list stops listing you: every piece, recording, picture, reply and reaction.
Backups: the school's server is backed up, and a backup copy ages out within 30 days. A restored backup cannot bring back a student tag has erased.
Your teacher can delete any piece, and can erase a student's whole record at once.

The reel, sketch, places and the line

The reel plays a wall's pieces as one film for your class when the wall is done. Your piece is in it only if you say yes: you are asked when you put it up (the answer starts as no), and you can change it on My pieces any time. Taking your yes back, deleting your piece, or being erased deletes a reel that has your piece at once, and it is made again without it. The reel is made on the school's server from the copies tag already keeps, plays only inside tag to your class, has no download, and is deleted with the wall.
Sketch draws your whole camera picture as a sketch: on a camera piece, tag draws it when it makes its fresh copy and deletes the one you sent; on a walkthrough's camera bubble, your browser draws it before anything is recorded, and the page tells you if your browser can't. Nothing looks for your face: there is no face detection anywhere in tag. Sketch is for comfort, not anonymity: your voice still identifies you.
Places are short names your teacher lists, like "the bus loop". You may pick one to say what your piece is about. tag never reads a place from your file or your device: no GPS, no location, no coordinates, and no map of students.
The line (a rift wall): you may place your piece between two of the wall's tags, and classmates may nudge it closer to one end. Where pieces sit shows only once 5 are placed; below that the wall says "not enough information".
Codes on the real wall (the walk): your teacher may print a QR code for a piece. A code opens the piece only for a student who signs in and is on that wall; a photo of a code opens nothing for anyone else. The printed page shows your name only if you chose to show it on that piece.
A ban: your teacher can stop someone using tag for 30 days, or take them off one wall. tag keeps the student ID, until when, and what it covers, and deletes the ban when it runs out; the counts it keeps afterwards hold no names.

The privacy notice and terms for all of the school's tools are at Privacy and terms.