Traffic Lite Privacy Policy

What Traffic Lite Does

Traffic Lite is a Chrome Extension and web application operated by Leading Edge Learning, LLC (“Traffic Lite,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Traffic Lite integrates with Google Classroom and allows schools and educators to display an AI-usage policy indicator (for example, Green / Orange / Yellow / Red) on Google Classroom posts, including Assignments, Quiz Assignments, Questions, and Materials.

Traffic Lite is designed to help schools communicate AI-usage expectations consistently within Google Classroom and to provide authorized educator/admin visibility into policy-indicator metadata.

Traffic Lite does not collect student submissions, assignment body content, or student private communications from Google Classroom.

FERPA & COPPA Compliance

Traffic Lite is designed for use by schools and educators and operates as a school-authorized educational tool.

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act):

Where applicable, under FERPA, schools may disclose education records to a provider that performs institutional services or functions on the school’s behalf, subject to FERPA requirements and school authorization.

Traffic Lite acts as a service provider to schools and educators and processes limited classroom metadata only as necessary to provide the service.

Traffic Lite:

• Uses data only to provide and operate Traffic Lite functionality within Google Classroom

• Does not sell data or use student information for advertising or marketing

• Does not access or analyze student submissions or student private communications from Google Classroom

• Supports school and educator requests to delete associated data

Schools and districts remain responsible for determining FERPA applicability and for authorizing use consistent with their policies and agreements.

COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act):

Traffic Lite may be used in classrooms that include students under age 13.

Where COPPA applies, schools may provide consent on behalf of parents for operators to collect students' personal information for school-authorized educational purposes.

Traffic Lite:

• Collects only the limited information necessary to operate the service

• Does not collect children’s personal information for commercial purposes

• Does not display advertising

• Does not build behavioral profiles of students

Traffic Lite relies on school or educator authorization for classroom use where students may be under age 13.

Data We Collect

We collect only the information needed to provide Traffic Lite’s core functionality.

1) Account and Identity Information

When a user signs in with Google, we may collect limited account information such as:

• Google account identifier

• Name and email address

• User role (for example, teacher/admin access level)

2) Classroom and Post Metadata for Policy Display

To support AI-policy indicators, we may collect/store limited metadata such as:

• Google Classroom course ID and course name

• Google Classroom post/classroom item ID

• Post title and post type (for example, Assignment, Question, Material)

• Selected AI-usage policy color

• Timestamp(s) related to selection/finalization events

3) Support and Issue Report Data

If a user submits feedback or an issue report, we may collect:

• Name and email provided by the submitter

• Issue/feedback text submitted by the user

• Optional file attachments submitted by the user

These support communications are collected only when a user intentionally submits feedback or an issue report.

4) Local Extension/App Settings

Traffic Lite may store lightweight settings and session state (for example, UI preferences and local extension state) in Chrome extension storage and/or browser storage as needed for core operation.

Data We Do NOT Collect

Traffic Lite does not collect:

• Passwords

• Payment or financial account data

• Student submissions or assignment body content from Google Classroom

• Student private communications from Google Classroom

• Web browsing history unrelated to Traffic Lite functionality

• Precise location data

• Health or biometric information

Traffic Lite may collect user-submitted support/issue text and optional attachments only when a user intentionally submits a feedback/issue report.

Cookies & Local Storage

Traffic Lite uses Chrome’s extension storage to save basic preferences and session state so the experience persists between sessions.

Traffic Lite does not store Google account passwords in local storage. Traffic Lite also does not store OAuth refresh tokens in local storage.

How We Use Data

We use collected data only to:

• Authenticate users via Google

• Identify the user and authorized role/access level

• Associate AI-policy indicators with relevant Google Classroom courses/posts

• Display AI-usage policy indicators in context

• Provide authorized reporting views of policy-indicator metadata

• Process and respond to user-submitted feedback/issue reports

• Maintain basic application and extension functionality, reliability, and security

Traffic Lite does not use collected data for advertising, profiling, or unrelated commercial purposes.

Data Sharing (all parties)

We do not sell personal data and do not share personal data with advertisers.

We share data only as necessary to operate Traffic Lite, including with:

1) Google (Authentication and Classroom APIs)

• To enable sign-in and Classroom functionality with user/school authorization.

2) Infrastructure and Service Providers

• For example, hosting/database providers and transactional email providers used to operate and secure Traffic Lite (such as Railway and Resend).

• These providers process data on our behalf under appropriate contractual or legal protections.

We may also disclose information if required by law, legal process, or to protect rights, safety, and security.

Google API Services & Limited Use

If you connect Google Classroom, Traffic Lite uses Google user data only to provide and improve core application functionality requested by the user or school.

Traffic Lite’s production Google OAuth scope usage is limited to:

• userinfo.email

• userinfo.profile

• classroom.courses.readonly

• classroom.courseworkmaterials

• classroom.topics

(and standard OpenID/OAuth identity flow fields as required)

Traffic Lite does not request Google Classroom roster/member-email scopes in this production configuration.

Traffic Lite does not use Google user data for advertising, profiling, or marketing purposes.

Traffic Lite’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

More information: https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy

Children, Students, & School Use

Traffic Lite is intended for use by schools and educators. The service operates under the direction of a teacher, school, or district administrator as part of school-authorized use of Google Classroom.

Traffic Lite does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children outside school-authorized educational use.

Schools and authorized educators may request deletion of associated data at any time.

Data Retention & Deletion

AI-policy metadata is retained while the associated account is active, unless a shorter period is required by law/school agreement or deletion is requested.

• User-submitted feedback/issue report records (including optional attachments) are retained only as needed to operate, troubleshoot, secure, and support the service, unless a shorter period is required by law/school agreement or deletion is requested.

• Local extension/browser settings remain on the user’s device until removed (for example, by uninstalling the extension or clearing extension/browser storage).

Deletion requests can be submitted to: derek@trafficliteedu.com (please include teacher and school details).

Security

Traffic Lite uses industry-standard safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encryption in transit (HTTPS) and administrative, technical, and physical controls appropriate for an education technology service.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Traffic Lite does not use user data to train advertising systems or general-purpose AI models.

Legal basis (for EEA / UK Users)

Where applicable, we process personal data under one or more of the following legal bases:

• Legitimate interests in providing and securing an educational service

• Performance of a contract (for example, with schools or educators)

• Compliance with legal obligations

• Consent, where required by applicable law

Your Choices & Rights

Subject to applicable law, teachers and schools may request:

• Access to personal data

• Correction of personal data

• Deletion of personal data

• Export of personal data

Requests may be sent to: derek@trafficliteedu.com.

Please include teacher and school details so we can verify and process your request.

Users may also stop further extension-based collection by removing the extension.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the Effective Date above and provide additional notice where required by law.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact:

Derek Tranchina | derek@trafficliteedu.com

Traffic Lite is operated by Leading Edge Learning, LLC.