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Student data stays safe
Book club conversations are personal. Rosters and recordings live inside your institution's workspace, under FERPA-minded rules you set — not ours, and never anyone else's.
How data is handled
Your workspace, your walls
Your institution's rosters, recordings, and summaries are scoped to your organization and never pooled across campuses. We don't train AI models on your students' conversations, and we never sell data.
Your data, exportable and erasable
Every member can export their data or request erasure, and institutions can request deletion at any time. Configurable retention windows are on our roadmap — until then, nothing is deleted or kept without your instruction.
Consent before capture, always
Recording only starts after every phone in the room says yes, and the red indicator stays visible the whole session. A student can revoke consent afterward — the revocation is recorded in the ledger and the recording is handled per your instructions.
On FERPA
Commonplace is built FERPA-minded: your institution owns its records and we process them only on your instructions. We're prepared to put both in writing in a signed DPA.