Privacy policy

Last updated: October 18, 2026. Person in charge of protecting personal information: Christopher Plante, Montreal (Quebec), hello@burnthepile.com.

In short

• We store no student work, no grades and no student names.
• Papers are sent, encrypted, to our artificial intelligence provider solely to produce the grading you request.
• We only keep your access key, its page balance and, if you buy a pack, your payment email.

Student work and results

The pages you upload are prepared in your browser and sent to our server, which forwards them to Google (Gemini API) for grading. Our server does not save them or write them to any log. Results are sent back to your browser and stay in your tab until you end the session or close the page.

We use the paid tier of the Gemini API. Under its terms, Google does not use this data to improve its products or train its models; it may be retained for a limited time solely for abuse detection.

Because the data is processed outside Quebec, we carried out a privacy impact assessment and concluded that the protection offered by this provider is adequate.

Information we keep

• Access key and page balance: to provide the service.
• Email provided at payment: to help you if you lose your key and for our accounting obligations. Payment is processed by Stripe; we never see your card.
• An irreversible fingerprint (hash) of your IP address for free trials, kept 24 hours, to limit abuse.

Your responsibilities

You are responsible for using the service in accordance with your school’s policies. Avoid including sensitive information on papers that is not needed for grading.

Your rights

You can request access to, correction of or deletion of information about you by writing to hello@burnthepile.com.