Privacy Policy

Updated: August 30, 2025

Thank you for visiting the website (the “Site”) of ALPS by 2Sigma ("ALPS", “2Sigma School”, “we”, “us”, and/or “our”). ALPS is an educational technology platform licensed to schools for students aged 10 and above. This Privacy Policy sets forth our policy with respect to the information collected from visitors and users of our Services. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning as set forth in the Terms of Service for the Services, which can be found at https://alps.2sigma.us/w/terms.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Our privacy policy outlines what information we collect from you, how we use that information, and what choices you have regarding how and whether we can use your information. Because 2Sigma School is a learning environment for children, we take additional measures to safeguard children's privacy, including for children under the age of 13. Please see our children's privacy policy below, which further outlines our approach.

If you access the Site or Services outside the United States, you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information (as defined below) to the United States, which may have less protections than your jurisdiction of residence.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you interact with us through the Services, we may collect information that, alone or in combination could be used to identify you (“Personal Information“) and other information about you, as further described below:

Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: We collect Personal Information from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries or enroll for ALPS. We may collect the following Personal Information from you in order to provide our Services:

For Students:

Name;
Email address;
Grade level;
Course(s) enrolled in;
Time zone;
Identifiers for students in Learning Management Systems or other storage systems connected to our services;
Browser and network identifiers that students connect from;
Information voluntarily provided through surveys, feedback requests, and reviews; and
Interactions with the platform, including responses, progress, and engagement with curricular materials.

For Teachers and School Administrators:

Name;
Email address;
Affiliation with the school at which they teach;
School name and address;
Course(s) taught;
Time zone;
Identifiers for teachers in Learning Management Systems or other storage systems connected to our services;
Browser and network identifiers that teachers connect from;
Information voluntarily provided through surveys, feedback requests, and reviews; and
Interactions with the platform, including responses, progress, and engagement with curricular materials.

We do not require phone numbers, payment details, home addresses, or video recordings for ALPS use.

By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to our Services, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to our offices and servers and the authorized third parties referred to herein.

Information we collect automatically when you use our Service:

Log Data: When you interact with us through the Site or use our Services, we receive and log certain data automatically. We may store such passively collected data itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by our affiliates, agents or service providers. We may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, details about your interactions with our Service including date, time, length of visit, and specific sections of pages, videos, and other learning content accessed during your visits. We use this information to help us improve our website and learning content, and assess student engagement with the learning content.

Third-Party System Data: When you use ALPS (Adaptive Learning Platform for Schools / Students), we may ask your consent to give us permission to access data from third-party systems on your behalf. This may include Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, or document and workflow management systems such as Google Workspace, Dropbox, or third-party learning platforms. We may access these systems on your behalf to retrieve Content you have created such as assignments, assignment submissions (“Your Content”). We may post content and coursework for you directly in those systems, update their properties, and read / update your grades in LMS systems, based on your Content in our platforms and services. Your Content may be stored on our systems to enable proper operation of services that depend on access to Your Content and to help improve the quality of services provided to you. You retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content. If you are posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post; and that you will fully comply with any third-party licenses relating to Content you post. We do not use Google Workspace APIs to develop, improve, or train generalized AI/ML models.

Because you retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content, you grant us - and other 2Sigma School Users - certain legal permissions, outlined below, without expectation of any payment for any of the rights granted in this section. The licenses you grant to us will end when you remove Your Content from our servers, unless other Users have copied it.

Cookies: In operating our Sites, we and third parties that provide certain functionality to the ALPS by 2Sigma Services may use a technology called "cookies." A cookie is a text file that the computer that hosts our Services gives to your browser when you access the Site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to our Services and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. You can disable cookies, limit the types of cookies you allow, or set your browser to notify you when cookies are used. For more information about our use of cookies, please see the section entitled “Cookie Policy,” below.

Aggregated Personal Data: We may aggregate data, including Personal Data, and use such aggregated data for any purpose. This aggregate information does not identify you personally.

Site Analytics: We use third-party analytics tools to track visitor behavior on our site in order to execute and monitor performance of display advertising campaigns, including remarketing advertising on other websites.

User-generated Content: We collect any information your student provides to us as part of their learning experience, including comments, posts on forums accessible to other students and instructors. This information includes student's usernames, contents of their posts, and any other information they chose to include.

Any User-Generated Content you post publicly, including code, activities, comments, and forum messages, may be viewed by others. By setting your code to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your code or activities (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from Your Content).

If you set your code or activities to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of ALPS by 2Sigma a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the ALPS Service. If you are uploading Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other ALPS Users. You grant other Teacher Users an Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC license to any of Your Content posted in a Shared Repository. Please note that some User Contributions may be deemed an Education Record under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”).

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information to:

Provide and maintain the ALPS Services;
Support teaching and learning by enabling teachers to view student progress;
Process your payment for the Services;
Respond to support requests and inquiries;
Ensure compliance with school licensing agreements and applicable laws;
Improve our platform, content, and pedagogy; and
Analyze Site and Service usage.

2Sigma School and its affiliates may use your Personal Data to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each promotional communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future promotional information. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us at support@2sigma.school. Please note that we will continue to contact you via email and/or SMS to respond to requests and provide our Services.

STORAGE

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION

We may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:

With Schools: We share information with the school licensing ALPS, including student progress and course activity.

Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be transferred to a successor or affiliate alone or as part of that transaction along with other assets.

Vendors and Service Providers: We engage third party vendors and service providers to perform certain functions on our behalf (such as payment processing, learning assessment, and so on). These providers only access information necessary to perform their services.

Legal Requirements: We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of 2Sigma School, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

Public Forums and Publicly Available Content: We may offer features that allow our students to share content in public or semi-public spaces. These are optional features, but if Students use them, they should do so under good judgement. Information they disclose in such areas of our Service may be read, collected, stored, or used by others. We do not systematically monitor the content of information that is published in the Public Forums.

We may share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you, for various purposes including compliance with various reporting obligations; for business or marketing purposes; or to assist third parties in understanding our users' interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain content, services, programs, advertising and promotional purposes, and/or functionality available through our Service.

CHILDREN

This section explains our information collection, disclosure, parental consent practices and parental choice procedures with respect to information provided by children under the age of 13 (“Child” or “Children”). This policy is in accordance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), and outlines our practices in the United States regarding Children's personal information. For more information about COPPA and general tips about protecting Children's online privacy, please visit OnGuard Online.

ALPS is designed for use in educational settings for students over the age of 10. Student accounts are created in partnership with schools. ALPS does not knowingly permit children to create accounts independently. Schools are responsible for ensuring appropriate parental consent under applicable laws (such as COPPA and FERPA, where relevant).

Collection: We collect information about students directly from Parents and Teachers, who provide us with the Child's first name, age, type of schooling, local time zone, and additional notes for the Teacher. In addition, Children may share information about themselves during Classes. No information is collected directly from Children until they are in the course session. Children cannot post personal data publicly on our Services.

Use and Disclosure: We share the name, age, local time zone, and any notes Parents have provided about their Child to the Class Teacher, in order to allow the Teacher to provide Classes. Children may also share information about themselves with the Teacher and the rest of their class during the Class session voluntarily. While we expect Teachers and all other Users to abide by our standards of conduct, please note that we cannot control or monitor what personal information your Child shares with Teachers or other classmates, nor what those third parties ultimately do with that information, and we disclaim all responsibility in that regard.

Parental Choices and Controls: At any time, you can refuse to permit us to collect further Personal Data from your Children in association with your account, and can request that we delete from our records the Personal Data we have collected in connection with that account. Please keep in mind that a request to delete records may lead to a termination of an account, membership, or other service. You may update your Child's information by logging onto your account. You can contact 2Sigma School to request access to, change, or delete your Child's personal information by sending an email to us at privacy@2sigma.school. A valid request to delete personal information will be accommodated within a reasonable time. In addition to the foregoing, we will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to delete personal information belonging to Children when it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected.

DATA RETENTION

We retain student and teacher data for as long as necessary to provide services and allow ongoing access to course work, unless the school requests anonymization or deletion. Data may be retained longer where legally required. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This Privacy Policy applies only to the 2Sigma School Services. The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by us (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from our Services do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.

SECURITY

We take reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Services from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be fully secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. We do not accept liability for disclosures beyond our reasonable control. You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your account credentials. For instance, never give out your password, and safeguard your user name, password and personal credentials when you are using the Services, so that other people will not have access to your Personal Data. Furthermore, you are responsible for maintaining the security of any personal computing device on which you utilize the Services.

ACCESS AND ACCURACY; CORRECTING PERSONAL DATA.

You have the right to access the Personal Data we hold about you in order to verify the Personal Data we have collected with respect to you and to have a general account of our uses of that information. Upon receipt of your written request, we will provide you with a copy of your Personal Data, although in certain limited circumstances we may not be able to make all relevant information available to you, such as where that information also pertains to another user. In such circumstances we will provide reasons for the denial to you upon request. We will endeavor to deal with all requests for access and modifications in a timely manner.

We will make every reasonable effort to keep your Personal Data accurate and up-to-date, and we will provide you with mechanisms to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. As appropriate, this amended Personal Data will be transmitted to those parties to which we are permitted to disclose your information. Having accurate Personal Data about you enables us to give you the best possible service.

In certain circumstances, you have the right:

To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you
To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate
To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We do not sell personal information. Please contact us at privacy@2sigma.school for details about exercising your rights.

COOKIE POLICY

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.

What are cookies used for?

Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” We routinely use all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas. Because these cookies are essential, they cannot be disabled.
Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage in an anonymized fashion and experiment with new features and changes on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works.
Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you're logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, when you logged in or out, and the state or history of Service tools you've used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Service to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you've customized the Service in other ways. The information these cookies collect are anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.
Targeting Cookies. Us, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device's browsing activity on other sites or services other than ours. This information may be shared with organizations outside of ours, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Services.

OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Your access to and use of our Services is subject to the Terms of Service.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy in the future, we will post or provide appropriate notice. Any non-material change (such as clarifications) to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date the change is posted, and any material changes will become effective 30 days from their posting on this page or via email to your listed email address. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Data that we have about you and your account. The date on which the latest update was made is indicated at the top of this document. We recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your reference and revisit this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Services signifies your acceptance of any changes.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about 2Sigma School's Privacy Policy or the information practices of our Services.

You may contact us via email at privacy@2sigma.school.

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