FERPA & SECURITY

How PULSE handles
student data.

FERPA-compliant. Built on SOC-2 infrastructure. Student data is never sold, never used to train AI, never accessed beyond what's needed to serve your district.

✓ FERPA Compliant

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

PULSE is designed to support FERPA compliance, not burden it. When PULSE is used by a school district, the district is the responsible educational agency. The Inclusive Practice, LLC acts as a "school official" providing services under the district's direction.

✓ SOC-2 Infrastructure

Built on SOC-2 certified infrastructure

PULSE runs on infrastructure providers that maintain SOC-2 Type II certification — including Supabase (database & auth), Vercel (hosting), and Stripe (payments). Each is bound by a data processing agreement.

Our data principles

What we do — and what we won't ever do.

We don't store full student records.

PULSE stores only the service-delivery data needed to calculate workload and verify schedule compliance. We do not store Social Security numbers, medical records, psychological evaluations, or Protected Health Information.

Your district owns your data.

Student data entered into PULSE is owned by the district, not by The Inclusive Practice, LLC. Districts may request deletion of all student data at any time.

We never sell your data.

We don't share student data with third parties except as required by law or as directed by the district. We don't use student data for advertising. We don't build student profiles for any non-educational purpose.

We never train AI on your data.

Student data is never used to train AI models without explicit, separate consent. The AI features in PULSE (PLAAFP draft assistance, schedule extraction) operate on individual student records to produce outputs for that student only — never to learn from across districts.

Encryption in transit and at rest.

TLS encryption in transit. AES-256 encryption at rest via Supabase. Row-level security ensures users only access their own organization's data. We notify affected users promptly in the event of a data breach.

Uploaded documents are processed in memory only.

When providers upload weekly schedules or bell schedules, those files are processed in memory to extract structured scheduling data and are never stored, saved to disk, or retained after processing. Any student names that appear in uploaded documents are never read, recorded, or stored.

DPAs available on request.

Districts in states with specific edtech privacy requirements (including California, New York, Colorado, Virginia, Texas, and Connecticut) may request a Data Processing Agreement. Contact us below.

Questions about how we handle student data?

If you're a parent, district administrator, or compliance officer, we're happy to answer specific questions about our data practices, share copies of our DPA, or walk through our security setup.

eric@theinclusivepractice.com

See also: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service