StudyPilot Privacy Policy
StudyPilot is a browser extension that helps students study from their own Canvas courses. This policy explains what it reads, where that information is kept, and what is shared. In short: StudyPilot has no server. Your information stays in your browser and, if you sign in, in a private folder in your own Google Drive.
What StudyPilot reads
- Canvas: your courses, assignments, due dates, grades, modules, pages, files, announcements and your own submissions, read with your existing Canvas login. StudyPilot only reads; it never submits, posts or changes anything in Canvas. It never opens quizzes, tests or outside tools, and skips locked items.
- Optional connections you turn on: Gradescope (your own submissions and graded copies), your school's lecture video site (captions of recordings you can watch), JupyterHub (your notebooks), and a private calendar link (only busy times, not event names). Each is read with your own login on that site, only after you connect it.
- The page you ask about: when you choose "Explain this page", the text of the Canvas page you're on.
Where your information is kept
- In your browser: course data, lecture text, practice questions and progress, grade calculators and settings are stored locally by the extension.
- In your Google Drive (only if you sign in): a copy of your StudyPilot data is saved in Drive's private app data folder, so it can sync between your computers. Only StudyPilot can open this folder, and it doesn't appear among your Drive files.
- Also only in your browser: your search index, focus-timer history, change alerts and to-do marks. Search runs on your own computer; what you search for is never sent anywhere.
- Downloads: files and backups you ask for are saved to your computer's Downloads folder.
Google user data
- Google Drive (
drive.appdata): used only to store and read StudyPilot's own sync file in your private app data folder. StudyPilot cannot see your other Drive files. - Google Calendar (only if you turn it on): used only to read your busy times to plan study sessions around them, and to add the study sessions and deadlines you choose to add. Events StudyPilot creates are labeled so they can be removed without touching your other events.
- StudyPilot's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google data is never sold, never used for advertising, never used to train AI models, and never transferred to anyone else.
What is shared
- Nothing is sent to StudyPilot's developers. There is no StudyPilot server, analytics or tracking.
- Your AI assistant: when you ask for a quiz, study guide or plan, StudyPilot prepares the request and opens the AI you chose (for example ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot). The content is sent to that AI only when you send it there yourself. That service's own privacy policy applies to what you send it.
- Fonts: StudyPilot's panel loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which receives the standard information any web request includes (such as your IP address), but no StudyPilot data.
- Notifications (only if you turn them on) are shown by Chrome on your computer.
- Information is not sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers.
Your choices
- Turn any connection off in StudyPilot's Settings, or remove the extension at any time.
- Delete local data: Settings → Data & privacy → Clear all StudyPilot data, or remove the extension.
- Delete synced data: sign out in Settings → Account & sync, then in Google Drive open Settings → Manage apps → StudyPilot → Options → Delete hidden app data.
- Remove Google access: visit your Google Account's third-party access page and remove StudyPilot.
Children
StudyPilot is intended for college and university students and is not directed to children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions: connoralabianco@gmail.com, or see the support page.