Privacy, in plain English

SortMyClass is built around one promise: student names never leave your device. This page explains exactly what that means, what little we do measure, and what will change if ads go live. Last updated: 9 July 2026.

Your class lists stay in your browser

Everything you type into the tool — class names, student names, absences, keep-apart and keep-together rules — is saved in your browser's local storage, on your computer. It is never sent to us or to anyone else. There are no accounts, no databases, and no server that could read your lists. The tool even keeps working offline once the page has loaded.

Because the data lives in your browser: it stays on that device (a class saved on your laptop won't appear on your phone), deleting a class in the tool removes it immediately, and clearing your browser's site data wipes everything. We can't recover it — we never had it.

What we measure

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand roughly how many people visit and which pages they read. It is cookieless and doesn't profile or track individuals across sites — we see counts, not people. It never sees anything you type into the tool.

The site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which, like any web host, briefly processes technical request data (such as IP addresses) to deliver pages and protect against abuse.

Ads and consent

To keep SortMyClass free, we plan to show ads via Google AdSense on the tool's setup screen and on our articles — never in presentation mode. When ads go live, visitors in the UK and EEA will first see Google's certified consent message and can decline personalised advertising. Two things won't change: your class lists are never used for ads, and nothing you type is shared with advertisers.

Children

SortMyClass is written for teachers and other adults. Students' names typed by a teacher stay on the teacher's device, as described above.

Questions

SortMyClass holds none of your data, so there is nothing on our side to request, correct, or delete — your class lists exist only in your browser, entirely under your control. If anything on this page is unclear, you can email hello@sortmyclass.com. If we ever change how the site handles data, this page will say so, with the date updated at the top.