Security & safeguarding

The shortest security review you’ll run this year.

Not because we cut corners — because there is very little to review. Chalktap has no camera, keeps no recordings unless someone deliberately makes one, and doesn’t need the network to do its job.

No camera

The board app never accesses a camera, on any platform. There is no face sign-in and no video capture of a room.

No listening

The microphone is used only while someone holds dictation open, or during a narrated replay they started. Never in the background.

Works offline

Boards are written locally first. A room with no internet is still a room that can teach or meet.

No accounts for guests

Joining by code needs no profile, no email and no personal data from a pupil or a visitor.

02 — What data exists

Five kinds of data, and where each one lives.

If it isn’t in this table, Chalktap doesn’t collect it. There is no analytics on what gets written, no content scanning, and no third-party advertising or tracking of any kind.

What data Chalktap holds, where it lives and how long it is kept
DATAWHAT IT ISWHERE IT LIVESRETENTION
Board contentStrokes, shapes, notes and text — whatever was drawn on the board.On the display; synced to your tenancy if you enable sync.Until deleted by a user.
Stroke historyThe order strokes were made in, which is what replay reconstructs.Beside the board it belongs to.Kept with the board; deleted with it.
Assistant promptsThe question asked, and the region of the board it was asked about.Sent to the assistant service to answer; not used for training.Not retained after the answer.
Dictated speechAudio captured only while the dictation control is open.Turned into text, then discarded.No audio is stored, ever.
Enquiries you send usYour name, work email, company, country and anything you type into a form on this website.Stored in the United States. Used only to answer you.Kept until the enquiry is closed.
03 — Safeguarding

Written for rooms with children in them.

Education was the first market and it set the rules the whole product follows. Nothing here changes when the same build is sold into a boardroom.

A child is never identified

Pupils join a board with a four-character code. No name, no email, no photograph, no device registration.

Recording is visible and deliberate

Replay only runs when a teacher starts it, shows a live indicator the whole time it’s running, and captures strokes — not the room.

Narration says so, out loud

Voice is off by default. Turning it on shows the consent wording — “the class is not filmed; there is no camera” — before anything is captured.

04 — For IT and security

The technical answers, up front.

Enough to fill in most questionnaires without a call. If your process needs a signed document, ask and we’ll send the current one.

Transport

TLS 1.3 for everything that leaves a device. Boards at rest are encrypted in your tenancy.

Hosting and region

Regional hosting, chosen per deployment. Sync can be disabled entirely for air-gapped estates.

Identity

SSO for staff accounts. Guests join by code with no identity at all.

Network requirements

Outbound HTTPS only. No inbound ports, no local server, no agent on the panel.

The assistant’s boundary

It sees only the region a person asked about, only when they ask, and can write nothing without an explicit accept.

Updates

Panel builds are versioned files you control. Nothing auto-updates behind an estate’s back.

Send us your questionnaire.

We’d rather answer a real form than publish a vague summary. Most come back the same week, and hard questions get a human, not a template.