Privacy

The Core Promptbook Collects as Little as Possible.

Most Promptbook pages are static. Information you type into a task page is processed in your browser to build a prompt for you to copy.

Keep student, personnel, and other sensitive information out of Promptbook and AI workflows.

Privacy at a Glance

Task-page information stays on your device.The Promptbook uses browser-side code to assemble prompts and can carry selected course details between task pages.
You control how long shared course details stay.They last for the browser session by default. You can choose Remember on a device you control or clear the saved course information at any time.
You choose whether to send a prompt elsewhere.The Promptbook does not send prepared prompts to an AI provider for you. Community features and linked services have their own privacy practices.

Last updated: September 2026.

Core task pages

What Happens to the Information You Type?

Task pages use browser-side JavaScript to prepare prompt text. The Promptbook does not submit those task-page field values to a Promptbook server.

During your browser session

Shared course details such as a course title, college or campus, course context, course document text, priorities, and teaching-support needs may be stored in your browser's session storage. This lets those details follow you from one Promptbook task page to another and normally clears when that browser session ends.

If you choose Remember

Selecting Remember these course details on this device stores the shared course details in that browser's local storage so they can be restored in a later session. Use this only on a device you control.

Clear course information

The Clear course info control removes the Promptbook's saved shared course details from both session storage and local storage and clears those shared fields on the current page.

Page-specific information

Candidate lists, resource titles, unit topics, and similar task-specific entries are not part of the shared course profile unless a page explicitly identifies them as shared course information.

Once you paste elsewhere: if you copy a prepared prompt into an AI tool, the information you paste is then subject to that provider's policies and your institution's rules for using the tool.

Community Prompt Lab

Community Features Use External Services

The Community Prompt Lab requests an approved public prompt feed from Google Apps Script when the page opens. Google may receive ordinary technical information associated with that request under its own practices.

If you voluntarily submit a prompt, feedback, or a problem report, the information you provide is collected through Google Forms. New prompt submissions are reviewed before they appear in the public Community feed.

Publication path: submission form → private response sheet → maintainer review → approved public feed → Community page.

Use the minimum information

What Should Stay Out of These Workflows?

Avoid entering

student names or identifying details
grades, attendance, or disciplinary information
accommodation or disability information
confidential personnel information
passwords, API keys, access tokens, or private credentials
other information your college or district treats as confidential

Use instead

general course descriptions
de-identified patterns
public COR or syllabus language when appropriate
resource titles and public links
generic descriptions of student needs
approved institutional systems for protected information

Third-party services

Who Else May Handle Data?

GitHub Pages

Hosts the Promptbook and may process ordinary web-request metadata as part of serving the site.

Google services

Google Apps Script serves the approved Community feed, and Google Forms receives voluntary Community submissions and feedback.

Padlet

Padlet is click-to-load rather than automatically embedded. Its own practices apply if you choose to load or visit it.

AI tools

You decide whether and where to paste a Promptbook prompt. Review the provider's practices and your institution's current guidance before including nonpublic information.

External resource sites

OER repositories, library resources, and other linked sites have their own privacy, accessibility, and data practices.

Questions or concerns

Have a Privacy Question About the Promptbook?

Email karencrozer@gmail.com. For guidance about what is appropriate to enter into a particular institutional AI tool, follow your college or district's current rules.

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