Privacy policy

Stediis is a teaching and assessment platform provided by Teqxa, Accra, Ghana ("we", "us").

Each school using Stediis decides what its students and staff do in it, and is responsible for that information. We look after it on the school's behalf and follow its instructions. For information about your Stediis account itself, and for people who use this website or contact us, we are responsible.

• Account details: your name, email address, phone number if you give one, and a protected (hashed) form of your password.
• School details: for students, your student ID, programme, batch and level; for staff, your role and the courses you teach.
• Learning records: courses you're enrolled in, your answers and attempts, uploaded work, marks, comments and results.
• What you post: announcements, discussions, replies and poll votes.
• Secure Mode events: when an attempt was left, a screenshot was taken, or it was opened on another device, so lecturers can review them.
• Device information: for notifications, a push token and your phone's model name; and basic technical logs such as IP addresses, used for security and to stop abuse.
• Payments: for schools that pay, the plan, amount, date and receipt. Card and mobile money details are handled by Paystack and never reach us.
• Messages you send us through the contact form.

We don't use advertising trackers, and we don't sell personal information.

• To run Stediis for your school: courses, assessments, marking, results and messages.
• To confirm your identity: verification codes by email and SMS, and protection against misuse.
• To send the notifications and emails you need, such as new quizzes, results and password resets. You choose which notifications reach your phone.
• To bill schools and keep payment records.
• To keep the service secure, fix problems and improve it.

Within Stediis, information is shared only as the school sets it up: for example, lecturers see the work of students in their courses, and administrators see their school's students and staff.

We use these providers to run Stediis. Each processes information only to provide its service to us:

• Supabase, for the database, sign-in and file storage.
• Vercel, to host the website.
• Resend, to send email.
• Sailup, to send SMS codes.
• Paystack, to take payments.
• Expo, Apple and Google (Firebase Cloud Messaging), to deliver notifications to phones.

Some of these providers store or process information outside Ghana. We choose providers that protect it to a standard that meets Ghana's data protection law.

We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect people's safety.

• Your account and school records: for as long as your school uses Stediis.
• After graduation: graduates keep access to their courses for the time their school chooses, within its plan.
• Course discussions and polls: removed 14 days after a course's run ends.
• Courses that stay unused: flagged to their lecturers and removed, with their files, after a warning.
• Payment records: as long as tax and accounting law requires.
• Materials saved on a phone: removed from the phone when you sign out.

Under Ghana's Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), you can ask to see the information held about you, to have it corrected, and in some cases to have it deleted or to object to how it's used.

Because your school is responsible for your school records, please contact your school first about them. For your Stediis account, or if your school can't help, contact us. You can also complain to the Data Protection Commission of Ghana.

Information is sent over encrypted connections and stored with access controls, so people see only what their role allows. Passwords are stored in a form that can't be read back. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach that affects you, we'll tell your school and, where required, the authorities.

Stediis is meant for tertiary schools. If a school enrols students under 18, the school is responsible for having the consent the law requires.

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and let schools know before the change takes effect.

Questions about privacy: send us a message.