Kronos
Privacy Policy
The short version: Kronos signs in to your school's systems directly from your iPhone or iPad. Your sign-in and grades stay on your devices. Kronos has no accounts, ads, analytics or tracking. The only thing that reaches our server is your class schedule for the Lock Screen countdown, and it's deleted after school.
This policy covers Kronos: Grades & Planner ("Kronos"), made by PC Innovations, Inc. ("we", "us").
What stays on your device
Kronos connects straight from your device to your school's Home Access Center, Schoology and Canvas. We never receive or see:
- Your school user names, passwords and sign-in sessions. These are kept in your device's Keychain and only sent to your school's own sign-in pages.
- Your grades, assignments, class schedule, transcript, report cards, attendance and GPA.
- Your planner, to-dos, flashcards, focus sessions, goals, notes and settings.
- Photos you choose for the Home screen.
If you turn on "Remember My School Sign-In" for Schoology or Canvas, the user name and password you type on your school's single sign-on page are saved in the Keychain, so Kronos can sign you back in when the school's session ends. Turning it off deletes them.
What reaches our server
Only if you use the class countdown (the Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island), Kronos sends our push server (push.pc-innov.com, hosted by Cloudflare) what it needs to move the countdown to the next class at each bell:
- The day's class names, rooms, period names and bell times, and the bell schedule's name. With "Start Automatically" on, the same for the coming week's school days.
- Push tokens that Apple creates for the countdown, which let our server send it updates through the Apple Push Notification service.
This doesn't include your name, student ID, grades, school sign-in or Apple Account, and we don't connect it to who you are. We use it only to send those updates. Each day's copy is deleted about an hour after its last update, and an earlier copy is deleted as soon as Kronos sends a newer one (for example, when you change your bell schedule or turn the countdown off). If sending an update fails, that copy is kept for up to one day so we can find out why.
Other services Kronos uses
- Your school's systems (Home Access Center, Schoology, Canvas) receive your sign-in and requests from your device, just as they would from a web browser. Their own privacy policies apply.
- Apple Maps receives your school's name when Kronos looks up a photo of your school.
- Calendar and Reminders: if you turn on syncing, Kronos adds due dates and to-dos to the calendar or list you choose. If that calendar belongs to an account like Google or iCloud, that service stores them.
- Notifications about grades and classes are created on your device.
Kronos contains no third-party analytics, advertising or tracking code. We don't sell or share your information.
Diagnostics
Kronos keeps a short technical log on your device to help fix problems. It never leaves your device unless you share it yourself from Developer Mode.
Children
Kronos is made for students, including students under 13. We don't collect personal information from children: the only information that reaches our server is described above, isn't connected to anyone's identity, and is deleted after the school day. A parent or guardian with questions can contact us at the address below.
Your choices
- If you don't put the countdown on your Lock Screen (from Today) and leave "Start Automatically" off in Account, nothing is sent to our server.
- Remove a school account in Kronos to delete its sign-in and grades from your device. Deleting Kronos deletes everything it stored.
- Turn on "Require Face ID" to lock Kronos when you leave it.
Security
Kronos uses encrypted connections (HTTPS) for everything it sends and stores sign-ins in the Keychain.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll post the new version here with a new effective date.
Contact
PC Innovations, Inc.
eric@pc-innov.com