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<h1>Sentence Workshop — Privacy</h1><p>Updated 18 October 2026.</p>
<p>Sentence Workshop is a grammar practice app. Sentence checking happens in your browser using rules. There is no AI checking, advertising or analytics.</p>
<h2>Google sign-in and saved progress</h2><p>Google sign-in is required to use the course. Students complete the Introduction and Chapters 1–6 in order, passing each section review before the next chapter opens. The app receives your Google account identifier, name and email. The email identifies the account on screen. The name, account identifier, sentence and parts-of-speech identification attempts, task requirements, scores, corrections, chapter access, lesson readiness, review attempts, recovery practice, paused reviews and current activity are saved in Google Drive’s hidden application-data folder and in an account-specific local browser cache. The app requests access to application data, not general access to your ordinary Drive documents.</p>
<p>Browser-only work from the former open testing mode remains in its separate local testing profile. It is not automatically selected or uploaded to Google. Existing Google progress and account-specific caches are retained. Clearing browser data removes local testing work and account caches.</p>
<p>The app keeps its Google access token in memory during the session and does not save that token in browser storage or backups. It asks you to select your Google account on each visit. Work is synchronized to the same Google account on another supported device. Use one active device or tab at a time. Signing out hides the account and its work; the account-specific cache remains on this browser so an interrupted save can be recovered after signing in again. Clearing browser storage deletes that local cache.</p>
<p>While signed in, a student can explicitly import a backup containing only their own profile. A class backup containing multiple profiles cannot be uploaded to one Google account. Save backup contains only the signed-in account’s profile. The Progress backup menu is available only while signed in.</p>
<p>First submitted answers and original skipped/unscored review questions are retained, including when a replacement question is used. Earned progress is preserved when later work is weaker. A teacher-help suggestion after repeated unsuccessful reviews does not send messages or share records with a teacher.</p>
<h2>Class progress reporting</h2><p>When you open your teacher’s IP5/8 or IP5/9 class link and sign in, the app automatically sends your name, email, account identifier, overall completion, Introduction and chapter readiness/pass status, checked-answer count and latest activity to that class’s private Google Sheet through Google Apps Script. The Sheet contains a current student summary and a history of updates. Reports do not contain your sentence text, individual answers or Google access token. A class message on screen shows whether reporting is waiting or confirmed. Failed updates are cached separately by account and class and retried while the app is open; Sync now also retries them. Using the ordinary site without a class link does not send class reports.</p>
<p>Class reports are summaries of your saved personal course progress, including work completed before joining the class link. Like FactFlow’s reporting links, these links select a destination; they do not provide secure class enrollment or independently verified marks. Teachers control access to the Sheets. Contact your teacher to correct or remove a class report; clearing personal app data does not delete records already sent to a class Sheet.</p>
<h2>Where information goes</h2><p>Google handles sign-in and stores synchronized progress and class reports. Sentence Workshop uses its own Google OAuth configuration, named application-data files and separate class reporting Sheets. It does not read or change FactFlow progress. There is no separate application database.</p>
<h2>Your choices</h2><p>You can save a JSON backup, sign out, remove the app’s access through your Google account permissions, clear browser data, or remove application data through Google Drive’s app-management settings. Removing access does not by itself guarantee deletion of already saved data. Removing application data deletes saved cloud progress; save a backup first. Ask your teacher before doing this on a school account.</p>
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