Privacy Policy

🏫 Who we are

Hebrew From Zero is a one-on-one Hebrew tutoring service operated by Danny Gossels. Our student portal is available at app.learnhebrewfromzero.com and our marketing site at learnhebrewfromzero.com.

For any privacy questions, contact us at: hebrewfromzeroacademy@gmail.com

📋 What data we collect

When you create a student account or use the portal, we may collect:

• Your name and email address
• Your timezone (to schedule lessons correctly)
• Lesson history and booking records
• Notes and homework your teacher writes during lessons
• Payment records (lesson credit balance)

If you connect your Google Calendar (optional), we additionally access your Google Calendar data as described below.

📅 Google Calendar data

The portal offers an optional Google Calendar integration. If you choose to connect your Google account, we request the following permissions:

• View your calendars (calendar.readonly) — so you can select which calendar to use for lesson events
• Manage your calendar events (calendar.events) — to create lesson events in your calendar when a lesson is booked, and to remove them when a lesson is cancelled or rescheduled

We use this access only to create, update, and delete lesson events on your behalf. We do not read, store, or share any other events from your calendar. We never sell or transfer your Google data to third parties.

You can disconnect Google Calendar at any time from your account settings. Disconnecting revokes our access immediately.

Our use of Google user data complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

🔒 How we protect your data

Your data is stored in a hosted PostgreSQL database with row-level security, so each account can only ever read its own records. Access tokens for Google Calendar are stored encrypted server-side and are never exposed to the browser or to third parties.

All Google Calendar API calls are made through a secure server-side intermediary rather than from your browser, so your credentials never pass through the client application directly.

🤝 How we use your data

We use your data solely to:

• Schedule, manage, and track your Hebrew lessons
• Send lesson reminders by email (24 hours before each lesson)
• Create and manage Google Calendar events for your lessons (if you connect Google Calendar)
• Maintain your lesson history and homework notes

We do not sell your data or use it for advertising. We do use website analytics on our public website to understand how people find us — see Cookies below.

🌍 Data sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties, except:

• Our database provider — stores your account and lesson data
• Google — only when you have explicitly connected your Google Calendar
• Our email provider — used only to send lesson reminder emails to your address
• Our payment provider (Stripe) — when you pay for lessons. We never see or store your card details
• Our website analytics provider — aggregate visitor statistics for our public website only. It never receives your account or lesson data
• Our payment provider — when you book a live session, to take the payment securely
• Our hosting provider — hosts our website and portal, and provides cookie-free traffic statistics

✅ Your rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your account and data
• Disconnect Google Calendar access at any time from your account settings

To exercise any of these rights, email us at hebrewfromzeroacademy@gmail.com and we'll respond within 7 days.

🍪 Cookies

The student portal uses cookies only for authentication, to keep you logged in, and for payment security when you check out. These are essential: the portal cannot work without them.

Our public website uses a website analytics service, which sets cookies to measure how many people visit and which pages they read. We use this only as aggregate statistics to improve the site. It is not linked to your account, and we do not use it for advertising or sell it to anyone.

We do not use advertising, retargeting, or cross-site tracking cookies anywhere.

You can block or delete cookies at any time in your browser settings, or opt out of website analytics entirely using this browser add-on. Blocking them will not stop you using the website, though the portal needs its login cookie to keep you signed in.

📬 Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us at:

hebrewfromzeroacademy@gmail.com