Who we are
Dismissal Magic is made by STEMstarters LLC, a North Carolina company ("we," "us"). This policy explains what information the Dismissal Magic website (dismissalmagic.com) and app (app.dismissalmagic.com) collect and how we use it.
Information we collect
Information a school enters when setting up:
- School name and an optional message for classroom screens
- Bus names or numbers and their colors
- Grade group names (for example, K–1, 2–3, 4–5)
- Display settings such as colors, sound and language
- A School Dashboard PIN, which is stored only in scrambled (hashed) form. We can't see it.
Dismissal activity: when staff use the School Dashboard, we store which buses arrived, which groups were called and which buses left, with the times. This live board is cleared each day. We also keep simple daily counts for each school (for example, how many buses arrived and how many groups were called that day) so we can show "Magic Dismissals" totals.
What we do not collect: student names, student IDs, rosters, photos, grades, parent contact information, or accounts for teachers or students. Classroom screens do not require a login.
If you contact us by email, we'll have your email address and whatever you include in your message, and we use it only to reply.
Information stored on your own device
To make things convenient, the app saves a few settings in your web browser's local storage on that device only:
- Which grade group a classroom screen shows
- A waiting-video link a teacher pastes in
- A list of schools recently opened on that device
- The School Dashboard PIN, only if someone checks "Keep me signed in on this device"
This information stays in that browser. You can remove it at any time by clearing your browser's site data.
Services we rely on
We use trusted providers to run Dismissal Magic. They process information only to provide their service to us:
- Cloudflare hosts the website and app and protects them from attacks.
- Supabase stores school settings and dismissal activity.
- Google Fonts provides the typefaces, which means your browser contacts Google to download them.
- YouTube plays waiting videos when a teacher chooses to add one. Videos load from YouTube's privacy-enhanced (no-cookie) player, and YouTube's own privacy policy applies to video playback.
- Stripe will process payments when paid plans are available. We will not receive or store full card numbers.
How we use information
- To run the service: show bus calls on classroom screens and keep the School Dashboard in sync
- To show schools their own Magic Dismissals count, and to understand overall usage (for example, how many schools use Dismissal Magic each week)
- To keep the service secure, such as locking the School Dashboard after repeated wrong PINs
- To respond to questions and support requests
We do not sell or rent information, and we do not use it for advertising.
Students and families
Dismissal Magic is used by school staff. Classroom screens show bus and grade group information to a class, but the service does not collect personal information from students and is not designed for students to enter information. Because we don't collect student records, we don't receive students' education records.
Keeping and deleting information
- The live dismissal board resets each day.
- A school can permanently delete itself at any time from School Dashboard → Settings → Delete this school. This erases the school's name, buses, settings and PIN.
- After a school is deleted, we keep only anonymous daily counts (such as "one dismissal on this date, 6 buses") with no school name or code attached, so they can't be linked back to the school.
- To ask us to delete anything else, email us.
Security
We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), store PINs only in hashed form, limit repeated PIN attempts, and restrict database access so that information can only be read or changed through the app. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect the information we keep.
Changes to this policy
If we make important changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, let schools know in the app.
Contact us
STEMstarters LLC
7800 Falls of Neuse Rd, #97701
Raleigh, NC 27615
[email protected]