Privacy policy

The goal checker runs in your browser

The IEP goal checker is written entirely in the code of this page. When you paste a goal and press check, the analysis happens on your own device. The text is never transmitted to a server, never stored, and never seen by us or anyone else.

You can verify this yourself: load the page, disconnect from the internet, and the checker will still work.

Your email address

If you ask for one of the printable PDF guides, we collect your first name and email address in order to send you that file. We also record which guide you requested, so we know which resources parents find useful.

We use that address to send the PDF you asked for and occasional emails about IEP preparation resources. Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes you from all of them.

We do not sell, rent, trade or share your email address. It is not passed to advertisers, data brokers, schools or districts.

What we never ask about

This is deliberate rather than incidental. There is no field anywhere on this site asking for a child's name, age, diagnosis, eligibility category, school or district. We do not ask, so we cannot store it, and it cannot be exposed if something goes wrong.

The tools were built to be useful before you have to trust anyone with anything.

Cookies and analytics

This site sets no cookies at all. It does not use advertising cookies, does not run cross-site tracking, and does not build a profile of you.

We measure how many people visit using Cloudflare Web Analytics, which was chosen specifically because it is cookieless. It records page views, referring sites and general country, and it does not fingerprint your device or follow you to other websites. We can see that a page was viewed. We cannot see who viewed it.

Our web host also keeps standard server access logs — the kind every web server keeps — containing IP addresses and requested pages, retained for a limited period for security and troubleshooting.

Fonts and a stylesheet library are loaded from third-party content delivery networks, which necessarily receive the request. We do not send them any information about you.

How your information is stored

Email addresses are held with our email service provider under their standard security arrangements. Access is limited to the founder. We keep addresses until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.

Your choices

• Unsubscribe using the link in any email, at any time.
• Ask for deletion by emailing [email protected]. We will remove your address and confirm when it is done.
• Ask what we hold about you, and we will tell you.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional statutory rights over your personal data. We will honour any such request regardless of jurisdiction.

Children

These tools are directed at parents, guardians and adult professionals, not at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with an email address, contact us and we will delete it.

Not legal advice

NestIEP provides general information about the special education process. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for a special education advocate, an attorney, or your child's IEP team. Nothing on this site should be read as a statement about whether any school or district has met its legal obligations.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, we will update the date at the top of this page. If the change affects how we use email addresses already collected, we will say so by email before it takes effect.

Contact

NestIEP is operated by STEAM Inventors, Columbus, Georgia, United States.

Questions about this policy go to [email protected] and reach a person, not a queue.