Privacy Policy

About this policy

Rikudemy is a learning platform that combines self-paced classes for purchase and LMS (learning management system) classes, operated directly by its developer and not yet a registered legal entity. Rikudemy is also still in early development. This policy explains what data we actually collect today and how we use it, not a generic promise that does not match the service's real state.

Account data

When you create an account with an email address and password, we store:

• The name you registered with
• Your email address
• Your password, to verify your identity when you sign in
• Your role on the platform, for example student or instructor
• Your account status, including whether your email is verified and whether your account is still active

If you sign in with Google

When you choose "Sign in with Google", we request the openid, email, and profile scopes from Google. From that permission, we only read and store the name and email address Google provides, as your account data on Rikudemy.

The profile scope technically allows access to additional data such as your profile photo, but our Google sign-in code today does not read or store your profile photo. A photo you upload yourself to your profile is stored and shown publicly on your profile, and you can remove it at any time.

Learning progress data

For classes you join, we record which materials you have marked complete, so you can see your learning progress in that class.

Cookies we use

We use a few cookies to make Rikudemy work:

• A session cookie, so you stay signed in while using Rikudemy
• Temporary cookies during the Google sign-in process, deleted automatically once that process finishes
• A language preference cookie, to remember your choice of Indonesian or English

We do not set advertising cookies or third-party tracking cookies for analytics.

How we use your data

We use the data above to run your account and sign-in session, show your learning progress, and send emails you need to receive, such as email verification and password reset. We do not use your data for advertising and we do not sell it to anyone.

Sharing data with others

• Google, only when you choose to sign in with Google, to verify your identity.
• YouTube, because class videos are displayed through YouTube's youtube-nocookie.com domain. That domain is designed to reduce tracking, but the video playback request still reaches YouTube's servers, so YouTube's own privacy policy applies to that request.
• We do not work with advertisers, do not run third-party analytics scripts, and do not sell your data to anyone.

Files, assignments, and grading

Material files uploaded by instructors and assignment files submitted by students are kept in private object storage and are not served from public addresses. A file can only be downloaded through a temporary link that is valid for about two minutes and is issued only to people who are allowed to see it.

Your submission can be seen only by you and the instructor who owns the class, not by other students. Your grade and the instructor's feedback are visible only to you.

For assignments graded with the help of AI, your written answer and the text of any PDF, Word, or Excel files you submit are sent to DeepSeek, a third-party AI service, only to grade that assignment. Instructors can also ask for rubric suggestions, and in that case the assignment instructions are sent to the same service. We keep the grading result and the number of tokens used, not another copy of your submission on that service. DeepSeek handles data under its own policy.

The AI does not read images or ZIP files. Instructors can review and change an AI grade. In draft mode, students do not see a grade until the instructor approves it.

Payment

Rikudemy does not yet process any payment, so we do not collect card data or other financial data.

Data storage

Rikudemy is still in early development. Right now, all the data above is only stored in our application server's memory, not in a permanent database, so it is lost every time our application server restarts.

Because of that, please do not rely on your account or learning progress on Rikudemy as something permanent for now, and you may need to register again later. We also recommend you do not reuse a password from another important account of yours during this development stage.

Your rights over your data

You can contact us at any time to ask about, request correction of, or request deletion of your data. Since Rikudemy does not yet have a settings page for deleting your own account, we process this kind of request manually by email.

Changes to this policy

Because Rikudemy is under continuous development, this policy may change from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.

Contact us

If you have a question about this privacy policy or your data, contact us by email.