1. Who we are
Surefoot (“Surefoot”, “we”, “us”) is a free safety education website operated from the State of New Jersey, United States. This policy applies to the Surefoot website and its features (the “Service”) and should be read with our Terms of Use.
2. Information that stays in your browser
Some features save information in your own browser’s storage on your device so they work when you come back. This information is not sent to Surefoot:
- My plan: the people, code word, ways home, support details and words you save;
- Lesson progress: which lessons you practiced and what you may want to revisit;
- Coach preferences, such as shorter answers or a practice focus;
- Parent phrases and edited conversation starters on the For parents page;
- whether you chose to share anonymous practice counts.
Anyone with access to your browser may be able to see this information. Clearing your browser data removes it, and you can also clear your plan, progress and preferences with the buttons on those pages.
3. What you send to the Coach
When you ask the Coach a question, or ask it to reword a phrase, your text is sent to AI models that draft and check the answer. By default these models run on Cloudflare Workers AI, the service that hosts Surefoot. When Cloudflare’s daily free allowance is used up, your text is sent instead to Groq, a backup AI provider, until the allowance resets. Each provider processes your text under its own terms. If we add or change providers, we choose settings that do not allow them to keep or train on your text where the provider offers them, and we update this policy.
Surefoot does not store the text of your question or of the answer. Clearing the conversation removes it from the page. Because AI providers process what you type, please do not include names, phone numbers, addresses or other identifying details about you or anyone else.
Messages that sound like an emergency are answered with fixed emergency guidance without being sent to an AI model.
4. What Surefoot keeps
To run, protect and improve the Service, Surefoot keeps a small amount of information that does not include your name, your words or your plan:
- Coach answer records (kept for 90 days): the general topic of a question, the kind of answer shown, automated check scores, how long it took, and any feedback button you press (such as “Helpful” or “Not relevant”);
- Usage limits (kept for one day): a daily counter stored under a scrambled, one-way version of your network address that changes every day, so the free Coach is not overused;
- Anonymous practice counts (kept up to 180 days), only if you turn on sharing: right and wrong totals per lesson, with nothing that identifies you;
- Page feedback: daily totals of the optional “Was this useful?” and “What would you like to practice next?” buttons;
- Technical logs (kept for 90 days): errors and timing information about the Service and its AI models, without the content of your messages.
This information is used to keep the Service working, prevent abuse, and find lessons and answers that need improvement. Your conversations are not used as training examples.
5. Hosting and technical information
Surefoot is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any website, delivering pages means your browser shares technical information such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you request with our hosting provider, which processes it to deliver and secure the Service under its own privacy policy. Surefoot does not use this information to identify you.
6. Cookies
Surefoot does not use advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. The only cookie is a sign-in cookie used by the site owner on the private admin page. Visitors do not receive it.
7. AI-generated content and trusted resources
Lessons, coach answers, suggested wording, images and narration on Surefoot may be generated by AI. AI-generated images are labeled. Our automated checks reduce mistakes but cannot rule them out, and information can become out of date. Please use the trusted resources on Surefoot and your college’s official sources to confirm anything important, and check Surefoot again for up-to-date information. As explained in our Terms of Use, Surefoot and its owners and creators are not responsible for the misuse of its content or for advice that is misguided or mistaken.
8. Other websites
Surefoot links to independent organizations and resources. When you visit them, their own privacy policies apply. We are not responsible for their practices.
9. Logos, trademarks and images
All logos, trademarks and copyrighted images of other organizations shown on Surefoot belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify those organizations. Their use does not imply endorsement of Surefoot.
10. Sharing and selling
We do not sell your information, share it for advertising, or use it for targeted ads. We may disclose information we hold only if required by law, or to protect the safety of people or the Service. Because we do not keep your words or identity, there is very little we could disclose.
11. Children
Surefoot is designed for college students (18 and older) and for parents and trusted adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
12. Your choices and rights
- You can use Surefoot without giving us any personal information.
- You can clear everything stored in your browser at any time.
- Sharing practice counts and pressing feedback buttons are optional.
Depending on where you live, including New Jersey, you may have rights to ask what personal data we hold, to correct or delete it, or to opt out of certain uses. Because Surefoot does not keep names, messages or accounts, we usually cannot connect any stored record to you, but you are welcome to contact us with any request or question and we will respond as the law requires.
13. Security
We keep what we store to a minimum and protect the Service with reasonable safeguards, including encrypted connections. No website or storage method is completely secure, so please avoid sharing identifying details.
14. New Jersey
Surefoot is operated from New Jersey, and this policy is governed by New Jersey law, as described in our Terms of Use.
15. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as Surefoot changes. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed. Please check this page from time to time.
16. Contact
Questions or requests about privacy: proximitymatch@gmail.com.