Refresh for MyEducation BC
Privacy policy
In short: Refresh for MyEducation BC doesn’t collect or send any of your information. Everything it does happens inside your own browser, and what little it saves (your on/off choice, which reports you’ve opened, and a few details it carries between pages until you close the tab) stays in your browser on your computer.
What the add-on does
Refresh for MyEducation BC is an unofficial browser add-on that changes how the MyEducation BC parent portal (myeducation.gov.bc.ca) looks in your browser. It rearranges and restyles the pages you already see when you’re signed in. It doesn’t run on any other website.
Information it handles
To restyle a page, the add-on reads that page as your browser shows it: names, classes, forms and so on. That information stays on your computer. The add-on never copies it anywhere, never sends it to us or anyone else, and doesn’t keep it after you leave the page, apart from what’s listed below.
What it stores
- Your on/off choice, saved in your browser so it’s remembered next time.
- Which published reports you’ve opened: just each report’s ID number, never its name or contents, and how many haven’t been opened yet (for the number on the toolbar icon). It’s saved in your browser so the add-on can mark new reports.
- Details it carries from page to page, kept only for the browser tab you’re using and deleted when you close it: your children’s names, grades and schools (for the student switcher), the class or section you opened, the page you’re on and the last page that loaded (so Back, Reload and the error page take you to the right place), and the title and description of the resource pages you visit.
All of this stays in your browser on your computer. Uninstalling the add-on deletes what it saved, and closing the tab deletes the page-to-page details.
It doesn’t use cookies, analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind.
Network connections
The add-on has no server. The only outside request it makes is to load the Noto Sans typeface from Google Fonts, the same way many websites do. That request contains no information about you or your child.
Your forms and answers
When you answer a permission form, save preferences or register a student, you’re using MyEducation BC’s own buttons. Your answers go to your school district exactly as they would without the add-on. How the district handles them is covered by its own privacy policy and BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Not affiliated
Refresh for MyEducation BC is independent. It isn’t made, endorsed or supported by the Province of British Columbia, the Ministry of Education and Child Care, MyEducation BC, Follett or any school district.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions? Email refresh.scant827@simplelogin.com.