Privacy

Alta Council is operated by Alta Business Solutions. Privacy questions go to martez@altacouncil.com, and a person answers them.

Only what the product needs to work:

• Account details. Your name, email address, and a hashed password.
• Your school profile. School name, state, model, grade span, enrollment, and any optional context you add so advisors can ground their answers.
• Your sessions. The questions you ask, the notes you type during a session, the advisor responses, and the record you close with.
• Facts about your school that you confirmed. A fact enters your record when you type it, or when you keep one Alta proposed. Alta proposes facts from a note or a document you filed, and, when you close a session, from the notes you typed in it. Alta files none on its own. Each one shows where it came from and how old it is, and you can remove any of them in one click. See the security and data page for how this works.
• Your records. What you file in Sources: documents you upload (Word, Excel, PDF, text, Markdown, or CSV), notes you paste or type, and figures you type. For a document, Alta keeps the text it reads, not the file. A document you upload is visible only to you unless you choose otherwise, and each note records who may read it. You can remove a document: it leaves new work and search at once, work already written from it says so, and its stored text is kept with your records until your account is deleted. Alta also keeps your priorities and obligations, your decisions and commitments, the drafts it prepares, each weekly briefing, and the approval ledger that records who approved what and when.
• People you record. The name, organization, responsibility, and, if you give it, the work email address of a person who owes your school an update, such as a contact at your business-services provider. They have no account, and they receive nothing unless you approve a specific message to them. You are responsible for having the right to record a colleague’s work contact details.
• Ordinary server logs. IP address, browser type, and timestamps, kept by the hosting provider.

Nothing is collected from you by tracking. There are no analytics scripts, no advertising pixels, and no third-party trackers on this site.

Alta Council is for leadership decisions and does not need information about individual students. Do not enter personally identifiable student information or records covered by FERPA. Alta Council is not acting as a school official under FERPA.

This matters most for the notes you type during a session. When you close the session, Alta reads those notes to propose facts for you to keep or discard.

To prepare your weekly briefings and the work you ask for, to run the Council, to keep your written records available to you, to send you account email such as sign-in links and, once you authorize it, your Monday briefing and Friday wrap-up, and to answer you when you write in. Alta sends no message to anyone else on your behalf.

Your own past sessions are used to answer your later ones. Decisions you have closed, and the facts your council has filed about your school, are put in front of the advisors when you bring a related question. That is the product working as intended, and it is the reason a fourth session is better than a first.

Your data is not sold, not rented, and not used for advertising. There is no marketing list. One school’s sessions are never used to answer another school’s questions, and no model is trained on your sessions.

Four service providers, each doing one job: Anthropic generates the advisor responses, Supabase hosts the database, Vercel serves the site, and Resend delivers transactional email. What each one receives is set out on the security and data page.

Beyond those, your information is disclosed only if the law requires it.

For as long as your account is open. The value of a decision record is that it is still there months later when somebody asks why.

Anything your council has filed about your school can be removed by you, from the council page, without writing to anybody. A removed fact stops being shown to you and stops being sent to the advisors.

Write to martez@altacouncil.com to get a copy of your data, correct it, or have your account and everything in it deleted. Deletion is completed within thirty days. You do not have to give a reason.

Alta Council is for school administrators. It is not directed to children and accounts are not knowingly created for anyone under 18.

If this policy changes in a way that affects you, the date at the top changes and account holders are told by email. Changes are not made retroactively to data already collected.