Privacy
This notice says what WithinSource stores, who can see it, and how to take it with you or delete it.
Updated November 9, 2026
Account
Creating an account stores your name, email address, and a password hash. A phone number is stored only if you add one in Settings. Joining a school stores that school membership and your role, such as student or teacher.
WithinSource does not sell personal information and does not show ads.
Questions
A signed-in question is stored with your account: the question, the answer, the books it used, and the short excerpts shown as evidence. Study guides, practice, assignments, and saved answers are stored the same way, with the school they belong to.
Public visitors
A question asked from Home without an account is not tied to you. It is stored so the answer page can be opened. Anyone with that link can read it, because it is a public-shelf answer. There is no public list of other visitors’ questions.
Schools
A teacher or school administrator can see the students, classes, and learning records of their own school. A reviewer can see evidence questions for that school. One school cannot read another school’s books or students. The public shelf is separate from every school.
Answer service
Bookie first selects passages from the books you are allowed to read. When an answer service is configured, WithinSource sends that question and those short excerpts so the answer can be checked against them. The service is not asked to search the web or to supply facts from outside those excerpts.
Your choices
From Settings you can update your profile, change your password, download your personal data, or delete the account. Deleting the account removes it, and that cannot be undone.