Privacy Policy

Your account. The email address you sign up with, and — if you sign in with Google — the basic profile Google returns. Kampos requests only your email and identity from Google, nothing else in your account.

Your lectures. The transcript of each lecture — produced live in your browser as the lecture happens, or extracted from a document you upload — plus the summaries, key points, lessons, flashcards and study sets built from it. Kampos never receives or stores audio (see “How transcription works” below).

Your uploads. Kampos accepts PDFs, PowerPoint and Word files, and text files, not audio. Files you upload as a lecture, the syllabus, slides and readings you add as course materials, and a study guide you add when building a study set, are read on your device: only their text is saved, and the files themselves are never uploaded. (Before September 30, 2026, a PDF uploaded as a lecture was sent to private storage to be read; see “Keeping and deleting”.)

Your notes. Notes you type in Kampos during a lecture, along with the time in the lecture each line was written and any marks you add (such as “important” or “on the exam”).

Your courses. Course names, instructor names and topics you enter yourself, and how each course is set up: what's graded and how much, exam and assignment dates, the week-by-week plan, your class days, and the steps, questions and ticked-off readings you add. If you set a course up from its syllabus, Kampos also keeps what the syllabus says about it — the instructor's office hours and email address, and the syllabus's own sentences about recording, AI use and attendance, which are shown to you and never enforced. Kampos does not connect to your school's learning management system (such as Canvas) and never asks for access tokens to school systems.

The game and Friends. Your study coins, the items and chests you've earned or bought with coins, your quest progress and Kam's look. If you use Friends: your display name and username, your friend code, your friends, blocks and reports, cheers, and the study sets you've shared. These are used to run the game and Friends, and are included when you export or delete your account.

Usage data. Records of when you review material, used to work out what you know well and what needs another pass; a count of the AI features you use each month, which is how the free plan's allowance works; and basic product analytics collected through our hosting platform — which pages you open, how long a session lasts and the page that referred you — so we can see what is used and what breaks. If something in Kampos crashes while you're signed in, an error report is saved: the error message, the page it happened on and your browser type, never your lectures or notes. None of this is shared with advertisers.

Billing records. If you buy Premium, your payment is handled by Stripe. Kampos never sees or stores your card number. We keep your plan, its dates, and a record of the billing terms you agreed to at checkout.

Consent records. Which version of these terms you accepted and when, and your confirmation that you checked your instructor's policy before your first lecture.

When you press record, your browser's built-in speech recognition turns what the microphone hears into text as it happens. That recognition is run by the company that makes your browser — Google for Chrome, Microsoft for Edge, Apple for Safari — on their servers or on your device depending on the browser, under that company's own privacy policy. The audio is never sent to, or stored by, Kampos. Kampos receives only the text, which you can correct as it appears.

Kampos opens the microphone only to confirm it has permission, then hands off to the browser's recognition. If your browser doesn't offer speech recognition, nothing is captured and Kampos simply saves the notes you type.

Transcripts, the notes you type and the text of documents you upload (including a syllabus, when you ask Kampos to set a course up from it) are sent to third-party AI services — large language models reached through our hosting platform — to clean up transcripts, produce summaries, key points, lessons and study sets, and set courses up from their syllabi. Those providers process the content to return a result. Live transcription itself is done by your browser's speech service, as described above. Kampos is hosted on Base44, which stores the underlying data and provides sign-in, file storage and the AI connection. Payments are processed by Stripe, which receives your email address and payment details. If you sign in with Google, Google knows you use Kampos.

Your friends. People you add as friends see your display name, username, Kam, streak, collected looks and milestones, and the study sets you choose to share with them. Nothing you write (notes, transcripts, materials, course or topic names, lecture titles) is ever shown to friends. Someone who opens your friend invite link, or a study group's link, while signed in sees your display name, username and Kam's look (not your streak or anything else) before deciding. Nobody can find you by real name, school or email.

Nobody at Kampos reads your lectures as a matter of course. We access stored content only when you ask us to help with a specific problem, or where the law requires it.

Kampos does not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use your recordings, transcripts, or notes to train AI models.

What Kampos keeps is text: your transcripts, notes, course materials and study sets stay until you delete them, and deleting a lecture removes them from Kampos. A PDF uploaded as a lecture before September 30, 2026 was disconnected from it once the text was extracted, but the file itself can persist in our hosting provider's private storage, which offers no way to delete files. PDFs uploaded since then never leave your device.

You can delete your account yourself, any time, from Settings → Delete account. It takes effect immediately: any subscription is cancelled first, then your courses, lectures, transcripts, notes and study sets are erased, then the account itself. Copies can persist for a short period in our hosting provider's storage and backups before they cycle out. A PDF uploaded as a lecture before September 30, 2026 is the one exception that can stay longer: as described above, Kampos no longer refers to it, but our hosting provider offers no way to delete the file.

A few records are kept after deletion because the law requires them: payment receipts, which Stripe keeps for tax and accounting purposes, and our record of the billing terms you agreed to at checkout, which we keep for at least three years (or one year after your plan ends, if that's later). These records hold your email address, what you agreed to and when, and nothing from your lectures or notes.

Wherever you live, you can: see and download your account, content and records (Settings → Download your data); correct it, by editing it in the app or asking us; delete it, lecture by lecture or all at once; and stop marketing emails. We won't treat you differently for using any of these rights.

Anything you can't do in the app, email us at the address below and we'll respond within 30 days.

We send account and billing emails you can't switch off while you have an account or a paid plan: purchase confirmations, a yearly reminder that a subscription renews, notice before any price change, a notice about 30 days before a yearly plan renews, and confirmations of cancellations and account deletion.

Product updates and study tips are off unless you turn them on in Settings → Emails, and every one includes a way to unsubscribe.

Kampos uses your browser's local storage to keep you signed in, to remember settings, and to hold a session id for the product analytics above. It doesn't use advertising cookies or cross-site tracking.

Kampos captures whoever is speaking — live, as text — which in a lecture usually means your instructor and sometimes your classmates. Laws about recording conversations differ by state and country, they can apply to live transcription just as they apply to keeping audio, and most institutions have their own policy on recording class sessions.

Getting permission before you record is your responsibility, not ours. If your instructor or your school asks you not to record, don't.

Kampos is built for college students and is not intended for anyone under 18. We don't knowingly collect information from people under 18.

If this policy changes in a way that meaningfully affects how your content is handled, we'll say so in the app rather than quietly updating the date at the top.

Questions about this page can go to help@usekampos.com.