Privacy policy
Effective October 30, 2026
Courtroom Drills LLC ("we") runs Courtroom Drills, a practice tool for trial advocacy. This policy says what we collect, why, who receives it, how long we keep it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
What we collect
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Name, email, title, institution | To run your account, and so your instructor can recognize you |
| Password | Stored only as a salted scrypt hash; we cannot read it |
| What you say or type during a drill | To run the exercise and to give you feedback |
| Your voice, while the microphone is on | Converted to text, then deleted within seconds. We do not keep recordings. |
| Delivery measures (pace, pauses, pitch, filler words) | For feedback. You can turn these off in Settings. |
| Scores and written feedback | To show your progress |
| Case files you upload | To build the practice case you asked for |
| Sign-in records (when you signed in or out, failed attempts, your IP address) | To keep accounts secure and investigate problems. Kept for one year. |
| Purchase records (amount, date, Stripe ids) | Our accounting. Card details go to Stripe, never to us. |
We do not collect student ID numbers, Social Security numbers, health information or location.
Artificial intelligence
We never train AI models on student data. We may review de-identified sessions and aggregate statistics to improve prompts and grading.
Who receives it
- Render (hosting, United States) stores the service and its database.
- Cloudflare R2 stores case files and database backups.
- Google Cloud converts your speech to text, voices the AI participants, and describes exhibit images.
- Together AI runs the AI judge, witnesses and opposing counsel, and drafts your feedback. It receives the transcript of your drill and the case material.
- Stripe processes payments.
- Resend delivers account emails.
These providers process data only to provide their service to us, under written agreement. Their data-processing terms: Render (subprocessors), Cloudflare, Google Cloud (paid Vertex AI does not train on customer data: data governance), Stripe, Resend. Training on our data is switched off in our Together AI account. We do not sell your data, use it for advertising, or use analytics or tracking tools.
If you open Courtroom Drills from Blackboard
When your course links to Courtroom Drills, your institution's Blackboard sends us your name, email address, your role in the course (student or instructor) and the course's identity, so we can sign you in and place you in the right section. When you complete an assigned drill, we send Blackboard's Grade Center a completion mark, a status and a one-line comment. Your transcript and feedback stay here and are never sent to Blackboard. None of the information Blackboard sends us is given to any AI provider.
Who can see your work
If you join a class section, the instructor who runs it sees your name and email. For practice you do on your own, they see only how many sessions you ran and which witnesses and exercises you practiced, never what you said or your feedback. For work you submit for an assignment, they can read the transcript and feedback. Our administrators can access session records where it is necessary to operate the platform, investigate a problem, respond to you, or meet a legal obligation.
We act as a "school official" under FERPA for institutions that use us, and use student records only to provide the service. We sign a FERPA addendum with any institution that asks.
How long we keep it
We keep your account while you use it. If you start no drill for 12 months, we permanently erase the account and its data; backups roll off within about 7 days after that. Whiteboard drawings are deleted after 2 days. We keep a minimal payment record (amount, date, Stripe ids, no email) for 7 years for tax purposes.
Your choices
- Download your data: Settings > Download my data gives you everything we hold about you, as a file.
- Delete your data: email privacy@courtroomdrills.com and we will permanently erase your account within 30 days.
- Captions and extended time: available in Settings or from your instructor.
Children
Courtroom Drills is for law students and lawyers. It is not directed to children under 13.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes in a way that affects how we use your data, we ask you to accept the new terms before you continue. Questions: privacy@courtroomdrills.com, Courtroom Drills LLC, PO Box 322, Rolesville, NC 27571.