Lectur · Legal
Questions from parents.
Your school uses Lectur, or is about to? Here is what that means for your child's information, in plain language — and what will never happen.
Last updated — August 2026
What is Lectur, and why is my child's school using it?
Lectur is a Quebec learning platform: practice quizzes that adapt to each student's level, homework, and an AI companion that draws on the course material to answer questions. The school uses it so the teacher can see where each student stands and support them better — the teacher stays at the centre, not the tool.
What information is collected about my child?
Their name, school email and class, through the existing school account — no new password. Their answers and learning activity: time, progress, notions to work on. Their exchanges with the AI companion, which the course's teachers can view to support them. From this activity, the platform also produces a learning profile — strengths, areas to work on, progression. That profile belongs to your child like everything else: all the rights described below apply to it.
Is my child's data sold or used for advertising?
No. Never. No sale, no rental, no advertising, no use for anything but the course. The only exception contains no personal data: fully aggregated statistics — like a group's average progression, never fewer than 10 students per value, never a name — may be used to evaluate how well the platform works. They are not sold: the agreement with the school does not allow it.
Does the artificial intelligence learn from my child's data?
No. No AI model is trained on student data — that is locked in by contract with our provider. Before any AI call, direct identifiers — name, email, account ID — are removed automatically. One piece of advice to pass on to your child: don't write personal information, like an address or health details, into questions to the companion.
Where is my child's data kept?
In Quebec — the application, databases and backups are hosted in the Quebec City region. When the companion answers or a written response is graded, the text may be processed briefly by AI models: in Quebec for most functions, and in the European Union — under the GDPR, Europe's data-protection regime — for the functions that require the most capable models. In every case, nothing is used for training, and as a rule nothing is kept after the response.
Does the exam camera recognize my child's face?
No — and it couldn't: there is no facial recognition, no biometric template, no reference photo, and the camera is never used to establish your child's identity. It only concerns exams the teacher designates as remotely supervised. Detection runs on the student's own device: no video is transmitted or continuously recorded — only an image of the flagged moment reaches the teacher when an incident is detected, and it is deleted no more than 30 days after capture, reviewed or not. Your child confirms the camera's activation at the start of each exam, and can decline with no penalty at all: the school then offers another arrangement, such as sitting the exam in person.
Does a machine decide my child's grades?
No. The platform instantly scores objective quiz questions and adapts the exercises it suggests, but no decision that matters is made without a human: no grade is published without the teacher's review, and the indicators exist to guide the teacher, not to decide. You or your child can always ask the teacher to review anything the platform did — a correction, a suggested exercise, or an exam-session lock.
Who can see my child's data?
Their teachers, to support them. School leadership has access in the exercise of its functions; the school itself determines, under its own internal rules, who may consult a student's record. The data remains under the school's responsibility: Lectur processes it solely on the school's behalf, and its staff's access is nominative, logged, and covered by signed confidentiality undertakings. On the vendor side: hosting is provided by Microsoft Azure in Quebec, and support correspondence goes through Microsoft 365 in Canada. If the school imports its classes from Google Classroom or Moodle, the school initiates it, under its own contracts.
How long is the data kept?
Each category has its own duration: exchanges with the AI companion are deleted after 12 months; supervised-exam images, no more than 30 days after capture; technical logs, after 90 days. When the school's mandate ends, its data is handed back in a readable format and then destroyed — no later than 90 days after the end — and every destruction is recorded in a register.
What are my rights, and who do I contact?
You and your child can at any time consult the information collected, have it corrected, obtain a copy, or request its deletion — through the school or directly with Lectur. A given consent can be withdrawn at any time, without penalty, by writing to the school. Person in charge of the protection of personal information at Lectur: Alexandre Hachey, co-founder — contact@lectur.ca. You may also file a complaint with Quebec's Commission d'accès à l'information (cai.gouv.qc.ca).
Questions
Write to contact@lectur.ca.