Find Your Grind’s Ethical Approach to AI
At Find Your Grind, we believe AI and technology should enhance human potential, not replace it. Our commitment to responsible and ethical AI ensures that our technology serves the best interests of our customers while staying true to our mission: helping individuals discover their passions and achieve their goals.
Our AI Principles
We uphold the following core principles to ensure AI is used responsibly:
- Transparency: We openly communicate how AI impacts our services.
- Fairness: Our AI systems are designed to be unbiased and equitable, ensuring no individual or group is disadvantaged.
- Privacy: We prioritize the security and responsible use of customer data to protect privacy and build trust.
- Accountability: We take full responsibility for how our AI is designed, deployed, and monitored to ensure alignment with our ethical values.
- Human-Centered Approach: AI is used to support and enhance human capabilities, not replace them.
By adhering to these principles, we ensure AI creates a positive and meaningful impact on our customers’ lives.
Ensuring Fair & Unbiased AI
To maintain fairness, we implement rigorous checks and safeguards, including:
- Bias Audits & Testing: We regularly audit and test AI systems for bias using both internal and external assessments.
- Diverse Training Data: We use broad and representative datasets to reduce bias risk.
- Human Oversight: AI-driven decisions undergo human review to ensure fairness and consistency.
- Cross-Functional Monitoring: A dedicated team continuously monitors and addresses any identified biases.
Keeping AI Human-Centered
Our approach ensures AI empowers rather than replaces human interaction by:
- Prioritizing Human Oversight: AI assists, but human expertise remains central to decision-making.
- User-Centric Feedback: We actively gather and integrate user feedback to refine AI-driven experiences.
- Employee Training & Development: Our team is equipped with the skills to manage and optimize AI while maintaining empathy and connection.
- Clear & Transparent Communication: We openly explain how AI influences our services, allowing users to make informed decisions.
By embedding these safeguards, Find Your Grind ensures that AI aligns with our human-centered values, delivering personalized, ethical, and supportive services to our customers.
Nothing in this document overrides our existing Terms of Service or our Data and Privacy Policy.
| Category | Data Type | Collection Method | Primary Use Case | Access Level | Data Sharing | Security Controls | Retention Policy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student Identity | Name, email, school ID | SIS integration, onboarding forms | Authentication, credentialing | School admins, Find Your Grind platform | Never shared externally | Encrypted at rest/in transit, RBAC | Retained per district contract or on request |
| Demographics | Age, grade, school, location | SIS sync or student self-entry, CRM (school location only) | Personalization, reporting | Educators, Find Your Grind (aggregated) | Shared in aggregate only | Encrypted; anonymized for trends | Identifiable data deleted post-contract |
| Behavioral Data | Progress, quiz results, usage | Platform activity logging | Instructional guidance, engagement reporting | Educators, admins | With district only | Access logs, role-based control | 2 academic years standard |
| Emotional Check-Ins (Future Balance) | Emoji/sentiment input | Weekly check-ins | Tiered mental health support | Counselors, crisis staff | Internal only | NLP pipeline (SOC 2), alert tracking | Tiered: Critical (1 yr), Others aggregated |
| Student Portfolios & Projects | Reflections, uploads | Curriculum interaction | Micro-credentials, college/career prep | Educators, students | Opt-in only (e.g., LinkedIn). Air Table for grading | Consent-logged, user-controlled access | Deleted upon request or post-graduation. Stale data archived after 1 year |
| Micro-Credential Data (Future Pro) | Badge info, skill earned | Auto-generated on assessment | Skill signaling, digital resume | Students, admins | Opt-in for public sharing, external professional credential graders for micro-credential project grading | Badge authentication + SSL | 5 years or per policy |
| Educator PD & Usage Data | Workshop logs, scores | LMS tracking, feedback forms | Certification, usage coaching | Find Your Grind trainers, districts | With districts only | SSO login, data sandboxing | Archived after 3 years |
| Access Logs | IP, device, session metadata | Background system logging | Security auditing | Find Your Grind security team only | Never shared | SIEM, intrusion detection, audit trails | 12-month rolling window, identifiable data retained for 15 days only |
| Aggregated Analytics | Anonymized patterns | Real-time dashboards | Product R&D, outcome insights | Find Your Grind, districts (summary form) | May be shared in whitepapers | De-identified, thresholded | Retained indefinitely in non-identifiable form |
| AI Model Training | No student personally identifiable data | Not collected | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Find Your Grind strictly excludes student data from ML training | Not applicable |