Safety, privacy & trust
Built safe, from the first line of code.
A student app earns its place by being trustworthy. This product handles minors, sensitive reports, and health-adjacent data — so we address it head-on.
Safety, privacy & trust
Built safe, from the first line of code.
A student app earns its place by being trustworthy. Here's how we hold that.
We never sell student data. Ever. It isn't our business model — schools are.
FERPA and COPPA aligned, with privacy and consent flows built for minors.
Your district stays in control — of branding, permissions, what's enabled, and what admins can and can't see.
No open messaging to strangers. Mentors and partners are school-vetted; conversations follow school rules.
Sensitive support stays private. We track that a referral happened, not what was said — we don't store clinical notes.
Mandatory-reporting and crisis paths are configured to your state and district rules.
Clear data retention and deletion policies, and student-privacy boundaries by age and service.
- FERPA
- COPPA
- SOC 2 (in progress)
- [State safety law] ready
Yard is a communication, reporting, and navigation platform — not a clinical care provider or emergency-response service. In an emergency, always call 911; in a crisis, call or text 988.
One app vs twelve tools
What changes when it all lives in one place.
| Yard | Scattered tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | One school-branded app | Flyers, group texts, PDFs, separate logins |
| Reporting | Anonymous, routed, audited | Poster, hotline, or the office |
| Support access | One tap to the right help | Buried link nobody finds |
| Student data | Never sold; district-controlled | Scattered across vendors |
| Messaging | School-vetted, no strangers | Open DMs and unknown apps |
| Setup | Live in weeks | Months of vendor wrangling |
Trust, by design
See how we keep students safe.
Give your students one place for everything that matters — and your team one place to keep them safe and supported.