Piazza uses the same 256-bit encryption that the military and the most secure banks use. Our practices have been reviewed and our product has been audited by a leading third-party security consultancy firm.
Piazza uses your LMS credentials for "read-only" services. We only use your LMS username and password to automatically import your class data from your LMS system into your Piazza class. Nothing else. Once this data is on Piazza, we protect this data under FERPA like we protect all user inputted data.
We need your LMS username and password so that we can help you import your class data from your LMS system into your Piazza class. We use this information to establish a secure connection with your LMS system, where we can automatically read in your class data and import that data into your Piazza class.
How do we protect your LMS credentials?We've employed multiple levels of security in order to protect your credentials. Your personal information is entered through Secure Socket Layer (SSL), which creates and encrypted connection between your browser and our servers. This information is kept encrypted at all times with military grade encryption -- 256 bit AES to be specific. To be as thorough as possible, we've brought on industry-leading third-party security experts to audit our system and review our technology and practices. Keeping your data safe and secure is our highest concern.
How can you remove your LMS credentials from our system?You can send a request to us here. Once your request has been received your information will be securely and permanently deleted from our database. We highly suggest changing your password afterwards.