Privacy

LAST UPDATED 1 SEPTEMBER 2026

Punzisa is a free professional-learning platform for teachers in Zambia. We ask for as little about you as the course can run on, and we do not sell, rent or share it.

What we hold, and why

Everything the platform stores about you today is listed here. Nothing else is collected.

Your name and email address

To create your account, greet you by name, and let you sign back in.

Your password, stored only as a cryptographic hash

So you can sign in. We never store, see, or can recover the password itself.

Your sign-in sessions, including IP address and browser identifier

To keep you signed in, and to spot an account being attacked.

Which course version you are enrolled on, and when you enrolled

So your progress stays meaningful if the curriculum is later updated.

A short-lived counter derived from your IP address

To limit repeated sign-in and sign-up attempts. It holds no name or email.

Your school, province, teaching level and subjects, if you fill them in

To show them beside your name in the app, and to understand which parts of Zambia the course is reaching. Every one of them is optional.

Your WhatsApp number, if you choose to give one

So we can reach you about the course. It is optional, you can clear it at any time, and leaving it blank costs you nothing.

The confidence ratings you give yourself in the readiness check

So the same questions at the end of the course can be measured against where you started. They are never marked and never affect your certificate.

Which lessons you have completed, and when

To show your progress, decide what comes next, and work out whether you have met the certificate requirement.

Your quiz attempts, the options you chose, and your score

Marking happens on our server against the answer key, so your score cannot be set from your browser. Past attempts let you see what you got wrong.

The capstone pieces you write on each module

Each module collects the artefact it produces, so you are not asked to find it again at the end. They carry into your capstone, where you can still revise them.

Your capstone submission

It is the work the certificate is awarded for, so it is kept as written and can be reviewed.

Any certificate issued to you

So it can be re-issued if you lose it, and so anyone you show it to can verify the code is genuine.

What we do not collect

We do not ask for your NRC, date of birth or home address, and the platform has no field for any of them. The one number we have a field for is WhatsApp, it is optional, and it is listed above. We do not ask for anything about your pupils, and course exercises will tell you to use invented or anonymised examples rather than real pupil work.

There is no advertising on the platform, no advertising network, and no third-party analytics. We do not build a profile of you for marketing.

Not collected yet

The course is still being built. These will be recorded once the matching part of the platform exists, and this page will be updated before that happens:

Usage events: which lessons and screens you open and when, so we can tell whether the course is working. Tied to your account while it exists, and unlinked from you if you delete it

Cookies

One cookie, and it is the one that keeps you signed in. It is essential: without it the platform cannot tell one signed-in teacher from another.

There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, which is why you have not been shown a cookie banner — there is nothing non-essential to agree to. The typeface is served from this site rather than fetched from a font provider, so loading a page does not announce your visit to anyone else.

Who else sees it

No third-party analytics service, no advertising network, no email provider and no payment processor. Your account, your progress and your written work sit in the platform's own database. There is one exception, and this is it:

YouTube, which is part of Google — Lesson videos are hosted there. Nothing reaches Google while you read a lesson — the still image you see before playing is served from this site. If you press play, your device connects to YouTube's no-cookie player, which shows Google your IP address and which video you opened. It is not told your name or your email.

The platform is hosted, and its database is run, by infrastructure providers who necessarily store the data on their machines. They act on our instructions and do not use it for their own purposes.

How long we keep it

Your account and enrolment stay until you ask us to delete them. Sign-in sessions expire on their own within 30 days. The counters used to limit repeated sign-in attempts expire within minutes and hold no name or email.

Your choices

You can correct most of what we hold about you yourself, on your profile page — your name, your school, your province, what you teach, and your WhatsApp number. Changes take effect immediately.

For a copy of everything we hold about you, or to delete your account and everything attached to it, there is no button yet: write to hello@punzisa.com and we will confirm when it is done. Deleting your account removes your profile, your enrolment and your sessions.

Children

Punzisa is for practising and trainee teachers. It is not intended for use by children, and accounts are not knowingly created for them.

Contact

Questions about any of this go to hello@punzisa.com. The terms of use cover what the course is and is not.

This page describes how the platform works today. It is written in plain language rather than legal language, and it has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Where it is wrong, the behaviour of the platform is what counts, and we will correct the page.