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Student data, handled under Canadian law.

Pillar OS holds information about minors: names, schedules, session notes, and what a family paid. Tutoring businesses are increasingly asked how that is protected, often by a school board. This page is written so you can answer, and so you can check the parts that are checkable.

The law we operate under

Kalbot Solutions is a Canadian company based in Quebec, and Pillar OS is operated from Canada. Personal information is handled in accordance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, as amended by Law 25.

Law 25 matters here in a way it does not for most tutoring software, because most tutoring software is American. It gives individuals in Quebec rights that a US-hosted platform is not built around: access, correction, portability, the withdrawal of consent, and a say in automated decisions. Pillar OS is built by a Quebec company that has to comply with it, in both official languages, rather than treating French as a translation layer.

What we hold, and who controls it

Your tutoring business is the one that decides what goes into Pillar OS and how long it stays. We process it on your behalf. You can export it, and you can ask for it to be deleted.

We do not sell personal information. It is disclosed only to the service providers who help operate the platform, to you as the customer, at your direction, or where the law requires it.

Safeguards

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. That is the commitment in our privacy policy and this page does not stretch it: no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and any vendor who tells you otherwise is selling something.

The web layer is the part you can verify yourself without taking our word for it, so it is listed below.

Third parties

Pillar OS relies on outside services to function: a CRM and messaging layer, video conferencing, cloud hosting and database infrastructure, payment processing, an AI provider that drafts progress-report summaries from tutor notes, and analytics. Each is governed by its own terms, and we share only what a service needs to do its job.

The current list is maintained in the privacy policy rather than duplicated here, so there is one place to keep accurate.

What you can verify right now

These response headers are served by pillaros.ca. You do not have to trust the claim, you can check it with your browser’s network tab or a single curl command.

What you can verify right now
Header Why
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload Browsers refuse to load the site over plain HTTP for two years, including subdomains, and the domain is on the preload list so this holds on a first visit.
Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors 'self' Other sites cannot embed our pages in a frame, which is how clickjacking works.
X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN The same protection for older browsers that predate the header above.
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff Browsers must respect the declared content type instead of guessing, which closes a class of upload-based attack.
Referrer-Policy strict-origin-when-cross-origin Outbound links leak only the origin, never the full path a user was on.

Questions from a school board, or a security review

If you have been sent a vendor questionnaire, or you need something in writing for a district or a parent council, contact us directly. A real answer from a small Canadian company is usually faster than a portal.

Kalbot Solutions

Email: info@kalbotsolutions.com

Phone: (514) 796-1809

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