Last updated 8 November 2026
The rest of this page is the full, formal version, and it is what counts. This part is the same thing in plain English, because you should not have to read three thousand words to find out what happens to your notes.
One thing worth knowing: Nexley is built by one person, a Year 11 student, and it is early. That means it changes often. When something on this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.
Nexley is currently operated by Alec Jordaan as an individual developer, ahead of any formal company registration. Contact: alecjordaan12@gmail.com.
While you are signed in, Nexley records a short list of things that happen: the app being opened, a note created, a syllabus imported, a review session started, a card graded, a paper recorded, a task saved to your plan. Each record is an event name, the time, and at most one number or one word from a fixed list (for example good for how you graded a card). We use it to see which parts of the app are actually used and whether people come back.
No mark you record is ever included. When you record a paper, the only thing kept is which conditions you sat it under: exam, open notes and so on. Never the mark, never the percentage, never which subject it was for. The same is true of your plan: how many tasks, never what they are or when they are due.
Problem reports. When you send a report you can tick Include this note. Only then, the note that is open on your screen (its text, headings and handwriting) is sent with that one report, so the problem can be seen exactly as you saw it. It is off every time you open the report form, it never includes any other note, and it is read only to fix the problem.
Handwriting. When writing is turned into text, we count how many lines and words were read, how long it took, whether you undid it straight away, and whether it could not be read at all, so we can tell whether handwriting recognition is getting better. Never your writing itself, never the words it became, never a picture of it. Recognition runs on your device and your ink does not leave it.
Your notes are never included: not their content, their titles, your subject names, or what you search for. This is enforced by the app and by the database, not just by policy: the events table has no column that could hold text you wrote, and the database rejects any record bigger than a couple of hundred characters. Records are stored write-only. Nobody can read them back through the app.
These records stay in Nexley's own database. They are not sent to any analytics company or any other third party. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, nothing is recorded at all, and nothing is ever recorded while you are signed out.
You can also just turn it off. Settings › Privacy has a switch, and turning it off stops the current session immediately, and anything already waiting to be sent is thrown away rather than sent on the way out. Nothing about how Nexley works changes when it is off. We are telling you where the switch is rather than burying it, because this is the one thing Nexley collects that it does not strictly need in order to work: it exists so we can tell which parts of the app are worth building on. That is a fair thing to ask for and an easy thing to decline.
When the app hits an error, it sends us a report so the fault can be found and fixed. It contains the error message and the internal stack trace, which page and screen you were on, your app version, browser, window size, and whether you were online. If you use Report a problem, it also includes whatever you type in that box. The same technical details are shown to you on screen before you send, so you can see exactly what is attached.
Nexley never puts your notes in a report by itself: not their content, their titles, or your subject names. Error text is filtered before it is sent: email addresses, access tokens and any quoted phrase long enough to be your own writing are replaced with a placeholder. Reports are stored write-only: nobody can read them back through the app, and they are used only to fix faults.
The one exception is a picture, and only if you attach one. You can add up to four screenshots to a problem report, because a picture of a broken screen explains it far faster than describing it. A screenshot shows whatever was on your screen, which may include the note you had open. Each one is shown to you in the report box before you send, at the size it will be sent, so you can see exactly what is in it, and you can remove any of them again. Nothing is attached unless you choose it, and the app never takes a picture on its own.
Two parts of Nexley deliberately show something of yours to somebody else, and both only ever happen because you chose them:
There is no public feed, no browsing of other students' notes, and no way to discover who uses Nexley. Nothing you write is shared with anybody unless you send it or enter it yourself.
Your data is stored in a managed Postgres database (Supabase, hosted in Tokyo, Japan) protected by row-level security: a database-enforced rule, on every table, that your account can only ever reach rows that belong to you. The only rows anybody else can read are the ones you deliberately put in front of them: a note you sent to a named person, and your username and score inside a comp you joined (see Sharing with other students above). Your notebook itself is reachable by no account but yours. A local copy is also kept on your device so the app keeps working offline; the two are kept in sync whenever you have a connection.
That local copy also keeps earlier versions of each page (Page history, in the page's ⋯ menu): up to 40 per page, saved as you write, so a page can be put back the way it was. They stay on that device. They are deleted when the page is deleted for good, and when a different person signs in on the device.
Your account on our server keeps earlier versions too, for 30 days: a page as it was before you changed it (at most one every six hours, and always before a big deletion), and your settings, timetable and other items as they were before a change. They are there so your work can be put back even if a device loses its copy, and they appear in Page history as kept in your account. Only your account can read them, nobody can change them, and each is deleted for good 30 days after it was kept.
Nexley is built for high-school students, and there is no minimum age. We ask what school year you are in, because the app needs it to show you the right syllabus, not to check how old you are. We do not ask for or store a date of birth.
We looked at putting a minimum age in and deliberately took it out. Australia's Children's Online Privacy Code, which is due to be registered in December 2026, will require verified consent from a parent or guardian before a service can handle the personal information of anyone under 15. That is a real obligation and we are not pretending otherwise, but the Code is still a draft, it is not law yet, and a minimum age of 15 would have shut out Years 7 to 10, who are exactly the students this is meant to help. We would rather build the consent step properly when the rules are final than lock out half a school in the meantime.
What that means for you right now: we will revisit this before the Code takes effect, and if a parental-consent step is needed we will build one rather than quietly removing accounts.
If you are a parent or guardian and want a child's account and everything in it deleted, you can do it from inside the app (see Your choices below) or contact us and we will do it for you.
You can export all of your data at any time from within the app.
You can delete your account yourself, inside the app: Settings → Account → Delete my account. It asks you to type DELETE first. You are signed out straight away and cannot sign back in, and your account is kept for 60 days in case you change your mind. Email us within that time and we will restore it. After 60 days it is permanently deleted: your account, your notes, your marks, your plan, your review cards, anything you had sent or received, and your usage records all go with it. The one thing that stays is past problem reports. The link to you is removed, and what remains is the technical fault description that never contained your notes in the first place. Export first if you want your own copy. You do not have to email anybody to get this done.
We never delete an account for being inactive. An account you stop using stays exactly as you left it until you delete it yourself.
Deleted notes and other items go to Recently deleted first, where you can restore them for 30 days. After that they are removed for good.
If you would rather ask than do it yourself, or you want to know what is held about you, write to alecjordaan12@gmail.com and we will answer within 30 days, which is the deadline Australian privacy law sets.
If this policy changes in a way that materially affects how your data is handled, we'll update the date above and, where required, notify you directly.
Nexley is a study notebook: subjects, syllabus-aligned notes, and (in future) study tools built on top of them. It does not replace your school's own resources, teachers, or assessment processes.
Nexley will never show you a projected mark, band, or ATAR. Any numbers we show you reflect only things that have actually happened: real past results you've entered, real trends against your own history.
Notes you write remain yours. Syllabus content within the app is either imported by you from your own school materials or curated by us for accuracy. It is provided for your personal study use and should not be redistributed.
Photographing a page of a textbook for your own study is generally fine; sending that photo or a copied-out passage to other students is not what personal study use means, and it is your responsibility not to pass on material you do not have the right to pass on. The same goes for anything you send another student through Nexley: don't send what isn't yours to send, and don't send anything abusive, harassing, or aimed at cheating in an assessment your school treats as your own work.
If something has been sent to you through Nexley that shouldn't have been (your copyrighted material, or content that breaks the line above), email alecjordaan12@gmail.com with enough detail to find it. We will look at it, remove what needs removing, and can suspend an account that keeps doing it. Sent notes are one-to-one copies with no public feed, so removal means deleting that copy; the person who sent it can also take it back themselves at any time.
Keep your password confidential. You're responsible for activity that happens under your account. Tell us if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.
The service is provided "as is." We work carefully to keep your notes safe (see our data-layer design: automatic snapshots, non-destructive deletes, safe update flow) but cannot guarantee the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia.
Nexley uses AI in four places, and only when you ask it to. (1) If you write an answer and paste in the marking criteria it should be judged against, Nexley can send those two things to an AI model and show you what it says: feedback, and a mark against each criterion you pasted. (2) Ask Nexley, the round button at the bottom right, lets you type a question and shows the AI's answer. Your open note is sent with it only if you tick Include this note (off every time you open it), up to the first 8,000 characters. (3) Making notes from a file: when you upload a file to Nex (a photo, a screenshot, a Word or PowerPoint file, a PDF or a text file), its text, or the picture, is sent to the AI to be turned into notes. So that the notes look like yours, Nexley first looks at how your other notes in that subject are laid out (headings, dot points, how you mark key terms), on your device, and sends only a few lines describing that layout, never the notes themselves. Without the AI (offline, or signed out) a text file is shaped on your device and nothing is sent. (4) Asking Nex to make or change something: in Ask Nexley you can ask Nex to make a note, palm cards or a task, plan study blocks for your week, or change how the app looks and a few study settings (such as the dyslexia-friendly font or your weekly study hours). Nex only suggests: the app shows you exactly what it would do, and nothing is made or changed until you press Do it, and Undo takes it back. Nex can never change whether usage data is shared, your reminders, your school year, your account or sign-in, what you share, or your timetable, and it can never delete anything. Make cards with Nex sends the open page (or the words you selected), the same as Include this note. Plan my week sends a short summary of your next seven days: the times you already have something on, your subject names, the titles and dates of assessments and tasks due soon, and the study hours you set, never the text of your notes. That is the whole of it. Nothing else in the app is AI. Your notes are not read, summarised, corrected or scored in the background, and no AI runs unless you press the button.
The request goes to a third-party AI provider (currently Groq, in the United States) and contains only what that one job needs: the answer you are marking and the criteria you pasted, or the question you typed (and the note, if you ticked it, or the page you asked for cards from, or the schedule summary for Plan my week), or the file you uploaded (with the short description of your layout). Your notebook, your name, your email and your other marks are not sent. It goes through Nexley's own server so that the provider never learns who you are, and the text is not stored or logged anywhere on the way: not by us, and, per the provider's own terms, not kept or used for training by them. We only use providers whose terms say they do not train on submitted text, which is why some otherwise free AI services are deliberately not used here.
There is a limit on how many AI requests (markings and questions together) each student can run per day, and a limit across the whole app, so the feature cannot be run up as a cost by anyone. If you hit one, the app says which of the two it was.
We want Nexley to be usable by every student, including students using assistive technology. The app is built with touch-friendly target sizes, readable type at every size, and without relying on colour alone to convey information. Accessibility is an ongoing effort, not a finished state. If you hit a barrier using this app, please tell us at alecjordaan12@gmail.com and we'll treat it as a priority fix.