Anonymous participation, by default
When a student joins a live game, they're given a temporary, randomly generated username tied only to that one event — not to a persistent account. If your school never enables sign-in, Nexus Connect never asks a student for a name, email, or any other personal information to play.
What happens to that session afterward is entirely up to your school's administrator. Results aren't kept unless an admin chooses to save them — and if they are, they stay in our system only until an admin deletes them.
District SSO, when you want it
Some schools want the opposite trade-off: knowing exactly who's participating, restricting play to students on the school's own network, or auto-sorting students into teams by grade level. That's what the SSO Addon is for.
- Students sign in with their existing district-issued Google or Microsoft account — nothing new to remember.
- Participation is restricted to accounts on your school's own email domain, so outsiders can't join.
- Grade level can be detected automatically from a student's school email address, depending on your setup, to speed up team assignment.
- Your admin — not Nexus Connect — decides what displays as a student's in-game name: an auto-generated fun name, their email, or their username.
SSO is off by default for every school and only turned on by our team at your request.
Where everything runs
Nexus Connect runs on encrypted, cloud-hosted infrastructure located in the United States. Uploaded media (like custom game images) and saved session data are encrypted and restricted to administrators authenticated through your school's own account. None of it is used for advertising, profiling, or training purposes — it exists to run your games and nothing else.
Billing is handled entirely by Stripe; Nexus Connect never sees or stores full card numbers.
The full policy
This page is the plain-language summary. For the complete legal terms — including data retention specifics, subprocessors, and your rights as a school — see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
IT team has more questions?
Happy to walk through this with whoever needs to sign off — no sales pitch required.