How is this different from tutoringcenter.software?
tutoring.photos is the photo basics: student and staff portraits captured in a short session, a private directory, and ID badges. tutoringcenter.software is the operations platform — the roster, the family directory of contacts, scheduling, and parent communication. They share the same roster and the same privacy-first posture, but this page is the pictures and that one is the paperwork. Bring the operations platform if you want to run the center; bring this if you want the portraits, the directory, and the badges.
What does a learning-center portrait session look like?
Short and rolling, not a whole picture day. Because students come in across the week for different subjects and tutors, the photographer works a shot list against the center’s roster over an afternoon or two — capturing a clean portrait for every enrolled student and every tutor even though they never all show up at once. Each frame is tagged to a roster entry at capture, so an unmatched shot is flagged and sorted before anything is shared.
Are the tutors photographed too, or just the students?
Both, on purpose. A center’s tutors are its face to families, so the session captures a clean, professional portrait of every tutor alongside the students. Staff portraits feed the directory and the front-desk ID badges the same way student portraits do — a consistent, established look across the whole center, not a mismatch of phone snapshots.
Can another family see my student’s photos?
No. Each family opens a private link scoped to its own student’s roster entry and sees only that student. The directory is private and tenant-isolated: it is never a public, search-indexed page, and no family has a path to another family’s photos. The center chooses who the directory is shared with, and what one family can see is bounded by the roster and the consent record, enforced in code.
Do you use facial recognition on the students?
Not by default. The default way a family finds their student is a permission-checked roster lookup, which builds no face template. Facial recognition is off by default, and switching it on takes two separate locks: the consent gate has to permit it, and an explicit opt-in has to be on file for that student. Where the platform offers this opt-in and a parent uses it, the face template is minors data kept behind the center’s walls — never sent to an outside AI or photo company, never indexed publicly, never sold — and withdrawing consent stops the matching at the gate. The retention window, about a year (365 days by default), is what marks that template due for destruction; the step that destroys it is not finished, and we are not going to tell you a template is deleted when we cannot show you that it is. We do not claim there is no face data — we state how it is consented, minimised, and fenced.
Can families buy prints yet?
Not on this page today. The branded family store and the outside-lab print routing are early access — being built, not switched on for live transactions here. When the store is live, a parent could order a print package priced above a code-enforced cost floor, with the center’s larger leg settled in exact cents. Money is honest-off for now: there is no live checkout and no card is charged today. When the store is enabled, centers are notified directly.
What happens to the photos, and where are they stored?
Photos run on the center’s own private system, encrypted in transit. They are never sent to an outside AI or photo company, never posted to a public cloud album, and never sold or shared for profit. There is no public searchable directory and no social feed. Photos are kept for the working window — on the order of a year — and purged on schedule unless a family archives them. A family can request deletion, and the request is logged and honored.
What does it cost the center to run?
The photo basics — capture, the private directory, and the ID badges — run free: no contract, no minimum order, and no per-student seat fee. The center keeps its own roster, its own directory, and its own consent records. When the store’s live payment is switched on, orders would settle in exact cents with the center’s larger leg and the platform’s residual leg shown as named legs in the split — no markup on print costs and no hidden deduction between what a family pays and what the center receives.
How does a center get started?
By a conversation, not a signup. No tutoring or learning center is running a live paid store on tutoring.photos yet. A walkthrough shows the current state honestly: how the roster binds the portraits, how the private directory and ID badges assemble, how a family finds only its own student, and exactly which parts are live versus early access. Email [email protected].