Privacy
Viva by NYU Stern runs oral exams with a voice examiner and grades them with a council of language models. This notice says what Viva collects about the people who use it, why, who receives it and how long it is kept. Last updated 10 November 2026.
Students
An instructor adds students to an exam and sends each one a personal exam link. Viva holds the roster, each exam conversation and its recording, the grades and the feedback for the student's school, and uses them only to run that instructor's exams. What Viva holds, every service that receives part of it, and how long each part is kept are set out on How Viva handles student data.
These are education records, and the student's school decides who may see them. A student who wants to see or correct their records asks their instructor or school; the instructor can download everything Viva holds about one student from that student's page.
Instructors
- From the sign-in: your name, email address and profile picture, which ways you have signed in (Google, Microsoft, or an emailed link), when the account was created and when you last signed in.
- The exams you create or are added to, with their rosters and the records your students' attempts make (listed on How Viva handles student data).
- Your conversations with the assistant and the files you upload to it.
- A record of what each call and grading run cost, by exam, which My profile shows you, and what the account has used against its limits.
- An audit log of who opened, changed, exported or deleted student records, which names the account that did it.
Viva uses these to run the service: to sign you in, to show you your exams and their costs, to keep each account within its limits, and to answer your support requests. Signing in goes through Google Cloud's Identity Platform, to Google or Microsoft when you choose one, and an emailed sign-in link is sent through Postmark. What the assistant reads is sent to Anthropic, as the statement lists.
Your account is kept until you ask for it to be deleted. Deleting it deletes the exams it owns, with their student records, and its conversations with the assistant. Viva keeps the cost record of its exams, naming no student, the audit log, and how many students the account added, filed under a keyed code of each sign-in rather than the sign-in itself, so its limits stay with the person.
Everyone who visits
Google Cloud's request logs record each request to Viva with the internet address it came from and what the browser says it is. They are kept 365 days, to run and debug the service. Viva's own log lines name a student by a keyed reference, not their Net ID.
The front page's demo exams are open to anyone. What a demo call keeps, and for how long, is under Demo calls.
Cookies
Viva sets no advertising or analytics cookies, and its pages load no scripts, fonts or styles from another site: all of them, the sign-in library included, are served by Viva itself. These are the cookies it sets:
| Cookie | What it is for | Kept |
|---|---|---|
session |
Keeps an instructor signed in, and protects every form from being sent by another site. | 24 hours |
viva_last_email |
Remembers the address an instructor last signed in with by an emailed link, to fill in the sign-in form. Set only after such a sign-in. | 180 days |
viva_results_…only under /exam/ |
Lets a student see their released results in the browser where they opened their results link. Its name is a keyed code that names no one. | 24 hours |
viva_demo_visitoronly under /try/ |
Counts a visitor's calls to the front page's demo exams, so one visitor cannot use them all. Viva stores a keyed code of it, never the value. | 365 days |
Who receives it
Only the services listed on How Viva handles student data, each for its part of the service. Viva does not sell personal information or use it for advertising. Viva's records are stored in Google Cloud's us-central1 region (Iowa, United States).
Changes and questions
When this notice changes, the date at the top changes with it, and a change to what leaves Viva is made on How Viva handles student data in the same release. To ask what Viva holds about you, or to have your account deleted, write to ipeirotis@gmail.com.