PALS Praise & Leadership Schools

Privacy Policy

PALS Accounting · last updated 30 August 2026

1. Scope

This policy covers PALS Accounting, internal software operated by PALS solely for its own bookkeeping. The application has no external users and no public sign-up. It serves one organisation: PALS.

2. What data the application accesses

Through Intuit's QuickBooks Online API, and only within the single QuickBooks company that PALS owns:

  1. Accounting records — chart of accounts, journal entries, bills, bill payments, invoices, deposits, transfers, and classes.
  2. Vendor and customer records associated with those transactions.
  3. Payroll summary information, read only, used to reconcile payroll against PALS's bank records.
  4. Reports generated from the above.

It does not access data belonging to any other QuickBooks company.

3. What PALS does with it

The data is used exclusively to prepare PALS's own books and financial reports for review by PALS staff. It is not used for any other purpose.

4. What PALS does not do

  1. PALS does not sell, rent, or trade this data.
  2. PALS does not share it with advertisers or data brokers.
  3. PALS does not use it to train machine-learning models.
  4. PALS does not disclose it to third parties except to its independent auditors and professional advisers under confidentiality obligations, or where required by law.

5. Where the data lives

The application runs on PALS-controlled equipment. Data in transit to and from Intuit is protected by TLS. API credentials and access tokens are stored in a local file readable only by the operating account, are excluded from version control, and are never transmitted anywhere except to Intuit for authentication.

6. Retention

Accounting records are retained in QuickBooks Online under PALS's ordinary records-retention practice and applicable Illinois and federal requirements. Working copies held by the application are retained only as long as needed to prepare an entry or report, and access tokens are discarded when the connection is revoked.

7. Children's data

The application handles financial records. It is not used to collect or process information about the children enrolled at PALS beyond the billing information already present in PALS's accounting records, and it is not directed at children.

8. Disconnecting

PALS may revoke the application's access at any time from within QuickBooks Online, which invalidates its tokens immediately.

9. Changes

Material changes to this policy will be reflected in the “last updated” date above.

10. Contact

PALS Praise & Leadership Schools 2327 W. Willow Knolls Road, Peoria, IL 61614 accounting@palschools.com