Last updated 11 October 2026. Written in plain language on purpose — if anything here is unclear, that is a bug: email us.
Used without an account, this app collects nothing. Everything you type stays in your browser, on your device — the one exception is a question you choose to send to the Ask assistant (see "The Ask assistant (AI)" below). We cannot see it, and neither can anyone else. With an account, we store the minimum needed to sync your plan and send the emails you asked for, and we do not sell it, share it, or advertise with it. Ever. Our public marketing pages use a simple visit counter, and the app has our own small usage counter — no cookies, no names, nothing you type (details below).
Your grades, courses, hours, scores, goals and career choices are saved in your browser's local storage only. Nothing is transmitted. Clearing your browser data deletes it all. Inside the app there are no third-party analytics scripts, no advertising pixels, no fingerprinting, and no third-party cookies. Our own usage counter (described below) notes which screens are opened and which buttons are tapped; it never sees what you type.
One honest footnote: if you arrive from one of our ads, the link may carry a short campaign code (like fb0917). It names the ad, never you. It sits in your browser's local storage — and if you later choose to subscribe, it rides along with your checkout so we know which ad was worth running. The code identifies the ad, not a person, and clearing your browser data removes it too.
When you use the Ask assistant, your message and a short summary of your plan (grade or stage, career path, today's step, GPA and test scores, goals and upcoming dates — no email, name or contact details) are sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, through our host, Netlify, to write the reply. They are not used to train AI models, and we do not store the conversation: it is kept only in your open browser tab and is gone when you close it. The one exception is a choice a linked parent can make, and the student always sees it on the Ask screen: see "Family features" below. To keep the assistant fair and affordable we count how many questions each device and each network sends per day, using a random device number and a scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address that changes every day — counts only, never what you wrote. Answers can be wrong, so double-check important dates and decisions. Changes the assistant offers to make to your plan only happen after you tap "Yes". Questions the app can answer from your own data, and anything you ask while offline, never leave your device.
Our public pages — the home page, pricing, help, get-the-app, gifting, and similar — use Metricool, a standard web analytics service, so we can see how many people visit and which of our posts and ads bring them here. It logs page views, the referring site, browser type, and approximate region (from your IP address), and sets a small cookie to tell returning visitors from new ones. That is the boring kind of analytics: no ad pixels, no fingerprinting, no data selling, and no profiles of students. Metricool is not on the app itself; the app only has our own usage counter, described next. Added 16 September 2026.
Since 7 October 2026 every page of the site, and the app itself, send a small first-party beacon to our own server: the page or screen name, the button tapped (for example "Start free", "demo opened", "checkout"), the campaign code from an ad if there was one, the referring site, approximate country, phone or desktop, browser language, and a random number for the open tab that disappears when you close it. No cookies, no account id, no name, no email, and never anything you typed into the app. It runs on our own server and database, is shared with no one, and rows older than 400 days are deleted. It is how we learn which ads bring people and which screens get used. Added 7 October 2026; this page first described it on 11 October 2026.
If you create an account, we store: your email address, your first name if you give one, your grade level, and the plan data you enter (courses, grades, hours, scores, goals, career choices). This lives in our database, hosted by Supabase, and is used for exactly two things: keeping your plan in sync, and sending the emails you signed up for. Emails are delivered by Resend. Those two companies process this data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for anything else.
Accounts are for students 13 and older. We ask your age before creating an account and refuse accounts for anyone younger. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13; if you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we will delete it.
A student can invite a parent to see their progress. The parent sees progress summaries; they cannot edit the student's data. Parents on Plus receive the parent email on the days they pick; they can stop it at any time with one click.
Every email we send has a one-click unsubscribe that works without logging in. Unsubscribing stops the emails; it does not delete your account.
No account: clear your browser's site data, that is the whole deletion. With an account: Settings → Account → "Delete my account and all my data" deletes everything instantly, yourself, no email needed. Or email support@studentpathtosuccess.com from your sign-up address and we will do it within 30 days and confirm when done.
In the app, Settings → Your data has "Export all my data" (a JSON file of everything the app holds on that device) and "Delete my data" (type DELETE to confirm; with an account this also deletes your account and records on our servers). Without an account, or if anything fails, email support@studentpathtosuccess.com.
Family features. A linked parent can send short cheers and set a reward, and can turn the AI part of Ask off or choose to see Ask chats. When a parent can see chats, the student is told so on the Ask screen, and from then on the student's Ask messages and replies are saved to their record so the parent can read them; chats from before stay private. A "Share with a counselor" link holds a read-only snapshot (no private notes) inside the link itself; it is not stored on our servers, and anyone with the link can open it until it expires.
No selling data. No sharing with advertisers or data brokers. No behavioral ads. No third-party analytics inside the app. No AI training on your data. If any of this changes, the change will be announced here and by email before it takes effect.
Change log: 11 Oct 2026 — corrected: our own first-party usage counter (running since 7 Oct) is also on the app, not only on the marketing pages — see "Our own usage counter"; the parent email goes out on the days the parent picks, not weekly; the attorney note below updated. 6 Oct 2026 — added "Your data, in plain badges" and the family features paragraph: when a parent turns on "can see Ask chats" (the student is told on the Ask screen), the student's Ask messages from then on are saved to their record for the parent; the counselor link carries its snapshot inside the link itself.
4 Oct 2026 — added "The Ask assistant (AI)": messages you send to the assistant, with a short plan summary, go to Anthropic via Netlify to write the reply; not stored, not used for training.
16 Sep 2026 — added the Metricool visit counter to our public marketing pages (see "Analytics on our marketing pages"); the app remains analytics-free. Earlier versions of this page said no analytics anywhere on the site.
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This policy was written by the product's maker and has not yet been reviewed by a privacy attorney. An attorney review is still planned; until then this page is our own plain-language statement of what we do.