Privacy Policy

Only what you choose to enter. There are two kinds of information:

• Your quiz answers and profile. Your grade, intended major, GPA, test scores, courses, activities, awards, essay ideas, target colleges, and anything else you type into the planner. Some of this is sensitive academic and personal information.
• Account details (optional). If you create an account to save your plan, we store your email address. If you sign in with Google, we receive your email and basic profile from Google.

We do not ask for your home address, phone number, or payment information.

• In your browser, by default.If you use Path & Link without an account, your quiz answers, profile, and generated plan are saved only in your own browser (local storage) on the device you used. We do not have a copy on our servers.
• In our database, only if you create an account. When you sign in and save a report, your profile and report are stored in our database (hosted by Supabase) so you can return to them.

We use your information for one purpose: to generate your personalized college plan and fit analysis. The plan itself is produced by a deterministic, rule-based engine; an AI model is used only to put the result into plain language. To do that, the details you enter (such as your grade, scores, courses, and activities) are sent through our AI gateway, OpenRouter, which routes them to a large language model that writes the explanation.

We do not use your information to train our own models, and we never use it for advertising.

We rely on a small number of third-party providers (sub-processors) to run the service, and we share only what each one needs to do its job:

• Supabase — database and authentication. Stores your account and saved reports when you create an account.
• OpenRouter — AI gateway. Receives the profile details needed to generate the plain-language explanation in your plan.

Without an account, your data lives only in your browser until you clear it — we never receive a copy, so there is nothing for us to keep.

With an account, we keep your profile and saved reports until you delete them or ask us to delete your account, at which point we remove them from our database.

Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) between your device and our providers, and access to the database is restricted by row-level security so each account can only reach its own data. No system is perfectly secure, but we limit what we collect and who can touch it.

• We do not sell your information.
• We do not share your profile with colleges, recruiters, or admissions offices.
• We do not use your information for third-party advertising.

Path & Link is for people aged 13 and older. We ask everyone to confirm their date of birth before creating an account, and anyone under 13 is blocked from signing up. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your under-13 child has somehow created an account or shared information with us, email us at the address below and we will delete the account and any associated information.

Most of our users are between 13 and 18, and we know much of what they share is sensitive. We collect only the academic and goal-related information needed to build a plan, never make it public, and never share it with colleges, recruiters, or admissions offices. A student or their parent can email us at any time to delete the account.

• No account:clearing your browser data, or using your browser's “clear site data” option, removes everything Path & Link has stored on your device.
• With an account: you can delete saved reports at any time, or email us to delete your account and all associated data.

If we change how we handle your information, we'll update this page and the “last updated” date above. Significant changes will be made clear before they take effect.

Questions, or want your data deleted? Email contact@pathnlink.com.