Privacy
What Studiety collects, why, and how to get it removed.
What we collect
- Account details — username, email address, and optionally your first name, last name and major. You choose what to give beyond a username, email and password.
- What you contribute — reviews and ratings, uploaded files, tutor listings, posts, comments, bookmarks and saved schedules.
- Technical records — a session cookie to keep you signed in, and your IP address recorded briefly when a sign-in fails or an account is created, so the site can stop password guessing and bulk fake sign-ups. These records are deleted automatically within an hour.
There are no advertising trackers, no analytics scripts and no third-party cookies on this site. The only cookie is the one that keeps you signed in.
How your name appears
Reviews can be posted under your display name or anonymously. An anonymous review hides your name from other students, but the account that wrote it is still recorded in the database so that abuse and impersonation can be dealt with. Anonymous is not the same as untraceable — please write accordingly.
Why we hold it
To run the site: to show your contributions, to keep your account secure, to let you recover a forgotten password, and to moderate content that breaks the Terms. We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it with third parties except where we are legally required to.
We email you to confirm your address, to reset your password, and — only if you leave the option enabled in your account settings — occasional nudges about courses you follow. You can turn the nudges off at any time from your account page.
How long we keep it
Your account and contributions stay until you ask us to remove them. Sign-in and sign-up rate limiting records are deleted within an hour. Password reset links expire and can only be used once.
Your choices
You can ask for a copy of your data, correct it, or have your account and contributions deleted. Reviews you wrote can be deleted with the account, or kept detached from your name if you prefer the content to remain useful to other students — tell us which you want.
Write to hello@studiety.com and say what you would like done. We will confirm your identity via your registered email address before acting.
Children
Studiety is intended for university students. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly hold their data.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects how your data is used, we will say so on the site before the change takes effect.