The short version: we never sell your data. Ever. We store as little as possible, and you can delete all of it yourself, anytime, with one button. Last updated July 17, 2026.
Everything the site remembers about you (articles you've read, quiz results, calculator inputs, your plan, badges, skill progress) lives in your own browser's storage, on your device. It never reaches our servers. Clear your browser data and it's gone.
We use privacy-respecting page analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) to see which pages get visited. It counts visits in aggregate: no cookies, no advertising identifiers, no profile of you, and no tracking across other sites. We can see that a thousand people read the FAFSA guide; we cannot see that you did.
We set no tracking cookies at all. Fonts and images are served from our own site, so reading a page here doesn't announce itself to Google Fonts or any other third party. Our host (Vercel) keeps standard, short-lived server logs to run and protect the service, as every website's host does.
Accounts exist to sync that same progress across your devices. When you sign up we store, on our database provider (Supabase):
That's the whole list. No real names required, no phone numbers, no location, no browsing history beyond this site's own pages.
Your saved posts, follows, and pinned channels are personal-only: they sync so your devices agree, but no one else can see them. Likes work two ways, and we want to be precise: signed out, a like is a private bookmark on your device that nobody counts. Signed in, your like is stored with your account so it can be counted once in the public tally on that post. The tally shows a number, never a list of who liked what.
Reading the community requires nothing. Posting and commenting require an account, and your display name appears with what you write (your tag and flairs appear only if you've turned “show my tag” on). Nothing you submit is public immediately: comments are screened — first by an automated check (see the AI section below), with anything uncertain held for a human — and posts are reviewed by a human before publishing. You can ask us to take any published post, comment, or picture down at any time.
Four features use an AI model (Claude, made by Anthropic). Using them sends some of your text to Anthropic for processing; not using them sends nothing. Per Anthropic's API terms, that data is not used to train their models.
The scholarship finder, opportunity finder, and resources pages link out to official sites we've verified — but once you leave, their privacy practices apply, not ours. We link directly, with no tracking parameters added.
The guides and tools are for everyone. Creating an account requires being 13 or older. If you're under 13, keep using the site logged out; you lose nothing except cross-device sync. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 13, we'll delete it.
You can delete your account yourself, right now, no email required: the account page's Security tab has a delete button. It immediately and permanently removes everything on our servers — your sign-in, synced progress, profile, photo, likes, comments, and any reminder signup. If you'd rather a human handle it (or something goes wrong), email privacy@economicmobilityproject.org from your account's email and we'll do it by hand, normally within a few days. Community posts we curated onto the site come down on request too. Logged-out data is yours to clear anytime from your own browser (or from the Start Here page's backup tools, which also let you export everything first).
The site runs on Vercel (hosting, page analytics); accounts and synced data live with Supabase (Postgres, hosted in the United States), protected so that each account can only ever read its own rows. Anthropic processes the AI features' text as described above. Form submissions are delivered by Web3Forms, and account and reminder email is sent through Resend. Each of these providers processes data only to do that one job for us; none of them may use it for anything else.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so plainly on this page and update the date at the top. No silent edits. (July 17, 2026: rewrote this page to cover the AI features, public like tallies, profile photos, and reminder emails in detail — practices didn't change, the writing caught up. Later the same day: account deletion became self-serve, and deleting your account now also removes your comments automatically, and the AI mock interviewer launched — its section above was added the same day it shipped.)