Student & Youth Privacy

StudySocial is for students organizing school life: your class schedule, when your friends are free, your assignments, your study materials and class files, and the plan you make for your own week. It is an independent app. It is not a school, a school system, or an official tool of any school, university, or educational authority, and no school has a view into your account.

Today there is no age gate on StudySocial. Signup does not ask your age or date of birth, and StudySocial does not store either.

A minimum age is a launch decision that has not been made yet. When it is, signup will ask you to confirm you are at least that age (still without asking for a birth date), and this page and the Terms of Service will be updated to say what the age is.

StudySocial does not currently treat younger users differently from anyone else. There is no separate signup path, no parental consent step, and no restricted mode. Everything on this page applies to you the same way it applies to every other student.

Here is exactly who can see each kind of information. “Friends” means people who have accepted a friend request with you.

Your name, username, colour and picture

Friends, people in a group project with you, anyone you send a friend request or invite link to, and students at your school if you both turned on school matching. Anyone can send a request to your exact username unless you turn discoverability off.

Your school, program, year of study and bio

Friends, and students at your school who both turned on school matching. These are self-reported: StudySocial doesn’t verify them with your school. A field you leave empty isn’t shown.

Your LinkedIn and Instagram links

Friends only, for each link you leave visible to friends. You can keep any link visible only to you.

Mutual friends and shared classes

Friends only. Students at your school who both turned on school matching see only a number of friends you have in common (“campus mutuals”), never who they are.

The badge, theme and ring you display

The same people who can see your name. You choose what to display, or nothing at all.

Your classes, meeting times, and rooms

Friends, only while schedule sharing is on. With details sharing off, they only see “Busy”.

Your commitments

Friends see the title and location, unless the commitment is marked private — then they see “Busy”.

Your assignments, notes, and files

Nobody but you.

Your class files and the folders they came from

Nobody but you.

Your planning steps and your to-do list

Nobody but you.

A group project you create or join

The people in that project. They see its title, class name, due date, tasks, who is assigned to what, and a history of who did what. Nothing else about you, and never the assignment of your own that the project came from.

Your email address

Nobody but you.

Your school connection and imported school data

Nobody but you.

Your friend list and friend groups, including group pictures

Nobody but you. Friends see only the friends you have in common with them, and schoolmates who both turned on school matching see only a count.

Managed people you add

Nobody but you.

Your assignments, notes, uploaded files, class files, the plan you make for yourself, your to-do list, your email address, and anything imported from your school are never shared with anyone. No setting turns them on. The one thing you can share is a group project, and only by making or joining one: the people in it see the project and its tasks, and nothing else about you.

Your schedule is different. Sharing your class times and commitments with friends is what StudySocial is for, so schedule sharing is on by default for friends. You can turn it off, or keep it on but hide the details (friends then see only “Busy”), at any time in Settings → Privacy. You can also mark any single commitment private. You can turn discoverability off there too, so people cannot send you a request by typing your username.

If someone is harassing you, pretending to be someone else, or otherwise breaking the Community Guidelines, you can report them from the Safety Center. You choose a reason and can add a short description.

The person you report is not told who reported them. Your report is stored with the reason, the description, who was reported, and when; only you can see your own reports’ status, and the people who run StudySocial review them. Reports are kept even if either account is later deleted, so abuse can still be acted on.

You can block someone from the Safety Center. A block is private: only you can see who you have blocked, and the blocked person is not notified. You can see your blocked accounts and unblock anyone in Settings → Safety.

You can delete your account any time from Settings → Account. It takes effect immediately and cannot be undone.

Deleted right away:

• your user record, name, username, email, and password hash;
• your classes, commitments, assignments, materials, class files, and the bytes of every file you uploaded;
• the planning steps and to-dos you wrote for yourself, and any group project you own;
• managed people you added;
• your sessions, blocks, friend links, and invite code;
• your school connection, its secret, and everything imported from your school.

Kept, without a link to you:

• consent records (which document version you accepted, and when) — the link to your account is removed;
• safety reports — the reported username and the reason stay, so abuse can still be acted on;
• if the operator has taken a database backup, that copy is not edited.

Server request logs kept by the hosting provider are outside StudySocial’s database and follow that provider’s retention. The Privacy Policy has the full detail.

StudySocial does not have a parent portal, a family account, or a verified way to confirm that someone is a student’s parent or guardian. There is no process today for a parent to view, change, or delete a student’s account on their behalf.

If you are a parent or guardian with a question or concern, you can write to us through the contact form. We read every message, but please understand that we cannot verify who you are or hand over a student’s data through that form.

The classes, rooms, and professors you type in are yours. StudySocial has no connection to your school unless you choose to connect one, and even then the connection only reads: StudySocial fetches the calendar link your school platform gives you, or makes read-only calls to your school’s Brightspace server. It never writes to your school’s systems, never submits anything, and never tells your school that you use StudySocial.

Everything imported from your school — course names, assignment titles, due dates, descriptions, links, and the modules or weeks your course is divided into — is visible only to you. Friends never see it. Nothing a sync finds is added to your work until you choose it, unless you switch that connection to add new dated work automatically. If you disconnect your school, the connection, its secret, and everything imported from it are deleted; assignments already on your own work list stay as your own. See the School Integrations page for how syncing works.

Questions about your privacy, a report, or a block? Write to us through the contact form. Messages are stored for the people who run StudySocial to read. We cannot promise a response time, but we read everything.