This Privacy Policy describes how RU Degree Tracker collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our degree tracking web application, rudegrees.com.

We collect the following information when you use our app:

• Email address (used for authentication, typically via Google OAuth and Rutgers Scarletmail accounts)
• Name (provided by Google)
• Course and degree data (courses you add, degree selections, and degree progress)
• Cookies (used for session management and authentication)

Your data is used for the following purposes:

• Authentication: To verify your identity and provide secure access to your account.
• Academic Tracking: To display and analyze your degree progress, course history, and requirements.
• Personalization: To tailor your experience and show relevant degree information.

We do not sell personal data.

• Authentication providers (e.g., Google) for login purposes.
• Service providers (e.g., Supabase, Upstash Redis) for secure data storage and processing.
• Analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics) for usage statistics.

We do not share your data with other users or third parties.

We retain your course data until you, the user, manually delete it.

• Access your course data
• Correct or update course data
• Delete your course data

We use Google OAuth to authenticate users. When you sign in with Google, we request access to your basic profile information, including your email address and name. This information is used solely for authentication and to personalize your experience within the app.

Your Google user data is stored securely in our database and is not shared with third parties except as required for authentication. We do not access, use, or store any other Google account data.