Privacy, in plain English.

Beta policy · Updated July 12, 2026

Your life story is private by default. We do not sell it, publish it, or use it for targeted advertising.

What Admit Pilot stores

When you continue with Google, Google provides basic account identity information such as your stable account identifier, email address, name, and profile image when available. When you use an email sign-in link, we receive the email address you submit and verify your control of it through a short-lived, one-time link. We use verified identity information to create and secure your Admit Pilot account. Admit Pilot also stores the academic profile, college preferences, original match estimates, shortlisted schools, stories, essay directions, drafts, review results, and application progress you choose to save.

Guests can draft locally without creating a durable account record. Guest work is not synced to our database, and AI coaching requires sign-in.

Sign-in and sessions

Google handles its sign-in screen; Admit Pilot does not receive your Google password. Email sign-in links expire after 15 minutes, work once, and are stored only as one-way hashes. After any successful sign-in, Admit Pilot uses an opaque, random session cookie marked Secure and HTTP-only. Browser code cannot read it, and only a one-way hash of the session token is stored. Sessions expire and are revoked when you sign out.

You may revoke Admit Pilot's Google access from your Google Account. Revocation prevents future authorization, but it does not automatically delete work already saved in Admit Pilot. To remove that data, request account deletion using the contact below.

How AI processing works

Text you submit for analysis is sent securely to our AI service provider to perform the feature you requested. We minimize what is sent, disable model-response storage where supported, and do not intentionally include account identifiers in AI prompts.

When you choose voice-to-text, your browser records only after you press the microphone button. After you stop, the audio is sent securely to OpenAI for transcription. Admit Pilot does not save the audio recording; only the transcript you choose to keep becomes part of your saved writing.

When you build a voice profile or run a voice pass, only the writing samples you explicitly select, the derived profile, and the current draft are sent to our AI provider for that request. Selected samples and results are stored with your private workspace so you can revisit or delete them. Admit Pilot does not send your writing to third-party AI-detector or “humanizer” services, and the profile is not used to infer sensitive identity, health, intelligence, or psychological traits.

College match estimates

College Match combines the academic and preference information you provide with the latest available institution-level admission rate, testing, enrollment, cost, and program data from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. We preserve the admission range first shown to you so later application progress does not silently rewrite it. Personal fit and application readiness are scored separately. No estimate is a guarantee or decision from a college.

Payments and subscriptions

Stripe processes subscription checkout, payment methods, invoices, and billing changes. Admit Pilot does not receive or store your full card number. We store Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, plan status, renewal timing, and related billing metadata needed to provide paid access and customer support.

Creator outreach and access

For our creator program, authorized managers may store a creator email, name, platform and handle, outreach notes, the manager who added the record, offer history, access timing, and related Stripe customer, Promotion Code, Checkout Session, and subscription identifiers. We use this information to coordinate outreach, provide and revoke temporary Pro access, prevent duplicate offers, and maintain an operational audit trail.

Creator records and offer history are retained for audit until they are manually purged under our deletion process. Creator Offer codes are restricted operational credentials: they are not placed in URLs, analytics, or application logs. Creators may request correction or deletion using the contact below, subject to limited legal, security, fraud-prevention, or accounting retention duties.

For a parent purchase, we also store the purchaser's email, the student name and email they provide, invitation delivery status, and encrypted single-use access credentials. The purchaser can manage billing and resend the invitation, but cannot view the student's stories, drafts, feedback, or application workspace.

What we do not do

Your controls

You can edit your work, remove individual content, request an export, sign out to end the current session, revoke Google access if connected, or ask us to delete your Admit Pilot account and saved work. Collaboration links share only the material and permissions you explicitly choose.

Students and age

Admit Pilot is designed for applicants age 13 and older. Users under 18 should review privacy choices with a parent, guardian, or trusted counselor.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests can be sent to privacy@admitpilot.org.