Privacy Policy
Aplyxa is a website for high school students applying to college and their families. There's a waitlist on this website, and the Aplyxa app, which is being tested now and opens to everyone on August 1, 2027. This page explains who can sign up, what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can ask us to delete it.
Who can sign up
- 18 or older: you can join the waitlist yourself.
- Students under 18: a parent or guardian must join for you. By joining, they agree to this policy and our Terms AI policy on your behalf. They can use their own email address or yours, as long as you know about it.
- Children under 13: Aplyxa isn't for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information, even with a parent's permission.
What we collect
- Waitlist: the email address, the date and time of joining, and, if you arrived from a link with a short tag in it (for example a link in our social media bio), that tag. This tells us which links people use. We also record that the person joining confirmed they're 18 or older, or a parent or guardian joining for a student.
- Contact form: your message and, if you choose to give it, your email address, plus the date and time you sent it.
- Basic server logs: like almost every website, our hosting provider automatically records technical details when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages you requested. These are used to keep the site running and secure.
What we don't collect
- We don't use advertising trackers or analytics cookies.
- We don't ask for your name, school, grades, or essays on this website.
- We don't buy information about you from anyone.
How we use it
- To send one email when Aplyxa opens to the address that joined the waitlist.
- To reply to you, if you contacted us and gave an email address.
- To understand roughly how many people are interested and where they heard about us.
Who we share it with
We don't sell or rent your information. We share it only with the services that run this website:
- Vercel hosts the website and stores waitlist sign-ups and contact messages in private storage.
- Google Fonts provides the fonts on this site. When your browser loads them, Google receives your IP address.
We may also share information if the law requires it.
The tools on the home page
The first lines lesson, the plan builder, the word counter, the season pass picker, and the countdown all work only inside the page while it's open. What you type or pick isn't saved in your browser, stored by us, or sent anywhere. It's gone when you leave or reload the page. If you use the button to send Aplyxa to a friend, your device's own share menu or clipboard handles the link.
How long we keep it
We keep waitlist emails until Aplyxa opens and we've sent the launch email, or until you ask us to delete yours, whichever comes first. We keep contact messages only as long as we need them to answer you. In the app, we keep your information while you have an account, and coach chats until you delete them.
Your choices
You can ask us to show you what we have about you, correct it, or delete it. Send a request through the contact page and include the email address you used. We'll handle it as soon as we can.
Students under 18
A parent or guardian who joined for a student can ask us at any time to show, correct, or delete that information, using the contact page. If we learn that a student under 18 joined without a parent or guardian, or that a child under 13 gave us information, we'll delete it.
The Aplyxa app
Everything above is about this website. This part is about the app, where students plan their applications.
What the app keeps
- Your account: your name, email address or phone number, password (stored scrambled, so no one can read it), your role (student, or parent or guardian), and your birth date, which we use only to check age rules.
- Your plan: graduation year, the hours a week you have, an intended major if you add one, your home state, any grades and test scores you choose to enter, your college list with each college's round, status and your notes, and which tasks and lessons you've finished.
- Chats with the AI coach: what you write to the coach and its replies, saved so you can come back to them, like other AI chat apps. Each chat stays until you delete it or your account. We also keep the time of each message you send, for the daily and monthly limits, and how many extra messages you have, if you buy any.
- Reminders: if you turn them on, the address your device gives us for sending reminders, and your time zone. If you get emails, we keep whether you want them.
- Limits and safety: the times you used essay feedback and quiz readings, so each plan gets its limits, and your IP address, usually in a scrambled form, when someone may be attacking the app. We keep it up to 30 days.
What the app doesn't keep
- Essays you send for feedback: they go to the AI only to write the feedback, then they're gone from our servers. Only the time of the review is kept. Your draft and last feedback stay on your own device, and are cleared when you sign out.
- Quiz answers: they go to the AI only to write your reading. Only the time is kept.
- Your voice: when you talk to the coach, your words are turned into text on your own device. The recording never leaves it.
Who reads your coach chats
- You. Parents and guardians can't see a student's chats or essays. They see deadlines and progress.
- The AI that writes the replies: Claude, made by Anthropic, reached through Vercel's AI service. Each message, the chat so far and what the coach needs to know about your plan (your colleges, dates and this week's tasks) are sent to write the reply. Anthropic's terms don't allow it to train its models on this.
- Aplyxa's team doesn't read your chats. We'd look at one only if you ask us to, if we need to keep someone safe, or if the law requires it.
- Safety: if a message suggests a student may be in danger right now, the coach shows support right away, and a second, stricter check runs. Only if that check finds clear, current danger is Aplyxa's founder alerted. A person then reads the messages and decides whether to contact a parent or guardian, or emergency services. Nothing is sent to anyone automatically, and we save a short note on why the check flagged it.
Deleting
- Delete any chat, or all of them, from the list of chats in the Coach tab. Deleted chats are gone from the app right away.
- Delete your whole account, with everything in it, from the Account page. When a parent or guardian deletes their own account, their student's account and everything in it are deleted too.
Who helps run the app
- Vercel hosts the app and connects it to the AI.
- Supabase stores accounts and everything the app keeps.
- Anthropic makes Claude, the AI behind the coach, essay feedback and quiz readings.
- Resend sends sign-in codes and reminder emails.
- Stripe handles payments on its own checkout page. Aplyxa keeps what was bought, the amount, the date and Stripe's reference for the payment, never card numbers.
- Apple, Google and Mozilla deliver reminders to your device, if you turn them on. Reminders are locked so these services can't read them.
Students under 18 need a parent or guardian to create the account and agree to this policy. The coach is an AI, not a person, and the app always says so. Read more in our AI policy.
Security
Sign-ups and messages are stored in private storage that isn't publicly accessible. No website can promise perfect security, but we collect as little as possible so there's less to protect.
If someone floods our forms or tries to break into accounts, we keep that visitor's IP address for up to 30 days so we can block them.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Use the contact page.