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Privacy Policy

Last updated: Jun 3, 2025, 2:00:00 AM

👋 Quick Summary for Students and Families

Welcome to Pathly, your AI-powered guide for life after high school.
We take your privacy seriously. This policy explains how Pathly Ltd Co (“Pathly,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and protects your information when you use our platform, website, or related services (“Services”).

If you are under 18, please review this policy with a parent or guardian. Users under 13 may only use Pathly with verified parental or school consent under COPPA.

1. Quick Summary

We protect your information and never sell your name or contact details.
Your data powers Pathly’s guidance and helps match you with schools, scholarships, or career paths.

You and your family can view, change, or delete your data at any time.
Pathly is free for students and may partner with trusted educational organizations to keep it that way.

2. Company Information

Pathly Ltd Co
6650 Rivers Ave, Suite 100
Charleston, SC 29406
📧 hello@joinpathly.com
📧 privacy@joinpathly.com

3. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

  • Account Details: Name, email, school, graduation year, and parent or guardian contact

  • Profile Data: Interests, goals, activities, academic indicators, and career preferences

  • Educational Records: Transcripts or scores only with explicit consent

  • Engagement Data: Quiz answers, surveys, and goal-tracking inputs

  • Communications: Messages, feedback, and support requests

  • Financial Data: Payment information for optional premium features

Information Collected Automatically

We collect only de-identified usage data to improve performance.
Examples include page views, session duration, device type, browser, and approximate region (state-level).

We do not store IP addresses, GPS data, or full session recordings.

Information from Third Parties

  • Educational Partners: Records or outcomes with student or parent consent

  • Parental Information: Consent and preference records

  • Optional Connections: Limited public social info if you link accounts

  • Data Enrichment: Anonymous trend or demographic datasets (no personal identifiers)

4. How We Use Information

To Power Your Experience

  • Deliver personalized college, career, and scholarship matches

  • Track goals and progress to improve recommendations

  • Connect you with verified schools or programs only with your permission

To Improve the Platform

  • Refine our AI models using only anonymous or aggregated data

  • Analyze usage trends to develop new features and support research

To Communicate and Support

  • Send alerts about deadlines, resources, or updates

  • Provide personalized non-advertising content

  • Share aggregate trends with education partners to improve program quality

  • Offer clearly labeled sponsored quizzes or learning tools (optional)

To Keep Pathly Free

We collaborate with trusted colleges, training providers, and scholarship platforms.

We never sell personal data. Partners may receive only anonymous, aggregated insights unless you opt in to share personally.

5. What We Don’t Do

❌ We do not sell your personal information
❌ We do not use behavioral advertising or cross-site tracking
❌ We do not profile minors for marketing without verified consent
❌ We do not allow AI to make binding decisions about your future

6. When We Share Information

With Your Permission

When you choose to connect with a school, scholarship, or partner program.

With Service Providers

For hosting, analytics, or support under confidential agreements prohibiting secondary use.

With Educational Partners

Only in aggregate or de-identified form unless you opt in for direct sharing.

For Legal Reasons

To comply with law, protect rights or safety, or respond to court orders.
If Pathly is merged or acquired, we will notify users before data transfers.

7. Parental Rights and Youth Protection

Parents may review, update, or delete their child’s data at any time.
Verifiable consent is required for users under 13.
Parents may opt out of communications or sponsored content.
We do not share data for advertising purposes.
Requests can be made at 📩 privacy@joinpathly.com.

8. Your Controls and Choices

Edit or delete your profile information anytime.
Manage email and alert settings.
Opt out of research or partner data sharing.
Request complete account deletion at any time.
We may retain anonymized data for research or security purposes.

9. Data Retention

Active accounts: data is kept to provide services.

After closure: limited records may be retained for up to seven (7) years for legal or audit purposes.

Anonymous, non-identifiable data may be retained indefinitely for research and improvement.

10. Cookies and Tracking

Pathly uses only essential and performance cookies to:

  • Keep you signed in

  • Measure feature use anonymously

  • Improve speed and accessibility
    We do not use advertising trackers. You may control cookies in your browser.

11. Third-Party Integrations

Certain features connect to external providers such as scholarship or training partners.

When you opt in to use those services, their own privacy policies apply.
Pathly is not responsible for their data practices.

12. Legal and International Compliance

Your information may be processed in the United States or other jurisdictions with adequate safeguards.

Pathly complies with FERPA (student records), COPPA (children under 13), CCPA/CPRA (California residents), GDPR (international users), and applicable state student privacy laws.

13. Data Security

We use encryption, access controls, and secure hosting to protect information.
While we take reasonable measures, no system is completely secure.

By using Pathly, you acknowledge that data transmission over the internet involves some risk.

Pathly is not liable for unauthorized access beyond our reasonable control.

14. AI Governance and Transparency

Pathly’s AI provides suggestions based on your inputs but does not make final decisions.
Your personal data is never used to train external AI systems.
AI outputs are reviewed for accuracy, fairness, and bias on an ongoing basis.

15. Your Privacy Rights

You may at any time:

  • Request access or correction of your data

  • Request deletion or closure of your account

  • Obtain a portable copy of your data

  • Opt out of analytics or partner data sharing

  • Request details about third-party data use

Email privacy@joinpathly.com.

We verify identity before fulfilling requests and respond within 45 days where required by law.

16. Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If changes materially affect your rights, we will notify you at least 30 days before they take effect.

Continued use after that date means you accept the updated policy.

17. Contact Us

General Questions: hello@joinpathly.com
Privacy Requests: privacy@joinpathly.com
Mailing Address: Pathly Ltd Co, 6650 Rivers Ave, Suite 100, Charleston, SC 29406

18. Legal Notice and Limitation of Liability

This Privacy Policy does not create any contractual right beyond what is required by law.

To the fullest extent permitted, Pathly Ltd Co and its affiliates are not liable for any indirect or incidental damages arising from unauthorized access or misuse of data beyond our reasonable control.

Your Path. Your Pace. Your Future.
We’re committed to helping you explore your future confidently and safely.

By using Pathly, you agree to this policy and our commitment to ethical, secure, and student-first data practices. We’re here to help you explore your future—confidently and safely.