Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Eduly, Inc. ("Eduly", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes personal information that we collect through our website located at https://www.eduly.com and its subdomains (collectively, the "Service"), as well as our marketing activities and other operations described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Personal Information We Collect

Information you provide to us: Personal information you may provide to us through the Service includes:

• Contact data: Such as your first and last name, email address, and phone number.
• Account data: Such as the username and password that you set to establish an online account with us; profile details you add, such as date of birth, location (city, state, country), graduation year, and academic interests.
• Education data: Such as your grade level, SAT/ACT scores, GPA, high school name, course rigor details, and list of target colleges.
• Communications data: Based on our exchanges with you, including chatbot input history, messaging logs, feedback, and support inquiries.
• Marketing data: Such as your preferences for receiving marketing emails and engagement metrics.

Automatic data collection: We and our third-party service providers may automatically log details about you, your device, and your interaction over time with the Service:

• Device data: Operating system, browser type, device identifiers, IP address, and general location information.
• Online activity data: Pages or screens you viewed, time spent on pages, navigation paths, links clicked, and search queries.

Automatic collection technologies: We use technologies like cookies, local storage (such as HTML5), and web beacons to facilitate technical operations, enhance platform functionality, and perform analytics.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

• Service delivery and operations: To provide and maintain the Service, establish your user account, personalization, chatbot processing, and support.
• Research and development: To analyze usage trends, improve the Platform, train our AI matchmaking models, and develop new features using aggregated or de-identified data.
• Marketing and advertising: To send direct marketing communications (which you can opt-out of at any time).
• Compliance and protection: To enforce our Terms of Use, protect our legal rights, investigate fraud, and comply with legal processes or government regulations.

3. How We Share Your Personal Information

We may share your personal information with:

• Service providers: Third-party companies that help us run our business (such as hosting, AI service providers, analytics, and email delivery services).
• Business transferees: Parties to business transactions (such as mergers, acquisitions, financing, or restructuring).
• Professional advisors: Lawyers, auditors, or consultants as necessary for corporate governance.
• Authorities & legal enforcement: When required by law or in a good faith belief to defend security and prevent fraud.

4. Your Choices

• Access or update: You can review and update account details by logging into your profile dashboard.
• Opt-out of marketing: You can unsubscribe from marketing emails by clicking the link at the bottom of the emails or contacting us.
• Do Not Track: We do not currently respond to browser-initiated "Do Not Track" signals.
• Declining data: Declining to provide certain required fields may prevent access to specific Platform features.

5. Other Sites and Services

The Service contains links to third-party websites, applications, and tools. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party platforms. We encourage you to read their policies.

6. Security

We implement administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your personal information. However, security risk is inherent in all internet communications, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. International Data Transfers

Eduly is based in the United States. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may differ from those in your state, province, or country.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. If we learn we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information. If you suspect we have collected data from a child under 13, please notify us immediately.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. When we make updates, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use after changes indicates acceptance of the modified policy.