Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 19, 2026

1. Information We Collect

This Privacy Policy describes how Accuity LLC (“Accuity,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares information when you use our services. When you create an account or use Accuity, we may collect:

Account Information: Name, university email address, phone number, major, and classes.
Payment Information: Billing details processed securely through our third-party payment processor (Stripe). We do not store your full credit card number.
Usage Data: Study time, course progress, practice test results, and interaction with our platform.
Device Information: Browser type, operating system, and IP address for security and analytics purposes.
User-Submitted Content: Text you submit through interactive features — including the “Common Wordings” form on /learn concept pages, support requests, and similar inputs — along with the time of submission and the user account it was submitted from. See Section 4 for how this content is displayed publicly, and Terms & Conditions § 6 for the license you grant us.
DMCA Notice Information: If you file a copyright takedown notice through /dmca, we collect your name, email, optional phone and address, description of the work, the allegedly infringing URLs, and your signature. See Section 8 for how this information is handled.
Calendar Connection Credentials: If you choose to connect a Google Calendar or an iCal/ICS feed to your Study Plan, we collect and store OAuth access and refresh tokens (for Google) or the feed URL (for iCal). See Section 3 for the full scope of what we access and how we use it.

2. How We Use Your Information

To provide, maintain, and improve our educational services.
To personalize your learning experience and study recommendations.
To process payments and manage your subscription.
To send marketing and promotional communications (see our Terms & Conditions for details on opting out).
To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
To detect and prevent fraud or unauthorized access.
To moderate and, where appropriate, publicly display User-Submitted Content as described in Sections 4 and 8.

3. Calendar Integrations

Accuity's Study Plan can connect to a third-party calendar so that the study tasks we generate respect your existing schedule. These integrations are opt-in: nothing is read from or written to your calendar until you explicitly connect it, and you can disconnect at any time from the Study Plan settings page or from your provider's own account controls.

Google Calendar (Google API Services)

When you choose to connect Google Calendar, Accuity initiates a standard OAuth 2.0 consent flow operated by Google. After you grant consent, Google issues us scoped credentials (an access token and a refresh token) tied to your Google account. The sections below describe exactly what we access, how we use it, who it's shared with, how we secure it, and how long we keep it.

3.1 Data Accessed

Accuity requests the following Google OAuth scopes when you click “Connect Google Calendar”:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events — grants Accuity the ability to create, update, and delete events on your Google Calendar.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly — grants Accuity read-only access to the events on your primary Google Calendar.

The specific event fields we read are: event id, summary (title), start and end time, all-day flag, location, and attendee count. We do not request, read, or store the contents of attachments, video conferencing URLs, attendee email addresses, contacts, Gmail messages, Drive files, or any other Google product's data. We do not request offline access to any data other than calendar events.

Google itself also issues us OAuth credentials (an access token, a refresh token, and a token expiry timestamp). These credentials are the only Google-issued tokens we persist.

3.2 Data Usage

We use the Google user data described above strictly to power the following user-facing features of the Accuity Study Plan:

Display your existing events inside the Study Plan calendar view so you can see your real-life schedule next to the study tasks Accuity has generated for you.
Push Accuity-originated events (the study tasks you schedule and the tutoring sessions you book) to your Google Calendar so you get reminders and so the events appear on every device that already syncs your Google Calendar.
Avoid scheduling conflicts when our planner generates or regenerates a study schedule, by skipping or de-prioritising dates and time windows that already contain events. All-day events are ignored for this purpose and never cause a day to be skipped.

We do not use Google user data to train any machine learning or AI model, generate generalised insights across users, target advertising, or score, profile, or rank users in any way unrelated to the study planning features above.

3.3 Data Sharing

Accuity's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically:

We do not sell Google user data, and we do not share it with data brokers, advertising networks, or analytics platforms.
We do not transfer Google user data to any third party except (a) to a small set of infrastructure sub-processors that host or operate our application (described below) and only for the purpose of running the features in §3.2 on our behalf; (b) where we are required to do so to comply with applicable law or valid legal process; or (c) as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case the receiving party must honour the commitments in this Privacy Policy.
We do not use Google user data for serving advertisements, including retargeting and personalised or interest-based advertising.
We do not allow humans to read Google user data unless we have your explicit consent for specific events, it is necessary for security purposes (e.g., investigating abuse), it is necessary to comply with applicable law, or the data is aggregated and used for internal operations in accordance with applicable privacy and other legal requirements.

The infrastructure sub-processors that may handle Google user data on our behalf, in transit only, are:

Vercel Inc. — application hosting and serverless execution (United States).
Neon, Inc. — managed PostgreSQL database that stores your OAuth tokens (United States).
Google LLC — the source API itself; this is where Google Calendar data originates and where we send requests when you take an action in Accuity that creates, updates, deletes, or reads an event.

3.4 Data Storage & Protection

Your Google OAuth access token, refresh token, and token expiry are stored in our managed PostgreSQL database (Neon), in a table dedicated to Google Calendar connections, keyed to your Accuity user id.
All data in that database is encrypted at rest by the database provider and all traffic between Accuity, our database, and Google's APIs is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2 or higher.
Calendar event contents themselves are not stored or warehoused on our servers. Events are fetched from Google on demand when you load the Study Plan calendar view, rendered in your browser, and then discarded.
Access to the database is restricted to a small number of Accuity engineering accounts protected by single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. Production access is logged, and no Accuity employee or contractor reads stored Google user data outside the four narrow exceptions listed in the previous section.

3.5 Data Retention & Deletion

OAuth tokens are retained only for as long as your connection is active. They are deleted the moment you (a) click “Disconnect” in Accuity's Study Plan settings, (b) revoke Accuity from your Google Account permissions page, or (c) close your Accuity account — whichever happens first. Deletion is immediate rather than a soft delete.
Calendar event contents are never persisted on our servers (see §3.4), so there is nothing to delete beyond your browser session.
Accuity-originated events we previously pushed to your Google Calendar are not automatically removed from your calendar when you disconnect; you can delete them from Google Calendar directly. We do not retain a copy of those events outside Google.

How to request deletion or disconnect:

In-app: Open the Study Plan page, click the settings gear, and choose “Disconnect” under Google Calendar. The disconnect button revokes our access token and immediately deletes the stored credentials.
From your Google Account: Visit myaccount.google.com/permissions, locate “Accuity,” and click “Remove Access.” This revokes Accuity's tokens at Google's end; our nightly job removes the now-invalid stored tokens on our side.
By email: Email support@accuitytutors.com from the address associated with your Accuity account and ask us to delete all Google user data and OAuth credentials associated with your account. We will action the request within 30 days and confirm by reply.

iCal / ICS Feeds (e.g., university LMS calendars)

When you add an iCal/ICS feed URL (for example, an exported feed from your university's learning management system), Accuity stores the URL and periodically fetches the feed. Parsed events are cached in our database so we can render them quickly inside the Study Plan calendar without re-fetching on every page load. You can remove a feed at any time from the Study Plan settings page, which immediately deletes the URL and the cached events from our database.

4. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal information to third parties, and we do not share information received from Google APIs with anyone except as described in Section 3 above. We may share your other data with:

Service Providers: Third-party vendors that help us operate our platform (e.g., payment processing, email delivery, hosting).
Legal Requirements: When required by law, regulation, or legal process.
Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Public Display of User-Submitted Content: Text you submit through interactive features such as the “Common Wordings” form may, after admin moderation, be displayed publicly on the corresponding concept page and indexed by search engines. We do not display your name, email, or other identifying information alongside this content — only the text itself is shown, with a generic “Submitted by a student” attribution. Your user account remains associated with the submission internally for moderation, deduplication, and abuse prevention.
DMCA Counter-Notice Process: If a third party files a valid DMCA takedown notice against User-Submitted Content you posted, we may forward portions of the notice to you so you may file a counter-notice. If you file a counter-notice, federal law requires us to share its contents (including your contact information) with the original notice submitter. See Section 8 for details.

5. Data Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information, including encryption in transit and at rest. However, no method of electronic storage or transmission is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you close your account, we will delete or anonymize your data within a reasonable timeframe, except where retention is required by law. OAuth credentials for connected calendars are deleted immediately when you disconnect the integration from Study Plan settings, when you revoke access from your Google account, or when you close your Accuity account — whichever happens first. DMCA notices and any related correspondence may be retained indefinitely as required for legal compliance and to support our repeat-infringer policy (see Terms & Conditions § 8).

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

Access and receive a copy of your personal data.
Request correction of inaccurate information.
Request deletion of your personal data.
Opt out of marketing communications at any time.
Request removal of User-Submitted Content you posted (for example, a wording you submitted on a concept page). Removal requests for User-Submitted Content are honored within a reasonable timeframe unless we are required to retain the content for legal reasons.
Disconnect any third-party calendar integration. For Google Calendar, disconnecting in Study Plan settings revokes our access token; you may additionally remove Accuity from your Google account permissions at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at support@accuitytutors.com.

8. DMCA Notice Information

When you file a DMCA copyright takedown notice through /dmca (or send one to tutors@accuitytutors.com), the information you provide — including your name, contact information, description of the work, the URLs you identify, and your sworn statement — is stored in our internal moderation system and reviewed by our designated agent (registration on file with the U.S. Copyright Office).

Federal law (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)) requires that, if the user whose content you targeted files a valid counter-notice, we provide them with a copy of your counter-notice contact information so they may pursue the matter through the courts. Likewise, if a counter-notice is filed against a takedown of your content, your counter-notice information will be shared with the original notice submitter. By using either process, you consent to this disclosure.

We may also share DMCA notice contents with law-enforcement or judicial authorities if compelled by valid legal process, and we retain notice records as part of our repeat-infringer compliance program.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date. Where the change materially affects how we use Google user data, we will obtain renewed consent from affected users before applying the new practice.

10. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@accuitytutors.com. For copyright-related inquiries, please use the DMCA notice form or email tutors@accuitytutors.com.