Privacy Policy

No account required

You can search courses, build schedules, and use CourseQuest without creating an account or giving us your name, email address, or other identifying information.

Your data without an account

When you use CourseQuest without an account, your browser stores random identifiers and preferences needed to recognize your schedules and degree plans. CourseQuest stores the associated planning data under those random identifiers, not your identity. Clearing your browser's site data or using a different browser or device can remove access to it.

Accounts

Creating an account is optional. If you choose to create one, we collect the account information needed to provide sign-in and save your schedules and plans across devices. Your existing anonymous planning data may be connected to that account after you sign in.

Contact messages

You may contact us without an account. If you include an email address in a contact message, we use it only to respond to your message.

AI conversations

When you use AI course search or schedule help, your messages and the context needed to answer them are sent to our AI provider. CourseQuest saves your messages, the assistant's responses, school and term, request timestamps, errors, and proposed schedule changes so authorized administrators can review and improve the service. We also record confirmations and outcomes reported by your browser. Your personal-event calendar is stored in your browser; event details included in messages or proposals are also retained in the chat.

Conversations are associated with your account when signed in. Otherwise, a random browser cookie identifies your chat session. Chat transcripts are separate from anonymous usage analytics and are not visible to other users. If you want to request deletion of a conversation, contact us using the address below.

Anonymous analytics

We collect anonymous, aggregated usage analytics to understand how CourseQuest is used and to improve it. These analytics are not intended to identify you personally and are not linked to your account, schedules, or degree plans.

Course information

CourseQuest displays publicly available course information from university systems. We do not ask for, collect, or use your university login credentials.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy as CourseQuest changes. Questions about privacy can be sent to [email protected].