Pennantist is a four-year college planner for high school families, made by Hoozye Lab. Many of the people who use it are under 18, so we collect as little as we can, show parents what they need, and keep the rest with the teen. This policy says what we collect, who sees it and what we never do.
The short version
- We never sell your family’s data, and never share it with colleges.
- No ads, no ad tracking, no analytics or tracking tools from other companies.
- We never use one teen’s data to compare them with classmates.
- A parent opens the account and can delete the family’s data at any time.
- Parents see the plan and results. The teen’s proof files stay private, and so do their log wording and drafts unless the teen shares them.
What we collect
- Parents: name and email address, and, if a parent picks one, the family’s income range (one of five ranges, never an amount) to estimate each college’s net price. Payments go through Stripe; we never see or store card numbers. We keep a record of each Pro use, the family balance and what was charged or given back.
- The teen: first name, email address, class year, school district and high school, and the interests they pick.
- An 8th grader under 13: a parent may save their first name, class year, high school and interests, and the parent’s answer that they’re under 13. The teen gets no account, and we send them no email, until a parent says they’re 13 or older.
- What the teen adds: courses and grades, the GPA their school reports, test scores, the weekly log, activities and awards, proof files (photos and documents), volunteer shifts with the supervisor’s name and email, recommendation progress, a college list, activity list drafts, essays with the essay coach’s rounds, and story notes. Photos are resized on your device before upload; this removes location (GPS) and camera details.
- Direction plans: the field, major and answers given when a parent or the teen plans a direction, and the course plan it makes.
- Voice notes: turned into text and then discarded. We never store the recording.
- Sign-in: a cookie that keeps you signed in. Nothing else is stored in your browser for tracking.
Who sees what
- Parents see the roadmap, course plan and GPA (and the school’s GPA if the teen enters it), test scores, the confirmed record and volunteer hours, recommendation progress, the college list, deadlines and application to-dos. Only parents see the income range, payments and the family balance.
- Only the teen sees their weekly log’s own words and voice-note text, proof files, supervisors’ contact details, letters they received, and their story notes, drafts and essays. The teen can choose to share log wording, or drafts and essays, with parents.
- Supervisors get an email link that shows only the shifts waiting for them to confirm.
- Read-only links a parent makes (for a counselor or tutor) show the plan, roadmap, activities and college list, never contact details, proof, logs or private notes. Parents can turn a link off at any time.
These rules are enforced by the database itself, not only by the screens.
Companies that help run Pennantist
We use a small number of services, each only for its job, under contracts that don’t let them use your data for anything else:
- Supabase (database, file storage and sign-in) and Vercel (hosting), in the United States.
- Resend, which sends our emails.
- Stripe, which takes every payment (Pro and the family balance) on its own checkout page and sells them on our behalf as the seller of record (through its Link service), so it also receives the billing address it needs for sales tax.
- Anthropic (Claude), which sorts the weekly log into record items, lines up facts for activity drafts, suggests college tiers, explains Direction’s course paths, and reads an essay draft when the teen asks the essay coach to check it. It gets only what each task needs, such as one week’s log text, one essay or a grade point average, never names or contact details where they aren’t needed. To find opportunities, Claude searches the web with the teen’s grade, interests, the city and state of their high school, and the names and roles of their activities, and nothing else about them.
- OpenAI, which turns voice notes into text.
Under their terms for businesses, Anthropic and OpenAI don’t train their models on what we send them. Anthropic deletes what we send within 30 days, unless it’s flagged under its usage policy or the law requires keeping it.
To read a school district’s rules, Pennantist reads the district’s own public documents. No family information is sent for that.
AI never writes for the student
AI in Pennantist organizes facts the teen logged and gives suggestions, which stay suggestions. It never writes essays or application answers as the student’s own work.
Emails
Teens get a short weekly email, and so do parents of a teen with Pro. Anyone can turn it off from the email itself, or under Email in Family (parents) or Settings (teens). We don’t send text messages and don’t ask for phone numbers.
Keeping and deleting data
We keep the family’s data while the account is open, so four years of plans and records stay in one place. A parent can delete the family account from Family at any time. That removes every member’s data and files right away; copies in our backups are gone within 30 days.
Laws for minors
We hold Pennantist to the strictest standard we know for protecting minors’ data, wherever a family lives: a parent’s consent and control, only the data we need, no targeted advertising, and tools for parents to see and delete their child’s data. Pennantist is for teens 13 and older, invited by a parent.
Changes and questions
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll email parents before it takes effect. Questions or requests about your family’s data go to Pennantist support (address added before launch).