Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 21, 2025

Welcome to CampusNotes ("we", "us", or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website.

info 1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

  • Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, username, email address, course, and gender, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site.
  • Social Logins: If you register or log in using your Google account, we collect basic profile information like your name, email, and profile picture as provided by Google.
  • User Content: The notes you upload, requests you post, and comments you make are stored on our servers.
  • Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, and a unique downloader ID (stored in a cookie) to track unique downloads.

settings 2. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:

  • Create and manage your account.
  • Display your profile, uploaded notes, and contributions on the Site.
  • Enable user-to-user communications (such as in the "Request Notes" section).
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
  • Prevent fraudulent transactions and protect against criminal activity.
  • Send you emails regarding password resets or other account-related activities.

share 3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not share, sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their commercial purposes.

  • Publicly Visible Information: Your username, name, profile picture, course, uploaded notes, and social media links (if provided) are visible to other users.
  • Service Providers: We use third-party services like Cloudinary for file storage. These services only have access to the information necessary to perform their functions.

cookie 4. Advertising and Cookies

To support our service, we may display ads from third-party networks, such as Google AdSense, in the future. Should we implement advertising:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, will use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
  • We also use essential cookies for site functionality, such as session cookies to keep you logged in and functional cookies to track unique downloads.

security 5. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. We store passwords in a hashed format, but please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

email 6. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

[email protected]