Privacy Policy

This page explains what Nearpeer collects, why, and what we do with it.

What we collect

• Student waitlist: your name, an email address, grade, current school, what you'd like help with, and confirmation that you're 13 or older. Nothing else.
• Counselors: name, personal email, password (stored only as a secure hash), college, graduation year, a college (.edu) email, which we verify with a code, the profile you choose to build, and your signed Counselor Agreement.
• Team applications (growth internship): your name, email, whether you're in high school, in college, or a recent graduate (high school applicants confirm they're 13 or older), school and graduation year, LinkedIn URL if you give one, your resume (PDF), which school's growth team you want to join (recent graduates choose a college or high school team and a school), your first- and second-choice roles, any other skills you list, how many hours a week you can commit, which clubs or communities you're part of if you tell us, and your written answer. Your resume is kept in private storage and only the Nearpeer team can open it.
• Payments (after launch): the student's card, saved with Stripe, and a record of each payment email we sent them. Card numbers are stored by Stripe, never by Nearpeer. Only the student is emailed about their payments.
• Recommendations: if you write a recommendation for a counselor, we collect your name, email, how you know them, how long you've known them, what they helped with, and what you wrote. We email you a link to confirm it before it's published. On the counselor's profile we show what you wrote, how you know them, what they helped with, and the date, plus your first name and last initial only if you chose to show them. Your email is never shown. Counselors can hide a recommendation, and we can remove one; write to us to have yours deleted.
• Referral links: if you arrive through someone's referral link, we save their code in a cookie for 60 days and, if you sign up or join the waitlist, record which code brought you. The person who shared the link never sees who signed up. You can also enter a referral code yourself when you sign up, and tell us how you heard about Nearpeer (optional).
• Basic security data: we use Cloudflare Turnstile and rate limits to stop spam and abuse.

Safety monitoring

To keep students safe, everything written on Nearpeer (messages, documents, comments, file names and contents, and profiles) is checked automatically before it's delivered: by rules that block contact info, outside links, and outside payments, and by an AI safety check for harassment, sexual content, grooming, and signs of crisis. Blocked content is kept, encrypted, for our safety team to review. They can read flagged or reported content only by opening that item, and every view is logged. See Privacy & Safety for details.

AI features

Nearpeer's AI tools (for example, session summaries, session prep, and essay feedback) use the information the person using them is allowed to see in their workspace. Text sent to the AI is processed by Anthropic, which doesn't use it to train its models. A counselor's private notes are never used by a student's AI. Call transcripts are made only when both people agree at the start of that call.

How we use it

• To run your account, confirm counselors' college emails, and process payments for sessions.
• To email you about your account and, for the waitlist, to tell you when Nearpeer opens.
• Team applications are used only to review your application, contact you about it, and, if you join, work with you. Write to us to have your application and resume deleted.
• We don't sell your information, and we don't use it for advertising.

Who processes it

We use service providers to host the site and database (Vercel, Neon), store uploaded files (Vercel Blob), send email (Resend), process payments (Stripe), block spam (Cloudflare), run AI features and safety checks (Anthropic), run video calls (Daily), sync shared documents and live updates (Liveblocks), and scan uploaded files for viruses (Cloudmersive). They process data only to provide those services.

Your choices

You can ask us to update or delete your information at any time by emailing hello@getnearpeer.com. Every email has an unsubscribe link.

Students under 13

Nearpeer isn't for children under 13.