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The Explore U iPhone app

The app does not require an account. Your actions update local storage immediately and ordinary campus exploration remains available offline.

If you choose Sign in with Apple, Explore U stores your Apple-linked account identifier and privately synchronizes completed-experience and earned-challenge state, including stable campus/content IDs, completion state, completion date, and state-change time. This data is used only to restore and reconcile your progress after reinstall or on another device. Per-user database rules prevent one signed-in user from reading or changing another user's progress.

Class locations and room numbers, favorites, and memory photos stay only on your iPhone and are not included in progress sync. Explore U does not create server-side precise movement history or upload derived campus-progress percentages.

If you choose the nearby feature, the app requests location access while you use it so it can calculate which campus places are near you. Your precise location is not stored by Explore U or sent to our servers.

If you choose to suggest a correction or photo, Explore U prepares an email or share sheet for you. Nothing is sent automatically. Information you choose to send is handled by the service you select and may be reviewed by the Explore U content team.

Invited campus administrators may optionally sign in from the app. A temporary administrator session is stored in the iPhone Keychain, expires automatically, and can be revoked centrally or ended with Sign out. Ordinary app use does not create this session.

The content-verification website

The optional contributor website uses sign-in to limit access and attribute campus-content submissions. When an invited contributor submits evidence, we store their account name and email, submission notes, review status, and any coordinates or photos they intentionally provide. Administrators use this information to evaluate proposed campus-content updates.

For invited administrators who use the native app, we retain the account identity, session timing, and a one-way hash of the session credential so the server can enforce current role and campus assignments. Raw session credentials are not stored in the database.

Private app progress, class locations, check-ins, and personal memory photos are never displayed in the contributor website.

Sharing and retention

We do not sell personal information or use it for third-party advertising. Contributor evidence is available only to authorized contributors and administrators and is retained as needed to review and document campus-content decisions.

Your choices

You may decline account sign-in, location, or photo access and continue using the app. Signed-in users can sign out or permanently delete their Explore U account and synchronized progress from the You tab. Deletion removes the authentication account and its synchronized progress; device-only photos, favorites, and class locations remain on that iPhone unless you delete them there.

To ask about, correct, or delete information you intentionally submitted through the contributor website, email Explore U privacy support.

Changes

We may update this policy as Explore U grows. The effective date above will change when the policy is revised.