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Effective date: August 15, 2026 · Last updated: August 15, 2026
Lincyou is a student growth network designed to help students, alumni, mentors, schools, and related communities connect through verified identity, shared experiences, planning tools, events, and career or mentorship opportunities.
This Privacy Policy explains how Lincyou collects, uses, shares, protects, and retains personal information when you use the Lincyou app, website, and related services.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use Lincyou.
Lincyou is operated by LincYou Technologies Inc. (“Lincyou,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
For privacy questions, contact us at:
Email: privacy@lincyou.com
We collect information in the following categories.
We may collect:
We use this information to create your account, verify your identity or school affiliation, protect the community, and provide age-appropriate experiences.
You may add information to your profile, timeline, wall, or similar personal spaces, such as:
Some profile and timeline information may be visible to other users depending on your visibility settings and the feature you use.
We collect content you create or interact with on Lincyou, including:
The audience for your content depends on the posting destination, your settings, verification rules, and applicable safety restrictions.
We may collect information about how you connect with others on Lincyou, including:
We use this information to help users discover relevant people, maintain trust and safety, and improve recommendations.
If you use Lincyou tools, we may collect:
By default, personal goals, progress, and planning information should be treated as private unless you choose to share it or a feature clearly states otherwise.
If you participate in polls, we may collect:
Unless a specific feature clearly says otherwise, individual poll votes should not be shown to other users. Poll creators should see aggregate results only.
Lincyou may include features that help users understand credibility, contribution, and trust, such as:
Some of these signals may be generated from your activity or from information provided by other users. Because this information can affect how others perceive you, Lincyou should provide appropriate visibility controls, correction paths, and dispute or removal processes.
To support a trusted community, Lincyou may collect information used to verify claims such as:
Verification may involve information you provide directly, school-issued credentials, documents, email domains, or third-party verification providers. We use verification information to determine access, visibility, trust indicators, and eligibility for certain features.
If Lincyou offers career, internship, recruiter, or opportunity-related features, you may choose whether to make selected profile information visible for those purposes.
Recruiter or opportunity visibility should be:
If Lincyou supports purchases, paid sessions, payouts, or in-app currency, we may collect:
Payment processing may be handled by third-party payment providers such as Stripe. Lincyou should not store full payment card numbers unless explicitly required and compliant with applicable payment security standards.
If you use AI-assisted features, we may collect:
AI features may be powered by third-party AI providers. Lincyou should disclose which providers are used, where data is processed, how long AI logs are retained, and whether user data is used to train AI models.
We may automatically collect:
We use this information for security, analytics, fraud prevention, product improvement, debugging, and service reliability.
If you contact us, we may collect:
Service communications, such as security notices or account-related messages, may be sent even if you opt out of marketing communications.
We use personal information to:
We do not sell personal information.
Lincyou is built around real identity and controlled visibility. Different information may be visible to different audiences depending on your settings, the feature, and safety rules.
Lincyou may use audience tiers such as:
Profile basics such as name, school, and profile photo may be visible to other users so Lincyou can operate as a real-identity student network. Other profile sections may have more limited visibility settings.
Timeline, milestones, skills, and related profile content may be visible based on your selected audience setting. Lincyou should provide a way to preview how your profile appears to different audiences where feasible.
When you publish content, the destination determines who can see it:
A post should keep its original audience wherever it appears, including on your wall, in search results, in feeds, and through shares.
Plaza is a cross-campus discovery feed. Content posted to Plaza may be visible to all signed-in Lincyou users, but it is not intended to be indexed publicly on the internet at MVP.
Because Plaza posts can route other users to the author’s profile or wall, Lincyou should clearly label Plaza as cross-campus visibility at the time of posting.
Individual poll votes should not be shown to other users unless clearly stated before voting. Poll creators should generally see aggregate results only.
Recruiter or internship visibility should be off by default and require explicit opt-in. If enabled, users should be able to choose which profile sections are shared.
Lincyou may be used by students, including users under 18 if the product expands to high school or pre-university students.
For users under 18, Lincyou should apply additional protections, such as:
Lincyou should not knowingly collect personal information from children below the minimum permitted age without required consent. The exact minimum age and consent process should be finalized with legal counsel for each launch jurisdiction.
We may share information in the following situations.
We share your information with other users according to:
We may share information with vendors that help us operate Lincyou, such as:
These providers may process information only as needed to provide services to Lincyou and must protect it according to contractual obligations.
Lincyou may work with schools, universities, alumni associations, clubs, or other organizations.
Individual user data should not be shared with an institution or organization unless:
Lincyou should maintain clear boundaries between individual user data and institution or organization data.
If recruiter or opportunity features are available, we share selected user information only when the user has opted in and chosen what to make visible.
We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
If Lincyou is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate protections.
Lincyou may use AI to support features such as summaries, recommendations, planning assistance, content organization, search, safety review, and user assistance.
AI outputs may be imperfect. Users should not rely on AI outputs as legal, financial, medical, immigration, academic, or professional advice.
Where AI is used to generate recommendations, trust signals, safety decisions, or profile-related insights, Lincyou should provide appropriate transparency and, where required, ways to request review, correction, or deletion.
Lincyou should not use private user content to train external AI models unless clearly disclosed and permitted by law and user consent.
Lincyou may use cookies, SDKs, device identifiers, and similar technologies to:
Where required by law, Lincyou should provide cookie notices, consent choices, or opt-out options.
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer period is required by law.
Retention may vary by category:
If you delete your account, we will delete or de-identify personal information where required, unless retention is necessary for legal, safety, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or legitimate business purposes.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:
You can exercise privacy rights by contacting us at privacy@lincyou.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
You may request deletion of your account by emailing privacy@lincyou.com.
When an account is deleted, Lincyou should delete or de-identify personal information unless retention is required for:
Some content may remain visible if it was shared with others, copied, quoted, included in other users’ interactions, or retained in aggregated or de-identified form.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information, including measures designed to prevent unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or disclosure.
No system is completely secure. Users should protect their login credentials and notify us if they suspect unauthorized account access.
Lincyou may process and store information in Canada, the United States, or other countries where our service providers operate.
If information is transferred across borders, it may be subject to the laws of the destination country. We use appropriate safeguards where required by applicable law.
We may send marketing communications where permitted by law. You can opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link or adjusting your preferences.
Even if you opt out of marketing, we may still send service-related messages, such as account, safety, security, transaction, or policy notices.
Lincyou may link to third-party websites, services, payment processors, AI providers, verification providers, schools, organizations, or event platforms.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide notice through the app, by email, or by another reasonable method.
The updated policy will be effective when posted, unless a later effective date is stated.
If you have questions or requests about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact:
Lincyou Privacy Team
Email: privacy@lincyou.com