Privacy Policy
The short version
This app has no account, no login and no server of its own. It never asks for your name, Social Security number, FSA ID, account number, bank details or password. Everything you type into the calculators and every box you tick on the checklist stays on your device and is deleted when you uninstall the app.
The one exception is advertising. The app shows adverts through Google AdMob, and the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects a device advertising identifier in order to serve them. That is described in full below.
1. Information we do not collect
We do not ask for, collect, transmit or store any of the following:
- Your name, email address, phone number or postal address
- Your Social Security number, FSA ID, or any loan account number
- Income, tax, employment or family-size details
- Bank account details, card details or any financial account information
- Passwords, PINs or one-time codes
- Contacts, SMS messages, call logs, photos, files or precise location
- Any document or image
The app requests no runtime permissions. It has no access to your camera, storage, contacts, microphone or location.
2. Information stored on your device
The following is written to local storage on your phone only. It is never uploaded, never synced, and never visible to us or to anyone else.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Readiness checklist ticks | So your progress survives closing the app |
| Theme preference and onboarding state | App settings |
| Advert pacing counters and any ad-free window you have earned | To limit how often adverts appear |
Calculator figures are held in memory only while a screen is open. You can erase the checklist from the checklist screen, and everything else by uninstalling the app.
3. Advertising
This app is free and is paid for by advertising supplied by Google AdMob. To serve adverts, measure them and limit how often you see the same one, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect and process:
- Your device advertising identifier (Android Advertising ID)
- Device information such as model, operating system version and language
- Coarse, IP-derived location (country or region level)
- Advert interaction events, such as an impression or a click
- Crash and diagnostic information generated by the SDK
This data is collected by Google, not by us. We never receive it and we cannot link it to you. Google's handling of it is governed by the Google Privacy & Terms.
Your choices
- Where the law requires consent, the app shows a consent form from Google's User Messaging Platform before any advert is requested. You can change or withdraw that consent at any time from Settings → Manage ad privacy options.
- You can reset or delete your advertising identifier in your device settings, under Settings → Google → Ads. You can also opt out of advert personalisation there.
4. Network requests
The app makes exactly three kinds of outbound request:
- Advert configuration. A small JSON file is fetched over HTTPS so adverts can be switched on or off without an app update. The request contains no information about you.
- Advert serving. Requests made by the Google Mobile Ads SDK, described above.
- This policy. The only link the app opens is this page, in your browser. The app contains no other external links.
All app traffic uses HTTPS. Cleartext traffic is disabled at the platform level.
5. Children
This app is directed at adults repaying higher-education loans and is not intended for children under 13, or for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect any information from children.
6. Data retention and deletion
Because no personal data leaves your device, there is nothing for us to retain or delete on a server. Local data is removed when you clear it in the app or uninstall it. For data held by Google in connection with advertising, follow Google's own controls linked above.
7. Your rights
Under applicable privacy laws you may have rights of access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection and portability over personal data held about you. Since this app holds no personal data about you on any server, those rights are satisfied by the on-device controls described above. If you believe otherwise, contact us and we will respond.
8. Accuracy of the content
The guidance, figures and calculators in this app are educational estimates based on publicly available information about Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program loans. They are not a quotation, an offer, or a statement of your actual loan balance, and they are not financial, tax or legal advice. Rules and amounts can change. Always confirm with your servicer and Federal Student Aid through their official channels before acting.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date at the top. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected]
Questions about your actual loan, payments or account must go to your loan servicer, not to us.