Privacy

What I collect, and what I do with it.

Kate Hatch runs Simply Admitted as a sole proprietor. This explains what information the site holds about a student and their family, why it is here, who else sees it, and how to have it removed. It is written to be read rather than to be survived, so it is shorter than most.

In effect from August 21, 2026. Questions to kate@simplyadmitted.com.

What is collected

Who you are
A student’s name, email address, and optionally a phone number. A parent’s name, email address, and how they are related to the student. Nothing else identifies you.
What you are applying to
High school, graduation year, the schools on your list, intended majors, and a dream career if you have one. Grades and test scores when you choose to enter them — a GPA, an SAT or ACT total and its section scores. These are optional and the tool works without them.
Your writing
Every draft of every essay, each version kept as you saved it, the outlines agreed in a planning session, Kate’s suggested edits and comments, and anything you wrote back. The version history exists so a draft can always be recovered, which means old drafts are kept rather than overwritten.
What was said and when
Notes from meetings, session requests and their replies, the emails and notifications the tool has sent you, and the recommendation letters you are tracking — a recommender’s name and email, and where each request has got to.
Fees
What was agreed, what has been paid and when. No card or bank details ever reach this site: there is no payment processor connected to it, and invoicing happens outside the tool entirely.
Sign-in and devices
If you sign in with Google, your email address and name from that account and nothing more. If you use a password, only a scrambled form of it that cannot be reversed. If you turn on notifications, an anonymous address for the device so a notification can be delivered to it.

Google account information

Signing in with Google shares your email address, your name, and nothing else. The tool asks Google for no other permission and cannot read your mail, your files or your calendar.

Kate separately connects her own Google Calendar so the site can tell you which of her office hours are genuinely free. That connection is hers alone, it is never asked of a student or a parent, and it uses the narrowest permission Google offers — free and busy times only. It cannot see the title, location or guests of any appointment.

Simply Admitted’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. That information is used only to provide and improve the features you can see here. It is never sold, never used for advertising, and never given to a human to read except where you have asked for support or the law requires it.

Where a computer reads your work

Two features send text to a language model through OpenRouter. The career suggestions on the intake form send the five short answers you type there. The analysis Kate can run on an essay sends that essay.

Nothing is sent automatically. Both happen only when a person presses a button, and neither is used to train anybody’s model. If you would rather no part of your writing left the site, do not use those two features and nothing will.

Who else is involved

These are every company that touches any of it, and what each one does. There are no others.

  • VercelRuns the site.
  • NeonStores the database.
  • ResendDelivers email.
  • GoogleSigns you in, and reads Kate’s free and busy times.
  • OpenRouterRuns the two AI features described above.
  • Apple and GoogleDeliver a notification to your phone, if you turned them on.

Who can see it

Kate can see everything about her own students, which is the point of the tool. A student sees their own work and nobody else’s. A parent with an account sees their own child’s progress and drafts, and nothing about any other family.

Parents receive progress updates only after they have said yes, and can stop them from any email without asking anyone. A student can always see exactly which parents are subscribed and what each update contains.

Students under eighteen

Most students here are sixteen to eighteen and are working on an application with their parents’ knowledge. The site is not intended for children under thirteen and Kate does not knowingly work with them. A parent who wants to see, correct or delete what is held about their child can ask and it will be done.

How long it is kept

While an engagement is active, everything is kept — the version history is what makes a lost draft recoverable. Afterwards a student’s record is archived rather than deleted, so it stays available if they come back or need a copy of their own writing.

It is kept until you ask for it to be removed. Write to kate@simplyadmitted.com and it will be deleted, including the drafts and the version history. There is no automatic purge on a timer, and this says so rather than promising one that does not exist.

What is never done with it

It is not sold. It is not shared with anyone for advertising. There are no advertising or analytics trackers on this site — the only cookie it sets is the one that keeps you signed in. Nothing about a student is given to a school, and Kate does not contact a school on a student’s behalf without being asked to.

Your rights

Whoever you are and wherever you live, you can ask what is held about you, ask for a copy of it, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. Write to kate@simplyadmitted.com.

California residents have those rights under the CCPA as amended by the CPRA, along with the right not to be treated differently for exercising them. There is nothing to opt out of regarding sale or sharing, because neither happens.

How it is protected

Passwords are stored using a slow hashing algorithm designed for the purpose and are never recoverable, even by Kate. The one credential the site holds that must be reversible — Kate’s calendar connection — is encrypted so that a tampered copy fails rather than decrypting to something plausible. Links sent by email are signed and expire.

No system is perfect and this one is small. If something goes wrong that affects you, you will be told.

Changes

If this changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and anyone with an account is told by email. Small corrections happen without an announcement.