Privacy policy.
The short version: we collect what we need to run the checker for you, we never sell it, we use no advertising trackers, and you can delete everything yourself from Settings in about ten seconds.
Last updated October 22, 2026
1. What we collect, and when
- Before you create an account: the courses, grades, dates, exam scores, and program choices you enter on the checker live only in your own browser's local storage. Nothing reaches us until you create an account or sign in.
- When you create an account: your email address and a password (stored only as a one-way hash by our sign-in provider, never readable by us), and any name you add in Settings. Your checker entries are copied to the account when you ask, so they follow you across devices.
- When you see results: which programs you checked and when, so we can apply the three-program free allowance to your account, and the results themselves while you are signed in.
- When you buy a pass: the product, price, date, and a payment reference from Stripe. Stripe handles your card under its own privacy policy; we never see or store card numbers.
- If you upload a transcript (pass holders): the file goes to our document reader, Anthropic's Claude API, which returns the course rows; the file is then discarded and is never stored by us. The reader is instructed to leave out your name, student number, date of birth, and other identifiers. Only the rows you review and accept are saved to your account. We keep a record of each upload (date, number of files and pages, processing size) to apply the monthly allowance. Anthropic does not use API inputs to train its models.
- If you contact us: what you send through the contact form or by email, including the topic, the message, the program it concerns, and your email address if you give one. Data corrections also go into our review queue, where they are checked against the school's page.
- If you choose to contribute: should we ask optional questions about which courses a program accepted from you or how an application turned out, your answers, used only as described in section 3.
- Automatically: ordinary server logs (page requested, time, browser type, IP address), kept briefly for security and debugging and never attached to your account. On forms protected against bots, Cloudflare Turnstile sees your IP address and browser signals to tell people from automated traffic.
We do not collect your date of birth, Social Security number, or financial account numbers, and we do not want them. If a transcript contains them, they stay out of what we keep.
2. How we use it
To compute and show your results, to save them to your account, to apply the free allowance and your pass, to send the emails the service needs (account confirmation, password reset, and any program-change alerts you turn on), to answer your messages and fix the errors you report, to keep the site safe from abuse, and to understand in aggregate how the site is used. We do not sell personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and we use no advertising pixels or third-party analytics trackers.
The people who run ABSNcheck can see account emails, contact messages, and upload counts in an administration view in order to support you and operate the site. Nobody outside the company has that access.
3. Contributions and published statistics
If we invite you to tell us which courses a program accepted or how your application went, and you choose to, we may publish that only as a statistic combined with other people's reports (for example, "12 of 15 reports say this program accepted an online microbiology lab"), and only once enough reports exist that no individual can be identified. Your raw answers are never shown publicly and never shared with schools in a form that identifies you. You can withdraw a contribution at any time through the contact page.
6. How long we keep it, and how to delete it
Your account data stays until you delete it. You can do that yourself at any time: Settings → Delete account. That removes your courses, exam scores, program choices, results, upload records, and the account itself, and ends any pass without refund. If you prefer, ask us from the address on the account and we will do it within 72 hours.
Purchase records are kept for as long as tax and payment rules require, without your checker data. Contact messages are kept while we work on them and for a reasonable period afterwards so we can follow up. Server logs are kept for 30 days. Aggregated statistics that no longer identify anyone may be kept.
7. Your rights
You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, at any time, through the contact page or by emailing hello@absncheck.com. We answer within 30 days. If you live somewhere with specific privacy laws (for example, the EU, the UK, or California), you have at least those rights, and we honor them regardless of where you live.
8. How we protect it
Data travels over encrypted connections and is stored with a provider that encrypts it at rest. Passwords are hashed, never stored in the clear. Access to the database is limited to the service and to the people who run the site. No system is perfectly secure; if we ever learn of a breach that affects you, we will tell you.
9. Children
The site is for adults planning a nursing application. It is not directed at anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.
10. Changes and contact
If we change this policy, the date at the top changes, and for material changes we email account holders. Questions go to the contact page or hello@absncheck.com. Our terms of service explain what the site is and is not.