For Schools / Trust
A practical trust page for school review.
FindU helps students explore colleges with AI support, while keeping student privacy, school data controls, and advisor independence clear enough for counselors, districts, and college-access programs to review.
Last updated: June 20, 2026
Core commitments
Student data is not for sale
We do not sell student personal information. Colleges and partners only receive identifiable student information when the student chooses to be discoverable, asks to connect, or a written school/program agreement authorizes a specific educational use.
No targeted advertising
We do not use student personal information for third-party advertising, and we do not share student data with advertisers. FindU is funded by partner workflows, not by selling access to student records.
No external AI-provider training
We do not permit AI providers to train their general models on FindU student conversations, profiles, or school-search activity.
The advisor works for the student
Colleges cannot buy advisor answers, recommendations, rankings, or fit scores. The advisor is designed to help the student understand options and ask better questions.
Student Privacy Pledge successor framing
The Student Privacy Pledge was retired by the Future of Privacy Forum on April 25, 2025. FindU does not claim to be a Pledge signatory, and we do not use the retired Pledge as a certification badge.
Instead, this page states the pledge-aligned commitments schools still ask about: no sale of student personal information, no targeted advertising from student data, limited use and sharing, service-provider controls, access/deletion support, and written school agreements for formal use.
For school procurement, we expect review to happen through current written agreements and data protection terms. The Student Data Privacy Consortium's National Data Privacy Agreement is one common framework schools use to standardize those expectations; we are prepared to review district or program terms, including NDPA-based terms, when a school wants to use FindU formally.
Formal school use
If a school, district, or college-access program uses FindU as an outsourced educational service, the right model is a written agreement that defines the educational purpose, student-data controls, permitted uses, and deletion or return expectations.
In FERPA terms, FindU is designed to support a school-official model where appropriate, with the school retaining control over education-record use. We do not treat "FERPA compliant" as a standalone badge.
Student-directed use
Students can also use FindU directly. In that setting, students control whether colleges may see their profile or receive interest signals. We do not sell student personal information or let colleges pay to steer the advisor.
If a student chooses to be discoverable, FindU may help colleges or college-access programs connect with that student under the student's sharing preferences and our posted privacy terms.
AI advisor boundaries
FindU's advisor is an AI tool for college, career, scholarship, and application guidance. It can be incomplete or wrong, so students should verify important facts like deadlines, costs, eligibility, and admissions requirements.
The advisor does not replace a counselor, licensed therapist, financial advisor, attorney, or emergency service. When a student appears to be in crisis or asks for help with self-harm, violence, abuse, or another immediate safety concern, the advisor is designed to stop normal college guidance and direct the student toward emergency help, 988 in the United States, a school counselor, a parent or guardian, or another trusted adult.
More detail is available in our Responsible AI policy.
What a school review should cover
- Data collection and use limits tied to the educational purpose.
- Security and service-provider obligations for systems that support FindU.
- Student, parent, and school access, correction, and deletion workflows.
- Retention, return, deletion, and de-identification expectations at account closure or contract end.
- Written terms for formal school or district use, including school-official framing where appropriate.
Access, deletion, and review contact
Students and parents can request access, correction, or deletion through the workflows described in our Privacy Policy. For school-managed use, those workflows can be handled through the school or program relationship defined in the written agreement.
Counselors, district reviewers, and program leaders can contact team@joinfindu.com for privacy, AI, or data protection review.
Source framing
This page is based on FindU's own public commitments and current school-review expectations, including the retired Student Privacy Pledge context and SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement framing. It is not a certification or legal opinion.