Privacy
Short, because very little data is collected and none of it is sold.
Controller
Academic Quant. Contact: enquiries@academicquant.co.uk.
What is collected on the website
- The site assistant — what you type, used only to answer it.
- Clients — additionally whatever the work requires: transcripts, scores, curriculum vitae, drafts.
- Payments — handled by Stripe. Card details are never seen or stored by me.
- Premium sign-in — your email and a session cookie that keeps you signed in.
- Visits — which pages are opened, where the visit came from (a search engine, a link), country and city, device type, browser and screen width. A random visitor number is kept in your browser's storage so that repeat visits are counted once. IP addresses are not stored, nothing is shared with advertisers, and no individual is followed across other sites.
The Android app
The app Quant Interview Prep: Academic Quant has no account, no ads and no analytics. Your answers, progress, saved questions and streak are kept on your phone only, and are deleted when you uninstall the app.
- Code you run — when you run a solution in Python, C++, Java, Rust or Haskell, the code and its test input are sent to a public code-running service (Judge0 or Wandbox) and the output comes back. JavaScript runs on the phone. Do not put personal details in code.
- Python for the machine learning course — downloaded once from the jsDelivr network, like any web page loading a library.
- Links out of the app — payment (Stripe) and the website open in your browser, where this policy's website section applies. These links carry a tag saying they came from the app.
Why, and on what basis
- To deliver what you buy (a strategy hour, a report or a subscription) — performance of the contract between us.
- To issue receipts and meet tax obligations — legal obligation.
- To understand which pages help people — legitimate interest, read as counts and sources, not as profiles of individuals.
Your data is never sold, rented, or used to train anything.
How long it is kept
- Visit records — 24 months, then deleted.
- Customer records — while you are a customer and 12 months after, except records required for tax, which must be kept for the statutory retention period.
Who else sees it
Only the service providers needed to run the practice: hosting (Cloudflare), email, scheduling (Cal.com) and payment processing (Stripe). Each is bound by its own data processing terms. Where a provider is outside the EEA, transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses. Nobody else, no associates, no subcontractors, no marketing lists.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may request access to your data, correction, deletion, restriction or portability, and you may object to processing based on legitimate interest. Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Write to enquiries@academicquant.co.uk and I will respond within one month.
You also have the right to complain to the data protection authority where you live or work.