Privacy Policy

OurWay is operated by Engage Campus Technologies LLC.

What this covers

OurWay is a campus community platform for college students. This policy describes the information the service stores, why it stores it, and who can see it.

Information you provide

When you create an account and use OurWay, the service stores:

• Account details — your email address and an authentication record, handled by Supabase Auth. OurWay does not store your password; it is hashed and held by the authentication provider.
• Profile details — the fields you choose to fill in: first and last name, display name, avatar image, school, graduation year, major, pronouns, a short bio, and one social link. Every field other than your account identity is optional.
• Content you create — clubs you submit, posts, events, event RSVPs and saved items, direct messages, club chat messages, connection requests, and any files you attach.
• Your safety actions — users you block, and reports you submit.

Who can see what

Visibility is enforced in the database, not only in the interface. Your Settings include controls for whether your profile is shown to other members, whether your joined clubs and officer roles are shown, whether you appear in member discovery, and whether other students may send you connection requests, club invitations, or direct messages.

• Your email address is never shown to other students. The public profile that other members see is produced by a restricted database function that returns only display-safe fields; email, phone, platform role and your privacy settings have no path to another student's screen.
• Direct messages are visible only to the two people in the conversation. Sending a direct message requires an accepted connection, and blocking prevents further contact.
• Club chat messages are visible to the members of that club, and to club officers who hold moderation permission.
• Reports you submit are visible only to platform administrators reviewing them. They are not shown to the person you reported.

Moderation and safety records

When you report a message, the report — including the reported content and your identity as the reporter — is retained so administrators can review it and so a pattern of behaviour remains reviewable. When a club officer removes a message, the original text is retained and a neutral placeholder is shown in its place, so the removal can be reviewed or undone. Administrative actions are written to an audit log.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account from Settings inside the app, or request deletion from this page without signing in.

Deleting your account removes your profile and personal details and signs you out permanently. Some records are not deleted, because deleting them would either destroy another person's content or remove a safety record:

• Messages you sent to other people remain in those conversations, shown without your profile attached. They are part of the other participant's history.
• Reports about your content, and moderation actions taken on it, are retained so a safety record does not disappear when an account is removed.
• Clubs, posts and events belong to the club rather than to an individual and are not removed when a member leaves.

The exact technical behaviour is documented in the repository under docs/account-deletion.md.

Data the service does not do

OurWay does not sell personal information. It does not run third-party advertising. It does not process payments. It does not track your location.

Service providers

OurWay uses Supabase for authentication, database storage and file storage. Data is stored on infrastructure operated by that provider.

Contact

A public support address has not been configured for this deployment yet. See Support.