FinDr., Inc. ("FinDr.," "we," "our," or "us") provides software tools for professor discovery, research matching, outreach drafting, and related academic workflow support. By accessing or using FinDr., you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly to us, information created through your use of the service, and certain information from third parties.
- Account information, such as your name, email address, password, institution, education level, and profile details.
- Profile and workflow information, such as majors, minors, research interests, time commitment, uploaded CVs, saved professors, shortlists, and settings.
- Communication and outreach information, such as drafted emails, sent emails, recipients, subject lines, attachment metadata, and connected inbox provider details.
- Usage and diagnostic information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, log events, timestamps, and product interaction data.
- Payment and subscription metadata processed through our payment providers.
2. Outreach and Email Processing
When you draft or send communications through FinDr., we may process message content, recipient information, delivery metadata, attachment metadata, and connected inbox details in order to provide the service. We may log operational details related to sending, such as provider used, recipient address, subject line, CV attachment status, and timestamps. We do not guarantee delivery, response, inbox placement, or recipient behavior.
3. AI-Assisted Content
FinDr. may generate suggested language, summaries, rankings, or draft communications using AI-assisted systems. AI-generated content may be incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate for a given situation. You remain solely responsible for reviewing and approving any content before it is used or sent.
4. Public Academic and Institutional Information
FinDr. may collect, index, organize, summarize, and display publicly available academic or institutional information, including faculty names, departments, research descriptions, contact information, and lab or publication references. This information may come from public faculty pages, institutional directories, publications, or other lawful public sources. We do not guarantee that public source information is complete, accurate, or current.
5. How We Use Information
We use information to operate, improve, secure, and support FinDr. This includes providing account access, matching and search functionality, outreach drafting and delivery, product analytics, customer support, fraud prevention, abuse detection, subscription administration, and compliance with legal obligations.
6. Abuse Monitoring and Fraud Prevention
We may monitor and review account activity to detect abuse, spam, scraping, unauthorized access, excessive outreach volume, suspicious logins, fraudulent behavior, or policy violations. We may suspend, throttle, restrict, investigate, or terminate accounts where we identify risk.
7. Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain security, enforce our agreements, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and preserve business records. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information involved and whether the account remains active.
8. Third-Party Services
We use third-party providers for hosting, authentication, analytics, AI processing, payments, email delivery, cloud storage, and infrastructure support. Those providers may process information on our behalf according to their own contractual and legal obligations.
9. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security, uninterrupted availability, or protection against every unauthorized access attempt or service failure.
10. International Use
FinDr. may be accessed from outside the United States. If you use the service from another jurisdiction, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our providers operate, and you are responsible for complying with local laws applicable to your use.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes become effective when posted. Your continued use of FinDr. after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the revised policy.
12. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact FinDr., Inc. at findrapp.helpdesk@gmail.com.