Privacy Policy

When you sign in:

(via Google Sign-In, restricted to IIT BHU Gmail accounts)

• Your name (from Google profile)
• Your college email address (IIT BHU Gmail only)
• Your Google profile photo
• OAuth tokens (access token, refresh token, ID token) for authentication
• Department code (auto-extracted from your email address and permanently linked to your account)
• Auto-generated username (format: adjective_noun_digits, e.g., "happy_tiger_123")

Important: Your username becomes permanent after you finalize it and cannot be changed. Your username (not your real name) is displayed publicly on all your reviews and comments.

When you post reviews:

• You can post one review per professor and one review per course
• Multiple rating categories (5-6 different ratings depending on whether it's a professor or course review)
• Written feedback (required)
• Statistics: would recommend, attendance strictness, quizzes given, assignments given
• Grade received (optional: A*, A, A-, B, B-, C, C-, F, Z, S, I)
• Semester information
• ALL reviews are permanently linked to your user account and visible to administrators

When you comment:

• Comment text (up to 2000 characters)
• Nested replies (up to 4 levels deep)
• All comments are linked to your user account
• Comments can be voted on and reported by other users

When you vote:

• Upvotes and downvotes on reviews and comments
• Vote data is tracked and stored with your user ID
• You can cast one vote per item (review or comment), and can change or remove your vote

When you report content:

• Report reason (inappropriate, spam, notRelevant, fake, other)
• Optional details text explaining the report
• Your user identity is stored and visible to administrators — reports are NOT anonymous to admins

When you create courses:

• Course details you submit (course code, name, department, description)
• New courses require admin verification before becoming searchable

Automatically Collected:

• Cookies for login sessions and preferences (dark/light mode)
• Vercel Analytics data (page views, visit duration, country-level location, device type, browser info, referral sources)

Cookies and Tracking

We use essential cookies for login sessions, user preferences, and OAuth token management.

We use Vercel Analytics to understand:

• Page views and visit duration
• Country-level geographic location
• Device type and browser information
• Referral sources

Note: We do not use Google Analytics. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.

Children Under 18

Students under 18 can use ProfOMeter. However, we do not knowingly collect more data than needed. Please note that usernames (not real names) are displayed publicly on reviews and comments.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your data, including:

• Secure OAuth-based authentication
• Encrypted data transmission (HTTPS)
• Access controls for sensitive operations

However, no system can be 100% secure. All reviews and comments are linked to your user account (via your username) and are visible to other users and administrators.

Future Changes

This policy may change if we introduce new features. Any changes will be reflected here, and we'll update the "Last Updated" date above. We will try to notify users of significant changes.