Bear's Study Buddy

Privacy

Last updated 8 September 2026

The short version

Your coursework is yours. Nobody else with an account can see it, none of it is sold or shared for advertising, and there is no third-party analytics or tracking on this site. The only things that leave the app are the documents you choose to have read by AI, and a password reset email if you ask for one.

What is stored

  • Your accountName, email, school, major and timezone. Your password is stored as a scrypt hash, never as the password itself.
  • Your courseworkCourses, class times, assignments, grades you enter, study sessions, flashcards and their review history, and the schedules you add — work, practice and the rest.
  • Files you uploadSyllabi, screenshots and notes, plus the text read out of them and the study material generated from them.
  • Sign-in stateA session cookie, and — if you use Google — the account identifier Google gives us, so we can recognise you next time.
  • Your med school prepMCAT test date and self-ratings, practice questions and how you answered them, experiences with their hours and descriptions, and — if you enter them — the name, title and email of the person who can verify each experience. That contact is your own note about a supervisor; it is shown to nobody but you and is never contacted by the app.
  • Anything you send usThe text of a suggestion or a problem report. A report also records the page you were on and your browser's user-agent string, because a report without those is usually impossible to act on.

What is not stored

  • Your Google passwordGoogle handles that. The app never sees it.
  • Raw IP addressesPublic forms are rate-limited by a keyed hash of the address, which can recognise a repeat submission but can't be turned back into an address.
  • Analytics of any kindNo Google Analytics, no pixels, no session recording, no advertising identifiers. There is nothing on this site reporting your behaviour to anyone.
  • Payment detailsThe app doesn't take payments.

What leaves the app

Three services, each doing one job, each only when the feature that needs it is used:

  • AnthropicWhen you ask for a syllabus to be read or study material to be generated, the document or notes in question are sent to Anthropic's API to do it. MCAT practice sets and decks are written the same way, from the exam's published topic list — nothing about you goes with the request. Anthropic does not train on API content. If you supply your own API key, the request runs on your key and your account instead.
  • Your email provider, via ResendOnly to deliver a password reset link, and only when you ask for one.
  • GoogleOnly if you choose to sign in with Google, and only to confirm who you are. It receives no coursework.

Nothing else goes anywhere. Uploaded files are stored on the deployment’s own storage and are served back only to the account that uploaded them, through a route that checks the session on every request.

Cookies

One cookie that matters: the session cookie that keeps you signed in. It is HTTP-only, expires after 60 days, and holds nothing but a random token. Signing in with Google briefly sets two more, which are deleted the moment the sign-in finishes. There are no advertising or analytics cookies, so there is no consent banner to click past.

Who can see your work

Only you. Every record carries the id of the account it belongs to, and every read in the app is filtered by it — one account genuinely cannot load another’s courses, files or notes, and that is verified in a browser as part of testing, not just asserted here.

One exception, stated plainly: whoever set this deployment up has administrative access to the database, the same as any self-hosted app. They can also see how much AI usage each account has run up, since it is their bill. They cannot see your coursework from inside the app.

The wellbeing features

The daily rhythm feature is powered by House of Figs™ and Figatry™. Your preferences and generated schedule are stored in this app like everything else and are not sent to them. The links to their sites carry a referral tag that identifies this app as the source — no information about you travels with it.

Nothing in the app is medical, nutritional or mental-health advice. It will tell you when to eat and roughly what a meal should be built around; it will not put a calorie target on the screen, which is a job for someone who can actually see you.

How long things are kept

Your data stays until you delete it. Deleting a course takes its assignments and study material with it. Spent form tickets are cleared after two days. Nothing here is kept on a schedule of ours — there is no archive you can’t reach.

Deleting your account

There is a delete button in Settings. It asks you to type your email address, and then it does the whole job in one go: your uploaded files are removed from storage, and your account row is deleted, which cascades through the database and takes your courses, assignments, grades, notes, generated material, flashcards, review history, schedules, rhythm and sessions with it. Your calendar subscription link stops working immediately. There is no undo, no grace period and no backup copy waiting somewhere.

One thing survives, and only one: if you sent a problem report, the report itself stays so the bug can still be fixed — detached from you, with the account it came from set to nobody. If you would rather that went too, say so in the report and it will be removed by hand.

If you are the account that set this deployment up, deleting it hands ownership to the longest-standing account remaining, because someone has to be able to see the AI spend and read the inbox.

Children

This is built for university students. It is not directed at children under 13 and no account should be created for one.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it. The policy describes what the code does, so a change here follows a change there rather than the other way round.

Getting in touch

Use the suggestion box or the report page. Both work without an account, and both reach the person who runs this. The terms cover the rest of the arrangement.