Your data belongs to you.

What data StudiByte collects

When you create a StudiByte account, we collect your email address and full name. These are used solely to create and identify your account. We do not collect any information beyond what you voluntarily enter into the platform — your timetable, GPA records, attendance history, assignment details, and uploaded materials are all data you create and control.

We do not collect device information beyond what Firebase Authentication requires for secure login. We do not collect location data. StudiByte itself does not use tracking cookies or analytics that identify individual users. Cookies set by Google on our public pages for advertising are described in the “Advertising and cookies” section below.

How your data is stored

All data is stored in Google Firebase, which provides enterprise-grade security and reliability. Your profile and academic data are stored in Firestore, a NoSQL cloud database. Uploaded files are stored in Firebase Storage. Both services enforce encryption at rest and in transit.

Firestore security rules ensure that your data is accessible only to your authenticated account. It is architecturally impossible for one user to read or modify another user's data — this restriction is enforced at the database level, not just in the application.

How your data is used

Your data is used solely to provide the features of StudiByte to you. We use your timetable data to generate reminders. We use your course scores to calculate your GPA. We use your attendance records to show your percentage per course. We use your uploaded materials to display them to you.

We do not use your data for advertising. We do not use your academic performance data to profile you. We do not sell or rent your data. Your data is shared only with the service providers needed to run StudiByte — Google Firebase for storage and sign-in, and the AI providers described below — and only for that purpose.

AI and data

When you use the AI Study Assistant, your messages, and any image or PDF you attach, are sent through a secure serverless function to an AI provider to generate the response. We try Google Gemini first. If it is unavailable, the request may be handled by a backup provider: Groq, DeepSeek, or OpenRouter (for image and PDF attachments, Gemini or OpenRouter). StudiByte does not use your conversations to train any model, but each provider handles the data it receives under its own terms and privacy policy, so please avoid entering sensitive personal information into the assistant.

Conversations are saved to your Firestore account so you can revisit them, and you can delete any conversation at any time.

Advertising and cookies

Our public pages — for example the homepage, Features, FAQ, About, and the study guides — may display ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other websites. You can opt out of personalised advertising at adssettings.google.com, and you can learn more about how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Ads are not shown inside the signed-in StudiByte app, and we do not give advertisers access to your account or academic data.

Data deletion

You can delete your StudiByte account at any time from the Settings page. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, timetable, GPA records, attendance history, assignments, materials, and all other data from our systems. We do not retain copies of deleted user data and do not archive deleted accounts.

Changes to this policy

If we make significant changes to this privacy policy, we will notify users via the app before the changes take effect. Continued use of StudiByte after a policy update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.