Privacy Policy

Information We Store

Most platforms track you. We do the opposite. When you log in with your university credentials, our system performs a **one-way cryptographic hash** of your identity.

• No Real IDs: Your student number is never saved to our database.
• Local Preferences: We store your chosen university, avatar color, and anonymous codename in your browser's local storage so they stay on your device and are never tracked by our servers.
• Departmental Choice: We only save your chosen department in our database to personalize your dashboard.
• Feedback Data: We store the scores and comments you submit, linked only to your anonymous hash.
• Marketplace Listings: If you list an item, we store the product details and contact info you provide. This is linked to your anonymous hash for security.
• Event Tickets: We store ticketing metadata (QR codes, event types) to facilitate your entry to campus events.
• Identity Assurance & Account Recovery: If you use our account recovery process, OpenCampux may temporarily use information already associated with your account—such as your academic programme, course enrolments, or other relevant campus activity—to help verify your identity. Verification sessions and security-related audit records may be retained to help prevent fraud, investigate abuse, and protect user accounts. We do not disclose this information to other students or third parties as part of the recovery process.
• Student Privacy (Lecturers): Lecturer accounts are designed to support teaching activities such as course management, announcements, and assessment administration. Lecturers cannot view the identity of students behind anonymous ratings or reviews. Where anonymity is provided, the platform exposes only the information necessary for the feature to function.

Anti-Spam & Security

To protect the integrity of lecturer ratings and marketplace trades, we use anonymous device identifiers (UUIDs). These allow us to prevent automated spam and double-voting without ever knowing who the user is. This data is purely for platform security and is never used for advertising or external tracking.

We may also retain records of authentication and recovery attempts, including timestamps, device information, and other security-related metadata, to protect accounts, detect fraud, and investigate misuse of the platform.

How We Use Data

Your reviews are aggregated into lecturer and course statistics. These are public and intended to help fellow students make informed academic choices. We do not sell, trade, or share tracking data with third parties.