How Clariva collects, uses, and protects your information
We don't sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it to train AI models — and under the API terms of our AI providers, they don't use it to train their models either. You can delete your account — your profile, plans, and shared links — at any time from within the app. (Anonymized data that can't reasonably identify you, and logs held by third-party providers, may persist — see Sections 7 and 9.)
Clariva is operated by Clariva LLC and built by Tejasvi Konjeti, a high school student, with Vishwaroop Konjeti (development & testing).
Clariva is a free educational service. It is not a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Contact: clarivasupport@clarivaapps.com.
When you sign in with Google, we receive your Google display name, email address, and a unique user ID from Google. We use this to identify you across sessions and devices. We do not receive your Google password — Google handles authentication.
You can use Clariva without an account. If you do, nothing about you reaches our
servers at all, and nothing is kept in your browser either: your profile lives in the tab while it is
open and is gone when you close it. We count how many people use Clariva without an account each day. The count is a number only — nothing about you, your browser or your device is sent or stored.
Your academic profile is not stored on our servers. Your grades, test scores,
courses, activities and preferences stay on the device you enter them on. There is no setting you
can switch on to change that: no student action puts this information on our servers.
In the phone app your profile is saved on the phone itself, so it is still there
the next time you open Clariva. On the web nothing is saved at all unless you tick
"Remember my info on this computer" — because a phone is personal, and a computer might be shared
with a classmate or a whole school. If you leave that unticked, you enter your information again on
your next visit.
The trade-off is real and worth knowing: if you delete the app, clear your browser data, or switch
devices, your profile is gone and we cannot recover it, because we never had a copy.
You can export your profile to a file you keep yourself, and import it again later.
The one exception: the Clariva operator can enable server-side storage for an
individual account — a small number of accounts, granted one at a time, so a person who needs
Clariva across two devices can have it. It cannot be turned on by the person using the account, and
when it is turned off the stored copy is deleted. Where it is on, the profile is held in Google
Firestore, encrypted at rest by Google and readable by Clariva.
If you used Clariva before August 2026, the copy we previously held is being retired: it is moved to
your device the next time you sign in, and any remainder is deleted on 26 November 2026.
The profile consists of:
What we do keep on our servers for every account, because an account cannot work without it (without an account we keep nothing): your email and account ID, your approval status, and the record that you (and a parent or guardian, if you are under 18) accepted the user agreement.
When you use an AI feature, your profile is sent to our servers to generate that response and is not stored there afterwards. Sending is not the same as storing.
Plans Clariva generates for you (AI strategy advice, college lists, score predictions) are stored alongside your profile — which means on your device by default, and on our servers only if you have been enabled for server-side storage by the operator (see 2.2). Essay-angle and interview-feedback features were retired in August 2026 and no longer exist.
If you choose to share your plan, we publish a snapshot at that moment containing only what the shared page displays: your college list with its tiers and estimates, and six profile fields (weighted GPA, SAT total, ACT composite, score mode, intended major, state). Your activities, achievements, AP course list, certifications, links and family income are not included. Apart from operator-enabled storage (2.2), sharing is the only action that writes your academic details to our servers, and you can delete a shared link at any time.
If you enable push notifications, we store the Expo push token associated with your device so we can send deadline reminders. We never use this for marketing or behavioral tracking.
If you opt in to "Share your results" on the website, we collect anonymized admissions outcomes — coarsened (banded) GPA and test scores, your selected activities/awards, and the colleges you applied to with the result — to improve our recommendation engine. These submissions carry no name, email, account ID, or IP address, are stored separately, and are designed so they cannot reasonably be tied back to you. It is entirely optional.
We do not use your data for advertising, behavioral tracking, model training, or sale to any third party. We do not profile you for marketing.
Your account record (email, approval status, agreement record), any shared-plan snapshot you publish, your push token if you enable notifications, and — only where the operator has enabled it — your profile and generated plan are stored in Google Cloud Firestore, hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure in the United States. Firestore encrypts data at rest and in transit using Google-managed keys. Access is restricted by Firebase security rules so that your data is readable and writable by you (your authenticated UID), plus our own secure server-side Cloud Functions acting on your behalf (for example, to generate, save, or email your plan).
Public shared plans (when you tap "Share my plan" and get a link) are stored in a separate Firestore collection that is publicly readable but only writable by our Cloud Functions. We strip your income field from these documents before writing.
You can:
clarivasupport@clarivaapps.com if you need help. Note: anonymized outcomes you chose to share (Section 2.7) cannot be deleted because they carry no identifier linking them to you; orphaned AI-cache entries and logs held by third-party providers (such as email send logs) may persist for a limited time under their own retention policies.
Clariva is intended for high school students (typically ages 14–18) and is not for children
under 13. When you first use the app — with or without an account — you confirm your age; anyone who indicates they are
under 13 is turned away, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13,
consistent with the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If you are under 13 and
signed in anyway, please have a parent or guardian email us at
clarivasupport@clarivaapps.com and we will delete the account.
Users aged 13–17. If you create an account and indicate you are 13–17, we ask for a parent or guardian's email address and your confirmation that they have reviewed and consented to your use of Clariva. We store that email solely as a record of consent and to contact the parent/guardian about the account if needed — it is never used for marketing and never sold. It is removed when the account is deleted. Without an account we ask you to confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed the terms with you, and we record nothing.
We rely on Google Firebase's infrastructure for encryption, access control, and intrusion detection. Application-level safeguards include input sanitization, content screening against prompt-injection attacks, server-side rate limiting on every callable Cloud Function, and an admin-only budget cap that hard-blocks AI features at a daily spend ceiling.
These are reasonable, industry-standard safeguards, but no method of transmission or
storage is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You use
Clariva at your own risk. If you believe your account has been compromised, sign out and
email clarivasupport@clarivaapps.com. If you discover a vulnerability, please disclose
responsibly to the same address.
Clariva is a free, AI-assisted planning aid — it is not professional college, admissions, financial, or legal advice, and not a substitute for a qualified counselor. Its content — college lists, tiers, and chance estimates computed by our recommendation engine from public data and your profile, plus AI-written advice, costs, deadlines, and scholarship notes — may be incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong: AI can hallucinate, and computed estimates are approximations. We make no guarantee of admission, financial aid, or any other outcome, and we do not recommend or endorse applying to any specific school. Always verify everything with each university's official admissions office before relying on it.
Clariva is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied (including accuracy, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability). To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the people who build and operate Clariva are not liable for any loss, damage, or decision arising from your use of — or reliance on — the service or its content. You use Clariva at your own discretion and risk.
We may update this policy as Clariva evolves (new features, new third-party services, changes to data handling). The "Last updated" date at the bottom of the page reflects the most recent change. Material changes (new data categories, new third parties, expanded retention) will be announced in the app the first time you open it after the change takes effect.
Questions, requests, or concerns: email Tejasvi Konjeti at
clarivasupport@clarivaapps.com. We aim to respond within 14 days.