EaseMySemester
Privacy notice
EaseMySemester is a study aid for one year of one medical course. It holds as little about you as it can, and this page says exactly what that is.
The short version
- We store your email address and a hash of your password. We never store the password itself and cannot read it back.
- We hold no profile, no name and no picture — there is no column for them.
- We record what you read, what you flag, what you note and what you ask, because those are what the app is for.
- We do not sell anything about you, and there are no advertising or analytics trackers on this site.
- Email contact@adwitiyarahman.in and we will delete your account and everything attached to it.
Your account and your password
An account is an email address and a password. We hash the password with scrypt, a deliberately slow, memory-hard function, and store only the result. That means we cannot read your password, and neither can anyone who takes a copy of the database — they would have to guess it one attempt at a time.
Because we cannot read it, we cannot tell you what it was. Your password is yours: use one you have not used anywhere else, and do not share your account.
We keep no security questions, no phone number and no second factor. The email address is the only way we could ever reach you, which is also why changing it is not something the app does on its own.
The demo account
The landing page carries a link that signs a visitor into a shared demo account, so somebody evaluating the app does not have to register first. That account is not yours and anything done in it is visible to the next person who opens it — do not put notes or questions in it that you would not put on a public page. Your own account is unaffected by it.
What we store
Everything the app holds about a person, and why it is there. This list is checked against the database schema automatically, so it cannot quietly fall out of date as the app grows.
Your email address and a hash of your password.
It is your account. The email is how we recognise you at sign-in; the password is stored only as a scrypt hash, so the password itself is not in here and cannot be read back.
An email address that was invited, from before accounts were open.
A leftover from the invitation-only scheme the app launched with. No account is created through it now — an address on this list has no effect on anything — but the rows that exist are kept rather than silently deleted.
The subjects you chose when you signed up.
They decide which question bank you see.
Which questions you have opened, and when you first opened each one.
It is what your coverage figure is calculated from. Only the FIRST time is recorded — re-reading a question changes nothing.
Any note you write on a question, in your own words.
So it is there the next time you open that question. Nobody else can read it.
The questions you flagged to see again during a cram run.
So the next run can show them to you again. Swiping the other way deletes the flag.
The questions you type into the Search tab, the answer you were given, which textbook passages it cited, and how long the request took.
It is the daily limit — the count of your recent asks is what enforces it — and it is how we find out when an answer was wrong.
Cookies
There are no tracking cookies on this site, and no third-party cookies. The ones we set are the ones the app cannot work without:
- A sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in for 180 days. It is HttpOnly and signed, so it cannot be read by scripts in your browser or altered to become someone else. It carries an account number and nothing else — no email, no role.
- Preference cookies remembering which subject, paper and chapter you were last reading, so the app opens where you left it.
Who else sees it
We use three outside services, and no others. None of them is sent anything about you beyond what is needed to do the job named.
- OpenRouter — when you use the ask box on the Search tab, your typed question and the textbook passages we retrieved for it are sent to a language model through OpenRouter. Your email address and password hash are not. Model providers may use text sent to them to improve their systems, so treat the ask box as you would any other online service: it is for questions about the course, not for anything personal.
- Vercel — hosting. It handles the request logs any web host keeps, including IP addresses.
- Neon — the database everything above is stored in.
How long we keep it
For as long as your account exists, because coverage and your notes are only useful if they persist. There is no automatic expiry — we would rather you asked for deletion than have the app quietly forget a term’s work.
Deleting your account
Email contact@adwitiyarahman.in from the address you signed in with, and we will delete your account within 30 days.
Deletion is real rather than a flag. Every record listed above is removed with the account, so the account cannot reappear the next time someone signs up with that address. What we cannot remove from our own database is anything already sent to the services above under their own retention rules; if that matters to you, ask us and we will tell you what was sent.
You can also ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, or ask us to correct it, at the same address.
Children
EaseMySemester is for students at a medical college and is not intended for anyone under 16. We do not knowingly create accounts for children.
Changes
If this notice changes in a way that affects what we collect or who we share it with, we will email the address on your account before the change takes effect. The date at the top always says when this page last changed.
Contact
Questions about anything on this page go to contact@adwitiyarahman.in.