Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Application Review Co collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects information connected to the website, contact forms, document uploads, checkout activity, email communications, review workflow, and applicant support.

In this policy, "applicant," "you," and "your" refer to the person submitting or communicating about an application document. "Application Review Co," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the operator of this service. "Document" means the file, essay, activity entry, statement, response, or related material submitted for review.

We collect information reasonably needed to provide the review service, including name, email address, applicant region, application type, applicant status, program type, document type, current or most recent school, college, or university when provided, uploaded document files, reviewer notes, order status, checkout status, payment-related records, timestamps, support messages, and revision history.

We may also collect basic technical information, such as device, browser, log, security, and usage information, when needed to operate the website, protect submissions, troubleshoot errors, prevent abuse, or maintain service reliability.

If a visitor arrives through an advertisement, search result, referral link, or campaign URL, we may collect attribution information such as UTM source, UTM medium, UTM campaign, UTM content, UTM term, landing page, first page visited, referring page, referring domain, ad keyword, and click identifiers when available.

We may also collect non-sensitive website behavior and quality signals before purchase, such as pages viewed, prior page, pricing or FAQ page views, time on site, time on form, scroll depth, clicked calls to action, device type, browser, viewport size, language, and timezone.

If advertising or analytics tools are enabled, those tools may process cookie identifiers, pixel events, hashed or pseudonymous identifiers, click IDs, device and browser information, page URLs, referrer information, and conversion events. Examples of advertising click IDs may include Google, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, or LinkedIn identifiers when those campaigns are used.

The current or most recent school field may use public U.S. and Canadian institution-directory data to suggest school names as applicants type. If an applicant selects a suggested school, we may use that selection to help populate applicant region and route the order appropriately.

We receive information directly from applicants, from website forms and uploads, from payment and checkout providers, from email communications, and from operational systems used to host, secure, route, and support review orders.

We use information to accept submissions, process checkout, confirm orders, assign reviewers, provide edits and comments, manage revisions, calculate review deadlines, answer questions, issue refunds when applicable, maintain business records, prevent abuse, secure the service, and comply with legal obligations.

We may use limited internal records to verify what was submitted, when it was submitted, whether the review was completed, and how a support or payment issue should be resolved. Applicant region, applicant status, current or most recent school, and program context may also be used to route orders and provide more relevant review context. Attribution information may be used to understand which ads, SEO pages, referral channels, and campaigns lead to form starts, checkout activity, and paid orders. Website behavior and technical quality signals may be used to improve page content, form usability, advertising quality, and service reliability.

We may retain records of submitted files, returned edits, reviewer comments, revision history, checkout activity, acceptance records, and support communications to document what was returned, resolve disputes, protect against fraud or misuse, and comply with legal obligations.

Applicant documents are used to provide the requested review, including routing the order to relevant reviewers, preparing edits and comments, managing follow-up revisions, and supporting the order record.

We do not use applicant documents for public samples, advertising, testimonials, training claims, outcome stories, or school-specific examples unless the applicant gives written permission.

Submit only what you want reviewed. Do not include unnecessary sensitive personal, financial, or third-party information.

Applicants should avoid submitting patient names, government identification numbers, financial account numbers, health records, immigration records, confidential employment records, or private information about another person unless that detail is truly necessary to the document being reviewed.

We may disclose information to service providers that help operate the website, process payments, store files, send email, secure the service, manage order records, or provide other operational support. These providers receive information only as reasonably needed for their role.

When analytics, pixels, or advertising tools are enabled, we may disclose limited website and conversion information to those providers so they can measure traffic, attribute campaigns, improve ad delivery, detect fraud, and report conversions. We do not share uploaded application documents with advertising platforms for ad targeting.

We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, payment-network rules, fraud prevention, security needs, enforcement of these policies, or protection of applicant, reviewer, company, or third-party rights and safety.

Applicant documents are shared only with reviewers, team members, and operational systems reasonably needed to complete, manage, secure, or support an order.

Reviewers and team members are expected to handle applicant documents, comments, order details, and related communications confidentially and to use them only for the assigned review, support, security, recordkeeping, or legal-compliance purpose.

Reviewer identities remain protected for professional privacy and independence. Public reviewer descriptions use general qualification categories rather than names, employers, hospitals, universities, training programs, or other identifying details.

Payments are processed through a third-party payment provider. Application Review Co receives checkout status, order records, and payment-related details needed to confirm, reconcile, refund, or dispute an order.

Application Review Co does not store full payment card numbers, CVC codes, or full payment credentials on its own systems.

We may use email to confirm submissions, send review updates, ask for corrected files, respond to support requests, provide revision instructions, send payment-related notices, and communicate about privacy or policy matters. Applicants should not send unnecessary sensitive information by email.

We do not sell applicant documents. We do not share applicant documents for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not publish applicant names, essays, excerpts, outcomes, school lists, testimonials, or acceptance claims without written permission.

We do not treat service providers that process information only to operate, secure, measure, or support the service as buyers of applicant information. However, privacy laws may treat some advertising, analytics, cookie, or pixel disclosures as a "share," "sale," or targeted-advertising disclosure depending on the jurisdiction and tool configuration. When those tools are used, we describe them in this policy and use consent, opt-out, or other controls where required by applicable law.

We do not contact schools, programs, employers, hospitals, admissions committees, or application services on an applicant's behalf.

We retain applicant documents and order records for as long as reasonably needed to provide the review, manage revisions, handle support, maintain business records, resolve payment or service disputes, preserve security records, prevent fraud, and comply with legal obligations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the status of the order, legal requirements, refund or dispute risk, academic-integrity or authorship dispute risk, security needs, and whether the applicant has requested deletion.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect submitted documents and order records. These safeguards include limiting access to people and providers who need information to provide or support the service.

No online service can guarantee perfect security. If we determine that a security incident requires notice under applicable law, we will provide notice in the manner required by that law.

Depending on where an applicant lives and which privacy laws apply, the applicant may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, limitation, or information about how personal information has been used or disclosed.

Requests may be sent to support@applicationreview.co. We may verify the requester's identity before acting on a request, and we may decline or limit a request when required or permitted by law, payment records, tax records, security needs, active disputes, fraud prevention, or other legitimate business obligations.

Applicants in the United States, Canada, or other regions should understand that information may be processed in jurisdictions where privacy and data-protection rules differ from the rules in their home location.

The service is intended for college, university, graduate, professional-school, residency, and advanced-training applicants. It is not directed to children under 13. Applicants under the age of majority should use the service only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.

We may update this policy as the service, privacy practices, payment setup, technology, or legal requirements change. The posted version applies when an applicant submits information unless a later update is required by law.

Privacy questions can be sent to support@applicationreview.co.