Your grade plan belongs on your device.

Scope and operator

This policy applies to GradeHorizon.com and pages published under that domain. GradeHorizon is an independently operated educational website. Questions about this policy can be sent to hello@gradehorizon.com.

GPA planner data

The planner stores course names, selected grades, course levels, credit values, and what-if scenarios in the browser's localStorage under a GradeHorizon site key. This information remains on the device and browser profile where it was entered. GradeHorizon does not transmit calculator entries, planner values, or GPA results to a GradeHorizon account, database, Google Analytics event parameter, or advertising parameter.

Visitors can remove this information with the Reset planner control or by clearing GradeHorizon site data in browser settings. Because the information is stored locally, GradeHorizon cannot recover a deleted plan or retrieve it from another device.

Technical information processed automatically

When GradeHorizon is hosted publicly, the hosting provider, content-delivery network, and security services may process ordinary request information needed to deliver and protect the website. This can include the requested URL, date and time, IP address, general device and browser information, referring page, response status, and security signals.

This information is used for website delivery, reliability, abuse prevention, troubleshooting, and aggregate performance review. We do not ask visitors to place grades, GPA values, course names, student IDs, or other education records in page URLs.

Information sent by email

If a visitor contacts GradeHorizon, we receive the email address, message content, and attachments the sender chooses to provide. We use this information to respond, investigate a correction or technical issue, protect the site, and maintain a reasonable record of the communication.

Do not email transcripts, student identification numbers, school account credentials, medical information, or other sensitive records. Correspondence is kept only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose of the communication, operational records, dispute handling, or legal obligations.

Cookies, local storage, and Google Analytics

GradeHorizon uses Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate website traffic and how visitors interact with published pages. Google Analytics may collect the page visited, approximate location derived from an IP address, browser and device information, referring source, session information, and interaction events such as page views, scrolls, outbound clicks, site searches, video engagement, and file downloads. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar identifiers for measurement. GradeHorizon does not send calculator inputs, course names, grades, planner scenarios, GPA results, student IDs, or email message contents as analytics event parameters.

The planner separately uses localStorage for the on-device function described above. LocalStorage is a browser storage technology, but it is not sent automatically with each web request in the way a cookie is. Google explains how it processes information from sites using its services in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. Visitors can limit analytics storage through browser controls or use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Where applicable law requires consent before analytics storage or collection, GradeHorizon will provide the required choice before enabling it.

Google advertising and third parties

GradeHorizon may use Google AdSense in the future. If enabled, Google and its advertising partners may place or read cookies, use web beacons or similar technologies, and receive information such as the page URL, IP address, browser or device information, advertising identifiers, and interaction data. These technologies can be used to deliver ads, limit repetition, measure performance, prevent fraud and abuse, and personalize advertising where the visitor has the required choice or consent.

Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and describes advertising cookies in its Advertising privacy documentation.

GradeHorizon will not intentionally pass course names, grades, planner scenarios, GPA results, student IDs, or other personally identifying education information to Google in ad requests or analytics parameters.

Analytics, advertising, and browser choices

• Use browser settings to block or delete cookies and site data.
• Use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to limit Google Analytics measurement.
• Use Google My Ad Center to manage Google ad personalization where available.
• Use industry choice tools such as YourAdChoices where applicable.
• Decline optional analytics or advertising consent through the site's consent message when one is presented.

Blocking storage may affect saved planner scenarios, analytics measurement, or advertising preferences but should not prevent access to the site's published educational content.

EEA, UK, and Switzerland

Before serving personalized Google ads to visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, GradeHorizon will use a Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the applicable Transparency and Consent Framework. The consent message will identify the relevant purposes and partners and allow the visitor to make the choices required by the configuration and local law.

Until that consent system and regional configuration are deployed, GradeHorizon should not enable personalized advertising for those visitors.

Children and student audiences

GradeHorizon is a general-audience educational website and is not directed specifically to children under 13. The site does not provide student accounts, social features, comments, or transcript uploads. Some guides may be useful to families with middle-school students, but the calculator does not need a child's name, age, school, or contact information.

Children under 13 should not email personal information to GradeHorizon. A parent or guardian can contact us instead. If advertising is enabled, GradeHorizon will review age-related treatment and child-directed page settings before serving ads on content likely to attract younger users.

Sharing and disclosure

GradeHorizon does not sell planner entries. Information may be processed by providers that host, secure, deliver, or support the site; by advertising or analytics providers only when those services are enabled and disclosed; or when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights and safety, investigate abuse, or complete a business transfer.

Security and retention

Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect information under GradeHorizon's control. No website or email system can guarantee absolute security. Locally stored planner data remains until the visitor resets it, clears site data, or the browser removes it. Provider logs and contact correspondence are retained according to operational need, provider settings, security requirements, and applicable obligations.

Policy updates

Material changes will be reflected on this page with a revised effective date. If a change introduces a new optional data use that requires consent, GradeHorizon will request that choice before the new use begins where required.