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What we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have — with a plain-English summary up top and the full detail below.
We collect only what we need — an email to sign in, whatever you choose to put in a review or our contact form, and basic technical logs. We don't sell your data, and reviews publish without your name.
The Residency Consult ("we," "us," "our") operates the website at residencyconsult.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your choices.
When you create an account, we collect your email address and a hashed password. We use this to authenticate you and associate you with your reviews. You don't need to give us your name to browse the site or to leave a review. If you reach out through our contact form, we collect the name and email you choose to share.
When you submit a review, we collect the content you provide: your overall rating, whether you would recommend the program, your reviewer category (e.g., resident, attending, interviewee), optional demographic information (gender, training status, and whether you trained at the program), and your free-text review. The optional demographic information is not displayed publicly. Reviews are displayed publicly but are not associated with your email or identity.
When you use our contact form, we collect the name (optional) and email you provide, your message, and basic technical details — your IP address, browser type, and the page you came from — which we use to reply and to prevent abuse of the form.
We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-respecting analytics service that does not use cookies and does not collect personal data. Plausible collects aggregate, anonymous usage data including page views, referrer sources (including AI-based referrers), browser type, and country. This data cannot be used to identify individual users.
Our hosting provider (Vercel) may collect standard server logs including IP addresses, request timestamps, and URLs accessed. These logs are used for operational purposes and are subject to Vercel's privacy policy.
We use the following third-party services to operate the site:
When you submit or edit a review, the text of your review is sent to the Anthropic API (Claude) for automated content moderation. This process evaluates the review for policy compliance, spam, personally identifiable information, and inappropriate content.
You have the following rights regarding your data:
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@residencyconsult.com.
We retain your account data for as long as your account is active. Reviews remain published for as long as they comply with our Terms of Service. Server logs are retained according to our hosting provider's policies (typically 30 days). If you delete your account, we will remove or anonymize your data within 30 days, except where we are legally required to retain it.
The Service is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected data from a child under 13, we will delete that information promptly.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@residencyconsult.com.