Where your answers go.

Your answers live in your browser's session storage. They are gone when you close the tab. There is no account, no cookie that identifies you, no analytics that fingerprints you, and no database row about you. Matching runs in your browser, using rules shipped with the page.

If you tick I applied on an award, that mark is saved in this browser so it is still there when you come back. It is the one thing here that outlives the tab, and it is deliberate: a list of what you have applied to is worthless if it disappears overnight.

What is saved is the award's id, its name, and the date you ticked it. Nothing else: not your answers, not your faculty, not your average. It is stored in your browser's local storage on this device, it is never sent to our server, and we cannot read it. It does not follow you to another computer, and it is not a backup: clearing your browsing data deletes it, which is why your applied list has a copy-it-out button.

To clear it: use Clear the whole list on that page, or remove any single award with Remove. Clearing site data in your browser settings does the same thing. Your answers are unaffected either way; they were already gone when you closed the tab.

Four things are counted so the impact page can say honestly how much this tool is used: that a search finished, that an award was shown, that someone opened an award's official page, and that someone ticked “I applied” on one. For those last two we also record which award, and for an opened page what that award is worth. Those are public facts about the award, published by the university, and not facts about you.

The “I applied” count is a count and nothing more. The list itself stays in your browser; what reaches us is one row saying an award was marked, with no way to tell whether one student marked six awards or six students marked one each. Unticking is not recorded at all.

Each of those is a single row saying a thing of this kind happened at this time. There is no identifier of any kind attached: no network address, no browser fingerprint, no user agent, and no session that survives a page load. Two searches by the same person and two searches by different people are indistinguishable to us, on purpose. That is also why the impact page can only ever report totals, never anything about an individual.

None of your questionnaire answers are attached to any of it. Not your faculty, not your year, not your average, and not a single background answer. The counter is deliberately too blunt to profile anyone, and the table that stores it has no column that could hold such a thing.

To write the plain-language “why this matches you” notes on each card, the page sends a small request to our server, which asks Anthropic's Claude to write them. That request contains only these five things about you: your faculty, a coarse stage band (for example “undergraduate, year 3 or beyond”), your citizenship category, your average bracket, your financial-need answer, and for each award the criteria you already matched on.

It deliberately does not include your career-direction text, or any background answer that did not affect a match. If you tick a box about disability, sexuality or Indigenous identity and no award you were shown depends on it, that answer never leaves your device.

The request is not logged with anything identifying, and the generated notes are cached by the kind of student they were written for, never by who asked.

The report contains the award, the category you picked, and anything you typed in the box. It contains nothing about you and nothing from your questionnaire. We keep a one-way fingerprint of your network address purely to stop one person filing a thousand reports; it is salted per day, so it cannot be used to link you across days, and it is stored apart from the reports themselves.

Please do not type anything identifying into the report box. It is read by a person during triage, and it does not need to know who you are.

This is a student-built tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Western University. Award information is compiled from public university pages. Confirm anything that matters with the Office of the Registrar and Student Financial Services.