Pathzi is a career discovery service. We use the information you provide to operate your account, show relevant career and education pathways and remember the choices you make. We only share your contact details with a college, university, training provider, apprenticeship provider or employer when you actively ask to connect and give permission.
1. Who is responsible for your information
Pathzi is the controller of the personal information described in this policy. References to “Pathzi”, “we”, “us” or “our” mean the developer and operator of the Pathzi app, package name com.pathzi.app.
For privacy questions or requests, email hello@pathzi.co.uk.
2. Information we collect
Depending on the features you use, we may collect:
- Account information: your name, email address, sign-in credentials and account creation date.
- Profile and pathway information: your age or age range, general location, school or education stage, subjects, interests, strengths, preferences and career goals.
- Activity in Pathzi: careers and pathways you view, swipe, save, dismiss or compare; favourites; progress; searches; and requests to connect with a provider.
- Contact and consent records: messages you send us, the provider or opportunity you selected, the permission you gave and the date and time of that permission.
- Technical information: IP address, device and operating-system type, app version, device or app identifiers, diagnostic information, crash reports and security logs where these are generated by the app or its service providers.
- Early-access and website information: information you enter into our sign-up form and basic server logs created when you visit our website.
Pathzi does not need precise GPS location, your contacts, photographs, microphone recordings, health information or payment-card details for its core career-discovery service. If a future feature needs additional information, we will explain this before collecting it and request permission where required.
3. How we use information
We use personal information to:
- create, secure and manage your account;
- show careers, courses, qualifications, apprenticeships and other pathways suited to your stage, interests and general location;
- save your swipes, preferences, favourites and progress;
- respond to support, privacy and account-deletion requests;
- send service messages and, where enabled, notifications about Pathzi;
- connect you with a selected provider when you expressly ask us to do so;
- understand performance and improve the safety, reliability and usefulness of the service;
- prevent misuse, investigate security incidents and meet legal obligations.
4. Our legal bases
Under UK data-protection law, we process information where it is necessary to provide the service you request, where we have a legitimate interest in operating and securing Pathzi that is not overridden by your rights, where you have given consent, or where we must comply with law. You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
5. When we share information
We may share information with:
- A provider you choose: if you select an opportunity and actively agree to be contacted, we may send the relevant college, university, training provider, apprenticeship provider or employer the minimum information needed to respond, such as your name, email address, age or age range, general location and stated interest. A provider may pay Pathzi for the connection service, but your details are not shared simply because it pays to appear on Pathzi.
- Service providers: companies that help us provide hosting, authentication, email, app diagnostics, customer support, forms, security or data storage. They may process information only for the contracted service and must protect it.
- Schools or organisations: where Pathzi is provided through a school or programme, we may provide aggregated or appropriately de-identified insight about use. We do not give a school a student’s identifiable swipe history unless this has been clearly explained and there is a valid legal basis.
- Authorities or professional advisers: where disclosure is required by law or reasonably necessary to protect users, Pathzi or others.
- A successor organisation: if Pathzi is reorganised, sold or transferred, subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection safeguards.
We do not sell personal information for unrelated advertising and we do not use children’s personal information for targeted advertising.
6. Children and young people
Pathzi is designed to help young people from age 14, as well as adults. It is not intended for children under 13. We apply a high level of privacy by default for users under 18, collect only information needed for career and education discovery, and do not enable public profiles. We use general location rather than precise location for pathway matching.
If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13, we will delete it unless there is a lawful reason and appropriate authorisation to retain it. A parent or guardian who has a concern can contact us using the address above, although young people also have their own data-protection rights.
7. International transfers
Some technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, we use an approved legal safeguard, such as UK adequacy regulations or contractual protections, and take steps to protect the information.
8. Security
We use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards. These include encrypted connections, restricted access, secure authentication, access logging and measures intended to protect stored personal information. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
9. How long we keep information
We keep account and profile information while your account is active and only for as long as needed to provide Pathzi. When an account is deleted, we remove or irreversibly anonymise associated personal information from active systems, normally within 30 days. Residual copies in protected backups may remain for up to 90 days before automatic deletion.
We may retain limited records for longer where necessary to meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or demonstrate that valid consent was obtained. Information already sent to a provider at your request is also handled under that provider’s privacy policy; you can ask both the provider and Pathzi to delete it.
10. Your rights
Subject to data-protection law, you may ask us for access to your information, correction, deletion, restriction, portability or an objection to certain processing. You may also withdraw consent and complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
To exercise a right, email hello@pathzi.co.uk.
11. Deleting your Pathzi account
You can request deletion from the account or settings area in the app. You can also use our public account-deletion page or email us. Deleting the app from your device does not itself delete your account.
12. Other websites and services
Pathzi may link to careers services, education providers, employers, application websites and a Google-hosted early-access form. Those services operate under their own privacy policies. We encourage you to read them before providing information.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when Pathzi’s features or legal obligations change. We will post the updated version here, change the date above and provide an additional notice where a change materially affects users.
14. Contact
Email: hello@pathzi.co.uk
Service: Pathzi
App package: com.pathzi.app