Last updated: 14 September 2026

Cohort is operated by Findcohort LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. This policy explains what we collect, why, who can see it, and how to get rid of it.

Cohort is in early beta. This policy describes how the service works today, and it will change as the service does.

If you have a question about anything here, email hello@findcohort.com.

Who can use Cohort

Cohort is for enrolled university students and recent graduates, and you must be 18 or older. We verify enrollment by requiring a valid .edu email address and confirming you control it.

We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has created an account, email us and we will remove it.

What we collect

You give us directly:

• Your .edu email address
• Your name, school, graduation year, and account type (student, alumni, or mentor)
• Your internship or co-op details — company, city, and dates, where you provide them
• Your profile photo, if you upload one
• Your bio and any other free-text you write
• Gender, where you provide it — used for sublet preferences only
• Sublet listing details, if you post one — location, price, dates, and description
• Social handles or contact details you choose to add to your profile
• Messages you send to other users

We generate as you use the service:

• Who you have liked, passed on, matched with, or blocked
• When you signed up and when you last used the app

We collect automatically:

• Standard server logs from our hosting and database providers, which include IP addresses and basic request information

We do not ask for and do not want your student ID number, date of birth, home address, financial information, or government identification. Please don’t put those in a profile or message.

How we use it

• To verify you are a student and let you log in
• To show you other students in the same city for the same season
• To let you post and browse sublet listings
• To let matched users message each other
• To enforce blocks and safety measures
• To email you a login code, and to reply if you contact us

We do not sell your information. We do not run advertising. We do not share your information with your university.

What other users can see

This is the part worth reading closely.

• Visible to other verified users: your name, school, graduation year, account type, internship company and city, dates, photo, bio, and gender if you provided it. Sublet listings are visible to verified users in that city.
• Not visible unless you match: your email address and any social handles or contact details on your profile stay hidden until you and another user have both liked each other. This is enforced in our database, not just in the app.
• Never visible to anyone: who you passed on. Passes are private and permanent. To another user, being passed on is indistinguishable from not having come up yet.

Blocking hides both accounts from each other.

Alumni and mentor accounts cannot like or match with anyone. They can post listings and respond to messages.

Who else touches your data

We use a small number of service providers to run Cohort. They process data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

• Supabase — database, authentication, and storage (United States)
• Resend — sends your login codes (United States)
• Netlify — hosts and serves the app (United States)
• Cloudflare — DNS and email routing for our own addresses (United States)

We may disclose information if we are legally required to, or where we believe in good faith that it is necessary to prevent serious harm.

How long we keep it

We keep your account information until you delete your account.

When you delete your account from the You screen, we remove your profile and photo, your summer plans, your listings, your likes and matches, your sublet requests, and your messages from both sides of each conversation.

In-app deletion does not yet remove everything. These records are kept:

• Your login record: your .edu email address and when you signed up, held by Supabase, our authentication provider.
• Your contact details: the email address and any social handles you added. Only mutual matches can ever see these, and deletion removes your matches, so no one can see them afterwards.
• Passes: who you passed on, and who passed on you. These are never shown to anyone.
• Blocks other people made against your account. Blocks you made are removed.
• Messages in any conversation where either of you had blocked the other.
• Reports you filed, and reports other people filed about you.

If you sign up again with the same email address, these records reconnect to your new account. For example, people who passed on you still won’t see you.

To remove all of it, email hello@findcohort.com from the address on your account. We will delete your login record, which removes everything listed above. We are changing in-app deletion so it does this on its own.

Server logs held by our providers are retained on their standard schedules.

Your choices

• Edit or remove anything on your profile at any time from the You screen.
• Delete your account from the You screen. This is immediate and cannot be undone. See How long we keep it, above, for what it removes and what it doesn’t.
• Ask us what we hold. Email hello@findcohort.com and we will tell you, and send you a copy if you want one.
• Ask us to delete everything, including the records in-app deletion keeps, or if you cannot access your account. Email us.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional legal rights over your personal information. We will honour those requests regardless of where you live — email us.

Login code emails are required to use the service and cannot be turned off. If we introduce any other email in future, it will be optional and you will be able to unsubscribe.

Security

Access to your data is restricted at the database level rather than only in the app, which means the protections described above hold even if someone bypasses the interface. Login is by one-time code to your school email; there is no password to steal.

No service is perfectly secure, and we are a beta product built by one person. Please treat Cohort as a way to make introductions, not as a place to store anything sensitive.

A note about the beta

Cohort is early software. Features may change or break, and data may be reset. If we ever reset the database, we will say so clearly beforehand and by email.

Safety

Cohort makes introductions. It does not verify anyone beyond their enrollment, and it does not vet listings, people, or places.

Never send money or a deposit to someone you met here. See any place in person before committing to it. Report anything concerning to hello@findcohort.com.

Changes to this policy

If we make a material change, we will update the date at the top and tell you in the app. Continuing to use Cohort after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Contact

Findcohort LLC · hello@findcohort.com

Staying safe

• You must be 18 or older to use Cohort.
• Never send money, deposits, or payment to anyone you meet here. Cohort never handles money and will never ask you to. Anyone asking for a deposit before you've seen a place in person is likely a scam.
• Meet new people in public places first, and tell a friend where you're going.
• See an apartment in person (or video tour) before committing to anything.
• Verifying a school email confirms a person controls that email — it doesn't guarantee anything else. Use your own judgment.
• Use Report and Block (in any chat or profile) if someone makes you uncomfortable.

The important parts

• Introductions only. Cohort helps people find and message each other. We are not part of any sublet, lease or roommate arrangement, and we never handle money, deposits or payments. Anything you arrange is between you and the other person.
• Never send money through or because of Cohort. Don’t send deposits or payments to someone you met here. See any place in person first, and meet new people somewhere public.
• You’re responsible for your own safety and decisions. We don’t run background checks. Verifying a school email only confirms someone controls that email — nothing more.
• Conduct. No harassment, threats, impersonation, spam, or illegal, hateful or sexual content. We can remove content or accounts at our discretion. Use Report or Block if someone bothers you.
• As-is. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cohort is not liable for interactions between users, for any housing arrangement, or for any loss, injury or damage arising from use of this beta. Provided without warranties of any kind.
• Your data. We store what you enter — profile, photo, messages, listings — to run the service. Contact details are shared with someone else only after you both match. You can delete your account and all of your data at any time from the You tab.
• Changes. We may change or shut down the beta at any time. You can stop using it whenever you like.
• Questions or problems: hello@findcohort.com

Who Cohort is for

• Cohort is for currently enrolled students. Undergraduate and graduate student accounts require that you are enrolled at the school your email belongs to.
• School email addresses often keep working after graduation. If you have graduated, you must select Alumni when you sign up. Alumni can post a housing listing and reply to students who contact them, but cannot browse students or message first.
• Your account type and class year must be accurate. Misrepresenting either — including keeping a student account after you have graduated — is a violation of these terms and is grounds for removal from Cohort without notice.
• We cannot automatically verify enrollment. We rely on you being honest, and on students reporting accounts that aren't.

The basics

Cohort connects students and interns to meet people and find housing for a season. We're an introduction service only — we are not a party to any housing arrangement, lease, or sublet, and we don't handle payments or deposits. You're responsible for your own agreements and for meeting people safely.

We store the info you provide (email, profile, photo, messages) to run the service. Contact details are shared with someone only after you both match. You can request deletion of your account anytime.

This is a starter summary, not full legal terms — full Terms of Service and Privacy Policy will be linked here before public launch.

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Hidden until you match — then shared with people you've matched with.

How others will see you

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Alumni from any school who live in your city and offered to answer questions. They can’t message you — you always reach out first.

Every listing is posted by someone with a verified school email. Tags show their school — and whether they’ve already graduated.

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