CampusScoop is a student project. We collect as little as we can, we never publish your email address, and we delete what we don't need after a year. Here is exactly what that means.

What we collect

• When you post a scoop: your Tulane email address, what you wrote, the place or topic you picked, the score if you gave one, and the time you sent it.
• When you add a place: the name, the kind of place, the location if you gave one, your Tulane email address, and the time.
• When you report a post: which post, the reason you picked, any details you wrote, and an email address only if you chose to give one.
• Moderator sign-in: if someone enters the wrong moderator password, we record a scrambled (hashed) version of their IP address so we can block repeated guessing. Those records are deleted after 15 minutes. This only affects people trying to sign in to the moderation page.

We don't ask for your name, and we don't store the IP address of people who post or report. We don't run ads, we haven't added any analytics or tracking tools, and we don't set cookies of our own.

Why we ask for a Tulane email

So posts come from people who actually go here, so we can limit how often one address can post, and so we can contact you about your post if we need to. We check that the address ends in @tulane.edu. We don't send a confirmation link, so we can't prove the address is yours. Please only use your own.

Who can see it

• Everyone: approved posts, their score, the place, and the date. Nothing else.
• Only the CampusScoop team's moderators: email addresses, posts that are waiting for review or were turned down, and reports. Moderators see these on a password-protected page.

Your email address is never shown on the site and is never sent to anyone's browser except a signed-in moderator's. We don't sell or share your information. The only outside services involved are the ones that make the site run (below), and we would only hand information to anyone else if the law required it.

Pseudonymous, not anonymous

Your posts appear without your name or email. But they are not anonymous: the CampusScoop team can see which address sent each post. Please write with that in mind.

Where it's stored

The site and its database run on Cloudflare (Cloudflare Pages and D1). Cloudflare also runs the “are you a person?” spam check on our forms (Turnstile), which looks at your browser and connection to tell people from bots.

Automatic processing of what you write. The text of a scoop you submit is processed by Cloudflare Workers AI, which runs on the same Cloudflare account as the rest of the site (it is not another company), for two things: a first check against The Rules that helps our moderators decide what to read first, and the short “What students say” summaries on place pages, which are built only from approved scoops. Only the text of the scoop and the place it's about are sent. Your email address is never sent to the AI. The automatic check never publishes anything: a person still approves every post. It can turn down obvious spam and exact repeats on its own, and a moderator can see and restore those. Our pages load fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google when a page loads. Both companies handle that under their own privacy policies.

How long we keep it

• Posts waiting for review are kept until a moderator reviews them.
• One year after a post, place, or report is reviewed, we remove the email address attached to it. Posts and places that were turned down or taken down have their text deleted at the same point, and report details are deleted too.
• Approved posts stay on the site until they are taken down or you ask us to remove them. After the first year they are no longer linked to your email address.

Deleting your post or your address

Email campusscoopmktg4250@gmail.com from the Tulane address you posted with, and tell us which post (a link or a quote is enough). We'll remove the post, your address, or both. If more than a year has passed, your address is already gone, so tell us which post it was and we'll take it from there.

Changes

If we change how we handle information, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

campusscoopmktg4250@gmail.com. CampusScoop is run by a small team of Tulane students and is not affiliated with Tulane University.