Meriqen AI™ Privacy Policy

Short version: we store only what scholarship matching needs, we never ask for the sensitive financial or academic documents that scholarship scams ask for, we do not sell or rent your information, there are no advertising trackers, and you can export or delete everything yourself from your profile page. Your data is protected by the safeguards described below, but this is a beta, not a bank.

Version: 2026-08-10 · Effective: August 10, 2026 · Meriqen is in private beta.
Data controller: Property Sapiens LLC, a Texas LLC, 16131 Salto Del Agua, San Antonio, TX 78255, USA · Legal contact: propertysapiens@gmail.com · Support: hello@meriqen.com

What we collect

Only what the product actually uses:

• Account: your name, email, and date of birth. We store the full date of birth — not just a birth year — because our own age rule and several scholarships’ published age limits are evaluated against an exact date (some awards check your age on the deadline day).
• Profile: school, city, state, residency state, graduation year and grade, GPA and its scale, test scores, PSAT/National Merit standing, intended majors, selected universities, activity and strength tags, memberships, and application-format preferences.
• A broad eligibility status (for example “U.S. citizen” or “permanent resident”) chosen from a list. We never ask for documents proving it.
• Optional disclosures, such as gender, are exactly that: optional, off by default, used only to evaluate awards that restrict eligibility on that basis, and removable at any time.
• Tracker activity: which scholarships you save, watch, or skip; application statuses, tasks, notes, hours, and any award results you record.
• Notification preferences and your timezone, so reminders arrive on the right day.

What we never collect

• Social Security numbers, bank or payment details, or passport images.
• Exact household income, FAFSA or CSS Profile credentials, or tax documents.
• Transcript files or recommendation letters. We may remind you to request them from your school; we do not store them.
• Precise location. Your city and state come from what you type, nothing else.

If anyone claiming to be Meriqen asks for any of the above, it is not us — please report it to hello@meriqen.com.

How we use your information

• Matching you to scholarships and explaining why each one matched or did not.
• Tracking deadlines and sending the reminders you configured.
• Running the guardian-approval process for students under 18.
• Fixing problems and keeping the service working.

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We do not run advertising and use no advertising trackers. We do not use your private data to train AI models.

Age rules and guardian access

• You must be at least 16 to have an account. If someone under 16 signs up, no account is created, and any data discovered later from an under-16 user is deleted.
• If you are 16 or 17, a parent or guardian must approve your account by email before it can be used. Until they approve, the account is inactive and no reminders are sent.
• After approving, your guardian gets a read-only view of your scholarship matches and application statuses — and nothing else. They cannot see your essays, notes, profile answers (grades, scores, school), or any optional disclosure. This limit is enforced in the database itself, not just hidden in the app.
• A guardian can withdraw approval at any time, which pauses the account until a guardian approves it again. We keep a record of the consent itself, as we are required to.

Scholarship information and sources

• Every scholarship shown carries a link to its official sponsor page and the date a person last verified it. Third-party links are labeled and leave Meriqen.
• Our monitoring system fetches public sponsor pages to detect deadline and rule changes. It reads public web pages only — it never transmits your personal information to sponsors.
• Meriqen never submits an application, signs anything, or accepts a sponsor’s terms on your behalf. You submit your own applications on the sponsor’s official site.

Where your data lives

Service providers that process data so Meriqen can work:

• Supabase — database and sign-in (data encrypted in transit and at rest).
• Vercel — website hosting.
• Resend — sending the emails you asked for (reminders, guardian approvals).
• Google — only if you choose “Continue with Google”; we receive your name and email from Google and nothing else. No Google Drive access.

If we later add AI-assisted features that send data to an AI provider, we will say so here first and describe exactly what is sent before you use them.

Security

• All traffic is encrypted with HTTPS; data is encrypted at rest.
• Row-level security in the database means each student can read only their own records — this is enforced by the database on every query, and we test it.
• Administrative keys are kept server-side and never reach your browser.

Your rights: edit, export, delete

• Edit everything on your profile page at any time.
• Export everything we hold about you as a single file, from your profile page.
• Delete your account yourself. Deletion removes your profile, matches, saved scholarships, tasks, and notifications. Records of guardian consent are retained where we are required to keep them.
• See something wrong — about you or about a scholarship? Use the report link or email hello@meriqen.com and we will correct it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the version and effective date above and tell active users in the app before the change applies to them.

Contact

Questions or requests: hello@meriqen.com. Formal or legal notices: propertysapiens@gmail.com, or by mail to Property Sapiens LLC, 16131 Salto Del Agua, San Antonio, TX 78255, USA.

Meriqen does not award scholarships, is not affiliated with any university or sponsor, and does not guarantee eligibility or selection.