Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

When you create an account and apply to the Yale Undergraduate Trading Competition (YUTC), we collect the following information:

• Your name and email address, and your password or Google sign-in
• College or university, major, country and graduation year
• Work history, trading experience, other competitions and your interest in trading
• Whether you request travel reimbursement, your gender and how you heard about YUTC
• Your resume
• If you are accepted: your attendance response, housing and travel details, dietary needs and signed waiver

Automatically Collected Information

• Server logs: Our hosting providers record technical information, such as your IP address and browser, when you visit the site or sign in. We use it for security, fraud prevention and troubleshooting.
• Cookies and browser storage: We set one cookie that remembers you have seen the homepage introduction, and store your sign-in session and display preferences (such as theme) in your browser. We do not use analytics or advertising cookies.

How We Use Your Information

The information you provide is used for the following purposes:

• Internal review: Our organizing team reviews applications to evaluate candidates for participation in the competition.
• Resume processing: We use an automated model to read your resume and suggest your work history for you to review, and to summarize it for reviewers. It does not make admissions decisions.
• Emails: We email you about your account, your application and the competition.
• Sponsor sharing: Your information may be shared with our sponsors for recruiting and networking opportunities.

Service Providers

Your account and application are stored with Supabase. The website, resumes, resume processing and our emails run on Amazon Web Services. These providers process your information only to provide their services to us.

Data Retention

We retain your application data for the duration of the competition cycle and may keep it for future recruitment purposes unless you request its deletion.

Your Rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time by contacting us.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us at contact@yutc.org.