Sign-up
Your data.
What we store when you sign up, who can read it, and how to have it deleted. Short, because there is not much of it.
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What we store
Signing in tells us three things, and Google is the one that tells us: the email address on your college account, the name on it, and an account id. The sign-in happens on Google's own page, so we never see your password — there is no password on this site to see.
The form you fill in afterwards is kept as one record per member. It holds your name, your college address, your year and branch, your hostel, how much open source you have done, how you want to start, which programmes interest you, and your GitHub username if you gave one. Two timestamps record when you signed up and when you last changed something.
That's the entire list — the Profile type in web/lib/profile.ts. The site is open source, so you can check. There is no analytics account, no advertising identifier, no third-party tracker, and no data sold or shared with anybody outside the club.
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Who can read it
You can, and you can change it whenever you like from the join page.
Organisers can read the full list. That is the only reason the list exists: putting build-day pairs together, and working out who to tell about which programme.
Nobody else can — and that is enforced by the database rather than by hiding a page. The rules in firestore.rules allow a member to read exactly their own record, allow the roster only to an address on the organisers' list, and refuse everything else. A student who signs in with a personal Gmail is refused by those rules even if they reach the dashboard's URL. We test that on every change by running the rules against forged sign-ins for a member, another member, an organiser, a signed out visitor and an off-domain account.
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Terms, such as they are
Signing up is free, and it stays free. There is no fee, no paid tier, and nothing that becomes chargeable later.
Signing up puts you on the club's list. It is not a place in any programme — Google Summer of Code, LFX Mentorship and the rest select their own people and the club has no say in it.
Sessions are open to any student at the university, and there is no selection at the door. We can ask somebody to leave for behaviour towards other members; that is the only membership condition there is.
Programme and organisation names on this site are trademarks of their respective owners. Listing a programme is a statement of fact about our members, not an endorsement by that programme or company.
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Deleting your data
Email os_club@sst.scaler.com from your college address and ask us to delete your record. We delete the whole document, not a flag on it.
An organiser does this by hand, so give it a few days. We're students, not a service desk, so we won't promise a window we can't keep.
Your Google account is not ours to touch. To take away this site's access to it, remove it under your Google account's connections. Deleting your record here does not sign you out of Google, and signing out of Google does not delete your record — do both.
Something wrong or out of date? This site is open source — open an issue or send a pull request. Sign-up is restricted to @sst.scaler.com addresses; this page is not.