Last updated November 8, 2026
We never ask for Social Security numbers, passport numbers, visa or immigration status, bank account numbers or medical diagnoses on any form. Payment details for a grant are collected only after it is approved, through our payment provider.
We collect what we need to decide and pay a grant and to keep the records the IRS requires for grants to individuals: your name, mailing address, contact details, enrollment, the emergency and its supporting documents.
Your application is kept apart from the INESTED academic platform. It never appears on your profile, research page or feed, and is never used for marketing.
Grant applications and their documents are kept in their own encrypted database, separate from everything else we hold. Only INESTED’s admin can open them, after signing in with two-factor authentication, and every view of a document is logged with who and when.
We confirm your school email by sending it a one-time code. We email you a receipt and our decision from an inested.com address.
We never publish your name. Our public grant register lists awards without names, institutions, cities or anything else that could identify you. Student stories appear only with separate written consent, which you can withdraw at any time; we remove a story within 7 days of your request.
When you apply for a perk such as a software license, we collect your name, email, college or university, degree level, field of study, your startup’s name if you apply for one, the username you’d like for an @inested.com account, and anything you choose to tell us about how you’ll use it. We use it only to review your application, confirm your enrollment and set up your license. A Google Workspace account we create for you is on INESTED’s domain and is administered by INESTED.
Perk applications are kept in their own database, separate from grant applications and from everything else we hold. Only INESTED’s admin, who signs in with two-factor authentication, can read them.
Online gifts are processed by PayPal. Your card or bank details go to PayPal, not to us; PayPal’s own privacy policy covers what it collects.
We keep your name, contact details and gift history to send receipts and acknowledgments and to keep the records charities must keep. Donor names are never shown publicly unless you opt in. As the IRS requires, we report contributors of $5,000 or more in a year to the IRS; those names are not open to public inspection and we never publish them.
We do not sell, rent or trade donor information.
If you sign up for updates, we keep your email address to send them. You can unsubscribe from any email or by writing to us. We never sell or share the list.
We use Google Analytics, through Google Tag Manager, to count visits and see which pages people use. Google sets cookies to do this and processes the data under its own privacy policy. You can block these cookies in your browser or with Google’s opt-out browser add-on, and the site works the same without them.
We run no advertising or session-recording scripts. We don’t send what you type into our forms to Google, and analytics never runs on our admin pages. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses and pages requested, to run and protect the site.
Documents for declined applications are deleted after 90 days. Records for awarded grants are kept for as long as our accountant advises for audits and IRS requirements, then deleted. Email sign-ups are deleted when you unsubscribe. Perk applications are kept while you hold the license, and deleted when you ask.
If we discover a breach that affects students, we notify them within 72 hours and record the incident in our public corrections log without identifying anyone.
To see, correct or delete information we hold about you, or to ask anything about this policy, email info@inested.com or write to INESTED, 9 NE Tandem Way, Hillsboro, OR 97124.