Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Sturse is operated by Sturse LLC (“Sturse,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), which is responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have.

Information We Collect

Information you give us:

• Account details — your name, email address, and password (stored only in hashed form). If you sign in with a third-party account, such as Google or Apple, we receive the details that provider shares with us, such as your name, email address (or a private relay address), and profile picture.
• Profile details — information you choose to add, such as your school or nursing program and your expected graduation date.
• Your study content — the documents you upload (slides, notes, PDFs, images, and other files), and what you create with Sturse: quizzes and your answers, flashcards, study guides, highlights, notes, and questions you ask.
• Exam results you share — if you choose to tell us how an exam went, such as a course exam, ATI or HESI score, or whether you passed the NCLEX.
• Messages and feedback — emails, in-app feedback, survey answers, and responses to research requests. When you report a problem, we may attach technical details, such as the screen you were on, the error, and your device type.
• Payment details — payments are handled by our payment processors, or by the app store if you buy through one. We receive limited billing information, such as your billing name, email, country or postal code (for tax), and the brand and last four digits of your card. We never see or store your full card number.

Information collected automatically:

• Activity and learning data — how you use the Service: which Sturse tools you use; the questions you answer, the options you pick, whether you’re right, how long you take, and the topics involved; when and how long you study; and your flashcard ratings.
• Lecture outlines — an outline of the topics a document you upload covers, created automatically (Section 4).
• Usage and device data — pages and screens visited, IP address, browser and device type, and logs.
• How you found us — if you arrive from an ad or a link, we record details from the link (such as campaign tags, a referral or creator code, or an ad click identifier) and attach them to your account when you sign up.
• Cookies and similar technologies — see Section 10.

Please don’t upload patient information. Sturse is a study tool. Remove patient names and other identifying details from clinical notes before uploading them.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Provide the Service, including storing your documents and turning them into study materials
• Personalize your experience, such as focusing practice on topics you find harder
• Learn from how nursing students study, through Sturse Insights (Section 4)
• Improve the Service and develop new features and products for students, educators, and institutions
• Conduct research on how nursing students learn
• Process payments, prevent fraud, and handle billing questions
• Communicate with you, including account and billing messages, responses to your feedback, and (unless you unsubscribe) product updates and requests for feedback
• Understand how people find and use Sturse, and measure whether our ads work (Section 10)
• Keep the Service secure, enforce our Terms and usage limits, and fix problems
• Comply with the law

Our promise about your documents. We do not use your documents to train AI models, and the AI providers we use (currently Anthropic and Google) process your content under terms that do not allow them to train their models on it. Unless you turn it off, Sturse Insights analyzes your documents to make an outline of the topics they cover (Section 4). We never share your documents, their text, or their images with other students, schools, or partners, except material you choose to share and the service providers that process it for us (Section 6).

Sturse Insights

Sturse Insights is how Sturse will learn which topics nursing students find hardest, and how what nursing programs teach relates to how their students do, so we can build better study tools for you and for every nursing student. We already record your answers for it and label the questions by topic, using the AI providers named below. Combining students’ data has not started yet: it will begin on a date we announce in the app, no earlier than November 13, 2026, and from then on:

• What it uses: your activity and learning data: the questions you answer, the options you pick, whether you’re right, how long you take, and the topics they cover; when and how long you study and which Sturse tools you use; your flashcard ratings; exam results you choose to share with us; and your school and expected graduation year.
• Lecture outlines: Insights analyzes the documents you upload to make an outline of each lecture: the topics it covers, in what order, and roughly how much of it each takes. The outline is kept with your account and deleted when you delete the document. Before an outline is used in any finding, its topics are matched to a standard list of nursing topics; findings never include your lecture’s own topic names, text, images, or examples. We skip any document we identify as an exam, quiz, test bank, or answer key, and remove an outline if we learn it came from one, and we leave out any patient or health information about a person.
• What we do with it: personalize your study materials; improve and build Sturse features; research how nursing students learn; compare what nursing programs cover with how their students do; and create combined, de-identified findings that we may publish, share, or sell to nursing schools, educators, and partners.
• How it protects you and your school: findings leave out your name, email address, and account identifiers. Every figure is drawn from at least 11 students. A finding that compares nursing programs is drawn from at least five programs, none supplying more than a third of its students; it never names a program, and we hold back figures where a person or a program could reasonably be identified. We do not report findings about a single course section or instructor, or about a program’s licensure pass rates or accreditation.
• Your school’s own courses: a school sees findings about its own courses only under an agreement with us (Section 7), and only from accounts connected to that school under that agreement. Your account is not connected to your school just because your school has an agreement with us.
• Schools and instructors: a school or instructor may ask us in writing, at contact@sturseai.com, to exclude its courses from Sturse Insights, naming the school and the course or instructor, or all of the school’s courses. We will stop making outlines of the lectures we can match to that request and delete those outlines and the findings that include them within 30 days. We match by the school on the account and the words in the lecture, so a lecture that doesn’t show them may not be caught.
• Your choice: accounts in the United States are included in Sturse Insights unless they turn it off. You can turn it off at any time in Settings; we then stop including your new activity and documents, and stop using your outlines in new findings. Findings already created are not changed. If we identify your account as being in Canada, Insights includes you only if you agree in the app. If we identify it as being in Québec, Insights does not include you.
• Earlier activity and documents: activity from before Sturse Insights begins, and documents you uploaded before this update takes effect for your account, are included only if you agree when we ask in the app.

De-identified and Combined Data

We may create data that does not identify you and cannot reasonably be linked to you, for example by removing identifiers and combining results from many students. We only report figures drawn from a minimum number of students, so that no one can be singled out. We do not attempt to re-identify this data, and we require anyone we share it with to agree not to try either. We own this de-identified data, may use and share it for any lawful purpose, and may keep it after your account is deleted. Learning data from students’ activity is combined across accounts only through Sturse Insights, under Section 4’s starting date, opt-out, and rules for earlier activity; turning Insights off stops your new activity from being added, but does not remove findings already created. Lecture outlines are combined across accounts only through Sturse Insights, under the same rules. We require anyone we share de-identified data with to keep it de-identified, not to try to re-identify it, and to pass the same terms on to anyone they share it with.

Who We Share Information With

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share it only as described here.

Service providers that process information on our behalf to run Sturse, under contracts that limit how they may use it:

• Hosting, database, sign-in, and file storage providers
• AI providers that generate study materials and read text in images
• File conversion services
• Payment processors and app stores
• Email, messaging, and alerting tools we use to communicate with you and to operate the Service
• Analytics providers

A current list of our service providers is available on request at contact@sturseai.com.

Sign-in providers. If you choose to sign in with a third-party account, such as Google or Apple, that provider receives the information needed to sign you in.

Advertising measurement. We share limited information with Meta (Facebook and Instagram) to measure and improve our ads — see Section 10 for exactly what, and how to opt out.

Your school or organization. If your account is provided by or connected to a school or organization (Section 7), we share information with it as our agreement with it allows.

People you share with. If you share a quiz or other material, anyone with the link can see what you shared and the name shown with it.

Combined, de-identified findings. As described in Sections 4 and 5. These do not identify you.

Other cases. We may disclose information to comply with the law or a valid legal request; to protect the rights, property, and safety of our users, Sturse, or others; or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, in which case this policy continues to apply to your information unless you are notified otherwise and given any choices the law requires.

School and Organization Accounts

If a school, nursing program, or other organization provides or pays for your account, or connects your account to a course, we process the related information on the organization’s behalf and under our agreement with it. That agreement may let the organization see information about your use of the Service, such as your progress in course material, and it may limit how we use that information. Where U.S. student privacy law (FERPA) applies, we handle education records as that agreement and the law require. If you have questions about how your school uses your information, contact your school.

Data Security

We protect your information with encryption in transit, access controls that limit who can see account data, and providers that maintain their own security programs. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but if a breach affects your personal information we will notify you as required by law.

Data Retention and Deletion

We keep your information while your account is open. You can delete your account at any time in Settings; when you do, we delete your documents, study materials, and profile. We keep billing and tax records as long as the law requires, and limited logs may remain in backups for a short time before they are overwritten. Messages you send us, including feedback and problem reports (and the internal alerts our team receives about them), may be kept so we can respond and improve Sturse. De-identified and combined data (Section 5) does not identify you and may be kept.

Cookies, Tracking, and Ads

Essential storage. We use your browser’s storage to keep you signed in and to remember settings, such as your theme and your last-opened page. The Service doesn’t work without it.

Visit statistics. We use privacy-friendly analytics that count visits without cookies and without identifying you.

Meta Pixel and Conversions API. Our website uses the Meta Pixel, which sets a cookie and tells Meta when a visitor views a page, creates an account, or subscribes. When you subscribe, our server also sends Meta a "purchase" event containing a hashed (scrambled) copy of your email address and account ID, the plan and amount, and Meta’s click and browser identifiers if you arrived from a Meta ad. Meta uses this to tell us which ads led to sign-ups and to show our ads to people more likely to find Sturse useful. Under some state laws, including California’s, this may be considered "sharing" personal information for targeted advertising.

How to opt out:

• Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we do not load the Meta Pixel, and we mark your account so that no purchase event is sent to Meta.
• By email. Email contact@sturseai.com with the subject “Do Not Share” and we will stop sending your information to Meta.
• You can also block third-party cookies in your browser and manage ad preferences in your Facebook or Instagram settings.

Emails

We send account and billing emails (such as sign-in and password links, receipts, and billing problems) that you can’t opt out of while you have an account. Product updates, tips, and feedback requests include an unsubscribe link, and you can also email us to stop them.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live (including California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and other U.S. states with privacy laws), you may have the right to:

• Know what personal information we have about you and get a copy of it
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete your information
• Opt out of the "sharing" or "sale" of your information and of targeted advertising (see Section 10)
• Not be treated differently for exercising these rights

Once Sturse Insights begins, you can also turn it off at any time in Settings (Section 4).

To make a request, email contact@sturseai.com from the email address on your account, or have an authorized agent contact us on your behalf. We will verify your request and respond within 45 days. If we decline your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision; if your appeal is denied, you may contact your state attorney general.

We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you, and we do not sell or share the personal information of consumers we know to be under 16.

Children's Privacy

Sturse is built for nursing students and is not intended for children. Accounts are for people 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if we learn that we have, we will delete it. If you believe a child has given us information, please contact us.

Academic Institution Policies

If you use Sturse in connection with a school, college, university, or nursing program:

• Respect your institution’s policies on recording, sharing, or distributing course materials
• Do not upload recorded lectures, class materials, or other copyrighted content without proper authorization
• Some institutions prohibit recording or distributing lectures and course materials
• Get any permissions you need before uploading content that may be covered by institutional policies
• We may refuse to process content that may violate academic integrity policies

You are responsible for following your institution’s policies and the law regarding course content.

Where Your Information Is Processed

Sturse is based in the United States, and your information is mainly stored and processed there. Some of our service providers are based in, or process information in, other countries. If you use Sturse from outside the United States, including Canada, your information will be transferred to the United States and may be processed in other countries, where privacy laws may differ from those where you live. We use service providers bound by contracts that require them to protect it.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the new version on this page and update the "Last updated" date. If a change is significant, we will also notify you by email or in the app before it takes effect for your account. If we want to use information we already have in a materially different way than this policy describes, we will ask for your agreement first.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact Sturse LLC at contact@sturseai.com or by mail at 418 Broadway, Ste N, Albany, NY 12207.