Privacy Policy

Last updated 24 August 2026

S2S Freshman is an exam-preparation app for Ethiopian university students, built by Ikigai Team in Ethiopia. This policy explains exactly what the app stores about you, why it stores it, and how to have all of it deleted. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

The short version: we keep the least we can get away with, we never sell it, and nothing you study is shared with anyone.

What we collect

• Your name and email address — from the Google account you sign in with. We never see or store a password.
• Your university and stream — so the right courses and past papers reach you.
• Your gender, and how you heard about us — asked once at signup, used only in aggregate to understand who the app reaches.
• A device identifier — a random value generated on your phone. It keeps a premium account tied to one device. It is not an advertising identifier and it identifies the phone, not you.
• Your payment reference and the payer name — only if you upgrade to premium, so that a bank transfer can be matched to your account.
• Crash reports and anonymous usage statistics — through Google Firebase Crashlytics and Analytics, so we can find and fix what breaks.

We do not collect your contacts, your location, your photos, or anything else on your phone. The app requests two permissions in total: internet access, and permission to show notifications.

What we never do

• We never sell or rent your details, to anyone, for any price.
• We never share what you study. Your results, your practice and your downloads are yours alone.
• We never show you advertising, and there is no advertising or tracking software in the app.

Who else can see it

Your data is stored in Google Firebase (Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Storage and Firebase Cloud Messaging), which processes it on our behalf and under our instruction. Google is a processor here, not a party we share your data with, and it does not use your S2S data for its own purposes.

Nobody else receives your data. We do not transfer it to advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party.

How it is protected

• Sign-in is handled entirely by Google Sign-In. There is no password on our side to leak.
• Everything in transit is encrypted, on every connection the app makes.
• Downloads on your phone are encrypted with a key held in your device's secure hardware store, which never leaves the phone. If someone copies the files off your device, they cannot open them.
• What you can open is decided by our server, not by the app on your phone — which means we do not need to track your behaviour to enforce it.

How long we keep it

Your profile is kept for as long as your account exists. Delete the account and it goes immediately — see below. Crash reports and anonymous usage statistics are kept by Google Firebase for a limited retention period under Google's own policies; they carry no name or email and cannot be traced back to you.

Deleting your account

Reports you have filed against exam questions are kept, with your name and account removed from them, so that a wrong answer key still gets corrected after you are gone. Nothing in a report points back to you once your account is deleted.

Children

S2S Freshman is built for university students and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has given us their details, contact us and we will delete the account.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or what we do with it, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Continuing to use the app after that means accepting the updated policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy, your data, or a deletion request: message us on Telegram at @s2sFreshmanSupport. We are a small team in Ethiopia and we answer personally.