Applicant Privacy Policy

This privacy notice explains how Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information.
Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies defines a minor as a student that has not reached the age of 18 years old. Parents and legal guardians are required to submit the student application with their minor and accept any student offer of admission by signing the enrollment agreement.

Categories of Personal Information Processed

To be considered to attend Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies, students, along with their parents or legal guardians if minors, will be required to complete and submit an application through Slate. The following categories of student and parent or legal guardian data may be collected:

Student
Communications - Email exchanges, call notes
Demographic - Address, phone number, date of birth, ethnicity, gender
Identifiable - Name, email address

Parent or Legal Guardian 
Communications - Email exchanges, call notes
Demographic - Address, phone number
Financial - Payment information
Identifiable - Name, email address

* If applying for financial aid, parents and legal guardians will be required to use the School and Student Services (SSS) platform and submit financial statements online.

Use of Personal Information

We may use this information for:

  • Providing data security (Secure login);
  • Evaluating a student as a candidate;
  • Payment related purposes;
  • Providing personal service such as communications via phone and email;
  • Enrollment data;
  • Providing access to third-party technical systems used in the classroom;
  • Reporting purposes for legal reasons with de-identified aggregate data.

Sharing your Personal Information
Personal information will be shared with Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies staff and specific Stanford offices for applicant evaluation, enrollment, and instructional purposes. We engage the following third parties to process your Personal Information on our behalf to facilitate use of our technical platforms for administrative benefits.

  • Salesforce - Ticketing system
  • School and Student Services (SSS) - Financial aid applications only
  • Slate - Application and payment processing

*If accepted, and enrollment agreement requirements are completed, your personal information will be shared with additional third parties as required to facilitate use of our technical platforms.

Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies does not sell any Personal Information, including Personal Information of minors, to third parties for their use in direct marketing, advertising, or promotion of their products or services. 

Our service providers are required to comply with applicable data protection laws and Stanford's data protection standards under the terms of agreement with Stanford University. 

Transfer of Personal Information

Your personal information will be transferred to the U.S. and other jurisdictions when necessary to process your application, provide the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies experience, or other valid purposes, where the laws do not protect your privacy to the same extent as the laws in the country where you reside.  

To the extent that we need to transfer your information to the U.S. or other countries, we will do so consistent with applicable law governing such transfers. To support such transfers, we will generally enter into a contract containing certain standard terms to clearly establish the rights and responsibilities of the parties to the transfer. 

Data Storage and Retention
The security, integrity, and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. Data will be retained in accordance with the U.S. Federal, State, and County laws or to meet organizational needs. See Stanford University Security Standards for our security policies.

Individual Privacy Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under the data protection laws that apply to you in relation to your Personal Information. Please refer to Stanford University Online Privacy Policy.  To exercise, please contact Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies

Contact Information
For more information on how we collect and process your Personal Information, or if you have any complaints regarding the processing of your Personal Information by Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies, please contact Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies

Updates to Notice

We may modify this notice from time to time. When we make substantive changes to this statement, the latest update will be included on our website: Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies.  Your further use of our Services after a change to our notice will be subject to the updated statement. If you don't agree to the changes, then you can always stop using our services, delete your account and stop giving us any more personal information.  Where we are required by the applicable privacy laws, we will also seek your consent to any material changes that affect how we use your personal information.

Effective Date
This Privacy Notice is effective as of September 24, 2025. For additional information regarding Stanford University privacy policy, please refer to this link: