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Privacy

What Bruin Clubs collects, who else is involved, why, and what you can do about it.

What we collect when you browse

We run our own analytics on our own server, and we never sell what it records. For every page you open we record:

  • The page, the time, and the page you came from (the referrer), including any utm_ campaign tags in the link.
  • Your IP address and the approximate location our network provider (Cloudflare) derives from it: country, region, city, postal code and time zone. After 30 days the IP address is shortened to its network (the last part is removed) and the postal code is deleted; server logs only ever record the shortened form.
  • Your browser, operating system and device type, from the user-agent string.
  • Screen and window size, pixel density, language, time zone, light or dark mode preference, connection type, page load time, how long the page was visible, and how far you scrolled.
  • What you do on the site: searches and filters, clubs you open, links you click to contact a club (Instagram, email, Discord, website), and saves, likes and shares.

Two first-party cookies tie this together: __Host-bc_v identifies your browser (kept up to 400 days, replaced when you sign out) and __Host-bc_s groups a visit (expires after 30 minutes of inactivity). They are used only on this site.

Cloudflare, which carries the site's traffic, also measures how fast pages load with its own script (Cloudflare Web Analytics). It sets no cookies.

Advertising

Bruin Clubs is free, and ads from Google AdSense help pay for it. Ads appear only on the guides and on club pages we wrote ourselves from the club's own pages. The home page, directory listings, About, sign-in, account, feedback and error pages never carry them.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
  • You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info.
  • How Google uses information from sites that use its services is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

On pages with ads, Google loads its ad code from its own servers, and Google, not Bruin Clubs, sets and reads its advertising cookies; Google's privacy policy covers them. We do not give Google or any advertiser our analytics, your account details or your saved and liked clubs.

If you create an account

  • Your email, your name if you give it, and optionally your class and major.
  • Your password, stored only as a salted Argon2id hash. We can't see it.
  • Your saved clubs, likes and recently viewed clubs, and the devices you're signed in on (browser, approximate location, last active). The sign-in cookie __Host-bc_auth keeps you signed in until you sign out, for at most 400 days, and ends sooner if you don't visit for 90 days.
  • Your earlier browsing on the same browser is linked to your account.

Like counts are shown publicly as totals. Who liked what is never shown to other users.

Why

To run the site (keeping you signed in, remembering your saves), to keep it working and secure (spotting abuse and broken pages), and to make it better: which clubs people look for, what searches find nothing, and which links help students join.

Your choices

  • To ask for a copy of the data tied to your account, or to ask for the account to be deleted, use the feedback form. Deletion removes the account, saves, likes and history. Browsing statistics stay, no longer linked to you.
  • Clear your viewing history whenever you like.
  • Blocking cookies still lets you browse and search, but saves won't stick.
  • Turn off personalized ads in Google's Ads Settings; you will still see ads, but they won't be based on your browsing.

Where it lives

Data is stored on a server in San Jose, California, behind Cloudflare, with daily backups kept for two weeks. Only the site's administrators can see analytics.

Bruin Clubs is meant for university students and is not directed at children under 13.

Last updated October 7, 2026.