Notice. InternPick is a technology platform and listing service — similar to how a real-estate marketplace connects buyers and sellers. We facilitate discovery, communication, and paperwork between schools, students, and host employers. We are not a school, employer, placement agency, insurer, broker, or guarantor of any outcome. All parties use the site at their own risk.
1. Overview
InternPick respects the privacy of schools, students, educators, and host organizations. This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you.
InternPick is a technology platform and listing service — similar to how a real-estate marketplace connects buyers and sellers. We facilitate discovery, communication, and paperwork between schools, students, and host employers. We are not a school, employer, placement agency, insurer, broker, or guarantor of any outcome. All parties use the site at their own risk.
While we implement safeguards described below, no system is perfectly secure. Schools remain responsible for their own FERPA programs and lawful bases for sharing student information.
2. Information we collect
- Account information: name, email, role, school affiliation, title, phone, and authentication identifiers.
- School & program data: profiles, internship listings, policies, compliance settings, signatures, and uploaded documents you choose to provide.
- Usage data: logs, device/browser type, IP address, pages viewed, and diagnostic events needed to operate and secure the Service.
- Communications: messages you send to support and in-product notices you receive.
- Cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy.
3. How we use information
- Provide, maintain, and improve the Service.
- Authenticate users and enforce account permissions (including school account ownership).
- Display listings and school profiles to other users as you configure visibility settings.
- Support schools in coordinating work-based learning workflows you enable.
- Detect abuse, fraud, and security incidents.
- Comply with law and respond to lawful requests.
- Send service-related notices (you may opt out of non-essential marketing where applicable).
4. Schools, students & FERPA
When a school uploads or manages student-related information, the school is responsible for providing appropriate notice and obtaining required consents under FERPA, state student-privacy laws, and district policy.
InternPick processes that information on the school’s direction to provide the Service. For schools that accept our Student Data Privacy Agreement, InternPick acts as a school official with a legitimate educational interest under FERPA’s school official exception (34 CFR § 99.31(a)(1)), under the school’s direct control for the use and maintenance of education records disclosed through the Service.
The full Student Data Privacy Agreement is published at internpick.com/dpa and may be shared with district counsel. School account owners accept it during school onboarding (or later under Settings → Legal). With respect to Student Data only, that Agreement takes precedence over conflicting marketing claims.
InternPick does not sell personal information. We do not sell, rent, or license personal information for monetary consideration, and we do not use student data for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect data (see Section 8). Schools should only enter information necessary for their programs and configure access appropriately.
6. Data retention
We retain information while accounts are active and as needed to provide the Service, comply with law, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.
School account owners may delete their school account in Settings → Profile, which removes associated school data from InternPick as described in-product. Backups may persist for a limited period before deletion.
7. Your choices & rights
- Access and update account information in Settings.
- Request deletion of a school account (account owner) or contact us about individual requests.
- Manage non-essential cookies on our Cookie Policy page.
- Depending on your location, you may have additional rights (access, correction, deletion, portability, opt-out of certain processing). California residents may have rights under the CCPA/CPRA — contact us to exercise them.
8. Security — our best efforts
We use industry-standard practices appropriate to the nature of the data, which may include encryption in transit, access controls, authenticated access to production systems, and monitoring for abuse.
No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. You use the Service at your own risk and should maintain strong passwords and limit who has admin access at your school.
9. Children & student accounts
The Service is directed to schools and authorized educators coordinating student programs. Student-facing features are deployed under school supervision consistent with applicable law and district policy.
InternPick does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate school authorization and any required parental consent.
If you believe we collected information from a child without appropriate authorization, contact us at privacy@internpick.com.
10. U.S. operations
InternPick is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from other regions, you understand that information may be processed in the U.S. where laws may differ from your jurisdiction.
11. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be posted here with an updated date. Continued use after changes become effective constitutes acknowledgment of the updated Policy.
12. Contact
Privacy questions or requests: privacy@internpick.com.
General support: hello@internpick.com.
Audience review
Role-specific provisions
The sections below summarize how this document applies to educators, students, and host employers. District counsel may review each block independently.
Educators — schools & staff
Schools control what student and program data is entered and who can view it through role permissions.
When your school accepts the Student Data Privacy Agreement, InternPick processes student information as a school official under your direct control for work-based learning coordination.
- You are responsible for FERPA notices, consents, and directory information policies before uploading student data.
- Accept and review the DPA at /dpa and under Settings → Legal.
- Configure retention settings under Settings → Legal → School documents and delete the school account when the district no longer uses InternPick.
- We do not sell personal information collected through the Service.
- Contact privacy@internpick.com for data subject requests we can fulfill as processor; direct student record requests to your school.
Students & guardians
Student profiles, applications, hours, and messages are visible to school staff according to school membership. Assigned placement hosts see coordination data by default; resume and contact extras require your host-share opt-in under Career → Profile — never a public employer marketplace.
- Your school decides what information is required and who may view placement details.
- InternPick uses student data only to operate features your school enables — not for advertising or sale.
- Guardians completing parent consent forms should review the linked Privacy Policy before signing.
- Questions about grades, credit, or participation should go to your school coordinator.
Host employers
Hosts see only minimum necessary information for placements the school assigns to them — typically student name and placement/hours coordination. Resume, bio, phone, and similar fields appear only when the student grants host-share consent. There is no public employer search of student profiles.
- Use student information only for legitimate placement coordination; do not repurpose it for unrelated marketing.
- Business profile and listing data may appear on public program pages according to visibility settings.
- Contact hello@internpick.com for account or data questions related to your host or business workspace.
Where InternPick collects acceptance
The table below maps each onboarding and invite flow to the legal documents presented and how acceptance is recorded. Schools may share this section with district counsel when reviewing InternPick alongside local WBL policies.
School-authored terms (student or host) are optional, configured by each school under Settings → Legal, and are separate from InternPick’s platform documents.
- [Educators] New school account — Platform Facilitator Agreement (/onboarding/platform-agreement): Platform Facilitator Agreement, InternPick Terms v1.1, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use — Scroll through terms, type full legal name, and check explicit agree; acceptance stored on school record with timestamp and policy version.
- [Educators] New school account — Student Data Privacy Agreement (/onboarding/student-data-privacy): Student Data Privacy Agreement v1.0 (FERPA-ready school official terms) — After platform terms, scroll through the DPA, type full legal name, and check explicit agree; acceptance stored on schools/{id}/settings/dpa.
- [Educators] Join existing school (invited staff/admin) (/accept-invite): InternPick Terms v1.1, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy — Checkbox acknowledgment (and typed name where collected) before completing invite; does not overwrite school owner platform or DPA acceptance.
- [Educators] Join existing school (short onboarding path) (/onboarding/platform-agreement): Platform Facilitator Agreement, InternPick Terms v1.1 — Typed legal name + explicit agree on platform agreement step when joining via school invite without creating a new school. Does not write school DPA.
- [Educators] Existing school — accept or re-accept DPA in Settings (/settings/legal/compliance): Student Data Privacy Agreement v1.0 — School admins may accept a missing or updated DPA from Settings → Legal without blocking the workspace. Soft banner prompts admins until current.
- [Hosts] Host invited by a school (/accept-invite): InternPick Terms v1.1; optional school host terms if enabled by the school — Checkbox for InternPick terms; scroll-to-end + checkbox for optional school host terms.
- [Hosts] Register company workspace (business account) (/business/onboarding): Platform Facilitator Agreement, InternPick Terms v1.1, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use — Scroll through terms, type full legal name, and check explicit agree on company profile wizard (after Find company); acceptance stored on business + educator records.
- [Students] Student school invite (/join/[invite-token]): InternPick student terms (includes platform terms); optional school student terms if enabled — Scroll through full terms, then checkbox; optional second scroll + checkbox for school terms.
- [Guardians] Parent/guardian program consent (/parent-consent): Program consent scope, e-sign disclosure, Privacy Policy — Guardian completes consent form; school remains responsible for required authorizations.
- [All users] Public site use (no account) (/terms · /privacy · /cookies · /dpa): Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Student Data Privacy Agreement (reference) — Using the public site constitutes agreement to posted Terms and acknowledgment of the Privacy Policy. The DPA binds schools that accept it in-product.
This page is provided for transparency and does not constitute legal advice. InternPick recommends that schools, hosts, and districts have qualified counsel review these documents alongside local board policy, FERPA programs, and work-based learning requirements before relying on them.
