Privacy
UWMathFinder Lab is a student project that collects example searches to measure how well the search on uwmathfinder.com works. It does not train an AI model. You don't need an account, and we never ask for your name or email.
What we save
- What you type in the search and description boxes.
- Your ratings ("this is what I wanted", "related", "not relevant", "none of these", and "which is closer" choices).
- The course you pick, if you pick one.
- A random ID made by your browser and stored in its local storage, so we can group the answers from one visit and spot low-effort sessions. It isn't linked to who you are. Clearing your browser data removes it.
- The time of each answer and which version of the search index you saw.
We don't store your IP address, device or location with your answers (Supabase, like any web host, keeps short-lived server logs of requests). Please don't type anything personal: we reject text that looks like an email address or phone number.
How it's used
- To build a test set that measures how well UWMathFinder finds the right past exam questions.
- The searches and ratings may be published as part of an open dataset, without the random ID.
- Answers that fail simple attention checks are flagged and left out of the results.
Where it's stored
Answers go to a Supabase database. The website can only add answers, never read them back; only the project maintainer can export them.
Analytics
Like uwmathfinder.com, this site uses:
- Google Analytics 4 to count visits and which steps people finish (for example "started a search task"). It never receives what you type or your random ID. See Google's privacy policy.
- Microsoft Clarity for anonymous heatmaps and session replays that show where the page is confusing. Everything you type, and every place a search is displayed, is masked in those recordings. See Microsoft's privacy statement.
Both set cookies. You can block them with your browser's tracking protection or an ad blocker; the lab still works.
Questions or removal
Because we don't know who you are, we can't look up your answers by name. If you'd like something removed, open an issue at github.com/Zahid-M/uwmathfinder-lab quoting the text you typed, and we'll delete it.