The short version
- The Lagoon app has no ad trackers and does not share your data with advertisers.
- This website uses Google Analytics to count visits, and may use the Meta Pixel to measure Instagram ads.
- We never sell your information for money. You can switch off the Meta Pixel below, and your browser's Global Privacy Control signal does it automatically.
In the app
Your account needs an email address. Everything else is something you choose to add, and each piece is seen only by the people listed here.
- Your schedule is stored on your phone and synced to your account so friends can see shared classes and free time.
- Friends, study groups and messages are seen by the people in them.
- Chapters. The chapter you say you're in is shown only to your friends, and you can hide it from them too. Everyone else sees a member count from five members; that count is public on the Chapter Cup. Officers see the name and year of people who RSVP to their events.
- Your hall (optional): the residence hall or apartment you pick. If you show up there, friends who live there see you, and so do other students who live there and show up too. If you don't, nobody sees your name. The hall's count appears once three people have joined.
- “I'm going” on a campus event: your friends see your first name; everyone else sees only a count, once three people are going.
- Officers who ask for access or report money raised share their name, UCSB email, note and any proof with the Lagoon team only, to verify it. A verified total is public on the Chapter Cup.
- Canvas, office hours and homework check-offs stay on your phone. The Canvas link you paste is kept in the iOS Keychain, and assignments download from Canvas straight to your device. None of it reaches our servers.
- Usage and crash reports: which screens you open, for how long, and what you share, plus app version, iOS version and device model, linked to your account so we can see what's working and fix what breaks.
Data you add is stored with Supabase, with row-level security on every table. You can delete your account in the app at any time. That removes your profile, friends, reviews, groups, chapter memberships, RSVPs, officer roles, your hall and your “going” RSVPs from our servers.
What this website measures
Google Analytics records pages viewed, how far you scroll, whether you tapped a “Get the app” button, and the device, browser and rough location (city-level) that Google infers from your connection. We use it to see which pages help students find Lagoon.
Meta Pixel (when enabled) tells Meta that a browser visited a page here, and whether it tapped through to the App Store. Meta may match that to an Instagram or Facebook account. We use it to show Lagoon ads to people who have already visited, and to measure whether our ads work. Under California law this counts as “sharing” personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, which is why you can opt out below.
When you arrive from an ad, we also add a campaign label (like instagram-fall_launch) to the App Store link so Apple can tell us how many installs a campaign produced. Apple reports those as totals, not per person.
Opt out
This is saved in a cookie on this browser, so repeat it on other devices. To limit Google Analytics too, use Google's browser opt-out add-on.
Signing in on the website
Signing in to the web hub uses your Lagoon account, stored with our database provider, Supabase. The same account rules as the app apply, including deleting your account from the app at any time.
Contact
Questions or requests: ucsblagoon@gmail.com. Lagoon is an independent student project and is not affiliated with the UC Santa Barbara administration.