Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 22, 2025
WE HAVE UPDATED THE PRIVACY POLICY EFFECTIVE JULY 22, 2025. PLEASE READ THE PRIVACY POLICY IN FULL TO UNDERSTAND THE CHANGES.
PLEASE SEE OUR PRIVACY SNAPSHOT FOR AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES.
Snap Inc. runs a platform, Saturn, available as an app, that helps high school and college students stay up to date on their class schedules and homework assignments and stay in touch with their communities.
Saturn’s goal is to make students more productive as individuals and more connected with their communities. We offer college and high school experiences tailored to the needs of both groups of students.
When you use Saturn, we get some information from and about you, and information about individuals who are not on the app, such as your contacts and teachers. We designed this Privacy Policy to be clear about what information we collect, how we use it, and who we share it with. We’ll also tell you how you can access, update, and delete certain information. You should take the time to read our entire Privacy Policy. If you have questions about anything in our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Key Points about Saturn’s Privacy Practices
We use your personal information to provide you with the Saturn platform and to improve the platform.
We don’t sell personal information and don’t share it with third parties for those parties’ own marketing purposes.
To the extent permitted by law, we may display advertisements for Saturn on social media platforms to users or contacts who are active on those platforms, as well as to lookalike audiences identified by the platform.
You have choices with respect to your data. You can adjust your privacy settings on Saturn. You can also request to access, correct, and delete your information. There are some common sense limits on these requests. Users of Saturn communities designed for high schools can authorize their parents or guardians to get a copy of the information Saturn maintains about the student, but we can't give access to parents without our student users’ specific direction.
Users can join Saturn starting in high school, and individuals under the age of 13 (or the minimum age permitted in your state, province, or country without parental consent) may not use Saturn. Parents or guardians should let us know if their child is under 13 (or other minimum permissible age) and joined Saturn, and upon confirmation, we will delete their profile and information that we maintain about that student.
You may be prompted to choose whether to give us access to your device's contact book. If you choose to grant access, we will use that data to operate our services, including to improve and personalize the services and for other purposes identified in this Privacy Policy. You can always change your settings to terminate our access to your contact book. If you terminate our access to your contact book, we will delete your contact book.
To help make Saturn a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone, we require our users to follow our Community Guidelines. Please read the Community Guidelines to learn the rules for engaging with our services and other users.
Our goal is to enable students to communicate with their peers, including to stay in touch with their communities, as they navigate their academic and life journey. We have implemented various processes to identify and remove users who do not comply with our Terms of Use. These processes evolve over time to strike the right balance with accessibility. We cannot guarantee that every user who joins Saturn is an actual high school or college student when they join Saturn, or that our processes will always identify individuals who try to use Saturn in violation of our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines. If you know of a user who is not supposed to be on Saturn, please report them to us.
Our Key Points and Privacy Snapshot explain our principles. The full Privacy Policy – below – explains the ins and outs of our privacy practices in more detail, and it governs how we handle personal information.
Privacy Policy
Information We Collect
There are three basic categories of information we collect:
Information you choose to give us.
Information we get when you use our services.
Information we get from outside our services (third parties).
Here’s a little more detail on each of these categories:
Information You Choose to Give Us
Profile information. We collect information to establish your account and your profile, including but not limited to your name, date of birth, email address, phone number, grade, high school or college you are or will be attending, links to other social profiles, profile photo, and other information you may add to your profile, such as responses to in-app questions and surveys. We may also collect information from your accounts and activity on other platforms that you authorize to have shared and/or linked with Saturn.
Contact book. If you give us permission to sync your device's contact book, we will use information such as names and telephone numbers of your contacts to improve and personalize the services for you and other Saturn users, to enforce our Terms of Use, and for other purposes identified in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may use the contact book to:
Allow you to invite your contacts to join Saturn.
Let you know which of your contacts is already using Saturn, and provide recommendations for new friends in the app. Similarly, if you appear in other users' synced contact books, we may let them know that you have joined Saturn and suggest you as a recommended friend to those users.
Provide personalized in-app notifications to you and your contacts on Saturn, such as letting users know when their friends have uploaded their class schedules.
Display advertisements for Saturn on social media platforms to contacts who are active on those platforms.
Location. When you use our services, we may collect information about your location. With your permission, we may also collect information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses. You can always change your permission to share your precise location by changing the location settings on your phone or other device. We will use your location data to enhance your experience, such as to help you select a Saturn school community, to join or find local events, or for internal analytics purposes, including to help us improve our platform.
Google Calendar data. You can choose to sync your Google Calendar with your Saturn account in order to view and interact with your Google Calendar events on the Saturn platform. Through the integration, we will collect data associated with your Google Calendar events, such as event titles and descriptions, emails of invitees on those events, locations of events, and other calendar metadata.
Google Contacts. We may also request permission to access your Google Contacts to add basic details about event attendees to the platform.
Saturn’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use Requirements.
Information you share on Saturn. We have access to information you send through Saturn, such as notes on homework assignments. Keep in mind that the other users who you share information with can always save that content or copy it outside the Saturn app or website. So, the same common sense that applies to the whole internet applies to Saturn as well: don’t send any messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save, share, or forward.
Information you share when you contact us. Even though it’s probably obvious, we’ll say it anyway: when you contact customer support or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect the information you volunteer.
Information We Get When You Use Saturn
We collect information about how you use Saturn, like whether you add notes about a homework assignment, view a schedule, or message someone. Here’s a more complete explanation of the types of information we collect when you use Saturn. We also collect information about other Saturn users and individuals who have not joined the app (“non-users”).
We may collect information about:
How you interact with our services, such as your time spent using Saturn and what actions you take in the app.
How you communicate with other users, such as their names, and the time and date of your communications, and whether the recipient sees the message.
The number of messages you exchange with other users, and which users you exchange messages with the most.
Content information. We collect information about the content you create on our services, such as your calendar, course schedule, notes you write about homework assignments, and events.
Device information. We collect information about your phone, tablet, or other device you use to open Saturn. For example, we collect:
Information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, unique application identifiers, and apps installed.
Information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as mobile phone number, service provider, and signal strength.
Information collected by cookies and other technologies. Like most websites and apps, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, and web storage to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. We use this information to understand things like popular features and popular times to use Saturn.
Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Some browsers may be set to send “Do Not Track” signals, but we currently don’t respond to Do Not Track signals. Keep in mind though that removing or rejecting cookies could affect Saturn’s performance.
Log information. We also collect log information when you use our website. That information includes, among other things:
How you’ve used our services.
Device information, such as your web browser type and language.
Access times.
Pages viewed.
IP address.
Identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser.
Pages you visited before or after going to our website.
Information We May Infer
We may infer information about your interests, such as an interest in particular sports or other activities. We may use this information to operate Saturn, personalize your experience, and display advertising on the platform or on another social media platform where permitted by law. For example, we may display an ad about a sporting event to users who are interested in that sport. We do not share personal information with third parties, including advertisers, for those parties’ own purposes.
Information We Collect from Third Parties
When you associate with a Saturn community at a high school through your high school email account, we may collect certain information from your school email account, such as your name and any other information relating to your association with your high school. Please note that we do not have access to the username and password you use to log in to your school account.
Further, we may maintain pages on social media platforms, such as X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other third-party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, you or the platforms may provide us with information about you. In addition, if you choose to link your Saturn account to another platform or service, including Snapchat, we may receive information about you from that third party service or platform. Please note that the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions with them and their collection, use, and processing of your information.
We may also collect information about you from other users. For example, if another user shares their contacts or events they plan on attending, we may combine information from that user’s contact list and activities with other information we’ve collected about you.
Information About Non-Users
Saturn users may sync their device's contact book to help Saturn connect them to existing users, invite others to join the app, help understand their and other users' school affiliations, and populate information about individuals attending users’ events. As a result, Saturn may maintain information such as names and phone numbers of contacts who are non-users. We may also infer information about those non-users, such as their age, grade, and gender. Saturn will use non-user information to allow existing users to invite non-users to the Saturn platform, to make connections among users (such as based on the number of overlapping non-user contacts on those users' devices), and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Non-users can exercise their privacy rights and choices as described below.
When Saturn users look at their classes on the platform, they can also see the teacher for the class. We source information about teachers from schools’ websites and from Saturn users. If you are a teacher and would like us to remove your information from the platform, please fill out this form. Your name on our platform will be replaced with a room number.
How We Use Information
We use personal information for the following activities:
To administer our services and products, in order to manage our contractual relationship with you and fulfill our legitimate business requirements, such as by:
Developing, operating, improving, delivering, maintaining, and protecting the Saturn platform.
Providing the services' functionality to you, such as arranging access to your account; sending you administrative information; and communicating with you, including by responding to your inquiries or sharing information about our products, services, and offers that we think may interest you.
Personalizing your experience by, among other things, suggesting friends or customizing the content we show you. With your consent, we also use your precise location data to help you find your high school or college and local events.
For operations and general business, in order to manage our contractual relationship with you and fulfill our legitimate business requirements, such as by:
Performing troubleshooting and diagnostic testing; conducting performance analyses of our systems and services; testing new system features to evaluate their impact; maintaining systems and logs; providing technical support including system debugging, and hosting data; and facilitating mergers, acquisition and other reorganization and restructurings of our business (including prospective transactions).
Aggregating and anonymizing personal information so that it will no longer be considered personal information. We use aggregated/anonymized data for things like analytics, which helps us improve our platform.
To improve and develop services that we may provide to you, in order to fulfill our legitimate business requirements, such as by:
Conducting data analysis, monitoring and analyzing the platform and its use; improving the efficiency of our platform; developing new services; enhancing, improving, maintaining, or modifying our services; identifying usage trends; and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
For security and fraud prevention and to enhance the safety and security of our products and services, in order to fulfill our legitimate business requirements, manage our contractual relationship with you, and comply with our legal obligations, such as by:
Conducting audits; confirming that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements; monitoring for and preventing fraud or illegal activity; and maintaining system security.
For legal and compliance, in order to manage our contractual relationship with you, fulfill our legitimate business requirements, and comply with our legal obligations, such as by:
Fulfilling our legal and compliance-related obligations, including complying with applicable laws, complying with legal processes, responding to requests from public and government authorities, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements, and complying with requirements set by industry-specific supervisory bodies.
Enforcing our Terms of Use, standards, Community Guidelines, and other policies; protecting our operations; protecting the rights, privacy, or property of our business; responding to auditors; allowing us to pursue available legal remedies to make insurance claims, defend claims, and limit the damages that we may sustain.
For marketing-related purposes, in order to fulfill our legitimate business requirements, or with your consent where required by applicable law, such as by:
Sending you newsletters, event invitations, and mailings that we think may be of interest to you, and fulfilling your event registration requests. We may send marketing messages through email and/or text message, depending on your communication preferences.
Personalizing your experience, including through placing advertisements on Saturn and placing advertisements for Saturn on other platforms.
How We Share Information
Saturn is designed to help you share information with others. As a result, we disclose some of the information generated through our platform publicly or to third parties.
All Saturn users should read the Community Guidelines to make sure you understand how you're allowed to use Saturn.
We may share information in the following ways:
With other Saturn users. We may share, and enable you to share, the information below with other Saturn users:
Whether you've joined Saturn.
Information about you, such as your username, name, and profile photo.
Content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your account settings.
Any other information you’ve decided to share through your account settings. You can learn more about your account settings under Edit Profile in the app's "Settings" page.
With school email account providers. When you establish your association with a school community through your school email address, we may disclose certain information back to the provider of your account, such as Google or Microsoft.
With service providers. We may disclose information about you to service providers that help us run our business, like the companies that help us store our data, provide customer support, and perform analytics on our behalf.
With social media platforms. We may share limited information with other platforms, including social media platforms, to enable them to advertise Saturn to their users who are also Saturn users or their contacts. We may also enable the platforms to identify lookalike audiences to which they can display Saturn advertisements. To support this, we may share a hash of an individual's phone number. A social media platform can recognize the hash only if the individual is already active on the platform and has provided that phone number to the platform.
With third parties at your direction. We may disclose information about you to third parties to whom you request or direct us to disclose information, such as when you link your Saturn account with other platforms.
With professional advisors. We may disclose information about you to professional advisors such as accountants, actuaries, auditors, experts, consultants, lawyers, banks, and financial institutions.
With third parties, including authorities and others, for legal reasons. We may disclose information about you if we reasonably believe it’s necessary to:
Comply with legal process, governmental requests, or applicable laws, rules, or regulations.
Investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Use or Community Guidelines violations.
Protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our users, or others.
Detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
With third parties as part of a business transaction. If Saturn gets involved in a business transaction, like a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction.
With our affiliates. We may share your information within our group of companies to provide and to continue to operate Saturn, and/or if you link your Saturn account to Snap.
How Users May Share Information on Saturn with Other Users
When you interact with other users on Saturn, you have the ability to share information with users in your communities. The information you can share may include among other things your profile (if it's public), calendar, notes on homework assignments, information you include in messages to other users, and posts you include on Bulletin.
Keep in mind that the other users you share information with can always save that content or copy it outside the Saturn app or website. So, the same common sense that applies to the whole internet applies to Saturn as well: don’t send any messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save, share, or forward.
Users Transitioning to College
Users begin their transition into Saturn's college experience by declaring a college in their profile. This enables them to send friendship requests to, and accept friendship requests from, other users who have declared the same college or who are already part of the college's Saturn community.
Third-Party Sites and Apps
Saturn may contain links to third-party websites or apps. If you visit a third-party website or app, we are not responsible for how that third party collects or uses your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We will keep your information only for as long as we need it to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, primarily to enable you to use Saturn. You may always direct us to delete your information, in which case we will also close your account. We may also keep some of your information as required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or abuse, and enforce our Terms of Use or Community Guidelines.
Your Rights and Choices
Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our services, you may request the following in relation to your personal information:
Information about how we have collected, disclosed, and used your personal information. We have made this information available to you without having to request it by including it in this Privacy Policy.
Access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format.
Correction of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date.
Deletion of personal information that we no longer need to provide the services or for other lawful purposes.
Opt out of the sharing of your information with social media platforms for the purpose of enabling them to advertise to you on platforms where you are active.
Additional rights, such as to object to and request that we restrict our use of your personal information, and where applicable, you may withdraw your consent.
To exercise your rights and choices, please contact us at legal@joinsaturn.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights, under applicable law. Prior to responding to your requests, we may match any requested identifying information you provide against the information we have about you.
Authorized Agents. Depending on where you live, you may be able to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We will require the authorized agent to have a written authorization confirming that authority. In addition, we may require that you provide information to confirm that you authorize the agent to submit the request.
Limits on your Rights and Choices. In some instances, your choices may be limited, such as where fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our ability to provide a service you have requested, or our ability to comply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights. We may also need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes.
Educators Opt-Out. If you are a teacher and would like us to block your identifying information from being displayed on the platform, please fill out this form.
Appeals. If you are not satisfied with how we address your request or if we refuse to take action on your request, you may submit a complaint by contacting us. Depending on where you live, you may also lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs.
Deidentified Information. Where we maintain or use deidentified information, we will continue to maintain and use that information only in a deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information.
Other Choices Related to Account Mode and Privacy Settings
We want you to be in control of your information, so we provide you with these choices regarding use of information our platform:
You can use Saturn in either public or private mode. You can adjust your privacy choices in the app's settings.
In Saturn’s communities designed for high schools, if your account is in public mode, any Saturn user associated with the Saturn community for your school can see your full profile, class schedule and any homework notes you’ve made. If you are in private mode, only Saturn users who you approve to follow you (i.e., your friends) can see your full profile, class schedule and homework notes. Even in private mode, you can choose to make your homework notes public.
In Saturn communities designed for colleges, if your account is in public mode, any Saturn user associated with the Saturn community for your college can see a user’s name, profile picture, pronoun, social links the user makes public, mutual friends, and mutual groups. Because college calendars are unique for each user, to see each other’s calendars, users must friend each other first.
Users in transition from high school to college. Users of Saturn's high school communities can begin their transition into Saturn's college experience by declaring a college in their profile. This enables them to send friendship requests to, and accept friendship requests from, other users who have declared the same college or who are already part of the college's Saturn community. These users will have access to both high school and college experience on Saturn, and the respective privacy choices.
Adjust location preferences. You can revoke Saturn's access to your precise geolocation by adjusting your device settings.
Adjust contact book preferences. You can revoke Saturn's access to your contact book by adjusting your settings. If you change your settings in the Saturn app to terminate our access to your contacts, we will delete your contact book.
Adjust email and text message preferences. We may send you newsletters and other emails describing things like new features. We may also send you similar communications via SMS where permitted by law. When you receive these communications from us, you can “opt out” by texting "STOP," following unsubscribe instructions in a message, or you can just contact us directly. Even if you “opt out of receiving promotional messages," we may still send you other messages about our services, like information about your account and other transactional or relationship messaging.
Delete your account. To delete your account, navigate in the app to Settings>>More Options>>Delete Account. You can also contact us to request to delete your account. When we delete your account, we may keep some of the information we’ve already collected about you to help us operate and improve Saturn.
Parents or guardians. Users of Saturn communities designed for high schools can authorize their parents or guardians to get a copy of the information Saturn maintains about the user. In addition, where required by law, we may provide parents or guardians with the ability to request adjustments in the user’s privacy settings, correction or deletion of the user’s data, or deletion of the user’s account. We may require parents or guardians to confirm their relationship with the user, and ask users to authorize their parents or guardians to take steps with respect to the user’s account. Parents and guardians should contact us at legal@joinsaturn.com to submit requests.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We take steps to protect the personal information we collect. Remember, security risk exists across all websites and apps, so we can’t guarantee the security of your information.
Children
Saturn is designed for high school and college students, not for individuals under the age of 13. Therefore, we don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If we find out that we’ve collected a child’s information without parental consent, we’ll delete it.
Cross-Border Data Transfer
Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country or region where we have facilities or engage service providers. You understand that your personal information may be transferred to countries outside of your country or region of residence, which may have data protection rules that are different from those or your country or region. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries or regions may be entitled to access your personal information.
Where applicable, we have put in place adequate measures, such as the standard contractual clauses adopted by the relevant authority, to protect your personal information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the "Contact Us" section below.
Revisions to the Privacy Policy
We may sometimes change this Privacy Policy. When we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by updating the date at the top of the Privacy Policy. Other times, we may add a statement to our websites’ homepages or send you an in-app notification.
Important Links
Contact Us
Snap Inc. located at 3000 31st Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 is the company responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information under this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or comments, you can reach us at legal@joinsaturn.com or
Snap Inc.
Attn: Legal – Privacy
3000 31st Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405