Privacy

Who we are. Young Medical Engineers (“YME”, “we”) is a nonprofit run by high school students. This policy covers medengineers.org and the forms on it. Questions go to youngmedicalengineers@gmail.com.

What we collect. Only what you type into a form. A tutoring request asks for a student name, email, grade level, subject and goals. A volunteer application asks for a name, email, institution or program, availability, how you would like to help and the subjects you can help with. A message asks for a name, email, topic and the message. A session sign-up, or a request to hear about new sessions, asks for a name, email, and an optional grade and note. Tutoring requests and sign-ups also record that you confirmed you are 18 or older or have a parent or guardian’s permission. Please do not send medical, financial or other sensitive details.

What we do not collect. This site uses no analytics, no advertising and no cookies. After you sign up for a session, your first name and the session are kept in your browser’s session storage so the confirmation page can greet you; they stay on your device and are cleared when you close the tab.

What every website receives. Like any website, our web host (currently GitHub Pages; Cloudflare once we move there) receives basic technical information when your browser loads a page, such as your IP address and browser type, and may keep it briefly in server logs for security, under its own privacy statement. We do not use those logs to identify anyone.

Content from other sites. A few pictures on our Articles page load from their news sources, such as the National Institutes of Health, the University of Southern California and Caltech, so those sites receive the same basic information. Links to Instagram, PayPal and news stories lead to sites with their own privacy policies.

How it reaches us. Forms and sign-ups are saved in a private database that only board members can read, through our signed-in admin page, and our email gets only a short notice with no personal details, sent through a third-party service, FormSubmit. If the database is unavailable, the form is emailed to us in full through FormSubmit, which is subject to its own privacy terms. Either way, only the board members who arrange tutoring, volunteers and events see it.

What we use it for. Matching students with tutors, following up on volunteer applications, scheduling talks and demonstrations, replying to messages, sending details of sessions you signed up for and, if you asked, telling you when new sessions open. We do not sell, rent or share personal information, and we do not send marketing.

Students under 13. Some of our students are under 13. If you are under 13, please ask a parent or guardian to fill in the form or email us for you. A parent or guardian can contact us at any time to see or delete what we hold about their child.

Keeping, correcting and deleting it. We keep requests and sign-ups only as long as we need them to run the program and answer you. Email youngmedicalengineers@gmail.com to see, correct or delete what we hold about you, and we will confirm when it is done.

Keeping it safe. Only board members can open the email account and database that hold your information, the admin page has its own sign-in, every page is sent over HTTPS, and we do not copy your information anywhere else. No system is perfectly secure, so we collect as little as we can.

Donations. Donations are handled by PayPal on PayPal’s own site. We never see or store card or bank details. Our Donation Policy explains what PayPal shares with us.

Changes and contact. If this page changes we will update the date below. Questions about any of it go to youngmedicalengineers@gmail.com.

Last updated 5 November 2026.