Privacy Policy

The short version

Second Half Network is a private, invite-only mentorship platform. Privacy is a founding design constraint, not an afterthought: no member names or personal details ever appear on the public site, your documents are never publicly accessible, we do not sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers, and you can ask us to delete everything at any time.

What we collect

Everything we hold, you or your mentor gave us directly:

• Account and profile information: your name, email address, and, for student-athletes, your university, sport, class year, and career interests; for mentors, your title, company, industry, background, and LinkedIn if you choose to add it.
• Documents you upload or create: your one-page resume and about-me page (including pages generated for you by the about-me builder from answers you provide).
• Program activity: applications, interview and meeting records, goals and check-ins, messages between matched members, and program outcomes.
• Technical basics: IP addresses appear in short-lived infrastructure request logs for security purposes. We use strictly functional cookies (a signed session cookie and a timezone preference). No advertising trackers, no cross-site tracking, no third-party analytics pixels.

We do not collect Social Security numbers, dates of birth, financial or payment information, or health information.

How we use it

• To run the mentorship program: matching, applications, interviews, scheduling, messaging, and outcome tracking.
• To send you program email (invitations, reminders, confirmations) from SHN@secondhalfnetwork.com.
• To power optional AI features you choose to use (the about-me builder, resume review, mentor recommendations, and the busy-schedule reader). These send only the specific fields needed to our AI provider (Anthropic) under commercial terms that prohibit training on your data. For the busy-schedule reader specifically: the calendar screenshot or PDF you upload is read once, in memory, to find busy time ranges; the image is never stored, and nothing else in it (event names, people, locations) is ever saved. Only the times you explicitly confirm are kept. AI outputs are drafts and suggestions that you review; nothing is published or decided automatically.
• To report program results to partner athletic departments in aggregate, de-identified form only (for example, the number of meetings held or goals completed), never your personal details.

What we never do

• We never sell your data.
• We never share your data with advertisers, ad networks, or data brokers.
• We never use your data to train AI models, and our AI provider is contractually barred from doing so.
• We never show member names or private details on the public website.
• We never disclose your data to law enforcement without a valid warrant or subpoena.

Who can see your information

• You can see and edit your own profile and documents.
• A mentor can see your profile, resume, and about-me only after you apply to that mentor. Messages are visible only to the two people in a matched or interviewing pair.
• Platform administrators (the Second Half Network founders) can access data strictly to operate and support the program, through named, least-privilege accounts.
• Partner institutions see aggregate program statistics, not individual records.

How we protect it

All traffic is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+). Data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) in managed cloud infrastructure located in the United States (Vercel and Neon, both built on AWS). Uploaded documents are never publicly addressable and are served only through a per-request authorization check. Passwords are stored only as strong one-way hashes. Sign-in links and codes are single-use, expire automatically, and are rate limited. Role-based access control is enforced on the server for every request.

Who processes data for us

We use a small set of infrastructure providers, each bound by commercial terms covering security and data protection: Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), Resend (transactional email), Anthropic (optional AI features; no training on your data), and Zoom (meeting links). All storage and processing stays in the United States.

Retention and deletion

Program data is retained across semester cycles so your mentorship history and outcomes stay intact. You can replace your documents at any time, and you can request a copy of your data or complete deletion by emailing SHN@secondhalfnetwork.com. Deleted data is removed from active systems immediately and ages out of encrypted backups within 30 days.

Your choices and rights

• Access, correct, or export your information: email us and we will provide it.
• Delete your account and data: email us; deletion is honored regardless of the state you live in.
• AI features are always opt-in; skipping them costs you nothing.
• Questions, concerns, or complaints go to SHN@secondhalfnetwork.com and are handled directly by the founders.

Age and student data

The platform is for college student-athletes and professional mentors; it is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. Member information is provided to us directly by each member, not taken from university records. If a partner institution ever shares education records with us, we will handle them under terms compliant with FERPA.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will notify members by email. This page always carries the current version. Contact: SHN@secondhalfnetwork.com. Second Half Network, LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.