Privacy
One page, in plain English, describing everything we actually hold. If a line here is unclear or wrong, write to joseph@thematchlens.com and it gets fixed.
What we collect
Your account
An email address. If you sign in with Google, Google also tells us the name and profile picture on that account. That is the whole of what we ask Google for, and we ask for nothing else.
Your list
The programs you add, the status you set on each one, any note you write, the interview date and time you enter, and the order you put them in. In March we ask you one question about what happened, and your answer is kept with your list.
Your profile
Whether you need visa sponsorship, the country of your medical school, your graduation year, your Step 1, 2 and 3 status and your Step 2 CK score if you have sat it, how many attempts you have made and how many failed, your ECFMG status, your US clinical months and what kind, how many letters you have, any prior training or practice outside the US, and the states you would prefer. It is stored on the same document as your list, in Cloudflare KV, readable only through your own signed-in session. It is never shown to a program and never sent to a third party; it exists so the check can be run against your own numbers.
Nothing else about your application
Unless you type it into a note yourself. No documents, no photograph, no date of birth. We never ask for any of it and there is nowhere to put it.
Your IP address, briefly
It is used as part of a counter that caps how many lists can be created from one place in a day. The counter deletes itself after 24 hours. Nothing else reads it, and it is never attached to your list.
What we do not do
There is no analytics on this site. No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no session recorder, no advertising tag of any kind.
We have never sold anybody's data, and there is no version of this business where selling it would make sense.
The guided tour on the app pages uses one extra typeface, Lobster, for a single line per stop. It is hosted on our own server, the same as the rest of our type, so taking the tour sends nothing to Google Fonts or anywhere else.
Who else touches it
Six companies, each doing one job.
Cloudflare
Hosts the site and stores your list and profile in its KV store. Also injects a bot management script on every page, part of hosting, not an analytics tool we chose.
Clerk
Runs sign-in and holds your account and password, if you set one. Its script loads from clerk.thematchlens.com on the app pages, and on any page when you are signed in.
Only if you choose the Google button. Google tells us your email address and name so the account can be made. We send Google nothing about you in return, and we do not use what Google gives us for advertising, for training a model, or for anything other than signing you in.
Stripe
Handles payment. Stripe sees your email address and card details directly; we never do. What we store is a checkout session id and the amount paid, so we can tell your account it is unlocked.
Resend
Delivers email we send by hand, such as a reply to a support request, and the interview reminders you switch on in your tracker.
Hostinger
Runs the joseph@thematchlens.com mailbox, so anything you write to us sits there.
How long we keep it
Your list stays until you ask for it to go. The daily counters that hold an IP address expire after 24 hours. The cached link between your account and your email address expires after 30 days and is rebuilt the next time you sign in.
What you can ask for
Write to joseph@thematchlens.com and ask for a copy of everything we hold about you, a correction to any of it, or deletion of your account and your list. A person reads that mailbox. Expect a reply within a few days and the work done within thirty.
What we publish about programs is not about you
Every requirement on this site is quoted from that program's own public page, with the link and the date it was read. That is public information about institutions. Your list is never part of it, and no program is ever told who has added it.
Last updated 5 September 2026. The MatchLens, contactable at joseph@thematchlens.com.