Privacy notice

01What we collect

• When you create an account: your name, email address, date of birth, and a password, which we store only as a hash.
• When you apply to a competition: your school and grade, city and district, phone number, an identity document (ID card or passport) with its number, your parents' names, and a guardian's name, phone number, and email if you are a minor.
• When you use the platform: your progress through the syllabus, practice problems, qualifying round answers and results, forum posts, and documents you upload.
• For security: the time of each sign-in and, in an audit log of sensitive actions, the IP address and browser used.

Your phone number, identity document number, parents' names, and any two-factor secret are encrypted in the database. Identity documents are stored in private storage that only authorized organizers can open, and only through a short-lived link.

02Why we collect it

To run the competitions: to confirm you are who you say you are and are eligible, to assign you a computer lab and a session, to mark your paper, and to publish results. To run the platform: to keep your account secure and your progress saved. To contact you about the Olympiads you have entered.

We do not sell your information, use it for advertising, or profile you. There is no analytics or tracking script on the site.

03Who sees it

The organizers of the Olympiad you have entered see your application and results. Invigilators see the names on their room's list. Other members see your name and what you post in the forum. Nobody else sees your identity document or contact details.

The platform runs on Railway's infrastructure. Your data is stored on their servers under their security terms. Email is sent through a transactional email provider that sees your address and the message.

04Cookies and storage

One cookie, for your session, so you stay signed in. It is not used for anything else. Your theme and language choices are kept in your browser's local storage and never leave it.

05How long we keep it

LASO organizes a national competition, and the record of who sat it, where, and with what result is the competition's own record. Applications, answer papers, results, and the identity details that support them are kept in the Olympiad archive for as long as the association exists. Study progress and forum posts are kept for as long as the platform holds them. The audit log is kept with the rest of the archive.

06Your rights

You can see and correct your details in your profile, and download a copy of everything we hold about you from the settings page. You can close your account from the same page: you are signed out everywhere, you can no longer sign in, and nothing further is collected about you. Closing an account does not remove the records of the competitions you took part in; those stay in the archive, with your details, for the reason given above.

To ask for a copy of your data, or for anything this page does not cover, write to contact@lbaso.org.