Almost nothing. It is a list of links with a gate on it, run by a student, with no database behind it.
Signing in uses Google. Your browser sends Google's sign-in token to this site, which passes it to Google to confirm it is genuine and unexpired. The site then checks three things: that the token was issued for this site, that your email is verified, and that the account belongs to the stanford.edu Google Workspace.
If any of those fail, you are turned away and nothing is kept. No account is created for you here, and there is no password to set.
On success you get a cookie called gsb_session. It holds your email address and an expiry date, signed so it cannot be edited. It is HttpOnly (scripts cannot read it), Secure (HTTPS only), SameSite=Lax, and it expires after 30 days.
That cookie lives in your browser. There is no database, no user table, no server-side copy of who has signed in, and no log of what you clicked.
Ticking something off the checklist saves a yes/no flag in your browser's local storage. It never leaves your device, so your ticks are yours alone — they do not sync between your laptop and your phone, and nobody else can see them.
The search box filters the page in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Google handles the sign-in, so Google sees that you signed in, as it would for anything you use a Google account for. Google Fonts serves the two typefaces, so loading a page fetches from Google's font servers. Vercel hosts the site and keeps ordinary server logs, which include things like IP addresses, under its own policy.
Every portal you click through to — Axess, Canvas, Vaden and the rest — is a separate Stanford service with its own privacy terms. This site only points at them.
The survival guide is © 2026 Nikhil Jain, shared with the GSB community for personal, non-commercial use. Please do not post it, forward it outside the class, upload it anywhere, or re-share it publicly. If someone outside the community wants it, send them to Nikhil rather than passing on the file.
The class contact card is 412 classmates' names, photos, emails and phone numbers in one file. Download it to your own phone if it's useful, but treat it the way you'd want your own number treated: don't forward it, don't upload it to anything, and don't hand it to anyone outside the class. If you'd rather not be in it, mail wap@stanford.edu and you'll be taken out.
The same goes for this site: the link is for people with a stanford.edu account. It is not secret, but it is not meant to be posted publicly either.
Sign out clears the cookie immediately, which removes the only thing this site holds. Clearing your browser's site data for this domain removes your checklist ticks too. Nothing is left behind on the server, because nothing was put there.
Questions, or something here that looks wrong? wap@stanford.edu.
This is a student's side project, not a Stanford service, and it is not affiliated with Stanford University or the Graduate School of Business. It is offered as-is. Verify anything that matters against the official Stanford email.