Privacy policy
Draft, pending review by our lawyer. It already describes how Prepzo works today; wording may change after review.
1. Who we are
Prepzo is an exam preparation app for NEET (UG) and JEE Main, run by Onus Ant, [to fill: Registered address] ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Prepzo Android app (com.flys.prepzo) and this website, prepzo.live. Under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), we are the data fiduciary for the personal data described here.
2. Students and parents
Most people preparing for these exams are school students. We expect a student's Prepzo account to be opened and run with their parent or guardian, who accepts our Terms of use and this policy for the student and decides on any payment. A parent or guardian can use every right in section 9 for the student by writing to the grievance officer.
We don't show ads, don't track students for advertising, and don't build profiles of students for advertising or sell their data.
3. What we collect and why
| Data | Why we need it |
|---|---|
| Phone number, if you sign in with a phone | To send your sign-in code by WhatsApp or SMS and to sign you in. It is never shown to other students. |
| Google account ID, email and name, if you use Continue with Google | To sign you in. Your Google name becomes your Prepzo name only when the account is new. The email is used only for purchase and refund receipts. |
| Your name | Sign-up doesn't ask for it. The app asks when it matters: before joining or hosting a quiz room (you can skip and appear as "Player N"), and before asking to join an institute, which decides by it. |
| Study settings | Your exam and exam year, Class 11, Class 12 or dropper, study medium, app language, the chapters you've done, your DPP time and size, and the share of AI-made questions you allow in practice. They decide your syllabus, your DPP and your exam countdown. |
| Practice and test activity | Every answer you give in practice, DPPs, mocks and quiz rooms, with the time taken and changes made; scores, ranks, streaks, your Mistake Book and bookmarks; questions you report. We use these to score your tests, rank mocks, build your DPP and Mistake Book, show your Insights, and measure how hard each question is. |
| Device and session | A random device ID the app makes when installed (not your phone's hardware ID or advertising ID), the device name and platform, and when each device signed in. They let you see and sign out devices, and enforce the limit of 2 devices at once and 4 new devices a month. |
| Push notification token | To send the notifications in section 7. It is deleted when that device signs out. |
| Purchases | Plan, price, coupon, the amount paid, your state (for GST place of supply), the Razorpay order and payment IDs, invoice and credit note. If you type an email at checkout, it is kept on that order only and used only for that order's receipts. We never receive or store card, UPI or bank details; Razorpay handles those. |
| Security records | The IP address of requests for sign-in codes and of wrong institute join codes, to limit abuse. Sign-in code records are deleted after 24 hours. Actions on accounts by our team are recorded in an audit log. |
| Messages to us | When you write to us, we keep the message and our reply to handle your request. |
Before you sign in, the app keeps your onboarding answers on the phone. If you never sign in, the only thing we store is the list of questions in your first DPP, deleted after 7 days.
We rely on your consent, given by signing up and using the app, and on legitimate uses allowed by the DPDP Act, such as keeping tax records the law requires. You can withdraw consent at any time by deleting your account (section 9); this doesn't affect what was done before.
4. What we don't collect
- No location, contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera access. The QR scanner for quiz rooms and institute codes is Google Play services' scanner; the app receives only the code it reads.
- No advertising ID, no ads, and no third-party analytics or advertising tools in the app.
- No age or date of birth.
- This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
5. Who else sees your data
- Quiz rooms. Players in a room see each other's names and scores. The host sees each player's answers and scores; a teacher host can download them as a spreadsheet.
- Institutes. If you ask to join an institute, its admin sees your name and a partly hidden phone number (like +91 98•••••21), or "Google sign-in". Once accepted, the institute's admins and teachers see your name, your classes, and your results and ranks in their class tests. You can hide your name from classmates; teachers still see it. Your own practice, DPPs and Prepzo mocks are not shown to the institute.
- Live mock ranks. Rank lists show ranks and scores, not phone numbers.
- Our team. Support staff can look up an account to answer a request. Phone numbers are partly hidden on their screens, each lookup needs a reason and is logged, and only admins can change an account.
- The law. We disclose data when Indian law requires it, for example to a court or tax authority.
We don't sell personal data or share it with anyone for their own marketing.
6. Companies that process data for us
These companies process data only to provide their service to us, under contract:
| Company | What for |
|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Our servers, database, file storage and backups, in Mumbai, with backup copies in Hyderabad; receipt emails (Amazon SES). |
| Razorpay | Payments and refunds. Razorpay's own privacy policy covers the payment details you give it. |
| Google (Firebase Cloud Messaging) | Delivering push notifications. |
| Google (Sign in with Google) | Only if you choose Continue with Google. |
| [to fill: WhatsApp/SMS provider for sign-in codes] | Sending sign-in codes by WhatsApp or SMS. |
| Cloudflare | Hosting this website. |
Some of these companies may process data outside India, as the DPDP Act allows. We don't send students' personal data to AI services. Our team uses an AI model to help draft questions, and those drafts contain no student data.
7. Notifications and email
- Push notifications about security (a new device signed in) and payments are always on. Study reminders can each be turned off in the app. Announcements are off unless you turned them on, for example by asking to be told when an exam opens.
- Push notifications never contain marks, ranks, names or phone numbers, because they show on the lock screen.
- No reminders between 22:00 and 07:00, and at most 3 reminders or announcements a day.
- We email you only a purchase receipt and a refund receipt, with the invoice or credit note. No marketing email, WhatsApp or SMS.
8. How long we keep it
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Your account and study data | While your account exists. A device unused for 60 days is signed out; the account stays. |
| Each answer tap | 13 months; after that only totals and summaries are kept, plus a compressed archive used for question statistics. |
| Inbox items and notification records | 90 days. |
| Sign-in code records | 24 hours. |
| Invoices, credit notes and payment records | As long as GST and income-tax law require (currently up to 8 years), even after the account is deleted, without your name or phone number. |
| Backups | Daily backups for 35 days; monthly backups for up to 8 years for tax records. Backups are encrypted, can't be changed, and are used only to recover from a failure. |
Deleting your account. Write to us as described on Delete account. Once we've confirmed the account is yours, you are signed out on every device at once. 30 days later your name, phone number, Google ID, email and device names are erased. Your past answers and results stay only under an anonymous account number, so question statistics and other students' ranks stay correct; they can no longer be linked to you.
9. Your rights
Under the DPDP Act you can ask us to:
- give you a summary of your personal data we hold and what we do with it, and the companies we share it with;
- correct, complete or update it (your name and sign-in methods can also be changed in the app);
- erase it, by deleting your account;
- nominate another person to use these rights for you if you die or can't act yourself;
- resolve a complaint about how we handle your data.
Write to the grievance officer below from the email on your account, or include your phone number's last 4 digits so we can find the account. A parent or guardian can ask for the student. If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.
10. Security
Data travels encrypted (HTTPS) and is stored encrypted. Sign-in codes are stored only as hashes and expire in 5 minutes. Sessions can be signed out from the app at any time, and a stolen sign-in token ends the whole session. Our team signs in with Google and a passkey, and every lookup or change of a student's account is logged. If a breach affects your data, we will tell you and the Data Protection Board as the law requires.
11. Grievance officer
- Name
- [to fill: Grievance officer's name]
- [email protected]
- Address
- Onus Ant, [to fill: Registered address]
We acknowledge every request within 48 hours and resolve it within 30 days.
12. Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we update the date at the top, and the app shows a one-time notice with a link to the new version.