Privacy policy
What Band Breaker collects, why, where it goes, and how to have it deleted.
Draft. This page has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. It will be checked before Band Breaker accepts payments.
Who we are
Band Breaker is an IELTS Writing practice service run by one founder in Bangladesh. Band Breaker is not affiliated with IELTS, British Council, IDP or Cambridge. Contact: [CONTACT EMAIL].
What we collect
- Your account: your name and email address from Google sign-in.
- Your test details: your IELTS or mock scores, target band, test date, module, country and time zone.
- Your writing: the essays you send, and the report made from them.
- Your practice: your answers to exercises and which days you have done.
- Payments, once paid plans open: the plan, amount, date and payment reference. We do not see or store card numbers.
- Your choices: the consent boxes you ticked and when.
Why we use it
- To make your report and your daily exercises.
- To email you about your report, your practice and your account.
- To check the quality of our feedback. The founder reads every report before you see it.
- Only if you said yes to the optional research box: to test and improve our feedback using your essays without your name.
We do not sell your data and we do not show you advertising.
Who processes it for us
- Supabase: our database and sign-in. Servers in Mumbai, India.
- OpenAI (API): drafts your report and exercises from your essay and checks your exercise answers. Under OpenAI's API terms, your essays are not used to train its models; OpenAI may keep them for up to 30 days to detect misuse, then deletes them.
- Our tutor: if you pay for the Sprint, a tutor working for Band Breaker reads your paid essays and checks the feedback. The tutor sees your first name and essays only.
- n8n Cloud: runs our background jobs, such as starting the analysis and sending emails.
- Google (Gmail): sends our emails.
- Vercel: hosts the website. The app runs in Mumbai, India; pages are delivered through Vercel's worldwide network.
Some of these servers are outside Bangladesh. You agree to this transfer when you tick the required box during sign-up.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account is open. If you ask us to delete it, we delete your account, essays, reports and practice answers within 7 days. Payment records may be kept longer where the law requires it.
Your choices and rights
- Ask for a copy of your data, or ask us to correct it.
- Ask us to delete your data.
- Change your mind about the optional research use at any time.
Email [CONTACT EMAIL] from the address you signed up with. We reply within 7 days.
Age
Band Breaker is for people aged 18 or older.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will email you before the change applies.