Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

PrepForIELTS is operated by SERGEI SUSLOV PR, registered in Serbia. We are the data controller for everything described below. Contact: [email protected].

2. What we store

• Your account: the email address, display name and avatar URL supplied by Google or Apple when you sign in, plus which provider you used.
• Your writing: the questions you draw, your plans, your essays, the evaluations and re-scores produced from them, and the edits you make in the fix loop.
• Usage counters: how many evaluations you have run today, so the daily limit works.

We do not ask for, and have no use for, your test date, your visa case, your address or your payment details.

3. Why we store it

To show you your own work across sessions, to produce and re-produce your evaluations, and to enforce the daily limits. Nothing else.

4. Who else sees it

• The language-model provider that performs an evaluation receives the essay text and the question. It does not receive your name or email.
• Polar processes payments as merchant of record. Card details go to Polar directly; we never see them.
• Google Analytics receives page-view and click events from the public pages, including your IP address, approximate location and device details. It also receives an event when an account is created, when someone signs in, and when a purchase completes — carrying the sign-in method used (Google or Apple), the plan bought, its price and the order reference. It does not receive your essays, your name or your email.
• Sentry receives technical error reports when something breaks — the error, the stack trace and the URL. We have configured it not to send request bodies or headers, so your essays and session cookie are not included.
• Nobody else. Your essays are never shown to other users, and are not used as public examples.

5. Analytics

The public pages use Google Analytics 4 to count page views and clicks so we can see which parts of the site are useful, and to count sign-ups and completed purchases so we know whether the site works. Those two events carry the sign-in method, the plan and the amount paid — never your identity. GA4 stores cookies on your device (_ga, _ga_*) and uses them to recognise a returning browser, and it shares data with Google as an independent controller.

Analytics are on by default. A notice at the bottom of the page tells you cookies are in use the first time you visit; dismissing it records that you have seen the notice.

You can opt out at any time with Google’s browser add-on, or by blocking cookies for this site. Blocking them does not affect writing, evaluation or any other part of the service.

6. Error reporting

When something goes wrong we send the error and its stack trace to Sentry so we can fix it. These reports are configured to exclude request bodies and headers, so they do not contain your essays or your session.

7. Cookies

Cookie	Purpose	Necessary?
_ielts_prep_key	Keeps you signed in	Yes
_ielts_prep_oauth	Carries the sign-in state, expires in 10 minutes	Yes
_ga, _ga_*	Google Analytics measurement	No — see §4

The first two are strictly necessary for the service to work.

8. Age

You must be 16 or older to use PrepForIELTS. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you believe a child has created an account, write to [email protected] and we will delete it.

9. Deleting your data

Delete your account from the account menu on the dashboard. That removes your user record, essays, plans, evaluations, re-scores and fix history. Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone.

10. Where data lives

The application runs on Fly.io and the database is managed Postgres, both in the United States. Our sub-processors — the language-model provider, Polar, Google Analytics and Sentry — are also United States companies.

If you are in the EEA or the UK, this means your data is transferred outside that area. Those transfers rely on the sub-processors’ own standard contractual clauses.

11. Your rights

You can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, or send it to you in a portable form. Most of this you can do yourself: your work is visible in the app, and deleting your account removes everything at once.

For anything else, write to [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. If you are in the EEA or the UK and are unhappy with our response, you may complain to your national data protection authority.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your data we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes will be announced in the app.

13. Contact

SERGEI SUSLOV PR, Serbia — [email protected].

IELTS trademark

IELTS is a registered trademark of the British Council, IDP IELTS Australia and Cambridge University Press & Assessment. PrepForIELTS is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the owners of the IELTS trademark.