How SkillBuildup Interview handles your data

You sign in with Google. Our sign-in provider, Clerk, gives us your name, your email address and an account ID. We use your name so the interviewer can address you, and your email to identify your account and send it with your payments.

Sign-in uses cookies that keep you logged in. We don't use advertising or analytics cookies.

During an interview, your microphone audio goes straight from your browser to Google's Gemini service, which runs the interviewer and transcribes what both of you say. In a normal interview, we don't record or keep the audio.

We keep:

• The transcript of what you and the interviewer said, saved during the interview so a paused interview can be continued.
• Your feedback report and scores, written by Gemini from the transcript.
• The questions you were asked and how well you answered them, so later interviews of the same kind don't repeat them, and can revisit weak topics if you ask.
• Interview details: the type, language, settings, start time, time used, pauses and credits spent.

If you turn on Extreme mode, your browser records the interview, both your voice and the interviewer's. We store the recording to review it: Gemini listens to it, factual claims you made are checked with Google Search, and a coach's audio walkthrough is made using clips of your answers.

Recordings and the coach audio are deleted automatically 30 days after upload. The written review stays with the interview.

If you upload a resume or application form (PDF), it's sent to Gemini to write a short summary of your background, which the interviewer uses. We keep only that summary and the file's name, not the file itself. You can delete the summary at any time from your dashboard.

If you paste a job posting, it's sent to Gemini to write a short summary of the job and what to score you on, leaving out contact details and salary. We keep that summary, not the text you pasted, on your account and on each interview you do for that job. You can remove it from your dashboard at any time; interviews you've already done keep their copy.

Interview credits are sold through Stripe, which acts as the reseller for these purchases: it takes your payment, handles tax, and issues your receipt. Your card, UPI or wallet details go to Stripe, not to us. Charges may appear on your statement under Stripe's Link name.

We receive a record of each purchase: the pack, the amount and currency, the payment's reference IDs and the email address on the account. We use it to add credits to your account and to handle refunds.

To show prices in your currency and the interviews offered where you are, our content delivery network (Amazon CloudFront) tells us which country your connection comes from, based on your IP address. We use it for that page only and don't store it.

• Google Cloud and Gemini. Host the website, the database and Extreme mode recordings; Gemini runs the interviews, transcribes them and writes reports and summaries. We use Gemini as a paid service, under terms that don't let Google use this content to improve its products. Google keeps it for a limited time only to detect misuse and meet legal requirements.
• Clerk. Sign-in and accounts.
• Stripe. Payments, tax, receipts and refunds (§5).
• Amazon Web Services. Delivers the website (CloudFront) and tells us your country (§6).
• Basin. Receives messages sent with the contact form below.

We don't sell your data, use it for advertising, or share it with anyone else except where the law requires.

Your data leaves your country. Wherever you live, using SkillBuildup Interview means your personal data is sent to, and stored in, other countries:

• India. Your interviews, reports, resume and job posting summaries and Extreme mode recordings are stored with Google Cloud in Mumbai.
• The United States. Your account (Clerk), payments (Stripe) and contact form messages (Basin) are handled there. Gemini may process your interview audio and text in the United States or other countries where Google runs it.

If you are in Kuwait or another Gulf country, this means your data is transferred outside your country. We tell you this before you create an account, and you agree to it when you do (§13).

We only use providers that protect data under written agreements with us. Data is encrypted while it travels and while it's stored.

• Extreme mode recordings: deleted automatically after 30 days.
• Server logs, which include your account ID, interview IDs, usage figures for running and costing the service, and connection details such as your IP address: kept for about 30 days.
• Your account, interviews, reports, and resume and job posting summaries: kept until you ask us to delete them, so your history stays available.
• Purchase records: kept as long as tax and accounting rules require, even after your account is deleted.

To delete your account and data, send us a message with the form below from the email address you sign in with.

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

• tell you what data we hold about you and give you a copy, in a common format;
• correct anything that's wrong;
• delete your account and data (except purchase records we must keep, §9);
• stop using your data, by deleting your account. This withdraws your agreement (§13), but doesn't undo what we did before.

In India, you can also name someone to exercise these rights for you if you die or can no longer do so yourself.

Send requests with the form below, from the email address you sign in with, so we know it's you. We'll reply within 30 days. We won't charge you, or treat you differently, for asking.

If you're unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live, for example the Data Protection Board of India, Kuwait's Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA), the UK Information Commissioner's Office, or the authority in your EU country.

SkillBuildup Interview is for people aged 18 and over. If you're younger, use it only with your parent's or guardian's permission.

Only the people who run the service can reach your data, and only to operate it or answer your requests. If your data is ever lost, stolen or seen by someone who shouldn't see it, we'll tell you without delay, along with what happened and what you can do. We'll also tell the authorities the law requires us to tell.

When you create an account, you agree to us using your data as this notice describes, including sending and storing it in other countries (§8). If you don't agree, please don't create an account.

If we change this notice in a way that affects you, we'll update the effective date at the top and, for important changes, tell you by email before they take effect.

Questions about this notice or your data, Send us a message below. Privacy requests and complaints are handled by our privacy contact at Saira Creations LLC, who you can also email at sumod.androidapp@gmail.com.