Privacy Policy

MyCareerBot (“we”, “us”) provides career guidance, placement aptitude practice, admission planning tools, and optional college cohort features for students in India. This policy describes what personal data we collect, why we use it, and your choices.

1. Who this applies to

Students in Classes 11–12, college and final-year learners, and parents or guardians supervising their use. MyCareerBot may be used by users under 18; we apply age-appropriate consent flows under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP).

2. Data we collect

• Profile: name, academic track, engineering branch, subjects, state/UT, optional school or college.
• App progress: assessment answers, career preferences, placement practice results, streaks, readiness scores, saved paths.
• Account (if you sign in): Google or Apple account identifier and email; server-side entitlements and purchase references.
• College batch (optional): batch code, readiness snapshots, opt-in name/score sharing with your institution.
• Counsellor booking (optional): contact details you submit (phone/WhatsApp/email) and booking context so a human counsellor can reach you — shared only after you (or a parent/guardian, where required) opt in to talk to a counsellor. Commission-linked counsellors are disclosed when you book.
• Partner referral (optional): referral or partner code for attribution to a college or counselor channel.
• Support: emails you send to support@mycareerbot.in.

Much progress is stored locally on your device. Sign-in syncs selected data to our secure backend when you use purchases, leaderboard, college batch linking, or account features.

3. How we use data

• Career matching, admission planning, and placement readiness scoring.
• College cohort aggregate reports for licensed batches (aggregate by default).
• Partner attribution counts (how many students a referral channel drives).
• Routing consented counsellor introductions to invite-gated partner workspaces (contact shared only after opt-in).
• Product improvement, fraud prevention, and support.
• AI-assisted features: relevant profile and question context may be sent to language-model providers to generate educational responses — not admission guarantees.

We do not sell personal data. Education counsellor partners receive student contact only after explicit opt-in to talk to a counsellor (and parental consent where required for under-18 users).

4. Legal bases and consent

We process data based on your consent (terms acceptance, age band, parental consent where required, and explicit opt-in before sharing contact details with a counsellor), contract performance (purchases, batch licensing), and legitimate interests (security, analytics in aggregate). You may withdraw consent for optional features by contacting us or using in-app settings where available.

5. Payments

iOS: digital unlocks use Apple In-App Purchase. Android: digital unlocks may use Razorpay. Payment processors handle transaction data under their own policies; we retain only references needed for fulfillment, support, and refunds. See our Refund Policy.

6. Third parties

• Google / Apple (OAuth sign-in)
• Razorpay (Android payments, consultant bookings where offered)
• Bookable counsellors (contact details you consent to share for 1:1 help)
• Cloud hosting and database providers
• Language-model API providers for AI-assisted educational content

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7. Retention and deletion

Local data remains on your device until you clear app data or uninstall. Signed-in users may delete their account from Settings → Delete account, which removes server-side records tied to the account subject to legal retention requirements. See Account deletion.

8. Children and parental consent

Users under 18 may need a parent or guardian email and consent acknowledgment before server sync. Parents may request review or deletion of a child’s data by emailing support@mycareerbot.in.

9. Security

We apply reasonable technical and organizational safeguards. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

10. Disclaimers

Career suggestions, admission tools, rank/college analysis, and Placement Ready Scores are educational guidance and practice-readiness signals only. They do not guarantee admission, rank, employment, income, or placement outcomes. We are not affiliated with JoSAA, NTA, MCC, or any counselling authority.

11. Your rights (DPDP)

You may request access, correction, or erasure of personal data, or raise a grievance by contacting our Grievance Officer at support@mycareerbot.in (subject line: “Privacy request” or “Grievance”). We will respond within reasonable timelines as required by applicable law.

12. Changes

We may update this policy for product, legal, or platform requirements. Material changes will be reflected in the date above and, where appropriate, in-app notice.

13. Contact

support@mycareerbot.in · Contact page