Privacy Policy

Halfband is run by Pankobyte, Pune, Maharashtra, India. We decide how your personal data is used and are responsible for it under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

• Your email address, when you sign in with Google or an email link.
• Your answers: the recordings of your Speaking test and the text of your Writing test, when you ask for results.
• Your results: the bands and feedback we produce for each test.
• Your balance and purchases: the tests you have left, and for each purchase the pack, amount, date and Razorpay payment reference.
• Security signals: Google reCAPTCHA checks that requests come from a real browser. It may read basic information about your device and browser to do this.

We do not collect your card number, UPI PIN or bank details. Razorpay handles these directly.

• to sign you in and keep your account
• to mark your answers and show you your results
• to keep your balance of tests and process your payments
• to answer your emails and refund requests
• to prevent abuse and fraud
• to keep the records that tax law requires

We do not sell your data, show ads or use advertising or analytics trackers.

When you ask for results, your recordings or written answers are sent to Google’s Gemini AI service, which marks them. We do not keep your recordings or written answers on our servers after marking. We keep the results.

While you are taking a test, your answers are saved in your own browser so that reloading the page does not lose them. You can remove them at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser.

• Google (Firebase and Google Cloud): sign-in, hosting and our database
• Google Gemini: marking your answers
• Google reCAPTCHA: protecting the site from automated abuse
• Razorpay: processing payments

Each of them handles your data only to provide its service to us. Some of them may process data outside India.

• Your account, balance and results: for as long as your account exists.
• Purchase records: for as long as Indian tax law requires, even after an account is deleted.

You can ask us to:

• tell you what personal data we hold about you
• correct data that is wrong
• delete your account and data
• nominate someone to act for you if you are unable to

Email support@pankobyte.com from the address you sign in with. If you are unhappy with our reply, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

For any concern about your personal data, write to our grievance officer at Pankobyte: support@pankobyte.com

Halfband is for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Your data is sent over encrypted connections and stored with Google Cloud. Only we can read account and payment records.

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed.