Privacy

Who is responsible?

Sampath Bommakanti is responsible for the data (the controller). Contact: sampath.in@gmail.com.

What we never ask for

Your name, birth date, school or country. You do not need an account to take the test.

What we store when you take the test

• Your age, whether you have learned the topic and, if you choose, your school year.
• Your answers: the options you chose, numbers you wrote and the text you wrote in your own words. Also how long you spent on each question. We never show it; we use it to see whether a question is unclear or too hard.
• Your result: the level and what was missing.
• If you answer the question whether the result was clear and fair: your answer (Yes, Partly or No).

Do not write your name or anything else about yourself in your answers. The test does not need it. If you do write an email address, a phone number or a personal identity number, we remove it before the answer is stored and assessed.

Why

To assess your answers and show your result. That is the service you ask for when you start a session. We never use your answers for advertising or sell them, and we do not use them to improve the test without separate consent.

Assessment with AI

Your written answers are sent to an AI service that compares them with the links a good explanation contains (currently Google's Gemini models, through the Kilo service). Nothing about who you are is sent with them. The AI never gives a grade or a score; the level is worked out with fixed rules. The level is not a grade and is not used for decisions about you.

Who can see your result

Sessions have no login. Anyone with the link to your session can see its result, so share it only with people you want to see it. The link cannot be guessed.

How long

• The text of your written answers is deleted after 90 days.
• The rest of the session is kept for at most 12 months.
• You can delete your result and all your answers yourself, with the button at the bottom of the results page. All that remains is a record of what the AI assessment cost, with no link to you or your session.
• Parents' email addresses from the interest form are kept for at most 12 months, or until you remove yourself.

What is stored on your device

No advertising or statistics cookies. Your browser only stores what the service needs: your language, a written answer you have not sent yet, the session you are in, and which questions you have already had, so your next session gives you new ones. When you start your free test, a cookie records that this device has taken it (for at most 12 months), since the free version includes one test. If you entered a tester code, a cookie records that while the code is valid.

Protection against misuse

To stop misuse we count how many sessions start from the same internet address in a day, and how many sign-ups come from it in an hour. We do not store the address, only a code that changes every day (for sessions) or every hour (for sign-ups) and cannot be turned back into the address. The codes are deleted after two days.

Where the data is

The website runs at Vercel and the database at Neon, both in Frankfurt. AI assessment is done by Kilo and Google. Some of these are US companies; data transferred outside the EU is protected by the EU's rules for such transfers.

Your rights

You can ask what data we have about you, and have it corrected or deleted. You can delete a finished result yourself on the results page. Otherwise we need the link to your session, as we do not know who you are. Write to sampath.in@gmail.com. You can also complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY), imy.se.

Who the test is for

NextRung is for ages 13–19. If you are younger, you cannot start a session.

Parents who register interest

We store your email, your child's school year and the subjects you tick if you give them, and your plan choice, to email you when the grade estimate and the paid plans exist and to learn which plan to build first. You ticked the box allowing us to email you. You can remove yourself at any time with the link you were given, or by writing to us.