Privacy Policy

1.1 Data you give us

You give us data when you create an account and use Mindlark.

To create an account, you give us your name, email address and a password, and you confirm that you are 18 or older. We record when you accepted our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy. You may also add a phone number, your college and year of study, a profile photo, a cover image and a short bio. As you use Mindlark, you create content such as project submissions and images, practice answers, communication practice transcripts and conversations with Nova, our AI mentor.

1.2 Images you upload

We remove hidden details from images when you upload them.

Photos and images are resized and saved without their embedded location, device and camera details. For project images, we keep one detail from the original file: the date the photo was taken, if the file has one. We use this date, together with a digital fingerprint of the image, to check that project images are your own.

1.3 Your voice

We turn your spoken answers into text and do not keep the recording.

In communication practice and the project viva, you answer by speaking. Nothing is recorded until you press the microphone button, and the app says next to that button what happens to your recording. Your browser reduces background noise on your device. The recording is then sent to our server, which passes it to our speech-to-text provider, Groq, to turn it into text (see section 3.1). Mindlark does not save the recording: it is discarded as soon as the text is ready.

We keep the text. For communication practice, we also keep a few measurements of how you spoke, such as your speaking pace, the number of filler sounds (like “um”) and long pauses, as part of your practice results.

1.4 Data from your use of Mindlark

We collect limited technical data to keep the service working and secure.

We record information such as your device type, browser, IP address and the features you use. We use it to run and secure Mindlark, prevent misuse and fix problems.

1.5 Data from others

Your college and teammates may add information about you.

Your college may confirm that you are one of its students, and a teammate may add you to a group project.

1.6 GitHub

If you ask us to check a GitHub repository, or connect your GitHub account, we receive public information from GitHub.

When you verify a repository linked to your project, we read public information about it from GitHub: when it was created, its most recent commits (up to 100), its contributors, the names of the files in its main folder and, if you add one, your MINDLARK-VERIFY file. We use this to produce a provenance score. We keep the score, the totals shown with it (such as the number of commits and contributors), the repository link, the ID of the latest commit and the username written in your MINDLARK-VERIFY file. We do not copy your code, commit messages or email addresses.

You can also connect your GitHub account in Settings. When you do, GitHub tells us your public GitHub username and account ID, and we use them to confirm that repositories you link are yours. We do not get access to your code, your private repositories or your email address through this connection, and we do not keep access to your GitHub account. You can disconnect at any time in Settings.

3.1 How we use AI

AI models help us evaluate your work and power Nova.

We use AI models from providers such as Google (Gemini), Groq and Anthropic (Claude) to evaluate submissions, review uploaded images, turn spoken answers into text, assess communication practice and write Nova's replies. We send these providers only the content each task needs, and we send images at a reduced size. They process this content for us under their terms for paid business services, which do not allow them to use it to train their models. They may keep it for a short period, generally no more than 30 days, for security and abuse monitoring.

3.2 Automated decisions

You can ask a person to review any result.

Stage reviews and practice scores are produced automatically. If you think a result is wrong, email support@mindlark.in and a member of our team will review it. Images that may be unsafe or copied, and written answers that closely match another student's, are checked by a person. They are not rejected automatically.

3.3 Improving our evaluations

We use your work to improve our evaluations only if you turn this on.

We improve our evaluations mainly through aggregated statistics, such as average scores and pass rates. If you turn on “Help improve Mindlark's evaluations” in Settings, we may also use your written submissions, scores and feedback to improve how we evaluate work. This can include training or fine-tuning AI models. Before we use your work, we remove your name, email address and phone number. We do not use your images or your conversations with Nova for this purpose.

This setting is off unless you turn it on. It does not affect your scores or your access to Mindlark. You can turn it off at any time. After that, your work is left out of future training, although models trained before you turned it off cannot be changed.

3.4 Conversations with Nova

Your conversations are saved until you delete them.

We save your conversations with Nova so you can return to them. When you delete a conversation, it is removed from your history immediately and deleted from our systems within 30 days. We do not use your conversations with Nova to train or fine-tune AI models.

4.1 Your profile

Your profile page is public.

Your profile page shows your name, username, profile photo, cover image, college, year of study, city, bio, Mindlark IQ, streak and public projects. Anyone with the link can view it, whether or not they have a Mindlark account.

4.2 Projects and project images

Projects are private until you make them public.

A new project is private. If you make it public, its title, description and stage progress appear on your profile page and on Explore, and its images appear on Explore. Explore is available only to signed-in users, including students, college staff and company users. You can make a project private again, or delete it, at any time.

Please do not upload images that show other people without their permission, or that show ID cards, phone numbers or other personal documents. We cannot control copies that others make of content you have made public.

4.3 Colleges and companies

Colleges see their own students. Companies see what you make public or send them.

Your college's placement office can see the profiles and project progress of students linked to that college. Companies can see public projects on Explore, and the details you share when you apply to one of their challenges.