Privacy Policy | Skillrank

01Information we collect

Account information: When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and the role you select (student, recruiter, or college administrator). If you're a recruiter, we also collect your company name. If you represent a college, we collect your institution name.
Assessment data: When you take an Employability Test, we collect your responses and the resulting score. This data is used to generate your profile, surface you to relevant recruiters, and provide cohort insights to your institution if you're enrolled through one.
Usage data: We collect standard log data — IP address, browser type, pages visited, and timestamps — to keep the platform secure and to understand how features are being used. We do not sell this data.
Communications: If you contact us by email, we retain that correspondence to help us respond and improve.

To operate and personalise the platform — showing you relevant preparation paths, job opportunities, and assessment results.
To make your profile visible to recruiters and, where applicable, to your college's placement team, based on your score and role preferences.
To send transactional emails such as account confirmation, score updates, and important policy changes. We do not send marketing email without your consent.
To analyse aggregate, anonymised usage trends so we can improve the product.

Recruiters and employers: With the consent you provide when you create a student account, we share your profile and employability assessment results — including your name, scores, skill breakdown, role matches, and role preferences — with recruiters and employers who use Skillrank for hiring. Recruiters are paying customers of Skillrank, and making qualified candidates discoverable to them is a core function of the platform and a primary way we operate. You can withdraw this consent or manage your visibility at any time from your profile settings or by contacting us.
Separately, when you apply to a job on Skillrank, your profile and contact details are shared with that employer as part of the application itself. That sharing is not covered by the setting above and continues until you withdraw the application.
Colleges: If you registered through a college partnership, your score and preparation progress are visible to your institution's placement team. This is disclosed at sign-up.
Service providers: We use a small number of trusted third-party services (hosting, analytics, email delivery) that process data on our behalf under strict data processing agreements.
Legal requirements: We will disclose information if required by law, court order, or to protect the rights and safety of our users.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to any third party for advertising purposes.

We retain your account data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we remove your personal data within 30 days, except where we are legally required to retain it for a longer period.
Anonymised, aggregated assessment data may be retained indefinitely for research and platform improvement purposes.

Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: You can update your account details at any time from your profile settings.
Withdraw consent: If you're a student, you can withdraw your consent to share your profile with recruiters at any time from Settings → Recruiter Visibility — turning this off is as simple as turning it on, and takes effect immediately. You can also see every recruiter who currently holds your data, and revoke any of them individually, from Settings → Who can see your profile. Withdrawing consent stops recruiters discovering you and hides your assessment results; it does not hide you from a company you have applied to, because applying shares your details with that company directly. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before withdrawal.
Deletion: You can request that we delete your account and associated personal data.
Portability: You can request your assessment history and profile data in a machine-readable format.
Objection: You can object to certain types of processing at any time.
Grievance redressal: If you have a complaint about how we handle your personal data, you can raise it with our Grievance Officer (see Contact, below).
To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@smarted.pro or call +91 78922 27891.

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We use industry-standard encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest. Access to personal data is restricted to team members who need it to do their jobs. We conduct regular security reviews.
No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. While we take every reasonable precaution, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify you by email and update the 'Last updated' date below. Continued use of the platform after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

Questions about this policy or your personal data? Email info@smarted.pro or reach our operations team at operations@smarted.pro. You can also call +91 78922 27891. We respond within 2 business days.
Grievance Officer (Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023): For complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, contact our Grievance Officer at info@smarted.pro or +91 78922 27891. We acknowledge and work to resolve grievances promptly.