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Last updated 10 October 2026 · Interview Sarthi is operated by an individual seller in India. Payments from India are processed by Cashfree Payments. Payments from outside India are sold through Dodo Payments Inc as merchant of record, which was also the case for every order placed before 16 September 2026.
Scope: this policy covers Live Sarthi, Prep Sarthi, My Sarthi (the account page) and this website. Live interview content goes from your PC to Google; Prep interview content goes from your browser to Google, and is kept in your Prep Sarthi account only if you switch on saved interviews; in the free demo, the requests that prepare the interview and write the report pass through our license server on the way, without being stored. We operate licensing and payment services as described below. Apply Sarthi stores account data under its separate privacy policy.
%APPDATA%\Interview Sarthi. A compressed summary is sent to the AI provider with each answer request. A scanned PDF is sent once to Gemini to be read.config.env. Never transmitted to us, unless you save your Gemini key in My Sarthi yourself (see My Sarthi below).This website uses Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to measure visits and page interactions. They do not run inside the Live Sarthi desktop app. Prep uses Google Analytics for the events described in its section below; Clarity is disabled inside the Prep app and on receipt pages. Block these tools with a content blocker if you prefer; the website still works. Read how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Website measurement includes an AI referral event when a recognised campaign source or referring hostname is present. It records the source category and landing-page path, without query strings. Receipt pages with license keys are excluded from Clarity recording, and receipt query values are removed before analytics loads.
The Sarthi chat bubble on this website and on ApplySarthi answers questions about our apps. It is an AI assistant: it cannot see orders, payments, license keys or accounts, and it never asks for them.
What we keep. The messages you send and the replies, the page you sent them from, whether you appear to be in India (from your browser's time zone), and a random identifier your browser creates so a later chat can pick up where the last one ended. We also keep a one-line summary of each chat, written by the same AI. If you tell the assistant your first name, it remembers it. If you answer "where did you hear about us", leave a review or a rating, or use the form that sends a problem to the team, we keep what you entered there, including the email address and order ID you give in that form; reviews and problems are also sent to the owner by Telegram. We do not keep your network address: limits against abuse use a one-way hash of it. License keys, Gemini keys and card numbers typed into the chat are removed before anything is stored or sent. Chats are kept to improve the assistant and our apps, and are not deleted automatically. Please do not share passwords or keys in the chat.
Who processes it. To write each reply, your message, the recent chat and text from our website are sent to Google's Gemini through Google Cloud (Vertex AI), where Google does not use them to train its models. If Google Cloud is unavailable, a reply may instead be written on Google's free Gemini API, under which Google may use what it receives to improve its services. Your browser keeps the identifier and your last 40 messages so the chat follows you between pages; clearing site data removes them.
To see or delete your chats, email us and say roughly when you chatted and what about, or give the email address you entered in the chat.
Prep Sarthi, the mock interviewer at interviewsarthi.com/prep, runs in your browser. The report is saved in your browser's storage, where clearing site data removes it. With a pass you can also choose to keep your interviews in your account, as described under Saved interviews below.
The free demo. Your first mock interview runs on Interview Sarthi's own Gemini account, so you need nothing of your own. Your voice and the interviewer's replies travel between your browser and Google directly, using a one-time access token our license server obtains from Google for that interview. The request that prepares the interview (your CV and the job description) and the request that writes your report (the interview transcript) pass through our license server on their way to Google; we do not store or log their contents. The demo uses the free tier of Google's Gemini API, under which Google may use what it receives to improve its services. To keep the demo to one per person, we store a random identifier your browser creates for this purpose, a one-way hash of your network address (never the address itself), when the demo started and how many requests it made.
With a pass. Your CV, the job description, your voice and the interviewer's replies travel between your browser and Google's Gemini on your own API key. They do not pass through our servers on the way, and unless you switch on saved interviews (below), or save your CV and job description to My Sarthi yourself, we do not store them. The report is written the same way.
Saved interviews (optional, with a pass). Nothing is saved to your account until you switch this on in the app. When it is on, each finished interview is kept in your Prep Sarthi account on our license server, so you can follow your progress across your pass and open any report on any device where you sign in. We keep the report, the interview transcript (what you and the interviewer said, as text), the delivery numbers worked out from it (such as your pace and pauses), and the short quotes from your CV and job description that the report cites; also the analyses of your progress and the answers you practise again, which are built from those. Saved interviews never include your CV or your job description themselves (those are stored only if you save them to My Sarthi yourself), and never your voice. The analyses are written by Google's Gemini on your own key, from your saved interviews, the same way as the reports. Only you, signed in to your account, can read what is saved. You can delete one interview or everything at any time in the app; switching saving off stops new saves and deletes nothing. Everything saved is deleted automatically 12 months after the interview it belongs to, and it stays readable after your pass ends until then.
Where free minutes on your own key apply, the page counts them by sending our license server a one-way SHA-256 hash of your Gemini key and the number of seconds used. The key itself never leaves your browser, unless you save it to My Sarthi yourself (see My Sarthi), and cannot be recovered from the hash. We store that hash, the seconds used, and the first and last time it was seen. Nothing else about you or your interview is sent to us, and no account is needed.
Invites. Your invite code is tied to this browser (after the free demo) or to your key. If you arrive through a friend's link, we store which code you came through, so that if you buy a pass your first one lasts 37 days and your friend gets 7 free days. The friend who invited you sees only how many friends bought a pass, never who they are.
Passes. To buy a pass you sign in with Google. We receive your Google account's email address, name and Google's identifier for the account, and store them with the time your pass ends. Buying from India you also enter a mobile number, because Cashfree requires one; buying from anywhere else you do not, and we store none. Whichever processor takes the payment, we store the order with your email, the plan and that processor’s payment reference, and email you a receipt. A sign-in session is kept in your browser's storage for up to 30 days. Passes never renew by themselves, so no payment details are kept by us or charged again.
Your Gemini key is kept in your browser's storage only if you leave "Remember on this device" ticked. The Prep Sarthi app page counts visits and steps with Google Analytics (for example that an interview started, its language and length, and the report score) and never records the screen: Microsoft Clarity is switched off inside the app. Google processes what you send it under its own terms; on Google's free tier it may use that content to improve its products, which is Google's rule for free keys and applies to anything you do with one.
Interview reliability logs. For demo and other interview attempts, we store a random attempt identifier and operational events for 30 days: microphone checks, preparation and connection stages, disconnects, timeouts, retries, model or provider fallbacks, report success or failure, timing, and token counts when supplied by the AI provider. Server events can include the demo identifier and an anonymous key slot, never the key itself. These logs do not contain audio, CV or job-description text, transcripts, generated answers, names, email addresses, or raw error messages. A hashed network identifier limits abuse; we do not store the IP address in these logs. Unsynced diagnostic events may remain in your browser for up to 24 hours so temporary connection failures can be investigated. This operational logging is separate from optional saved interview history.
My Sarthi, at interviewsarthi.com/account, shows in one place what you have with us. You sign in with Google, the same way as in Prep Sarthi; we receive the name and email address of that Google account. The page shows your Live Sarthi passes (matched by the email address you bought them with, and any key you add by hand), the PCs each pass is used on, what you bought, your support conversations, your invite code, and your Prep Sarthi pass and saved interviews. Reading them makes no new copy of them. The bell on the page shows our news and reminders about your own passes, support replies and newly connected PCs; it sends no email and no phone notification.
What My Sarthi can store, why, and for how long. Everything below is stored only when you do it yourself; nothing is copied in on its own. It is kept in our database on Cloudflare (hosted in the Asia-Pacific region) and read only by you, signed in, and by the PCs and apps you connect, except where this policy says otherwise.
Your rights and questions. You can see, change and delete everything above on the page itself. For anything else, including to object or complain, write to support@interviewsarthi.com; we answer within a few days, and in any case within the time the law allows. If you are not satisfied, you may complain to India's Data Protection Board once it is open to complaints.
Apply Sarthi, at apply.interviewsarthi.com, has its own account and privacy policy. That policy explains storage of CVs, application documents and encrypted Gemini keys. This page covers Live Sarthi, Prep Sarthi and this website.
No ads or selling of personal data. The Live Sarthi desktop app has no usage analytics; website and Prep measurement are described above. Apart from the license check, the update check, the update-minutes request, the optional email box and, while a support conversation is open, its check for replies, all described above, the desktop app sends us nothing on its own: no analytics, no usage events, and nothing about your interview, with one exception that you choose: a PC you connected to My Sarthi with "Keep my Live interviews" switched on sends its interviews from the past year once and then each finished interview, as described under My Sarthi. A problem goes to us only when you send it from the help window or with the Send report button at the end of an interview, and what each contains is listed above.
Your purchase email with the license key, and replies to your own support messages, are part of the service and are always sent.
If you have a Prep Sarthi pass, we may also email you once shortly before it ends. If you save your interviews, that email includes a summary of them: how many you did and how your practice scores moved.
We may also email you occasionally about Interview Sarthi and our other products, such as ApplySarthi. Every one of those carries an unsubscribe line: use it, or reply asking us to stop, and we send no more. We never sell or share your address.
Email us to see or delete what we hold about you: your order, your email address, if you gave one your phone number, any Prep Sarthi interviews you chose to save (you can also export or delete those yourself in the app), and everything in My Sarthi (your profile, connected PCs and kept Live interviews, which you can also delete yourself on the page). For card, UPI and netbanking records contact Cashfree Payments if you paid from India, or Dodo Payments if you paid from outside India or before 16 September 2026. Data on your own PC is under your control at all times.
Google's handling of API data is described in the Gemini API terms; on the free tier Google may use API content to improve its services. Use a paid key if that matters for your interviews.
Questions: support@interviewsarthi.com