Privacy notice

In short

• We ask about your degree, your NMAT history, your test date, the schools you are aiming for and the times you can study. We use your answers to build and adjust a study plan for you.
• Information about your education is treated as sensitive under the Data Privacy Act, so we only use it with your agreement.
• Our own software builds your plan from your answers. The tutor is an AI service: what you type to it, with a short summary of how you have been learning, is sent to an AI provider to write each reply. Neither decides anything about your admission anywhere.
• You can change your answers, and your optional choice, on this site whenever you like, and delete your account and everything saved with it from your Account page.

Who we are

Preppi runs this site.

Questions, requests and complaints about your data go to support@preppi.app.

What we collect when you sign up

Your email address and, if you choose to give one, a name. If you sign in with Google, we receive the name and email address on your Google account. We use them to log you in and to send the emails you ask for, such as confirming your address or resetting your password. Your password goes to our login provider, Supabase, and is not saved by our own code.

What we collect on this form

Your degree status, degree program, school and graduation year; the year of your last science course; whether you have taken the NMAT before and, if so, when, your percentile and, if you choose to give them, your subtest scores; if you choose to give them, your results on CEM's Practice Set and whether you timed it; your test date or target test window; the medical schools you are aiming for; the times of the week you can study; how long you like each session to be; if you choose to say, how many hours a week you say you can really study; and the language you want explanations in.

Later, when you practise, we will also keep your answers, timings and results.

Why we use it

To build your study plan, to schedule your practice around the times you gave us, and to choose what to ask and explain, in the language you picked. We do not use it for anything else without asking you separately.

Why we ask you first

Under the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173), information about your education is "sensitive personal information". We handle it only with your consent, which you give below and which we record with the date and the version of this notice.

To log you in and to send the emails you ask for, we use your email address because we need it to run the account you asked for. For everything about your studies, we rely on your consent.

The optional choice is separate. You can use the whole service without saying yes to it.

How software and AI are involved

Your study plan is built by our own software. What goes in: the answers on this form and your practice results. What comes out: a schedule and a list of topics to practise. The plan does not use an AI service.

The tutor is an AI service. What you type to the tutor, the question you are practising and the study notes it uses are sent to Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, to write each reply. Your name and email are not sent, and from your profile the tutor takes only the language you chose.

To tailor its help, the tutor keeps a short record of how you learn, built from your own answers and your chats with it: which topics look shaky, how often you use hints, whether you are often sure and wrong, how fast you answer compared with CEM's time for a question, and which ways of explaining have helped. A short summary of those facts is sent to Anthropic with your question. The record never holds a predicted score or percentile. You can read it in plain words, reset it, or switch it off on your Account page (Tutor settings).

The tutor can make mistakes. Its explanations come from study notes and stored solutions, but a reply can still be wrong or unclear. If one looks wrong, use the button under the reply to flag it. A person on our team may then read that flagged reply, the practice question it answers and the reason you gave (not your name and not your other messages), and each time someone looks it is logged.

It is a study aid. It does not make decisions about admission to any school, and it is not a prediction of your NMAT score. If a plan or an explanation looks wrong to you, tell us and a person will look at it.

What drives your plan and your practice

Your plan and your practice are chosen from these things: your test date and the times of the week you gave us; your accuracy in each subtest and topic (time moves toward the subtests and topics where your answers show you need it, and no subtest drops below a minimum share); until you have answered enough questions here, any Practice Set results and earlier subtest scores you chose to give us, as a starting point; how long ago you last saw a question (questions you miss come back sooner, and none is scheduled for after your test day); how quickly you answered and, if you chose to say, how sure you were; and a built-in judgement of how much each topic is likely to matter. Practice questions come from the topics you have practised least, in a mix of question types, at a difficulty that follows your recent accuracy. None of this predicts your NMAT score.

When you write to us

If you use the contact form, the feedback button or a data request, we keep what you write, your email address if you give one and the reference we give you. For feedback we also keep the page you were on, the question on screen if there was one, and your screen size. Feedback is anonymous unless you tick that we may reply; then your account is kept with it.

To slow down spam we count how often a form is used by a scrambled version (a hash) of the network address it came from, never the address itself, and we remove the counts after two days.

If you write to us without an account, we keep your message, feedback or request for 24 months after you send it, and then delete it (a request we have not finished answering is kept until we have). If you have an account, what you wrote is kept with your account and deleted with it. This is the same 24 months we use for accounts that are not used.

Study reminders

Reminders are off until you switch them on, on the Reminders page in your account. You choose email, a browser notification (for learners 18 and older), or both, and which of four kinds you want: the study session you planned, a welcome back after a week away, a test-date countdown, and a weekly recap of how many days and questions you practised. They are only about your study, never advertising. We send at most one a day, and not in your quiet hours (9 pm to 7 am in your own time zone, unless you change them).

To send them we use your email address, your time zone and study plan, the days you practised, and a record of what we sent so the same reminder is not sent twice. For browser notifications, your browser gives us a notification address and two keys; we keep them until you switch browser notifications off, you tap the unsubscribe link, or you delete your account.

Every reminder email has a link that stops all reminders with one tap, and you can switch them off yourself on the Reminders page. Each switch on or off is written to your privacy log with the time.

Who else handles your data

We keep your data with Supabase, a cloud database provider. Our database runs in Singapore, which is outside the Philippines. The tutor sends what you type to Anthropic, an AI provider; Anthropic may process it on servers outside the Philippines. We stay responsible for your data when they handle it for us.

Our emails (sign-in and confirmation emails, study reminders and messages to parents or guardians) are sent through Resend, using its Tokyo sending region, which is outside the Philippines. Browser notifications pass through the notification service of your browser's maker (for example Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft). The text of a notification is encrypted so that service cannot read it, but it does see that a notification was sent to your browser, and when.

We do not share your answers with medical schools, with CEM or with advertisers.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account. If you ask us to delete your account, your answers and results are erased with it straight away, together with your reminder choices, your browsers' notification addresses and the record of reminders we sent.

If you do not use your account for 24 months (you do not log in, answer a question, take a test or use the tutor), we delete it and everything saved with it. We run this clean-up regularly, so the deletion may come a little after the 24 months.

Your rights

You can see and correct your answers on this site at any time. You can delete your account and everything saved with it on your Account page; that also withdraws your agreement to this notice, and it cannot be undone. You can withdraw the optional choice yourself on this page. To ask us to stop using your data in a way you object to, or about anything else, write to support@preppi.app. You may also complain to the National Privacy Commission (privacy.gov.ph).

Age and young learners

Preppi is for people aged 13 and over. We ask which age group you are in; we do not ask for your birth date. If you say you are under 13, we do not create an account and we save nothing about you.

If you are 13 to 17, we also ask for the email address of a parent or guardian and send them one message asking them to agree. Until they agree, your account is empty and waiting: we do not save your answers. We keep that email address so we can reach them, including if something goes wrong with your data. For learners under 18, the study buddy, share cards, the tutor's record of how you learn, browser notifications and the optional anonymised-data choice are switched off, and they stay off until you say you are 18 or older.

We cannot check anyone's age or that the person who agrees is a parent or guardian: we rely on what is declared. A shorter version of this notice for young learners is on the young learners page.