Privacy Policy

At CA Test Series ("Company", "we", "us", or "our"), safeguarding your personal information and student test records is an institutional priority. We recognize the sensitive nature of professional exam preparation and adhere to strict privacy safeguards under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP), the Information Technology Act, 2000, and global data privacy standards.

This Privacy Policy sets forth how we collect, process, store, encrypt, and protect your data across our website (www.catestseries.org), Android and iOS applications, and ex-examiner evaluation portals. By registering or enrolling in our services, you consent to the data practices described herein.

We collect specific categories of data necessary to provide personalized test evaluation, verified result benchmarking, and course fulfillment:

We employ session cookies, HTTP authentication tokens, and performance metrics to:

• Keep you securely authenticated in your student portal during test submission sessions without asking for re-login on every page.
• Preserve user preferences, such as active test subject filters, exam level selections, and dark/light UI settings.
• Analyze platform load capacity and download latency to optimize ex-examiner check times.

Browser Control: You can manage cookie permissions directly through your browser preferences. Please note that disabling essential authentication cookies will prevent you from accessing the secure test submission portal and viewing evaluated papers.

We process collected data strictly for legitimate educational and contractual purposes:

• Evaluation & Feedback Delivery: Providing your uploaded handwritten scripts securely to empanelled ex-examiners for line-by-line checking, mark annotation, and remarks generation.
• Account Operations: Maintaining test history, generating comparative ranker analytics, tracking pass guarantee progress, and delivering suggested solutions.
• Transactional Communications: Sending automated SMS and WhatsApp alerts when a checked paper is ready for download in your dashboard.
• Payment Processing: Reconciling course enrollment invoices through authorized RBI-licensed gateways without retaining raw debit/credit card numbers on our servers.
• Anti-Piracy Enforcement: Correlating digital watermarks in event of unauthorized Telegram leaks or account credential sharing.

Our collection and processing of student data relies upon clear statutory legal bases:

• Contractual Performance: Necessary to fulfill our agreement with you to deliver mock test evaluations, mentor reviews, and exam preparation programs.
• Explicit Consent: Provided by you upon registration, checkout, or opting into WhatsApp and SMS revision updates.
• Statutory & Legal Obligations: Retaining financial transaction invoices and GST billing records in compliance with Indian taxation laws.
• Legitimate Interests: Defending our proprietary intellectual property against piracy, preventing fraudulent multi-user account pooling, and maintaining server stability.

Data sharing is strictly limited to authorized enterprise service partners under binding non-disclosure agreements:

• Empanelled Evaluators & CAs: Provided strictly with anonymized student answer sheets (student personal mobile numbers and emails are masked to protect student privacy and prevent bias).
• RBI-Authorized Payment Aggregators: Easebuzz, Razorpay, and HDFC for processing secure tokenized payments.
• Logistics Partners: Blue Dart, Delhivery, and India Post for physical book dispatches.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Indian data centers providing secure cloud storage and high-speed PDF distribution.
• Law Enforcement & Regulators: If formally required by court subpoenas or judicial orders under Indian law.

We retain student personal data and test submission files only for the duration necessary to deliver the enrolled exam session cycle (e.g., May 2026 or Nov 2026 attempt), facilitate re-evaluation queries, and satisfy statutory tax record-keeping requirements.

Following the expiration of your examination attempt and the closure of results, student answer book PDFs are archived and scheduled for cryptographic zero-fill deletion within 180 days, unless required for ongoing legal claims or Pass Guarantee repeat audits.

Under applicable data privacy regulations, you have enforceable rights regarding your personal records:

To exercise these rights, submit a written request to our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].

• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and strict role-based access control (RBAC) restrict examiner access exclusively to assigned copies.
• Automated intrusion detection systems (IDS) and Web Application Firewalls (WAF) monitor against SQL injections and unauthorized access attempts.
• Routine vulnerability assessments and penetration testing (VAPT) performed by certified information security auditors.

CA Test Series provides mock exams specifically designed for professional students preparing for CA, CS, and CMA certifications. Our services are not targeted at or designed for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. If we discover that a user under 13 has provided personal details without verified parental consent, we will take immediate steps to delete the profile and associated data from our servers.

While our primary servers and operations are based in India, international CA aspirants studying across the UAE, Nepal, Oman, and other international jurisdictions access our portal. By enrolling from outside India, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in India, subject to Indian data protection laws and international cloud security standards.

Our platform may occasionally provide links to external resources, such as official ICAI announcement bulletins, MCA regulatory gazettes, or trusted banking partner pages. We have no authority over the privacy standards or content of external third-party domains. We advise students to review the independent privacy statements of every external website they visit.

We value your communication preferences. You can easily manage how we reach out to you:

• Marketing Emails: Click the "Unsubscribe" link located at the footer of any promotional email to instantly remove your address from future marketing campaigns.
• WhatsApp / SMS: Reply with the word "STOP" to any promotional broadcast or contact support to modify messaging preferences.
• Service-Critical Messages: Please note that operational alerts—such as OTP verifications, password reset links, and notices that an evaluated test paper is ready—cannot be disabled as they are fundamental to service execution.

We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect technological advances, newly enacted privacy regulations, or changes in operational practices. Any material updates will be published on this page with an updated "Last Updated" timestamp. Continued engagement with our services following the posting of modifications indicates your acknowledgement and acceptance of the revised terms.