TED-IELTS is operated by 71442 LLC, based in Delaware, USA.
For privacy requests, use our contact page.
Your test data
We save your answers, recordings, feedback and progress so you can complete a test and return to your results. Your email is used for result notifications and secure sign-in links. You do not need to set a password.
How feedback is prepared
Reading and listening use an answer key. For speaking, Speechace processes your recording to produce a transcript and speech assessment. OpenRouter routes your written answers or speaking transcript to an AI provider to prepare task feedback. Our current model is provided by Anthropic. We do not include your account email in assessment requests, but anything you say or write in an answer forms part of that request. Avoid including sensitive personal details.
Authorised assessment reviewers can inspect responses when feedback needs checking. These short tests provide practice feedback, not an official IELTS score or a guaranteed prediction.
Service providers
Our website host stores test records and protected recordings. Our email provider delivers sign-in links and notifications. Speechace and the AI services process submitted answers under their own data-processing terms. Processing may take place outside your country. Deleting a test here removes our active copy; it does not promise instant deletion from provider systems or existing backups.
Speechace API privacy policy · OpenRouter privacy policy · Anthropic privacy information
Email choices
Saving results does not subscribe you to optional marketing. Learning emails require a separate choice. Programme updates require joining the programme interest list. You can withdraw either preference in My learning.
Analytics and cookies
Essential cookies keep your test session and sign-in working. If you allow analytics, Google Analytics measures visits, test progress and approximate country. We do not deliberately send your email, answers, recordings or private sign-in links to Google Analytics. You can change your choice through Cookie preferences in the footer. Declining analytics does not prevent you from taking a test.
Retention and deletion
Test attempts without an email are removed after 30 days without an update. Saved assessment answers, recordings, assessment caches and reports are removed after 365 days without an update. The daily cleanup also removes expired sign-in tokens and sessions. Sign-in links expire after 30 minutes and sessions expire after 14 days.
You can delete an individual assessment from My learning sooner. Recordings are kept outside public web folders and are served only to the owning session, the signed-in learner or an authorised administrator. Deleting an assessment does not delete your separate email preferences or unsubscribe you. Use My learning to turn off optional emails, or contact us to request removal of your email record.
These automatic deletion periods apply to the assessment application. Separate book-order records, email subscriptions, service-provider systems and hosting backups are not erased by that cleanup. We cannot promise the same deletion timetable for those systems. Contact us for a request covering those records; we will explain what can be removed and any records that must be retained.
Optional free-test link analytics
If you allow analytics, we measure your public page sequence, the landing page, referring website hostname and campaign labels where available, which practice-test invitations you see and click, their page and position, the device category, and the time. A random browser identifier helps us count repeat clicks separately from browsers. We connect the invitation and consented visit to test starts, question progress, submission, email capture and results opened, without sending your email address, answers or recordings to Google Analytics.
With analytics permission, we also record which version of your results was displayed, repeat report visits, feedback sections opened, resource links clicked, audio playback actions and print requests. Active viewing time excludes background tabs and idle periods; it does not prove that you read the feedback. Recorded report versions remain private alongside your assessment, and no feedback text is sent to Google Analytics.
Our first-party link activity, report activity, recorded report versions and attribution records are kept for 90 days. Anonymous daily totals without browser or learner identifiers are retained for long-term performance comparisons. The performance dashboard shows UTC times. You can withdraw permission through Cookie preferences; this stops new collection and requests removal of this browser’s first-party link and report activity history. Existing test results and Google Analytics history are handled separately.
Optional report payments
PayPal processes payments for optional US$3.99 single-skill reports and the US$9 combined report. We store the assessment reference, purchaser email, payment and capture references, payment status and timestamps so we can provide access, reconcile payments and handle support. We do not receive or store your full payment-card details. PayPal processes your payment information under its own privacy policy.
Your browser also stores a saved-assessment reference so you can resume. This is essential functionality, separate from optional analytics. Payment records are separate from your assessment and are not removed by deleting a test.