1. Who these terms cover
These terms apply to every user of Practicks, including candidates, faculty, organisation administrators, and platform administrators. They also apply to the training institutions that subscribe to Practicks on behalf of those users. Practicks is built for professional and technical skills training; it is not a school or college platform, and it carries no school-board or university curriculum.
2. What Practicks is — and what it isn't
Practicks is a self-assessment and practice platform. You agree that you understand and accept the following:
- Practicks is nota replacement for any certification exam, employer assessment, or company hiring round. Continue preparing for those through your training provider, the certifying body's own material, your recruiter, or official sample papers as you normally would.
- Question content is authored to align with a syllabus scope, not the specific paper pattern, timing, or marking of any official exam.
- A score on Practicks is a private signal for your own benefit. It is not a credential or certification, and should not be presented to recruiters, employers, or certifying bodies as proof of qualification.
- Practicks does not push a curriculum, methodology, course material, or textbook recommendation. Continue using your preferred learning material.
- References to technologies, tools or certification tracks are for scope alignment only. Practicks is independent and not affiliated with any technology vendor, certifying body, examination authority or hiring authority.
3. Accounts and access
3.1 Institutional access
Most users reach Practicks through a training institution that has subscribed to the platform. Your institution's administrator provisions your account and decides which features you can use, which content you can see, and how long your account stays active. If you believe your institutional account was created in error or you should not have access, contact your institution's administrator first.
3.2 Individual access (self-service tier)
Individuals may self-sign-up for a free self-service tier. The self-service tier is provided as-is for practice and discovery; it may have lower limits, rate caps, and feature availability than institutional plans.
3.3 Account security
You agree to keep your sign-in credentials secure, not share them, and notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access. Practicks supports multi-factor authentication; we encourage you to enable it.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Attempt to bypass, defeat, or interfere with proctoring, plagiarism detection, or any integrity feature.
- Submit answers that are copied from other candidates, or otherwise present someone else's work as your own on attempts where the score is meant to be defensible.
- Scrape, mass-download, or republish question content, candidate work, or platform-generated reports.
- Use Practicks to harass other users, post abusive content, or upload content you do not have the right to share.
- Probe, scan, or attempt to compromise the platform's security or availability.
- Use the platform to violate any applicable law in your jurisdiction.
4a. Messages from your institution
Where an institution uses Practicks to send announcements to its learners, those messages are the institution's own content and the institution is responsible for them. Practicks provides the channel, does not write, approve or moderate what is sent, and is not a party to it.
The channel is one-way by design. A learner can acknowledge a message with one of a fixed set of reactions, and cannot reply in it. A message may ask a question, and there a learner picks one of the options the institution wrote — there is still nothing for them to type. It is not a support channel, not a way to reach a trainer with a question, and not somewhere to send anything urgent or safety-related — use the contact routes your institution gives you for that.
It is also not a teaching channel. Practicks publishes no lessons and no learning material, and an announcement is not a substitute for whatever you are learning from.
5. Content ownership
5.1 Your content
You retain ownership of the questions, assessments, attachments, cohort notes and comments you author or upload on Practicks. You grant Practicks a non-exclusive licence to store, process, and display that content for the purpose of operating the service (including showing it to the users your institution permits — e.g. an assessment shown to enrolled learners).
5.2 Platform content
Practicks owns the platform code, the user interface, the question authoring and assessment engine, the scoring logic, and any analytics or reports it generates. Practicks publishes no learning content of its own: it does not author, supply or recommend study material. Where your institution’s trainers share their own session notes with a cohort (Cohort Notes), that material is your institution’s content under 5.1, shown only to that cohort. Practice and assessment questions authored on the platform belong to whoever authored them.
6. Proctoring and plagiarism detection
Some attempts may be proctored — webcam capture, full-screen enforcement, tab-switch telemetry, etc. Proctoring is opt-in per assessment: the assessment author enables it for a specific attempt, and the candidate sees the consent gate before starting, explaining what is being captured. Coding submissions may be compared across candidates for token-level similarity to surface possible plagiarism to your institution's authorised staff. Both surfaces are transparent to the candidate and intended for serious attempts where the score has to mean something.
7. Service availability
We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Maintenance windows are signalled in-app where possible. The free self-service tier comes with no service-level commitment. Institutional plans may include separate service commitments under your subscription agreement.
8. Termination and account closure
You may close your account at any time by contacting the institution administrator that provisioned it (for institutional accounts) or by using the in-app deletion path (for self-service accounts). We may suspend or terminate an account that materially breaches these terms, after notice where reasonable. On termination, see our Data Retention Policy for how long residual data is kept.
9. Disclaimers
Practicks is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that a practice result on Practicks predicts an outcome on any certification exam, interview, or hiring decision.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Practicks's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of the service is limited to the amount you (or the institution on your behalf) paid Practicks for the service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or INR 5,000, whichever is greater.
11. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. When we make a material change we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, for significant changes, notify active users by email or in-app banner. Continued use of Practicks after a change means you accept the updated terms.
12. Governing law and grievances
These terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes that cannot be resolved by direct contact with us shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of [City], India. For grievances or complaints, contact our grievance officer using the details on the Contact page.