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Interview Bank · Last updated 25 August 2026

Interview Bank holds the most specific record of your career you are ever likely to write down. This page says exactly where it goes, which on most days is nowhere.

Who we are

Interview Bank is made by 312 IT Consulting. You can reach a human at support@312itconsulting.com.

What leaves your iPhone, and when

Your stories, their scores, your jobs and your whole bank live in the app's own storage on your device. We hold no copy of any of it. Writing, scoring, tagging and searching happen on the phone and send nothing.

Recordings stay on the phone too. When you speak a story the app saves the audio to its own storage, so that a transcription which comes out wrong can be recovered rather than losing what you said. The recording never leaves your device and is never sent anywhere — not to us, not to anyone else. The app keeps the most recent few and deletes the older ones by itself, and deleting the app deletes all of them.

Three things do leave, and this page exists to name all three:

• Story text, when you have consented and either ask for an AI feature on the paid tier or record your first story. Described in full below. Consent is required in both cases, and without it nothing you write is sent at all.
• A random identifier for your install. Sent with AI requests so we can cap what any one device spends. It is a random value generated on first launch, it is not your Apple ID, your advertising identifier or anything Apple gives us, and deleting the app destroys it.
• Settings the app fetches at launch. The app asks our server for its current prompts and configuration. That request sends no story text and nothing about you.

This changed in August 2026, twice. An earlier version of this page said the free tier made no network request at all. The app now fetches its settings and counts which version of a screen you saw, so that sentence had to go. Then, on 29 August, a second sentence had to go with it: this page said the free tier never transmits your writing, and there is now one case where it can. Recording your first story sends that story's transcript to be sorted into the four parts of a STAR answer, but only if you have been shown the screen below and said yes.

What has not changed, and is the part that actually matters: nothing you write is sent anywhere unless you have seen that screen and agreed to it. That was always the load-bearing half of the promise. The tier was never what protected you; your answer was.

AI features send what you ask them to, and say so first

Written critique, mock interviews, job description analysis and gap reports can use a model that cannot run on your phone, and so can sorting a recorded story into its four parts. Nothing is sent until you have said yes to a screen that names exactly what goes and who receives it. Say no and the app answers from a rule running on your phone instead, and sends nothing at all.

Everything in that list except one thing also requires the paid tier. The exception is sorting your first story, which works on the free tier because that first story is meant to be the complete experience. It happens once. Every story after it is sorted on your phone unless you are on the paid tier.

If you say no, scoring, your bank and gap analysis keep working, your stories are still sorted into their four parts on the phone, and you get structural review instead of written critique. You can change your mind either way in Settings, at any time.

When you do use one of those features:

• What is sent: the text of the story, transcript or job description involved, and the instructions we wrap around it. No name, no email address, and nothing from the rest of your bank.
• Who it is sent to: our own server, which forwards it to Anthropic, the maker of Claude, purely to generate the response. Anthropic processes it for that request and does not use it to train models.
• When: only when you tap the control that does it. There is no background syncing of story text.
• What we keep: the number of tokens a request used, so we can stop a runaway bill. We keep no copy of what was sent — we could not produce a story you sent us if you asked us to. The single exception is a report you choose to file, described below.

Every piece of AI output in the app carries a permanent badge naming what produced it, so you can always tell which sentences came from a model and which came from a rule running on your phone.

Reporting something the model said, or a story we sorted wrongly

Every piece of AI output in the app has a way to report it — if it was abusive, wrong about you, or unsafe, we want to know, because that is usually a fault in our instructions that we can fix for everybody without an app update.

There is a second, separate report on the screen you see after recording a story: this split is wrong. Sorting a story into its four parts is the one thing the app does that you can see is wrong at a glance and we cannot see at all, so that button exists to close the gap. It sends the written transcript and the four parts we cut it into, because the bug is always the relationship between them. It does not send the audio; that stays on your phone. Because it sends your own words, it asks first and tells you exactly what goes.

Filing one is the only time text you wrote or received is stored on our side, and it happens because you asked for it:

• What is sent: the output you are complaining about, which reason you picked, the name of the screen it came from, and anything you type in the note field. For a wrong split it is what you said and the four parts we cut it into, and nothing you type, because it does not ask you to type anything.
• What is not: your name, your email address, and the rest of your bank. It is attached to the same random install identifier described above and to nothing else, so we can read the complaint and cannot tell who wrote it.
• Why it is kept: a report nobody can read is a button that lies. The app tells you we read every one of these, and this is what makes that true.

If you never file a report, nothing you write is ever stored on our side.

Signing in is optional

The app offers Sign in with Apple, and you can decline it and use everything anyway. It is the only sign-in we offer and we will never add another.

If you do sign in, here is the entire record we create:

• What we store: a one-way SHA-256 hash of the anonymous identifier Apple gives us for you, and the dates it was created and last used. That is the whole row.
• What we do not store: your name and your email address. Apple offers them at sign-in and we ask for neither, because nothing in the product sends mail and holding an address for a purpose that does not exist is not a neutral act.
• What it does today: holds that identifier, and nothing more. It is the foundation for letting a purchase and your remaining mock-interview hours follow you to a new iPhone; that restore is not built yet, and we would rather say so than imply it works.
• Deleting it: Settings › Account › Delete account, inside the app. It removes the record on our side for good. Your stories are yours and stay on your device — deleting the account does not touch them. If you delete your Apple Account or withdraw this app's access to it, Apple tells our server and we delete the record without being asked.

Measuring which version of a screen works

We sometimes show two versions of a screen — for example, whether to offer sign-in at the start or at the end — and count which one people prefer. When that happens the app sends: which version you saw, which of a handful of actions you took on it, and a random per-install number so the same person is not counted twice.

Counting what happens in the app

Added 27 August 2026. The app records which screens you open and which actions you take — a story saved, a critique opened, a round finished, a paywall shown and whether you bought or dismissed it. Each record is an action name from a fixed list, a few numbers alongside it, the same random per-install number, and nothing else.

It also records your scores: the number a story or a practice round is given, and which attempt it was. That is how we can tell whether the app actually makes people better, which is the only question worth asking about it.

What these records cannot contain is enforced by the code, not by our good intentions. There is no field in them capable of holding text you wrote. Not a story, not a job description, not a transcript, not a title, not an answer. The app has no way to attach one, and our server discards anything it does not recognise. We can tell you that four hundred people opened a critique last week; we cannot tell you a single word any of them wrote, because we do not have it.

This is data leaving your phone and so it is named here. If you would rather it did not, delete the app: the random number goes with it and nothing left behind points at you.

The random per-install number carries no name, no email address and no device fingerprint. It is minted on your install and destroyed when you delete the app. We are naming all of this because a policy that mentions only the flattering transmissions is not a policy.

What we never do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or telemetry SDKs, and no product built by anyone else watching you use ours. We count what is described above and nothing else, we count it with our own code on our own server, and no other company receives any of it.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No selling or sharing data with anyone, at any price.
• No third-party SDKs in the app at all.

The waitlist

If you joined the waitlist on this site, we hold your email address and the moment you submitted it. Nothing else — no name, no IP address, no referrer. We will use it to tell you when the app is out, and then to stop. To be removed, email us and it is deleted.

Purchases

Payment is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card details, and we receive no personal information from a purchase — only a signed receipt that tells the app whether the paid tier is unlocked.

Your data, and getting rid of it

Your stories live in the app's own storage on your device, and so do the voice recordings behind them. Deleting the app deletes both, and because we hold no copy there is nothing of your writing or your voice for us to delete on our side.

If you signed in with Apple, there is one record — the hashed identifier described above — and you can destroy it yourself from Settings › Account › Delete account. You never have to email anybody to be forgotten. If you are on the waitlist, email us and that row goes too.

Children

Interview Bank is intended for people preparing for professional job interviews and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your device, the app will tell you inside the app rather than quietly updating this page. The date at the top always reflects the current version.