Privacy policy
Updated 29 September 2026
InterviewLeaf is operated by Sumedh Sahebrao Patil. Contact books@interviewleaf.com with privacy questions or requests concerning your information.
Information used for your purchase
We use your purchase email, selected book, order and payment references, amount, currency, payment status, purchase time, and email delivery status to process purchases, deliver books, restore access, handle refunds, and prevent misuse. Support emails contain the information you choose to share. We use the approximate country supplied by our hosting provider from your IP address to select regional prices, currencies and available payment methods. The country, price and currency are saved with your payment order; this feature does not request your precise device location.
Recent purchase notices
We may show the purchased book and approximate purchase time for verified purchases from the past 30 days. These notices say “A reader” unless you choose to share a public display name at checkout or separately give permission to publish your name. That optional name and your sharing choice are stored with the payment order in Razorpay. We do not publish your email address, payment reference or access link. Contact books@interviewleaf.com to request removal of a shared name.
Payments and service providers
Razorpay processes payment information in its checkout. When available and chosen, PayPal also processes your international payment. Our website does not store full card numbers, CVVs, bank passwords, or payment OTPs. Vercel hosts the website, Supabase stores purchase records and private book files, and Resend sends purchase and recovery emails. These providers process information as needed to operate these services. Hosted fonts may also involve requests to Google’s font services.
Newsletter subscriptions
When you choose to join our newsletter, your email address and consent record are stored by InterviewLeaf. Resend, our newsletter service provider, processes email confirmation, newsletter delivery and unsubscribe requests. We send GenAI educational content and ebook promotions, up to two emails daily. New website subscribers must confirm their email address before receiving the newsletter. You can unsubscribe using the link in any newsletter or contact us at books@interviewleaf.com.
Cookies and browser storage
Essential signed cookies maintain checkout sessions and recognise purchased books on your browser. Temporary browser storage helps retry interrupted payment confirmation. Clearing browser data may require reopening the access link in your purchase email. Admin sessions use an additional essential cookie.
A signed promotional cookie remembers your visitor offer and its expiry for up to 30 days. The offer lasts 15 minutes from when it is first issued; refreshing the page or receiving the final discount does not restart its countdown. Local browser storage remembers which offer popups have already been shown, so a popup you close does not reappear on refresh. These local storage records remain until you clear browser data.
Incomplete checkout
When you enter a valid email in book checkout and pause typing or leave the email field, or continue to course payment using your account, we save the email, selected product, checkout stage and time to help with incomplete purchases. After 30 minutes without activity, we check payment status and may notify our store operator of an incomplete checkout. This does not subscribe you to marketing emails. Checkout lead records are deleted after 30 days; purchase records follow the retention policy below.
Website analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand page visits, engagement and the checkout funnel: checkout opened, email entered (an event only), checkout submitted, payment checkout opened, failed attempts, closed checkout, incomplete checkout and confirmed purchases. Product names, product types, amounts, currencies and transaction identifiers may be included. Email addresses, form values, payment signatures and access tokens are never sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies and processes information such as pages viewed, browser and device information, and approximate location. We use campaign tags (source, medium, campaign, content, term, and campaign ID) and referring websites to understand whether visits come from newsletters, social networks, search, or direct visits. We exclude other URL query parameters, personal access links and form contents from our analytics tracking. Advertising personalisation is disabled. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Retention and your requests
Purchase and support records are retained as needed to provide access, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and meet applicable record-keeping obligations. You can contact us to request access, correction or deletion of personal information. Some records may need to be retained for legal or transaction purposes.
Instagram notes and PDF delivery
When you comment PDF on an InterviewLeaf notes post, we use the comment identifier, post identifier, comment time and delivery status to send the matching PDF link and prevent duplicate replies. Meta processes the Instagram interaction. Manychat currently provides some replies; our cloud integration uses Cloudflare, Vercel and Supabase to schedule posts and process delivery. We do not use this request to subscribe you to unrelated messages. Delivery records are kept while needed to operate the notes service and investigate delivery issues. To request deletion of these records, email books@interviewleaf.com with your Instagram username and the relevant post; do not send your password. Deleting our records does not delete messages or comments held by Instagram.
Keeping access private
Book downloads require purchase verification. Personal access and download links should not be shared. We do not sell your personal information. Published review information is visible to other website visitors.