Privacy
Last updated 20 October 2026.
Mintnib is operated by Lucas Rey, a sole trader, who is the data controller for this website. Contact: hello@mintnib.com.
This website
These pages are plain pages. They set no cookies, run no tracking script, carry no tracking pixels and ask you for nothing. There is no sign up form and no contact form on these pages. The one form Mintnib runs is the mock interview enquiry on book.mintnib.com, and the section below says exactly what it collects.
Like any website, the server that serves these pages keeps an access log: the address your request came from, the page asked for, the time, and the browser you used. That log exists so the site can be kept running and defended against abuse. The hosting account keeps it for the current and the previous calendar month, and older months are deleted; it is not used to build any profile of you. Once a day the log is also counted into totals, such as how many times each page was read, how many times each Start free link was followed, which sites sent visitors here, and how many visitors used a phone, a tablet or a computer; those totals keep no address and nothing that could identify a browser or a person. Every 15 minutes the page reads and Start free clicks in that log are also sent to Google Analytics as anonymous events, where Google's privacy policy applies: for each one, the page's address without anything after a question mark, the name of the site that linked here, and the quarter hour it happened in. No cookie is set, and no address, browser details or identifier leave the server: each event carries a new random number, so no two events can be linked to the same visitor.
If you ask about a mock interview
The enquiry form lives on book.mintnib.com, which is run by the same person as these pages. Nothing is booked or paid for on it: you send an enquiry and get a reply by email within two working days.
It asks for the course you are applying for, the universities and colleges you have in mind, the days and times that suit you, your email address, and whether you are 18 or over. If you are under 18 it asks for a parent or guardian email as well, and the reply is copied to them. It does not ask for your name, your address, your school or your grades, and it takes no payment details, because none of those are needed to arrange a practice interview.
Alongside your answers, the enquiry records when you confirmed that you had read how your details are used, when you sent it, when it was last changed, where your enquiry stands while it is being dealt with, whether a hidden field meant for automated submissions was filled in, a note that someone may add while handling it, and when the reply was sent.
Your connection's address is not kept. To stop one connection flooding the form it is turned into a keyed hash, which cannot be worked back to the address without a secret held on the server. That hash stops being usable after an hour and is deleted within a day.
The form sets two cookies, both of them only for the form itself. One, __Host-mnbook, lets the page tell a genuine submission from an automated one. The other holds the session for that one page: it carries an encrypted token proving the form was really loaded before it was sent, and, if a submission is refused, an encrypted copy of what you typed so that you do not have to type it again. Both are readable only by this site, only over HTTPS, and not by any script. Neither is an analytics or an advertising cookie and neither is shared.
Your details are used only to answer the enquiry and arrange the interview, which is also the basis on which they are held: you asked for something, and they are what it takes to reply. They are kept for 12 months and then deleted, they are never added to a mailing list, and they are not shared with anyone except Brevo, the service that delivers the emails. Brevo counts how many of its emails are opened and how many links in them are clicked, and the account is set so those counts are not linked to the person who opened them. Your email program can stop the open count by not loading images. You can ask for your details to be deleted sooner, at any time, by writing to hello@mintnib.com.
If you create a practice account
The practice itself runs on lucasrey.com, operated by the same person. When you follow a Start free link, you leave this site and your account is created there. What is collected, why, how long it is kept and how to have it deleted is set out in the privacy policy on lucasrey.com, which governs your account, your answers and your results.
In short, and without replacing that policy: an account holds your email address, your password as a hash or the identifier of the Google or Apple account you signed in with, the questions you answered and what you answered, and the devices you have signed in on. Your answers are used to show you your own progress and, combined with everyone else's and never identifying you, to publish which topics students find hardest.
How we learn from use
Learn from how students practise: we learn from how the practice questions and the app are used, only in aggregate. Names and contact details play no part: the practice data is counted without them. We only ever look at counts across several students, never at one person (legitimate interest).
Notes our tutor writes about lessons, booked directly or through an agency, are included on the same terms: names are removed first by a script on our own computer, they are kept for up to three years, they are used only in aggregate, and nothing from them is used in anything sent to an agency's clients.
If you ask for a free pass
Free passes you ask for yourself. If you ask for a free ESAT pass on the pass page, we keep the email address and the school or college you type, the version of the scheme's terms in force, the code we send you, and the date of any email we send about your request. We use them to send your code, or the date by which it will come, and to make sure each student gets one free pass per exam each admissions year. Whatever we find about your address, the page shows the same answer; what happens is emailed only to the address you gave. These emails are sent by our email service, Brevo, or by our own mail server. We never ask which scheme you are on, why you are asking, or for any document, and we never contact your school. Your email address and school are deleted when the admissions year ends (after 31 August), once any request still waiting has been granted. To stop one network sending many requests, we count requests per network for one day; that count is not kept with your request and lapses within the day. To stop one browser sending many, we set one small first-party cookie when a request is accepted; it lasts 30 days and holds nothing about you.
Brevo counts how many of its emails are opened and how many links in them are clicked, and the account is set so those counts are not linked to the person who opened them.
They are held because you asked for a free pass, and they are what it takes to answer you (steps you asked us to take) and to keep the scheme to one free pass per student per exam (legitimate interest).
If you write to hello@mintnib.com, your message and address are kept so the conversation can be answered and so there is a record of what was agreed. Nothing is added to a mailing list because you wrote.
If you write to us about writing work and no work follows, we delete your email and anything you sent within 12 months. If work follows, we keep them as the record of what was agreed for six years after the work ends, then delete them.
Your rights
You may ask for a copy of the data held about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to its use. Write to hello@mintnib.com and it will be answered within one month. If the answer does not satisfy you, you may complain to the data protection authority where you live.
Changes
If this notice changes, the date at the top changes with it, and material changes are explained rather than slipped in.
20 October 2026: we added how long we keep emails about writing work (see Email): 12 months if no work follows, six years from the end of the work if it does.
