Who we are
frcs.app is run by CIEL Ventures Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 13590557), which is the data controller for the personal data described here. You can reach us through the contact form; we reply by email.
Browsing this site
This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics or advertising trackers and loads nothing from third parties — fonts, scripts and 3D models are all served from frcs.app itself. Because nothing is stored on your device beyond the browser’s ordinary cache, there is no cookie banner.
Like any website, our hosting provider (Vercel Inc.) processes technical data — IP address, browser type, pages requested and errors — in server logs kept for security and reliability, for up to 90 days.
When you register interest or contact us
If you register interest in a specialty, we keep your name, email address, the specialty and, if you tell us, when you plan to sit the exam. We use them to send you one email when that specialty opens, and to count interest so we can decide what to build next. The lawful basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by asking us to delete your details.
If you send us a message, we keep your name, email address and message so we can reply and keep a record of the conversation (legitimate interests).
Both forms send your details directly to the system that runs our exam sites, where they appear in the same private inbox as messages sent from those sites. We keep interest registrations until we have sent the launch email for that specialty, and messages for as long as we need them to deal with your query; you can ask us to delete either sooner.
Who we share it with
We use a small number of processors, each bound by data-processing terms: our hosting provider (Vercel Inc., with servers that may be located in the EU and United States) and our database provider (Neon Inc., hosted in the EU — London region). Where data leaves the UK it is protected by the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. We do not sell personal data and we never share it with employers, deaneries or examining bodies.
Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to withdraw consent where we rely on it. To exercise any right, use the contact form. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
The exam sites
Accounts, learning data and payments are handled by each exam site under its own policy: mrcs.app/privacy, frcsgensurg.app/privacy, frcsplast.app/privacy, frcsorth.app/privacy.
Changes
We will post any changes here and update the date above.