Privacy notice
This notice explains what personal data Exam Dominance collects when you use examdominance.com, why, who it is shared with, how long it is kept and the choices you have.
Who we are
Exam Dominance is a USMLE question bank based in Egypt (“we”, “us”). We decide how your personal data is used. For any question about your data, or to use any of your rights below, write to contact@examdominance.com.
What we collect
| When | What |
|---|---|
| You create an account | Your name, email address and password. The password is stored only as a one-way hash; nobody, including us, can read it. |
| You answer the sign-up questions | What you use the bank for, whether and when you plan to sit USMLE Step 1, your stage of training and your country. |
| You agree to the Terms of Use | That you agreed, and when. The terms include receiving our messages (their section 5). |
| You arrive from an advert or another site | The campaign name in the link you followed (for example “facebook / step1-oct”), or the address of the site that sent you. |
| You study | The blocks you create, your answers, time per question, scores, marked questions, notes, highlights, drawings and any question reports you send. |
| You sign in or use the site | Your IP address and browser details, to protect accounts and the question bank from misuse (see “Security” below). |
We do not ask for payment details, and we do not use analytics, advertising pixels or tracking cookies on this site.
Why we use it
- To run your account and the question bank: signing you in, your daily allowance, your progress and your dashboard. We need this to provide the service you signed up for.
- To keep accounts and content safe: limiting sign-in and sign-up attempts, spotting shared accounts and automated copying of questions. This is in our legitimate interest and yours.
- To send you news and offers, as you agreed in the Terms of Use: about Exam Dominance and partner USMLE courses, by email and through online advertising (see below). Your sign-up answers help us send you offers that suit where you are in your preparation. You can ask us to stop at any time.
- To understand which adverts work: the campaign you arrived from tells us which adverts bring students.
Advertising on other services
As set out in the Terms of Use, we may show you adverts for Exam Dominance and partner USMLE courses on services such as Facebook, Instagram, Google and YouTube. To do this we upload a list to Meta or Google in which your email address has first been converted into a hash, an irreversible code. The service compares the codes with its own users so the advert reaches you, and then discards the codes that do not match. We may include your country with the list. We never sell your data, and we do not share your study records with anyone.
If you ask us to stop our messages, you are taken off these lists and never included again.
Who else handles your data
- Hostinger hosts the website, the database and our email, in its data centres.
- Meta and Google receive hashed email lists as described above, never for students who asked us to stop.
Both may process data outside Egypt. Where the law requires, we rely on the safeguards these providers offer for such transfers.
Security
The site uses encrypted connections (HTTPS). To protect accounts, we record failed sign-in and sign-up attempts with the IP address; these records are deleted after one day. To detect shared accounts we keep a short history of the networks and browsers each account signs in from, stored only in a scrambled (hashed) form and kept for one day. A single session cookie keeps you signed in; it is needed for the site to work. Your light or dark theme choice is stored in your own browser.
How long we keep it
- Your account, answers and progress: for as long as you have an account. When an account is deleted, its study records, notes and sign-up answers are deleted with it. We keep a short record that the account was deleted (name, email and date) so we can show the deletion was done, and any question error reports you sent stay without your name attached.
- A sign-up that is never confirmed is unusable; its confirmation link expires after 48 hours.
- Your place on our message lists: until you ask us to stop, or until your account is deleted.
Your choices and rights
You can ask us at any time to:
- show you the personal data we hold about you, or send you a copy;
- correct it;
- delete your account and its data;
- stop sending you offers and remove you from advertising lists. This does not affect your account.
Write to contact@examdominance.com from the email address on your account and we will reply within 30 days. You may also complain to the data protection authority where you live; in Egypt, the Personal Data Protection Center.
These rights follow Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Law (No. 151 of 2020) and, for users in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the GDPR.
Children
Exam Dominance is for medical students and graduates. It is not meant for anyone under 18.
Changes to this notice
If we change how we use your data, we will update this page and its date. If a change affects what you agreed to, we will ask you again.