Terms of use and sale
Last updated 1 October 2026
1. Who we are
ielts.bot is run by Nick Rogerson, a sole trader in the United Kingdom. You can reach us at admin@ielts.bot. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean Nick Rogerson, and “you” means the person using the site.
2. What ielts.bot is
- IELTS practice: free Listening and Reading practice tests, and marking of Writing and Speaking practice by computer.
- The marks are estimates. A computer gives them, guided by the public IELTS band descriptors. They are not official IELTS scores, and an examiner may give a different band. Use them to practise, not to predict your result.
- We are not part of IELTS. We have no connection with the British Council, IDP or Cambridge University Press & Assessment, who own the IELTS test. “IELTS” is their trade mark.
3. Your account
- One account is for one person. Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you are responsible for what is done with your account.
- We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, for example by sharing a pass with a class, copying the site's content with automated tools, or trying to get round its limits.
- If we close your account for no fault of yours, we will refund the unused part of any pass.
4. What is free
- Listening and Reading practice tests.
- Your first Writing essay, marked in full.
- Anything else the site marks as free.
5. Writing passes
- While a pass runs, you can send as many essays as you like for marking, up to 10 a day.
- A pass lasts a week (7 days), a month (30 days) or three months (90 days), starting when you pay. If you buy a pass while one is running, the new days are added to the end of the old one.
- Nothing renews. You pay once. A pass is not a subscription and never charges you again.
- After your free essay, if no pass is running, an essay you send is still marked, but the result is kept for you until you buy a pass. Up to three can wait at once.
- Prices depend on the country we detect for your account. They are shown in your currency before you pay, and you pay the price the checkout shows. Payments are taken by Stripe; we never see your card details.
6. Codes for teachers and schools
- Teachers and schools can buy from 5 to 100 codes in one payment, at 20% off the pass price.
- Each code gives one pass to one learner, who types it in to start it. A code can be used only once.
- A code must be used within one year of purchase. After that it expires.
- You are responsible for passing codes on to your learners.
7. Refunds
We do not guarantee refunds. If you have a problem with a purchase, email admin@ielts.bot within one month of buying, saying what went wrong. We look at each request on its own and decide.
This does not affect your legal rights as a consumer.
8. Using the site fairly
You agree not to:
- share an account or a pass with anyone else;
- use automated tools to send essays, or to copy the site's tests, questions, recordings or marking;
- send work that is not yours without the author's permission, or anything unlawful or abusive;
- try to get round the site's limits or its security.
The site's tests, questions, recordings and feedback are ours or our licensors'. You may use them for your own practice, not copy them for others or for sale.
9. What you send us
You keep the rights to what you write and record. You give us permission to use it to mark it, to run and improve the site, and as our privacy policy explains, including sharing it with our AI provider, which may use it to train its models.
10. Keeping the site running
We try to keep the site working, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of mistakes. We may change or withdraw features. If we withdraw something you have paid for while your pass is running, we will refund the unused part.
11. Our responsibility to you
- Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility where the law says it cannot be limited. That includes your rights as a consumer and death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
- We are not responsible for your official IELTS result, or for decisions you make based on our marks.
- Otherwise, our total responsibility to you is limited to what you have paid us in the 12 months before the problem.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. Each purchase stays under the terms in force when you made it. The date of the latest change is at the top of this page.
13. The law that applies
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you can bring a claim in the courts where you live, and you keep any protection your own country's law gives you.