Privacy Policy

Account data from Google sign-in: your name, email address, and profile image. We use this to create and identify your account.

Profile data you provide: the public username (handle) you choose, and any comments or questions you submit.

Usage data: which questions you open, mark as done, bookmark, or vote on, so we can show your progress and recommend what to study next. We also keep aggregate counts such as question views.

Optional product analytics: with analytics consent, we record browser events such as page visits, opening an answer, and starting checkout. We store these on our own server with a random identifier kept in your browser’s local storage. If you are signed in, events can also be linked to your account, so this is pseudonymous personal data. These events are off until you choose, and declining stops them. Account, purchase, learning-progress and security records that we need to provide the service are separate and are not affected by this choice.

Google Analytics: with analytics consent, Google collects usage information such as pages viewed, approximate location derived from IP, and device and browser type. Google Analytics does not load before you allow analytics, and our own optional analytics follows the same choice.

Google Ads: advertising is a separate optional choice. Where configured, the Google Ads tag loads only if you enable Advertising in Privacy choices. Allowing analytics alone does not authorize advertising storage, advertising user data or advertising personalization.

Payment data: when you buy access, our payment providers (Razorpay, PayPal) process the transaction. We receive a confirmation and a reference, the amount, and the access window. We do not receive or store your full card number or UPI credentials.

To provide the Service: authenticate you, unlock the content you are entitled to, save progress and bookmarks, and run discussions.

To operate and improve the product: understand which questions are useful, prevent abuse and fraud, and provide support.

To communicate with you about your account, purchases, or support requests. We do not sell your personal data.

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on: performance of a contract (to deliver access you purchased), legitimate interests (to secure and improve the Service), consent (where required, e.g. certain cookies), and legal obligation (e.g. tax records).

Where India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 applies, we process your personal data for the lawful purpose of providing the Service you have signed up for, with your consent given at sign-up.

Strictly necessary cookies are always on: we use them for authentication and session management (to keep you signed in) and to remember your theme preference. The site cannot function without them, so disabling them will prevent sign-in from working.

Optional tracking is off until you choose. Allow analytics turns on our own product analytics and Google Analytics; Decline optional leaves both analytics and advertising off; Customize lets you choose analytics and advertising separately. Refusing does not affect sign-in, purchases, content access or saved progress.

Privacy choices in the footer lets you review or withdraw your choice at any time. Changing an active Google choice refreshes open pages of this site so the running tags are unloaded. When you decline, we remove our analytics identifier and the accessible first-party Google measurement storage. Withdrawal stops future optional collection; it does not by itself erase records already collected, or cookies held on other websites. Contact us for a deletion request.

We remember your choice in an essential preference cookie for up to 180 days, and use a local-storage entry only to tell other open tabs. Our optional analytics identifier is created only after you allow analytics. A choice made on our earlier banner is treated carefully: an earlier Decline stays declined, and an earlier Accept is asked again, because that banner did not describe our own analytics.

Cloudflare provides content delivery and security for the site and has its own aggregate traffic measurement; Google sign-in and our payment providers also have their own functions. None of these is switched off by declining optional tracking.

Service providers who help us run the product: our hosting provider, Google (for authentication and, only with your consent, Google Analytics), and payment processors (Razorpay, PayPal). Each only receives what it needs for its function, and your use of Google Analytics data is also subject to Google's own policies. Our own product analytics stays on our hosting infrastructure; Google measurement and advertising are separate collections subject to Google’s policies.

If you submit a question and we publish it, the question text (and, if you were signed in, your public handle) may appear publicly on the site and in our open-source question repository. Do not include anything private or confidential in a submission or comment.

We may disclose data if required by law, or to protect our rights, users, or the Service.

We keep account data while your account is active. Payment records are kept as long as required for tax and accounting law. Published contributions may remain on the site after account closure, in line with the licence in our Terms. You can ask us to delete your account; we will remove personal data that we are not legally required to keep.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export your personal data, to withdraw consent, and to complain to a data-protection authority. To exercise any of these, contact us using the details below and we will respond within the time required by applicable law.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any unauthorized access to, alteration of, or loss of data that occurs despite our use of reasonable measures, and the limitation of liability in our Terms & Conditions applies to this Policy.

Our providers may process data in countries other than yours; where required we rely on appropriate safeguards for international transfers.

The Service is not intended for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

This Policy is governed by the laws of India, and the courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to it, subject to any mandatory data-protection or consumer rights that apply to you and cannot be waived.

We may update this policy; the “last updated” date reflects the latest version, and your continued use of the Service means you accept the current version.

For any privacy request or question, use the contact form on the site, email [email protected], or reach us at [email protected] for general enquiries.