Privacy ಖಾಸ್ಗಿಪಣ್ खाजगीपण

This page says what this site collects, what it stores, and who else sees anything. It was written by reading the site's own code rather than from a template, so where the answer is "nothing" it says nothing.

Reading the archive

You can read almost all of this site without giving us anything. There is no analytics, no tracking pixel and no social-media script on any page. The fonts are served from this site, not from a font service.

Cookies this site sets

Three, and only these three. All are needed for the site to work, and none of them is used to measure or advertise to you:

ashawadi_session – two hours. It remembers which script you are reading in, whether you are signed in, and the state of any form you are part-way through.
XSRF-TOKEN – two hours. A security token that stops another site submitting a form here in your name.
A sign-in cookie – one year, and set only if you sign in. It is what saves you signing in again on that device.

Your chosen reading size is kept in your own browser's local storage. It is never sent to us.

An older cookie named ashawadi_consent was used briefly for a cookie notice this site used to show itself. That notice has been replaced and the cookie is no longer used. If your browser still has one, this site deletes it the next time you visit.

Signing in to read a gated page

Some pages ask for an email address before the whole text is shown. There is no password. You type an address, we email a six digit code, and you type the code back.

We store your email address, when you confirmed it, when you were last here, how many times you have signed in, and which page you signed in from. While a code is live we also store the address it went to, a one-way hash of the code, when it expires, how many times it has been tried, and the internet address the request came from. The code and its record are discarded once used or expired.

Every email we send carries a link that both stops the emails and lets you ask to be removed. Removal is done by a person, not a machine, and everything held about you is deleted.

The contact form and the feedback form

Both store what you type – your name, your email address, a phone number if you give one, the subject, and your message – together with the internet address you sent it from, and both send him a copy by email. The phone number is optional and everything else is what he needs in order to reply. Nothing from these forms is used for anything but replying to you.

Videos

Where a page shows a video, what loads with the page is a still picture and a play button, not a player. The picture comes from a Google server (i.ytimg.com), so Google can see that a browser at your internet address asked for that picture. It sets no YouTube cookie.

If you press play, and only then, a YouTube player loads from youtube-nocookie.com. From that moment YouTube receives your internet address, information about your browser, and which video you are watching, under Google's privacy policy rather than this one. Nothing loads it for you.

Advertising, and who asks you about it

There is no advertising on this site today. If that changes, it will be Google AdSense, in three places: below the sidebar, above the footer, and at the end of an article. It will never appear inside the text of a piece.

The question is asked by Google, not by us. This site uses Google's certified consent management platform, so the message you see, its wording and its choices are Google's. It appears through the advertising script itself, which means that script is loaded before you answer – but no advertising cookie is set, and no advertisement chosen from anything known about you is shown, until you have answered it.

If you consent, Google and its partners may set cookies or read a device identifier in order to choose which advertisements to show you and to count who saw them, and may use what they already know about your browsing on other sites to do it. Those cookies are Google's, set on Google's own web addresses, and this site cannot read them. It is described in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

If you do not consent, you get the whole site, working exactly as it does now: everything readable, search working, signing in working, and nothing withheld from you for refusing. You may still see advertisements, but they are chosen from the page you are on rather than from anything about you.

Measurement

There is none. No analytics runs on this site. Should any ever be added, this site tells Google in advance, on every page, that measurement storage is refused until its consent message says otherwise – so it could not begin measuring you before you had been asked.

Changing your mind

The record of your answer is Google's, so the way back is Google's too. Google's message offers its own way to reopen it and change what you chose; where a privacy or advertising options link appears with an advertisement, that is it.

Whatever you choose there, this site can neither read nor delete the cookies Google has already set: they belong to Google's own web addresses. To remove those, use your browser's setting for clearing site data, or Google's own controls at My Ad Center. Any button here claiming to delete them would be making a promise this site cannot keep.

What the server keeps

The web host records ordinary access logs – the page asked for, the time, the internet address and the browser – as every web server does. The site's own error log records what went wrong when something goes wrong. Neither is used to build a picture of a reader, and neither is given to anybody.

What we never do

We do not sell or rent anything about you. We do not share your address with any other organisation. We do not use it for anything you did not ask for. There is no mailing list.

Asking what is held, or asking for it to be deleted

Write to him through the contact form, or follow the removal link in any email from this site. He will answer, and a deletion is a deletion.