Most privacy policies are written to protect the website, not to inform the visitor. Ours is different. We wrote this page because we genuinely believe anyone who spends time on eshikshaakosh.com deserves to know exactly what happens with their information — clearly, honestly, and without hiding anything behind complicated language.
Take a few minutes to read through this. It covers everything.
1. Who We Are and Why That Matters Here
eshikshaakosh.com is an independent informational website. We research and write practical guides to help teachers, headmasters, and school staff across Bihar navigate the official E-Shikshakosh portal at eshikshakosh.bihar.gov.in. We have no government affiliation, no official data access, and no connection to BEPC or the Bihar Education Department.
We mention this upfront because it shapes everything about how privacy works on this site. We are a content website — not a service platform, not a government portal, not a data collection business. The information considerations here are those of a standard informational website run by a small independent team that cares about doing things properly.
2. What Information We Collect
There are two distinct categories of information that come into picture when you visit this site. They work very differently, so we have separated them clearly.
Information You Choose to Share
The only moment you actively share information with us is when you write to us through our Contact page. In that case, you typically provide your name, your email address, and the message you have written.
That is all we ask for. We do not request your phone number, your Teacher ID, your Aadhaar number, your school’s UDISE code, or any other sensitive detail. If you include such information in your message out of habit, we want to be clear — we are not a government system and we have no secure infrastructure for handling official credentials. Please do not share those with us.
Whatever you send through the contact form is used for one purpose only: to understand your query and reply to it. It is not forwarded to third parties, not stored in marketing databases, and not used to send you anything you did not ask for.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit any page on this website, certain basic technical data is exchanged automatically between your browser and our servers. This is not unique to our site — it is how the internet works for every website you visit.
This automatically collected data typically includes the type of device and browser you are using, your approximate geographic region at a country or state level, which pages you visited and roughly how long you spent on them, and whether you arrived via a search engine, a direct link, or another website. This information does not identify you personally in any way. We cannot connect it to your name, your school, or your profession. We see patterns across thousands of visits — not details about any individual person.
We use this anonymous, aggregated data to understand which of our guides are genuinely useful, which pages are confusing or getting high exit rates, and where we need to put more work. It helps us make better content decisions.
3. Cookies
This website uses cookies, and we want to explain that honestly rather than burying it in a footnote.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Different cookies serve different purposes, and on eshikshaakosh.com there are three types operating.
The first are functional cookies placed by the website itself. These handle basic session behaviour — things like page load preferences and interface stability. They are not tracking your identity.
The second are analytics cookies, primarily through Google Analytics. These help us understand aggregate visitor behaviour — which articles attract the most readers, how people move through the site, and where visitors are coming from geographically. Everything this service collects is anonymous. Google’s own privacy framework governs how they store and process this data, and their full policy is available at google.com/policies/privacy.
The third are advertising cookies placed by third-party ad networks whose advertisements appear on this site. These cookies may observe browsing behaviour across multiple websites to determine which ads are relevant to a particular visitor. We do not control this process — it is governed entirely by the respective ad network’s privacy policy. If you prefer not to receive interest-based advertising, Google’s Ad Settings at adssettings.google.com allow you to manage those preferences.
You can also manage or disable cookies directly through your browser settings. Most modern browsers — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge — have straightforward options for this under their privacy or security settings. Disabling cookies entirely may affect how certain website features behave, but it will not prevent you from reading our content.
4. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
eshikshaakosh.com displays advertisements to support the cost of maintaining and growing this website. Without this, keeping the content free and regularly updated would not be sustainable for a small independent team.
These advertisements are served through Google AdSense and potentially other third-party advertising networks. Here is what that means in practical terms.
Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar tracking technologies to serve advertisements. These ads may be personalised based on your browsing history and general interests, or they may be non-personalised contextual ads based simply on what page you are reading. This personalisation happens within Google’s advertising infrastructure — we do not see your personal data and we do not make decisions about which specific ads appear to whom.
The advertisements that appear on this site are selected programmatically. We do not personally endorse any product, service, or company whose advertisement appears here. The presence of an ad on our site is not a recommendation from us.
For visitors in regions covered by specific data protection laws — including users who may be accessing this site through international networks — Google’s advertising systems have their own compliance mechanisms in place. You can review Google’s advertising privacy practices in full at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
5. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how this website is being used. This is a widely used web analytics service that generates statistical and other information about website usage through cookies placed on users’ devices.
The reports this produces tell us things like how many people visited a particular article in a given week, which device types are most common among our readers, and which search queries are bringing people to our site. All of this is in aggregate form. We cannot and do not identify individual users through Google Analytics.
If you prefer to opt out of Google Analytics tracking entirely, Google offers a free browser add-on for this purpose at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Installing it prevents Google Analytics from collecting data about your visits across any website that uses the service.
6. Children’s Privacy
This website is intended for adults — specifically teachers, school administrative staff, and education professionals working within the Bihar school system.
We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. Our content is not directed at children, and our contact form is not meant for use by minors. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has somehow submitted personal information to us through this website, please contact us immediately and we will delete it without delay.
7. Data Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect any information that passes through this website. Our site operates over HTTPS, which encrypts data exchanged between your browser and our servers. Contact form submissions are handled with care and are not left in unsecured storage.
That said, we want to be honest about one thing: no website can guarantee absolute security. The internet itself is not a fully secure environment. We do everything practical within our means as a small independent website, but we cannot make promises about security that even large organisations with dedicated security teams cannot fully make.
What we can say is that we collect very little personal information to begin with — and the less you collect, the less there is to protect.
8. Third-Party Links
Our articles frequently link to the official E-Shikshakosh portal, government resources, the Google Play Store, and occasionally other relevant websites. These links are there to direct you to the right official place — that is part of our purpose.
Once you follow a link and leave eshikshaakosh.com, you are on a website that operates under its own privacy policy. We have no control over what those sites collect, how they store data, or what their privacy practices are. We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any external site you visit, particularly if you are logging in or submitting personal information there.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. This could happen if we introduce new features to the website, if the advertising or analytics tools we use change, or if relevant laws and guidelines evolve.
When we update this policy, the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page will reflect the change. We will not notify you individually of updates — so if this is something you want to stay current on, bookmarking this page and checking it occasionally is the simplest approach.
Continuing to use eshikshaakosh.com after an update to this policy means you accept the revised version.
10. Your Rights Over Your Information
If you have contacted us through our contact form and want to know what information we have stored from that interaction, you are welcome to ask. If you want us to delete it, we will. There is no complicated process for this — just write to us and we will handle it promptly.
We do not hold large databases of user information. Most of what we could have about any individual is a name, an email address, and the content of a message they sent us voluntarily. That is the extent of it.
11. Contact
If anything in this Privacy Policy is unclear, if you have a concern about how your information is being handled, or if you want to make a request regarding personal data — please reach out through our Contact page.
We are a real team and we respond to real messages. Privacy concerns are taken seriously and handled promptly.