Plain-language privacy information

What we collect and what we deliberately do not

The study is designed to minimise personal data. Unfinished answers can be recovered in the same tab or from this browser for up to 24 hours and are not written to our server.

Unfinished drafts

We keep a same-tab draft in session storage and a 24-hour recovery draft in local storage. The recovery draft contains study answers and progress, but never optional name, contact value, or availability. If you return after reaching the contact step, you must enter those details again. Expired drafts are ignored and removed when the study next opens.

Study answers

On submission, we store age band, optional gender, city and state, broad work/study and living context, communication patterns, product reactions, and pricing choices. We do not ask for exact birth date, street address, employer, college, income, medical history, or private conversation details.

Optional contact information

If you opt in to a follow-up, the contact value and name are encrypted and stored separately from the analysis view. Researchers analysing response patterns do not need access to it.

Security and service providers

The website is hosted on Vercel. Data is stored in a Neon Postgres project selected in Singapore, the closest currently available Neon region to India. We use same-origin checks, a hidden bot field, request limits, encryption, and deletion tokens to protect the study. We do not use ad pixels or session replay.

Minimal technical events

After consent, we may record that a random browser session reached a study step, encountered a validation error, or submitted successfully. These events never include answer values or contact details and expire after 30 days.

Website analytics

Basic Google Analytics starts automatically when it is configured for this site. It can receive the selected page visited, referrer, approximate location, and basic browser or device information. We do not send survey answers, contact details, deletion activity, under-18 exits, or completion status, and advertising storage, Google Signals, and personalisation stay disabled. Anyone can turn analytics off using “Analytics choices” in the footer; the choice is remembered in this browser and turning analytics off also removes this site's Google Analytics cookies.

Retention

Each response receives an expiry date configured for the study. Expired responses, related consent records, and contacts are deleted automatically. Backup copies may persist only for the infrastructure provider's documented backup-retention period.

Deletion

Use your response code and secret deletion token on the deletion page. The token is shown only after submission and is not stored in readable form on our server.

Questions or access requests

Email hi@siddhantkhare.com. Do not send your private story or deletion token by email.