Privacy
Last updated 1 November 2026
In short: you can walk the street, pick a city and watch Gaju without signing in. When you sign in, Virasat keeps your name, email and profile photo, plus your stamps, scores and points, so they follow you to any device. We never see your Google password, we show no ads, and we sell nothing. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time.
Who runs Virasat
Virasat is a small learning website about the heritage of Indian cities, made by Jatin Mangal and a student team. For anything about your data, write to jatinmangal001@gmail.com.
What we keep when you sign in
- With Google: your name, email address, profile photo, and the account number Google gives us for this site. Google checks your password; we only receive a signed note from Google saying who you are. We ask for nothing else from your Google account.
- With email and password: your name, email address, and your password in scrambled form (a one-way hash), so even we cannot read it.
- Joining a class with a code: only the nickname you type. No email or phone number is needed.
- When your account was made and when you last signed in.
What we keep while you learn
- Which cities you opened and which parts you read.
- Your quiz answers' scores, your stamps and how well inked they are, and your points.
- Which classes you joined. Your teacher sees your nickname, stamps and scores for their class.
We use this only to run the site for you: your passport, your stamps, and your class.
Cookies and your browser
- One cookie keeps you signed in. Page scripts cannot read it, it is only sent over a secure connection, and it ends after 30 days or when you log out.
- Your browser also remembers which cities you have already seen and whether night mode is on. That stays on your device and is never sent to us.
- We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, and we do not run any analytics.
Who else handles it
A few services help run the site. They handle data only to do that job for us:
- Neon stores the database, in Singapore.
- Vercel hosts the website, also in Singapore. Like any web host, it keeps short-lived server logs that include your IP address.
- Google handles "Sign in with Google" and serves the fonts.
- Cloudinary serves the city photos and artwork.
We do not sell or share your data with anyone else.
How long we keep it
Until you delete your account. If you are part of the editing team, the facts you wrote or checked stay on the site after you leave, without your name.
Deleting your data, or seeing what we have
- Do it yourself: sign in, open My passport, and press Delete my account. Your account, progress, stamps, scores, points and class places are deleted straight away.
- Or write to us at jatinmangal001@gmail.com from the email you signed in with. We can delete your account, tell you what we hold about you, or correct it. We reply within 7 days.
- If you signed in with Google, you can also remove Virasat's access from your Google account settings, under "Third-party apps and services".
Children
Many of our learners are school students. If you are under 18, please ask a parent, guardian or teacher before you sign in. Joining a class with a code needs only a nickname. A parent or teacher can ask us to delete a child's account by writing to the address above.
Changes
If we change what we keep, we will update this page and the date at the top.
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