Privacy
This site holds sensitive personal data — date of birth, caste category and disability status — because eligibility cannot be answered without it. That is a reason to be careful with it, not a reason to keep more.
What is stored, and why
Nothing below is collected unless you sign in and enter it. Reading the site requires no account and stores nothing about you.
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | It is how you sign in — there is no password — and where alerts are sent. | Until you delete the account. |
| Date of birth, category, disability and ex-serviceman status | Age limits and relaxations are the whole of the eligibility answer. Without these the engine can only say "unknown". | Until you delete the account, or clear the fields yourself. |
| Qualifications, subjects, marks and experience | Matched against each post to decide which ones you can actually apply for. | Until you delete the account. |
| Jobs you track, exams you follow, alert settings | They are the feature. | Until you delete the account. |
| A record of emails sent to you | So the same alert is never sent twice, and so delivery failures are visible rather than silent. | Kept without your address after deletion, as a delivery statistic. |
| The IP address a sign-in link or an import was requested from | To count requests against a per-address ceiling, so nobody can flood it. | Erased after 90 days, whether or not you delete the account. |
| A server log line for each request: the page, the time, the status, the browser or crawler name, and a shortened form of the address | To see which search engines are reading the site and to find errors that only happen to some visitors. Signing in is not required for this and it is written whether you have an account or not. | The address is cut short before it is written — 139.5.254.228 is recorded as 139.5.254.0 — so it identifies a network, not a household. Cookies and authorisation headers are dropped and never reach the log. Kept on a rolling buffer of about 50 MB and overwritten oldest-first. |
Deleting your account
From your profile, at any time, without asking anyone. It takes effect immediately and cannot be undone. Exactly this happens:
- Profile: date of birth, category, disability, qualifications, experienceErased
- Matches calculated from your profileErased
- Tracked jobs, follows, saved tag sets, alert settingsErased
- Sessions and sign-in linksErased first, so nothing can act as you
- Emails not yet sentErased, so none can leave afterwards
- Emails already sentKept as a count, without your address or their contents
- Anything you published on the siteKept, with your name removed
- Records of administrative actionsKept, naming nobody
- Your account rowEmptied and marked deleted; the address becomes free again
Two of those are worth explaining. An article stays because it is the site’s work, and removing it would take away something other readers rely on; only the byline goes. A record of administrative actions stays because deleting the trail is what somebody covering their tracks would want — the row it points at no longer names anyone.
Who else sees it
Your profile is not sold, shared or used for advertising. Email is handed to a delivery provider, which is the only way an email reaches you. The crawler that reads public notification pages sends no information about any reader.
This site uses Google Analytics to see which pages people find useful and which searches bring them here. It is loaded with storage switched off until you agree: before that, nothing is written to your device and no identifier is kept, though the page does report a view to Google without one. If you press Allow on the notice at the foot of the page, Google Analytics sets its own cookies and can then recognise a return visit. If you press No thanks, it does not.
Your choice is remembered in your browser, not in an account, so it is per-device and clearing site data asks again. We do not run advertising tags, and Google Analytics here is configured with advertising features and ad personalisation refused outright — not merely left unasked.
One exception, on the few pages that carry one: an article may embed a YouTube video. The player is loaded from youtube-nocookie.com, which does not set advertising cookies until you press play — but loading the frame at all tells Google your address and which browser you are using. The frame is deferred until it comes into view, so a video further down a page you never scroll to is never requested.
Asking about your data
You can see everything held about you on your profile and your dashboard. For anything else, including a copy of it, write to the address on the contact page.