Privacy

• What you type in the contact form stays on your device until you press Send. Until then I only get rough labels, never your words.
• Tools from Google, Meta and Microsoft run only if you say yes, and only for what you allow. Change your mind any time with Privacy choices at the bottom of every page.
• The site also keeps its own anonymous count of visits: no cookie, nothing that identifies you.
• I don't sell your data.

When you first visit, a card asks how much this site may measure. None of the tools further down loads until you choose, and each loads only for what you allowed:

• Essential only: none of them.
• Analytics, no ads: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.
• Accept all: also the Meta Pixel and Google Ads.

“Choose in detail” lets you switch each one, and the anonymous count, on or off. Your choice is saved in your browser for 12 months, then you're asked again. Change it any time with Privacy choices at the bottom of every page: anything you take back stops at once, and the cookies it set on this site are deleted. Withdrawing is as easy as agreeing.

This site counts its own visits, for everyone, without cookies. Each page you open adds 1 to a daily total, and so do a few moments in your visit: opening a second page, staying 10 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute or three, reading half or most of a page, each tap on Start a project, WhatsApp, call, email, LinkedIn or the form, and how quickly the page loaded and responded for you. Each total is kept with the page, the tags of the link you arrived through (for one of my ads: the campaign, the ad, the ad set or search keyword, and where it was shown), the name of the site that sent you, your country and state, and whether you're on a phone or a laptop and which system it runs.

Your location and device are worked out from your visit; the IP address and browser details they come from aren't kept, and the count never reads the click IDs that ad networks add to links. Your visit is remembered only while the page is open, so a reload counts as a new visit. No cookie, nothing stored on your device and no ID, so the totals can't be traced back to you.

The choices people make on the card are counted the same way, so I know how the card is working. Visits from data centres, like ad networks' review robots, are marked and left out of my readouts. The totals are kept in a Cloudflare database for this site. You can switch the count off in Privacy choices.

Your draft. What you type is saved in your own browser, so it's still there if you leave and come back. It doesn't leave your device from there. It's removed when you send the message, when you press Clear draft, or after 14 days. On a shared device, clear it.

Rough labels. Your browser reads your draft and works out a few broad labels. If you've allowed analytics, it sends only those to Google Analytics, when you leave the page or send the message:

• a budget range if you mention one (up to ₹25,000, ₹25,000 to ₹1 lakh, ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh, or above ₹5 lakh), or that you said it's low
• whether it reads like someone looking for a job
• up to two kinds of project, such as a store, an app or ads
• roughly how much you wrote
• whether you filled in a name, and whether your email looks like a personal or a work address

The labels never contain your words, your name or your address. They're automatic guesses and can be wrong. I use them to understand who comes to this site and what they need, including people who decide not to write.

The bot check. Cloudflare Turnstile checks that you're a person, and needs some technical details from your browser to do it. Cloudflare says it doesn't read form entries. See its Turnstile privacy addendum.

I receive your name, your email address, the option you picked, your message and, on the store review form, your store's link. I also get the time, the country you sent it from, and how your visit arrived: the page you landed on, the campaign tags of the link you came through, and the name of the site that sent you. The note under Send says so.

The form goes through a Cloudflare service, which holds your message until it reaches my inbox and then deletes its copy. If delivery keeps failing, it keeps the copy until I deal with it. The email then stays in my inbox, hosted by Google Workspace, for as long as I need it to reply and keep a record of the conversation. Ask me and I'll delete it.

I use it to reply to you, and to see which pages and links bring enquiries. If you've allowed them, the site also tells Google Analytics, Meta and Clarity that a message was sent and which option you picked, not what it says. If you came from one of my ads, the form also asks whether Meta and Google may count your enquiry for that ad: see counting an enquiry for an ad.

If you came to this site from one of my ads and your message is about work, a box above Send asks whether Meta and Google may count your enquiry for that ad. It stays off unless you tick it, and leaving it off changes nothing about my reply.

If you tick it:

• Meta receives, from the Cloudflare service behind the form, a scrambled (SHA-256) copy of your email address, the ad's click code from the link you arrived through, your browser details (the browser, its version and your device's system), and the page and time of the enquiry. Not your name or your message.
• For Google, the click code from your link reaches me with your message. If the enquiry turns into paid work, I upload that code, the time and what the work is worth to Google Ads, within 90 days of your click. Your email address doesn't go to Google.

This lets their reports show which of my ads bring enquiries, so I can stop paying for the ones that don't. Meta and Google use what they receive under their own privacy policies: Meta's and Google's.

The form keeps the click code from your link only in the page's memory, and sends it only if you tick the box. The anonymous count never reads it. Changed your mind after sending? Email me at hello@smithmankar.co.in and I won't upload anything to Google for your enquiry. What has already reached Meta I can't call back, but Meta's own privacy tools apply to it.

If you tap WhatsApp, your WhatsApp app opens with a first message already typed, which names the page you were on. Nothing is sent until you press Send. WhatsApp, part of Meta, carries the chat under its own terms and privacy policy. I see your number, the name on your WhatsApp profile and what you send. The chat stays on my phone, in WhatsApp Business, and in its backup on Apple iCloud, for as long as I need it to reply and keep a record of the conversation. Ask me and I'll delete it.

If you call, I see your number, and my phone keeps it in its call history.

The site only counts the tap itself, that you tapped WhatsApp or call and where on the page, in its anonymous count and in the tools below if you've allowed them. Never what you write.

These load only if you allow them (see your choices about measurement), and then use cookies or similar storage. Third parties, including Google, Meta and Microsoft, may use cookies, web beacons and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from this site and elsewhere on the internet, and use it to provide measurement and to target ads.

• Google Analytics, if you allow analytics, sees the pages you open, the links and buttons you press, how far you read, text you copy from the page (not from form fields), page speed and errors, your device and browser, your rough location, and the site or ad that brought you here. It's kept for up to 14 months. Read how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
• Google Ads, if you allow ads, measures whether a click on one of my ads led to a message.
• Meta Pixel, if you allow ads, sees the pages and projects you view, when you tap a way to reach me (email, WhatsApp, a call, LinkedIn or GitHub), that a message was sent, and whether you picked the job seeker option. I use it to measure my ads and to decide who sees them. Its automatic matching, which would read form fields, is switched off.
• Microsoft Clarity, if you allow recordings, makes recordings of how the page is used, such as scrolling and tapping, and heatmaps, which I use to improve the site. Form fields are masked, so it doesn't record what you type. Recordings are kept for 30 days and heatmaps for 9 months. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
• GitHub Pages and Cloudflare host the site, its address and the form. Like any host, they may log your IP address and browser.

• Instead of the form, you can email me at hello@smithmankar.co.in, or WhatsApp or call me on +91 89289 61893.
• Privacy choices, at the bottom of every page, changes what this site may measure, including the anonymous count.
• You can block or delete cookies in your browser, or use a tracker blocker. The site and the form still work.
• You can turn off Google Analytics with Google's opt-out add-on.
• You can opt out of targeted ads through YourAdChoices, Your Online Choices, Meta's ad settings and Google's My Ad Center.

This site doesn't change what it does when a browser sends a Do Not Track signal.

You can ask me what I hold about you, ask me to correct or delete it, and withdraw any permission you gave, as easily as you gave it, with Privacy choices at the bottom of every page. I can find messages you sent, because they're in my inbox. I can't look you up in the analytics tools, because they don't store you by name. If you're not happy with my reply, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Data goes only to the services named here, and to anyone the law requires me to tell. These companies may process it outside India. This site isn't meant for anyone under 18, and I don't knowingly collect their data. If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.

See also the terms.