Privacy
What we collect, and what we don't
Updates list
When you ask for updates, your email address and submission time are stored by Netlify Forms, the form processor used by this website. We use the address only for Bharatiyata publication updates. We do not sell it or use it for advertising.
Analytics
Google Analytics is optional. Its script loads only after you choose “Allow” in the analytics strip. It uses cookies to measure page visits, broad audience information, reading-journey clicks, requests to open an embedded video and confirmed newsletter submissions. Opening a video is not counted as proof that you watched it.
We send the published page address without query strings or fragments, the referring website's origin and the page title. For our YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and newsletter links, we also measure approved campaign labels. We reject email addresses and web addresses in these labels. We do not send newsletter email addresses, form contents or other information you type to Google Analytics. Google receives connection and device information when its script loads. Advertising storage, Google signals and advertising personalisation are disabled.
Your analytics choice is saved in this browser for up to 180 days. If you accept, analytics cookies last up to 180 days. A successful newsletter submission uses a temporary marker in this tab, without your email address, to count the completion once. You can use “Analytics settings” in the footer at any time to decline; this removes the site's analytics cookies and reloads the page to stop its analytics script. This does not erase data already sent to Google.
Declining does not affect reading or newsletter signup. Google Analytics is separate from the YouTube player described below. See Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Watching videos
The films on our About and Fieldwork pages use locally hosted posters. The YouTube player is only loaded when you choose to play one. We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which does not make playback anonymous: once loaded, your browser connects to Google and YouTube, which receive information such as your IP address and browser details and may use storage on your device. Their privacy policy applies.
You can read the introduction film's transcript without loading YouTube. Each film also has a separate link to watch on YouTube directly.
Your choice
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