Your data
Your data is yours.
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We collect as little as possible, we never sell anything, and when you ask us to delete what we have, we delete it. This page says exactly that, in plain English — no legalese cosplay. Last updated: September 16, 2026.
What we collect
Only what you hand us directly, plus basic site analytics.
Name and email
When you sign up for the weekly brief, or when you enter your email to download a guide. That's it — no accounts, no passwords, no profiles.
Phone number
Only if you join the WhatsApp broadcast list. We never ask for it anywhere else, and it is used only to send you the broadcast.
Stories and experiences
Whatever you submit through the visa-interview or student-story forms — free text, in your words. We publish these only in anonymised form, and only when you've agreed to it.
Analytics
Google Analytics 4 tells us which pages people read and roughly where traffic comes from. No names, no emails — just aggregate patterns, so we know what content is actually useful.
Guide downloads
Our guides live in a public Google Drive folder. Google keeps its own download logs on its side; we don't see or control them, and we get nothing extra from them.
How our forms actually work
We'll say this plainly, because most sites don't.
Where your form submissions go
When you submit any form on this site, it goes to our own signup endpoint (hosted on Cloudflare, same domain as this site) and lands in a private signup sheet plus our inbox at aimhoneststudy@gmail.com. No third-party form service sits in the middle anymore. Google hosts the sheet, so Google's systems handle the stored copy — we don't share or sell it, and you can ask us to delete your row anytime by emailing aimhoneststudy@gmail.com.
What we use it for
Nothing you wouldn't expect.
- Newsletter signup: to notify you when the weekly brief launches — and to send it if you stay subscribed. No spam, no “partners’ offers.”
- Guide downloads: to deliver the guide you asked for — and, honestly, to know someone wants to hear from us again.
- WhatsApp list: to send you the broadcast updates you signed up for.
- Stories and experiences: to publish anonymised stories that help other students, only with your consent.
- Analytics: to see which pages help people, so we write more of that and less of everything else.
What we never do
We never sell your data. We never hand your email or phone number to a consultancy, a university, a lender, or anyone else — not for money, not for "partnerships," not ever. No ads on this site means no ad trackers either. Selling student data is the business model we're fighting; doing it ourselves would end the brand.
How long we keep it
Until you tell us to stop.
Your email stays on the list until you unsubscribe (every email has a one-click link) or ask us to delete it. WhatsApp numbers stay on the broadcast list until you leave it. Submitted stories are kept as long as they're published. Analytics data is retained in Google's default windows, not ours. There is no "we keep it forever just in case" — when you say delete, it's deleted.
Your rights
You can ask, and we answer.
Access, correction, deletion
Email aimhoneststudy@gmail.com and ask what we hold on you, fix something wrong, or delete everything. We act within 30 days — usually much faster.
India: DPDP Act 2023
If you're in India, you have the rights India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act gives you — including withdrawing consent and asking for erasure. One email does it.
EU/UK: GDPR
If you're in the EU or UK, you have GDPR rights — access, rectification, erasure, portability, and objection. Same email, same 30-day commitment.
No forms to fill, no "contact our data protection officer," no 45-day runaround. One person reads that inbox. That person is Stevpaul.
Under 18?
Get a parent's okay before signing up for anything or submitting a story. We don't knowingly collect data from under-18s without parental consent — and if we learn we have, we delete it.
Changes to this policy
If this page changes in a way that matters — what we collect, who sees it — we'll say so in the weekly brief and update the date at the top. The version you're reading is always the current one. Questions? aimhoneststudy@gmail.com.