Overview / Privacy
What is recorded, and why
Privacy
This site measures its own audience rather than handing that job to a third party. Nothing is shared with anyone, nothing is sold, and no advertising or tracking network is present on any page. What is recorded is set out in full below, because a project that criticises institutions for what they do not disclose is in no position to be vague about its own logging.
What is recorded
Two small messages are sent when you read a page: one when it opens, and one when you leave it or switch away. Together they record:
| Recorded | Where it comes from | Why |
|---|---|---|
| IP address | Your connection, seen by the server | Distinguishing readers from one another and from automated crawlers. |
| Approximate location — city, region, country, timezone | Derived at Cloudflare's network edge from the same connection. No lookup service is involved. | Whether this material reaches readers in Pakistan, which is the question the project most wants answered. |
| Network operator | The same | Distinguishing home connections from institutional and government networks, and identifying crawlers. |
| Page, page title and referring link | Your browser | Which findings are read, and how people arrive. |
| Device type, operating system, browser, screen and window size, language, light or dark preference | Your browser | Making the site work on what people actually use — much of the intended audience reads on a phone. |
| Time the page was visible, and how far you scrolled | Measured in your browser | Whether long studies are read or abandoned. Time counts only while the tab is actually visible. |
No cookies are set for analytics. A single short-lived value is kept in your browser's session storage to group one visit's pages together; it is discarded when you close the tab. Readers are counted by a value derived from your IP address and browser that changes every day, so a "returning visitor" is only ever recognised within a single day — nobody is followed across days, and no profile is built over time.
What is not recorded
- No third-party analytics, advertising or social tracking. There is no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no advertising network, and no embedded content that reports back to anyone.
- No account, no login, no email address, and no form that collects personal details.
- Nothing you type, and nothing about what you search for beyond the page address itself.
- Nothing is shared, sold, or transferred to any other organisation.
Where it is held, and for how long
In a database inside this site's own Cloudflare account, reachable only with a secret held by the site's author. The web fonts on these pages are served by Google Fonts, which will see your IP address as a consequence of serving them — that is the one request on this site that reaches a third party, and it exists because the alternative is worse typography.
Records are kept while they remain useful for understanding who this work reaches, and are deleted when they are not. They are never used to make a decision about any individual.
Legal basis, and your rights
The lawful basis is legitimate interest — understanding the audience for an independent research project — and this page is published so that interest can be weighed against yours rather than assumed.
If you are in the UK or EU you may ask what is held about you, ask for it to be deleted, or object to the processing altogether. Write to [email protected] and it will be done; you do not need to give a reason. Because records are only linkable within a single day, a request is easiest to act on promptly.
If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, nothing at all is recorded. That is honoured before anything else runs. Any content blocker will also stop the measurement, and the site works identically without it.
Why measure at all
This project makes claims about what is taught to Pakistani schoolchildren, and those claims are only useful if they reach people — parents, teachers, journalists, researchers, and the boards themselves. Knowing whether a study is read to the end or abandoned in the first screen changes what gets written next. Knowing whether anyone in Quetta or Peshawar ever opens it changes whether the project is doing what it set out to do.
That is the whole purpose. It is not worth anyone's privacy beyond what is described here, which is why it is described here.