Privacy

Last updated 14 September 2026

The short version: we collect your name, your email address, a phone number if you ask us to ring you back, how far you have got through your courses, and which website sent you here. We do not use any analytics or advertising company, we do not advertise to you, and we never see your card details. Nothing is sold to anybody.

This page explains what Minati Ma'am's Academy collects when you use this website, why, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read rather than to be technically complete, and where it says something plain it means it plainly.

What we collect

When you create an account

• Your name. A first name is enough. It is how the site greets you.
• Your email address. This is how you sign in and how receipts and sign-in links reach you.
• Your password, if you set one — stored scrambled, using a one-way hash. Nobody at the Academy can read it, including us.
• A profile photo and a mobile number, only if you choose to add them. Neither is required.

If you use “Continue with Google”

Google tells us three things: your name, your email address and your profile picture. Nothing else. We cannot read your Gmail, your contacts, your calendar or your files, and we never ask Google for permission to. You can take that permission back at any time in your own Google account settings.

We keep the name Google gives us alongside the one you chose, rather than replacing it. Google often holds a full legal name, and what you are called in the app — and on your certificate — stays whatever you typed.

While you are learning

• Your progress — which lessons you have opened, which questions you have answered, and your scores.
• Your purchases — which courses you bought, when, and for how much.
• Your sign-in sessions — a random token that stands for “this device is signed in”, when it expires, and the name your browser gives itself (for example “Chrome on Android”). This is what lets you sign out of a device you have lost.

Before you have an account at all

If you look around the site without signing up, we may keep a small record of the visit: a random number for your browser, the first name you typed if you typed one, the language and time zone your browser reports, and what your browser tells every website it visits — whether you are on a phone, a tablet or a computer, which operating system and which browser, and whether you are reading in dark or light. None of that identifies you: millions of people are on the same phone reading in the same language.

We also note which website sent you here, if one did (for example Instagram or Google), and whether you opened the Daily Quiz: the first place you came from and the most recent. Only the website’s address and page are kept, never what you searched for.

We also keep the network address the visit came from, which is the one thing here that points at a household rather than at a machine. We never hold one that is more than 90 days old: each visit replaces it, and 90 days after your last visit it is removed automatically and the visit stays as a tally mark with no address attached. If you would rather we did not hold it at all, ask us and we will remove it.

All of this exists so that we can tell roughly how many people are looking, where in the world they are, and whether to build this site for phones or for computers. None of it is sold, none of it is shared, and none of it is used to follow you anywhere else. It is also the record that becomes your account if you later sign up.

When you open a free lesson with your email

Part-way through one lesson of each course we ask for an email address so you can read the rest of it free. If you give one, we keep the address, the course, and whether you opened the link we sent — and nothing else. No name, no password, no account is created.

We may write to you about the Academy afterwards; every one of those has an unsubscribe link. Ask us and we will delete the address.

When you send an enquiry

The enquiry form asks for your name and a phone number. You can add an email address, which course you are asking about, and a message, and you do not have to. We keep what you typed, along with the network address and the browser the form was sent from — the last two so that a flood of fake enquiries can be told apart from real ones.

It is kept for one purpose: so that somebody can ring you back. No account is created, and you are not added to any mailing list. Ask us and we will delete it.

When you book a session

Your name, email, mobile number, the question you want to discuss, and the network address the booking came from. The last one is there to stop the calendar being filled with fake bookings.

When you sign in, or fail to

Each attempt is recorded with the email address tried and the network address it came from. It is what stops somebody guessing at your password thousands of times. These records are deleted automatically after 24 hours.

What we do not collect

We also do not collect your date of birth, your gender, your address, your identity documents, or anything about your health, religion, politics or finances. None of it is asked for and none of it is stored.

Cookies and what your browser keeps

This site sets these cookies, and no others. None of them holds your email address.

• Press “Continue with Google” and one is set for a few minutes, purely to check the reply really came from Google. It is thrown away the moment you are signed in.
• Press it on the welcome screen and two more are set for 15 minutes: one that remembers you started there, and one holding the first name you typed, if you typed one, so your account keeps that name. Both are thrown away when you sign in or press Cancel.
• Give your email to open the rest of a free lesson and one is set to remember that the lesson is open to you. It holds no name and no address — only a random number that means “this browser unlocked it”.
• Open the Daily Quiz and one is set holding only today’s date, so opening it again the same day is not counted as another player. Finish it and another does the same for finishing. Both are gone at midnight.
• Arrive from another website, or open the Daily Quiz, and one is set holding which website sent you here (or that you opened the Daily Quiz) and when, so it can be noted when you open the app. It is kept for 30 days.

None of them is an advertising cookie, and none is shared with any other company.

Your browser also keeps a few things of its own, on your device: the token that keeps you signed in, a copy of your progress so lessons open instantly, and the name you are greeted by. Your progress leaves your device only when you are signed in; your name and the website that sent you here are sent to us as described above. Clearing your browser data removes all of it.

Who else sees your information

A small number of companies handle parts of this service, and only ever the piece they need to do their job:

• The payment provider — your name, email address, mobile number if you gave one, and the amount. They need it to take the payment and to answer a dispute.
• The company that sends our email — the message itself and the address it goes to.
• Google, but only if you chose to sign in with Google, and only the sign-in itself.
• The company that hosts the website, which stores the database the site runs on.

That is the complete list. Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared for advertising. Nothing is given to a data broker. We will hand over information if a court or the law requires it, and not otherwise.

How long we keep it

• Failed and successful sign-in records — 24 hours, then deleted automatically.
• Expired sign-in links and codes — 24 hours, then deleted automatically.
• Your account, progress and purchases — for as long as you have an account.
• Enquiries — kept until you ask us to remove them, so that we know whether we have already rung you back.
• Payment and order records — kept for as long as Indian tax and accounting law requires, even after an account is closed. We are not allowed to delete these on request, and no business is.

Keeping it safe

The whole site is served over an encrypted connection. Passwords are stored one-way and cannot be read back. Sensitive settings are encrypted before they are written down. Sign-in attempts are rate-limited so that a password cannot be guessed at speed. No system is perfect and we will not pretend otherwise, but none of the shortcuts that cause most breaches have been taken here.

What you can ask for

Stop the announcements

Every announcement email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom, and one click is enough. Emails you need in order to use what you paid for keep coming — sign-in links, receipts, booking confirmations and security notices. Those are not a mailing list; they are how the course works.

See it, correct it, or have it removed

Write to hello@minnati.com from the address on your account and ask. You can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct something that is wrong, or ask us to remove your personal details.

To be straight with you about how that last one works: there is no self-service delete button on this site. Removal is done by hand, by a person, usually within a few working days. Your name, email address and photo are removed; the record that a payment happened is kept, because the law requires it. If you ask us to remove your details you will lose access to any course you have bought, so we will say so and check before doing it.

Young learners

These courses are written for adults and for older students preparing for exams. If you are under 18, please have a parent or guardian set up the account and make any payment. If you believe a child has given us information without a parent knowing, write to us and we will remove it.

If this page changes

The date at the top changes with it. If a change matters — if we started collecting something new, or a new company began handling your information — we will email people with accounts rather than quietly editing this page.

Getting in touch