Privacy Policy | A Wise Athlete

A Wise Athlete is an information platform for Indian student-athletes and their families, covering government schemes, sports quota, schooling options, foreign university pathways and related guidance. This policy explains what information is collected when you use the website or the app, how it is used, and the choices available to you. It is written to reflect what this platform does.

Who operates this

A Wise Athlete is operated by Ransh Innovations. For any question about this policy or your information, contact ranshinnovations@gmail.com.

There is no account or sign-up

The website has no login, no user accounts and no comment system. The Guide tool (the four-question reading-order builder) runs entirely in your browser. Your answers are encoded into the page's own address bar so you can share or bookmark a result, and are never sent to or stored on any server we operate.

Information collected automatically

Like almost any website, our hosting provider's servers log standard technical information for every visit, including your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested and the time of the request. This is normal web-server operation, used for security and reliability, not to identify you personally.

The site remembers a few things on your own device, in your browser's local storage: whether you last read in day or night mode and, on the Learn a sport pages, the place and players you chose and the ticks, counts and best game scores from sessions you finish. They never leave your device and we cannot see them. If you use "Carry them into the app", the ticks travel inside that link to the app on your own phone; they are not sent to us.

The app has no login or account either. Everything you add stays on your own device: profiles, practice sessions, notes on cards, certificates and their photos, plan steps, what you have read and saved, and your settings. A certificate photo is taken with the phone's camera, or chosen from its gallery, only when you ask, and is kept in the app's private storage. None of this is sent to or stored on any server we operate.

When backup is turned on in the phone's own settings, Android may include the app's data in the backup it keeps in your Google account, so it can come back on a new phone. That is Google's service, switched on or off in the phone's settings. You can also make your own backup file from the app (Record, then Back up and restore) and keep it wherever you choose. The questions page explains how to back up and how to delete everything.

Analytics: Google Firebase

Both the website and the app use Google Firebase Analytics to understand how they're used in aggregate, meaning which pages or screens are visited, roughly how many people use the platform and which features are used. It is the same underlying Google Analytics product in both cases, registered as one Firebase project with a separate connection for the website and for the app. This does not identify you personally; it does not run on this website during local testing, only on the live site.

The app's analytics events are counts and content names only: for example, that a practice session was finished, or which article was opened. They never include names, notes, certificate details or anything you type.

The app additionally uses Firebase Crashlytics to learn when something in the app has gone wrong on a real device, collecting an error message and the screen it happened on so it can be fixed. This is the same non-identifying purpose as the diagnostic logging any app maintainer needs. Crashlytics is not available for websites, so it is not used on awiseathlete.com. The app also uses Firebase Performance Monitoring, which reports how long screens and network requests take, so slow parts can be found and fixed.

Google's own explanations of what Firebase collects and how are the authoritative source, not this page:

Advertising: Google AdSense and Google AdMob

The website shows ads served by Google AdSense. The app shows ads served by Google AdMob: a banner at the bottom of the screen (never during a practice session), and an ad you can choose to watch in Settings to turn ads off for 30 minutes. The app asks for non-personalised ads only, limited to content rated for general audiences. To serve and count ads and to stop fake ad traffic, AdMob receives the phone's advertising identifier, an approximate location worked out from the internet address, ad taps and basic diagnostic information. Both are Google services, and both work the same underlying way: Google (and, where enabled, its advertising partners) uses cookies (on the web) or advertising identifiers (on mobile) to serve ads and measure their performance, and may use information about your visits to this and other sites or apps to show ads it judges more relevant to you.

We do not control what Google or its partners do with this data beyond what their own policies describe. Google's own explanations of this are the authoritative source, not this page:

Your choices: On the web, you can review and adjust how Google personalises ads to you at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of interest-based advertising generally through the Digital Advertising Alliance. Most browsers also let you block or delete advertising cookies directly in their settings. On mobile, both Android and iOS have a device-level setting to opt out of, or reset, ad personalisation (commonly under Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Settings → Google → Ads). This applies across every app that uses AdMob, not just this one.

Cookies

The website itself sets no cookies of its own. The day/night preference uses local storage. Any cookies present come from Google's advertising scripts described above, once ads are shown to you. You can inspect or clear these at any time in your browser's own cookie settings.

Children's privacy

Some of the content here is relevant to children as young as 8, but the platform is written for and addressed to parents and older student-athletes making decisions together. The app is for users aged 13 and over; a younger child practises with a parent or another grown-up who reads the cards and runs the session. It is not designed to collect personal information directly from young children, and it has no sign-up form through which a child could submit any. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in a manner that would require verifiable parental consent under applicable law.

A child's practice record, certificates and photos kept in the app stay on the family's phone. We never receive them.

What Google's services collect is tied to anonymous device and app identifiers, not to a name or an account, so we cannot find one person's data to delete it. You can reset or delete the phone's advertising identifier at any time in the phone's settings (commonly Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads), and uninstalling the app deletes everything it kept on the phone.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has provided us with personal information some other way, contact us at the address above and we will act on it. Where a user is known to be a child, Google's own policies restrict how AdSense/AdMob may serve personalised ads to that user. See Google's linked policies above for what that means in practice; that restriction is Google's to apply, not a setting this site configures per visitor.

Links to other sites

Articles on this platform cite and link to official government portals, universities, sports federations and news sources so you can verify figures at the source. Once you follow one of those links you are on a site we do not control, governed by its own privacy practices, not this one.

Data security

Because there is no account system and no server-side storage of personal data tied to your use of the site, there is very little of yours for us to secure in the first place. What technical logs do exist sit with our hosting provider's standard infrastructure. No method of transmission over the internet is ever perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security for data in transit.

Changes to this policy

If what this platform collects or how it uses advertising or analytics changes, this page will be updated and the effective date at the top will change, most recently to describe the app's ads, its performance monitoring and its age. We do not send notifications for policy updates; check back here if you want the current version.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about your information: ranshinnovations@gmail.com.