Privacy policy

• You can read every public lesson without an account.
• Signing in is optional. It exists only to save your progress.
• Your data is never sold, shared or used for advertising.
• There is no advertising and no tracking cookie. Page views are counted anonymously — see “Who else sees anything” below.
• You can delete everything yourself, immediately, from this page.

Path to Engineer is built and operated by Rameshkumar Kannan, an individual in India — not a company. For anything on this page, including a request to see or delete your data, email rameshkumaroff@gmail.com.

If you never sign in: nothing. No account, no cookie, no profile. Public pages are static files.

If you sign in with Google, Google passes on three things, and only these:

• your email address — the identifier for your account
• your name and profile picture — shown in the header so you can see you are signed in

Nothing else is requested. No contacts, no Drive, no calendar, no ability to send mail as you. You can review and revoke this at any time in your Google account permissions.

Then, as you use the site, two things are stored:

• Progress — which problems you have ticked, which pathway tasks you have completed, and which lessons you have read. A lesson is recorded as read when you reach the end of it after having it open for at least a minute. The “Read” button in the lesson undoes that. Nothing about how you read is kept — no scroll position, no time spent, only that the lesson was read.
• Job applications — only if you use the tracker: company name, role, status and your own notes. This is the most sensitive thing here, and it is treated that way. It is a record of where you are job hunting. It is visible to nobody but you.

There is no payment processing on this site. The support link opens your own UPI app; no card or bank detail ever reaches this platform.

Both tables enforce row-level security in the database itself: every read, insert, update and delete is restricted to rows whose owner matches the signed-in user. This is enforced by PostgreSQL, not by the website code — so it holds even if the application has a bug.

Traffic is HTTPS-only and enforced with HSTS. A Content-Security-Policy restricts where the page may send data. The site is hosted on Vercel; the database is Supabase (PostgreSQL), hosted in Singapore.

Your data is never sold or shared. These services are involved in serving the page, and each sees your IP address as any website you visit would:

• Vercel — hosting. Serves every page and keeps short-lived server logs.
• Vercel Web Analytics — anonymous page-view counts. It records the page address, the site that linked you here, and the browser, device type and country derived from the request. It sets no cookie and receives no name, email or account id. Sign-in tokens and codes are removed from page addresses before anything is sent.
• Supabase — the database and the sign-in system.
• Google — only when you choose to sign in, and to load your profile picture.

Two smaller ones, for completeness: api.qrserver.com renders the UPI QR code if you open the support box, and YouTube serves the crash-course videos in privacy-enhanced mode. Neither receives anything about you beyond the request itself.

Until you delete it. There is no automatic expiry, because a study plan that erased your progress after a few months would be useless. If you want it gone, remove it below — it is immediate.

Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 you may access, correct or erase your data, and withdraw consent at any time.

• See it — all of it is on screen: your progress on the roadmap and pathway, your applications on the tracker.
• Correct it — untick anything, edit or delete any application.
• Erase it — the button below removes the account and everything attached to it.
• Withdraw consent — deleting your account, and revoking access in Google, ends it completely.

Email rameshkumaroff@gmail.com if you would rather someone did it for you, or if anything here is unclear.

This is built for students preparing for engineering jobs and is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, email the address above and it will be removed.

If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected or who sees it, the date at the top changes and the change is noted here. There is no mailing list to announce it to, because there is no mailing list.

• 14 October 2026 — a lesson is now recorded as read automatically when you reach the end of it. Before this it was recorded only when you pressed a button. What is stored is the same single marker as before.
• 13 September 2026 — Vercel Web Analytics was added to the list of services, and its anonymous page-view counting described.