Privacy
Privacy policy
What this site collects, who else sees it, and how to switch it off. Short version: no accounts, no logins, no database of you.
Last updated 28 July 2026
Who runs this site
This site is a personal website operated by Kashish Mahant Agarwal. Questions about anything on this page go to k@kashishmahant.com.
What I collect directly
Nothing. There are no accounts, no logins and no forms that write to a database. If you email me, I have your email and whatever you wrote in it, for as long as the message sits in my inbox. That is the whole of it.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages people actually read. It sets cookies and records things like the pages you view, roughly where you are (country or city level, from your IP address), your browser and your device type. IP addresses are anonymised by Google before I ever see them.
I use this to decide what to write more of. I cannot identify you from it, and I do not try to.
Advertising
This site uses Google AdSense to serve ads. Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visit to this site or other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may serve ads on this site. Where required, they operate under Google's own policies, which you can read in the Google privacy and terms page.
Cookies
The only cookies this site sets on its own are for remembering whether you chose the light or dark theme. That preference is stored in your browser and never leaves it. Everything else comes from Google Analytics and Google AdSense, described above. Blocking cookies in your browser will not break anything here.
Hosting
The site is static and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes requests to serve pages and may log basic technical information such as IP address and user agent for security and performance. See the Cloudflare privacy policy.
Podcast and external links
Episodes of Positively Yours are hosted on Spotify and distributed to Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. Playing an episode here streams it from that host, and their privacy policies apply. The same goes for any outbound link on this site: once you leave, you are on someone else's terms.
Your rights
If you are in the UK, the EU or another region with data protection laws, you have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to processing. Since I hold almost nothing, most requests come down to deleting an email thread. Email me and I will do it.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13 and I do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. There is no mailing list for policy updates and I am not going to pretend otherwise.