Privacy Policy

1. Our Commitment to Child Safety

MarathiBaraKhadi.com is an educational platform designed for children, primary school students, and adult learners. We take the privacy and safety of children extremely seriously. Our practices comply with child safety guidelines, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

2. Information We Do NOT Collect

We do not collect or request any personal identification information (PII) from children. There are no accounts to register or profiles to create on our platform.

• We do not store passwords, home addresses, or contact information.
• We do not record speech files; all speech recognition processing is executed client-side directly via the native browser speech API.
• We do not track users' real-time location.

3. Browser Storage & Local Data

To make our site fun and interactive, we save progress data directly inside your web browser using HTML5 Local Storage. This data includes:

• Your daily practice streak counts (e.g. 7 days, 15 days).
• Unlocked learning badges (e.g. Starter Learner, Marathi Legend).
• Bookmarked letters saved from the Barakhadi Grid.
• Your selected UI theme preferences (Light Mode / Dark Mode).

This data is kept locally on your device and is never uploaded to our servers or shared with any third parties. You can clear this data at any time by clearing your browser cache.

4. Contact Form Data

If you contact us using our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and message contents. This information is used strictly to reply to your inquiry and is never shared, sold, or used for marketing purposes.

5. Advertising & Third-Party Cookies (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website to support our free educational resources. Please review the following information regarding advertising cookies:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the Internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

6. Contacting Us

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us by visiting our Contact Us page.