Privacy Policy – cgpacalculation.net

1.1 Information You Provide Directly

We only collect information you voluntarily provide to us. This is limited to:

• Contact form submissions: If you use our contact form or email us, we receive your name and email address along with your message.
• Email correspondence: If you email us directly at our contact address, we receive and store that email to respond to your query.

We do not have user accounts, registration forms, newsletter sign-ups, or any other mechanism through which you are asked to create a profile on our website.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit cgpacalculation.net, certain information is collected automatically by our hosting infrastructure and analytics tools:

• IP address: Collected by our web server and by Google Analytics in anonymised form. We do not log full IP addresses.
• Browser type and version: Used to ensure our calculators display correctly on all browsers.
• Device type: Whether you are on a mobile, tablet, or desktop — used to optimise our responsive design.
• Pages visited and time on page: Collected by Google Analytics to understand which calculators are most useful.
• Referring URL: The website or search engine that brought you to our site.
• Country / approximate location: Derived from anonymised IP address — city or street-level data is not collected.

1.3 Cookies

We use cookies as described in detail in Section 3 below. These are primarily set by Google Analytics and Google AdSense and do not contain your personal academic information.

We use the limited information we collect for the following purposes:

2.1 We Do Not Use Information For

• Selling, renting, or trading your information to any third party
• Sending marketing or promotional emails without your explicit request
• Building personal profiles or tracking individuals across the internet
• Making automated decisions that produce legal or significant effects on you
• Sharing your contact details with advertisers or data brokers

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by websites you visit. cgpacalculation.net uses the following types of cookies:

3.1 Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function. We set minimal essential cookies for basic site operation (e.g., remembering your cookie consent preference). These cookies do not track personal information.

3.2 Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate website usage — how many visitors we receive, which pages are popular, how long visitors spend on the site, and which devices and browsers they use. Google Analytics uses cookies including _ga, _ga_[ID], and related identifiers. We have enabled IP anonymisation in Google Analytics, meaning your full IP address is not stored. Google Analytics does not identify you personally. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

3.3 Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)

We display advertisements through Google AdSense to support the free operation of this website. Google AdSense may set cookies to show you relevant ads based on your browsing history across websites that use Google advertising services. These cookies are set by Google, not by us directly. You can manage your Google ad preferences at adssettings.google.com.

3.4 Cookie Summary Table

cgpacalculation.net is monetised through Google AdSense. This allows us to provide all our CGPA calculators for free. Here is what this means for your privacy:

• Google as a third-party vendor: Google uses cookies to serve ads on our site based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the internet.
• Interest-based advertising: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
• We do not control ad content: The specific advertisements you see are determined by Google's advertising systems, not by us. We do not share your academic data with advertisers.
• Opting out: You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or by visiting aboutads.info.

cgpacalculation.net uses the following third-party services that may collect data subject to their own privacy policies:

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party services. We encourage you to read their respective privacy policies.

5.1 External Links

Our website may contain links to external websites (such as university portals, College Board, or WES). These sites have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. Clicking an external link takes you away from cgpacalculation.net and subjects you to that site's terms.

This means:

• If you close the browser tab or refresh the page, your entered grades are gone — we do not store them.
• Your academic performance data cannot be accessed by us, our staff, our hosting provider, or any third party through our service.
• We cannot reconstruct what CGPA you calculated or what grades you entered at any time.
• There is no account system — we have no way to associate any calculation with any individual user.

This privacy-by-design approach means our calculators are safe to use with your real academic grades. Your academic record is sensitive personal information, and we have built our tools specifically to avoid handling it.

We retain information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy:

• Contact form emails: Retained for up to 2 years from the date of correspondence, then permanently deleted.
• Analytics data: Google Analytics data is retained for 14 months as per our Google Analytics configuration, after which it is automatically deleted.
• Server logs: Web server access logs (containing anonymised IP addresses and page requests) are retained for 30 days for security purposes, then deleted.
• Calculator data: Not retained at all — processed locally in your browser only.

You may request deletion of any personal data we hold about you at any time by contacting us at privacy@cgpacalculation.net. See Section 8 for your full rights.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data. We respect these rights for all visitors regardless of geography:

• Right to access: You may request a copy of any personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: You may ask us to correct inaccurate personal data.
• Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"): You may request deletion of your personal data. We will comply unless we have a legal obligation to retain it.
• Right to restrict processing: You may ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability: You may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to object: You may object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing or on grounds relating to your particular situation.
• Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent (e.g., advertising cookies), you may withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
• Right to lodge a complaint: If you believe we have violated your privacy rights, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

8.1 Cookie Management

You may withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time by: (a) adjusting your browser's cookie settings to refuse or delete cookies; (b) using the Google Analytics opt-out add-on; (c) adjusting your Google Ads personalisation settings. Withdrawing cookie consent does not affect your ability to use any of our free calculators.

cgpacalculation.net is designed for use by university and college students, who are generally 17 years of age or older. Our services are not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Union).

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at privacy@cgpacalculation.net and we will promptly delete any such information.

Because our calculators collect no academic data whatsoever, there is no risk of children's academic information being collected through our calculator tools.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or for other operational reasons. When we update this policy:

• We will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
• For significant changes, we will display a notice on our website homepage.
• Continued use of cgpacalculation.net after the effective date of a revised policy constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. The current version is always available at cgpacalculation.net/privacy-policy/.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us using the details below. We aim to respond to all privacy inquiries within 5 business days.

For complaints regarding data protection that we are unable to resolve, you may contact the relevant data protection authority in your jurisdiction. For users in the European Union, a list of EU data protection authorities is available at edpb.europa.eu. For users in India, the relevant authority is the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023.