Privacy notice

Who is responsible

bdesh is run by Nahin Eftekhar and Foysal Planck, who decide how your information is used. Contact us at hi@bdesh.fyi for any privacy question or request.

Information we keep

Account: when you sign in with Google, we receive your email address, name and profile picture from Google. We never see your Google password.

What you type into your workspace: your class and plan, school, graduation year, grades and test scores, intended subjects, countries, activities, honors, essay notes and college essay drafts, preparation milestones, the colleges you track, their deadlines, checklist ticks and notes.

Guide usage: how many questions you asked the guide each day and how many tokens (pieces of text) were processed. We do not keep the text of your guide conversations.

Feedback: if you send feedback, we keep your message, topic, optional reply email, the page and the time.

Usage statistics

To learn which parts of bdesh help students most, we count visits with Vercel Web Analytics. It uses no cookies and does not identify you: it records the page, the referring site, your country, and your device and browser type, and Vercel stores only aggregated numbers.

We also keep daily totals of feature use, such as how many lessons were finished, colleges added, plan steps ticked or guide questions asked, broken down by country. These totals contain no names, emails, account ids or anything you typed.

Information we do not collect

bdesh has no advertising and no tracking cookies, and we never sell or share usage data. We never ask for passport or NID numbers, bank details, tax documents or identity images, and you should never type them into bdesh.

How we use it

To sign you in, save your work, show it on any device, remind you of your own deadlines and let you download a copy. We do not sell, rent or share student data for marketing, and bdesh never submits anything to a college or scholarship provider on your behalf.

The bdesh guide (AI chat)

The guide is optional and needs sign-in. It runs on your own free API key from Groq or Google (Gemini), which you create with that company. Your key is stored only in your browser. With each question, your browser sends the key and your recent messages in that chat to bdesh's server, which passes them to the provider you chose to write the answer. bdesh never saves your key or your messages.

Your use of the provider is covered by your own agreement with Groq or Google. Google may use conversations on its free tier to improve its products, so never type personal details into the guide. The guide only looks up bdesh lessons and college records; it does not read your profile, applications or essay drafts.

Your chat is not saved by bdesh and disappears when you leave the page or start a new chat. The guide can be wrong: always confirm dates and money on the college's official page.

Storage on your device

A sign-in cookie keeps you signed in. Your browser may also store your lesson progress, your light or dark mode choice, your guide API key if you add one, whether you dismissed the install card and, if you install bdesh as an app, the site's design files and an offline page so it opens quickly. Your workspace pages are never stored this way. These stay on your device and you can clear them in your browser settings.

Who helps us run bdesh

Supabase stores accounts, workspace data and feature totals (servers in the EU, Ireland). Vercel hosts the website and provides Web Analytics. Groq or Google answers guide questions, using the key you provide. Google provides sign-in. Cloudflare hosts the feedback form. These companies process data only to provide their service to us, under their own terms and privacy policies, and some of them process it outside Bangladesh, including in the United States and the EU.

Who can see your workspace

Only you. Database rules let each account read and change only its own records. bdesh editors update the shared college directory but cannot open student workspaces.

How long we keep it

We keep your workspace while your account exists. Deleting a college from your tracker also deletes its essay drafts. When you ask us to delete your account, we delete your account and workspace records; copies in our providers' backups expire on their own schedules.

Your choices and rights

You can view and edit your information at any time and download all of it from Settings. To correct something you cannot edit, or to delete your account, email hi@bdesh.fyi from your account email and we will act within 30 days.

Children and younger students

bdesh is made for secondary-school students. You must be at least 13 to create an account, and if you are under 18 please use bdesh with a parent's or guardian's knowledge. Anyone can read the lessons and college directory without an account. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, write to us and we will delete it.

Security

bdesh uses encrypted connections (HTTPS), Google sign-in and per-account database rules. No website is perfectly secure, which is one more reason never to store identity or bank documents here.

Changes

If this notice changes, we will update the date at the top. For questions, write to hi@bdesh.fyi.