Privacy
What we hold, what we refuse to hold, and how long any of it stays.
Effective October 2026.
Ownership & Legal
Shikshak ('the Platform') is an educational technology platform developed, owned, and operated by Next Step Info Tech Training Center Pvt. Ltd., a company registered under the laws of Nepal with its registered office at Chyamasingh-9, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
No student data, ever
The platform does not accept, store, transmit or process student names, roll numbers tied to names, photographs, or anything else that identifies a pupil. There is no student account, no student login, and no plan to add one.
This is enforced on our server, before anything reaches the model. A scan covering both Devanagari and Latin script runs on every submission, because a teacher typing a name into a notes field is a thing that will happen whatever a placeholder says.
What we hold
- The lesson plans you generate, and the form values you gave to make them — school name, chapter, date, class length, available resources.
- The school name you type. It appears on your plan and is stored with it.
- A one-way hash of your IP address, used only to stop one connection flooding the service. The salt is a server-side secret, so the hash cannot be reversed back to your address.
- Textbooks uploaded to the shared library, and the chapter lists extracted from them.
What we do not hold
- Anything identifying a student.
- Your IP address in readable form.
- Card numbers or wallet PINs. Payment is completed directly through a Fonepay QR or bank transfer, and verified by our billing team.
How long
Generated plans and documents remain in your personal library for 90 days or until you choose to delete them. You retain full permanent ownership of all exported documents.
The list on your device
"My plans" is stored in your browser and never sent to us. Clearing your browser data clears it. Each plan still exists at its own link, so keep any you want to come back to.
Third-Party AI Sub-Processors & Model Training
To generate curriculum materials, structured prompts are transmitted via enterprise APIs to third-party AI sub-processors (specifically Google Gemini API via commercial enterprise endpoints). Under our enterprise commercial terms, user prompts and generated documents are strictly confidential and are NEVER used by AI providers to train foundation models. Teachers must never submit sensitive student health records, government identification numbers, or confidential pupil dossiers.
Data Protection Commitment
Shikshak AI is built adhering strictly to privacy-by-design standards. We never sell, monetize, or use your private classroom documents to train third-party models. National ID verification records are held in private encrypted storage with zero public URLs.