What happens to your data

What stays in your browser

Your settings (city, campus, rent ceiling, travel limit, weights) are kept in the page address, so you can bookmark or share a search. They are not stored anywhere else. Nothing is written to your browser's storage and no cookies are set.

What the server receives

• Your searches: the settings above, to rank the areas. They contain nothing personal and are not stored.
• Sentences and questions you type into the planner or Ask. They are passed on to the language model (see below) and not stored by Vilayat.
• Your IP address, which every website receives. It is kept only in the server's working memory, to limit how many requests one address can send in a minute, and is gone when the server restarts. It is not written to Vilayat's logs or to disk.

The server keeps a technical log of each request: the time, the address on the site that was called, the result and how long it took. It does not contain your IP address or what you typed. Wherever the site is hosted, the hosting provider may keep its own access logs under its own privacy policy.

The language model

Sentences typed into the planner and questions asked on Ask are sent to Google's Gemini API to be understood and answered. Vilayat uses Gemini's free tier. Under the Gemini API terms, Google may use what is sent on the free tier to improve its products, and people at Google may read it. Do not type your name, passport number, address or anything else personal into these boxes. Questions about your situation work just as well without them.

Everything else (the planner, the map, Compare) works without sending anything to Google. How the model is used is explained on How we use AI.

Other services your browser contacts

• OpenFreeMap supplies the map tiles, so your browser requests them from OpenFreeMap's servers, which see your IP address.
• Listing portals open only when you follow one of the links to them; from then on their own privacy policies apply.

The font and the photographs are served by Vilayat itself, so loading a page does not contact Google Fonts or Wikimedia.

Questions

Because Vilayat stores nothing that identifies you, there is no personal data to look up, correct or delete. For anything else, see Contact.