Terms of Service
Last updated: August 07, 2026
What Purogati is
Purogati is a place for citizens to think together. People file petitions about what they want to see changed — in their panchayat, their ward, their district, or the country — and those petitions sit alongside each other so that patterns become visible.
Purogati is not an organisation, an authority, or a representative body. It does not speak for anyone. It is a facilitator: it holds the space and keeps the lights on so that people can collectively think and arrive at ideas.
What you post is yours
Every petition, comment and idea on Purogati is the opinion of the person who wrote it. It is not Purogati's opinion, and Purogati does not endorse, verify, or vouch for anything posted here.
You are responsible for what you post. Do not post anything you do not have the right to post.
Nobody is obliged to do anything
You are under no obligation to contribute. You can read without posting, post once and never return, or stop at any time.
Equally, Purogati is under no obligation to act on anything you post. A petition being filed here does not mean it will be taken up, forwarded to anyone, acted upon, or responded to. No contribution creates any duty on Purogati's part.
Taking a petition further
Purogati does not send petitions to anyone. You are free to. Nothing here stops you printing one out, taking it to your councillor, your MLA or your MP, or using it in any lawful way you think will help.
What we would ask is that you let it ripen first. A petition that has drawn proposals, been argued over in the open, revised in response to that argument, and gathered real support from the people it affects carries weight. One filed an hour ago carries one person's opinion. Presenting the second as though it were the first helps nobody — least of all the next person who tries.
That is a request, not a rule. Purogati cannot control what you do with a petition once it is public, and will not try.
Curation
Petitions are curated. Curation shapes what appears, how things are grouped, and what gets drawn together into a shared document. This is done at Purogati's discretion.
Sometimes users will be involved in curation, decided case by case. That involvement is an invitation, not a right, and does not transfer any decision to the people invited.
Shared work is public
When individual contributions are drawn together into a collective document, idea, or policy draft, that shared result is public. It belongs to everyone. It is not owned by Purogati, and it is not owned by any one contributor.
Collective documents on Purogati are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Anyone may read, copy, adapt and republish them, including commercially, on two conditions: they credit Purogati and its contributors, and they release what they make under the same licence. Free work stays free.
You keep the copyright in your own petitions and comments. By posting on Purogati you allow us to show your contribution here, and to include it in collective documents released under the licence above. Nothing else about your ownership changes, and you can keep using your own words anywhere else you like.
Removal and blocking
Purogati may remove any content and block any user, at any time, at its sole discretion. It is not required to give a reason, give notice, or explain the decision to anyone.
This is deliberate. Keeping the space usable sometimes means acting quickly, and a duty to justify every removal would make that impossible.
What we collect
When you sign in through Google, we receive your name, your email address, and the account identifier Google uses for you. We do not receive your password.
Your account also holds a display name, your language, your notification preferences, which version of these terms you accepted, and anything optional you choose to add — a profile picture, a link, a short description of yourself.
The platform records some things automatically: your IP address when you sign in, and the time and number of your sign-ins. This is ordinary security housekeeping — it is how we notice a compromised account.
And it keeps what you contribute: your petitions and their text, the location you gave them, the category, your comments, what you follow or like, the time each was posted, and an edit history recording what was changed and by whom.
Your name, display name, petitions, comments and their locations are public. Your email address, IP address and sign-in records are not — they are visible only to those running the platform. We do not sell any of it.
What happens to what you post
Once you file a petition or post a suggestion, you cannot delete it yourself. This is deliberate: contributions here are part of a shared body of thinking, and letting people withdraw pieces of it later would leave holes in work others have built on.
If your view changes, post again. A later petition that says something different is a better record of how thinking moved than a deletion, which leaves no trace at all.
You can write to us to ask that something be taken down, and we will consider it case by case. Requests about personal information — your name being attached to something, or your account and its details — are treated seriously and separately from requests to withdraw an idea.
Where a petition is deleted or archived, any personal information linked to it is removed within three years of that action. We hold it for that period so there is an audit trail — so that a removal or a curation decision can be reviewed later, or a dispute about one looked into. After three years it serves no further purpose and goes.
No warranty, no liability
Purogati is provided as it is. It may be unavailable, lose data, or stop entirely without notice. Purogati accepts no responsibility for any loss or harm arising from your use of it, or from anything posted on it by anyone, to the fullest extent the law allows.
Changes to these terms
These terms may change. If they do, you will be asked to accept the new version the next time you sign in.