Sponsored posts, clips and stories

Where ads appear and how they look

Video ads always play without sound.

In a sponsored story, tap the right side to move on, the left side to go back, hold your finger down to pause, and tap the close button to leave stories, just like an ordinary story.

What happens when you tap an ad

• Most ads open a page on Sikhami: a course, a course bundle, notes, a club, a meetup or the advertiser's profile.
• Some ads open the advertiser's own website, in a new tab.
• Some ads open a short form for your details (a lead form). See the section below.

Whatever you buy or join after tapping an ad is bought or joined in the usual way; the ad does not change the price.

Why am I seeing this ad?

1. 1Tap ⋯ on the ad.
2. 2Choose Why am I seeing this ad?

You see the reasons in plain words, for example You want to learn Physics, You're interested in NEET, You're in Karnataka, You speak Hindi, You follow this advertiser, or People like you. Ads in the home feed show general reasons instead. Advertisers choose who to reach using things learners put on their profiles, such as topics, exams, subjects, level, state, language, gender, age and interests.

An advertiser can also reach people who have already followed them, watched their clips or bought from them, people on their own contact list, and people similar to those. If your email or phone number is on an advertiser's list, Sikhami matches it using one-way codes and never tells the advertiser who matched. This is shown to you as People like you; the name of the advertiser's list is never shown.

The same box has Hide this ad and Hide ads from the advertiser, which work like the menu items below.

Hide an ad or an advertiser

1. 1Tap ⋯ on the ad.
2. 2Choose Hide ad to stop seeing this ad, or Hide all ads from the advertiser's name to stop seeing every ad from them.

• The ad disappears from your screen straight away, and Sikhami stops showing it to you.
• Hiding an ad also counts against the ad's quality ranking, which Sikhami uses when it chooses which ads to show.
• There is no screen to undo hiding an ad or an advertiser.
• You cannot turn off all ads on Sikhami. You can hide as many ads and advertisers as you like.

Report an ad

Report an ad that is misleading, offensive or breaks Sikhami's rules.

1. 1Tap ⋯ on the ad and choose Report ad.
2. 2Choose a reason: Misleading or a scam; Promises exam results or ranks; Sexual or inappropriate; Violent or hateful; Offensive to me; or Something else.
3. 3Choose Report.

• The advertiser does not find out who reported the ad.
• Sikhami reviews reported ads. You can report the same ad only once.
• The ad is removed from your screen. To make sure you do not see it again, also choose Hide ad.
• Reports also count against the ad's quality.

To report a post, clip, comment or person that is not an ad, see Report content.

Ads with a form (lead forms)

Some ads open a short form so the advertiser can contact you, for example to send a brochure.

• The form opens inside Sikhami. Answers such as your name, email and phone number are filled in from your profile, and you can change any of them.
• Under the questions you see who will receive your answers and a link to their privacy policy.
• Nothing is sent until you choose Submit. Closing the form sends nothing.
• Your answers go only to that advertiser, and Sikhami deletes them after 90 days.

Your privacy

• Advertisers do not get your name, email or phone number from an ad, unless you send them a lead form.
• They see only totals, such as how many people saw or tapped the ad, split by things like age group, gender, state, device and time of day. They never see who you are.
• Anyone can see the ads that have run on Sikhami, and who paid for them, in the public Ad Library.

Read more in Privacy on Sikhami.

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