VEDORAAbout Vedora
How it works, what we stand for, and what you can expect.
What Vedora Is
Vedora is a free-learning search engine that helps you discover genuinely free courses, books, scholarships, and internships from real providers around the world. Think of it as a directory — one place to find free educational resources the internet already offers, curated and verified for quality.
Core Mission
Knowledge should be accessible to everyone, regardless of financial barriers. High-quality free resources already exist — from MIT and Harvard courseware to Project Gutenberg's library to thousands of zero-fee scholarships and internships — but they are scattered across hundreds of sites and hard to find. Vedora brings them together in one searchable index so anyone can discover them.
Our Rules — Non-negotiable
No paid content
Every course, book, scholarship, and internship listed must be genuinely free to access. No paid-only listings.
No disguised trials
If a resource requires a paid subscription after a trial period, it does not belong here. Free-to-audit courses with optional paid certificates are allowed — the learning itself is always free.
No fee-charging internships
Internships must have zero fees at every stage of the application process — no registration fees, no processing charges, no exceptions.
Regular verification
Everything in the index is checked daily to ensure links still work, listings are still active, and nothing has slipped behind a paywall.
What You'll Find
- Courses — Free online courses from top universities and platforms like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Coursera (free-to-audit), edX, freeCodeCamp, and more. Covers coding, science, business, arts, and everything in between.
- Books — Free books and eBooks from Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Open Library, and other open repositories. Read online or download — no signup required.
- Scholarships — Fully funded and partial scholarships from governments, universities, and foundations worldwide. Every one is free to apply for.
- Internships — Zero-fee internship opportunities at companies across tech, finance, consulting, and more. No application costs at any stage.
How the Site Works
Vedora is a search engine, not a content host. Here is what that means:
- Vedora never hosts any course material, book text, scholarship application, or internship listing. It only indexes and links directly to the original, official provider's website.
- All learning, reading, and applying happens on the provider's own site. Vedora is a directory — like a library catalog, not the library itself.
- This model follows the same standard practice as Google Search, Class Central, or any other indexing service. Linking to publicly available free resources does not require special permission — Vedora does not copy, redistribute, or claim ownership of any content.
- If any provider does not want to be listed, we honor removal requests immediately — no questions asked.
Privacy
Your Privacy
- Your uploaded resume, certificates, and documents are processed only to give you AI assistance — nothing else.
- We do not permanently store your uploaded files. They are deleted automatically as soon as we've finished answering, unless you choose a saved-history feature.
- Temporary processing files are deleted after each request or when your session ends — usually within minutes, and never kept longer than one hour.
- We do not sell your personal information. We never have, and we never will.
- We use appropriate security measures — including HTTPS encryption — to protect your information.
- We collect only the minimum data needed to operate the service, and what we keep is anonymized.
Vedora is designed with privacy in mind. Here is what you should know in plain language:
- Your uploads are ephemeral. When you send a resume, cover letter, or document to the AI Assistant or Skill Gap Analyzer, the file is used only to generate your answer in that moment. It is written to a secure temporary folder on our server, deleted immediately after the request finishes, and is never stored in any database.
- Retention is strict and short. As a safety net, if a request is interrupted mid-processing, any leftover temporary file is securely deleted no more than one hour later by an automatic sweep — and everything is cleared when our servers shut down. No uploaded document survives longer than that.
- No recovery of closed sessions. Once an AI session ends, its uploaded files and temporary text cannot be recovered, unless you have explicitly chosen a feature to save your own chat history on your device.
- Your data stays private — even from us. During normal operation, our team cannot read your uploaded resumes, personal documents, or AI conversations. Uploaded files are kept outside the publicly served website and are not visible to administrators. Any access would be restricted to legitimate maintenance or legal requirements and tightly controlled.
- We don't read your files for any other reason. Uploaded content is used for one purpose only: answering your request. It is never logged, shared, or sold.
- No cookies or tracking scripts. Vedora does not set advertising cookies, use fingerprinting, or load third-party analytics such as Google Analytics or Meta Pixel.
- Aggregated, non-identifiable analytics. To power "Trending" lists, we keep anonymous counts — for example, how many times a course was opened or a search term was used. These counts carry no name, IP address, account, or device identity. They are kept for a limited time and rotated automatically.
- Encrypted in transit. All traffic between your browser and Vedora is protected with HTTPS/TLS encryption.
- External resources. Vedora loads the Google Fonts and Lucide Icons libraries from external CDNs. These services may receive basic connection information (IP address, referrer URL) as part of standard web operations, subject to their own privacy policies.
For any privacy-related questions or data deletion requests, contact anivaratech@gmail.com.