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Privacy Policy

Last updated: [DATE]

1. Who we are

AskLawIndia (“we”, “us”) operates asklawindia.com, a knowledge platform for Indian tax, corporate, and financial law content. This policy explains what data we collect, why, and how you can control it. [Insert registered entity name, address, and contact details.]

2. Data we collect

  • Account data: name, email, and password hash (if you register with email) or your name/email from Google (if you sign in with Google).
  • Content you submit: bookmarks, comments, newsletter subscriptions, and chat messages sent to our AI assistant.
  • Payment data: if you subscribe to Premium membership, payment processing is handled entirely by Stripe. We never receive or store your card details — only a Stripe customer/subscription reference and its status.
  • Usage data:pages viewed, search queries, and basic analytics (view counts, zero-result searches) used to improve the site. See our analytics approach — we don't track unique visitors or build cross-site profiles.

3. How we use your data

To provide the service (authentication, bookmarks, comments, newsletter, premium access), to improve content and search relevance, and to communicate with you about your account or subscription. We do not sell your data.

4. Third-party services

We use the following third-party services, each with its own privacy policy:

  • Stripe — payment processing for Premium membership.
  • Google — optional sign-in (OAuth).
  • Anthropic (Claude) and Voyage AI — power the AI assistant. Chat messages you send may be processed by these providers to generate answers.
  • Vercel — hosting, file storage (attachments/images), and infrastructure.
  • Neon — our PostgreSQL database provider.

5. Cookies

We use essential cookies for authentication (sign-in sessions) and, if enabled, privacy-friendly analytics cookies. We do not use third-party advertising cookies.

6. Your rights

You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by contacting us at [insert contact email]. You can cancel your Premium subscription at any time from your account's billing portal.

7. Data retention

We retain account data for as long as your account is active. Comments and bookmarks are retained until you delete them or close your account.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy: [insert contact email].