DATA TRANSPARENCY & PRIVACY NOTICE

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice explains what personal information is collected through the Bharat AI Forge website, why it is collected, how it is transmitted to the program registration service, and how participants may submit inquiries regarding their data.

1. What Personal Data Is Collected

When you voluntarily submit the Register Your Interest or Ask a Question form on this website, we collect only the fields you explicitly enter:

  • • First Name & Last Name (first_name, last_name)
  • • Email Address (email)
  • • Mobile Number (mobile, normalized to E.164 format such as +91...)
  • • Institute / College Name (institute_name)
  • • Year of Graduation (year_of_graduation)
  • • Program Areas of Interest / Inquiry Question (encoded in the description field)

This static website does not store personally identifiable registration information in browser localStorage, sessionStorage, or URL query parameters, and does not log personal form submissions in the browser console.

2. Why Registration & Inquiry Details Are Collected

Your details are collected solely for legitimate educational program administration purposes:

  • • Recording your expression of interest in Bharat AI Forge cohorts and learning tracks.
  • • Communicating program schedules, curriculum updates, onboarding steps, and eligibility details.
  • • Responding to student, graduate, or engineering college partnership questions submitted through the inquiry form.
  • • Understanding aggregate student interest across AI engineering tracks and academic graduation years.

3. Transmission to the Program Registration Service

Upon your explicit consent and form submission, your form data is transmitted securely over HTTPS via an encrypted POST request (application/json) to the Bharat AI Forge registration backend service hosted on Google Cloud Run:

https://bharatai-forge-api-679998727179.asia-south1.run.app/register

4. Data Handling, Retention & Contacting the Operator

Data access, correction, or deletion requests are handled by the program operator in accordance with the organization's actual internal data governance policy and applicable Indian laws.

Operator Policy & Contact Placeholders (To Be Configured by Program Operator):
  • • Data Controller / Operator Name: [Placeholder: Official Legal Entity Name for Bharat AI Forge]
  • • Privacy / Data Requests Contact Email: [Placeholder: Official Privacy Contact Email]
  • • Data Retention Period: [Placeholder: Subject to the organization's official data retention policy]

Until dedicated privacy contact channels are published above, you may also submit data-related questions using the Ask a Question mode on the main registration form by selecting the Other category.