1. Overview & Context
LarpinTech operates from India as an experimental technology and research collective disguised with satirical corporate branding. We respect personal privacy and are committed to handling digital personal data responsibly, referencing the framework established by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act, 2023).
This document explains our factual data practices in straightforward terms. We do not operate ad networks, sell user profiles, or deploy surveillance trackers.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information strictly when you voluntarily submit it to us:
- Newsletter Subscriptions: Your email address when you voluntarily sign up via our site form to receive engineering dispatches and community updates.
- Technical Server Logs: Standard request telemetry automatically processed by our hosting infrastructure (such as IP address, request timestamp, browser user-agent, and HTTP referrer) strictly to safeguard site reliability and mitigate denial-of-service abuse.
- Community Inquiries & Role Applications: Details you provide when contacting us or submitting an expression of interest to join an experimental project.
3. Purpose of Processing
We process your data exclusively for defined, legitimate purposes:
- To transmit email newsletters, experiment briefings, and updates you explicitly requested.
- To respond to direct inquiries and coordinate open-source project collaboration.
- To prevent fraudulent automated submissions and protect our systems against automated abuse.
4. Data Retention & Storage
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was gathered. Newsletter subscriber emails are retained until you choose to unsubscribe or request deletion. Server-level technical access logs are rotated and purged on standard server cycles.
5. Your Rights: Unsubscribe & Deletion
Drafted with reference to the DPDP Act, 2023 and our community standards, you maintain rights regarding your personal information:
- Unsubscribe at Any Time: Every email dispatch sent from our platform contains an immediate unsubscribe link.
- Right to Erasure / Deletion: You may request complete erasure of your email address from our subscriber records by emailing our contact address.
- Right to Correction: You may update or correct your contact information at any time.
6. Third-Party Services & Transfers
We do not sell, rent, or trade email lists to third-party brokers. Data may be processed by technical service providers who host our server infrastructure or deliver transactional emails, bound by strict data processing confidentiality obligations.
7. Contact & Grievance Inquiries
For privacy inquiries, data deletion requests, or questions regarding this draft policy, please contact our maintainers:
Contact: privacy@larpintech.com (TODO: owner to confirm)
Jurisdiction: Hyderabad / Telangana, India