PRIVACY POLICY

At AnkurChandrakant.com and The Better Planet Society (TBPS), digital privacy and cyber defense are not merely legal obligations—they are the foundational mission of our work. Founded by a cybersecurity and digital forensics specialist, our systems are built on principles of Privacy by Design and Data Minimisation.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, process, store, and protect your digital personal data in strict compliance with:

• The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), enacted by the Parliament of India.
• The Information Technology Act, 2000 (as amended) and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
• Applicable directives issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) regarding cybersecurity logging and incident response.

Under the provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the Data Fiduciary responsible for determining the purpose and means of processing your personal data is:

We do not collect unnecessary personal information. Depending on how you interact with our platform, we may collect the following categories of data:

Under Section 4 and Section 6 of the DPDP Act 2023, personal data is processed solely on the following lawful grounds:

• Freely Given, Specific Consent: Provided when you check the consent agreement on the Cyber Warriors registration form or submit a quiz assessment.
• Performance of Educational Service: Processing your name and score to generate and issue your cryptographically verified Certificate of Digital Awareness.
• Training Communications: Transmitting notifications regarding upcoming masterclasses, free training sessions, cyber scam alerts, and educational materials.
• Cyber Defense & Legal Compliance: Maintaining audit trails to prevent fraud, automated bot abuse, or cyber security breaches as mandated under Section 70B of the IT Act, 2000.

Our mission is to combat cyber extortion and digital vulnerability, not profit off personal data. All information provided to Ankur Chandrakant and The Better Planet Society remains confidential and restricted to authorized mission operations.

Project Cyber Warriors is committed to training vulnerable users, with over 23,000+ women and 100,000+ students empowered to date. To ensure maximum safety:

• Confidential Directory: Contact information of participants is never published, displayed publicly, or shared with other attendees.
• Controlled WhatsApp / Broadcast Groups: When joining official training broadcast groups, settings are configured to admin-only transmission to prevent unauthorized scraping of numbers by fellow members.
• Immediate Unsubscribe: Every broadcast message provides an immediate, hassle-free opt-out mechanism.

Our website uses minimal, non-invasive cookies to optimize your browsing experience:

• Strictly Essential Cookies: Required for site navigation, CDN caching, and security header verification.
• Client LocalStorage: Used solely to temporarily store your Cyber Quiz answers and dark mode preferences locally on your browser. This information never leaves your device unless you submit the quiz.
• No Third-Party Retargeting: We do not deploy Facebook Meta Pixels, ad-tech fingerprinting, or cross-site tracking scripts.

You can configure your browser to reject cookies or clear local storage at any time through your browser settings without losing access to core public content on this site.

To deliver a modern, resilient, and fast web experience, we engage reputable infrastructure providers under strict Data Processing Addendums (DPAs):

• Cloud Hosting & CDN: Vercel / Cloudflare for global content delivery, DDoS mitigation, and edge caching.
• Transactional Email Infrastructure: Resend / SendGrid / AWS SES for sending confirmation emails and digital certificates.
• Embedded Media: YouTube / Vimeo for streaming TEDx keynotes and press video clips. Interacting with embedded videos is governed by Google's privacy policies.

Because our work focuses on digital forensics and ethical hacking, we implement enterprise-grade security controls:

We retain personal data strictly for the duration necessary to fulfill the educational purposes for which it was collected:

• Cyber Warriors Records: Maintained for the duration of the 1 Million Cyber Warriors training cohort (maximum 24 months), after which records of non-active participants are permanently purged.
• Certificate Verification Records: Retained indefinitely in hash format to enable employers, colleges, and participants to authenticate verified certificates.
• Security Server Logs: Retained for 180 days in compliance with CERT-In cybersecurity directives, after which logs are automatically overwritten.

As a Data Principal under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you enjoy statutory rights:

To exercise any of these rights, simply email our compliance team at info@ankurchandrakant.com with the subject line "DPDP Data Principal Request". All verified requests are processed within statutory timeframes.

In accordance with Section 9 of the DPDP Act 2023:

• We do not undertake tracking, behavioral monitoring, or targeted advertising directed at individuals below the age of 18.
• When conducting school workshops and student cybersecurity sessions, participation is arranged through authorized educational institutions and with parental/institutional consent.
• If a parent or guardian discovers that a child has submitted personal details without appropriate consent, they may contact us for immediate deletion of that data.

In the unlikely event of any security anomaly or data breach affecting personal data, we adhere to statutory response protocols:

• Immediate containment, forensic isolation, and root-cause analysis by our digital forensics team.
• Mandatory notification to the Data Protection Board of India and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) within mandatory reporting windows.
• Direct notification to affected Data Principals outlining remedial steps and preventive advice.

In accordance with Rule 3(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2021 and Section 13 of the DPDP Act 2023, our designated Grievance Officer is: