गोपनीयतानीतिः

1. Information we collect

2. How we use your information

• To create and secure your account, and to run contests: registration, judging, results and prizes.
• To verify entry-fee payments and prevent fraud.
• To send prize money to your payout details.
• To send in-app notifications, and push notifications or emails if you enable them (payment approved or rejected, results, comments, chat replies).
• To answer your questions and chat messages.
• To keep the platform safe, enforce our Terms, and meet legal obligations (for example tax and accounting rules).

We rely on your consent (given when you create an account or turn on a feature) and on the need to provide the service you asked for. You can withdraw consent at any time — see “Your rights” below.

3. What other people can see

Contests are public events. When the public gallery is switched on, the following are visible to anyone: your name, city and profile photo; the performance videos you submit for contests; winner rankings and prizes; and your likes and comments on performances.

Your mobile number, email address, date of birth, payout details and payment screenshots are never shown publicly. They are visible only to you and to our authorised administrators.

4. Who we share data with

• Service providers who help us run TurnOn Talent — web hosting, email delivery, and browser push services (for example Google, Mozilla or Apple deliver push notifications to your device). They may process data only on our instructions.
• Banks / UPI providers when we send prize money to your payout details.
• Authorities when required by law, or to prevent fraud or protect the safety of our users.

We do not sell or rent your personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers.

5. Cookies and local storage

We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies.

6. How we protect your data

Passwords are stored as one-way hashes. Traffic is encrypted with HTTPS. Access to payment screenshots, payout details and contact information is limited to authorised administrators. Uploaded files are checked and stored so they cannot run as code. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and will inform you and the authorities of a data breach as required by law.

7. How long we keep data

• Account and profile data: while your account is active, and deleted within 30 days of an account-deletion request.
• Payment records: kept for as long as tax and accounting laws require (usually up to 8 years), even if your account is deleted.
• Performance videos: kept while your account is active so they can appear in the gallery and winners pages; you can ask us to remove a video from public display after its contest ends.
• Server logs: kept for a limited period for security, then deleted.

8. Your rights

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you can:

• ask what personal data we hold about you and how it is used;
• correct or update your data (most of it directly on your Profile page);
• ask us to delete your data, or withdraw consent for a feature (for example turn off push notifications on the Notifications page);
• raise a grievance with our Grievance Officer at support@turnontalent.com, and, if unresolved, with the Data Protection Board of India;
• nominate a person to exercise these rights on your behalf in case of death or incapacity.

To make a request, email support@turnontalent.com from the email address or mention the mobile number registered with your account.

9. Children

Users under 18 may take part only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for their use of TurnOn Talent. We do not knowingly allow children to use the service without such consent, and we do not track or target children with advertising. A parent or guardian can contact us to review or delete a child's data.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date above shows the latest version, and we will notify you in the app about significant changes.