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DPDP Act 2023 · Section 5 notice · Rule 3

Privacy Notice

This notice is issued by SECQOR (operating the QRAD Secure Governance Platform) as the Data Fiduciary. It is written to be read on its own, in clear language, before you give consent.

Version 2.1 Effective 1 September 2026 Supersedes v2.0 English is the authoritative text

Rule 3 communication links (use these; they sit on this website, not inside another document):

  1. 1. Who we are
  2. 2. Itemised personal data
  3. 3. Specified purposes and the service enabled
  4. 4. Lawful basis
  5. 5. How to give and withdraw consent
  6. 6. Processors and where data goes
  7. 7. What this page loads in your browser
  8. 8. Retention
  9. 9. Security
  10. 10. Your rights
  11. 11. How to exercise rights
  12. 12. Grievance Officer
  13. 13. Consent Managers
  14. 14. Children
  15. 15. Complaint to the Board
  16. 16. Languages
  17. 17. Changes

1. Who we are

Data Fiduciary: SECQOR, operating the QRAD product line, Bengaluru, India. Correspondence: contact@secqor.com.

Person able to answer questions about processing (DPDP Act section 8(9); Rules, rule 9): write to dpo@secqor.com. We use the title “Data Protection Officer” for this mailbox. SECQOR has not been notified as a Significant Data Fiduciary; a statutory DPO under section 10 is therefore not required. The mailbox is still monitored as the public contact for privacy questions and rights.

Grievance Officer (section 13): grievance@secqor.com.

When you read these pages, submit the pilot form, or write to us, SECQOR decides why and how your personal data is processed and is the Data Fiduciary for that processing.

2. Itemised personal data

A. Pilot form (“Book a governance pilot” on qrad.co.in), only if you choose to submit it:

B. Direct email to contact@, dpo@ or grievance@: whatever you choose to include. The same handling rules apply.

C. Rights, withdrawal, grievance, and language-request forms on rights.html: name (optional except where needed to identify you), email, the type of request, and the details you type. Lawful basis is our duty under the Act, not a fresh marketing consent.

D. Hosting logs. Our host (Vercel) necessarily observes IP address, user-agent, referring page and request time in order to deliver the page, keep it available, and resist abuse. We do not run Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight, Hotjar, Clarity, or any session recording. We set no first-party tracking cookies.

We do not sell personal data. We do not profile you for advertising.

3. Specified purposes and the service enabled

For the pilot form, the specified purposes are only:

The service enabled by that processing is scoping and, if we both agree, delivering a QRAD Secure Governance Platform pilot for your organisation.

We will not add you to a marketing list, build a profile for advertising, or use the message to train a public model, unless we come back and ask for a new, separate consent.

4. Lawful basis

Pilot form: your consent under section 6. Consent must be free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous, given by a clear affirmative action. On our form that action is: you open this notice, tick an unticked box, and press Send. Submitting without the box ticked is rejected.

Rights, withdrawal, grievance, language requests: our obligation to honour sections 11–14 and 13 of the Act.

Hosting logs: delivering the page you asked your browser to load, and securing that delivery.

5. How to give and withdraw consent

On the home page and the rights page, a first-visit overlay summarises the visit data in section 2.D as soon as the page loads (section 5: notice before or at the time of collection). Acknowledging that overlay is not consent for the pilot form. You give consent on the pilot form at qrad.co.in/#contact. You may read the consent request there in English or any language in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. The full notice is here in English and Hindi; any other Eighth Schedule language can be requested on the same website, at no cost, using this form. We aim to send that copy within seven working days.

You may withdraw consent at any time, with ease comparable to giving it: use the withdrawal form at rights.html#withdraw (same website, short form, one button). You may also email dpo@secqor.com with the subject “Withdraw consent”. Withdrawal does not make past replies unlawful. After withdrawal we stop, and we instruct our processors to stop, processing for the purposes you consented to, unless another law requires us to keep a limited record (for example, that a withdrawal happened).

6. Processors and where data goes

When you press Send on the pilot or rights forms, your browser posts the fields over HTTPS to Web3Forms (api.web3forms.com), which relays them by email to SECQOR. The site itself does not keep a copy of the form body.

Google Fonts and jsDelivr are not used. Fonts and animation libraries are served from this website.

We do not transfer personal data to a country or territory the Central Government has notified as restricted under section 16. Some processors may use infrastructure outside India. Rule 15 also lets the Central Government set extra conditions if data is made available to a foreign State; we will meet those conditions if and when they are specified.

We do not share your data with anyone for their own marketing, profiling or resale.

7. What this page loads in your browser

qrad.co.in sets no first-party tracking cookies. Pages load only from this origin (HTML, CSS, fonts, scripts, images). The only third-party network call involving your form contents is Web3Forms, and only when you press Send.

A first-visit overlay on the home and rights pages summarises visit-log collection (section 2.D). Acknowledging it stores a versioned flag in your browser’s localStorage so we do not show the overlay again until this notice’s version changes. That flag never leaves your device. You can reopen the overlay from the footer (“Collection notice”). This Privacy Notice page does not auto-open the overlay because this page is the full notice.

8. Retention

Pilot enquiries and related email: 24 months from last interaction, then deleted or irreversibly anonymised, unless a live contract or another law requires a longer hold.

Rights, withdrawal and grievance files: 3 years from closure (so we can show we honoured the request). Those files keep your email, dates and the outcome — not a copy of deleted personal data.

Web3Forms copies: we ask for deletion within 90 days; until a DPA is signed their default period applies.

Hosting logs: the host’s default security window.

Security logs of access to personal data (Rule 6): kept for at least one year.

You can ask for erasure earlier; we will do it unless a lawful exception applies. Live systems are updated first; backups (when we operate them for product data) expire on a documented cycle rather than instantly.

9. Security

We apply safeguards matching Rule 6, in proportion to this being a marketing-site mailbox rather than a live Secure Room:

Post-quantum cryptography described on the marketing pages applies to the product we are building, not to this website’s mailbox.

10. Your rights

You may, under the Act:

11. How to exercise rights

Use https://qrad.co.in/rights.html — the same website as the pilot form. Or email dpo@secqor.com stating the right, the email you used with us, and enough for us to check it is you (we start with a simple confirming question, not identity documents).

We acknowledge within one business day. Access: target 7 working days. Correction, erasure, withdrawal: target 14 working days. We will not demand a new consent merely to let you exercise a right.

12. Grievance Officer

If you are unhappy with how we handled your data or a rights request, use the grievance form or write to grievance@secqor.com. We aim to respond in 30 days, and in any event within 90 days of receipt (Rule 14(3)). You must use this path before complaining to the Board (section 13(3)).

13. Consent Managers

You may give, manage, review or withdraw consent through a Consent Manager registered with the Board (section 6(7); Rule 4, in force from 13 November 2026). SECQOR is not a Consent Manager. We will honour a valid request routed through a registered Consent Manager.

14. Children

This website is for company officers evaluating a governance product. We do not knowingly process a child’s personal data. We do not track children or serve them ads. If you believe a child submitted the form, write to dpo@secqor.com and we will delete the record.

15. Complaint to the Data Protection Board of India

After you have used our grievance path, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India, the digital office established under the Act (notified 13 November 2025; headquarters in the National Capital Region). The Board’s public complaint portal is still being stood up (Chairperson and Members were under recruitment by MeitY as of 2026).

Communication links we can give you today:

When the Board publishes a dedicated complaint URL, we will put that URL in this section within seven days and bump the notice version. Until then, these ministry links plus our grievance form are the means we can actually give you.

16. Languages

You may read this notice in English (this page) or Hindi (privacy-hi.html). You may read the short consent request on the pilot form in any Eighth Schedule language. For a full notice in another Eighth Schedule language, use the request form — no fee, target seven working days. English is authoritative if a translation differs.

17. Changes

If our practices or the law change, we update this page and the version number. We keep prior versions internally so we know which text applied when you consented.

Data Fiduciary: SECQOR · Product: QRAD · Notice v2.1 · Effective 1 September 2026 · Next review: 31 August 2027 or sooner if processing changes