Privacy Policy | Tatvika Legal LLP

This Privacy Policy explains how Tatvika Legal LLP collects, uses, shares and protects personal data when you visit www.tatvikalegal.com (the "Website") or contact us through it. We have prepared it with regard to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the rules made under it, and the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made under it.

1. Who we are

Tatvika Legal LLP ("Tatvika Legal", "we", "us" or "our") is a limited liability partnership registered under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (LLPIN: ACA-4180), with its registered office at A-21, New Panchvati, G.T. Road, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201001, India. For personal data collected through the Website, we act as the Data Fiduciary.

2. Scope

This policy covers personal data collected through the Website and through enquiries made by email or telephone using the contact details on the Website. Information we receive in the course of a professional engagement is governed by the terms of that engagement and by our professional obligations of confidentiality, in addition to applicable law.

3. Personal data we collect

Enquiry form: your first and last name, email address, telephone number (optional), the area of your enquiry, your message, and your acknowledgement that submitting the form does not create an advocate–client relationship.
Correspondence: details you share when you email or call us.
Technical data: IP address, browser and device type, and the pages you visit, which are processed by our hosting provider to deliver and secure the Website.
Browser storage: a record that you have accepted the Website disclaimer, and a visitor session token used to load articles and submit the enquiry form. These are stored in your browser and are not used to identify you.

Please do not send confidential or sensitive information (such as health, financial or case-specific details) through the enquiry form. We will ask for what we need once an engagement is agreed.

4. How we use your personal data

To respond to your enquiry and arrange any follow-up.
To carry out conflict checks before agreeing to act, as our professional obligations require.
To keep a record of our correspondence with you.
To operate, maintain and secure the Website.
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

We process your personal data on the basis of the consent you give by submitting the enquiry form or contacting us, and for other lawful purposes permitted under applicable law. We do not use your personal data for marketing and we do not sell it.

5. Who we share it with

Service providers that host and operate the Website on our behalf, including Wix.com (website hosting, enquiry forms and contact management). They may store data on servers located outside India.
Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when the Website loads its typefaces.
YouTube, only if you choose to play a video embedded in an article. Videos are embedded in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode.
Professional advisers, such as auditors, where necessary.
Courts, regulators or authorities, where we are required by law to do so.

Where personal data is transferred outside India, we do so in accordance with applicable law.

6. How long we keep it

We keep enquiry records for as long as needed to respond to you, to maintain conflict-check records, and to meet our legal obligations, after which they are deleted. If you engage us, your information will be retained as part of the matter file in accordance with our engagement terms and applicable law.

7. How we protect it

We use reasonable security safeguards to protect personal data, including encrypted (HTTPS) transmission and access controls with our service providers. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your information and will act in accordance with applicable law if a personal data breach occurs.

8. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may:

ask for a summary of the personal data we hold about you and how it is processed;
ask us to correct, complete, update or erase your personal data;
withdraw your consent at any time (this does not affect processing already carried out);
nominate another person to exercise your rights in the event of your death or incapacity; and
raise a grievance with us and, if it is not resolved, approach the Data Protection Board of India.

To exercise any of these rights, write to us at the address below.

9. Children

The Website is not directed at children. If you are under 18, please do not submit personal data through the Website without the involvement of a parent or lawful guardian.

10. Cookies and similar technologies

The Website does not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. It uses browser storage for the disclaimer record and the visitor session token described above, and our hosting provider may set essential cookies needed for security and performance. Third-party services such as YouTube may set their own cookies when you interact with them.

11. Grievance Officer and contact

If you have a question, request or complaint about this policy or your personal data, please contact our Grievance Officer:

Grievance Officer, Tatvika Legal LLP
A-21, New Panchvati, G.T. Road, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201001
Email: info@tatvikalegal.com · Telephone: +91 98996 72535

We will respond to your request promptly and within the period prescribed under applicable law.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised "last updated" date.