Privacy Policy

No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Vercel Analytics, no advertising pixels, and no tracking cookies. Nothing here builds a profile of you, and nothing here follows you to another site.

That is unusual enough to say first rather than bury.

Three things, and only three.

Your email address, if you subscribe to the newsletter. It goes to MailerLite, which runs the mailing list, and it is used to send you the newsletter. Nothing else.

Your IP address, to a visitor counter. The number on the home page is served by a third party, counterapi.dev, and your browser calls it directly when a page loads. That means the operators of counterapi.dev see your IP address, the same way any server you connect to does. This is the least obvious thing this site does, which is exactly why it is written down here. It counts visits; it does not identify you to me.

Your payment and billing details, if you pay for a project. Only if. Browse the site, read a post, book a call — none of that involves a payment, and this section does not apply to you. See below for what happens when it does.

Payments are processed by Razorpay Software Private Limited, a payment gateway licensed by the Reserve Bank of India.

Your card, UPI or netbanking details never reach this website. Checkout happens on Razorpay's own infrastructure. This site's servers never see, never receive and could not store a card number, a CVV, a UPI PIN or a bank credential, because the data does not pass through them.

What Razorpay collects in order to take the payment — your name, email, phone number, billing address and the payment instrument you used — is handled under Razorpay's own privacy policy, and they are the controller of it. What comes back to me is the outcome: that a payment succeeded, for how much, and against which project. Enough to raise your invoice, and no more.

Invoices and payment records, for eight years. Not a choice. Indian tax and GST law requires books of account to be retained for that period, and a request to delete them cannot be honoured while it applies.

Project correspondence, for the life of the engagement and a year after. Email threads, scoping notes and anything you sent me about your business. Kept so I can support what I built; deleted on request once the engagement is closed.

Your newsletter subscription, until you unsubscribe. Every newsletter carries an unsubscribe link, and it works immediately.

Nothing in either category is sold, rented, or shared with anyone for advertising. The only third parties that receive any of it are the ones named on this page.

Four small values are stored in your browser's local storage. None of them is ever sent anywhere, and no server on this site can read them.

• The email address you subscribed with, so the signup form can tell you that you already have.
• Whether you prefer the light or dark theme.
• Which currency you chose to see prices in.
• A developer convenience flag used while writing posts.

Clearing your browser storage removes all of them. Nothing breaks if you do.

Booking a call sends you to Topmate, paying sends you to Razorpay, and the social links send you to X, LinkedIn and GitHub. Those are other companies' sites with their own privacy policies, and once you are there this policy no longer applies.

Ask, and you get: a copy of what I hold about you, a correction to anything wrong in it, or its deletion — subject only to the eight-year records above, which I am not permitted to delete.

There is no form for this and no account to log into. Email the address on the contact page and say what you want done. You will hear back within one working day, and the request itself costs nothing.

If what this site does with data changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. There is no mailing list for policy updates — the page is the notice.

Email rajatevencodes@gmail.com, or use the contact page for the postal address and phone number. That address is also the one to write to with a complaint about how your data was handled.