Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal data DesiQuiz collects, why we collect it, how long we retain it, and how you can exercise your rights under India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.

Data We Collect

• Account data: email and/or phone number, display name, hashed password.
• Age and residency self-declarations made at registration.
• Gameplay data: quiz attempts, answers, response times, and category levels.
• Wallet data: an append-only coin ledger of earnings and redemptions (no payment instrument data is ever collected).
• Consent records for our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.

Purpose of Collection

We use this data to operate gameplay, compute coin balances, maintain leaderboards, prevent fraud, fulfil reward redemptions, and comply with applicable law.

Cookies, Advertising and Analytics

Advertising. DesiQuiz may show advertisements provided by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, which can include ads based on your earlier visits to this and other websites. You can manage personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings, or opt out of personalised ads from other vendors at aboutads.info. You can read how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Advertisements are always labelled as advertisements.

Analytics. We may use an analytics service such as Google Analytics to understand which pages are visited and how people move through the site, for example from a study guide to a quiz. These services collect device and usage information such as the pages viewed, browser and approximate location, and may use cookies. We configure them not to build advertising profiles, and we do not use them to identify you by name.

Storage on your device. Apart from cookies set by those services, DesiQuiz keeps your sign-in session and display preferences (such as dark mode) in your browser's local storage. You can clear them at any time in your browser settings; clearing them signs you out.

Retention

Account and ledger data is retained for as long as your account is active and for a reasonable period afterward to satisfy audit and legal obligations. You may request deletion of your account via your profile; some records (e.g. the append-only coin ledger) may be retained in anonymized or aggregate form as required for financial audit trails.

Your Rights

You may access, correct, opt out of notifications, or request deletion of your account data at any time from your profile settings.

Grievance Officer

For privacy-related grievances, contact our Grievance Officer at grievance.officer@desiquiz.com.