Privacy Policy

Who we are

ISDIC — the Industry Skill Development & Innovation Cell — runs campus-embedded skill development centres and community chapters in India. This website is operated by ISDIC. In this policy, “we” and “us” mean ISDIC.

What we collect, and when

We collect personal data only when you submit one of the two forms on this site. Browsing the site does not collect anything about you.

Partner With ISDIC form (/partner)

• Your full name and designation
• Your organisation’s name, type and city
• Your work email address and mobile number
• The areas you are interested in, and anything you write in the requirement box
• Your explicit consent to be contacted (the form cannot be sent without it)

Join a chapter form (on each chapter page)

• Your full name
• Your email address and mobile number
• Your profession
• Which chapter you are registering for

Both forms also contain a hidden field that human visitors never see or fill in. It exists to catch automated spam and stores nothing about you. To prevent abuse, each submission also records a short-lived technical identifier — a one-way cryptographic hash derived from your connection, never your address itself — which is deleted within 24 hours and used only to slow down automated flooding.

Why we collect it

• Partnership requests — to understand what your institution or organisation is looking for and to reply to you about it. Nothing else.
• Chapter registrations — to register you as a member of that chapter and to tell you about its sessions and events. Nothing else.

We do not sell personal data, share it with advertisers, or use it to build profiles. We do not send marketing unrelated to the thing you asked about.

The basis for processing

You give the data to us voluntarily, for a purpose you can see on the form, and the partner form asks for your explicit consent to be contacted before it can be submitted. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is the law we work to; where it applies, consent and the purpose you were told about are the basis on which we process your data.

Where it is stored

Submissions are written to a database hosted by Neon (PostgreSQL) in the AWS Singapore region — the closest available region to India — and the website itself runs on Vercel. Both providers process the data on our behalf as hosting infrastructure; neither uses it for its own purposes. This means the data leaves India for storage. Access to the database is restricted to the ISDIC team.

Like almost every website host, Vercel keeps short-lived technical logs (such as IP addresses and request times) for security and to keep the service running. We do not use those logs to identify visitors.

Cookies and tracking

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or third-party trackers. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to. If that ever changes, this page will change with it.

How long we keep it

Partnership requests are kept while the enquiry is being handled and for as long as an active partnership conversation continues. Chapter registrations are kept while you are a member of that chapter. We review stored records periodically and delete those that are no longer needed for the purpose they were given for.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us, at any time, to:

• tell you what personal data we hold about you;
• correct it;
• delete it, or withdraw your registration or consent;
• stop contacting you.

Withdrawing does not affect anything done before you withdrew. Deleting a chapter registration means the chapter can no longer tell you about its sessions.

How to reach us

Email contact@isdic.in for privacy requests — say what you need and which email address you used on the site. It reaches the same team that runs the forms. You can also use the Partner With ISDIC form with “Privacy request” in the requirement box, and chapter members can speak to their chapter lead.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the effective date at the top changes with it. Material changes to what we collect or why will be stated plainly here, not buried.