What we collect when you use an account, Target Zone or buy a course, why we need it, who else handles it, and how you stay in control of it.
This website, tejasdecodes.in ("tejas.decodes", "we", "us"), is run by Adv. Tejas Sudhakar K, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. For your personal data we are the Data Fiduciary under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act"), and the body corporate responsible for it under S. 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 ("SPDI Rules").
| When | What we collect |
|---|---|
| When you buy a course | Full name, email address, mobile number, postal address, city, state and PIN code, and the course or package you selected. |
| When your order is processed | Order ID, amount, date and time, and whether the payment succeeded, failed or is pending. We receive this from our payment provider. |
| When you create an account | Your name and email address. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email address from Google. Your password is handled by Google Firebase and never reaches us. |
| If you use the reading tools while signed in | The past questions you save for revision or mark solved, and the highlights, bold, italic, underline, strike-throughs and notes you make in the manuals and the PYQ Decoder. These are private to you: not even your faculty can see them. If you are not signed in, they stay only in your own browser. |
| If you buy a course while signed in | The order number and which course it was, linked to your account so it shows in My courses. Whether it was paid is checked with Cashfree each time; card or UPI details never reach us. |
| If you are an approved student in Target Zone | Your exam attempt and module, the study targets your faculty assigns you, your progress on them, your flashcard reviews (which cards you studied, when, and how well you remembered them), any cards you make yourself, any note or "Ask in class" question you choose to send your faculty, and the browsers or phones on which you allow notifications. |
| When you contact us | Whatever you choose to send us by email, WhatsApp or Instagram, such as your name, number and your query. |
| When you browse the site | Basic technical data (such as IP address, browser and device type) processed by our hosting provider to deliver and secure the website. Your light or dark theme choice is stored only in your own browser. |
What we do not collect: card numbers, UPI IDs, net banking credentials or any other payment instrument details. You enter these directly on Cashfree's payment page and they never reach us. Browsing the courses, resources, manuals and the PYQ Decoder does not require an account or any personal data.
| Purpose | Data used |
|---|---|
| Processing and verifying your payment | Name, email, phone, course, amount, order and payment status |
| Giving you access to the course you bought and sending you your login details | Name, email, phone, course |
| Contacting you about your order, including one follow-up if a payment you started was not completed, and answering your queries | Name, email, phone, order details |
| Issuing invoices and keeping accounts as required by tax law (including GST and income tax) | Name, address, state, PIN code, course, amount, order details |
| Running your account and signing you in on any device | Name and email |
| Keeping your revision list, solved questions, highlights and notes on all your devices | Your saved questions, solved questions, marks and notes |
| Target Zone for approved students: targets, flashcards, reminders and progress | Account details, targets, progress, flashcard reviews, notification devices |
| Keeping the website and payments secure and preventing fraud | Order details and technical data |
| Complying with legal obligations and lawful requests from authorities | Only what the law requires |
We process this data because you provide it voluntarily for the purpose of buying a course (S. 7(a) of the DPDP Act) and, where required, on the basis of your consent. Account and Target Zone data is processed on the basis of the consent you give when you create your account (S. 6 of the DPDP Act). We do not use it for any other purpose. We will not send you promotional messages unless you separately opt in, and we do not sell or rent your data to anyone.
We share your data only with service providers who help us run this service, and only as much as each one needs:
Some of these providers may store or process data outside India. Any such transfer is made only as permitted under S. 16 of the DPDP Act.
We follow reasonable security practices, including: encrypted (HTTPS) connections across the site; payments taken only on Cashfree's PCI-DSS compliant checkout; payment system credentials kept on the server and never exposed in the website; prices and orders verified on the server; and access to buyer data limited to us. If a personal data breach occurs, we will inform affected users and the Data Protection Board of India as the law requires.
Under the DPDP Act you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, visit your Account page or email [email protected] from the email address linked to your account or purchase (or mention your order ID) so that we can confirm it is you.
Our services and courses are meant for adults and students preparing for professional examinations. Under the DPDP Act, anyone under 18 is a child. If you are under 18, your parent or lawful guardian must give verifiable consent on your behalf before you create an account, use Target Zone, or make a purchase. If we learn that we have received a child's personal data without such consent, we will delete it.
We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Your theme preference is saved in your own browser's local storage. If you sign in, Google Firebase stores a sign-in token in your browser so that you stay signed in; it is removed when you sign out. Cashfree's checkout page may use cookies that are necessary to complete your payment securely, as described in its own policy.
If you have a concern about how your data is handled, contact our Grievance Officer:
Adv. Tejas Sudhakar K, Grievance Officer
Email: [email protected]
WhatsApp: +91 72043 55682
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
We will acknowledge your grievance promptly and resolve it within one month of receiving it. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India in the manner prescribed under the DPDP Act.
If we change how we handle your data, we will update this page and the date at the top. For significant changes affecting data we already hold, we will inform you directly.