Privacy Policy

To run the IdeaThon platform, we collect the following:

• Personal details — your name, personal email, college email, and college name. Optionally, your LinkedIn profile URL and WhatsApp/phone number if provided during registration.
• Payment information — processed securely via Razorpay. NoobSync Innovate does not store your card number, CVV, UPI PIN, or any sensitive payment credential.
• Submission content — your project details, video links, repository links, and demo links submitted in Round 1 and Round 2.
• Communication — emails we send you via Brevo for verification, notifications, and competition updates.

• To verify your eligibility via institutional email verification (OTP + magic link).
• To process your registration payment.
• To facilitate team formation, invitations, and team-level communication.
• To enable submissions and judging across both rounds.
• To send important updates about the competition, deadlines, and results.
• To showcase winning submissions for recognition and promotional purposes, in accordance with the IP clause in our Terms & Conditions.

To operate this platform, we share necessary data with the following processors:

• Razorpay — secure payment processing (PCI-DSS compliant).
• Brevo — transactional email delivery (verification & notifications).
• Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) — aggregate website traffic & usage analytics.
• Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corp.) — anonymised usage analytics & interaction heatmaps.

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with any third party for marketing purposes.

Your information is stored on secured servers, with access restricted to authorised NoobSync Innovate administrators only. Passwords (where applicable) are hashed. Verification tokens are time-limited and single-use.

We take reasonable industry-standard measures to protect your data from unauthorised access, loss, or misuse. However, no system on the internet can be guaranteed 100% secure; you participate at your own awareness of this risk.

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.
• Correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Request deletion of your personal data (subject to legal record-keeping obligations).
• Withdraw consent to non-essential communications at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@noobsync.com from your registered email address.

We retain your information for the duration of the competition and for a reasonable period afterward for the following purposes:

• Record-keeping and audit compliance.
• Results archival and the public "Series" page.
• Future communication about NoobSync Innovate editions, unless you opt out.

You may request earlier deletion of your account via info@noobsync.com.

We use a single secure, httpOnly session cookie to keep you signed in (it holds a short-lived JWT that JavaScript cannot read) and minimal browser storage to remember your team context.

We also use Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity to understand aggregate website traffic and how visitors use our pages — for example page views, referral sources, approximate location (country/region), device type, and anonymised interaction heatmaps. This helps us improve the platform. These services set their own cookies and process data on our behalf.

We do not use third-party advertising cookies or sell your data. You can block or clear cookies at any time via your browser settings.

For any privacy-related questions, data requests, or concerns, contact us at info@noobsync.com. We aim to respond within 7 business days.