PRIVACY POLICY

01 Introduction & Scope

Welcome to Devengers (https://devengers.org). At Devengers, we are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of our community members, student engineers, event participants, and visitors.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, process, and safeguard your personal information when you access our website, use our Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) streak tracking tools, participate in hackathons, download academic notes and past exam papers, earn verified certificates, or communicate with us.

02 Information We Collect

We collect information you directly provide when using Devengers, as well as data automatically gathered by our server infrastructure:

• Account Information: Name, email address, password hash, bio, college or university name, branch/discipline, graduation year, and social handles (GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter/X).
• Authentication Data: Secure one-time password (OTP) verification tokens delivered via transactional email.
• Academic & Coding Activity: Daily DSA problem-solving streaks, topic mastery progress, submissions, leaderboard points, and hackathon registration details.
• Media & User Content: Profile photos or event showcase images uploaded through our signed content delivery network.
• Certificate Credentials: Verifiable certificate IDs, issue dates, and recipient names issued upon event completion.

03 Log Files & Automated Analytics

Like most modern web platforms, Devengers follows standard log file procedures. These logs record visitors when they navigate the platform. The information recorded includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamps, referring/exit pages, and the number of clicks. This data is not linked to any personally identifiable information and is used solely for system administration, traffic analysis, fraud prevention, and platform security.

05 Third-Party Service Providers

We partner with industry-leading infrastructure providers to deliver our $0 free student platform with high reliability:

• Transactional Email Delivery: Brevo (Sendinblue) and Zoho Mail for delivering account security codes and OTP verifications over encrypted TLS connections.
• Cloud Database: Turso Cloud SQLite (libSQL) with edge encryption located in Mumbai (aws-ap-south-1).
• Media & CDN Storage: Cloudinary and Vercel Global Edge Network for optimized, fast asset delivery.

Each of these third parties maintains their own independent privacy policies and data protection standards.

06 GDPR Data Protection Rights

We want to ensure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

• Right of Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your account and associated personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at support@devengers.org to exercise these rights.

07 CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Info)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers have the right to request that a business disclose what categories and specific pieces of personal data have been collected, request the deletion of personal data, and request that a business that sells personal data not sell that data.

Devengers does NOT sell personal information to third parties, data brokers, or marketing lists under any circumstances.

08 Children's Privacy Protection (COPPA)

Protecting children while using the internet is an utmost priority. Devengers does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. Our platform, coding challenges, and academic materials are intended for high school and university students, adult learners, and software engineering professionals. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will promptly remove such information from our records.