Privacy Policy

This notice explains what personal data CareerNeeti (“we”) collects, why we collect it, who we share it with, and how you can have it corrected or deleted. It is written to meet the notice requirement under Section 5 of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”).

CareerNeeti is operated by [registered entity name], [registered address].

Who this service is for

CareerNeeti is a career-guidance assessment intended for school students, typically aged 13–18. Most of the people whose data we process are therefore childrenunder the DPDP Act, which defines a child as anyone under 18. We treat all assessment data as children’s data unless we know otherwise.

What we collect

When you take the assessment, we collect:

• Identity and contact: the student’s name, class level, and — where provided — an email address and a parent or guardian’s phone number.
• Background context: gender, household income band, location type, parental education, whether the student is a first-generation learner, school subject marks, willingness to relocate, and affordability of coaching.
• Assessment responses and scores: answers to the RIASEC interest inventory, work-value items, a self-efficacy scale, a short personality inventory (TIPI), a career-readiness scale, and an optional timed aptitude section — together with the scores derived from them.
• The generated report and the PDF produced from it.

We do not use advertising trackers, analytics pixels, or third-party cookies anywhere on this site. Section 9(3) of the DPDP Act prohibits behavioural tracking and targeted advertising directed at children, and we do not do it.

Why we collect it

Solely to produce and deliver the student’s career report, and to support the student and their parent or guardian in acting on it. Background context is used because a recommendation that ignores affordability, location, or family circumstances is not useful advice. We do not sell personal data.

Parental consent

Where the student is under 18, we require verifiable consent from a parent or guardian before the report is generated. Consent is confirmed by a one-time code sent to the parent or guardian’s phone number. Assessment answers may be scored to show an on-screen preview before that point, but no report is generated or stored without confirmed consent.

Who we share it with

We use a small number of processors to run the service. Assessment scores and background context are sent to a large language model provider to generate the report narrative; the student’s name is not included in that request. Our processors are:

• Google (Gemini API) — generates the report narrative from assessment scores. Processed outside India.
• Render — application hosting.
• Neon — database hosting.
• Vercel — hosting for this website.
• Sentry — error monitoring.

Because some of these providers process data outside India, taking the assessment involves a cross-border transfer of personal data.

How long we keep it

We retain assessment data for 90 days after the report is delivered, after which identifying fields are erased automatically. Aggregate, non-identifying statistics may be retained longer.

Your rights

You may ask us to show you the personal data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or withdraw consent. Withdrawing consent stops further processing and deletes the report. Write to the grievance officer below and we will respond within 30 days.

Grievance officer

As required by Section 13 of the DPDP Act:
[grievance officer name]
[grievance officer email]

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.