Project IAS is built to provide UPSC Civil Services aspirants with a calm, distraction-free study environment. We respect your privacy, collect minimal data, and never monetize your learning habits or study progress.
We never sell, rent, or monetize your personal data or study history. No ad brokers or commercial tracking.
Your questions and prompts to our UPSC AI mentor are processed in isolation and are never used to train public LLMs.
Telemetry via PostHog & Umami is anonymized and strictly used to ensure uptime, fast search, and study tool stability.
Export or purge your bookmarks, quiz attempts, and profile at any time. Fully aligned with India's DPDPA 2023.
Project IAS is designed as a distraction-free digital study room for aspirants preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Examination. Unlike commercial platforms that profit from user engagement metrics or ad retargeting, our architecture prioritizes academic focus, data minimization, and strict confidentiality.
This Privacy Policy details how we collect, process, protect, and handle your information when you access our structured subject notes, daily current affairs, past year questions (PYQs), quizzes, study plans, bookmarking features, and AI mentorship.
We collect only the data necessary to provide a reliable, personalized study experience.
Your data is used strictly for technical, operational, and educational purposes:
Synchronizing saved bookmarks, custom revisions, and quiz scores seamlessly across your devices.
Providing contextual, syllabus-aligned answers for Mains GS papers, Essay brainstorming, and Prelims logic.
Detecting rate-limit violations, guarding against malicious traffic, and ensuring low-latency search speeds.
Sending account security notifications or opt-in daily current affairs summaries when explicitly requested.
We treat queries sent to our AI Mentorship tool as confidential academic work:
To operate a reliable portal, we work with trusted infrastructure services under strict data processing agreements:
Database hosting, auth & secure file storage
Edge network, serverless rendering & CDN
Product diagnostics & aggregate analytics
We protect your study data using industry-standard technical measures:
You maintain full ownership of your academic records and personal data on Project IAS:
Download a full copy of your bookmarked articles, saved notes, and quiz histories in JSON/CSV format.
Update your account details or profile settings at any time directly through your dashboard.
Request complete deletion of your account, bookmarks, and chat history with zero residual backups.
Unsubscribe from non-essential daily current affairs or updates with a single click in any email.
As a platform built specifically for Indian civil services preparation, Project IAS complies with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), 2023 of India.
We act as a Data Fiduciary for the personal information you entrust to us. Processing is based on your explicit consent granted upon account creation.
For aspirants accessing Project IAS from outside India, your data is hosted in secure datacenters adhering to equivalent international protection standards.
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data rights, or need assistance with account deletion, please contact our Data Protection Office:
Email: privacy@projectias.in
Response Time: Within 3 business days
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