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Political Strategy Warfare (“we”, “us”) is a political strategy and campaign management consultancy operating from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. This policy explains how we handle personal data in connection with this website and our professional services.

For the purposes of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”), we act as a Data Fiduciary in respect of data we collect directly — for example, through the forms on this site. Where we process personal data supplied by a client in the course of an engagement, we act on that client's documented instructions, and the client remains the Data Fiduciary for that data.

Registered entity name, GST registration and registered office address to be inserted prior to launch, and this policy to be reviewed by the client's legal counsel.

We collect only what a stated purpose requires:

• Consultation enquiries: name, designation, mobile number, email, state, constituency, office contested, expected election month and year, party affiliation (optional), engagement scope, budget band and your message.
• Resource downloads: name, email and optionally your organisation or constituency.
• Newsletter: email address only.
• Career applications: the CV and covering note you send us by email.
• Website analytics: aggregate, cookieless usage measurement through self-hosted Umami. No cross-site tracking, no advertising identifiers, no profiles of individual visitors.
• Technical logs: IP address and request metadata, retained briefly for security and rate-limiting purposes.

We process personal data on the basis of your consent, given at the point of collection for a specific stated purpose, or where processing is necessary for a contract you have entered into with us or for compliance with a legal obligation.

Consent is recorded with a timestamp and the purpose it was given for. It is not bundled: subscribing to the newsletter is separate from making an enquiry, and neither is a condition of the other.

Data collected for one purpose is not repurposed. An email given to download a playbook is not added to the newsletter list, and an enquiry submitted through the consultation form is not used for marketing unrelated services.

We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we do not use it to build profiles of individuals.

Some of our services involve processing voter data. Where this occurs, it is performed under the client's written instruction, with the client acting as Data Fiduciary and bearing the corresponding obligations.

• We work from publicly available electoral rolls and published election results, from research we have lawfully commissioned, and from data the client lawfully holds.
• We do not purchase voter contact databases from third parties.
• Contact lists used for outreach are built on recorded opt-in consent, with opt-out honoured immediately.
• Engagement data is deleted or returned to the client at the end of the retention period agreed in the engagement contract.

• Consultation enquiries: retained for 24 months from last contact, then deleted.
• Resource download records: retained for 24 months from download.
• Newsletter subscriptions: retained until you unsubscribe, then the record is deleted.
• Career applications: retained for 12 months unless you ask us to keep them longer.
• Campaign engagement data: retained for the period specified in the engagement contract, then deleted or returned to the client.
• Technical logs: retained for 30 days.

Where a longer period is required by law or for the establishment or defence of legal claims, we retain only what that purpose requires.

Under the DPDP Act you have the right to:

• Obtain confirmation of whether we process your personal data, and a summary of that data.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data, and completion or updating of it.
• Request erasure of your personal data where the purpose is served or consent is withdrawn.
• Withdraw consent at any time, as easily as it was given.
• Nominate another person to exercise these rights on your behalf in the event of death or incapacity.
• Have a grievance addressed by our Grievance Officer before approaching the Data Protection Board.

We respond to requests within the statutory period. There is no charge for exercising these rights.

Personal data is stored on infrastructure we control, located in India. Access is limited to staff who need it for the purpose it was collected for. Transport is encrypted, form submissions are rate-limited, and administrative access is restricted and logged.

Where an engagement requires stricter arrangements — for example separate infrastructure or shorter retention — those are agreed in the engagement contract.

This site uses essential cookies only. Our analytics is self-hosted and cookieless: it records aggregate page views and referrers, and it does not set identifiers, follow you across sites, or build a profile of you.

We do not embed third-party advertising or social tracking scripts. Video embeds load only when you choose to play a video.

For any question, request or complaint about how we handle personal data, contact our Grievance Officer:

• Email: [email protected]
• Post: Grievance Officer, Political Strategy Warfare, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
• Telephone: +91 93445 12345

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

We update this policy when our practices change or when the law requires it. Material changes are notified to newsletter subscribers, and the revision date below always reflects the current version.