Privacy Policy

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for HackCelestial 3.0, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, college or organisation, team details, address, email address, and telephone number.

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Run HackCelestial 3.0 — including registration, shortlisting, and event operations
• Develop new features and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for participant support, updates relating to the website and the hackathon, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Find and prevent fraud

You may consult the privacy policy of each advertising or media partner of Tech Alegria where those partners are listed on this site.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on this website, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Tech Alegria's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Consult the respective Privacy Policies of those third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers' respective websites.

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
• Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
• Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at alegriatechnical@mes.ac.in.

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access — You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification — You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure — You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing — You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing — You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability — You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at alegriatechnical@mes.ac.in.

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Tech Alegria and HackCelestial 3.0 do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, contact us immediately at alegriatechnical@mes.ac.in and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.