Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how ideoMap ("we", "us", or "this website") handles your information, your privacy protections under applicable laws (including India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023), our use of cookies and advertising, and how payment transactions are processed.

1. Core Principle: Zero PII & Complete Anonymity

We believe political reflection is deeply personal. We designed ideoMap from the ground up so you can participate without surrendering your identity:

• No Account Required: We do not ask for sign-ups, passwords, phone numbers, email addresses, or government identification to take the quiz.
• Your Name / Pseudonym: Any name or nickname you enter before starting the quiz is stored only locally in your own browser (via localStorage) so it can appear on your personal result card. It is never transmitted to our servers, stored in our database, or shared with advertisers. You are free to enter any fictional name or handle.
• Your Quiz Answers: During the quiz, answers are temporarily encoded in the URL (for example, ?a=0123401234) to enable navigation and allow direct sharing with friends. The code does not contain your name, contact details, or device identifiers.
• Language Choice: Saved in your browser's local storage so the site remembers whether you chose English or Hindi.

2. Community Statistics & Aggregate Data

When you complete the quiz, our app submits an anonymous record to our cloud database to compute community-wide statistics and trends (such as those visible on the Community Stats page). This submission contains only:

• Your resulting political philosophy category (e.g., Social Democracy, Classical Liberalism)
• Numerical scores for the 4 policy areas (Economy, Society, Civil Liberties, World Politics)
• Your overall Left–Right spectrum band (1–7)
• Selected quiz language (English or Hindi)
• A submission timestamp

This data contains no personal identifiers, names, emails, or IP addresses. Because this dataset is genuinely non-personal and aggregated, it falls outside the restrictions applicable to personal data under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act, 2023).

3. Payments and Payment Gateway (Razorpay)

We may offer optional paid access to view comprehensive community ideology analytics, detailed regional trends, and macro-level demographic reports.

• Third-Party Payment Processor: All payments are processed securely through our trusted payment gateway partner, Razorpay Software Private Limited ("Razorpay").
• No Financial Data Stored: ideoMap does not collect, receive, or store any sensitive banking credentials, credit/debit card numbers, CVVs, net banking passwords, or UPI PINs. All payment transactions are executed inside Razorpay's PCI-DSS compliant payment checkout.
• Data Handled by Razorpay: When initiating checkout, Razorpay may ask for your mobile number or email address solely to issue payment OTPs, deliver transactional receipts, and comply with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulations. This information is governed by Razorpay's Privacy Policy.
• Strict Decoupling: We maintain a strict separation between payment receipts and quiz responses. Your payment record is never linked to your ideological scores or quiz submissions in our database.

4. Advertising and Cookies

This website shows ads served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info. To learn more, see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are shown a consent banner before personalised ads or cookies are activated, and may modify their choices at any time.

5. Web Analytics

We may use Google Analytics to understand aggregate visitor counts, popular pages, and general device/browser demographics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect aggregate traffic data without identifying individual users. It does not receive your name or individual quiz responses. You can opt out using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

6. Your Choices & Data Rights

• Local Data: You can erase your saved nickname and language choice at any time by clearing your browser cache and local storage for this domain.
• Cookies: You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time.
• Community Data: Because survey responses stored in the cloud are completely anonymous and stripped of all personal identity, individual records cannot be singled out, retrieved, or altered after submission.

7. Children's Privacy

ideoMap is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 18 in jurisdictions where parental consent is required for data processing), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from minors.

8. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect new features, payment integrations, or regulatory changes. The "Last updated" date at the top indicates when the latest revisions took effect.

9. Contact & Grievance Redressal

In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, if you have any questions, feedback, or privacy-related concerns, please reach out to our Grievance Contact:

• Email: YOUR-EMAIL@example.com
• Response Window: We respond to inquiries within 24 to 48 business hours.
• Contact Page: You can also reach us via our Contact Us page.