Privacy Policy
Last updated 29 September 2026. In short: we collect as little as we can, we never sell it, and you can ask us to delete it.
Who we are
My Kolkata (mykolkata.vercel.app) is run by Paramarsh Labs (“we”, “us”). We decide how your personal data is used, which makes us the data fiduciary under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the controller under laws like the EU and UK GDPR. For anything on this page, write to paramarshlabs@gmail.com.
What we collect, and why
Your account
You sign in with Google. Google tells us your name, email address, profile photo and a Google account ID. We use them to create your account, keep you signed in, and show your name and photo back to you. Our sign-in provider, Supabase, keeps security logs of sign-ins, which include your IP address.
Stories you post
A story on the Contribute page is its title, its text, an optional link, and the time you posted and last edited it. It is stored with your account ID so that only you can edit or delete it. Other people see the story, but never your name or email. A story leaves the wall 24 hours after you first post it, and we delete it from our database within a day after that. You can delete it yourself before then.
Experiences feedback
When you swipe on an Experience, we store the direction, your star rating and any note you write, against that Experience. This feedback is not stored with your account, so we can't trace it back to you. Please don't put personal details in the note.
The Pujo Personality
Your quiz answers and result are worked out and kept in your browser, not on our servers. If you choose to save your Pujo to your account, we store your answers with your account. A share link carries your result (never your name) inside the link itself, so anyone you send it to can open it. If you tell the quiz you are under 18, your result is kept only until you close the tab, and the quiz sends no analytics events.
Your location
Near You and Explore can use your device's location, only if you allow it in your browser. We use it to find places near you, which means sending it to our server and to our maps provider for that search. We don't store it.
Usage analytics, only with your consent
If you allow analytics cookies, we use Google Analytics and Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and see which features people use, and Vercel Speed Insights to measure how quickly pages load. The Pujo Personality also sends events such as “quiz started” and “result revealed”. These events contain no names, no free text and no location, and share links are recorded by route, never by card. If you don't allow analytics, none of this loads.
Server logs
Like every website, our hosting provider records technical details of each request, such as your IP address, browser and the page asked for. We use these only to keep the service running and secure.
Who we share it with
We don't sell your personal data, and we don't use it for advertising. We use these providers to run the service, and they process data for us under their own terms:
- Supabase: sign-in and our database, hosted in Singapore.
- Vercel: hosting, and Web Analytics if you allow it.
- Google: sign-in, and Google Analytics if you allow it.
- Ola Maps: maps and place search, including your location when you search near you.
Some of these providers process data outside India. We may also share data if the law requires it, or to protect the service and its users from fraud or abuse.
How long we keep it
- Your account: until you ask us to delete it.
- Stories: 24 hours on the wall, then deleted within a day.
- A Pujo saved to your account: until you delete it from your result page, or delete your account.
- Analytics: under the retention settings of Google Analytics and Vercel, and never longer than 14 months.
Your rights
You can ask us for a summary of the personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct, update or delete it. You can withdraw consent, such as for analytics, at any time, and it is as easy as giving it. You can nominate someone to act for you if you die or can't act yourself. If you are in the EU or UK you can also object to or restrict processing, ask for a portable copy, and complain to your data protection authority.
To do any of this, including deleting your account, email paramarshlabs@gmail.com from the address you sign in with. We'll reply within 30 days. If you're not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.
Children
Accounts are for people 18 and over. We don't knowingly create accounts for anyone younger; if you think a child has signed up, tell us and we'll delete the account. The Pujo Personality can be used without an account, and treats anyone who says they are under 18 as described above.
Security
Data travels over HTTPS, our database is only reachable by our servers, and only a story's author can change it. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your data, we'll tell you and the authorities as the law requires.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy we'll update the date at the top, and tell you on the site if the change is significant. See also our Terms of Use.