Privacy Policy

1. Scope and Controller

This Privacy Notice explains how this portfolio website collects, uses, stores, and discloses information. The site operator and data controller is Shivansh Malviya. Privacy questions and requests may be sent to ping@localhost8000.me.

This notice applies to the public website, its pages, forms, analytics, integrations, and related technical logs. It does not govern third-party websites reached through external links.

2. Information That May Be Collected

Any or all activity on the site may generate analytics or technical records. Depending on browser settings and visitor actions, the site may collect or generate:

• Technical information: information ordinarily transmitted by a browser or device when accessing a website, including network, device, browser, request, error, and performance information.
• Usage information: information about visits, sessions, navigation, interactions, feature use, and engagement with the site.
• Identifiers: cookies, local-storage values, session identifiers, analytics identifiers, device-derived identifiers, and similar technologies used to distinguish visits or devices.
• Submitted information: information voluntarily entered into a form or communication, including contact details and message content.

3. Purposes of Processing

Technical, identifier, and usage information is used only to operate, secure, measure, analyze, debug, and improve the site and its performance. Submitted information is used to deliver and respond to the relevant message or request, prevent abuse, maintain necessary records, and comply with legal obligations.

The site operator does not sell or rent visitor information and does not use site activity data for targeted advertising, unrelated marketing, or commercial data brokerage.

4. Service Providers and Future Tools

The site may use third-party providers for hosting, analytics, performance monitoring, security, content delivery, and form processing. These providers may process information on behalf of the site operator and under their own terms and privacy notices.

Providers and tools may be added, removed, or replaced without naming each provider in this notice, provided their use remains within the categories and purposes described here. Information will not be intentionally repurposed for sale, targeted advertising, or unrelated marketing without updating this notice and taking any additional steps required by applicable law.

5. Legal Bases and Consent

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, processing may rely on consent, legitimate interests, steps taken at a visitor's request, performance of an agreement, compliance with legal obligations, or another basis permitted by law. Legitimate interests may include site security, fraud prevention, audience measurement, service improvement, and responding to professional inquiries.

Where consent is legally required, visitors may withdraw it prospectively. Withdrawal does not affect processing already performed before withdrawal. Merely visiting or continuing to use the site may not constitute valid consent where applicable law requires an affirmative choice.

6. Cookies, Storage, and Similar Technologies

The site and its providers may use cookies, local storage, session storage, device-identification methods, scripts, request logs, and similar technologies for the purposes described in this notice. These technologies may distinguish a browser or device across sessions for analytics, security, and performance measurement.

Browser controls, privacy extensions, network filters, and provider-specific opt-out tools may limit some collection. Blocking a technology may affect functionality but does not guarantee that all server, security, form, or request logs will cease.

7. Disclosure and Sharing

Information may be disclosed only to service providers and other parties reasonably necessary to operate, secure, analyze, maintain, and improve the site; process visitor requests; comply with law; respond to legal process; or establish and defend legal rights.

The site operator does not sell or rent visitor information. Service providers may receive information solely to perform their relevant services, subject to their own legal obligations and terms.

8. Forms and Communications

Form submissions are transmitted through a third-party form processor and may generate analytics or technical records. Visitors should not submit passwords, government identifiers, financial information, health information, confidential third-party information, or other sensitive data through this site.

Submitted information may be retained and used to respond, maintain necessary correspondence records, prevent abuse, and protect legal interests.

9. Retention

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this notice, to maintain security and records, to comply with law, or to establish or defend legal claims. Retention periods may differ by data type and provider. Information may remain in backups, logs, aggregated records, or provider systems after deletion from active use.

10. International Processing

The site and its providers may process information in India, the United States, the European Economic Area, the Asia-Pacific region, and other jurisdictions. Data-protection laws and government-access rules may differ from those in a visitor's location. Where legally required, appropriate transfer mechanisms or safeguards may be used by the relevant provider or controller.

11. Visitor Rights and Requests

Depending on applicable law, visitors may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, withdrawal of consent, objection to processing, or information about recipients. Visitors may also have the right to complain to a competent regulator.

Requests may be sent to ping@localhost8000.me. Reasonable information may be requested to verify identity and authority. Requests may be limited or denied where permitted or required by law, including when records must be retained for security, legal, or evidentiary purposes.

12. Security and No Guarantee of Anonymity

Reasonable measures may be used to protect information, but no website, transmission, provider, or storage system can be guaranteed secure, private, uninterrupted, or error-free. Device identifiers, IP addresses, submitted information, and combined datasets may permit a visitor or organization to be recognized. Visitors should not assume that browsing is anonymous.

13. Children

This site is intended for a general professional and research audience and is not directed to children. Sensitive personal data about children should not be submitted. If such information is believed to have been submitted, contact the site operator to request review and deletion where appropriate.

14. External Links and Third-Party Responsibility

External links may lead to services such as GitHub, LinkedIn, publications, videos, or conference pages. Those services independently determine their processing practices. The site operator does not control and is not responsible for third-party sites, provider policies, provider security, or provider actions, except to the extent responsibility cannot be excluded under applicable law.

15. Changes to This Notice

This notice may be updated to reflect changes in tools, vendors, practices, law, or site functionality. Changes become effective when posted, unless applicable law requires additional notice or consent. Visitors should review the effective date and this notice periodically.

16. Legal Effect and Contact

This notice is intended to provide transparency and does not create contractual rights beyond those provided by applicable law. Nothing in this notice waives rights or obligations that cannot legally be waived, excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded, or guarantees that every law applies to the site operator.

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, contact ping@localhost8000.me.