Privacy notice

The data fiduciary is the BeachHack organising team, CODe, Christ College of Engineering (“we”, “us”). We process your data on the basis of your consent under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

• Account. Your name, email address and profile photo from Google sign-in. We never receive your password.
• Eligibility. The domain and batch year of your college email, to confirm you are a current student. If an address is refused, we record only the reason and the domain or batch year, not the address.
• Profile. Phone number, department, year of study, gender, GitHub username, LinkedIn profile, an optional portfolio link, skills, a short written response, T-shirt size and food preference.
• Team. Team name, track, project title and description, and the pitch deck.
• Activity. When you complete your profile, create or submit a team and last visit, and any action the organisers take on your team.
• Security. A one-way hash of your network address and a random browser identifier, used only to limit repeated form submissions.
• Notifications. Messages in your Updates list, your device's push address if you enable notifications, and the browser type of each new sign-in.
• Help requests. Your question, the page and browser it was sent from, and your name, email and phone number so we can reply.

We use five strictly necessary cookies: your sign-in, Google sign-in security, a team invite code, an organiser’s replacement link and form rate-limiting. Unsaved answers are kept only in your browser. We do not collect government ID (including Aadhaar), passwords or location, and we use no analytics or advertising trackers.

• To confirm that you are a current B.Tech student of Christ College of Engineering and a member of only one team.
• To review applications and publish each team's result on this site.
• To plan catering and T-shirts. Gender is used only in aggregate totals and is never shown to reviewers.
• To inform you about future BeachHack seasons, as you agree at registration. You may opt out at any time.

We do not sell your data, share it with sponsors or use it for advertising.

• Your teammates see your name, department and whether your profile is complete, but not your phone number, email or written response.
• Organisers and reviewers see your application except your gender, which is available only in an export marked sensitive. Pitch decks are stored privately, open through links that expire within minutes, and every view is logged.
• Service providers process data only on our instructions: Vercel (hosting), Neon (database, located in Ohio, United States), Cloudinary (pitch decks) and Google (sign-in). All data is encrypted in transit.

• Teams that do not submit are deleted two days after registration closes. Their members keep their profiles.
• Profiles without a submitted team are deleted on 1 December 2026, one week after screening results are published.
• Submitted applications are kept until 31 August 2027 for queries about results and certificates, then deleted with all related records.
• Updates messages are deleted after 90 days, help requests 90 days after they are resolved, and refused sign-in records after 90 days.
• Files no longer attached to a team are deleted the following day.
• A sign-in lasts 30 days on a device, or until you sign out.

When a profile is deleted, its Updates, push addresses and sign-in records are deleted with it.

• Until your team submits, you can edit your profile or leave your team at any time.
• After submission the team is locked. To access, correct or delete your data, or to withdraw consent, email beachhack@cce.edu.in with your team name. Withdrawing consent also withdraws you from HackForChrist.
• Participants under 18 may register only with the consent of a parent or guardian.

Email beachhack@cce.edu.in with “Privacy” in the subject line. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Any change to this notice updates the version shown above. The version you accepted is recorded with your registration.