This Privacy Policy explains how Arunaksha Sarkar ("I", "me", "my", or "the Site operator") collects, uses, stores, protects, and otherwise handles information when you visit or interact with arunaksha.com or an official ChatGPT Sites-hosted deployment of the same website (collectively, the "Site").
The Site provides information and services relating to AI visibility, AI-ready websites, local search visibility, website improvement, business visibility audits, and related digital consulting services.
By using the Site or submitting information through it, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Who Is Responsible for Your Information
The Site is operated by:
Arunaksha Sarkar Kolkata, West Bengal, India
I determine why and how personal information submitted through this Site is used.
For privacy enquiries, correction requests, deletion requests, or complaints, you may contact me through:
Phone / WhatsApp: +91 83368 52135
When contacting me about privacy, please begin your message with:
"Privacy Request"
This helps distinguish privacy requests from general business enquiries.
2. Scope of This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through:
- the Site;
- the Free AI Visibility Audit form;
- enquiry and contact interactions initiated through the Site;
- phone or WhatsApp interactions initiated from Site links;
- information reasonably necessary to operate and secure the Site; and
- publicly available business information reviewed when you request an audit or similar service.
This Privacy Policy does not govern third-party websites, applications, platforms, or services that you may access through external links on the Site.
3. Information You Provide Directly
Free AI Visibility Audit
When you request a Free AI Visibility Audit, the Site may collect:
- your name;
- business name;
- website URL;
- Google Business Profile URL;
- main service or business activity;
- business location;
- phone number;
- email address;
- privacy acknowledgement; and
- any other information you deliberately provide through the form.
Website and Google Business Profile URLs may be optional where indicated on the form.
Please provide only information that is relevant to your business enquiry.
4. Information Created When You Submit a Form
When an audit request is submitted, the Site may also generate or store operational information such as:
- a unique submission identifier;
- submission date and time;
- submission status;
- source information;
- a sanitized referrer;
- information needed for validation and security; and
- information necessary to detect or limit abusive or automated submissions.
Referrer query strings are removed before the referrer information is stored by the audit system.
The audit system may use a hashed identifier derived from network information such as an IP address for rate limiting and abuse prevention.
Raw IP addresses are not stored as part of the audit_leads record.
5. Publicly Available Business Information
If you request an AI Visibility Audit or another business visibility service, I may review information that your business has already made publicly available.
This can include information appearing on:
- your business website;
- your Google Business Profile;
- public search results;
- public business directories;
- public social profiles;
- public reviews;
- publicly accessible business listings; and
- other relevant public sources.
This information may be used to understand how your business is represented online and to prepare an audit, recommendation, proposal, or related service.
I do not treat publicly available information as permission to use it for unrelated purposes.
6. How I Use Your Information
Information collected through the Site may be used to:
Provide Requested Audits
To review your business information and provide or prepare the Free AI Visibility Audit you requested.
Respond to Enquiries
To contact you about your enquiry, audit request, service question, or potential project.
Assess Service Requirements
To determine whether services such as an AI Visibility Upgrade, AI-ready website, or related consulting work may be appropriate for your business.
Communicate About a Potential Project
To discuss requirements, scope, availability, pricing, timelines, or next steps where you have expressed interest in working together.
Operate the Site
To provide, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve Site functionality.
Prevent Abuse
To identify spam, automated submissions, excessive requests, malicious activity, or other misuse.
Maintain Security
To protect the Site, its data, visitors, and infrastructure against unauthorized access or misuse.
Maintain Business Records
Where reasonably necessary to document enquiries, agreed work, communications, disputes, compliance matters, or other legitimate business activities.
Comply With Law
Where processing, preservation, disclosure, or other action is required or permitted by applicable law or a valid legal process.
7. What I Do Not Use Audit Submissions For
Submitting a Free AI Visibility Audit does not automatically subscribe you to a marketing mailing list.
Unless you separately agree to receive marketing communications, information submitted through the audit form will not be used simply to send unrelated bulk promotional email.
I do not sell or rent audit-form submissions or personal contact information to data brokers or unrelated advertisers.
The Site currently does not operate an advertising-data marketplace.
8. Privacy Acknowledgement and Consent
The Free AI Visibility Audit form requires you to acknowledge the applicable privacy notice before submitting the request.
By submitting the form, you are asking me to process the information you provide for purposes connected with:
- your requested audit;
- responding to your enquiry;
- evaluating your business's digital presence;
- communicating with you about relevant services; and
- operating and protecting the Site.
Where applicable law requires separate or additional consent for a specific type of processing, that consent will be requested separately.
You are not required to provide more information than is reasonably necessary for the requested service.
9. ChatGPT Sites Hosting and Managed Storage
This website is hosted using ChatGPT Sites, a service provided by OpenAI.
Information submitted through the Free AI Visibility Audit is currently stored using managed database infrastructure available through ChatGPT Sites.
The audit system currently uses managed database storage containing records associated with audit submissions and rate limiting/security.
OpenAI may process information as necessary to provide, host, maintain, secure, and operate the ChatGPT Sites service.
OpenAI's handling of data in connection with its hosting and platform services is governed by the agreements, terms, policies, and data-processing arrangements applicable to the Site operator's OpenAI account.
10. No Guaranteed India-Only Data Storage
You should not assume that information submitted through the Site is stored exclusively within India.
The hosting infrastructure used for ChatGPT Sites does not currently provide this Site with a guarantee that its deployed Site data, managed database information, logs, or related Site information will remain solely within a particular geographic region.
Information may therefore be processed or stored outside your state, country, or region.
By using the Site and submitting information, you acknowledge that such processing may occur where permitted by applicable law.
I will update this Privacy Policy if the Site's hosting or data-residency arrangements materially change.
11. AI and Automated Processing
The Site relates to AI Visibility services, but this does not mean every piece of information you submit is automatically sent to a generative AI model.
At the effective date of this Privacy Policy, the Site's audit submission process primarily:
- validates the information you submit;
- stores the valid submission in the Site's managed database; and
- makes the submission available for review.
The submission process itself does not make an automated decision determining whether you qualify for a service, credit, employment, insurance, or another similarly significant decision.
If the way AI-assisted tools are used to process submitted personal information changes materially, this Privacy Policy will be updated where appropriate.
12. Information Sharing
I may disclose personal information only where reasonably necessary for purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
This may include the following circumstances.
Hosting and Infrastructure Providers
Information may be processed by service providers necessary to host, secure, maintain, or operate the Site, including OpenAI as the provider of ChatGPT Sites.
Service Providers
If additional service providers are introduced in the future, information may be shared with them only where reasonably necessary to provide the requested service or operate the business.
Examples could include analytics, communication, security, hosting, or professional-service providers.
This Privacy Policy will be updated if material new categories of processing are introduced.
Legal Requirements
Information may be disclosed where reasonably believed to be required by:
- applicable law;
- court order;
- legal process;
- regulatory request;
- law-enforcement request; or
- another legally valid obligation.
Protection of Rights and Security
Information may also be disclosed where reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, unlawful activity, or threats to rights or safety.
With Your Direction or Consent
Information may be shared where you specifically request, authorize, or consent to the disclosure.
13. No Sale of Personal Information
I do not sell personal information submitted through the Free AI Visibility Audit.
I do not rent your submitted contact details to unrelated third parties.
I do not provide audit submissions to unrelated businesses so they can market their products or services to you.
14. Data Retention
Personal information will not be intentionally retained longer than reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Audit and enquiry information will generally be retained for up to 12 months after the last substantive interaction relating to the enquiry unless there is a reasonable reason to retain it for longer.
Information may be retained longer where:
- you become a client;
- an active project or business relationship continues;
- the information forms part of contractual or business records;
- retention is needed to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights;
- there is an unresolved dispute;
- security or fraud investigation requires retention;
- applicable law requires retention; or
- another legitimate and lawful reason exists.
Where information is no longer reasonably required, it should be deleted, anonymized, or otherwise disposed of appropriately.
Security and rate-limiting information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to detect abuse, protect the Site, and investigate relevant security incidents.
15. Data Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure of information submitted through the Site.
The current audit submission system includes measures such as:
- server-side validation;
- field-length restrictions;
- request-size controls;
- format validation;
- same-origin protections;
- anti-spam measures;
- rate limiting;
- restricted database access;
- non-public lead storage; and
- error handling designed not to report a successful submission unless the record has actually been persisted.
No method of online transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Accordingly, while reasonable safeguards are used, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
16. Payment and Financial Information
The Site currently does not collect or store payment-card information through the Free AI Visibility Audit.
Do not enter:
- debit or credit card numbers;
- CVV numbers;
- online banking passwords;
- UPI PINs;
- financial-account passwords; or
- other payment authentication credentials
into any audit, enquiry, or free-text field on this Site.
If payment functionality is introduced in the future, payments may be handled using an appropriate third-party payment processor, and this Privacy Policy will be updated where necessary.
17. Sensitive Information
The Site is intended for ordinary business enquiries.
Do not submit unnecessary sensitive personal information through the Free AI Visibility Audit.
In particular, do not submit:
- passwords;
- authentication credentials;
- payment-card information;
- government identification numbers unless specifically and lawfully requested;
- detailed medical records;
- protected health information;
- private information belonging to unrelated third parties; or
- confidential information that is not reasonably necessary for your business enquiry.
Businesses such as clinics or healthcare providers should provide ordinary business information only and should not submit patient records or patient-identifiable health information through the Site.
18. Cookies and Analytics
At the effective date of this Privacy Policy, the Site does not intentionally use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or another advertising analytics system implemented by the Site operator.
The underlying hosting platform may process technical or operational information necessary to deliver, secure, troubleshoot, and operate the Site.
If non-essential analytics, advertising technologies, cookies, pixels, or comparable tracking technologies are added in the future, this Privacy Policy and any required cookie or consent mechanism will be updated accordingly.
Where consent is legally required before using non-essential tracking technologies, those technologies should not be activated until the required consent has been obtained.
19. WhatsApp and Telephone Links
The Site provides ways to contact me through telephone and WhatsApp.
When you choose to contact me through WhatsApp, your interaction also becomes subject to WhatsApp's and its operator's applicable terms and privacy practices.
When you use a telephone link, your device and telecommunications provider may process information associated with the call.
These third-party services operate separately from the Site.
You should review their privacy practices where relevant.
20. Third-Party Links
The Site may link to third-party websites or platforms such as:
- Google;
- Google Business Profiles;
- WhatsApp;
- social networks;
- portfolio websites;
- client or project websites;
- search services; or
- other external resources.
I do not control the privacy, security, availability, or data-handling practices of independent third-party websites.
Visiting a third-party service is subject to that service's own terms and privacy policies.
21. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on the law that applies to you and your information, you may have rights or choices regarding your personal information.
Even where a particular statutory right is not yet applicable, I will generally consider reasonable requests concerning personal information that I control.
You may request that I:
- confirm whether I hold personal information relating to you;
- provide information about data you previously submitted;
- correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
- update outdated contact information;
- delete information that is no longer reasonably required;
- stop using information for a particular optional purpose;
- withdraw consent where processing depends on consent; or
- address a concern about how your information has been handled.
Certain requests may be refused or limited where retention or processing remains reasonably necessary for:
- legal compliance;
- fraud or security prevention;
- contractual obligations;
- dispute resolution;
- establishment or defence of legal claims; or
- another lawful reason.
22. How to Make a Privacy Request
To make an access, correction, deletion, or privacy-related request, contact:
Arunaksha Sarkar
Phone / WhatsApp: +91 83368 52135
Please begin the message with:
Privacy Request
Include enough information to allow me to identify the relevant submission.
For security reasons, I may request reasonable verification before providing, changing, or deleting information associated with an enquiry.
Do not send passwords, payment credentials, or excessive identity documentation when making a privacy request.
I will aim to respond within a reasonable period and within any time limit required by applicable law.
23. Grievances and Complaints
If you believe your personal information has been handled improperly, you may first contact me so that the issue can be reviewed.
Privacy and Grievance Contact:
Arunaksha Sarkar Kolkata, West Bengal, India Phone / WhatsApp: +91 83368 52135
Please begin your message with:
Privacy Complaint
I will review reasonable privacy complaints and take appropriate corrective action where warranted.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits any right you may have to approach an applicable regulatory authority or seek another remedy available under law.
24. Data Breaches and Security Incidents
If I become aware of a security incident involving personal information under my control, I will take reasonable steps to:
- investigate the incident;
- limit further unauthorized access where possible;
- assess the nature and likely consequences of the incident;
- secure affected systems;
- preserve relevant evidence where necessary; and
- provide notifications where required by applicable law.
25. Children
This Site is a business-services website and is not designed or directed toward children.
Individuals under 18 should not submit personal information through the Free AI Visibility Audit without appropriate involvement or authorization from a parent or legal guardian where required.
If I become aware that personal information relating to a child has been collected in circumstances where it should not have been collected, reasonable steps may be taken to delete or otherwise appropriately handle that information.
26. Business Transfers
If the business, Site, or relevant business assets are reorganized, transferred, acquired, or sold in the future, information associated with legitimate business operations may be transferred as part of that transaction where permitted by law.
Any recipient would be expected to handle personal information consistently with applicable privacy obligations.
27. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect:
- changes to the Site;
- new functionality;
- changes to how information is collected or used;
- new service providers;
- analytics or cookie implementation;
- changes to ChatGPT Sites infrastructure;
- changes to business operations; or
- changes in applicable laws or regulatory requirements.
When material changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this page will be revised.
Where required by law, additional notice or consent may be provided before materially different processing begins.
28. Relationship With Other Policies
This Privacy Policy should be read together with the Site's:
- Terms of Use;
- Service Terms;
- Refund & Cancellation Policy;
- Disclaimer; and
- Cookie & Analytics Policy, once non-essential analytics or tracking technologies are introduced.
If you become a paying client, additional terms in an individual proposal, statement of work, service agreement, or contract may also apply.
29. Contact
For privacy questions, concerns, requests, or complaints:
Arunaksha Sarkar Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Phone / WhatsApp: +91 83368 52135
For privacy-related messages, please begin with:
Privacy Request
30. Final Privacy Principle
The Site is designed to collect only the information reasonably needed to understand and respond to a business enquiry.
Submitting an audit request should not require giving up unnecessary personal information.
The aim is simple:
collect what is needed, protect it reasonably, use it for the purpose you expect, and remove it when it is no longer reasonably required.