PRIVACY POLICY

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LAST UPDATED · 10 NOVEMBER 2026

This page explains, in plain English, what personal data Blackcrest Club collects when you use this website or request a Crest Club card, why we collect it, who can see it, how long we keep it and how you can ask us to change or delete it. It is written for India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (the "DPDP Act").

1. Who we are

Blackcrest Club ("we", "us") runs Crest Club, an application-only, free, in-person community for people in finance and AI, and The Daily Crest, a free evening news brief. For the purposes of the DPDP Act, Blackcrest Club is the Data Fiduciary for the data described here.

Contact for anything on this page: message our founder, Meet Vaya, on LinkedIn. Mumbai, India.

2. What we collect

WHAT YOU GIVE US IN THE FORM

• Your full name
• Your WhatsApp number
• Your email address
• Your LinkedIn profile link
• A short description of your work
• Anything you choose to write under "What you would bring" (optional)
• Your consent, and the date and time you gave it

WHAT IS RECORDED AUTOMATICALLY

• The page you applied from, and campaign tags in the link you clicked (for example utm_source=linkedin). These tell us which post or advert brought you here.
• Google Analytics: cookies and similar technology that count visits, record which pages you view, roughly where you are (city or country, not your exact location), what device and browser you use, which site or link brought you here, and whether a request was sent. We use this only as totals, to understand how the site is used. Your form answers are never sent to Google Analytics.
• If our Meta Pixel or LinkedIn Insight Tag is switched on: cookies and similar technology that record visits to this website and whether a request was sent. Meta and LinkedIn may link this to your account with them under their own privacy policies. Your form answers are never sent to Meta or LinkedIn.

WHAT YOU SHARE LATER

• Messages you send us on WhatsApp or email.

We do not ask for, and you should not send us, financial account details, identity documents, passwords or any sensitive information.

3. Why we collect it

• To read and consider your request for a Crest Club card.
• To reply to you personally on WhatsApp or email, as you agreed when you ticked the consent box.
• If you become a member: to add you to the members group and invite you to dinners, hangouts, learning sessions, trips and introductions.
• To send you news about the club and The Daily Crest. You can ask us to stop at any time.
• To understand which posts and adverts bring people to the club, in total, so we can spend less time on what does not work.
• To keep the form free of spam and misuse.

We rely on your consent for all of the above. We will not use your data for any other purpose without asking you first.

4. Who sees it

No one outside the Blackcrest Club team. Your request is read only by the small team that reviews requests. We do not sell your data, rent it, or share it with sponsors, advertisers, brokers or anyone else for their own use.

To run the website and the club we use a few service providers who store or carry data on our behalf and only on our instructions:

Some of these providers may store data on servers outside India. We only use providers that protect data with reasonable security safeguards. We may also disclose data if Indian law requires us to.

5. How long we keep it

• Requests that are not accepted: deleted within 12 months of our reply, so we can recognise a repeat request and tell you first when a new chapter opens.
• Members: kept while you are a member, and deleted within 12 months after you leave.
• If you withdraw consent or ask for deletion: deleted within 30 days, unless the law requires us to keep something for longer.

6. Your rights

Under the DPDP Act you can:

• Ask for a summary of the personal data we hold about you and how we use it.
• Ask us to correct, complete or update it.
• Ask us to delete it.
• Withdraw your consent at any time. This is as easy as giving it: message us on LinkedIn, or reply "STOP" on WhatsApp. Withdrawing does not affect anything we did before you withdrew, but we will no longer be able to consider your request or keep you in the club.
• Nominate another person to exercise these rights for you if you die or become unable to.
• Raise a grievance with us, and, if you are not satisfied with our answer, complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

To use any of these rights, message us on LinkedIn or WhatsApp with your name and the WhatsApp number you applied with, so we can find your request. We aim to reply within 7 days and to finish within 30 days.

7. Age

Crest Club is for adults. You must be 18 or older to request consideration. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18; if we learn that we have, we will delete it.

8. Keeping it safe

Requests are stored in a private Google Sheet that only the review team can open, protected by account passwords and two-step sign-in. No method of storage is perfectly secure, but if a breach ever affects your data we will tell you and the Data Protection Board as the law requires.

9. Cookies

This website does not need cookies to work. We use Google Analytics, which sets cookies to count visits and understand how the site is used. If the Meta Pixel or LinkedIn Insight Tag is switched on, they set cookies to measure our adverts. You can block or clear cookies in your browser settings, opt out of Google Analytics with Google's browser add-on (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout), and manage advertising preferences in your Meta and LinkedIn account settings. The site works the same either way.

10. Not investment advice

Blackcrest Club is a community and news platform. Nothing shared on this website, in The Daily Crest, in the members group or at our events is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change how we use your data, we will update this page and the date at the top. If the change is significant, we will tell members directly and ask for consent again where the law requires it.

12. Contact and grievances

Message our founder, Meet Vaya, on LinkedIn. Blackcrest Club, Mumbai, India.