Privacy policy

Who we are

Codebyakshay is a mobile app development studio in Datia, India, owned by Akshay Kumar Sinha and registered as a micro, small and medium enterprise (Udyam UDYAM-MP-15-0022478). We decide how the information described here is used. For any privacy question, email hello@codebyakshay.com.

When you contact us

The contact form asks for your name, your email, your phone number (optional) and a message about your app. We use them only to reply to you and talk about your project, because you asked us to get in touch. To keep spam out, the form runs Cloudflare Turnstile, a security check that looks at your browser and IP address to tell people from bots. Cloudflare handles that check under its own privacy policy.

Your message is saved in a database on our own server, and we're told about it by email and by a WhatsApp message to us (through Meta's WhatsApp service) that carries only your name and how to reach you. Beyond that, we don't sell or share your details, and we don't add you to a mailing list. We keep a conversation for up to 12 months after our last message. Copies in our backups are deleted within 30 days after that. If you become a client, we keep what the law requires for business records.

If you write to us on WhatsApp, by email or by phone instead, those services also handle your message under their own privacy policies.

Counting visits

We count visits with Umami, which runs on our own server. It sets no cookies, doesn't store your IP address and can't recognise you from one visit to the next. It tells us things like which pages are read and which country visits come from, never who you are. Because it collects nothing personal, it runs without asking.

We also keep our own simple visit log on our server: the page, the language, the website you came from (only its name, like google.com) and whether you're on a phone, tablet or computer. It stores no IP address, no cookies and nothing that could identify you, so it also runs without asking.

Google Analytics, only if you agree

If you choose "Accept" in the cookie banner, we also use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the site. Google then sets cookies that last up to 2 years, and processes the data on its own servers, which may be outside your country. We don't run ads, so advertising features stay off.

If you choose "Reject", or don't choose, Google's script isn't loaded at all. You can change your mind at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.

Cookies on this site

NEXT_LOCALE: remembers the language you picked, for 1 year. Needed for the site to work.

consent: remembers your answer to the cookie banner, for 6 months. Needed for the site to work.

_ga and _ga_…: Google Analytics, set only after you choose "Accept", for up to 2 years.

Our server

Like any website, our server sees your IP address and the page you ask for, so it can send you that page. It may keep these in technical logs for up to 30 days to keep the site secure, then deletes them. To stop abuse, it also counts how often an address sends messages or opens pages. Those counts stay in memory, are never stored, and reset within a day.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, object to how we use it, or withdraw your consent. Email hello@codebyakshay.com and we'll reply within 30 days. These rights come from India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act and, for visitors in the EU and UK, the GDPR.

If you think we've handled your data wrongly, you can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.

Children

This site is for businesses and people planning an app. It isn't meant for children, and we don't knowingly collect their details.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we use data, we'll update this page and the date at the top.