AIRs Network

Privacy Policy

Effective 6 July 2026

AIRs Network (“AIRs”, “we”) is a verified, invite-quality professional network for the IIT community. Privacy is a product feature here — anonymity and k-anonymity protections are built into the platform itself. This policy explains what we collect, why, and your rights.

You must be at least 18 years old to use AIRs. We do not knowingly process the data of anyone under 18.

What we collect

Account basics — when you sign in with LinkedIn we receive your name, email address, and profile photo.
Profile details you provide — campus, department, hall, graduation year, current role and company, society tags, “looking for” tags, and an optional phone number.
Verification data — your institute (.ac.in) email or roll number, used only to mint your Verified badge. These are never displayed to other members.
Content — posts, forum threads and replies, messages, jobs, events, applications, feedback, and reports you create.
Compensation entries — salary data you voluntarily contribute. Individual entries are never shown to anyone; only aggregated medians appear, and any group smaller than the k-anonymity threshold is suppressed entirely.
Usage signal — one record per member per active day (no page-view, location, or behavioral tracking), plus push-notification subscriptions for devices you enable.
Invites — if you joined through an invite link, we record who invited you.

How we use it

To run the network: feeds, messaging, jobs, events, clubs, and notifications you’ve enabled.
To keep it trustworthy: verification, moderation of reported content, and blocking.
To improve it: aggregate activity metrics (how many members were active, not what you individually browsed).
We do not sell your data, show ads, or share your information with third parties for their marketing.

Anonymity protections

Content posted as “Verified Anonymous” never exposes your identity to other members or to moderators — moderation happens against a one-way hashed identifier. Salary data is only ever shown as aggregates over groups of sufficient size (k-anonymity).

Where your data lives

Data is stored with Supabase (database, India region) and served via Vercel. Verification emails are delivered via Resend. Sign-in is provided by LinkedIn (we receive only the basic profile fields above). These providers process data on our behalf and don’t use it for their own purposes.

Your rights

You can edit your profile anytime, control what’s public (e.g. “looking for” visibility), unsubscribe devices from push, and block members.
Access & correction — request a summary of the personal data we hold about you, or correction of anything inaccurate.
Erasure & withdrawal — delete your account (below), or withdraw the consent you gave at sign-up; withdrawing is as easy as giving it was.
Nomination — you may nominate someone to exercise these rights for you if you’re unable to.
We respond to rights requests within 15 days, and always within 90. If you’re not satisfied, you may escalate to the Data Protection Board of India.

Deleting your account

Settings → Delete account permanently removes your profile, content, messages, compensation entries, and subscriptions. As required of intermediaries under Indian law, we retain a minimal registration record (name, email, sign-up and deletion dates) for 180 days after deletion, then erase it. Everything else is removed immediately.

Security & breaches

Access to personal data is protected by row-level security and role-based controls. If your personal data is ever involved in a breach, we will inform you without undue delay and report it as required under Indian law.

Grievance Officer

Anuroop Anand Perli — reachable via the in-app Feedback form (Settings → Send feedback). We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within 15 days. Complaints about content showing a person in a private act, nudity, or impersonation are actioned within 24 hours. Unresolved data grievances can be escalated to the Data Protection Board of India.

Independence

AIRs Network is an independent community platform built by and for students and alumni of the IITs. It is not affiliated with, operated by, endorsed by, or sponsored by any Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kharagpur, the IIT Council, or the Government of India. “IIT” and institute names are used solely to describe our members’ institutions and belong to their respective owners. Member verification is performed by AIRs Network, not by any institute.

Contact

Questions or requests: anirudhjobs7@gmail.com. We may update this policy as the product evolves; material changes will be announced in-app.