Privacy
Policy

While using our Site or engaging with our services, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. Such information includes, but is not limited to:

• > Name and contact information (email address and/or phone number)
• > Organization or institution details
• > Account credentials based on the account created with respect to our organisation
• > Payment and billing information
• > Professional information including but not limited to, resume, skills, experience
• > Service-specific data
• > Communication records including but not limited to inquiries, support tickets and feedback

We collect and use information for the purposes listed below:

• > To deliver our cybersecurity education and training services
• > To provide custom CTF challenge development and educational CTF experiences
• > To offer curriculum design and consulting services
• > To coordinate speakers, sessions, and events
• > To operate our products (such as HaxRefs job referral platform and CTF Platform)
• > To process payments and manage client accounts
• > To communicate about services, events, and opportunities
• > To improve our services and develop new offerings
• > To comply with legal and contractual obligations
• > To build and maintain our cybersecurity community

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We implement reasonable security measures to protect data against all/any unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, and/or destruction of your personal information. However, given that currently no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, thus, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We do not sell, trade, and/or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

• > Service Delivery: With client organizations (such as the universities, companies, competition organizers) when necessary to deliver contracted services
• > HaxRefs Platform: Job seeker profiles and referral information may be shared with potential employers and referrers with due consent of parties
• > Public Information: Event participation, community contributions, and CTF platform achievements may be publicly displayed
• > Service Providers: With third-party service providers including but not limited to, hosting, payment processing, email services and/or analytics, under strict confidentiality agreements
• > Business Partners: With event co-hosts and community partners (e.g., GDSC, GDG, The Hacker's Meetup) for collaborative events
• > Legal Requirements: If required by law or in response to requests by public authorities
• > Business Protection: To protect the rights, property, and/or safety of Haxnation, our clients, and/or others

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• > Access to your personal information
• > Correction of inaccurate data
• > Deletion of your account and associated data
• > Data portability
• > Objection to certain data processing activities

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the email address provided below.

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We may retain certain information after account deletion for legitimate purposes such as preventing abuse, maintaining historical leaderboard records, or complying with legal obligations.

Our Site is intended for users who are 13 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 years of age, we will take steps to delete such information.

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit before proceeding with the services of such sites.

Your information may be transferred to and maintained on servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. By using our Site, you consent to such transfers.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.