This Privacy Policy explains how Kochaisa Kurmi / के के सेवा न्यास (“Kochaisa Kurmi”, “we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Website”), available at kochaisakurmi.in, collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information.
Kochaisa Kurmi is a private community platform intended primarily for members of the Kochaisa Kurmi community, their families, and community-related activities.
We respect the privacy of our members and aim to collect and use personal information only for legitimate community and Website purposes.
By registering, signing in, submitting information, or using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Private Community Website
Kochaisa Kurmi is not intended to operate as a public database of community members.
Personal information such as member profiles, family relationships, dates of birth, phone numbers, and addresses is not intended to be published on the open public Website.
Certain member information may, however, be visible to registered and administrator-verified members after they sign in.
Information relating to a member may have different visibility depending on:
- The type of information;
- The service being used;
- Membership status;
- Administrator approval;
- Privacy and security requirements; and
- Whether the information belongs to an adult or a child.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on the services you use, we may collect information including:
### Account Information
When you use Google to sign in, we may receive information made available by Google, such as:
- Your name;
- Email address;
- Google account identifier;
- Profile photograph; and
- Other basic account information authorised through the Google sign-in process.
We do not receive your Google password.
### Membership Information
When registering or completing your community profile, we may collect information such as:
- Full name;
- Gender;
- Date of birth;
- Mobile number;
- Email address;
- Profile photograph;
- Native village;
- Native address;
- Current address;
- District, state, or country;
- Marital status;
- Parents' information;
- Spouse information;
- Family relationships;
- Community-related information;
- Education information;
- Occupation or profession;
- Business information; and
- Other information you voluntarily provide through the membership process.
Not every field will necessarily be collected from every member.
3. Google Sign-In
The Website currently uses Sign in with Google as its account authentication method.
We use information received from Google primarily to:
- Identify you;
- Authenticate your account;
- Associate your login with your community membership;
- Prevent duplicate or fraudulent accounts;
- Maintain account security; and
- Communicate with you regarding your account where necessary.
Use of Google Sign-In is also subject to Google's applicable privacy policy and terms.
Google does not become responsible for Kochaisa Kurmi merely because we use its authentication service.
4. Invitation and Membership Verification
Registration or Google authentication alone may not automatically provide access to restricted member information.
We may also process information for:
- Invitation validation;
- Community-membership verification;
- Administrator review;
- Duplicate profile detection;
- Fraud and misuse prevention; and
- Account approval.
An administrator may review information supplied during registration before activating or approving membership.
5. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information for purposes including:
- Creating and maintaining your membership;
- Authenticating your account;
- Verifying community membership;
- Displaying appropriate information in the members-only directory;
- Creating family relationships and family trees;
- Connecting profiles belonging to family members;
- Providing business-directory features;
- Providing matrimonial services;
- Providing community news and announcements;
- Improving Website functionality;
- Responding to support requests;
- Correcting member information;
- Preventing fraud or misuse;
- Maintaining Website security;
- Investigating complaints;
- Meeting legal obligations; and
- Operating other community services requested by members.
We do not intend to use personal information for purposes unrelated to operating or protecting the Website without an appropriate reason or permission.
6. Information Visible to Verified Members
After administrator verification, certain information about adult members may be available to other registered and verified members.
Depending on the Website feature, this may include:
- Name;
- Profile photograph;
- Native village;
- Address or general location;
- Family relationships;
- Professional information;
- Business information;
- Matrimonial information where voluntarily submitted; and
- Other information intended for the community directory.
Access to this information is provided for legitimate community purposes.
Being able to view another member's information does not give a user permission to:
- Publish it publicly;
- Copy it into another database;
- Sell it;
- Share it with unauthorised persons;
- Use it for spam;
- Use it for unsolicited mass marketing;
- Scrape it automatically; or
- Misuse it in any other manner.
7. Information Not Publicly Displayed
Unless specifically intended for a public Website feature, personal membership information is not intended to be displayed to visitors who are not signed in and verified.
In particular, information such as:
- Personal mobile numbers;
- Detailed family information;
- Dates of birth;
- Residential addresses;
- Family-tree relationships; and
- Restricted matrimonial information
should remain inside the appropriate members-only areas.
Some general community content, business information, news, or other non-sensitive content may be publicly available if we specifically design that feature to be public.
8. Family Information
A registered and verified member may be permitted to provide information relating to family members for purposes such as:
- Connecting family relationships;
- Building a family tree;
- Completing family records;
- Linking parents;
- Linking spouses;
- Linking children; and
- Helping other eligible family members join the community.
When you provide information about another adult, you should have an appropriate reason and authority to provide that information.
Where practical, you should inform the other person that their information is being provided.
If that individual later creates their own account, we may allow them to claim, verify, correct, or manage the relevant profile.
9. Children's Information
We take additional care with information relating to persons under 18 years of age.
Children are not intended to have publicly searchable member profiles.
A verified parent, legal guardian, or appropriately authorised family member may provide limited information about a child where reasonably necessary to maintain a private family tree or family relationship.
Children's information:
- Is not intended to appear in the general public directory;
- Is not intended to be published publicly;
- Should be accessible only where necessary for legitimate family-tree functionality;
- Must not be used for matrimonial services;
- Must not be used for targeted advertising;
- Must not be commercially exploited; and
- May be subject to additional access restrictions.
The person providing information about a child must have appropriate authority to do so.
We may request verification of a parent, guardian, or family relationship where necessary.
We may restrict, hide, correct, or remove children's information if we believe its continued processing or display is inappropriate or contrary to applicable law.
10. Family Tree Privacy
Family trees may contain information about multiple individuals.
Family-tree information is provided only for legitimate family and community purposes and is not intended to function as a public genealogical database.
Depending on the relationship structure, a family tree may display:
- Names;
- Relationships;
- Parents;
- Spouses;
- Children;
- Siblings; and
- Other family connections.
Detailed personal information may be subject to additional visibility restrictions.
Information relating to children should receive greater protection than ordinary adult directory information.
11. Business Listings
Verified members may submit businesses or professional services for inclusion in the Website's business directory.
Business information may include:
- Business name;
- Owner or contact person's name;
- Business category;
- Description;
- Business address;
- Phone number;
- Email;
- Website;
- Social-media information;
- Location;
- Photographs; and
- Products or services offered.
Business listings may be reviewed and approved by an administrator before publication.
By submitting a business listing, you authorise us to display the approved business information to the audience specified for the business-directory service.
Where a business listing contains another person's personal information, you should have appropriate authority to provide that information.
12. Matrimonial Information
Eligible adult members may be permitted to submit matrimonial profiles.
A matrimonial profile may be created:
- By the individual concerned;
- By an authorised relative; or
- In appropriate cases, by another person with the adult individual's knowledge and permission.
Matrimonial information may include:
- Name;
- Photograph;
- Date of birth or age;
- Gender;
- Height;
- Education;
- Occupation;
- Family information;
- Native place;
- Current location;
- Marital information;
- Matrimonial preferences;
- Contact person details; and
- Other information voluntarily supplied for matrimonial purposes.
Matrimonial profiles may require administrator approval.
Approved matrimonial profiles are intended to be visible only within the appropriate restricted membership area unless expressly stated otherwise.
We do not permit matrimonial profiles for persons under 18.
13. Information About Other People
You may sometimes provide personal information relating to another individual, particularly through:
- Family trees;
- Family-member registration;
- Business listings; or
- Matrimonial profiles.
You are responsible for ensuring that you have an appropriate basis or permission to provide that information.
Please do not submit another person's sensitive or private information unnecessarily.
If an individual believes that information about them has been provided without appropriate permission, they may contact us and request review, correction, restriction, or removal.
14. Administrator Access
Authorised Website administrators may access personal information where reasonably necessary to:
- Review membership applications;
- Verify member eligibility;
- Manage invitations;
- Correct information;
- Resolve duplicate profiles;
- Manage family relationships;
- Approve business listings;
- Review matrimonial profiles;
- Respond to member requests;
- Investigate complaints;
- Prevent abuse or fraud;
- Maintain security; and
- Operate the Website.
Administrator access should be limited to legitimate operational purposes.
15. Website Usage and Technical Information
When you visit or use the Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the Website, hosting provider, security systems, analytics services, or similar technologies.
This may include information such as:
- IP address;
- Browser type;
- Device type;
- Operating system;
- Pages visited;
- Date and time of access;
- Referring page;
- Approximate location derived from technical information;
- Session information; and
- Error or security logs.
We may use this information for:
- Website operation;
- Security;
- Performance monitoring;
- Troubleshooting;
- Fraud prevention;
- Analytics; and
- Improving the Website.
16. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Keep users signed in;
- Maintain secure sessions;
- Remember preferences;
- Protect against security threats;
- Measure Website usage; and
- Support analytics functionality.
Some cookies may be essential for the Website to operate.
Where required under applicable law, appropriate information or choices regarding non-essential cookies may be provided.
17. Analytics
We may use analytics tools, including services provided by third parties such as Google, to understand how the Website is used.
Analytics may help us understand information such as:
- Number of visits;
- Pages viewed;
- General traffic sources;
- Device categories; and
- Website performance.
Analytics data should not be used by us to intentionally expose private member-directory information publicly.
18. Sharing of Personal Information
We do not intend to sell the private community membership database to advertisers or data brokers.
Personal information may be shared in limited circumstances, including:
### With Verified Members
Information designated for member-directory, family-tree, business, or matrimonial purposes may be shown to eligible registered and verified members.
### With Service Providers
We may use third-party service providers for functions such as:
- Hosting;
- Cloud infrastructure;
- Authentication;
- Email delivery;
- Analytics;
- Security;
- Maps; and
- Other technical services.
These providers may process limited information where necessary to provide their services.
### For Legal Requirements
We may disclose information where required by:
- Applicable law;
- Court order;
- Government direction;
- Valid law-enforcement request; or
- Another legally binding requirement.
### To Protect Users or the Website
Information may be used or disclosed where reasonably necessary to investigate:
- Fraud;
- Security incidents;
- Abuse;
- Threats;
- Serious violations of our Terms; or
- Unlawful activity.
19. We Do Not Sell Member Data
We do not intend to sell or rent private community member personal information to unrelated third parties for their own advertising or marketing purposes.
Other members are also prohibited from selling, scraping, exporting, or commercially exploiting personal information obtained through the Website.
20. Data Accuracy
Much of the information displayed on the Website is supplied directly by members.
Members are responsible for keeping their information reasonably accurate and current.
If you find incorrect information about yourself, your family, business, or matrimonial profile, you may:
- Edit it where the Website provides that functionality; or
- Contact the Website administrator to request a correction.
We may ask you to verify your identity before changing information.
21. Access, Correction and Removal Requests
Subject to applicable law and appropriate identity verification, you may request that we:
- Provide information regarding personal data associated with you;
- Correct inaccurate personal information;
- Update incomplete or outdated information;
- Restrict inappropriate information;
- Remove certain information; or
- Review information submitted about you by another member.
Some information may need to be retained where reasonably necessary for:
- Legal obligations;
- Fraud prevention;
- Security;
- Dispute resolution;
- Record integrity; or
- Legitimate Website administration.
When removing information from a family tree, we may need to consider whether removal would affect records associated with other family members.
Where appropriate, information may be anonymised, hidden, or restricted rather than deleting every technical record immediately.
22. Account Deactivation and Deletion
Members may request deactivation or deletion of their Website account through the available account or contact facilities.
Before processing an account-deletion request, we may verify that the request was made by the legitimate account holder.
Account deletion may result in loss of access to:
- Membership services;
- Family-tree management;
- Business listings;
- Matrimonial profiles; and
- Other members-only services.
Where information is associated with another person, family relationship, legal obligation, complaint, or security record, certain limited information may need to be preserved or anonymised rather than immediately removed.
23. Data Retention
We intend to retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for:
- Providing membership services;
- Maintaining legitimate community records;
- Maintaining family relationships requested by members;
- Providing business or matrimonial services;
- Security and fraud prevention;
- Resolving disputes;
- Meeting legal obligations; and
- Other legitimate Website purposes.
The retention period may vary depending on the type of information.
Where information is no longer reasonably necessary, it may be deleted, anonymised, or securely archived as appropriate.
24. Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect personal information against:
- Unauthorised access;
- Loss;
- Misuse;
- Disclosure;
- Alteration; and
- Destruction.
These measures may include authentication, access controls, restricted administrator access, secure hosting practices, and other security measures appropriate to the Website.
However, no website, database, Internet transmission, or electronic-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should protect their own Google accounts and devices.
25. Protecting Your Account
You should:
- Keep your Google account secure;
- Use appropriate security settings on your Google account;
- Avoid sharing your logged-in device with unauthorised persons;
- Sign out when using a shared device;
- Never publicly share private invitation links; and
- Contact us if you believe your account has been compromised.
26. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website may contain links to third-party websites or use external technology providers.
Third parties operate under their own privacy policies and practices.
We are not responsible for how an independent third-party website collects or uses information after you leave Kochaisa Kurmi.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of services you use.
27. Google Services
Where we use Google services such as authentication or analytics, Google may process information according to Google's own applicable terms and privacy policies.
Our use of Google services does not mean that Google controls or verifies the community information submitted to Kochaisa Kurmi.
28. Business and Matrimonial Contact Information
Information voluntarily included in an approved business or matrimonial listing may be visible to other eligible users of that service.
Before submitting phone numbers, email addresses, photographs, or other contact information belonging to another person, make sure that you have appropriate permission.
Users receiving such information must use it only for the intended purpose and must not:
- Add the individual to unrelated marketing lists;
- Sell the information;
- Publish it elsewhere without permission;
- Harass the individual; or
- Use it fraudulently.
29. Data Breach or Security Incident
If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information, we may take appropriate actions such as:
- Investigating the incident;
- Restricting compromised access;
- Resetting or terminating affected sessions;
- Securing affected systems;
- Notifying affected individuals where appropriate or legally required; and
- Reporting the incident to appropriate authorities where required by applicable law.
30. Legal Basis and Applicable Law
We process personal information for legitimate purposes related to providing and protecting the community Website and, where applicable, based on information and permission provided by users.
We aim to handle personal information in accordance with applicable Indian law, including applicable provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the rules made under it as and when the relevant provisions become effective, and other applicable information-technology and privacy requirements.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to reduce any rights provided to an individual under mandatory applicable law.
31. Children's Privacy and Applicable Law
Indian data-protection law provides additional safeguards relating to children's personal data.
Accordingly, our intended policy is to limit children's data to legitimate private family-related functionality and not use children's information for public member profiles, matrimonial services, behavioural advertising, or unrelated commercial activities.
Where legally required, we may implement additional parental or guardian consent and verification procedures.
32. Complaints and Privacy Concerns
If you believe that:
- Information about you is incorrect;
- Information about you was submitted without appropriate authority;
- Your account has been compromised;
- A member has misused your information;
- A child's information is being improperly displayed;
- Your photograph is being used without permission;
- A matrimonial profile was created without permission; or
- Your privacy rights have otherwise been affected,
please contact us using the Contact Us / Help facility available on the Website.
We may need to verify your identity before acting on certain requests.
33. Grievance Contact
Questions or grievances regarding the processing of personal information may be submitted using the Website's designated contact facility.
Where required by applicable law, we will publish the name or contact details of the person responsible for handling privacy or data-processing enquiries.
34. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time due to:
- Changes in Website functionality;
- New community services;
- Changes to data-processing practices;
- Security requirements; or
- Changes in applicable law.
The latest version will be published on this page with an updated Last Updated date.
Where changes materially affect how we use personal information, we may provide additional notice where appropriate.
35. Relationship With Terms & Conditions
This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms & Conditions.
If you use Kochaisa Kurmi, you are also expected to follow the privacy-related responsibilities described in the Terms, including restrictions against scraping, publishing, selling, or misusing information belonging to other members.
36. Contact Us
For privacy enquiries, correction requests, account-related requests, complaints, or requests relating to information about you, please use the Contact Us / Help facility on:
Kochaisa Kurmi / के के सेवा न्यास
Website: kochaisakurmi.in
Location: Biharsharif, Nalanda, Bihar, India