Privacy Policy — How Prabakaran Shankar Handles Your Data

Privacy Policy of Prabakaran Shankar

Learn how Prabakaran Shankar collects, uses, stores, and safeguards your personal information when you visit this website, submit forms, or reach out to him.

Effective date:

This Privacy Policy explains how Prabakaran Shankar (“we”, “us”, or “our”) handles information in connection with this personal website. We collect very little personal data — mainly what you choose to share through the contact form — and we do not sell or rent your information to anyone.

1) Who we are

“We”, “us”, or “our” refers to Prabakaran Shankar, who operates this site. For questions, contact us at .

2) Scope of this policy

This policy covers information collected through this website — the contact form, general browsing activity, and cookies. It does not cover independently operated ventures or third-party sites linked from here, which have their own privacy policies.

3) Information we collect

  • Contact form submissions: name, email address, subject, and message. Depending on the type of enquiry (for example, a publication request, job/collaboration enquiry, or site feedback), the form may also collect an affiliation, a list of requested publications, or a reference to the page you’re writing about.
  • Automatically collected data: IP address and basic request metadata, used only for security and abuse prevention (bot verification and rate-limiting on the contact form).
  • Cookies: see our for the categories used and how to manage them.

We do not run an online store, do not process payments, and do not knowingly collect financial or government ID information through this site.

4) How we collect it

  • Directly from you, when you submit the contact form.
  • Automatically, via standard web request data and cookies when you browse the site.

5) Why we use it (lawful grounds)

  • Legitimate interests: to respond to your enquiry, keep the site secure, and prevent spam/abuse.
  • Consent: for optional cookies (analytics, if enabled) — see our Cookie Policy. You may withdraw consent at any time via the cookie preferences control.

6) Sharing & disclosures

We do not sell your data. We share it only as needed to operate the site:

  • Email delivery: contact form submissions are forwarded to us by email so we can reply.
  • Hosting & infrastructure: this site runs on Cloudflare’s network (hosting, security, and, where enabled, analytics).
  • When required by law or to protect the rights, safety, or property of ourselves or others.

7) Data retention

Contact form submissions are kept only as long as needed to respond to your enquiry and for a reasonable period afterward for our records, then deleted. Security/rate-limiting data (such as a submitting IP address) is retained briefly and automatically expires.

8) Site administration area

This site includes a private login area used to manage and publish content. It is not open for public account registration and does not collect data from site visitors — access is limited to the site owner and is protected by authentication, including optional multi-factor authentication.

9) Cookies & analytics

We may use cookies for essential site functions and, where enabled, for analytics to understand how the site is used. You can manage your preferences via the cookie banner or your browser. See our for details.

10) International processing

As this site runs on a global content delivery network, data may be processed in countries other than your own. We rely on reputable infrastructure providers and apply reasonable safeguards.

11) Your choices & rights

  • Request access, correction, or deletion of personal data you’ve shared with us.
  • Withdraw consent for optional cookies at any time.
  • We aim to respond to requests within 30 days.

12) Children’s privacy

This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children through the contact form.

13) Security

We use HTTPS and rely on our infrastructure provider’s security controls. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect information you share with us.

14) Changes to this policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The Effective date above reflects the latest version.

15) Contact & grievance

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

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📞 +91 9789629727

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