Privacy Policy

Phulki is a nonprofit initiative based in Kolkata, working with rural women and children in Bankura and Purulia, West Bengal. This website is one of the ways we connect with people who want to learn about our work, support it, or get in touch with us.

We take seriously the information people choose to share with us. This policy explains, in plain language, what information this website collects, how it is used, and who to contact with questions or requests.

The only way this website collects personal information directly from visitors is through the Join the Spark form, used by people who want to get in touch with Phulki.

When you fill in and submit this form, we collect: your name; your email address; your country and phone number; whether you are contacting us on behalf of an organisation, and if so, its name and (optionally) its website; which areas you are interested in contributing to; and the message you write to us.

The form does not accept file attachments or uploads.

Like most websites, our server also receives some basic technical information automatically when you visit, such as your browser type and IP address, simply as part of how web traffic normally works. We do not currently use this information for analytics or tracking.

Outside the Join the Spark form, this website does not ask visitors to create an account or log in.

We use the information submitted through the Join the Spark form to read and respond to your enquiry, and to understand what kind of collaboration or contribution you are offering, so the right person at Phulki can follow up and assess how to work together.

We do not use this information for advertising or marketing, and we do not sell or rent it to anyone.

When you submit the Join the Spark form, your information is sent as an email to Phulki's contact mailbox. We do not store form submissions in a website database — the email itself is our record of your enquiry.

Information submitted through the form may be read by authorised Phulki team members or volunteers who handle enquiries and correspondence.

Because the form is delivered by email through a third-party email service, that service provider also processes the message as part of delivering it to us (see Cookies and Third-Party Services below). We do not sell, rent or share your information with advertisers or other unrelated third parties.

Based on our review of the website, it does not use cookies, analytics tools or advertising trackers of its own.

The Join the Spark form delivers your message using Gmail's email service (Google), which processes the message as part of that delivery, under Google's own privacy policy.

The web hosting service that runs this website may use its own technical infrastructure, such as basic server logs, to operate and secure the site. This is separate from the website's own code and is outside what we can describe in detail here.

Some pages link to third-party sites that Phulki does not operate, including Instagram, Facebook and Google Maps. If you follow one of these links, you leave the Phulki website, and that third party's own privacy policy applies.

We retain personal information submitted through the Join the Spark form for up to 12 months after our last communication with you, unless a longer period is required by law. After this period, we delete the information from our records.

If you have submitted information through this website and would like to know what we hold, ask for a correction, or ask us to delete it, please contact us at phulki.thedream@gmail.com. We will do our best to respond within a reasonable time.

The Join the Spark form is intended for individuals aged 18 and above. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through this form. If we become aware that someone under 18 has submitted personal information, we will take appropriate steps to delete it. Parents or guardians may contact us at phulki.thedream@gmail.com with any concerns.

Phulki may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version will always be available on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us at phulki.thedream@gmail.com.