Privacy

Privacy Policy.

Last updated: 2026-05-02. We try to keep this readable. If something isn't clear, write to hello@sahipick.in.

1. Who we are

SahiPick (sahipick.com) is an India-focused affiliate review site. We earn a commission when you buy via our links; that's how we keep the site free. We're a sole-prop, currently based in India, and we comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP).

2. What we collect

• Page-view analytics, anonymous, aggregated. We use self-hosted Plausible (no cookies, no cross-site tracking).
• Click events, when you click an affiliate link, we log the bundle and offer ID so we know which picks people find useful. Stored against a session-scoped, non-personal ID, not your name, IP, or email.
• Email, if you sign up for price alerts or the weekly digest. Stored only as long as you want it. One-click unsubscribe in every email.
• WhatsApp number, if you opt into our WhatsApp recommendation chatbot. We store the number, your consent text verbatim, and the timestamp. Used only for the conversation you started, plus one optional 7-day follow-up.
• Search queries, when you use the on-site search, we may log the query (without your identity) to improve coverage.

3. What we do NOT collect

• No third-party advertising cookies. We don't run programmatic ads.
• No fingerprinting or cross-site tracking.
• No selling, renting, or trading of personal data, ever.
• No special-category data (Aadhaar, biometrics, financial IDs).

4. WhatsApp loop, DPDP specifics

You opt in via the page widget by ticking the consent box and submitting your number. We store:

• The exact consent text you saw, verbatim.
• The timestamp of consent.
• Your IP address at the time of consent (proof of consent only).
• Your phone number, hashed for matching incoming messages.

Reply STOP to any of our WhatsApp messages to revoke consent. We honour STOP within seconds and delete your number from future-message tables. The DPDP Act gives you the right to consent withdrawal, data correction, and erasure, write to privacy@sahipick.in.

5. Cookies

We use the minimum cookies the site needs to function:

• sahipick_session, opaque session ID for click attribution. Lifetime: 30 days.
• None for advertising. None for cross-site tracking.

6. Affiliate links, disclosure

Every product link on this site is an affiliate link. We earn a commission when you buy. This does NOT change the price you pay, and it does NOT change which products win our rankings, see our methodology page. Disclosure is shown above the fold on every page (the "Includes affiliate links" pill near the top).

7. Data retention

• Click events, 24 months, then deleted.
• Email subscribers, until you unsubscribe.
• WhatsApp consent + numbers, until you reply STOP, then 7 days for legal proof, then deleted.
• Server logs (web access), 30 days.

8. Your DPDP rights

• Access, ask what data we have about you.
• Correction, fix anything that's wrong.
• Erasure, delete your data.
• Withdraw consent, for marketing emails / WhatsApp.
• Grievance, write to our Data Protection Officer at dpo@sahipick.in.

We respond within 30 days as required by the DPDP Act.

9. Where data lives

Our servers are in Hetzner Falkenstein (Germany). Day-to-day operations don't transfer Indian users' data outside India for anything beyond cloud hosting. We use the following sub-processors:

• Hetzner, server hosting (DE).
• Twilio, WhatsApp message delivery (US).
• Postmark, transactional email delivery (CA).
• Plausible (self-hosted), analytics (DE, our box).

LLM providers (Google Gemini, Groq) process the recommendation conversation but don't receive your phone number or email, only the product text + your concern slug. No identity goes off our box.

10. Children

Per DPDP § 9, we do not knowingly process data of users under 18. If you believe a child has shared data with us, write to privacy@sahipick.in and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. Material changes will be notified via the site banner; the "Last updated" date at the top of this page tracks every revision.

12. Contact

General: hello@sahipick.in
Privacy: privacy@sahipick.in
DPO: dpo@sahipick.in