Privacy policy
This policy explains what The JusticeInside collects when you read the site or write to us, what we do not collect, who else is involved, and the rights you have. It is written to be read, not skimmed; it is short because we collect little.
Last updated 1 November 2026
1. Who this covers
This policy applies to justiceinside.com and to email you send to us. The JusticeInside is the data fiduciary under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the controller or business under the privacy laws of the US states, for the personal data described here. Our social media channels are run on platforms with their own policies, which apply to what you do there.
2. What we collect, and why
| When | What | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You read the site | Our web server records the standard details of each request: your IP address, the page requested, the time, the referring page and your browser type. These are ordinary server logs. | To serve the pages, keep the site secure and understand aggregate traffic. We have no legitimate way to run a website without them. |
| You change a setting | Your choice of light or dark theme and, where offered, your preferred edition are stored in your own browser's local storage. | So the site remembers your choice. Nothing is sent to us; you can clear it in your browser at any time. |
| You write to us | Your email address, your name if you give it, and whatever you put in the message. This covers news tips, corrections, pitches, letters, Find a lawyer requests, webinar registrations, directory applications and newsletter sign-ups, all of which arrive by email. | To reply, to do what you asked, and, for newsletters and webinars, to send you what you signed up for. For Find a lawyer requests, to pass your details to one lawyer, which we do only to carry out your request. |
| You are a source | What you tell us and, if you agree to be named, your name and role. | To report the story. Confidential sources are protected as described in our editorial standards. |
The legal basis for all of this is your consent, given by using the site or writing to us, and, for server logs and security, the legitimate use of operating the service. Processing of personal data for journalistic purposes is also exempt from parts of the DPDP Act, and we rely on that exemption for our reporting.
3. What we do not do
- We do not set tracking cookies. The site has no accounts, no sign-in and no paywall.
- We do not run advertising or advertising trackers at present. If that changes, this policy will change first and will say what is collected and by whom.
- We do not sell personal data, share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, or use it for profiling. There is no "sale" or "sharing" to opt out of under the US state laws, and we honour Global Privacy Control signals as a matter of course.
- We do not run third-party analytics scripts at present. If we add them, they will be named here.
- We do not use your messages to train any AI system, and we do not pass them to AI services.
4. Third parties who may see your data
- Hosting. The site is served by a hosting provider that holds the server logs on our instructions and under contract.
- Fonts. Pages load typefaces from Google Fonts. When your browser fetches a font, Google receives the request, including your IP address, under Google's own privacy policy.
- Images. Story images are served from an image delivery network, which receives the same request details when your browser loads a picture.
- Email. Email to us is handled by our email provider.
- Lawyers. If you send a Find a lawyer request, we pass the details you gave us to one lawyer from our directory so that they can contact you. They are then responsible for how they handle your information.
- The law. We will disclose personal data where a court or a lawful authority requires it, and we will tell you if we are permitted to.
Links to other websites, including social platforms and court and government sites, take you to services with their own policies.
5. How long we keep it
Server logs are kept for 90 days and then deleted. Correspondence is kept for as long as needed to deal with it and for two years afterwards, except for newsletter sign-ups, which are kept until you unsubscribe, and journalistic material, which is kept as part of the record of our reporting. Find a lawyer requests are deleted six months after the introduction is made.
6. Your rights
Wherever you are, you can ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, and withdraw consent for anything that depends on consent, such as a newsletter. We answer within 30 days. We will ask you to confirm your identity by replying from the email address concerned.
If you are in India, the DPDP Act gives you these rights, the right to nominate a person to exercise them for you, and the right to complain to the Data Protection Board of India if you are not satisfied with our response. Our Grievance Officer can be reached at contact@justiceinside.com with the subject line Privacy request; we respond to grievances within the period the rules require.
If you are in a US state with a comprehensive privacy law, you have the rights to access, correct, delete and obtain a copy of your data, and to opt out of sale, sharing and profiling; as set out above, we do none of the latter. If we decline a request, we will say why and how to appeal, and you may contact your state attorney general.
We do not discriminate against anyone for exercising these rights.
7. Children
The site is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18, and we do not ask for age. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, tell us and we will delete it.
8. Changes to this policy
When we change this policy we change the date at the top and, for anything material, say what changed in a note at the end. We will not make a change that lets us do something with data already collected that this policy did not allow, without asking you first.
9. Contact
Privacy questions and requests: contact@justiceinside.com, subject line Privacy request. Everything else is on the contact page.