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Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains how IICPC collects, uses and protects your data when you register for and take part in the IICPC Winter AI Hackathon 2026.

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1Data collection for recruitment

As part of your participation in the hackathon, IICPC collects and stores your personal and performance data. It is very important to note that this data is stored with us for future recruitment processes.

IICPC uses it for its own internship selection and future openings, and partner firms and sponsors recruit directly from IICPC's participant pool. By registering, you consent to your data being shared with these organisations to facilitate potential interview and employment opportunities.

2Information we collect

When you register, we collect the answers you give on the registration form:

  • About you: your name, email address, phone number, college or university, department, year of study, graduation year, LinkedIn profile and country of residence.
  • Your background: the programming languages, AI/ML frameworks and tools, and AI/ML areas you choose.
  • Your work: your best technical or research work and the links to it, details of any research papers, your resume link and the resume it points to, your interest in long-term research projects, and anything else you tell us.

During the hackathon, we also record your performance and activity: your submissions, scores, evaluation results and interview feedback, and your participation in the hackathon's community channels.

When you submit the registration form, Cloudflare Turnstile uses your IP address and browser signals to check that you are a person and not a bot, and our hosting provider keeps standard request logs (IP address, time and pages requested).

3How we use your data

Your data is primarily used to administer the hackathon, communicate with you and evaluate your performance:

  • Running the hackathon: checking eligibility, emailing you the problem statement and updates, evaluating your submission and arranging interviews.
  • Recruitment: IICPC's internship selection, future IICPC recruitment, and connecting you with partner firms for direct recruitment opportunities, as explained in section 1.
  • Keeping registration fair: spotting bots and duplicate or fake registrations.
  • Improving future events: statistics and analysis, using anonymised or aggregated data only.

IICPC does not sell your personal data.

4Who we share it with

  • Partner firms and sponsors that recruit through IICPC, for interview and employment opportunities (section 1).
  • Service providers that run this website for IICPC, only as far as their service needs: Google (Google Forms and Google Sheets store registrations), Cloudflare (the Turnstile human check) and Vercel (hosting for this website and its registration service). The website's fonts load from Google Fonts.
  • Authorities, when the law requires it.

Some of these providers may store or process data outside India.

5Cookies and tracking

This website does not use advertising or analytics cookies, and it does not track you across other websites. On the registration page, Cloudflare Turnstile processes browser and device signals only to tell people from bots.

6Data security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure. Registrations are sent over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, and your data is stored securely and accessed only by authorised IICPC personnel and verified partner firms. No system is perfectly secure, but we strive to maintain the highest standards of data protection.

7How long we keep it

Because your data is kept for future recruitment processes (section 1), we keep it until you ask us to delete it. Bot-check data and request logs are kept only for the short periods set by Cloudflare and Vercel.

8Your rights

You have the right to access, update or request deletion of your personal data at any time, and to withdraw your consent to it being shared for recruitment. To do any of this, or if you have any concerns about your privacy, email info@iicpc.com from the address you registered with.

Withdrawing consent stops future use and sharing of your data. It does not undo sharing that has already happened, and if you withdraw during the hackathon, IICPC can no longer evaluate your submission.

9Changes to this policy

IICPC may update this policy. The date at the top of this page shows when it last changed, and important changes are emailed to every registered participant.

10Contact

IICPC Pvt Ltd (InterCollegiate Informatic and Competitive Programming Camp Pvt Ltd), IIT Madras Research Park, Kanagam Road, Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600113, India.

Read this policy together with the terms and conditions and the rules.

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