The Abhigna Trust (“we”) operates Excellence Quest. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and the third parties that process it on our behalf.
What we collect
From schools: school name, address, board, medium, principal name and email, contact phone, and the programs selected at registration.
From students (via the school): name, grade, and a school-issued login. We do not collect parent contact details or aadhaar.
From independent students: name, email, password (hashed with bcrypt before storage), grade, and the programs they enrol in.
From payments: payment reference, amount, method, and the payment processor's session/intent identifiers. We never store full card numbers.
Why we collect it
To deliver the competitions you signed up for: provisioning logins, recording attempts and scores, generating marksheets and certificates, and contacting principals or students about the program. Aggregate, anonymised statistics may be published in our annual report.
Third-party processors
We rely on a small set of processors to run the Platform:
- MongoDB Atlas — primary database, hosted in Mumbai (ap-south-1).
- Vercel — application hosting and serverless functions.
- Stripe and Razorpay — payment processing.
- Resend — transactional email (magic-link sign-in, receipts, notifications).
- Cloudflare Turnstile — bot detection on public forms.
- Sentry — error tracking with IP addresses scrubbed.
Each processor handles only the minimum data needed to perform its task and is bound by its own privacy and security commitments.
Cookies and similar technologies
We use a small set of cookies: a sign-in session cookie, a CSRF token, and a remember-my-cookie-consent flag. We do not run third-party advertising or marketing trackers.
Retention
Student records and scores are retained for the duration of the cycle plus three years, so we can re-issue certificates and resolve disputes. Payment records are retained for the period required by Indian tax law (currently eight years). On request, we will delete personal data we are not legally required to retain.
Your rights
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by emailing hello@excellencequest.com. Where the data was collected through your school, the school administrator is the first point of contact.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes are announced on this page with a new effective date.