Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 24, 2026

Welcome to OfficerBio (accessible at https://officerbio.com/). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. This document outlines the types of information we collect, how it is used, how it is safeguarded, and your rights regarding your data when you visit our website.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in three primary ways: information you voluntarily provide, information collected automatically through your use of the site, and publicly available information regarding civil servants.

A. Information You Provide to Us

When you interact with OfficerBio—such as submitting a contact form, reporting a data correction, or subscribing to a newsletter—we may collect personal information including:

  • Name and Email Address
  • Messages or Feedback submitted through our contact channels.

B. Information Automatically Collected

Like most websites, we automatically collect certain data when you visit OfficerBio to ensure the site functions correctly and to analyze user behavior. This includes:

  • Log Data: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamps, referring/exit pages, and the number of clicks.
  • Device Information: Information about the device and operating system you are using to access the site.

C. Publicly Sourced Directory Data

OfficerBio is a directory of India’s civil servants (IAS, IPS, IRS, and IFS). The data featured in our officer profiles (names, batch years, current postings, and career history) is not collected from the officers directly, but is aggregated from publicly available government records, official departmental notifications, and public domains. We do not publish sensitive, private personal data (such as personal home addresses or private phone numbers) of civil servants.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect for various operational and administrative purposes, including:

  • Providing, operating, and maintaining our website.
  • Improving, personalizing, and expanding our website’s content and user experience.
  • Understanding and analyzing how you use our website.
  • Communicating with you to respond to inquiries, feedback, or data correction requests.
  • Serving relevant advertisements.
  • Finding and preventing fraud.

3. Cookies and Web Beacons

OfficerBio uses “cookies” to store information about visitors’ preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. This information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser types and other logged information.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

  • Google AdSense: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on OfficerBio. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
  • Opt-Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

5. Data Security & Retention

We employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect against the unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of the limited personal data you share with us. However, please note that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

We retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as required to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

6. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location (including regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, or India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act), you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate, including updates to officer directory listings.
  • The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict or object to processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, or object to it entirely.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

7. Third-Party Privacy Policies

OfficerBio’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this document. We advise you to review this page periodically for any changes.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you are a public official requesting a factual correction to your publicly sourced directory profile, please contact us at: