Privacy Notice.

1. Who we are

Dogs & Dow is an independent, India-based, student-led financial and business advisory collective. We bring together students from different colleges to work with companies across strategy, finance, M&A, and other business functions.

This notice applies to information collected through this website and communications arising from business enquiries. It also explains the current position on student recruitment.

2. Information we collect

When you submit a business enquiry, we collect:

• Your name and email address.
• Your company or organisation and the service you are interested in.
• Your project brief and any additional information you choose to include.
• Your company website and expected timeline, if you provide them.
• Your acknowledgement of this privacy notice.

If you contact us directly, we also receive the information you include in your message. Our public forms do not currently accept file uploads.

Website and security providers may process technical information, such as IP addresses, browser and device details, request logs, and interactions needed to deliver and protect the website. Optional analytics and error monitoring are described below.

Please do not share sensitive personal information, confidential business documents, or proprietary data in an initial enquiry. Where necessary, we can discuss an appropriate channel and confidentiality arrangements first.

3. How we use your information

We use the information you provide to:

• Respond to your enquiries and communicate with you.
• Understand your business requirements and explore potential engagements.
• Prepare project proposals, briefs, and related communications.
• Coordinate professional relationships and agreed work.
• Maintain, secure, and improve our website.

We do not sell your personal information or use enquiry details for unrelated promotional activities.

4. Third-party services

We use service providers to operate the website. Depending on which features are enabled, these include:

• Vercel: website hosting and delivery.
• Formspree: processing and storing accepted form submissions and sending notifications to our authorised team. See Formspree’s privacy policy.
• Cloudflare Turnstile: checking form interactions to help prevent spam and abuse. See the Turnstile privacy addendum.
• Sanity: managing published website content.
• Cloudinary: delivering published images when configured.

If enabled, Vercel Web Analytics helps us understand aggregate website usage and events such as enquiry completion. We do not send form answers, names, or email addresses in analytics events. See Vercel’s analytics privacy information.

If enabled, Sentry receives technical error reports, with filtering intended to remove personal details and request contents. We do not intentionally send business enquiry or application answers to error monitoring.

Some providers may process or store information outside India. Their privacy notices explain their own processing practices. We may also disclose information where required by applicable law.

5. Confidentiality and access

Access to submitted information is limited to authorised Dogs & Dow members who need it to review enquiries, manage relationships, or coordinate agreed work, together with service providers supporting those activities.

We take reasonable steps to protect information against unauthorised access, disclosure, and misuse. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Where an engagement requires confidential business information, appropriate confidentiality arrangements can be discussed before those materials are shared.

6. How long we keep information

We retain enquiry information for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, evaluate an engagement, and manage the resulting relationship. We periodically review information and remove it when it is no longer needed, subject to applicable legal and record-keeping requirements.

Copies may remain in provider archives or backups until those providers’ retention and deletion processes complete.

7. Student recruitment

Recruitment is currently closed. Our recruitment page displays an announcement and an estimated opening date; it does not currently collect student applications, résumés, or academic information.

If we introduce an on-site application form, we will update this notice before collecting applicant information to explain the fields requested, how applications are assessed, who can access them, and how long they are retained. Recruitment information will be handled separately from company enquiries.

8. Your rights and choices

You may contact us to:

• Ask about the personal information we hold concerning you.
• Request correction of inaccurate information.
• Request deletion of information that is no longer necessary.
• Raise concerns about how your information is handled.

We will review and respond to requests in accordance with applicable law. We may need enough information to verify that a request relates to you, and some records may need to be retained to meet legal obligations.

For privacy-related enquiries, contact dogsdow.official@gmail.com.

9. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice as our website, services, or information-handling practices change. The latest version will appear on this page with its update date.