Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Core Commitments

Cluki Jobs (operating at cluki.com/jobs) is an independent, non-government educational and career publishing portal. We provide verified employment notifications, competitive examination dates, syllabi, admit card alerts, and recruitment analyses across 21 Indian states and central departments.

Because our mission is to empower aspirants with truthful, ad-free barrier public notices, we hold ourselves to the highest ethical data standards:

2. Scope & Applicability

This Privacy Policy governs your use of all digital properties, tools, and interactive utilities operating under the Cluki Jobs ecosystem. Specifically, it applies to:

• The primary recruitment homepage (cluki.com/jobs) and search utilities.
• All 21 state-specific employment sub-portals (e.g., West Bengal, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Assam, etc.) in both English and regional language editions.
• Educational utilities including the Age Calculator, Salary Estimators, and syllabus repositories.
• Direct interactions with our editorial team via contact forms, emails, Telegram channels, and WhatsApp alert subscriptions.

This policy does not apply to websites, mobile applications, or recruitment services maintained by third-party government departments, state public service commissions, or external advertisers, even if linked from our pages.

3. Information We Collect

We divide collected information into two distinct categories: information you provide voluntarily, and information gathered automatically through web server operations.

A. Information You Voluntarily Provide

You can browse 100% of our recruitment reports, admit card notices, and answer key databases without registering an account or disclosing any personal identification. However, you may choose to submit information in the following contexts:

• Contact & Grievance Submissions: When you send a message through our Contact Us portal or email us directly, we receive your name, email address, message subject, and inquiry details.
• Editorial Corrigendum Reports: When alert readers notify us of government corrigendums or typographical errors under our Corrections Policy, we store the submitted notification link and sender email to acknowledge and confirm the revision.
• Broadcast Channel Alerts: If you elect to join our community broadcast channels (e.g., Telegram or WhatsApp), your phone number or handle is handled according to the privacy protocols of those respective communication networks; Cluki Jobs does not ingest or store phone numbers in any internal marketing database.

B. Information Collected Automatically

When you access Cluki Jobs, our cloud edge servers automatically log basic technical parameters necessary for network telemetry, server load-balancing, and fraud prevention:

• Server Logs: IP address (masked or truncated in non-security log aggregation), browser type and version, user-agent string, operating system, preferred system language, requesting URL, referring website URL, and the exact timestamp of your request.
• Performance Telemetry: Page rendering latency, Core Web Vitals diagnostics (LCP, CLS, INP), and Cloudflare CDN response metrics to help us optimize page delivery in rural and low-bandwidth connectivity areas.

4. What We Do NOT Collect (Zero Fee & Zero ID Policy)

To protect candidates from predatory phishing scams and fraudulent impostors, we strictly enforce our Zero-Collection Mandate:

• No Government Identification Records: We never ask for or store your Aadhaar Number, PAN Card, Voter ID, Passport, Ration Card, or Caste/Category Certificate copies.
• No Examination Application Fees: Cluki Jobs never solicits payment via UPI, debit/credit cards, net banking, or digital wallets for any government exam form. All legitimate examination fees are paid solely on official government domains (e.g., .gov.in or .nic.in).
• No Candidate Examination Credentials: We never request your candidate roll numbers, exam portal passwords, date-of-birth verification PINs, or OTP tokens.

5. How We Use Information

We process collected information strictly for legitimate organizational and technical purposes, in compliance with applicable data protection laws:

6. Cookies & Local Storage

Cookies are compact text files stored on your device that enable websites to recognize returning visitors, maintain persistent settings, and gather aggregate usage metrics. Cluki Jobs uses cookies prudently and transparently.

Cookie Category	Purpose	Retention
Strictly Necessary	Essential for basic navigation, security tokens, Cloudflare DDoS shielding, and server load balancing.	Session / Up to 30 days
Functionality & Preferences	Saves candidate preferences, such as selected state portals, table sorting choices, or reader display options.	Up to 1 year
Performance & Analytics	Measures aggregate visitor volume, popular recruitment guides, and high-latency pages without storing raw personally identifiable data.	Up to 24 months
Advertising & Measurement	Used by advertising vendors (including Google AdSense) to display contextual advertisements that fund our free editorial operations.	Variable (Vendor-managed)

Managing Cookie Settings: You retain complete autonomy over cookies. You can configure your browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge) to reject all non-essential cookies, prompt you before accepting cookies, or delete cookies upon exit. Please note that disabling cookies will not prevent you from reading job notifications on Cluki Jobs.

7. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising

To keep Cluki Jobs 100% free and open to every student across India without paywalls or subscription barriers, we partner with third-party advertising networks, primarily Google AdSense.

We adhere to the following advertising disclosures:

• DoubleClick DART Cookie: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to Cluki Jobs or other websites across the web.
• Personalized Advertising Opt-Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
• Ad Separation: We never mix commercial advertisements with editorial recruitment guidelines. All promotional slots are visually marked to prevent candidate confusion with official government circulars.

8. External Links & Official Government Portals

Every recruitment article published on Cluki Jobs includes direct links to official government examination commissions, recruiting bodies, and public gazettes (such as UPSC, SSC, IBPS, State PSCs, Railway Recruitment Boards, and High Courts).

9. Data Protection & Infrastructure Security

We treat the integrity and confidentiality of visitor interactions with uncompromising technical care:

• TLS 1.3 Encryption: All client-to-server traffic is encrypted using modern TLS cryptographic cipher suites. Unencrypted HTTP requests are automatically upgraded via HSTS policies.
• Cloudflare Edge Protection: Our systems run behind Cloudflare’s global distributed edge network, equipped with automated Web Application Firewall (WAF) filtering, rate limiting, and zero-day threat shielding.
• Least-Privilege Administrative Access: Server configuration and database management are restricted strictly to authorized engineering personnel using multi-factor cryptographic keys.
• Static Content Delivery: Job reports are delivered via high-performance Server-Side Rendered (SSR) static payloads, ensuring our database is isolated from public write attacks.

10. Data Retention & Secure Purging

Cluki Jobs practices strict data minimization regarding retention timelines:

• Contact Messages & Correspondence: Reader communications sent via email or contact forms are retained for up to 12 months solely to facilitate follow-ups or audit trails, after which they are permanently expunged.
• Edge Server Access Logs: Web server diagnostic logs are retained on a rolling cycle for 30 to 90 days for network security and bot analysis, after which they are automatically overwritten.
• Immediate Purge on Request: If you have reached out to us in the past and wish for your correspondence to be deleted immediately, we fulfill verifiable deletion requests within 7 business days.

11. Your Legal Rights & Choices (DPDP Act & GDPR)

Regardless of your geographic location, Cluki Jobs respects your comprehensive digital privacy rights under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), the Information Technology Act, 2000, and international standards such as the European Union’s GDPR:

• Right to Confirmation & Access: You may request confirmation of whether we hold any personal data relating to you and request a readable summary of that data.
• Right to Correction & Completion: If you believe any contact information or records in our possession are inaccurate or outdated, you have the right to demand prompt rectification.
• Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): You can instruct us to permanently purge your communication history from our active records.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Where data processing relies on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time without adverse penalty.
• Right of Grievance Redressal: You are entitled to prompt and effective grievance redressal through our designated Grievance Officer, as described below.

To exercise any of these rights, please email our privacy team at support@cluki.com with the subject header “Data Subject Rights Request”.

12. Protection of Minors & Children

Cluki Jobs is dedicated to career information and competitive recruitment notifications, which are aimed at candidates who meet statutory employment ages (typically 18 years and older). We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or store personal data from children under the age of 13 (or under 18 without parental/guardian supervision).

If a parent, guardian, or educator becomes aware that a child under their care has submitted personal details through our platform, please contact us immediately at support@cluki.com. We will take swift measures to delete such records from our databases.

13. Policy Revisions & Notifications

As digital privacy legislation evolves, new recruitment features launch, or our operational practices adapt, we may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Whenever modifications are made, the revised date at the top of this document will be updated.

Material revisions that significantly alter the way we manage existing user information will be prominently announced via an advisory banner on the Cluki Jobs homepage for at least thirty (30) days following the amendment. Your continued use of the website constitutes acceptance of the amended terms.

14. Grievance Officer & Statutory Contact

In accordance with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and the provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the details of our designated Data Protection & Grievance Officer are set forth below:

15. Frequently Asked Questions