What we collect, and why

What this website collects

• The application / enquiry form — your name, WhatsApp number, email and city, your child's first name, grade and school, the best time to call, and how you heard about us. You tick a box confirming you are the child's parent or guardian. Used to call you back about the program and, if you go ahead, for enrolment, payments, receipts and the forms we need before camp. If you don't enrol this year, we may get in touch before the next season; reply STOP and we won't.
• Our calls and messages with you: what you tell us is noted against your enquiry so the next person who speaks to you doesn't ask again.
• The GenWise Assessment (at /quest): your child's full name, school, board and grade, your phone and email, your child's answers, and a record of whether they switched tabs or pasted text during the test. Used only to decide admission to the Summer Program and to talk to you about the result. See “The GenWise Assessment” below.
• The alumni form — an alum's name, the summers they attended, where they are now, a contact, and whether they are happy for their photo and details to appear on the alumni wall. Nothing is published without that permission.
• Ask GenWise — the question box answers from a fixed set of published answers inside your browser; what you type is not stored.

This site sets no advertising or analytics cookies and runs no third-party tracking. We keep one anonymous random ID and the link or ad you arrived from in your browser's local storage (not a cookie), and count visits and button clicks on our own servers, with no name, phone, email or child details; clear your browser's site data to remove it. Films are YouTube embeds that load only when you press play. If any of this changes, this page changes first.

Children's data

Our students are minors, so we hold ourselves to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act's standard for children's data: a child's name, photo, video or project appears on this website only with verifiable parental consent, recorded with its scope (name form, media type, placement) and honoured on withdrawal with a same-week takedown. We do not profile children or target advertising at them — here or anywhere.

The enquiry form asks only for your child's first name, grade and school, given by you as their parent. Anything more about your child, such as date of birth, we take only from you and only for admissions. Medical and travel details are collected after enrolment, on a form you sign.

The GenWise Assessment

The Assessment is taken by your child, with you giving your details and consent first. It collects your child's full name, school, board and grade, your phone and email, the answers, and whether the test window lost focus or text was pasted in, so an educator can tell how the answers were written. A GenWise educator reads every answer, a person makes the admission decision, and we never give a score or rank. Answers are stored in GenWise's own database (Supabase) and seen only by the admissions team.

We keep Assessment answers for as long as we run admissions, like enquiry details, so a returning family is not asked again. To have your child's answers deleted, write to gifted@genwise.in and we delete them within 30 days.

Where data lives, and who sees it

Enquiries go into GenWise's own admissions system, stored in a database hosted on Supabase and readable only by the GenWise team. The team member assigned to call you gets an email alert with your details, sent through our email provider (Brevo). The website itself runs on Cloudflare. Our email and the team's call sheet run on Google Workspace, payments go through Razorpay, and we message families on WhatsApp. These providers process data on our behalf and for no other purpose; some of them store it outside India. We do not sell or share personal data with anyone for marketing.

How long we keep it: raw form submissions are cleared after 180 days. Enquiry details are kept for as long as we run admissions, so we can recognise a returning family. Enrolment and payment records are kept as long as tax law requires. Ask us and we delete your details sooner, keeping only what the accounts need.

Your rights

Ask us what we hold about you, correct it, or have it erased: gifted@genwise.in or +91 81238 77635. Withdrawing is as easy as agreeing: reply STOP on WhatsApp or email us, and we stop contacting you. You can also name someone to exercise these rights for you if you die or cannot act yourself.

Grievances are acknowledged within 72 hours and addressed within 30 days. If we don't resolve yours, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.