Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Sanket Patel ("I", "me", or "my") collects, uses, and safeguards information submitted through the personal portfolio website located at https://www.sanketpatel.online.
01.Scope & Operator Identity
This website is operated by Sanket Patel, Full-Stack Developer and Backend Specialist, residing in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. This website serves as a technical portfolio, showcasing software projects, architecture case studies, and engineering qualifications, as well as providing direct contact channels for employment and consulting opportunities.
I respect your privacy and am committed to maintaining transparency regarding any data collected through your visits to this website or through direct communications.
02. Information Collected
I collect only the minimum amount of information necessary to respond to your inquiries and maintain secure site operations:
A. Contact Form & API Submissions
When you voluntarily submit a message through the contact form or programmatic endpoint (/api/contact), you provide your name, email address, subject line, and message body. This information is provided voluntarily for the purpose of communicating with me.
B. Automated Technical Server Logs
Like standard web servers, hosting infrastructure automatically records technical log entries when you request a resource. These logs may contain your IP address, browser user-agent, requested URL, referral URL, and timestamp. These logs are used solely for site reliability, security monitoring, and rate-limiting enforcement.
C. No Third-Party Tracking Cookies
This website does not employ cross-site tracking cookies, behavioral tracking pixels, or third-party marketing beacons.
03. Purpose of Data Processing
Your information is processed strictly for the following legitimate purposes:
- To respond to your inquiries, job proposals, engineering collaborations, or technical questions.
- To prevent automated abuse, spam, and denial-of-service attempts via rate-limiting mechanisms.
- To deliver machine-readable representations (such as Markdown or JSON-LD) to AI agents requesting content negotiation.
04. Third-Party Service Providers
I rely on trusted third-party infrastructure providers that comply with global data protection standards:
Brevo (Sendinblue)
Transactional SMTP service used exclusively to forward contact form submissions directly to my personal inbox. Data is encrypted in transit using TLS.
Vercel Edge Network
Cloud hosting, edge routing, and content delivery network providing HTTPS encryption, caching, and infrastructure resilience.
05.Data Security & Retention
All traffic between your browser and this website is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS/HTTPS). Contact form communications are retained in my private email account only for as long as necessary to conduct professional correspondence or fulfill contractual obligations. I do not sell, rent, or trade your contact information to any third party.
06.Your Data Rights & Requests
Regardless of your location, you have the right to request access to the information you have submitted, request corrections, or request the permanent deletion of your contact records.
To exercise any of these rights, please send an email directly to sanpatel323@gmail.com with the subject line "Data Privacy Request". Requests are fulfilled within 30 days without charge.
07. Privacy Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact: