# Privacy Policy - Sanket Patel Portfolio

**Last Updated**: August 2026
**Effective Date**: August 2025
**Domain**: [https://www.sanketpatel.online](https://www.sanketpatel.online)
**Operator**: Sanket Patel (Jamnagar, Gujarat, India)

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## 1. 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.

## 2. Information Collected
I collect only the minimum amount of information necessary to respond to your inquiries and maintain secure site operations:
- **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.
- **Automated Technical Server Logs**: Hosting infrastructure automatically records technical log entries (IP address, browser user-agent, requested URL, and timestamp) used solely for site reliability and rate-limiting enforcement.
- **No Third-Party Tracking Cookies**: This website does not employ cross-site tracking cookies, behavioral tracking pixels, or third-party marketing beacons.

## 3. Purpose of Processing
Your information is processed strictly for:
- Responding to your inquiries, job proposals, engineering collaborations, or technical questions.
- Preventing automated abuse, spam, and denial-of-service attempts via rate-limiting mechanisms.
- Delivering machine-readable representations (such as Markdown or JSON-LD) to AI agents requesting content negotiation.

## 4. Third-Party Service Providers
- **Brevo (Sendinblue)**: Transactional SMTP service used exclusively to forward contact form submissions directly to my personal inbox.
- **Vercel Edge Network**: Cloud hosting, edge routing, and content delivery network providing HTTPS encryption, caching, and infrastructure resilience.

## 5. 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. I do not sell, rent, or trade your contact information to any third party.

## 6. Your Rights & Choices
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](mailto:sanpatel323@gmail.com) with the subject line *"Data Privacy Request"*.

## 7. Contact Information for Privacy Requests
- **Data Controller**: Sanket Patel
- **Location**: Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
- **Email**: [sanpatel323@gmail.com](mailto:sanpatel323@gmail.com)
- **Phone**: [+91 9503125836](tel:+919503125836)

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