Privacy Policy & Data Protection

1. Introduction & Governance Scope

Urban Rights Legal Consultants ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and data integrity of all visitors, clients, and prospective litigants. This Privacy Policy sets forth our data collection, handling, and protection standards in strict compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the Information Technology Act.

2. Categories of Information We Collect

We collect and process the following categories of information:

• Voluntary Consultation Details: Full name, telephone number, email address, city, and brief summary of the legal dispute voluntarily provided through our consultation booking forms or direct WhatsApp/Phone inquiries.
• Anonymous Client-Side Calculator Inputs: Numerical data entered into our legal decision engines (such as claim amounts, maintenance parameters, or agreement values) are processed strictly in your local browser memory and are never stored on external databases without your explicit submission.
• Technical & Analytics Data: Anonymized IP addresses, browser specifications, referring URLs, and diagnostic performance metrics collected via Google Analytics 4 strictly for site reliability.

3. Purpose & Lawful Grounds for Processing

Personal data is processed strictly for legitimate legal purposes, including:

• Responding to your voluntary consultation inquiries and scheduling chamber meetings.
• Performing mandatory conflict-of-interest checks before accepting litigation briefs.
• Complying with statutory record-keeping rules and professional ethics prescribed by the Bar Council of India.

4. Absolute Professional Confidentiality & Privilege

Under Section 132 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (formerly Section 126 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872), all confidential communications between an advocate and client are protected by absolute statutory attorney-client professional privilege. We never sell, lease, monetize, or disclose your personal, financial, or dispute-related information to any third-party marketing, commercial, or data-broker entities.

5. Cookies, Third-Party Advertising & Google AdSense

Urban Rights Legal utilizes cookies, local browser storage, and third-party advertising partners to support free public legal knowledge access and optimize digital performance:

• Essential & Performance Cookies: Used strictly for page rendering, caching, responsive user preferences, and offline PWA capabilities.
• Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.
• DoubleClick / DART Cookie: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve relevant contextual and interest-based ads to visitors based on their visit to our site and/or other sites across the web.
• Personalized Advertising Opt-Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of third-party vendor advertising cookies by visiting AboutAds.info.
• Browser Cookie Controls: You can configure your browser to decline all cookies or notify you when a cookie is transmitted. Note that all legal commentaries, statutory bare acts, and search tools remain fully accessible even with advertising cookies disabled.

6. Data Retention, User Rights & Grievance Redressal

Consultation inquiries and case records are retained strictly for the duration necessary to address your legal queries or as mandated under professional ethics rules prescribed by the Bar Council of India.

Under Sections 11, 12, and 13 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), you are entitled to:

• Right to Information & Summary: Request an executive summary of personal contact data processed by our chamber.
• Right to Correction & Erasure: Request the correction, updating, or complete erasure of voluntary inquiry details no longer required for active legal proceedings.
• Right to Grievance Redressal: Inquire or register concerns regarding data governance directly with our designated Chamber Grievance Officer: