Privacy policy

India AI Safety Network (IASN) is an independent, non-profit community for people in India who want advanced AI to go well. We run this website and the forms on it. For anything to do with your information, write to hello@indiaaisafety.org.

We only collect what you type into a form on this site. There are three forms.

• The newsletter form asks for your email address.
• The join form asks for your name, email address, city, what you do, how far along you are with AI safety, what you would like to take part in, and anything else you choose to tell us in the free-text box. It also asks whether you want the newsletter.
• The incident report form asks what happened, when and where, which AI system was involved, any links you have, and how you know about it. Your name and email address are optional there, and you can send a report without either.

This site does not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers. Like any website, the servers that host it keep short-lived technical logs (such as your IP address and the pages requested) to keep the site running and to spot abuse. We do not use these logs to identify you.

We use your information to do what you asked for and to run the network.

• To send you a welcome note, or the newsletter you signed up for.
• To understand who is in the network, so that we can plan reading groups, events and projects that suit the people in it.
• To keep you posted about reading groups, talks, convenings, research from the network and career opportunities, and to get in touch when something matches what you told us you were interested in.
• To reply if you write to us.
• To check a report sent to the incident register and, if it holds up, to write a public record of the incident. The record is a summary in our own words. It never includes your name or contact details, or the fact that you were the one who reported it.

We do not sell your information, use it for advertising, or build profiles of you for any other purpose.

We rely on your consent, which you give when you submit a form. You can withdraw it at any time, and it costs nothing to do so.

To withdraw your consent, ask us to correct what we hold, or ask what we hold about you, send an email to hello@indiaaisafety.org from the address you signed up with. We will remove your details from our records and from any list you were added to, and confirm when it is done. We aim to do this within thirty days, and usually much sooner.

Every newsletter also carries an unsubscribe link. Using it stops the newsletter but does not remove your other details, so if you want everything gone, email us.

If you sent an incident report and gave your email address, the same applies: write to us from that address and we will delete the report and your details. A published record that rests on public sources may stay up, since it contains nothing that identifies you. If you reported without an email address, tell us what the report said and when you sent it, so that we can find it.

Only the small team of volunteers who run IASN can see the information you send us, and only for the purposes above. We do not share it with, sell it to, or rent it to any third-party organisation.

To run the site we use a few services that store or carry data on our behalf. They act only on our instructions and cannot use your information for their own purposes.

• Google: form responses are kept in a spreadsheet on the network’s Google account.
• GoDaddy: hosts the network’s mailbox, which sends our emails and receives the copies of each form we send ourselves.
• Buttondown: sends the newsletter and holds the email addresses of subscribers.
• Our hosting provider: serves the site and keeps the technical logs described above.
• Fontshare and Google Fonts: serve the typefaces on this site. Your browser requests the font files directly from them, which reveals your IP address to them in the same way as visiting any website does.

Some of these services keep data on servers outside India. We will disclose your information if the law requires us to, and only then.

We keep your details for as long as you are part of the network, or until you ask us to remove them. If the network winds down, we will delete the records rather than pass them on.

Incident reports are kept for as long as the register runs, so that a record can be traced back to what it was based on. You can ask us to delete yours at any time.

Forms are submitted over an encrypted connection. Access to the records is limited to the volunteers who need it, behind accounts with two-step verification. No system is perfectly secure, and we will tell you if something goes wrong with your data.

This site links to reading, courses and organisations elsewhere, and to our accounts on Instagram, X and LinkedIn. Those sites and services have their own privacy practices, which we do not control. Anything you post publicly on those platforms is visible to everyone there.

The network is for adults and older students. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you think we have, email us and we will delete it.

We handle personal data in line with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Under it you can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or erase it, withdraw your consent, and raise a grievance with us. Write to the email address above for any of these. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

If we change how we handle your information, we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will also email the people it affects.