Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

LexMentor is an independent legal learning initiative that provides free legal education resources, MCQ practice, law notes, lectures, journal writing, research material, and related learning tools. References to "LexMentor", "we", "us", or "our" mean the LexMentor website and learning platform available at lexmentor.co and related pages controlled by LexMentor.

2. Information we collect

We collect only the information needed to run and improve the platform.

• Account information, such as your email address, display name, and Google account profile details when you choose Google sign-in.
• Learning activity, such as attempted questions, correct and incorrect answers, saved questions, revision queue items, bookmarks, session history, accuracy, and daily targets.
• Contact and submission information, such as your name, email address, affiliation, manuscript details, message text, and files or links you voluntarily submit.
• Technical information, such as device type, browser, pages visited, referring pages, approximate location inferred from network data, timestamps, and basic analytics events.
• Security information, such as request metadata used to detect abuse, spam, automated scraping, and suspicious activity.

3. How we use information

• To create and maintain your LexMentor Learn account.
• To sync your progress, accuracy, bookmarks, revision queue, daily targets, and session history across devices.
• To provide login through Google or passwordless email verification.
• To respond to contact requests, research enquiries, editorial submissions, and collaboration messages.
• To review and manage journal submissions and related editorial communication.
• To improve the website, learning experience, question quality, accessibility, performance, and security.
• To prevent misuse, unauthorised access, spam, scraping, and attempts to compromise the platform.
• To comply with applicable law, lawful requests, and platform integrity obligations.

4. Legal basis and consent

Where consent is required, we rely on your consent to collect and process personal information. You may withdraw consent by stopping use of the service, signing out, or contacting us for deletion or correction. Some processing is necessary to provide the service you request, such as account login, progress sync, security checks, and responding to messages. We aim to follow the principles of lawful processing, purpose limitation, data minimisation, security safeguards, and user rights reflected in modern privacy frameworks, including India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 where applicable.

5. Authentication and third party services

LexMentor uses trusted service providers to operate the platform. These providers process data only as needed to deliver their services to us.

• Supabase is used for authentication, database storage, Learn account data, and session management.
• Google sign-in is used when you choose to authenticate with your Google account.
• Vercel may be used for hosting, analytics, performance monitoring, and deployment infrastructure.
• Google Tag Manager may be used to manage analytics, measurement, and site performance tags from one controlled container.
• Sanity or related content tools may be used for journal and content management.
• Email and form handling services may process contact, submission, or notification messages.

When you use Google sign-in, Google may show the OAuth consent screen and process information according to its own policies. LexMentor only requests basic profile and email information needed to identify your account.

6. Cookies, local storage, and analytics

We use cookies and browser storage for sign-in sessions, theme preferences, local learning progress, saved practice state, security, and basic analytics. Some Learn progress may be stored locally on your device when you use the platform without signing in. If you sign in, eligible progress may be synced to your account.

We may use Google Tag Manager and analytics tools to understand page performance, navigation patterns, source of visits, feature usage, and technical issues. These tools help us improve LexMentor without selling your personal information.

You can clear cookies and local storage through your browser settings. Doing so may sign you out or remove unsynced local progress.

7. Data sharing

We do not sell personal information. We may share limited information only in these cases:

• With service providers who help us run authentication, hosting, database, analytics, security, email, and content systems.
• When you voluntarily submit information for publication, editorial review, collaboration, or correspondence.
• When required by applicable law, court order, lawful authority, or to protect legal rights, users, and platform security.
• In connection with a future restructuring, transfer, or continuity arrangement for LexMentor, subject to reasonable privacy safeguards.

8. Data retention

We keep personal information only for as long as needed for the purposes described in this Policy. Account data and Learn progress are retained while your account remains active or until deletion is requested. Contact and submission records may be retained for editorial, operational, legal, or record keeping purposes. Security logs may be retained for a limited period to protect the platform.

9. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards, including managed authentication, row level database policies, restricted account access, HTTPS, input validation, and security monitoring. No internet service can guarantee absolute security. You should protect access to your email account and avoid sharing verification codes.

10. Your rights and choices

You may contact us to request:

• Access to personal information associated with your LexMentor account.
• Correction of inaccurate account or profile information.
• Deletion of your account data, subject to lawful retention needs.
• Withdrawal of consent for optional processing.
• Information about how your data is used for Learn progress and account sync.

Send requests to contact.lexmentor@gmail.com. We may verify your identity before acting on a request.

You may also use our dedicated account and data deletion request page.

11. Children and students

LexMentor is intended for law students, legal exam aspirants, researchers, and adult learners. If a user is a minor, they should use the platform with appropriate parent, guardian, or institutional guidance. We do not knowingly seek sensitive personal information from children.

12. International processing

Our service providers may process information in India or other jurisdictions where their infrastructure operates. By using LexMentor, you understand that your information may be processed through such service providers, subject to their safeguards and applicable law.

13. Account deletion

If you create or use a LexMentor account, you can request deletion of your account and associated Learn data through the Delete Account page. Eligible account information, synced Learn progress, bookmarks, mistakes, revision queue, daily targets, and session history will be deleted or anonymised after verification.

Some records may be retained where necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, dispute handling, or editorial record keeping. We will explain any retention that applies when responding to your request.

14. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the platform, legal requirements, or service providers change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.