Privacy Policy & Data Governance Framework

1. Overview & Data Fiduciary Role

LawHQ.in ("LawHQ") enforces an ecosystem-wide data protection architecture adhering to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act). LawHQ serves as a Significant Data Fiduciary orchestrating privacy-by-design standards across the sovereign legal network.

2. Statutory Principles of Data Processing

• Purpose Limitation (Section 4): Data collected during e-filing, arbitral claim lodgment, or counsel discovery is processed solely to fulfill that specified judicial transaction.
• Data Minimisation (Section 6): Only statutory parameters mandated by court proformas and eCourts CIS 3.0 are gathered.
• Storage Limitation: Filing dockets and court briefs are encrypted in cold sovereign vaults and automatically purged following statutory retention cycles upon file closure.
• No AI Model Ingestion: Under no circumstance are user legal documents, petitions, or arbitral evidence used for training artificial intelligence models.

3. Legal Privilege Protections

In accordance with Section 126 and 129 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and Section 132 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, communications between citizens and enrolled advocates routed through our infrastructure are cloaked in statutory attorney-client privilege. LawHQ maintains zero administrative backdoors into sealed case briefs.

4. Data Principal Rights

Citizens and corporations using LawHQ retain all rights guaranteed under Chapter III of the DPDP Act 2023, including the Right to Access, Right to Correction and Erasure, Right of Grievance Redressal, and Right to Nominate.

5. Designated Grievance Redressal Officer