Privacy policy
Last changed on 18 September 2026.
In short. A deed writer's office uses Bharatlekh to keep its clients' papers and draw their deeds. Those papers belong to the client and are the office's responsibility; we hold them for the office, in India, encrypted, apart from every other office's, and we do nothing with them except what the office asks.
We do not sell data, show advertisements, or use anybody's documents to train anything.
Who we are
Bharatlekh is run by Arvind Tyagi, proprietor, trading as Tyagi Tech Consulting, Flat No. 108, First Floor, Tower-J, Amrapali Silicon City, Plot No. GH-01A, Sector-76, Noida, Gautambuddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India (GSTIN 09AJKPT3455F1ZU). "We" in this policy means that firm.
Two kinds of people, two kinds of data
The office and its staff. The deed writer or property dealer who subscribes, and the people who work for them. We hold their names, mobile numbers, what role they have, when they last signed in, and the firm's billing details. For this we decide what is collected and why, and the law calls us the data fiduciary.
The office's clients. The buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants whose deeds the office draws. The office collects their papers to do the work the client came for, and puts them into Bharatlekh. The office decides what is collected and why; we process it on the office's instructions, and the law calls the office the data fiduciary and us its data processor. If you are a client, the office you went to is who answers for your papers, and we help it do so.
What is held about a client
- Name, relation (son, daughter or wife of), date of birth, gender, address, mobile number and PAN, as read from the cards the client gave the office or as typed by the office.
- The last four digits of the Aadhaar number, and no more. The full number is never kept as data. Where a number is read from a picture it is checked, reduced to four digits, and the rest is discarded at once.
- The pictures and PDFs of the cards and deeds themselves, as the office uploaded them. A picture of an Aadhaar card shows the full number, which is one reason these files are encrypted and kept no longer than the work needs.
- Details of the property and of the transaction, and the deeds drawn from them.
- For each document read by a machine: that it was read, when, for which firm, and where. Not what it said.
We do not collect biometrics, do not use Aadhaar authentication, and do not ask UIDAI anything. An Aadhaar QR code is checked on our own server against UIDAI's published certificates.
What it is used for
To let the office keep its records, quote costs and draw documents, and for nothing else. We do not look at client data except where the office asks us to help with a problem, or where we must to keep the service working and secure.
Where it is kept, and how
- On servers in Mumbai, India.
- Every uploaded card, scan and drawn deed is stored encrypted, under a key kept apart from the data.
- Each firm's records are in a database and a folder of their own, which no other firm's requests can open.
- Everything travels over encrypted connections.
- Each person in an office signs in as themselves, with a one-time code sent to their own WhatsApp. The owner of the firm decides who has access and can remove it at once.
The companies that handle the data for us
We use these and no others. None of them may use the data for purposes of their own.
| Company | What it does | What it sees | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utho Cloud | Runs the server the service and its data live on | The encrypted files and the database, as stored | Mumbai, India |
| Google Cloud (Vertex AI) | Reads a picture of a card, or a page of a scanned deed, when it cannot be read from a QR code or from the document's own text | That one picture, for the moment of reading. Google does not keep it to train its models. | Mumbai, India |
| Cloudflare | Stands in front of the service to protect it from attack | Traffic passing through, encrypted on both sides of it. Nothing is stored. | The nearest of its locations, which for a visitor in India is usually in India and may be abroad |
| Meta (WhatsApp Business) | Delivers the one-time sign-in code | The mobile number of the office's own staff member, and the code. Never anything about a client. | As WhatsApp operates |
| Razorpay | Takes payment from the office | The office's payment details, which we never see or hold | India |
How long it is kept
- An office's records are kept while it subscribes, because a deed writer is asked about a deed for years afterwards. The office can delete a client, a property or a document at any time.
- A file that is uploaded and never attached to a client, a property or a transaction is removed after seven days. One that is attached is kept with that record.
- When an office leaves, it can take a copy of its records, and they are then erased within 30 days, except what the law requires us to keep, such as invoices.
- Sign-in codes stop working after five minutes. The record of whether each was delivered is kept for 30 days.
Your rights
You may ask what is held about you, have it corrected, have it erased, withdraw a consent you gave, and name somebody to act for you. If you are a client of an office, ask the office, which can do all of these directly; if you are a member of an office, ask us. Either way you may complain to us at the address below, and if we do not settle it, to the Data Protection Board of India.
Children
The service is for offices and is not offered to children. A deed sometimes names a minor as an owner; the office must have the parent's or guardian's consent before it records a minor's details.
If something goes wrong
If personal data is lost, seen by somebody who should not have seen it, or otherwise breached, we will tell the offices affected and the Data Protection Board without delay, with what happened, what it affects and what we are doing about it.
This website
This website sets no cookies, runs no scripts and carries no trackers or advertisements. The service itself, at https://app.bharatlekh.com, sets one cookie when you sign in, to keep you signed in, and nothing else.
Changes
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and offices are told of anything that matters before it takes effect.
Contact, and the person responsible
Arvind Tyagi, proprietor, Tyagi Tech Consulting
[email protected] · +91 98341 73568
Flat No. 108, First Floor, Tower-J, Amrapali Silicon City, Plot No. GH-01A, Sector-76, Noida, Gautambuddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India
We acknowledge within two working days and answer within fifteen days.