Privacy Policy

1.Information We Collect

We collect only the minimum operational information necessary to operate verified product bids and accurate public board rankings:

• Product Information: Target website URL, domain, title, tagline, description, and publicly hosted logo or favicon URL.
• Bid & Payment Records: Transaction IDs, timestamps, payment provider order IDs, customer email (if provided during checkout or owner verification), bid amounts in INR, and refund status. We do not store credit card numbers or banking credentials.
• Anonymized Session Identifiers: Random identifiers in browser session storage support approximate visitor counts. Request identifiers prevent duplicate submissions.
• Aggregated Telemetry: Hourly visit counts, page paths, and outbound click counts used purely for public platform transparency graphs.

DPDP rights, consent and grievances

Where the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 applies, Topples processes personal data for the stated service purpose, payment recovery, security, fraud prevention, legal obligations, and support. You may ask for a summary or correction of your personal data, withdraw consent where consent is the basis for processing, request erasure subject to legal retention duties, and raise a grievance through the Contact page. We will verify the request before acting and provide the applicable escalation path in our response.

2.How We Use Collected Information

Your data is used exclusively to:

• Maintain, compute, and render real-time mathematical rankings on the public leaderboard.
• Redirect visitors directly to your product website via our outbound redirect links.
• Prevent fraud, abusive automated submissions, and payment chargebacks.
• Publish anonymized public platform health stats (e.g. total volume, online visitors, and visit counts).

3.Payment Security

Payments are handled by the configured payment provider. Topples stores payment references and amounts, not card numbers or UPI authorization credentials.

Support, metadata and essential storage

Contact messages and bug reports are privately stored for the operator to review and may be emailed to the configured support inbox. Public website metadata is fetched to preview submitted links; optional Cerebras enrichment processes only public title and description information when enabled. Essential administrator cookies and browser theme/receipt storage support the service. The operator’s retention schedule removes page-level views older than 90 days; resolved support requests for one year. Financial records follow the operator’s applicable obligations. Contact us to request correction or deletion.

Cookies and browser controls

The essential topple_admin cookie keeps administrators signed in for up to eight hours. Signing out removes the session. Theme preferences use local storage; checkout receipt access uses session storage. Anonymous browser analytics identifiers use local storage; hashed visitor identifiers and referral counts are retained for cumulative metrics until deletion is requested. You can clear this site’s storage in your browser, which also removes local receipt access and preferences. Topples does not add advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. The payment provider applies its own storage policy within its checkout.

Policy update, September 15, 2026: clarified support storage, optional public-metadata enrichment, essential browser storage and retention.

4.Your Rights & Takedown Requests

If you are the legal owner of a trademark, domain, or product listed on Topples and wish to report unauthorized representation or request de-listing, you can click the flag report button on any product row or contact our moderation team via the public Contact or Report a Bug pages.