1.Who we are and what this notice covers
DealDirect is operated by Agrawal Business Network LLP, 129, Growmore Tower, Sector 2, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210, Maharashtra (“DealDirect”, “we”, “us”). For the personal data described here, we are the Data Fiduciary under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. DealDirect serves users in India only.
This notice explains what personal data we process when you use the dealdirect.in website or the DealDirect app, why, who receives it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have. It follows the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, and the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules under it where they still apply.
2.The short version
- We collect what we need to run accounts, listings and enquiries, and to keep the Platform safe.
- When you send an enquiry, the owner receives your name, email address and mobile number. That is how they reply.
- We do not sell your personal data, and we use no third-party advertising or analytics tools.
- You can see, correct and delete your data, withdraw consent, and complain to us or to the Data Protection Board of India.
3.Personal data we process, and why
We process the following personal data, each for the purpose shown next to it. We ask for your consent when you create an account and when you use features that need more data (such as location). Where you give us data voluntarily for a purpose, such as an enquiry, we use it for that purpose.
| What | Personal data | Why we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Name, email address, mobile number and password (stored only as a one-way hash). If you sign in with Google: your Google account's name, email address and profile photo. When you sign up: the time you confirmed you are 18 or older and accepted the Terms and this notice, and whether you asked for offers. | To create your account, sign you in and keep it secure. |
| Mobile verification | Your mobile number and the one-time password (OTP) sent to it. | To confirm the number is yours before you list a property or send an enquiry, and to prevent fake accounts. |
| Profile (optional) | Photo, alternate phone number, address, date of birth, gender and a short bio, if you add them. | To show your profile and fill in forms for you. |
| Listings | Property address, map location, photos, price, description and features, and any documents you upload for verification. | To publish your listing and let buyers and tenants find it, and to check that it is genuine. |
| Enquiries | When you tap “I'm interested”: your name, email address and mobile number, and the conversation history, visits and notes on that enquiry. For a builder project enquiry: your name, phone, email and message. | To put you in touch with the owner, or for our team to pass your details to the builder of the project. |
| Saved items and searches | Your shortlist, saved searches and their alerts, and reviews you write after a verified deal. | To let you keep and return to properties, alert you to new matches, and show reviews. |
| Deal verification | Documents you upload to show that a sale or letting has completed. | To verify the deal before reviews and rewards are released. |
| Rewards and referrals | Your points history, referral code and who referred whom. When you open the rewards store, your name, email address and mobile number are passed to Hubble. | To run the rewards programme and the store. |
| Support and reports | Messages you send us and reports you make about listings or users. | To answer you and act on reports. |
| Device and security | IP address, browser or device type and user-agent of each signed-in session, app installation ID, push-notification token and app version. | To keep sessions secure, let you see and sign out of your devices, detect misuse, and deliver notifications. |
| Usage | Actions you take in the app and website (for example, viewing a listing or starting an enquiry), linked to your account or app installation. IP addresses are not stored with these events. | To understand how DealDirect is used and improve it. We use no third-party analytics or advertising tools. |
| Location | With your browser's or phone's permission, your approximate location, used to work out your city. On a listing, the map pin you set. | To show properties near you and place listings on the map. |
We do not ask for your PAN, Aadhaar or bank details to use the Platform. Do not include them in listings, photos or messages.
4.Processing without consent
Section 7 of the DPDP Act allows some processing without consent. We rely on it only where it applies, for example to comply with a law or a court order, to respond to a medical emergency or a threat to someone’s safety, or to use data you gave us voluntarily for the purpose you gave it for.
6.Processing outside India
Our database is held in India (MongoDB Atlas, AWS Mumbai). Some of the providers above store or process data outside India: crash reports go to Sentry in the European Union, and providers such as Cloudinary, Meta and Google may process data in other countries under their own terms. Section 16 of the DPDP Act permits this, except to any country the Central Government restricts, and we will follow any such restriction.
8.How long we keep personal data
We keep personal data only as long as its purpose needs, or as long as the law requires, and then delete it.
| Data | How long |
|---|---|
| Signed-in sessions | 7 days, or until you sign out. |
| One-time passwords | 10 minutes. |
| Usage events | 90 days. |
| Notifications you have read | 90 days. |
| Message delivery logs | 8 days. |
| Push tokens | Removed 30 days after they stop working, or 180 days after a device was last seen. |
| Your account, profile, listings, shortlist, saved searches and notifications | Until you delete your account; then deleted, and your profile photo and listing photos are removed from image storage. |
| Enquiries, verified deals and project enquiries (with the names and contact details in them) | Kept for one year after you delete your account, because the other party to the enquiry or deal also relies on them. Then your name and contact details are removed from them, or they are deleted. |
| Reviews you wrote after a verified deal | Kept after you delete your account, without your name. |
| Audit logs of actions taken by our team | 1 year, then deleted. |
| Backups | We keep no backups of our database, so nothing deleted from it survives in a backup. |
Delete your account explains how to delete your account and exactly what is removed and what is kept.
9.Your rights
Under the DPDP Act you have the right to:
- Access: a summary of the personal data we process about you and the processing we carry out, and the identities of those we have shared it with.
- Correction and erasure: have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected, completed or updated, and have data erased when it is no longer needed. You can edit your profile and listings, and delete your account, yourself in the app or on the website.
- Withdraw consent: at any time, as easily as you gave it (see the next section).
- Nominate: name another person to exercise your rights if you die or become unable to.
- Grievance redressal: complain to us, and then to the Data Protection Board of India.
To exercise any of these rights, including nomination, write to our Grievance Officer at grievance@dealdirect.in from the email address on your account, or include your registered mobile number. We may ask you to confirm your identity. We will respond within 90 days.
10.Consent and withdrawing it
- Location: turn it off in your browser’s site settings or your phone’s app permissions. You can still choose a city by hand.
- Notifications: change email, SMS and WhatsApp preferences in your account settings, or turn off app notifications on your phone.
- Promotional messages (offers and new project updates by email, SMS or WhatsApp): we send them only if you tick the box for them when you sign up, or turn on “Offers and new project updates” under Notifications in your profile. Turn it off there at any time; every such message also explains how to stop them.
- Everything else: delete your account, or write to us.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before. Some features, such as enquiries, cannot work without the data they need, so withdrawing consent for them may mean closing your account.
11.Children
DealDirect is for adults only. You must be 18 or older to create an account, and you confirm this when you sign up. We do not allow accounts for anyone under 18 and do not knowingly process their personal data; if we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will delete it.
12.How we protect personal data
We use reasonable security safeguards, including:
- encryption of data in transit (HTTPS);
- passwords stored only as one-way hashes, and sign-in sessions held in cookies that page scripts cannot read;
- sessions that expire, and a list of your signed-in devices that you can sign out of;
- limits on repeated sign-in and OTP attempts;
- access to personal data limited to the staff and providers who need it;
- error monitoring that masks screen text, form inputs and images.
If a personal data breach affects you, we will tell you without delay, in the way the DPDP Rules require, and report it to the Data Protection Board of India.
13.Your duties
The DPDP Act also asks you not to impersonate anyone, not to suppress material information, to give only true information when you ask us to correct your data, and not to file false or frivolous complaints.
14.Changes to this notice
We will update this notice when our processing or the law changes, and show the date at the top. If a change is material, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and ask for fresh consent where the law requires it.
15.Grievance officer and the Data Protection Board
For questions about this notice, to exercise your rights, or to complain, contact our Grievance Officer:
Mrs. Arti Ashok Jadhav, Data Protection & Grievance OfficerAgrawal Business Network LLP
129, Growmore Tower, Sector 2, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410210, Maharashtra
Email: grievance@dealdirect.in
Phone: +91 22 4608 9735
If you are not satisfied with our response, or we do not respond within the time allowed, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India in the manner it prescribes.
This notice is published in English. On request to grievance@dealdirect.in, we will provide it in any language listed in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India; if the versions differ, the English version prevails.