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Samlon (“we,” “us”) operates samlon.in, a family tree service for users in India. This notice explains what personal data we collect, why, and your rights under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Name, gender, birth/death dates and places, occupation, a photo, biography, phone number, WhatsApp number, email, permanent and communication addresses — for people you add to your family tree, and account details (phone, email) for registered users. For registered users, we also record your role on each family tree (Viewer, Contributor, Moderator, or Owner) and, when a tree owner assigns or removes a role, who made that change and when. If your family hosts a wedding or other family occasion through Samlon, we also record the guest list, Nyota (cash-gift) register, and gift log your family enters for that occasion — typically including a guest's or giver's name, phone number, address, and, for Nyota, the amount given. These people are usually not Samlon users themselves.
Solely to build and display your family tree, and to help your family plan and keep records for a hosted occasion, within the Samlon service. We do not sell personal data, use it for advertising, or share it with third parties except service providers necessary to operate Samlon (e.g. our email provider, for sending consent and notification emails).
Your consent, given either directly (if you register) or by responding to a Consent Request sent when a relative adds you, or by a parent/guardian's attestation if you are a minor. Occasion guest, Nyota, and gift records are ordinary event-hosting record-keeping entered by the hosting family, similar to a physical guest register or gift ledger — the person recording this data confirms they are authorized to do so and that it is accurate before it is saved.
You may request access to, correction of, or erasure of your personal data at any time via the standing rights-request link included in your consent confirmation email, or by contacting our Grievance Officer using the details below.
An occasion hosted across two families' trees (e.g. a wedding) keeps each family's own guest list, Nyota register, and gift log visible only to that family's own tree members — never shared with the other family, and never shown to the guest or giver themselves. Ceremony schedules and tasks for the occasion are visible to both families.
Declining a consent request deletes the sensitive fields immediately. Expired, never-responded consent links are purged of their token. Rejected registration/edit requests have their submitted content cleared after 90 days. A deleted tree is recoverable for 30 days before permanent removal. Active, consented family-tree records — including occasion guest, Nyota, and gift records — are otherwise retained indefinitely, consistent with their purpose as a family and event record.
Our Grievance Officer's current contact details are shown below. We aim to acknowledge grievances within 7 business days.
Reachable at info@samlon.in.
Samlon is offered exclusively to residents of India. We do not knowingly offer registration to individuals outside India.