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Grievances

Who to complain to about content on Deftro or about your personal data, how to do it, and how fast we answer.

Version 2026-11-10 · Effective

1.Grievance Officer

Under India's Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025, the operator of Deftro has a Grievance Officer who handles complaints about content on Deftro and about your personal data.

2.How to complain

Email the Grievance Officer with:

  • your name and how to reach you; for a request about your own data, write from the address you sign in with;
  • the link to the artifact, comment, profile or page you are complaining about, if there is one;
  • what is wrong, and which rule of the Terms or which right you rely on;
  • for copyright, what the copyright page asks for.

You can also report an artifact from its page. A report on a public artifact reaches the same moderators; one on an organisation's own artifact goes to that organisation's admins.

3.How fast we answer

WhatWhen
Acknowledging your complaintWithin 24 hours
Resolving itWithin 7 days
Removing content that breaks the Terms, once reportedWithin 36 hours
Intimate images of a person shared without consentWithin 2 hours
A court order, or a government notice under the IT ActWithin 3 hours
A request about your personal data (see, correct, delete)Within 7 days, and at the latest within one month

4.If you disagree

  • About content or an account decision: appeal to the Grievance Appellate Committee set up by the Government of India, within 30 days of our decision.
  • About your personal data: complain to the Data Protection Board of India once you have used this grievance process, or, if you live in the EU or UK, to your data protection authority.
  • Nothing here takes away your right to go to court.

5.Reporting a security issue

Found a vulnerability? Email sales@baton-vault.vercel.app with how to reproduce it, and give us a reasonable time to fix it before you publish. Please do not access other people's data or disrupt the service while testing. Our security.txt has the same contact.