Privacy Policy

Back to Village (B2V)

1. Who We Are

Back to Village ("B2V," "we," "us," "our") is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860, vide Registration No. 23767/01, registered in 2016.

Registered office: 2nd Floor, 24/C, Seema Shri Park, Road D-1, Road No. 1, Ashok Nagar, Ranchi – 834002, Jharkhand, India 

Email: contact@backtovillage.org 

Phone: +91 99736 78929 

Website:

We are a climate change think and do tank. We generate field evidence and build replicable models for climate-resilient agriculture, sustainable livelihoods, and indigenous knowledge systems across rural India, working with communities, state governments, CSR programmes, and peer organisations.

Our statutory registrations are published in full on our Compliance page, including our 12A, 80G, CSR-1, NITI Aayog Darpan, and FCRA registrations.

For the purposes of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, B2V is a Data Fiduciary in respect of the personal data described in this policy.

2. Our Approach to Data

Our work rests on a stated principle: communities are collaborators, not subjects. That principle governs how we handle information as much as how we design programmes.

In practice this means we collect the minimum we need, we tell people why we are collecting it, we do not treat consent given in a village as weaker than consent given by a funder, and we publish findings in a form that does not expose the people who made those findings possible.

3. Scope

This policy applies to:

  • Visitors to our website

  • People who submit enquiries through our contact or partnership forms

  • Funders, CSR partners, government agencies, and institutional collaborators

  • Job applicants, consultants, fellows, volunteers, and RFP respondents

  • Researchers and peer organisations accessing our publications

  • Participants in our field programmes and members of the communities we work with

  • Donors, where applicable

It does not cover third-party websites we link to, which operate under their own policies.

4. Information We Collect
4.1 Website Visitors

Our website is built and hosted on………. When you visit, analytics tools we use may automatically collect your IP address, approximate location, browser and device type, operating system, pages viewed, time spent, and the site that referred you.

4.2 Enquiries and Contact Forms

Our contact form collects your first name, last name, email address, phone number, and the content of your message. Our partnership form may additionally collect your organisation, role, and the nature of the collaboration you are proposing.

4.3 Funders, Partners, and Institutional Collaborators

For partnership, grant, and CSR relationships we collect the names, designations, official contact details, and correspondence of representatives, together with organisational details, agreements, due-diligence documentation, and financial records associated with the engagement.

4.4 Applicants, Consultants, and RFP Respondents

Where you apply for a role, fellowship, or open RFP we collect your name and contact details, CV or proposal, educational and professional background, references, expected remuneration or bid value, and — for field placements — government-issued identification and background verification where required.

4.5 Programme Participants and Community Members

Our field programmes require us to collect information from and about the farmers, artisans, entrepreneurs, self-help group members, and households we work with. Depending on the programme this may include:

  • Name, age, gender, and household composition

  • Village, block, district, and state

  • Landholding, cropping pattern, livestock, and irrigation details

  • Enterprise or artisan activity, production volumes, and market linkages

  • Income, expenditure, and loan or credit information

  • Membership of a farmer producer organisation, self-help group, or cooperative

  • Training attended, inputs received, and services accessed

  • Attendance registers, beneficiary lists, and disbursement records

  • Bank account details, where a programme involves direct transfer of funds or subsidies

  • Government identification numbers, only where a scheme or funder requires verification

Some of this is sensitive: caste or Scheduled Tribe status, financial position, health information, and household vulnerability indicators. We collect these only where a programme, funder, or government scheme genuinely requires them, we restrict access to authorised staff, and we aggregate or de-identify them in everything we publish.

4.6 Research Data

As a think and do tank we conduct baseline surveys, midline and endline assessments, monitoring visits, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and multi-year outcome tracking. Data gathered through these methods is used for impact assessment, research papers, policy briefs, and replication frameworks.

4.7 Photographs, Film, Audio, and Testimony

We photograph, film, and record the communities we work with for use in case studies, annual reports, insights, funder reporting, our website, and social media. Section 6 sets out how we handle consent for this.

4.8 Donors

Where we receive donations we collect the donor's name, contact details, donation amount and date, PAN where an 80G certificate is to be issued, and — for foreign contributions — the additional particulars required under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and rules made thereunder.

5. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the Field

Before we collect personal data from any community member, our field teams:

  1. Explain in the local language who we are, what we are collecting, why, who will see it, and how long we will keep it

  2. Make clear that participation is voluntary, that refusal carries no penalty, and that access to programme benefits does not depend on agreeing to be surveyed, photographed, or quoted

  3. Obtain consent in writing or by recorded verbal confirmation, appropriate to the person's literacy and comfort

  4. Where a community institution — gram sabha, FPO, SHG, or traditional council — is the appropriate body to consult, obtain its agreement in addition to individual consent

  5. Confirm that consent may be withdrawn at any time, without explanation, by telling any B2V field staff member or writing to contact@backtovillage.org

We do not treat a thumbprint on a register as informed consent by itself. Consent is a conversation, and our field protocols require it to be recorded as one.

6. Photographs, Film, and Personal Stories

We obtain specific consent before photographing, filming, or recording any individual, separate from consent to participate in a programme.

  • We tell people where the material may appear — website, social media, funder reports, government presentations, exhibitions, press

  • We do not publish a person's name alongside their image, story, or financial circumstances without explicit permission for that combination

  • We do not use imagery that depicts people in a way that strips them of dignity or reduces them to their poverty

  • Consent may be withdrawn at any time. On withdrawal we remove the material from our website, social media, and future publications. We cannot recall printed reports already circulated, or material that partners or media have republished independently, and we will say so honestly at the point of consent.

If you appear in any B2V material and want it taken down, write to contact@backtovillage.org and we will act on it.

7. Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge

One of our three focus domains is the documentation, validation, and integration of indigenous knowledge systems. Traditional ecological knowledge belongs to the communities that hold it. It is not ours to appropriate, and this policy treats it accordingly.

  • We record the community, and where appropriate the individual knowledge holder, as the source of any traditional practice, variety, technique, or craft method we document

  • We seek free, prior, and informed consent from the relevant community institution before documenting or publishing traditional knowledge

  • We attribute knowledge in our research papers, case studies, and policy briefs rather than presenting it as our own finding

  • We do not commercialise traditional knowledge, or enable third parties to do so, without the consent of the holding community

  • Where our work touches biological resources or associated traditional knowledge, we comply with the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and its access and benefit-sharing requirements, including approaching the relevant Biodiversity Management Committee or State Biodiversity Board where applicable

  • Where a community asks that a practice be recorded but not published, we honour that

Communities may request access to, correction of, or removal of documentation we hold about their traditional knowledge by writing to us.

8. How We Use Information

We use personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries and partnership proposals

  • Design, deliver, monitor, and evaluate field programmes

  • Track outcomes over multi-year pilots and measure what changes and what does not

  • Produce impact assessments, research papers, policy briefs, and replication frameworks

  • Report to funders, CSR partners, and government agencies as required by our agreements

  • Comply with statutory obligations under the Income Tax Act, FCRA, CSR rules, and Societies Registration Act

  • Prepare annual reports and audited statements

  • Recruit and manage staff, consultants, fellows, and volunteers

  • Evaluate RFP submissions

  • Share insights and updates with people who have asked to receive them

  • Maintain and improve our website

We do not use personal data for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects on any individual.

9. Research Ethics and Publication

Our published outputs are designed so that findings can be verified without individuals being identified.

  • Quantitative findings are reported in aggregate. We do not publish individual-level datasets containing personal identifiers.

  • Qualitative material is anonymised or pseudonymised unless the person has specifically consented to be named

  • Where a case study names an individual — an artisan, an agripreneur, an FPO leader — it is because that person agreed to be named for that purpose

  • Datasets shared with academic collaborators, evaluators, or funders are de-identified before transfer, and the recipient is bound by written terms restricting re-identification and onward use

  • We document what fails as rigorously as what succeeds, and we take care that negative findings are never reported in a way that identifies or reflects on a specific household or individual

10. Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data on the basis of:

  • Consent, given freely and specifically, and withdrawable at any time

  • Certain legitimate uses under Section 7 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, including compliance with law and response to a medical emergency or disaster

  • Legal obligation, under the Income Tax Act, FCRA, CSR rules, and society registration requirements

  • Contractual necessity, for employees, consultants, vendors, and partners

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already carried out lawfully, and we may retain records the law requires us to keep.

11. Children's Data

Our programmes are directed at adults, but children are present in the households and communities where we work, and may appear in photographs or household surveys.

Where we process the personal data of any person under 18:

  • We obtain verifiable consent from a parent or lawful guardian, as required under Section 9 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

  • We do not undertake tracking, behavioural monitoring, or targeted advertising directed at children

  • We do not publish a child's name, school, or village alongside their photograph

  • Field staff working in proximity to children are bound by our safeguarding protocols

Our website is not directed at children. If you believe a child has submitted information through our website without guardian consent, write to contact@backtovillage.org and we will delete it.

12. Who We Share Information With

1. Who We Are

Back to Village ("B2V," "we," "us," "our") is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860, vide Registration No. 23767/01, registered in 2016.

Registered office: 2nd Floor, 24/C, Seema Shri Park, Road D-1, Road No. 1, Ashok Nagar, Ranchi – 834002, Jharkhand, India 

Email: contact@backtovillage.org 

Phone: +91 99736 78929 

Website:

We are a climate change think and do tank. We generate field evidence and build replicable models for climate-resilient agriculture, sustainable livelihoods, and indigenous knowledge systems across rural India, working with communities, state governments, CSR programmes, and peer organisations.

Our statutory registrations are published in full on our Compliance page, including our 12A, 80G, CSR-1, NITI Aayog Darpan, and FCRA registrations.

For the purposes of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, B2V is a Data Fiduciary in respect of the personal data described in this policy.

2. Our Approach to Data

Our work rests on a stated principle: communities are collaborators, not subjects. That principle governs how we handle information as much as how we design programmes.

In practice this means we collect the minimum we need, we tell people why we are collecting it, we do not treat consent given in a village as weaker than consent given by a funder, and we publish findings in a form that does not expose the people who made those findings possible.

3. Scope

This policy applies to:

  • Visitors to our website

  • People who submit enquiries through our contact or partnership forms

  • Funders, CSR partners, government agencies, and institutional collaborators

  • Job applicants, consultants, fellows, volunteers, and RFP respondents

  • Researchers and peer organisations accessing our publications

  • Participants in our field programmes and members of the communities we work with

  • Donors, where applicable

It does not cover third-party websites we link to, which operate under their own policies.

4. Information We Collect

4.1 Website Visitors

Our website is built and hosted on………. When you visit, analytics tools we use may automatically collect your IP address, approximate location, browser and device type, operating system, pages viewed, time spent, and the site that referred you.

4.2 Enquiries and Contact Forms

Our contact form collects your first name, last name, email address, phone number, and the content of your message. Our partnership form may additionally collect your organisation, role, and the nature of the collaboration you are proposing.

4.3 Funders, Partners, and Institutional Collaborators

For partnership, grant, and CSR relationships we collect the names, designations, official contact details, and correspondence of representatives, together with organisational details, agreements, due-diligence documentation, and financial records associated with the engagement.

4.4 Applicants, Consultants, and RFP Respondents

Where you apply for a role, fellowship, or open RFP we collect your name and contact details, CV or proposal, educational and professional background, references, expected remuneration or bid value, and — for field placements — government-issued identification and background verification where required.

4.5 Programme Participants and Community Members

Our field programmes require us to collect information from and about the farmers, artisans, entrepreneurs, self-help group members, and households we work with. Depending on the programme this may include:

  • Name, age, gender, and household composition

  • Village, block, district, and state

  • Landholding, cropping pattern, livestock, and irrigation details

  • Enterprise or artisan activity, production volumes, and market linkages

  • Income, expenditure, and loan or credit information

  • Membership of a farmer producer organisation, self-help group, or cooperative

  • Training attended, inputs received, and services accessed

  • Attendance registers, beneficiary lists, and disbursement records

  • Bank account details, where a programme involves direct transfer of funds or subsidies

  • Government identification numbers, only where a scheme or funder requires verification

Some of this is sensitive: caste or Scheduled Tribe status, financial position, health information, and household vulnerability indicators. We collect these only where a programme, funder, or government scheme genuinely requires them, we restrict access to authorised staff, and we aggregate or de-identify them in everything we publish.

4.6 Research Data

As a think and do tank we conduct baseline surveys, midline and endline assessments, monitoring visits, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and multi-year outcome tracking. Data gathered through these methods is used for impact assessment, research papers, policy briefs, and replication frameworks.

4.7 Photographs, Film, Audio, and Testimony

We photograph, film, and record the communities we work with for use in case studies, annual reports, insights, funder reporting, our website, and social media. Section 6 sets out how we handle consent for this.

4.8 Donors

Where we receive donations we collect the donor's name, contact details, donation amount and date, PAN where an 80G certificate is to be issued, and — for foreign contributions — the additional particulars required under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and rules made thereunder.

5. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the Field

Before we collect personal data from any community member, our field teams:

  1. Explain in the local language who we are, what we are collecting, why, who will see it, and how long we will keep it

  2. Make clear that participation is voluntary, that refusal carries no penalty, and that access to programme benefits does not depend on agreeing to be surveyed, photographed, or quoted

  3. Obtain consent in writing or by recorded verbal confirmation, appropriate to the person's literacy and comfort

  4. Where a community institution — gram sabha, FPO, SHG, or traditional council — is the appropriate body to consult, obtain its agreement in addition to individual consent

  5. Confirm that consent may be withdrawn at any time, without explanation, by telling any B2V field staff member or writing to contact@backtovillage.org

We do not treat a thumbprint on a register as informed consent by itself. Consent is a conversation, and our field protocols require it to be recorded as one.

6. Photographs, Film, and Personal Stories

We obtain specific consent before photographing, filming, or recording any individual, separate from consent to participate in a programme.

  • We tell people where the material may appear — website, social media, funder reports, government presentations, exhibitions, press

  • We do not publish a person's name alongside their image, story, or financial circumstances without explicit permission for that combination

  • We do not use imagery that depicts people in a way that strips them of dignity or reduces them to their poverty

  • Consent may be withdrawn at any time. On withdrawal we remove the material from our website, social media, and future publications. We cannot recall printed reports already circulated, or material that partners or media have republished independently, and we will say so honestly at the point of consent.

If you appear in any B2V material and want it taken down, write to contact@backtovillage.org and we will act on it.

7. Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge

One of our three focus domains is the documentation, validation, and integration of indigenous knowledge systems. Traditional ecological knowledge belongs to the communities that hold it. It is not ours to appropriate, and this policy treats it accordingly.

  • We record the community, and where appropriate the individual knowledge holder, as the source of any traditional practice, variety, technique, or craft method we document

  • We seek free, prior, and informed consent from the relevant community institution before documenting or publishing traditional knowledge

  • We attribute knowledge in our research papers, case studies, and policy briefs rather than presenting it as our own finding

  • We do not commercialise traditional knowledge, or enable third parties to do so, without the consent of the holding community

  • Where our work touches biological resources or associated traditional knowledge, we comply with the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and its access and benefit-sharing requirements, including approaching the relevant Biodiversity Management Committee or State Biodiversity Board where applicable

  • Where a community asks that a practice be recorded but not published, we honour that

Communities may request access to, correction of, or removal of documentation we hold about their traditional knowledge by writing to us.

8. How We Use Information

We use personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries and partnership proposals

  • Design, deliver, monitor, and evaluate field programmes

  • Track outcomes over multi-year pilots and measure what changes and what does not

  • Produce impact assessments, research papers, policy briefs, and replication frameworks

  • Report to funders, CSR partners, and government agencies as required by our agreements

  • Comply with statutory obligations under the Income Tax Act, FCRA, CSR rules, and Societies Registration Act

  • Prepare annual reports and audited statements

  • Recruit and manage staff, consultants, fellows, and volunteers

  • Evaluate RFP submissions

  • Share insights and updates with people who have asked to receive them

  • Maintain and improve our website

We do not use personal data for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects on any individual.

9. Research Ethics and Publication

Our published outputs are designed so that findings can be verified without individuals being identified.

  • Quantitative findings are reported in aggregate. We do not publish individual-level datasets containing personal identifiers.

  • Qualitative material is anonymised or pseudonymised unless the person has specifically consented to be named

  • Where a case study names an individual — an artisan, an agripreneur, an FPO leader — it is because that person agreed to be named for that purpose

  • Datasets shared with academic collaborators, evaluators, or funders are de-identified before transfer, and the recipient is bound by written terms restricting re-identification and onward use

  • We document what fails as rigorously as what succeeds, and we take care that negative findings are never reported in a way that identifies or reflects on a specific household or individual

10. Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data on the basis of:

  • Consent, given freely and specifically, and withdrawable at any time

  • Certain legitimate uses under Section 7 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, including compliance with law and response to a medical emergency or disaster

  • Legal obligation, under the Income Tax Act, FCRA, CSR rules, and society registration requirements

  • Contractual necessity, for employees, consultants, vendors, and partners

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already carried out lawfully, and we may retain records the law requires us to keep.

11. Children's Data

Our programmes are directed at adults, but children are present in the households and communities where we work, and may appear in photographs or household surveys.

Where we process the personal data of any person under 18:

  • We obtain verifiable consent from a parent or lawful guardian, as required under Section 9 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

  • We do not undertake tracking, behavioural monitoring, or targeted advertising directed at children

  • We do not publish a child's name, school, or village alongside their photograph

  • Field staff working in proximity to children are bound by our safeguarding protocols

Our website is not directed at children. If you believe a child has submitted information through our website without guardian consent, write to contact@backtovillage.org and we will delete it.

12. Who We Share Information With

Recipient

What is shared

Why

Framer (website host)

Website visit data

Hosting and site functionality

Analytics providers

Aggregated usage data

Understanding site use

Email and communication tools

Contact details of subscribers

Sending updates you asked for

Funders and CSR partners

Programme reports, aggregated outcome data, beneficiary counts

Contractual reporting

Government departments and agencies

Programme and compliance data

Scheme requirements and statutory reporting

Ministry of Home Affairs / FCRA authorities

Foreign contribution records

FCRA, 2010 compliance

Income Tax Department

Donation and 80G records

Statutory filing

NITI Aayog (Darpan)

Organisational and programme information

Portal requirements

Chartered accountants and auditors

Financial records

Statutory audit

Implementation and research partners

Programme data, de-identified where possible

Joint delivery and evaluation

Payment gateways

Transaction data

Processing donations

We do not sell, rent, trade, or lease personal data to anyone, for any purpose. We do not share our contact lists with other organisations for their outreach. Every processor acting on our behalf is bound by written terms limiting them to the purposes we specify.

13. Foreign Contributions

We hold FCRA registration number 104830350. Where you make a foreign contribution to B2V:

  • Your details are recorded and reported in the manner prescribed under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011

  • These records are filed with the Ministry of Home Affairs and are subject to inspection by the authorities

  • Certain particulars of foreign contributions received are placed in the public domain as required by law

  • These are statutory obligations, and this information will be disclosed regardless of any request for confidentiality

14. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to function, remember preferences, and understand traffic:

  • Essential cookies — required for pages and forms to work

  • Analytics cookies — help us see which insights and case studies are being read

  • Preference cookies — remember display and language settings

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may prevent our contact and partnership forms from working.

15. How Long We Keep Data

We do not sell, rent, trade, or lease personal data to anyone, for any purpose. We do not share our contact lists with other organisations for their outreach. Every processor acting on our behalf is bound by written terms limiting them to the purposes we specify.

13. Foreign Contributions

We hold FCRA registration number 104830350. Where you make a foreign contribution to B2V:

  • Your details are recorded and reported in the manner prescribed under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011

  • These records are filed with the Ministry of Home Affairs and are subject to inspection by the authorities

  • Certain particulars of foreign contributions received are placed in the public domain as required by law

  • These are statutory obligations, and this information will be disclosed regardless of any request for confidentiality

14. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to function, remember preferences, and understand traffic:

  • Essential cookies — required for pages and forms to work

  • Analytics cookies — help us see which insights and case studies are being read

  • Preference cookies — remember display and language settings

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may prevent our contact and partnership forms from working.

15. How Long We Keep Data

Data

Retention

Website enquiries

24 months from last contact

Newsletter and insights subscriptions

Until you unsubscribe

Financial and donation records

8 years from the end of the relevant financial year (Income Tax Act)

FCRA records

As prescribed under FCRA, 2010 and rules

Programme and beneficiary records

Duration of the programme plus [5] years, for evaluation, funder reporting, and audit

Research datasets (de-identified)

Retained indefinitely for longitudinal research; personal identifiers deleted after [X] years

Consent forms for photography and media

For as long as the material remains in use

Unsuccessful job applications

12 months

RFP submissions

3 years

Website analytics

26 months

We delete, anonymise, or archive data once its retention period ends.

16. Security

We maintain reasonable security safeguards including encrypted connections on our website, access controls limiting personal data to staff who need it, secure storage of field registers and consent forms, password protection with periodic review, and staff training on data handling and safeguarding.

Field data collected on paper is transferred to secure digital storage and the physical copies are stored under lock at our registered office or project office.

No system is entirely secure. In the event of a personal data breach we will notify the Data Protection Board of India and affected individuals in the manner required under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

17. Your Rights

You may:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you and a summary of how it is being processed

  • Correct or complete data that is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete

  • Erase data that is no longer needed for the purpose it was collected, subject to legal retention requirements

  • Withdraw consent at any time, as easily as you gave it

  • Nominate another person to exercise your rights in the event of your death or incapacity

  • Opt out of updates and communications

  • Complain to our Grievance Officer and receive a reasoned response

Community members may exercise these rights through any B2V field staff member, in the local language, without needing to write formally. Field teams are instructed to record and forward such requests.

If you are in the EU or UK — for example as a research collaborator or institutional funder — you additionally hold rights of portability and objection under the GDPR. The same contact applies.

We respond within 30 days.

18. Third-Party Links

Our website links to partner organisations, government portals, our social media profiles, and external publications. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to read their policies.

19. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this policy to reflect changes in our practices or the law. The revised version will be published on this page with an updated date. Where changes materially affect how we handle your data, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you.

20. Contact

Back to Village (B2V) 2nd Floor, 24/C, Seema Shri Park, Road D-1, Road No. 1, Ashok Nagar, Ranchi – 834002, Jharkhand, India

Email: contact@backtovillage.org Phone: +91 99736 78929

If you have a question about how we handle information — whether you are a funder, a researcher, or a farmer in a village we work in — please write to us. We would rather answer the question than have you wonder.

We delete, anonymise, or archive data once its retention period ends.

16. Security

We maintain reasonable security safeguards including encrypted connections on our website, access controls limiting personal data to staff who need it, secure storage of field registers and consent forms, password protection with periodic review, and staff training on data handling and safeguarding.

Field data collected on paper is transferred to secure digital storage and the physical copies are stored under lock at our registered office or project office.

No system is entirely secure. In the event of a personal data breach we will notify the Data Protection Board of India and affected individuals in the manner required under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

17. Your Rights

You may:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you and a summary of how it is being processed

  • Correct or complete data that is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete

  • Erase data that is no longer needed for the purpose it was collected, subject to legal retention requirements

  • Withdraw consent at any time, as easily as you gave it

  • Nominate another person to exercise your rights in the event of your death or incapacity

  • Opt out of updates and communications

  • Complain to our Grievance Officer and receive a reasoned response

Community members may exercise these rights through any B2V field staff member, in the local language, without needing to write formally. Field teams are instructed to record and forward such requests.

If you are in the EU or UK — for example as a research collaborator or institutional funder — you additionally hold rights of portability and objection under the GDPR. The same contact applies.

We respond within 30 days.

18. Third-Party Links

Our website links to partner organisations, government portals, our social media profiles, and external publications. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to read their policies.

19. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this policy to reflect changes in our practices or the law. The revised version will be published on this page with an updated date. Where changes materially affect how we handle your data, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you.

20. Contact

Back to Village (B2V) 2nd Floor, 24/C, Seema Shri Park, Road D-1, Road No. 1, Ashok Nagar, Ranchi – 834002, Jharkhand, India

Email: contact@backtovillage.org Phone: +91 99736 78929

If you have a question about how we handle information — whether you are a funder, a researcher, or a farmer in a village we work in — please write to us. We would rather answer the question than have you wonder.