This Privacy Policy describes how Sixdis Technologies Private Limited ("STPL"), the owner of the Oolka brand, technology platform and related intellectual property, and Oolka Financial Services Private Limited ("OFSPL"), a wholly owned subsidiary of STPL that operates the financial products marketplace on the Platform, collect, use, disclose, process, store and otherwise handle Personal Information.
STPL has its registered office at L2-106, WeWork, Vaishnavi Signature, Marathahalli-Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103. OFSPL has its registered office at L2-106, WeWork, Vaishnavi Signature, Marathahalli-Sarjapur Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103.
Depending on the nature of the Services availed by you, your Personal Information may be collected and processed by STPL, OFSPL or both acting together. Accordingly, references in this Privacy Policy to "Oolka", "Company", "we", "us" or "our" shall mean STPL and/or OFSPL, as applicable.
This Privacy Policy is intended to comply with applicable Indian data protection laws, including the Information Technology Act, 2000, the rules framed thereunder, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the rules framed thereunder, to the extent applicable.
By visiting the website, www.oolka.in (“Website”) or the Oolka mobile and/or web application (the “App”) (collectively, the “Platform”) and availing the services provided by us (“Services”) you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
By accessing the Platform or any part thereof, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection, use, disclosure, processing, storage and handling of your Personal Information by STPL and/or OFSPL, as applicable, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the users of the Services may be customer/consumers/ buyers/ consumers, or any other persons using Services or accessing our Platform (“user” or “you” or “your”).
If you do not agree to this Policy or any part thereof, please do not use/ access/ download or install the Platform or any part thereof.
Oolka's privacy policy is governed by one fundamental principle - maintain your trust and confidence when handling your personal information
| Data Accessed | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Email sender address | To identify emails from credit bureaus and lenders |
| Email subject line | To filter and categorise credit-related correspondence |
| Email body content | To read lender and bureau responses relevant to your active disputes |
| Email attachments (PDF) | To extract credit report data for dispute identification and tracking |
| Email thread metadata | To track dispute conversations chronologically (Thread ID, Message ID, In-Reply-To headers) |
| Email labels / read status | To mark dispute emails as read and apply organisational labels within Gmail |
Oolka does not access, read, process, or store any of the following:
All Gmail data accessed by Oolka is used exclusively to provide the following user-facing features within the Oolka application:
We will never use Gmail data obtained through Google APIs for any of the following purposes:
Oolka stores only the minimum Gmail-derived data necessary to operate dispute tracking features:
We implement the following technical and organisational security measures to protect your data:
Oolka does not sell, rent, or trade your Google user data. We may share data in the following limited circumstances only:
We may share data with third-party vendors who help us operate Oolka’s infrastructure (e.g., cloud hosting, email delivery). These vendors:
We may disclose data if required to do so by applicable law, court order, or regulatory authority, provided we notify you to the extent permitted by law.
In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your data may be transferred to the successor entity only with your explicit prior consent, and only for purposes consistent with this policy.
We will never transfer Google user data to any third party for targeted advertising, data brokerage, creditworthiness determination, or lending purposes.
Oolka’s systems process your Gmail data automatically. We do not allow any Oolka employee, contractor, or agent to read your emails, except in the following strictly limited circumstances:
In all cases, such access is logged, audited, and limited to the minimum data necessary. We will notify you of any such access unless prohibited by law.
We retain Gmail-derived data for the following periods:
| Data Type | Retention Period |
|---|---|
| Active dispute data (thread IDs, metadata, extracted details) | Duration of the dispute + 12 months for audit trail |
| Sent email records | 24 months from date of sending |
| Resolved dispute data | 12 months post-resolution, then deleted or anonymised |
| OAuth tokens | Until you revoke access or delete your account |
You may request deletion of your account and personal data at any time by:
Please note that revoking Google Account access only stops future access permissions and does not automatically delete data already processed by Oolka.
Upon receipt of a verified deletion request, Oolka will delete or anonymise personal data that is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to applicable legal and regulatory retention requirements.
Certain minimal records may be retained for a limited period where required under applicable laws, including for:
Any retained data will:
Where data is retained in anonymised or aggregated form for analytics or service improvement, such data will not identify any individual user.
As a user of Oolka and a data subject under applicable Indian data protection law, you have the following rights:
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at legal@oolka.in. We will respond within 30 days.
Oolka uses the following Google OAuth 2.0 scope: gmail.modify
You may revoke any or all of these permissions at any time via your Google Account permissions page. Revoking permissions will disable the corresponding features in Oolka but will not affect your stored dispute data.
You can control whether to accept cookies or not. If you decide to not accept cookies, some features and services on our site may not work properly because we may not be able to recognize and associate you. In addition, the offers we provide when you visit us may not be as relevant to you or tailored to your interests. If you would prefer not to accept cookies, you can:
Like most advertisers, we place advertisements where we think they will be most relevant to customers. We believe that online behavioral advertising helps to provide you with more relevant advertising based upon the websites you visit. We place advertisements by developing and using our own customer segmentation methodologies that may combine online and offline information about our current and prospective customers. In addition, we may use marketing segments provided by online publishers and network advertising companies.
We contract with third-party advertising networks, publishers, and other entities to advertise our products and services on websites not affiliated with us. Network advertising companies that provide these services have their own privacy policies and are not subject to our Online Privacy Statement. Many of these companies provide ways to avoid targeted advertising provided by, or through them. Some of these ads are online behavioral advertising - which serve advertisements that are more likely to be of interest to you using non-personal behavioral information. Such ads may contain cookies that allow monitoring of websites (including our own websites that are part of our own Services) and your response to our advertisements. Cookies placed by these companies do not collect Personal Information. We limit companies that place our ads from using information for any purpose other than to assist us in our advertising efforts.
For clarity, Google user data, Gmail-derived data, credit information, SMS data and sensitive financial information are not used for targeted, personalised or interest-based advertising.
Although there is no standard for how Do Not Track consumer browser settings should work on commercial websites, the industry has self-regulatory initiatives designed to provide consumers a choice in the types of ads they may see online and to conveniently opt-out from online behavioral ads served by some or all of the companies participating in these programs. Many of our advertising vendors and companies participate in these programs. Using the choice mechanisms these programs make available may help you see advertising that is relevant to you or help you avoid seeing interest-based advertising generally. In order for behavioral advertising opt-outs to work on your device, your browser must be set to accept cookies. If you delete cookies, buy a new Device, access our Services from a different device, login under a different screen name, or change web browsers, you will need to opt-out again. If your browser has scripting disabled, you do not need to opt out, as online behavioral advertising technology does not work when scripting is disabled. Please check your browser's security settings to validate whether scripting is active or disabled.
We may supplement the information we collect about you with outside records from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that are of interest to you, after seeking your consent. We may combine the information we receive from those sources with information we collect through the Services. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any Personal Information received, unless we have disclosed otherwise.
Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, the Share this button or interactive mini programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Oolka may post links to third party websites that are not subject to this privacy policy. We do not exercise control over the external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these third parties. We encourage you to note when you leave our digital properties, that you read the privacy statements of all third-party web sites or applications before submitting any Personal Information to third parties.
We collect your personal information, including financial information, from the registration or other completed forms / questionnaires that you provide to us. We will also receive your personal information, including financial information, from documents that you may provide to us and/or from documents like the credit report that you authorise us to obtain on your behalf from Credit Information Companies. You will therefore know when we collect any personal information about you. We will collect your profile information based on your consent from digital and social media properties including but not limited to Facebook, Linkedin, Google etc. In addition, we also get access to personal information like phone messages (SMS), phone/device state and phone storage based on your consent from your mobile device when you use our Android application.
We use the information about you that we collect for the following purposes:
It's important to note that the information we use about you helps us provide you with products, services and experiences that benefit you. You have the ability to control how your non-personal information is collected and used online.
You also have the ability to choose what personal information, including what sensitive personal information (i.e. your financial information) you provide to us. However, if you choose not to provide all of the information and data that is requested of you, we may not be able to provide you with the Services that you have subscribed to. You may, at any time while availing of our Services or otherwise, withdraw the consent given earlier to Oolka to collect and use your sensitive personal data or information by writing to Oolka at legal@oolka.in . However, in the case of you withdrawing such consent, Oolka shall have the option to stop providing you the Services for which the information was sought. You will not be eligible for a refund of any fees paid in such an event.
When you provide your contact details, we will use it to send you general notices or important news about your account, request your feedback or opinions and provide updates on special deals and offers that might interest you.
We believe you should be able to choose what kinds of information you receive via email/SMS. If you do not want to receive marketing materials by email/SMS, just indicate your preference on the contact information for your account or the 'opt-out' link provided in our marketing emails. Please keep in mind that we will continue to notify you by email /SMS/via phone calls regarding your services with us.
You can review the information that you have provided to us by logging into your account at the Oolka website and correct or amend any personal information or sensitive personal data or information to ensure that the information or data you provided us is accurate and/or not deficient. Oolka is not responsible for the authenticity of any personal information or sensitive personal data, or information supplied to it by you or any third party.
We do not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties for any purpose. We only share Personal Information when we have your express consent, or as otherwise provided for in this policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-Personal Information, such as the number of users who clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.
We may use third party vendors to perform certain aspects of the Services on our or your behalf, such as hosting the Services, designing and/or operating the Services' features, tracking the Services analytics, or performing other administrative services. We may provide these vendors with access to user information, including Personal Information, to carry out the services they are performing for you or for us. However, we restrict the use of this information by such third-party vendors in our agreement with them and require them to use the information only to provide their services to us.
Certain aspects of the Services may be provided to you in association with third parties such as our advertisers, business partners, or sponsors, and may require you to disclose Personal Information to them. Such Co-Branded Services will identify the third party. If you elect to register for products and/or services through the Co-Branded Services, you may be providing your information to both us and the third party. Any such information provided to the third party is subject to that third party's privacy policies. Further, if you sign-in to a Co-Branded Service with a username and password obtained through the Services, your Personal Information may be disclosed to the identified third parties for that Co-Branded Service and will be subject to their posted privacy policies.
We may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (including Personal Information, including disclosure to third parties:
We may share your information, including your Personal Information, and Usage Information with our parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates for internal reasons. We also reserve the right to disclose and transfer all such information:
The Services may permit you to submit ideas, questions, comments, suggestions, or other content, including Personal Information that is publicly viewable (such as on public portions of your user profile) (collectively, "User Content"). We or others may reproduce, publish, distribute, or otherwise use User Content online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed). Others may have access to this User Content and may have the ability to share it with third parties across the Internet. Please think carefully before deciding what information you share, including Personal Information, in connection with your User Content.
Note that Oolka does not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make public and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly or share with others, whether through the Services or otherwise. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any content or information that you disclose or receive through the Services.
Oolka maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with regulations to protect Personal Information that we collect about you. We enable our servers with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to establish a secure connection between your computer and our servers, creating a private session. We employ firewalls and other security technologies to protect our servers from external attack and securely store your Personal Information. We control access to this information via secure web pages, and limit access to only those employees or third parties on a need-to-know basis.
We test our systems regularly to ensure that our security mechanisms are up to date. We incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your Personal Information and Credit Report Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us you provide us with your information at your own risk
From time to time, we may change this Online Privacy Statement. The effective date of this statement, as indicated below, shows the last time this statement was revised or materially changed. Checking the effective date below allows you to determine whether there have been changes since the last time you reviewed the statement.
Oolka will not retain your sensitive personal information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force
Partner Information:
Oolka acts as a technology-enabled service provider for various regulated lending institutions and as a distribution platform for credit card issuers and distributors (Partners):
Lending Partners:
(i) L&T Finance (see partner’s page here and privacy policy here)
ii) Volt Money (see partner’s page here and privacy policy here)
iii) Fatak Pay (see partner’s page here and privacy policy here)
iv) Prefr (see partner’s page here and privacy policy here)
Credit Card Partners:
i) IDFC First Bank Limited (see partner’s page here and privacy policy here)
ii) Credilio SBM (see partner’s page here and privacy policy here)
If you have any concern or grievance or want to address any discrepancy with respect to the processing of any of the information/data you provided to Oolka, please contact our Grievance Officer by email addressed to legal@oolka.in and we will study the matter and take such action as we deem appropriate under the circumstances in accordance with law.
Oolka identifies UPI-enabled payment applications available on your device only at the time you initiate a payment.
This is done using Android’s secure intent resolution mechanism, which allows us to identify applications capable of handling UPI payment requests (for example, your bank’s mobile app or another UPI Payment Service Provider app).
We do not access apps unrelated to UPI payment functionality.
We use this information for the following purposes, and only these purposes:
We do not use installed-app information to:
At first use: Before we check your device for UPI handler apps for the first time, you will see a clear in-app prompt explaining this collection. You may decline. If you decline, Oolka will continue to function and you can complete payments by entering UPI handler details manually.
Deletion: You can request deletion of any server-stored handler selection data linked to your account by emailing legal@oolka.in. We will action verified requests within 30 days.
| Data | Where stored | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Detected UPI handler list | On your device, in active session memory | Not retained beyond the session |
| Hashed identifier of chosen handlers | Oolka servers | 90 days, then deleted, except where longer retention is required by NPCI/RBI for dispute or audit purposes |
The following SDKs integrated into Oolka may, in the course of their own operation, request or receive limited information related to installed payment applications. Each is configured to limit such access to its declared purpose, and we do not direct any SDK to collect installed-app data beyond what is necessary for the function described:
Oolka uses Android’s secure intent resolution mechanism to identify compatible UPI applications at runtime.
We do not access, store, or transmit a complete list of installed applications, and we do not use broad package visibility permissions (such as QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES).
Any detection is performed in-session and is limited to what is necessary to enable the requested payment.
By clicking “Accept”, you (“User”) provide your explicit consent and authorise Sixdis Technologies Private Limited (“STPL”) and/or Oolka Financial Services Private Limited (“OFSPL”), as applicable, collectively operating under the brand “Oolka”, to access and process your Credit Information for the purposes set out below.
You expressly authorise Oolka to:
Your Credit Information will be accessed and used solely for:
Oolka shall not use your Credit Information for any purpose other than the above without your explicit consent.
Oolka agrees that:
You acknowledge that:
This consent shall be governed by the laws of India.
Effective Date- This Privacy Statement was last modified 10 July 2026.
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