Privacy Policy

How The North Indian Awards collects and uses the information you share with us.

Last updated: 16 October 2026

The North Indian Awards (“TNIA”, “we”) is curated & operated by The North News. This policy explains what information we collect through this website and how we use it.

Information we collect

Nomination form: your name and contact number; the nominee’s name, award category and story; and any files or links you share.
Contact form: your name, email address, phone number and message.

We do not ask for payment details, and nominating is free.

How we use it

To review nominations and share them with the TNIA jury and organising team.
To contact you or the nominee about the nomination, if needed.
To reply to your messages.

We do not sell your information or use it for unrelated marketing.

How it is sent and stored

Form submissions, including any files you upload, are stored securely on our own web server and can only be seen by the TNIA organising team through a password-protected admin area. A copy of each submission is also emailed to the team. We keep nomination records for 12 months after the awards ceremony, after which they are deleted.

Information about nominees

When you nominate someone, please share only information that is accurate and that you are comfortable sharing. If you are a nominee and would like your information corrected or removed, contact us.

Cookies and third parties

The public pages of this website do not set cookies (the admin area uses one login cookie for staff). Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which may record your IP address as part of delivering them.

Your choices

You can ask us to see, correct or delete the information you have shared by writing to awards@thenorthindian.com.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.