Applicant Privacy & Job Fraud Alert

This notice covers an application for a paid job with us. It is deliberately specific rather than generic, because an applicant hands over a good deal — a name, a number, an address — at a moment when they have no relationship with the company at all and no obvious way to ask what happens next.

Our full Privacy Policy applies as well, and is available in Hindi. Where this notice is more specific, this one governs for applicants.

1. Who this is for

Anybody who applies for a role through our careers page or the application form behind it, whether or not we take you on, and whether you applied for a role we had advertised or wrote to us on your own account.

It is not for law students applying for an internship — those terms are on the Internship Terms & Certificate Policy page, which also covers what happens to an intern's data. It is not for advocates applying to be listed, who have their own terms and listing policy.

2. What we collect

We do not ask for a bank account number, a card number, a caste certificate, or a copy of any document at the application stage. Nothing in applying for a job here requires them.

3. Why, and on what basis

We process your application for one purpose: to consider you for the role you applied for, and to carry out the joining steps if you are taken on.

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the ground we rely on for the application itself is section 7(a) — personal data that the person has voluntarily provided for a specified purpose:

We should say why we are not leaning on the clause that looks more obvious. Section 7(i) of the same Act covers processing “for the purposes of employment”, but it closes by referring to a Data Principal who is an employee — and an applicant is not one yet. Whether that clause reaches recruitment at all is argued both ways and no regulator has settled it. Rather than rest your data on a reading that might be wrong, we rest it on the one that is plainly right, and ask your consent separately for anything beyond the immediate role.

So: anything beyond considering you for this role needs your consent, asked for at the time, and refusing costs you nothing. That includes keeping your details for future openings, speaking to a reference, and contacting a current or past employer.

4. Who sees your application

• the person who assesses applications for that role;
• the person who would supervise the role, if it gets that far;
• the owner.

That is the whole list. It is not circulated, it is not discussed outside the company, and it is not seen by the advocates listed in our directory, who are independent of us and have no part in our hiring.

5. How long we keep it

There is no Indian rule that fixes how long a company may keep an unsuccessful application, and we would rather tell you that than imply a law is making the choice. What the law does say is that personal data should be erased once the purpose it was given for is finished. So we have set our own periods and we keep to them:

6. What we will never do with it

• Sell, rent or trade it. Not to a job board, not to a recruitment agency, not to anybody.
• Use it to advertise to you, or add you to any marketing list. Applying for a job is not consent to be sold to.
• Call your current employer without asking you first. For somebody still in a job that can cause real harm, and it is not ours to cause.
• Hold a government ID number longer than needed. If you gave one and were not taken on, it goes with the rest of the application.
• Hold it against you for asking a question. Asking what happens to your data, or asking us to erase it, has no effect on an application.

7. Your rights

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you may ask us for a summary of what we hold about you and what we have done with it; ask us to correct or complete it; ask us to erase it; withdraw a consent you gave; nominate somebody to exercise these rights if you cannot; and complain to us and then to the Data Protection Board of India. None of it costs anything.

Write to the Grievance Officer at the bottom of this page, from the email address or phone number on your application. We may ask a question or two to be sure it is you — that protects you more than it protects us. We answer within 90 days, and in practice far sooner.

8. We never charge for a job

Recruitment fraud is common in this trade, and it works because the people it targets are the ones who most need the job to be real. So this is stated as flatly as we can put it: there is no step in our hiring at which money is paid to us, by anybody, for any reason.

No application fee. No registration fee. No security deposit, refundable or otherwise. No training charge. No uniform or kit cost. No police-verification payment. No charge for an appointment letter or an ID card. We also do not keep anybody's original documents.

9. How to check somebody is really ours

Every person who works here has one representative code that belongs only to them — something like LSSANISH003. Ask for it. Anybody genuine gives it without hesitation; somebody who stalls or changes the subject has already answered you.

Then type it on the verify a representative page and you will see who it belongs to. Every staff ID card also carries a QR code you can scan with your phone camera, which opens the same check. And you can always simply telephone the office on +91 98913 43962 and ask whether the person and the role are real. Nobody here will mind.

10. How to report a job fraud

If money has already gone, do these two things before anything else — how quickly a transaction is reported is what decides whether it can be stopped at all:

1. Report it on 1930, the national cyber crime helpline, or at cybercrime.gov.in, the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal run by the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre. “Online Job Fraud” is a category on the portal in its own right. Keep the acknowledgement number.
2. Write to your bank immediately — not only a phone call — asking them to stop or recall the transaction. An email or the bank app's complaint form leaves a dated record; a call alone often does not.

Then tell us, and send whatever you have: the number or handle that contacted you, the offer letter, the UPI ID or account, the transaction reference, and screenshots with the date visible. We will confirm in writing whether that person has anything to do with Legal Space Services, and we take up impersonation in our name ourselves.

For what it is worth legally: taking money by a false promise of employment is cheating under section 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and doing it while pretending to be somebody else — us, for instance — is cheating by personation under section 319. You do not need to know that to complain, and you do not need a lawyer to file one.

One thing we will not pretend: nobody can promise that money already sent will come back. Reporting it at once is what gives a recall any chance, and that chance falls away quickly. Anybody who guarantees to recover your money for a fee is running the second fraud.

11. Complaints

Anything about your application, your data, or somebody using our name goes to our Grievance Officer, who is named below with a direct contact. We acknowledge within 24 hours and resolve within 15 days; a request to exercise a right under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is answered within 90 days. If our answer does not satisfy you, the grievance redressal page sets out every step above us, including the Data Protection Board of India.

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