What this site collects. And why.
This is an interim notice. It describes the personal information this website collects through its forms and embedded services, as the site works on the date below. A fuller policy will follow.
Last updated 10 November 2026.
This website is run by Shivam Shukla, Advocate, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Chamber No. 40, High Court, Allahabad (Prayagraj) 211017. He decides how the information described here is used.
For any question about this notice, or about information you have given through this site, write to shivam@advshivamshukla.in.
The site's own pages do not use an analytics service, an advertising tag or a tracking pixel, and the site's own code does not set cookies.
Most pages load their typefaces from Google Fonts. To deliver the fonts, your browser contacts Google's servers, which receive technical request details such as your IP address and browser type. Google's own privacy terms apply to that request.
The site is hosted by Hostinger. A web host's servers normally record technical details of each request. This interim notice does not yet set out what Hostinger records or for how long; the fuller policy will.
The enquiry forms on the About and Advisory pages ask for your name, email address, the nature of your enquiry or the programme you are interested in, your organisation (Advisory only) and your message.
These forms are processed by Formspree, a third-party form service, which passes the submission to Shivam Shukla by email. They are used only to read and reply to your enquiry. Submitting a form is an enquiry only; it does not create any engagement.
Field Notes is an occasional email on research and teaching in AI and professional responsibility. You can ask for it in two ways.
Email box on site pages. Several pages have a short subscribe box that asks only for your email address. It is currently processed by Formspree, which passes your address to Shivam Shukla as a request to receive Field Notes.
Embedded Beehiiv form. The Refusal-Capacity Map and cohort pages carry a sign-up form provided by Beehiiv, the newsletter platform used to send Field Notes. It asks for your email address, which is held and processed by Beehiiv to send the newsletter. The form's address carries tags (for example utm_source=site and utm_campaign=map) so that Beehiiv records which page you signed up from.
When the Beehiiv form loads, it is served from Beehiiv's own systems, not from this site. In a check on 10 November 2026, the form itself loaded Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare Web Analytics and a bot-protection service (HUMAN, formerly PerimeterX), and set cookies on beehiiv.com for security and bot protection. These are controlled by Beehiiv, and Beehiiv's privacy policy applies to them.
Every Field Notes email contains an unsubscribe link. You can also write to the address above to be removed.
The contribution form on the Refusal-Capacity Map asks for your profession, your country, your answer to the map's question (Active, Dormant or Nothing yet), and optionally a source link, your email address and a Field Notes tick box.
With each contribution the site stores the date and time, whether you ticked the Field Notes box, and a shortened one-way code made from your IP address combined with a secret value. Your IP address itself is not stored. The code is used only to limit each connection to five contributions an hour.
Contributions are saved in a file on the site's server, in a folder outside the part of the server that is open to the web. They are used as research leads for checking, and your optional email address may be used to clarify your contribution. Ticking the Field Notes box records your consent with the contribution; it does not subscribe you automatically.
The waitlist form on the cohort page asks for your full name, email address, phone number (optional), your profession, and your agreement to be contacted by email or phone about the programme. The form cannot be sent without that agreement.
The site stores these details with the date and time, the name of the waitlist, and the same kind of shortened one-way code made from your IP address, used only to limit repeated submissions. Your IP address itself is not stored, and the same email address is not added to the waitlist twice.
The waitlist is saved in a file on the site's server, outside the part of the server that is open to the web. It is used only to tell you about this programme. Joining it involves no payment.
Your information is used only for the purpose of the form you completed. It is not sold. It is shared only with the services named above, which process it to run the forms and the newsletter.
How long each kind of record is kept has not yet been decided. The fuller policy will state it. Until then, you can ask for your information to be deleted at any time.
To see the information held about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted, write to shivam@advshivamshukla.in from the email address you used, and say which form you used. To stop receiving Field Notes, use the unsubscribe link in any issue.
This notice will be updated when the site changes, and the date above will change with it.