What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Groww does with your data
Groww's policy discloses an unusually wide footprint: third-party advertising companies use your visits both to Groww and to other websites, your information is made available to its group companies, and it collects your Aadhaar and fingerprint details when you open an account.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Groww’s own policy says “make Your Personal Information...available to group companies, affiliates and subsidiary companies including but not limited to Groww Invest Tech Private Limited ("Nextbillion"), Neobillion Fintech Pvt Ltd”
Our summary makes personal information available to named group, affiliate and subsidiary companies.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Groww’s own policy says “to allow Our business partners and/or associates to present customised messages to You”
Our summary allows business partners and associates to present customised messages to you.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
Groww’s own policy says “third-party advertising companies to serve ads when You visit the Platform. These companies may use information about Your visits to the Platform and Third-Party Sites”
Our summary third-party advertising companies use information about your visits to the platform and to third-party sites.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
Groww’s own policy says “Notwithstanding anything contained herein, We may retain some or all of Your information in accordance with our policies and/or requirements under applicable law.”
Our summary reserves retention of some or all of your information notwithstanding anything else in the policy.
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Processes your face or other biometrics
Face matching, liveness checks or similar.
What this costs you. You can change a leaked password in a minute. You cannot change your face. A biometric breach is permanent in a way nothing else is.
Show me where they say that
Groww’s own policy says “Nextbillion may also collect Your Aadhaar, finger–print details and signature solely for completing the account opening procedures”
Our summary Nextbillion may collect your Aadhaar, fingerprint details and signature to complete account opening.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Groww’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Trains AI models on your content
Groww is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Groww do with my personal data?
According to Groww's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-12, it discloses 5 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term, processes your face or other biometrics.
Can I withdraw my consent from Groww?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Groww track me for advertising?
Yes — Groww's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Groww declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-12. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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representative. The DPDP Act 2023 commences in stages up to May 2027, so a request
made today asks for voluntary compliance and records the date you asked.
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