Nat IMS

DRAFT, pending legal review. A lawyer has not checked this text yet. Don't rely on it, sign it or hand it out as final.

Parent consent and WhatsApp opt-in form

Draft 2, 11 November 2026. For colleges to print and give to parents.

తెలుగులో ఈ పత్రం

Print this on A4, one per student. Use your browser's Print option. Give it to the parent at admission or at a parents' meeting, and keep the signed copy in the student's file. When it comes back, the office records each ticked message as an opt-in in Nat IMS, with the date. A parent who prefers Telugu can have the తెలుగు పత్రం.

Fill in the college's name and the contact person before printing copies, or write them on each copy.

College:

Consent for your child's records and WhatsApp messages

The college keeps records about your child to run attendance, fees and marks. With your consent it also sends you WhatsApp messages about them. Please read this page, tick what you agree to, and sign.

Student

Name

Admission no.

Year and group

Section

Date of birth

Aadhaar no. (optional)

Parent or guardian

Name

Relation to student

WhatsApp number +91

Messages in తెలుగు English

What the college keeps, and why

  • Your child's name, admission number, date of birth, gender, year, group, section, batches, hostel or day scholar, BIE hall ticket numbers, and APAAR ID or PEN if you give them: for the college's records and registers.
  • Attendance, fees, receipts, test marks and report cards: to run the college and send the messages you tick below.
  • Your name, relation to the student, mobile number and language: to send those messages and to contact you.
  • Your child's Aadhaar number, only if you choose to write it (voluntary): only to match your child's records with government records. Leaving it blank changes nothing. It is stored encrypted and shown as the last 4 digits; only the college owner can see the full number, and every view is recorded. It never goes on receipts, report cards or messages.

The college keeps these records in Nat IMS, run by devsforfun Studio (OPC) Private Limited, on servers in India (Amazon Web Services, Mumbai). Messages come from the Nat IMS WhatsApp number and name the college. They pass through Meta's WhatsApp Business Platform, which may process them outside India and keeps their text for up to 30 days.

Tick each one you agree to

  • I agree that the college keeps and uses my child's records as described above. [NEED: lawyer to confirm this consent is the right basis]
  • Send me a WhatsApp message when my child is marked absent, and a correction if they came late after it.
  • Send me fee receipts and fee due reminders on WhatsApp.
  • Send me my child's weekly test marks on WhatsApp.

Your choices later

You can withdraw any of these at any time by telling the college office, and messages stop from then. You can ask the college what it holds about you and your child, and ask it to correct or erase it. Complaints go to the college first, and it replies within 90 days. If that does not settle it, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India. Full privacy notice: natims.in/privacy

College contact for these requests (name, phone):

Signature of parent or guardian

Date

If the student is 18 or older: the choice is the student's. I am 18 or older, and I agree to the above, including messages to my parent or guardian.

Signature of student

Date

Office use

Parent's identity checked by (name)

Checked against: college admission records / ID shown (write the type only, no number)

Opt-in entered in Nat IMS on (date), by