This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) has been drafted and published in accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, and the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011, of the Republic of India. Evaluationz India Pvt. Ltd. (here in after referred to as “We”, “Us”, “Company” or “Our”) is concerned about the privacy of the users (here in after referred to as “You”, “Your” or “User”) of its website located at www.evaluationz.com (“Website”). Where the context so requires, the Website shall be collectively referred to as the “Platform” . This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures for collection, use, storage, processing, disclosure and protection of any information, including, but not limited to, business, sensitive or personal information provided by You while using the platform.
This policy constitutes a legal agreement between You, as the user of the Platform, and the Company, as the owner of the platform. You must be a natural person who is at least 18 years of age. If you are less than 18 years of age, please read through this Privacy Policy with your parent or legal guardian, and in such a case this Privacy Policy shall be deemed to be a contract between the Company and your legal guardian or parent and to the extent permissible under applicable laws, enforceable against You. By visiting or accessing the platform and voluntarily providing us with information (personal and/ or non- personal), You are consenting to Our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party platforms/ applications that are connected via links to the Platform. If You do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not proceed further to use and access this Platform.
Your use of the Platform will be governed by this Privacy Policy as applicable to the Platform together with all policies, notices, guidelines, disclaimers that are published and shared with You from time to time which are incorporated herein. This Privacy Policy shall be enforceable against You in the same manner as any other written agreement. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. You must periodically review the Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices prior to sharing of information or use of the Platform hereof.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the your information provided by you is used, processed, disclosed and stored in accordance with the applicable laws. The information stored in such manner shall be protected by the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.
Company’s Privacy Policy explains :
- What information is collected and why such information is collected?
- How such information is used?
- How such information can be accessed and updated?
Please read the following Privacy Policy to learn about our information gathering and dissemination practices.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
During your use of the Platform and with respect to Your application for use of the Platform, We may collect and process such information from You, including but not limited to the information mentioned below:
- Personal Information:This includes the information that can be used to uniquely identify or contact you. In order to consider Your application for the Programme, We may collect a variety of Personal Information, including but not limited to, Your name, postal address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, etc. We may collect any other information that We are required to collect as required under applicable law. The Personal Information is collected from you in a voluntary fashion when You provide your credentials on the Platform. You may choose to not provide such Personal Information to Us. Further, We may decline to process requests which We find to be contrary to the terms laid down under this Privacy Policy or any applicable laws, or which require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others or are extremely impractical.
- Non-Personal Information: Non-Personal Information is any information that does not reveal Your specific identity, such as, browser information, information collected through Cookies (as defined below), pixel tags and other technologies, demographic information, etc. As is true with most websites or applications, Our Platform gathers some information automatically when You visit the App or the URL of the Website and stores it in log files. When You use the Platform, We may collect certain information about Your computer to facilitate, evaluate and verify Your use of the Platform. For example, We may store environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, speed of the central processing unit (CPU), referring or exit web pages, click patterns and the internet protocol (IP) address of Your computer. This information is generally collected in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually.
- Cookies: Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on a User’s PC when the User accesses a Website. The Platform may use temporary cookies to help you access some of the special functions within the database driven areas of the Platform. Once you leave Our Platform, these cookies expire.
USE OF INFORMATION
We, or third parties authorised by Us, may use the information provided by You in the following ways, viz:
- Review the information provided by You in Your application in order to ascertain Your eligibility for using and participating in the Platform.
- To conduct any background checks, if required, as the Company may deem fit.
- To verify whether you are entitled to access and use the Platform or any the products and services made available through the Platform.
- To provide any value-added services, either through itself or through a third party service provider in the Platform.
- To prevent any abuse, trolling or other acts which may be contrary to law or detrimental to the interest of any other user of the Platform or person.
- To prevent any illegal or unlawful acts or any misuse of the Platform by You or any other user of, or by using, the Platform.
- To update You upon the development and news in relation to the Platform.
- To collect any monies owed by You to any other person using the Platform or to the Company.
- Provide You updates for any events conducted by the Company.
- Conduct research and analysis to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities on the Platform.
- Analyze how the Platform is used, diagnose service or technical problems, maintain security.
- To help You efficiently access the Platform.
- Monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of viewers, visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns.
- To notify You regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with Your account, to resolve a dispute, to confirm Your identity in order to ensure that You are eligible to Use the Platform.
- For advertising and marketing communications. We may also share Non-Personal Information with third parties such as, Our advertisers, sponsors, investors, advisors, business partners.
- To carry out Our obligations and to process transactions arising from any contracts entered into between You and Us.
- To notify You about changes on the Platform.
- Notify You, if possible, in the event We become aware of any breach of the security of Your information and take appropriate action to the best of Our ability to remedy such a breach.
- To enable Us to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
We will use and retain Your information for such periods as necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce Our agreements. INFORMATION SECURITY
- We use reasonable safeguards to protect and preserve the integrity and security of Your information against unauthorized access, loss, theft, unauthorised, reproduction, use or amendment, disclosure or destruction of information We hold. We encrypt Our services using secure server software, which is the industry standard as available today for secure transactions. We use reasonable security practices and procedures and use secure servers as mandated under applicable laws for the protection of Your information. We review Our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems from time to time.
- We limit the disclosure of Personal Information to Our employees, independent contractors including vendors, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers and distributors of Our services, on a “need-to-know” basis, and only if the disclosure will enable that entity to provide Us with business, professional, or technical support or fulfill Your request. However, We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive Your Personal Information. We are also not liable for any voluntary disclosure of Personal Information by You to any other user of the Platform or any other person who You have contacted through the Platform.
- As a registered user with an Account, You are responsible for keeping Your password, including one time passwords sent to You, confidential. By submitting Your information on Our Platform, You agree to the handling of Your information by the Company in a manner as stated under this Privacy Policy. We will take such steps as We consider reasonably necessary to ensure that Your information is treated securely and in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
- By using the Platform, You accept the inherent security implications of data transmission over the internet and the world wide web which cannot always be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, Your use of the Platform will be at Your own risk.
- Not withstanding anything contained in this Privacy Policy or elsewhere, the Company shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of Your Personal Information, if such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event (as defined below) or any act or omission attributable to You or any person claiming on Your behalf. A “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any event that is beyond Our reasonable control and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer, computer system or computer network, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption (provided beyond our reasonable control), power or electricity failure or unavailability of adequate power or electricity.
- You agree and acknowledge that We shall retain all information provided by You until such time as is required by the applicable law or until it is required for Our internal use, whichever is later.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
- Company may disclose any information provided by You on the Platform as may be deemed to be necessary or appropriate:
- Under applicable law, including laws outside Your country of residence.
- To comply with legal process.
- To respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside Your country of residence.
- To enforce Our Terms of Use.
- To protect Our operations or those of any of our affiliates.
- To protect Our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, You or others; and
- To allow Us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that We may sustain.
- We may share Personal Information with other corporate entities and affiliates to help detect and prevent identity theft, fraud and other potentially illegal acts and to prevent abuse of Our Platform. We may disclose Personal Information to our third-party providers including but not limited to those who provide products or services such as contact information verification, payment processing, Platform hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, auditing and legal services and other similar services. In such an event, the third parties’ use of Your information will be bound, among other things, by confidentiality obligation and the Privacy Policy. We may store information in locations outside the direct control of the Company (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers). Other than as described in this Privacy Policy and, where relevant, other applicable privacy policies or addendums, the Company will never provide Your Information to any third parties without Your consent, unless We believe in good faith that We are required or permitted to do so under applicable laws or to protect and defend the Company’s rights and/or property.
- The Company may be involved in the transaction of a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, business re-organization, bankruptcy etc. During such a process, it may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets which may include Your information. However, in such an event of sale or transfer, the Company shall reasonably ensure that Your information collected and stored by the Company is stored and used by the transferee in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any such third party to whom We transfer or sell shall have the right to continue to use the information that You provide to Us or collected by Us immediately prior to such transfer or sale. On completion of the sale or transfer, the Privacy Policy of the third party shall apply with respect to Your information. To stay updated about such business transactions, please read this Policy from time to time.
- We assume no liability for any disclosure of information due to errors in transmission, unauthorised third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond Our reasonable control and You agree that You will not hold Us responsible for any breach of security unless such breach has been caused as a direct result of Our gross negligence or wilful default.
LINKS TO THE THIRD PARTY SITES
Our Platform may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of Our partner networks, affiliates and other third parties, whose privacy policy may differ from that of Ours. The inclusion of a link does not imply any endorsement by Us of the third party website, the website’s provider, or the information on the third party website. If You follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites may be governed by their own privacy policies and We disclaim all responsibility or liability with respect to these policies or the websites. Please check these policies and the terms of the websites before You submit any information to these websites.
CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY
Company may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way the Company treats Your Personal Information, Company will display a notice on the Platform or send You an email, as provided for above. Unless stated otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies to all information that Company has about You and Your account. Notwithstanding the above, Company shall not be required to notify You of any changes made to the Privacy Policy. If You use the Platform after notice of changes have been sent to You or published on the Platform, Your continued use of the Platform shall mean Your deemed consent to the changed practices.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT/DELETION/CORRECTION
- Company provides all its users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications from us or on behalf of our partners after setting up an Account.
- If You want to remove Your contact information from all Our lists and newsletters, please write to us at sales@evaluationz.com with “unsubscribe” as the subject or any button provided on the Platform, as the case may be.
- If You wish to have the information or data that you have provided to the Company deleted, You can always do so by sending a request to us on the e-mail id. You may note that correction or deletion of certain information or data may lead to cancellation of your registration with the Platform or your access to certain features of the Platform. You also agree and acknowledge that certain data or information cannot be corrected or deleted or prohibited to be deleted as required under any applicable law, law enforcement requests or under any judicial proceedings. Any information that is sought to be deleted, whether upon deactivation of Your account on the Platform or otherwise, shall be deleted from the user interface of the Platform but may be retained on the servers of the Company for such period as may be required under applicable laws, Terms of Use or as per the policy of the Company or any third-party vendor engaged by the Company. You acknowledge and agree that the Company and/or any thirdparty vendor engaged and authorised by the Company shall be entitled to retain such information to the extent required under this clause and the Company disclaims any liability or obligation not specifically agreed hereunder with respect to such information. You also agree that any aggregated information or data based on the analysis or benchmarking activity undertaken by the Company, either manually or through related algorithms, shall be the sole property of the Company and the Company shall neither have the obligation to delete it or provide such aggregated information or data to You.
EXCLUSION
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information other than such information collected by the Company through the Platform. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information You provide Us through this Platform or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Platform. All such unsolicited information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and the Company shall be free to use, process or disclose such unsolicited information without any limitations. We make no representation that the content contained on the Platform is appropriate or to be used or accessed outside of the Republic of India. The Company’s responsibility with respect to such information shall be as per the laws of Republic of India. If You use or access the Platform from outside the Republic of India, You do so at Your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction.
SEVERABILITY
We have taken every effort to ensure that this Privacy Policy adheres with the applicable laws. The invalidity or unenforceability of any part of this Policy shall not prejudice or affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information other than the information collected by the Company through the Platform. This Privacy Policy shall be inapplicable to any unsolicited information You provide us through this Platform or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted in any public areas of the Platform. All unsolicited information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and the Company shall be free to use and/ or disclose such unsolicited information without any limitations.
WAIVER
Any rights or remedies under this Privacy Policies may be waived only in writing. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any such right or remedy does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy, or any other right or remedy.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Privacy Policy are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the use of the Platform or this Privacy Policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Bangalore, India.
QUESTIONS AND GRIEVANCES
Your grievances, questions or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to Our grievance officer mentioned below:
Email Id: sales@evaluationz.com