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This is the Privacy Policy for our website (https://gokhalefoundation.org/). The terms and conditions that govern the use of the Website are stated in the Terms of Use, and this Privacy Policy is to be read as part of the Terms of Use.
This document stating the Privacy Policy is an electronic record in respect to the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules made thereunder as applicable, and the amended provisions on electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures. This document is published under the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require the publishing of rules and regulations, privacy policy, and terms of use for access or usage of the Website.
Our Privacy Policy describes the ways we gather, use, disclose, and manage your data. It has been outlined and presented here to allow for greater transparency in ensuring that your privacy remains protected.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of the collection, use, and disclosure of your data.
The use of the term “data” in this Privacy Policy shall be understood as including Personal Data, Usage Data, and any other information that we may have obtained from you. Your Personal Data is not collected when you are merely accessing our website and viewing the web pages. Usage Data, however, is collected automatically when you access and view this Website.
1. What do we consider to be Personal Data?
Personal Data is any information that relates to your identity or can be linked to an identifiable individual or used to identify an individual. This may include but is not limited to,
your names, email address(es), phone number(s), residential or postal address(es), location, professional information, employment-related or education information, the name of the organization(s) you represent, financial information including details of your PAN (Personal Account Number) Card, the details of your Aadhaar Card or any other of your government-issued personal identification document.
2. What is Usage Data?
Usage Data includes information such as log files, your device’s Internet Protocol address, nature of the device (for example, whether it is a mobile device, desktop, or a laptop), the operating system of your device, type of internet browser being used, browser version, the time and date of you accessing our Website, the webpages of the Website that you viewed, the time spent on those webpages, unique device identifiers that may be implemented in the website infrastructure, number of clicks, broad demographic information for aggregate use and general diagnostic data. We may also collect any other information that your browser sends to our website’s servers whenever you visit our website.
3. How do we collect data?
We collect data through the use of cookies and trackers. Apart from this, we only collect the data that you enter on our site, such as through an inquiry form that you may fill out and submit. Personal Data is only obtained by us through the information you actively entered on our Website since the cookies and trackers we implement do not specifically collect Personal Data.
As such, Personal Data is obtained directly from you, or from others authorized to provide the information and who decide to enter such information on our Website, and from other parties with whom we may work – such as service providers, business partners, advertisers, advertising technology providers, and advertising servers.
If you submit Personal Data about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you are providing the information and that said person has consented to have all the information used, disclosed, and transferred under this Privacy Policy.
4. What are cookies and what is our policy regarding them?
Cookies are small bits of data stored in your computer, sent through browsers to servers. They are used to recognize your online presence and track you and your preferences. As mentioned in Clause 2(3) of this Privacy Policy, we use cookies to collect Usage Data.
They may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services. When you browse the Website, your browser will receive session cookies. You may opt out of this through the cookie banner that presents itself when you access the Website. You may control the effect of cookies through your browser settings, although this might lead to the unavailability of any features or functions of the Website as a consequence.
1. How do we use the collected data?
Data is collected by us only to identify you and thus, conduct our business. Collected data may be used for the purposes mentioned hereunder.
– To maintain and improve our Website, including the monitoring of usage of our Website.
– To provide and facilitate our services and products.
– To contact you, whether through email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application. We may also use it to administer mailing lists.
– For information regarding the nature of services, you may avail from us. For instance, we may rely on the information you provide to us through our website regarding a project you want us to work on, to work on said project, and make determinations regarding the project.
– To attend to and manage your requests, and as a source of feedback on our products or services.
– To provide you with news, offers, and general information about our goods, services, and events.
2. What do we NOT do to your data?
– We protect your data by adopting the following policies.
– We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your data to outside parties.
– We do not seek or collect financial information.
– We use regular malware scanning and anti-virus software to keep our website safe.
3. Do we share the data we collect?
We only share your data with affiliates and third parties, and only in the situations enumerated hereunder.
– We may share the data with service providers, in order to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, to help support and maintain the Website, to ensure compliance with applicable law, to contact you, to advertise on third party websites to you, or for payment processing if necessary.
– We may share or transfer your data in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of our assets. We may also share it with any business partners we may have. We reserve the right to transfer data we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets.
– We may share your data with our affiliates; if we do, we will require our affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates will include any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
– We may share your data with law enforcement or in response to valid requests by public authorities such as Courts or government agencies.
– Log records and data stored on our servers may be accessed by system administrators and troubleshooters.
The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, after which we will delete your data. We will retain and use your Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations – for instance, we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws, to resolve disputes, or to enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We generally retain Usage Data for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or if we are obligated by law to retain this data for longer.
Whilst the Company shall reasonably endeavor to protect and secure the data – particularly personal data – provided by you, we shall not be liable if criminal offenses are committed by any third party, despite the reasonable security measures adopted by us as part of the Website infrastructure and where unauthorized use or access has been attempted or committed, where such unauthorized use or access could not be prevented despite reasonable safety precautions undertaken by us.
You can contact us to enquire about the personal data we may have stored, and you may ask us to delete any of your data that we may have. We will endeavor to respond to and honor such requests at the earliest.
We reserve the right to modify or replace the terms in this Privacy Policy at any time, without sending any prior notification personally. If we make any changes to our Privacy Policy, the changes will be reflected here. If at any point we decide to use your information which we may hold in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we shall notify you via email.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or believe that we have not adhered to it, please feel free to contact us at shop@gokhalefoundation.org
