Javensoft Technologies LLP (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” / “we” / “us”) is committed towards protecting personally identifiable information including sensitive personal data (“Personal Information”) as would be collected by the Company from you in the course of your access to and use of the services of the Link Locality application (“Application”) and your creation of an account on the Application.
Company endeavours to collect, process and treat the Personal Information of its users in compliance with the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 (“Data Protection Laws”).
This Privacy Policy represents the sole, authorized statement of the Company’s practices with respect to the collection of Personal Information through the Application and the manner of use of such information by the Company.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before proceeding, as by completing the registration process and/or by using the Website, you signify your agreement with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the provisions of this Privacy Policy, then please do not access the Application and/or do not complete the registration process on the Application.
1. SCOPE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy of the Company applies to all its officers and employees. This Privacy Policy describes the information that the Company, as part of its normal operations, collects from you, stores, uses and protects. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to outline and help you understand the various guidelines and procedures that are consistently followed by the Company when collecting, storing, utilizing, disclosing or otherwise dealing with any Personal Information. By using the Application, you agree to be legally bound by this Privacy Policy, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the Application.
Further, the Application may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than the Company which are developed by people over whom the Company exercises no control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of such third-party sites. Such other third-party sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information. The Company is accordingly not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Any summary of this Privacy Policy generated by third party software or otherwise shall have no legal effect, shall not be binding on the Company, shall not be relied upon in substitute for this Privacy Policy, and neither supersede nor modify this Privacy Policy.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE COMPANY
The Company primarily collects and stores the Personal Information, as would be provided by you in the course of creating your account as well as accessing and using the services provided by the Company through the Application. With regard to creating an account and registering on the Application, the Company would generally process your name, phone number, e-mail address, age, date of birth, parents/legal guardian’s phone number and e-mail address, account information like profile picture, user name, password and device information like preferences, time zone, uploaded images, video files, location data, etc.
Additionally, in the course of your visit to the Website and accessing the services provided through the Application, the Company and/or the third parties with whom the Company has contracted to provide services, may collect certain anonymous information from sources such as server log files, cookies and pixel tags. Company and/or the third parties may collect information concerning your access to and use of the services provided through the Application such as what buttons/options you click on, device you use to access the Application, device’s unique identifying number, operating system, device language, device region, device time zone, mobile network information, etc. Company uses cookies or other similar software to collect data about the users to track their movements around the Application and in order to assist the users to automatically and effortlessly log in on subsequent visits to the Application. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to a user’s browser from a website’s computers and stored on user’s computer’s hard drive. An application can send its own cookies to user’s browser if user’s browser’s/device preference settings allow it. You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser/device. You may set your browser/device to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser/device, or block all cookies. Blocking all cookies will affect your online experience and may prevent you from enjoying the full features of the Application.
The Company and/or third-party service providers and/or our partners may also use cookies to manage and measure the performance of advertisements displayed on or delivered through the Application. This helps the Company as well as service providers and partners to provide more relevant advertising.
Company also automatically receives and records information on Company’s web server logs from user’s device including the Internet Protocol (IP) address. Company records IP addresses for anonymous statistical purposes, administration of this Application and associated servers, and to improve Company’s services.
3. USE AND DISCLOSURE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION
When any Personal Information is provided by you to the Company in the course of your access to the Application including but not limited to creating the account on the Application, such Personal Information is used by the Company in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of Use. The Company may also use your Personal Information to operate, develop and provide you with the best possible services.
Company will not disclose your Personal Information unless the Company has received your permission or Company is required to disclose such Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and lawful requests by any governmental authorities.
In addition, the Company may record and share aggregate information of its users with selected clients, service providers and partners of the Company, without disclosing individual names or identifying information of the users of the Application. In the event that another company acquires all or substantially all of the assets of the Company’s business through a consolidation, merger, asset purchase or other transaction, the Company reserves the right to transfer all data (including any Personal Information) that is in its possession or under its control to such acquiring party and thereafter the privacy policy of such acquiring party shall govern all such data and any Personal Information that is transferred to the acquiring party.
4. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Company takes all reasonable steps to comply with the applicable laws to ensure that the Personal Information provided by you is stored in a secure environment protected from unauthorized access, modification, destruction or disclosure. To protect Personal Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or modification and against unauthorized disclosure or access, the Company has implemented various security practices that are updated and audited on a regular basis in accordance with the applicable laws. Company’s servers and workstations are protected by antivirus software which are updated from time-to-time to minimise the threats of any virus, malware or trojan attacks and are located in secure data facilities (with limited access) to further increase security.
While the Company strives to protect your Personal Information at all times, the Company cannot guarantee its absolute security and shall not be liable for any breach of security by an outside party. It is also important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your user name and password for your account and to your computer/electronic device. Be sure to sign off from your account on the Application in case you access your account from a shared computer/electronic device.
The Company would also like to caution its users about phishing attacks, wherein unscrupulous third parties seek to extract sensitive and confidential information from you by posing as a genuine website or by a sending an e-mail misrepresenting it to be from a genuine source. Please be careful while dealing with and/or responding to such e-mails. If you receive such a message claiming to be from the Company, then please do not reply to it and immediately bring it to our attention by contacting the Grievance Officer.
The Company does not sell, rent, loan, trade, lease or license any Personal Information collected from or provided by you.
5. SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG INS
The Company may provide for certain social media plug ins such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. on its Application which allows the users to communicate ith such service. You are therefore advised to go through the privacy policy of such social media service providers. The social media plug in enables a direct communication between your device and the servers of the social media provider, allowing the social media provider to communicate with you and collect information about your access to and use of our Application. In the course of this interaction, transfer of your Personal Information may take place whether you have an account with the social media provider or not. Please note that the Company neither has any control of the extent of Personal Information that is collected by the respective social media service provider nor does the Company know the processing purposes or the duration for which your Personal Information would be retained by such social media service provider, which would be governed by their respective privacy policy.
6. ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
For information collected through the Application, users can send an e-mail or letter to the Grievance Officer to:
➤ access Personal Information that the Application has collected from the user through your access to and use of the services provided through the Application;
➤ correct any factual errors in such Personal Information; or
➤ request to have your Personal Information deleted from the Company’s servers.
To protect the privacy and security of our users, the Company will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your Personal Information that is collected and maintained by the Company.
7. AMENDMENTS TO THE POLICY
Company reserves the right to effect revisions/modifications to this Privacy Policy, and any of its other policies or procedures concerning the treatment of information collected through the Application, without prior notice. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective upon posting of the revised Privacy Policy on the Application. Access/use of the Application following the posting of such revised Privacy Policy would be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such revised Privacy Policy, then in effect.
8. GRIEVANCE OFFICER
For any queries related to this Privacy Policy, correction of any Personal Information provided by you or for making a complaint about breach of privacy, you may please contact on the following details of the Company:
E-mail id: linklocality.care@gmail.com
Website: www.linklocality.com