deAsra Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last modified on March 02, 2023

We, deAsra Foundation (“deAsra”, “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”), own, maintain and operate the website www.deasra.in and a newsletter website www.yashaswiudyojak.com (collectively referred to as “Website”). We at deAsra help entrepreneurs start, manage, and grow their businesses. Our Website provides information and end-to-end solutions for entrepreneurial ventures (“Services”). Our Services include entrepreneurial support services. funding, training, business management, legal compliances and other similar services.

We respect data privacy rights and are committed to protect the personal information collected on our Website. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets forth how we collect, use and protect the personal information collected on this Website.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY CONTINUING TO USE THE WEBSITE, PROVIDING US PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU CONSENT TO OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MAY WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT OR ALTERNATIVELY CHOOSE NOT TO PROVIDE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE. SUCH AN INTIMATION TO WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT CAN BE PROVIDED BY EMAIL TO team@deasra.co.in.

IF YOU ARE ACCESSING THE WEBSITE ON BEHALF OF A THIRD PARTY, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BIND SUCH THIRD-PARTY TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND, IN SUCH AN EVENT YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE SHALL REFER TO USE BY SUCH THIRD PARTY. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SUCH AN AUTHORITY (TO PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OF A THIRD PARTY) OR DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, THEN YOU SHOULD REFRAIN FROM USING THE WEBSITE.

This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract being compliant and construed in accordance with the Indian Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 under the Information Technology Act 2000 (“Privacy Rules”) that require publishing of Privacy Policy for the collection, use, storage and transfer of sensitive personal information.

1.    DEFINITIONS.

“User”, “you”, “your” shall mean and include individuals who use, access and/or visit the Website.

Those capitalized terms not defined herein, shall have the same meaning ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.

2.    PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that can be used to identify the User, including but not limited to an individual’s full name, mobile number, residential address, location, email address, company name and designation.

 

           i.     User registration: In order to avail the entire gamut of Services offered on this Website, you may be required to register and create a User Account with password (“User Account”). We may collect certain information from the User including full name, email address, address, location, contact number. Users who do not register with us for a User Account, may have limited access to the Website.

         ii.     Services: When you subscribe and avail a service on our Website, we may collect certain Personal Information from you, including your full name, email address, address, location, contact details. We may also collect information about your business including but not limited to business name, business address, annual sales of your business.

       iii.     Contact us: When you contact us through the ‘contact us’ page on our Website, you call us on our contact number, you message us on our contact number, when you message/chat with us on WhatsApp messenger, we may collect certain Personal Information including but not limited to your full name, email address, contact details and any other information you provide.

        iv.     Recruitment purposes: We may collect certain Personal Information from you if you apply for a job at our Company through the careers page on our Website.

         v.     Social Media Platform : If you subscribe to our blog, newsletters or contact us through social media platforms such as WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc. (“Social Media”), we may access to your Personal Information on such Social Media (such as your name, email id, and phone).

 

3.    COOKIES.

Cookies are alphanumeric files which are placed on to your device when you visit a website. It allows us to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions, analyze trends, to learn about our user base, operate and improve our services and provide you with a better experience when you visit our website.

Types of Cookies Used

           i.     Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies helps us recognize you as an existing user, so it’s easier for you to return to the website without signing in again. After signing in, the permanent cookies stay on your browser and will be read when you return on to our sites. These remain on your computer/device for a pre-defined period.

         ii.     Session cookies: Session cookies only last for as long as the session exists (they get erased when the user closes the browser).

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

a)    First-party cookies: These cookies are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain.

b)    Third- party cookies: These cookies are placed by third party on your device and may provide information to us and third parties about your usage of the website.

c)    Analytical Tools:

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website are usually transferred to a server of Google in the US and stored there. We do not control third party cookies.  You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website to Google and the processing of these data by Google, by visiting the following link. (https:// Download tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) available browser plug-in and install it.)

Use of Cookies.

We use personal information captured through cookies to make your interaction with us faster and more secure. They may be used for the following purposes:

           i.     Preferences: Cookies allows the website to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. Remembering your preferences enables us to personalize and display advertisements and other contents for you.

         ii.     Security/Optimization: Cookies allow us to maintain security by authenticating users, preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorized parties. We may use certain type of cookies allow us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal content from the forms present on the website.

       iii.     Processing: Cookies enable the website to work efficiently. Basis such cookies, we are able to deliver services that a website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website.

        iv.     Advertising: We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to our users. Some common applications of cookies are made to select advertising based on what’s relevant to you, to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing ads you would have already seen. Cookies capture information about how you interact with the website, which includes the pages that you visit most.

         v.     Communication: We may use information collected via cookies to communicate with you, for sending newsletters, seeking your opinion and feedback and providing you services and promotional materials.

        vi.     Analytics and Research: We may use cookies to better understand how people use our products/services so that we can improve them.

Disabling Cookies

You can decide whether to accept or not to accept cookies. You can disable the cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

4.    ACCURACY OF INFORMATION.

User undertakes that he shall be solely responsible for the accuracy, correctness, or truthfulness of the Personal Information shared with us whether of its own or any third party. In the event the User is sharing any Personal Information on behalf of a third person, the User represents and warrants that he has the necessary authority to share such Personal Information with the Company, obtained a written consent from such third party and the Company shall not be responsible for verifying the same. The User understands and acknowledges that such Personal Information shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

5.    USE OF PERSONAL INFROMATION.

We shall use the Personal Information in the following cases:

           i.     to provide you our Services and e-mail to provide support and respond to your requests;

         ii.     to more effectively manage traffic on the Website;

       iii.     to maintain and improve our Website and Services we provide to you;

        iv.     to maintain and manage your User Accounts;

         v.     to assist you with technical difficulties;

        vi.     to manage our relationship with you;

      vii.     to comply with our legal or statutory obligations;

    viii.     to protect life and property, that of our Users and ourselves;

        ix.     for creation or development of business intelligence or data analytics in relation to the Services provided by us (for this purpose we may share the Personal Information with certain software or tools available online);

         x.     for providing our other services;

        xi.     for nominations, awards and prizes;

      xii.     for internal record keeping;

    xiii.     to process job applications (if you apply for a position with our organization);

    xiv.     to contact you about important announcements and other important things about your User Account on the Website;

      xv.     and to comply with our legal or statutory obligations;

    xvi.     We may also send you any legally required notifications and certain notifications, including but not limited to, Service related notices or notices regarding a change to any of our policies.

6.    DISLCOSURES.

We do not sell, rent, share, distribute, lease your Personal Information to third parties, without your prior consent. Keeping this in mind, we may disclose your Personal Information in the following cases:

           i.     Affiliates: We may provide Personal Information we collect to our affiliates to enable them to improve the Services, provide feedback and respond to their queries.

         ii.     Service Providers: We may share your Personal Information with the service providers who work with us in connection with operating the Website and/ or providing the Services. All such service providers are subject to stringent confidentiality restrictions consistent with this Privacy Policy.

       iii.     Merger or Acquisition: We may transfer your Personal Information if we are acquired by another entity, or if we merge with another company or transfer a part of our business, including the Website, to a third party. Any such third party or resultant entity that receives your Personal Information shall have the right to continue to use your Personal Information in line with the purposes set out herein.

        iv.     Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may be required to disclose your Personal Information due to legal or regulatory requirements. In such instances, we reserve the right to disclose your Personal Information as required in order to comply with our legal obligations, including but not limited to complying with court orders, warrants, or discovery requests. We may also disclose Personal Information about our Users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce this Privacy Policy; respond to claims that any Personal Information violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Company, our Users or the general public. You agree and acknowledge that we may not inform you prior to or after disclosures made according to this section.

 

7.    DATA RETENTION.

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as it is required to be retained for the purpose for which it was collected. We may also retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

 

8.    SECURITY.

All your Personal Information is securely stored on third party cloud service providers such as Amazon Cloud. Although we provide appropriate firewalls and protections, we cannot warrant the security of any Personal Information transmitted as our systems are not hack proof. Data pilferage due to unauthorized hacking, virus attacks, technical issues are possible and we will take measures to mitigate such incidents.

You are responsible for all actions that take place under your User Account. Therefore, we do not recommend that you disclose your User Account details and password to any third party. If you choose to share your User Account details and password or any Personal Information with third parties, you are solely responsible for the same. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your Personal Information and may be subject to legally binding actions. If you suspect that your User Account has been compromised, please contact us on team@deasra.co.in.

9.    ACCESSING AND MODIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION.

In case you need to access, review, and/or make changes to the Personal Information, you shall have to login to your User Account and change the requisite details. You shall keep your Personal Information updated to help us better serve you.

 

10.ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS.

 We may provide certain ancillary services to you including blogs, chat rooms, and news, for improving our Services and to receive your feedback. You may provide certain Personal Information when you use ancillary services on our Website. We encourage you to be careful about what Personal Information you disclose in this way.

Subject to any applicable law, any communication shared by you via the Website or through the blogs, chat rooms, reviews or otherwise to us (including without limitation contents, images, audio, financial information, feedback etc. (collectively “Feedback”) is on a non-confidential basis, and we are under no obligation to refrain from reproducing, publishing or otherwise using it in any way or for any purpose. You shall be responsible for the content and information contained in any Feedback shared by you on the Website or otherwise to us, including without limitation for its truthfulness and accuracy.

Sharing your Feedback with us, constitutes an non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, sub-licensable   assignment to us of all worldwide rights, titles and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Feedback.

11.YOUR RIGHTS.

You have the right to access Personal Information in our possession, right to have us rectify or modify any such Personal Information, right to have us erase/delete your Personal Information, right to restrict us from processing such Personal Information, right to object to our use of Personal Information, withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process  Personal Information. Depending on the nature of the request, we may ask you to complete a Personal Information request form or seek certain details to verify the request. All requests for Personal Information will be handled within a reasonable period of time. If you would like to exercise ANY of these rights, please contact team@deasra.co.in.

12.CHOICE AND OPT-OUT.

We may send you communications including but not limited to (a) notices about your use of our Website and Services provided on our Website, including those concerning violations of use, (b) updates, (c) promotional information regarding our Services, and (d) newsletters. You may opt out of receiving promotional emails and newsletters from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those emails. Alternatively, you can opt out, at any time, by writing to us on team@deasra.co.in with your specific request.

13.THIRD PARTY LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES/ APPLICATIONS.

Our Website may contain links to other websites/ applications of your interest. Please note that we do not have any control over such other websites/ applications, and you will be accessing these websites/ applications at your own risk. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites/applications and those are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to such websites/applications.

14.GOVERNING LAWS AND DISPUTES.

This Agreement shall in all respects be construed and governed by the laws of Republic of India and courts of law at Pune shall have exclusive jurisdiction over such disputes without regard to principles of conflict of laws.

15.CHANGES TO THIS POLICY.

Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes to this Privacy Policy, which we may update from time to time. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will make it available through the Website and indicate the date of the latest revision. If such modifications materially alter your rights or obligations hereunder, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the change via email or through our Website.

16.CONTACT US.

If you have questions or concerns or grievances regarding this Privacy Policy, or wish to withdraw your consent in relation to the processing of your Personal Information, you can can reach out to our appointed grievance redressal officer Devayani Sane via email at team@deasra.co.in.