PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to https://www.dotme.in/ along with its associated sub-domains, sites, services and tools (as applicable) (collectively “Website”), owned by Dotme Technologies Private Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 and having its registered office address at 49, 5th Block Koramangala, Koramangala VI BK, Bangalore – 560095 (“Company”). The Company is, inter alia, engaged in the business of software and mobile application related services, namely, personalized and customizable page that house all important links of pages one wants to share with its audience.
The Company is committed to respecting your online privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any information you share with the Company on the Website. This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains how the Company will collect, use, share and process Information (defined below) in relation to the services provided on the Website.
This Policy shall be deemed to be incorporated into the terms of use of the Website (“Terms”) and shall be read in addition to the Terms. In the event of any conflict between this Policy and the Terms, the interpretation placed by the Company shall be final and binding on you.
By accepting this Policy through an affirmative action, you provide free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous consent to the Company and understand and agree to the collection, use, sharing and processing of Personal Information (defined below). If you provide the Company with Personal Information about someone else, you confirm that: (a) such Personal Information is accurate and up-to-date; (b) such person is aware that you have provided their Personal Information; and (c) they consent to both, the disclosure and the use/processing of their Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. This Policy applies to all the current and former visitors, users, subscribers and others who access this Website as well as individuals who interact with customer support, respond to surveys, or engage in any business dealings with the Company. Provided however, this Policy does not apply to the processing of Personal Information by users of the Company and in such instances, the user’s own privacy notice or policy shall govern such processing.
SCOPE
This Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder. This Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature.
By agreeing or accessing or using the Website, giving the Company your Information or otherwise clicking to accept this Policy, if and when prompted on the Website, you undertake that you have the capacity to enter into a legally binding contract vide. this Policy, which constitutes a legally binding document between you and the Company under the applicable law, in particular, the Indian Contract Act, 1872. The Company will collect and process your Personal Information and third-party data carefully, only for the purposes described in this Policy and only to the extent necessary as defined herein and within the scope of the applicable legal regulations. This Policy seeks to ensure that any Personal Information or third-party information handled by the Company is managed in a way that is ethical, compliant and adheres to best industry practices.
Please read the terms and conditions of this Policy carefully, before accepting the same and/or accessing or using this Website. By accessing or using the Website including its services or otherwise clicking to accept this Policy, if and when prompted on the Website, you agree to the terms of this Policy. If you are accepting this Policy on behalf of another person or company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have full authority to bind such person, company or legal entity to these terms. If you are accepting this Policy on behalf of a child or a person with disability, you represent and warrant that you are a parent or legal guardian of such a child or a person with disability, as the case may be.
This Policy describes the types of Information the Company collects, why and how the Company uses the Information, with whom the Company shares it, and the choices you can make about the Company’s use of the Information. This Policy also describes the measures the Company takes to protect the security of the Information and how you can contact the Company about its privacy practices.
This Policy describes the Company’s current data protection policies and practices and may be amended/updated from time to time. The Company will notify you at least once in a year, or whenever there is a change in this Policy, by email or by posting a conspicuous notice on the Website regarding its then applicable data protection policies. This Policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification. It is recommended that you regularly check this Policy to apprise yourself of any updates. Your acceptance or continued use of the Website or provision of data or Information thereafter will imply your unconditional acceptance of such updates to this Policy.
CONSENT
By performing the affirmative action, as deem fit by the Company, you freely, unconditionally, unambiguously and expressly consent to the Company’s use and disclosure of your Personal Information, including SPDI (defined below) and third-party information in accordance with this Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, please do not accept this Policy or use the Website.
TYPES OF INFORMATION
Personal Information is defined as any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.
Personal Information: Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, the first and last names, address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender, e-mail address, occupation, about yourself, social media handles, or any other contact information, financial information including bank account details, credit/debit card details or such other payment information (as the case may be) or any publicly available data such as information from public social media profiles, blogs, websites, images, videos, playlists, and/or usage statistics on any of the social media platforms (“Personal Information”). Further, Sensitive Personal Data or Information (“SPDI”) of a person includes Personal Information about that person relating to: passwords, financial information (bank accounts, credit and debit cards or other payment instruments), and physical information. The Company limits the collection of Personal Information to that which is necessary for its intended purpose.
Non-Personal Information: Non-personal information means information that does not specifically identify an individual or business, but includes information from you, such as your browser type, the URL of the previous websites you visited, your Internet Service Provider (ISP), operating system and your Internet Protocol (IP) address. The Company may gather any non-personal information regarding how many people visit the Website, the pages they visit, their IP address, and the type of browser they used while visiting the Website, versions, time zone settings and locations, operating systems, applications installed on your device, device ID, device manufacturer and type, device, connection information, screen resolution, usage statistics, default communication applications, other technology on the devices you use to access the Website, and/or services availed by a user. Such information shall also include all such Personal Information collected and stored by the Company that undergoes the process of de-identification and is no more identifiable to you or any natural person (“Non-Personal Information”). The Company may also collect Non-Personal Information that you voluntarily provide, such as information included in response to a questionnaire or a survey conducted by the Company.
Usage Information: Usage Information includes without limitation all data and information collected automatically through the Website (or through the third party analytics service providers), by use and access of the Website in the nature of system administrative data, statistical and demographical data, and operational information and data generated by or characterizing use of the Website including without limitation Non-Personal Information, cookies, Website traffic, time spent on the Website, number of visits to the Website and other similar information and behaviour indicating the mode and manner of use of the Website ( “Usage Information”).
Personal Information, SPDI, Non-Personal Information and Usage Information hereinafter shall be collectively referred to as “Information”.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
The Company may collect Information from you when you:
(a) register on the Website in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Terms.
(b) use the Website for any of the services being offered thereon (including, when you report a problem with the Website and/or the services).
(c) voluntarily participate in campaigns conducted by the Company on the Website or respond to questionnaires published by the Company on the Website (if any).
(d) voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via e-mail in relation to the services provided on the Website or submit comments on the Website. and
(e) when you carry out transactions on the Website.
You hereby acknowledge and agree that all Information is provided by you to the Company voluntarily and the Information provided by you is not subject to any undue influence.
The Company may use cookies to monitor the Website usage in accordance with paragraph 11 of this Policy including, without limitation, to provide useful features to simplify your experience when you return to the Website, like remembering your login id, Information and to deliver relevant content based on your preferences, usage patterns and location.
The Company may also collect Non-Personal Information or Usage Information based on your browsing activity and in relation to your use or access to the Website like your browser type, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your operating system, your prior search results etc., which may or may not be publicly accessible.
Information collected by the Company from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such information was collected.
You may use the Website without providing the Company any Information about yourself. However, you may not be able to access certain services of the Websites in case you choose to do so.
USE OF INFORMATION
The Company uses the Information you provide to:
(a) manage your account (including, maintenance of records of payments and other transactions that take place under your account on the Website).
(b) fulfil your requests for the services offered on the Website.
(c) provide you with information about the services available on the Website and offer you other services that the Company believes may be of interest to you.
(d) resolve any glitches on the Website including addressing any technical problems.
(e) improve the services and content on the Website and your experience of navigating through the Website and carrying out transactions on the Website and; and
(f) manage the Company’s relationship with you.
The Company may use the Information to monitor your use of the services and may review and analyse the Information provided by you to provide you with customized service.
The Company may use your Non-Personal Information or Usage Information for internal business purposes, such as data analysis, research, developing new services, enhancing and improving existing services and identifying usage trends.
Subject to and in accordance with applicable laws, the Company has the right to use your Information for the purpose of conducting promotional/marketing related activities on the Website, including but not limited to, using your Personal Information for making posters/banners to promote the services of the Company.
When you send an email message or otherwise contact the Company through the Website, the Company may use the Information provided by you to respond to your communication by way of messages on the Website, Short Message Service (SMS), email or any other communication channels. The Company may also archive such Information and/or use it for future communications with you to inform you regarding updates, newsletters, offers, new services and promotions.
INFORMATION SHARING
The Company maintains your Information in electronic form on its servers, devices and on the equipment of the Company’s employees. The Information is made accessible to employees, agents or partners and third-parties only on a need-to-know basis.
The Company does not rent, sell, or share Information with other people or with other non-affiliated entities, except with your consent, to provide services you have requested for or under the following circumstances:
- The Company may share Information with Company’s employees to contact you via email, phone, or otherwise for the services being availed by you.
- The Company may engage third party vendors and/or contractors to perform certain support services, who may have limited access to Information.
- The Company may rent, sell or share Non-Personal Information or Personal Information in an aggregate form after it undergoes the process of de-identifications and is no more identifiable to you, with any third party.
- The Company may share Information with government authorities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. This may be done in response to a law enforcement agency's request.
- The Company may transfer and process Personal Information in jurisdictions outside India. In such an instance, the transfers shall be undertaken in compliance with applicable law.
THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
The Company may engage third party vendors and/or contractors to perform certain support services for the Company, including, without limitation, software maintenance services, advertising and marketing services, web hosting services and such other related services which are required by the Company to provide its services efficiently. These third parties may have limited access to Information. If they do, this limited access is provided so that they may perform these tasks for the Company and they are not authorized by the Company to otherwise use or disclose Information, except to the extent required by law. The Company does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies or terms of use of such websites, nor does it control or guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by the Company of the website, the website's provider, or the information on such website.
The Website may contain links and interactive functionality interacting with the websites of third parties. The Company is not responsible for and has no liability for the functionality, actions, inactions, privacy settings, privacy policies, terms, or content of any such websites. Before enabling any sharing functions to communicate with any such websites or otherwise visiting any such websites, the Company strongly recommends that you review and understand the terms and conditions, privacy policies, settings, and information-sharing functions of each such third-party websites.
CONTROL OVER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any point, provided such withdrawal of the consent is intimated to the Company in writing through an email at [---] requesting the same. If you at any time wish to rectify your Personal Information, you may write to the Company as per paragraph 9 of this Policy.
Once you withdraw your consent to share the Personal Information collected by the Company, the Company shall have the option not to fulfil the purposes for which the said Personal Information was sought and the Company may restrict you from using the Services on the Website and/or the Website itself.
RECTIFICATION/CORRECTION/ERASURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You shall have the right to review your Personal Information and/or SPDI (as the case may be) submitted by you on the Website and to modify, correct, erase or delete any Personal Information and/or SPDI (as the case may be), provided by you directly on the Website. You hereby understand that any such modification or deletion may affect your ability to use the Website. Further, it may affect the Company’s ability to provide its services to you.
The Company reserves the right to verify and authenticate your information in order to ensure accurate delivery of services. Access to or correction, erasure, updation or deletion of your Personal Information and/or SPDI (as the case may be) may be denied or limited by the Company. if it would violate another person’s rights and/or is not otherwise permitted by applicable law.
If you need to update, erase or correct your Personal Information that the Company may have collected to offer you personalized services and offers, you may send updates, request for erasure and corrections to the Company at info@dotme.in citing the reason for such rectification or erasure of Personal Information. The Company will take all reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes within a reasonable period of time.
TERM OF STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Company shall store your Personal Information at least for such period as may be required and permitted by law or for a period necessary to satisfy the purpose for which the Personal Information has been collected. These periods vary depending on the nature of the Information and your interactions with the Company.
The Company may store Non-Personal Information and Usage Information received from you till such time it requires, provided such storage and retention is in accordance with applicable law.
You agree that you will not submit any false information or any illegal or damaging content to the Website.
The Company reserves the right to terminate access to or the ability to interact with the Website in response to any concerns the Company may have about false, illegal, or damaging content, or for any other reason, in its sole discretion.
COOKIES
To enhance your experience with the Website, many of the web pages use "cookies” and pixel tags and clear gifts on certain pages of the Website or other tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users of the services and to remember your preferences on the Website. This helps the Company to provide you with a good experience when you use the services on the Website and also allows the Company to improve such services. Cookies are text files the Company places in your mobile phone, tablet or other devices to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell the Company your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to the Company by, for example, registering on the Website. They are designed to hold a marginal amount of data specific to a particular user and website and can be accessed either by the web server or the user device. However, once you choose to furnish the Website with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. The Company uses cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on the Website. For example, the Company may use cookies to personalize your experience on the Website (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Website), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use services on the Website. The Company may also use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services. Cookies may be placed on the Website by third-parties as well, the use of which the Company does not control.
Session cookies are automatically deleted from your hard drive once a session ends, and most cookies are session cookies. If your browser permits, you may decline the cookies, however, if you decline the cookies, you may be unable to use certain features on the Website and you may be required to re-enter your password frequently. You may opt to leave the cookie turned on.
PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
The Company has taken adequate measures to protect the security of Information and to ensure that your choices for its intended use are honoured. The Company takes robust precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
The Company considers the confidentiality and security of your information to be of utmost importance. It therefore uses industry standards, and physical, technical and administrative security measures to keep Information confidential and secure and the Company will not share your Information with third parties, except as otherwise provided in this Policy. Please be advised that, however, while the Company strives to protect Information and privacy, the Company cannot guarantee or warrant its absolute security when Information is transmitted over the internet into the Website. The Company will periodically evaluate this necessity considering your privacy and our relation while keeping the applicable legislation in mind.
For any loss or theft of Information, due to unauthorized access to your device through which you use the Website or other reasons solely attributable to you, the Company shall not be held liable or responsible under any circumstance whatsoever. Further, the Company shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties or events that are beyond the Company’s reasonable control including but not limited to acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality of Internet service or telephone service of the user, etc.
MINOR & USAGE ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON
The Company does not intend to attract anyone under the relevant age of consent or person with disability to enter into binding legal contracts under the applicable law. The Company does not intentionally or knowingly collect Personal Information through the Website from anyone under that age or person with disability. The Company encourages parents and guardians to be involved in the online activities of minor and person with disability to ensure that no Personal Information is collected from a minor and person with disability without their prior consent. If you are using the Website on behalf of someone else, including but not limited to, on behalf of your minor child/children/employer or person with disability, you represent and warrant that you are authorised by such person to accept this Policy on their behalf and to consent on behalf of such person to the Company’s use of such person’s Personal Information as described in this Policy. If you are accepting this Policy on behalf of a child or person with disability, you represent and warrant that you are a parent or legal guardian of such a child or person with disability, as the case may be.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The Company shall not be liable to you for any loss of profit, production, anticipated savings, goodwill or business opportunities or any type of direct or indirect, incidental, economic, compensatory, punitive, exemplary or consequential losses arising out of performance or non-performance of its obligations under this Policy.
The Company is not responsible for any actions or inactions of any third parties that receive your Information.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Policy or elsewhere, the Company shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of your Information, if such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event. “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any event that is beyond the reasonable control of the Company and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes, lockouts or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, civil disturbances, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, pandemic or national/state lockdown due to any reason and any other similar events not within the control of the Company and which the Company is not able to overcome.
OPT-OUT
Once you register as a user on the Website, and/or use and access the Website, you may receive communications, including but not limited to emails, Short Message Service (SMS) and phone calls from the Company on the registered mobile number and e-mails on your registered e-mail address (as applicable). These messages, e-mails and calls could relate to your registration, transactions that you carry out through the Website and promotions that are undertaken by the Company and other digital communications. You have the option to 'opt-out' of all Company’s newsletters and other general email marketing and promotional communications from the Company by way of links provided at the bottom of the mailers or by contacting the customer service team of the Company. It is hereby clarified that in the event of such opt-out, communications pertaining to transactions and services shall continue. The Company respects your privacy and in the event that you choose to not receive such mailers, the Company shall take all adequate steps to remove you from such lists. However, you will not be able to opt-out of receiving administrative messages, customer service responses or other transactional communications.
DISCLOSURE TO ACQUIRERS
The Company may disclose and/or transfer Information to an investor, acquirer, assignee, or other successor entity in connection with a sale, merger, or reorganization of all or substantially all of the equity, business or assets of the Company.
GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
This Policy shall be governed by and interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of India. The place of jurisdiction shall exclusively be in Bengaluru. In the event of any dispute arising out of this Policy the same shall be settled by a binding arbitration conducted by a sole arbitrator, appointed jointly by both parties and governed by the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as amended from time to time. The venue and seat of arbitration shall be Bengaluru.
GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL MECHANISM
For registering your concerns, complaint or grievances, please write to the below mentioned designated officer of the Company at the below-mentioned email address in relation to any violation of this Policy or the applicable laws. The designated officer shall redress the concerns, complaint or grievances in accordance with the applicable laws.
Name: Akshay Naazare
Address: 49, 5th Block Koramangala, Koramangala VI BK, Bangalore –560095
Email ID: Info@dotme.in
CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, you may contact the Company at info@dotme.in.