Privacy Policy
We value the trust you place in us. That's why we insist upon
the highest standards for secure transactions and User information privacy.
Please read the following statement to learn about our information gathering
and dissemination practices. The following Privacy Policy should be read along
with the GUFPlanet – Terms of Use for a full understanding of GUFPlanet's
practices as well as the Users responsibilities when interacting with the
site https://gufplanet.com
This Privacy Policy is published in accordance with the
provisions of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made
thereunder, specifically, The Information Technology (Reasonable Security
Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal data or information) Rules,
2011 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2011.
All terms used in this Privacy Policy will have the same meaning
and definition assigned to them in the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the
rules made thereunder.
Note:
Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make
sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically.
By visiting this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of the Webiste. If you
do not agree please do not use or access the Website.
By mere use of the Website, you expressly consent to our use and
disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use.
1. Collection of Personally Identifiable
Information and other Information
When you use our Website, we collect and store your personal
information, which is provided by you from time to time. Our primary goal in
doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience.
This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your
needs, and to customize our Website to make your experience safer and easier.
More importantly, while doing so we collect personal information from you that
we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Website without telling us who
you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us
your personal information, either by signing up through our portal or signing
in through an associate API such as Google or Facebook, you are not anonymous
to us. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields
are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing
not to use a particular service or feature on the Website. We may automatically
track certain information about you based upon your behaviour on our Website.
We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics,
interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users.
This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis. This
information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on
our Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our
Website or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain
pages of the Website to help analyse our web page flow, measure promotional
effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. "Cookies" are small
files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We
offer certain features that are only available through the use of a
"cookie".
We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less
frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information that
is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning
that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a
session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits. At
this time, all features of the Website will work even if you disable cookies.
However, in the future and in the event that we add certain new or improvised
features and services to the Website, the Website or some parts of it may not
be accessible if cookies are disabled. You may also be required to re-enter
your password more frequently during a session.
Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other
similar devices on certain pages of the Website that are placed by third
parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.
If you choose to donate or contribute on or through the Website,
we collect information about your donations patterns and generally your usage
behavior.
If you transact with us (through making donations /
contributions), we collect some additional information, such as a billing
address, a credit / debit card number and a credit / debit card expiration date
and/ or other payment instrument details and tracking information from cheques
or money orders.
If you choose to post messages on our message boards, chat rooms
or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you
provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes,
provide User support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or
letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your
activities or postings on the Website, we may collect such information into a
file specific to you.
We collect personally identifiable information (email address,
name, phone number, credit card / debit card / other payment instrument
details, etc.) from you when you set up an account with us. While you can
browse some sections of our Website without being a registered member, certain
activities (such as making a donation / contribution) do require registration.
We do use your contact information to send you information such as receipts,
certificates, upcoming events, newsletters, etc. We also provide certain data
to the Campaigner to interact with you and send you information of the type
aforementioned as well as to complete certain transactions and fulfill
commitments such as rewards, updates and the like.
2. Use of Demographic / Profile Data / Your
Information
We use personal information to provide the services you request.
To the extent we use your personal information to market to you, we will
provide you the ability to opt-out of such uses. We use your personal
information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote a safe
service; collect money either by us or through an authorized payment gateway
facility; measure User interests in Fundraisers hosted on our site, inform you
about updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error,
fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our terms and conditions; and as
otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
In our efforts to continually improve our product and service
offerings, we collect and analyse demographic and profile data about our users'
activity on our Website.
We identify and use your IP address to help diagnose problems
with our server, and to administer our Website. Your IP address is also used to
help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.
3. Sharing of personal information
The following is information that we will not share with any
third parties or disclose to any person other than as required by law;
Sensitive Personal Data or Information of any person being the password,
financial information such as Bank account or credit card or debit card or
other payment instrument details, sexual orientation or any other sensitive
personal information not essential for the continued use of the Website.
We may share personal information with our other corporate and
/or associate entities and affiliates to help detect and prevent identity
theft, fraud and other potentially illegal acts and cyber security incidents;
correlate related or multiple accounts to prevent abuse of our services; and to
facilitate joint or co-branded services that you request where such services
are provided by more than one associate entity. Those entities and affiliates
may not market to you as a result of such sharing unless you explicitly opt-in.
We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law
or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to
respond to summons, courtorders, or other legal process. We may disclose
personal information to law enforcement offices, third party rights owners, or
others in the good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably
necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; respond to claims
that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third
party; or protect the rights, property or personal safety of our users or the
general public.
We and our affiliates will share, part with and allow any other
business entity to use the personal information provided by the User to GUFPlanet,
in the event we (or our assets) plan to merge with, or be acquired by that
business entity, or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business.
Should such a transaction occur that other business entity (or the new combined
entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your
personal information.
4. Links to Other Sites
Our Website links to other websites that may collect personally
identifiable information about you. GUFPlanet is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of those linked websites.
5. Security Precautions / Security Breach
Our Website has stringent security measures in place to protect
the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Whenever
you change or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure
server. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security
guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access. Our web hosts,
transaction affiliates etc, all use industry grade and standardized methods to
protect your information from any misuse.
If any User has sufficient reason to believe their Data as
regarded as that which we do not share with third parties, has been compromised
or there has been a breach of security due to a cyber security incident, you
may write to us immediately at the contact details mentioned below so that we
may take suitable measures to either rectify such a breach and inform the
concerned authorities of a cyber security incident.
To report an abuse on the Website, not being a cyber security
incident, a User may click on the Report Abuse tab found at the bottom of the
page and provide details of the abuse. Upon receiving such information GUFPlanet
will examine the abuse and take suitable and necessary steps to remedy it.
6. Review of Information / Account
Deactivation / Removal of Information
If at any time a User wishes to review the information provided
to GUFPlanet at the time of registering with GUFPlanet or at any time
thereafter, you may do so by signing into your account and amending the same.
We provide all users with the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving non-essential (promotional, marketing-related) communications from us
on behalf of our Campaigner, and from us in general, after setting up an
account. All Users are also given the option of cancelling their User accounts
and bringing to our attention their desire to discontinue the use of our
services.
If you want to deactivate your account or remove your contact
information from all gufplanet.com lists and newsletters, please write to us
at info@gufplanet.com
7. Advertisements on www.gufplanet.com
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you
visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address, or telephone number and generally other
information which may identify you personally) about your visits to this and
other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you.
8. Your Consent
By using the Website and/ or by providing your information, you
consent to the collection and use of the information you disclose on the
Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to
Your consent for sharing your information as per this privacy policy.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
The donors/contributors hereby permit GUFPlanet to share their
personal information such as name, email address, contact information to the
respective Campaigner and beneficiaries of the donations made by the donors via
GUFPlanet.com
By continuing to the next step you are willingly giving GUFPlanet
permission to contact you via WhatsApp, Email, SMS, and other modes of
communication.
9. Retention of Information
Information provided by you to GUFPlanet is processed, stored
and retained through our servers and web hosts being Amazon Web Services.
Our web hosts and agency managing your information are compliant with
IS/ISO/IEC27001 or an equivalent in standards of Security Techniques and
Information Security Management System Requirements.
10. Grievance Officer
In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules
made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are
provided below:
Mr. L
Rajeswar
Green Umbrella Foundation
GUFPlanet
, Qtr No. LIG- 79/80, Housing Board, Sinabeda-1,Dist: Koraput, Odisha, India. Email:info@gufplanet.com
Time: Mon - Sat (10:00 AM - 05:00 PM)