Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy and cookie policy (“Policy”) will come into effect immediately after a user (“user” or “you” or “your” or “he” or “she”) acknowledges the Policy and agrees to the Policy. This Policy applies to the use of the portal “EmployeeDuniya” (employeeduniya.com) (the “Portal” or “Portal” or “Site” or “Web Site” or “Emails” or “Mobile Application” or “App”), contents and all of the services offered by the Portal which is owned and operated by Task Initiatives Private Limited having its registered office at 14, 3rd Floor, Zodiac Square, Opposite Gurudwara, S.G. Highway, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 380054 (“Company” or “we” or “our” or “us”). In this Policy, the Company seeks to explain how the Portal collects, processes, uses and secures the information provided by the users and received by the Portal. Under this Policy, personal information shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

This Policy will inform the users how their personal information will be handled by the Portal. All users are expected to read this Policy carefully before they make use of the services provided by the Portal. The Company reserves the right to update this Policy at any time and hence the users are encouraged to check this Policy from time to time.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us on customersupport@employeeduniya.com.

The Portal is a marketplace providing employability, employment and career enhancement services which include the following:

A. limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to enterprise and academic institutional clients to use the Portal to access and use the services listed on the Portal (whether in an online, hybrid or offline mode) including posting of jobs and receiving applications for the same and have access to certain administrative features;

B. limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to service providers to use the Portal to provide services listed by such service providers, host workshops, classes, events etc. (whether in an online, hybrid or offline mode) and have access to certain administrative features;

C. limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to individual users to register, interact, attend and participate in opportunities provided by enterprise and academic institutional clients and in services, workshops, classes, events etc. provided by service providers through the Portal (whether in an online, hybrid or offline mode);

D. enabling enterprise and academic institutional clients to promote, market and advertise their opportunities by creating a promotional page of their opportunity and to monetize their opportunity; and/or

E. any other services and features ancillary or related to the above services.

Scope

This Policy applies to the entire Portal including its contents, products, services and websites.

This Policy is applicable to all those who use or visit the Portal, or anyone else related for that matter. The users are bound by the terms and conditions of use of the Portal. This Policy applies only to information collected, processed, stored and used through the Portal. This Policy does not apply to information collected through other channels, such as information collected offline, from other portals or from emails. This Policy does not apply to practices of companies and institutions that the Company does not own or control, or to the people that the Company does not employ or manage or to any other actions and / or activities outside the control of the Company.

Definitions

The terms defined in this Policy shall apply to this Policy in the same context, and any reference to the singular includes a reference to the plural and vice versa.

Information collection and use

The Portal offers services that require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to the Portal. In order to provide the Portal’s full range of services, we may collect various information including:

A. full name, image (profile picture), e-mail address, residential address (including post code, city, state, country), mobile/telephone number, login details (including username and password), title or designation, date of birth, gender, what are you doing, and name of the organisation, if applicable;

B. tracking information such as, but not limited to the IP address of your device and device ID when connected to the internet (including the operating system), your browser information, time zone setting and location, internet service provider, type of camera, microphone or speakers and other information associated with your interaction with the Portal such as details of your Portal usage for analytics, your browsing behaviour and the pages you visit;

C. your responses to assessments including quizzes, hackathons, document submissions, simulation games and any such gamified assessment for any opportunity, services or job listing;

D. your payment details and other information regarding payments you make available to us, as may be applicable;

E. your responses to various information capturing forms created by the service providers, enterprises and / or academic institutions on the platform in order to avail services on and access features of the Portal whether in an online, hybrid or offline mode;

F. your marketing preferences, including any consents you have given us;

G. information related to the browser or device you use to access our Portal;

For use of some specific services, providing some specific personally identifiable information shall be compulsory/mandatory and some additional details might be added on top of the ones mentioned above.

Sometimes, we receive information about you from third parties. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to the Portal and the Company in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites including the service providers, service partners and social media providers may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

In order to provide services of the service providers and service partners on the Portal and on their portals, platforms, websites, hybrid mode or offline, we either through the Portal or in any other mode may share your information with such service providers and service partners and you consent to sharing of such information with the service providers and service partners. The service providers and service partners shall only be responsible for all the services provided by them and we do not provide any assurance or guarantee on the quality of services provided by the service provider and service partners nor the satisfaction or dissatisfaction derived by you from availing such service.  

Company may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.

This Privacy Policy applies to Company contents and services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Company also automatically receives and records information on shared server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page you requested.

In addition, when you use Company site services, you may make some of your personal information public. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return and Company site will not be responsible for the use or misuse of such information. In particular: contact us section in each opportunity.

Email communication that you send us via the email links on the Site may be shared with the Company representatives, partners, employees, service partners or service providers. From time to time, we may send you service-related emails, such as a welcome email when you come in touch with the Portal.

We use your email address and/or phone number to send you communication including:

A. Password reminder and registration confirmation

B. Special offers

C. Newsletters

D. Changes in the service's policy or terms of use

E. Event based communications such as new event information, invites, reminders, etc.

Note: We may send users newsletters and updates upon registration. We may send newsletters and/or promotional emails on behalf of our alliance partners. As regards special offers, newsletters, new event information, invites and reminders, you shall have the option to unsubscribe the same on the Portal.

We use your personal information to:

A. help us provide personalized features

B. tailor our sites to your interest

C. to get in touch with you in the case of password retrieval and policy changes

D. to provide the services requested by you

E. to preserve social history as governed by existing law or policy

F. to provide you with information on new features, services, promotions etc

We use contact information internally to:

A. direct our efforts for product improvement

B. contact you as a survey respondent

C. send you promotional materials

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We including through the Portal will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. We including through the Portal will send personally identifiable information about you to the service providers, service partners, enterprises and other companies or people in certain situations including when:

A. We have your consent to share the information;

B. We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested or purchased including with the service partners and service providers;

C. We need to share your information for the opportunity for which you registered;

D. We need to share the information with service providers or service partners in order to respond to your comments or to resolve service issues;

E. We respond to requests from any Indian or foreign government, security, defence, revenue, regulatory or other authority, agency or officer;

F. We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process;

G. We need to send your information to the academic institutions or enterprises where you have applied for an opportunity or through whom you have purchased or availed the services; or

H. We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Company terms of service or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

Withdrawing consent

Wherever we rely on your consent, you will always be able to withdraw that consent, although we may have other legal grounds for processing your data for other purposes, such as those set out above. In some cases, we are able to send you direct marketing without your consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests. You have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing, or profiling we carry out for direct marketing, at any time. You can do this by following the instructions in the communication where this is an electronic message, or by contacting us.

Cookies

We use data collection devices such as “cookies” on our Portal. “Cookies” are small files sited on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Our Portal uses session cookies to ensure that you have a good experience. These cookies contain a unique number, your ‘session ID’, which allows our server to recognize your computer and ‘remember’ what you’ve done on the Portal. The benefits of this are:

A. You only need to login once if you’re navigating secure areas of the Portal.

B. Our server can distinguish between your computer and other users, so you can see the information that you have requested.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser settings if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Portal. We may also use various third-party cookies for usage, behavioural, analytics and preferences data.

Company ensures that all information collected and accessed by the Portal or the Company through the access of these cookies will be maintained in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The Portal allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy.

Information shared by you directly with the service provider, service partner, academic institution, enterprise or any other client or person

The service provider, service partner, academic institution, enterprise or any other client may request for your information in relation to a service, event, opportunity, job etc. of such organization which is in addition to the information obtained by the Portal. Such information shared by you with such organization may include certain special categories of information such as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a person or data concerning health. Please note that any such information shared by you with the organization is being provided directly by you to such organization and Company and / or Portal is in no manner involved in such sharing of information. Company and / or the Portal shall in no manner be responsible and / or liable for the use, misuse, or treatment of such information and this Privacy Policy does not govern any such information shared by you with such organization.

During the course of our services, we will transfer your personal data to India. However, depending on the location of the organizer, your data may be transferred to other countries as well.

Links

EmployeeDuniya.com may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of customized content and advertising.

Affiliated Sites

EmployeeDuniya.com may offer some services in connection with other websites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to us in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Security

Your account information is password-protected for your privacy and security.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Portal may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages or by any other adequate medium such as emails etc, at our discretion.

Data integrity

The Portal processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on you to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

My Rights

You have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data; to correct, delete or restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal data; and to obtain the personal data you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine readable format.

In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement, or where we are using the data for direct marketing).

These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, where they would infringe the rights of a third party (including our rights) or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. Relevant exemptions granted under the applicable law are applicable and will prevail in such cases. We will inform you of relevant exemptions we rely upon when responding to any request you make.

For registering on the Portal by setting up and creating an account and to avail the services and access features, you will be required to provide us with certain mandatory information, which we will indicate in the form/ against the fields of information to be filled by you. Further, when you purchase a service or any other feature on the Portal, your payment details are required to be mandatorily provided: if relevant data is not provided, then we will not be able to let you create an account, avail the services and / or features that you have requested, as the case may be. All other provision of your information is optional.

Data Retention

We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you services and for a period of 7 (seven) years after you have requested that your account is closed or if it’s been inactive for 7 (seven) years or as may be prescribed under the applicable law in this regard. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Portal including the services.

Where we process personal data for marketing purposes or with your consent, we process the data until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this (to allow us to implement your requests). We also keep a record of the fact that you have asked us not to send you direct marketing or to process your data so that we can respect your request in future.

Where we process personal data in connection with performing a contract or for a competition, we keep the data for 7 (seven) years from your last interaction with us or as may be prescribed under the applicable law in this regard.

Account Deletion

If you wish to delete your account, you can email us at customersupport@employeeduniya.com from your registered email address.