PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out how ZAAS Solutions (“Entity”) uses and protects any information that you give the Entity when you use or access the www.farmlandestate.com (“Website”). This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the Website as further described in the Entity’s Terms of Use available at https://farmlandestate.com/terms-and-conditions/.
The Entity is committed to safeguarding your privacy and this Privacy Policy explains how the Entity collects, uses, and discloses your information. The Entity places utmost importance in the protection of your personal data and adheres strictly to Information Technology Act, 2000, and any rules thereunder. By mere use of or access to the Website, you expressly consent to the Entity’s use, processing, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
By using the Website, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, kindly do not use or access the Website.
1. INFORMATION THE ENTITY COLLECTS
Within the scope of the business relationship you may have with the Entity, you need to provide data which is necessary to commence and carry out such business relationship with the Entity and fulfilment of any contractual obligations agreed upon. Without this data, the Entity will not be able to conclude or execute a contract with you or any company/firm/organization that you may represent. The Entity collects personal information from you through various means when you utilize the Website, including but not limited to:
a. Account Information: When you register on the website, the Entity collects, and associates with your account information, your name, your Entity’s name (if applicable), birth date, email address, phone number, profile details, profession, gender, business details, address and other personally identifiable information. Such personally identifiable information may include, without limitation:
i. Any information you provide to us to verify your identity, such as government identification proofs, know your customer compliances;
ii. Information submitted to the Entity through direct written communication, including email correspondence; or
iii. Information disclosed to the Entity during telephone conversations, along with any manner in which the Entity may maintain a record of the disclosed information.
b. Use of Website: When you use the Website, the Entity stores, processes, and transmits your files, which may include, without limitation any images, videos, emails, feedback, postings, comments, log file information from the browser, and other data. The Entity may also gather information about your business area, expertise and preferences as per the data input by you. In the event you give the Entity permission to access your contacts, the Entity shall retain, and store said contacts on its servers, which will facilitate utilization of the Website’s functionalities and enable seamless activities such as sharing of data, email correspondence, and the facilitation of invitations to others to access and use the Website.
c. Cookie Data: The Entity uses technologies like cookies and pixel tags to provide, improve, protect, and promote the Website. A cookie is a small data package (text file) that your browser saves on your device when instructed by a website you visit in order to store information such as your language settings or login information. Cookies help the Entity in remembering your username for your next visit, understanding how you are interacting with the Website, and improve it based on that information. The Entity uses software tools to collect information about how you interact with the Website, such as mouse clicks, touch gestures, drags, errors, page views and length of visits to certain pages. You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the Website. The Entity reserves the right to engage other partners to serve ads or Website to your computer systems or other devices, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by the Entity or the third party. However, the Entity does not control use of such technologies used by advertisers and partners and it expressly disclaims responsibility for information collected through them for any purpose whatsoever.
d. Social Media Logins: In the event you log in to the Website via any from your third-party account with certain social networking sites (such as Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.), the Entity may receive information about you from such social networking sites, in accordance with the terms of use and privacy policy of that social networking site. The Entity collaborates with such social networking site’s application protocol interface (API) in a manner that allows you to authorize the Entity to access your account on that social networking site on your behalf. If you consent to the Entity to share your information with these social networking sites (e.g., post public content on your wall/profile page), the Entity will share information with them in accordance with your privacy choices. Once the Entity shares your information with these social networking sites, the terms and policies of these sites, and not this Privacy Policy, will apply to their use of your information.
e. Third Party Data: The Entity may receive information about you from third parties that offer hyperlinks to the Website on their website and/or products and/or services. These third parties may supply the Entity with your information. The Entity may add this information to the information it has already collected from you via the Website in order to improve the Website.
2. HOW THE ENTITY USES YOUR INFORMATION
The information you submit to the Entity is used either to respond to requests that you make, or to aid the Entity in serving you better. The Entity may use your information in the following ways:
a. Use of Personally Identifiable Information: In the case you are providing personally identifiable information to the Entity, the Entity will use such information for:
i. facilitating the creation of your user account on the Website;
ii. to provide you access to the Website;
iii. to provide you with improved administration of the Website;
iv. to improve and customize the quality of experience when you interact with the Website;
v. to send you administrative e-mail notifications, such as security or support and maintenance advices;
vi. to identify you as a user in the Entity’s system;
vii. to notify you about updates to the Website;
viii. to verify ownership of the e-mail address provided when your user account was created;
ix. to direct certain content and advertisements to you so that you are more likely to see content and advertisements that are relevant to you;
x. to analyze the data submitted by you; or
xi. to send offers and promotional materials related to the Website and those of third parties for marketing and other purposes.
b. Use of Non‐Personally Identifiable Information: The Entity may use non-personally identifiable information in the following manner:
i. Analytics Services: To use third party analytics services to collect information about how you use and interact with the Website. Such third-party analytics services may use cookies to gather information such as the pages you visited, your IP address, a date/time stamp for your visit and which website or hyperlink you referred to visit the Website. The Entity uses these analytics services to analyze how you use the Website, to improve the Website, to customize the content/features users see/use based upon your interests and to send email to you or any such users who are not actively using the Website. For more information about how these entities use this information, please refer to their privacy policies made available on their respective websites and this Entity expressly disclaims responsibility for use of information by such third-party analytics.
ii. Improvements: The Entity may use non‐personally identifiable information collected to improve the quality of the Entity’s services including by diagnosing service or technology problems, by assessing and maintaining security, by showing your previous predictions to improve the quality of your experience, by presenting you with ads that the Entity believes you would be interested in seeing, or by allowing you to remain logged into the Website on your computer. The Entity may also use the information to count and recognize returning users.
3. SHARING OF INFORMATION
The Entity may share information subject to the terms mentioned in this Privacy Policy, however the Entity shall endeavor that such use of information does not create hindrance on your use of the Website. The Entity does not share your personal information with third parties other than as follows:
a. Others working for the Entity: The Entity may use other trusted third parties or service providers to help the Entity provide, improve, protect, and promote the Website (such as third-party analytics tools to help the Entity measure traffic and usage trends for the Website). These third parties will access your information only to perform tasks on the Entity’s behalf and in compliance with this Privacy Policy. You agree that the Entity may use and disclose all information so submitted to its authorized employees and any such third parties engaged by the Entity in the same manner in which Entity is entitled to use and disclose the information submitted by you to the Entity.
b. Third Parties: The Entity may also share certain information such as cookie data with third-party advertising partners. This information would allow third-party ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. However, the Entity is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of web publishers, advertisers, or other websites that may be linked to the Website.
c. Consent Based: Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting on the Website may become available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy settings that you set. To change your privacy settings on the Website, you may change your profile setting. Once you have shared the content/data or made it public, that content/data may be re-shared by others. You can withdraw your consent with future effect at any time by deleting it from your profile. Withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of data processing up to the date and time of your withdrawal of consent.
d. Enforcing Rights: The Entity may also disclose personal information to enforce its policies, respond to claims that a posting or other content violates others’ rights, or protects anyone’s rights, property, or safety.
e. Adherence with Law: The Entity may disclose your information (without prior consent) to third parties (such as governmental authority(ies) or entities mandated under applicable laws) if it determines that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
i. comply with the laws and/or is required by governmental authority(ies);
ii. protect any person from death or serious bodily injury;
iii. prevent, detect, investigate incidences (including cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of such offences);
iv. prevent fraud or abuse of its name, brands, trademarks or such other rights belonging to it or its other users; or
v. protect its rights.
4. STORING OF INFORMATION
a. Retention Period: The Entity will retain your information for as long as it needs it to fulfil contractual obligations with you or for as long as necessary to provide the individual services you have requested, until you withdraw any consent you may have given the Entity to process your personal information or as far as the Entity is subject legal, tax, or accounting obligations to process your information.
Any data or information that is no longer needed for compliance with contractual or legal obligations will be deleted or anonymized at regular intervals. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Entity will retain your personal information for as long as your account is active on the Website.
b. No warranty: The Entity uses commercially reasonable safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Website secure and take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account.
However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% (one hundred percent) secure and so the Entity cannot fully ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to the Entity or guarantee that information on the Website may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by any person.
c. Transmission: The Entity may store, process and transmit information in locations around the world – including those outside your country. Information may also be stored locally on the devices you use to access the Website. By registering for and using the Website, you consent to the transfer of information to any part of the world in which the Entity, its affiliates or service providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you thereto as described in this Privacy Policy.
5. NO RESPONSIBILITY
The authenticity of the personal information is your sole responsibility the Entity shall not be held accountable for the same. When you give the Entity information, you acknowledge that the information you provide can be used by us as described in this Privacy Policy. It is hereby agreed that by providing personal information to us when you create or update your personal information, you are expressly agreeing to the Entity’s processing of your personal information in the manner set out by this Privacy Policy. Supplying to us any information deemed “sensitive” by applicable law is entirely voluntary on your part.
6. CHANGES TO YOUR INFORMATION
You may change certain of your personal information by editing your user account on the profile section available on the Website. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to emails between you and the Entity, at all times. The Entity is not responsible for any third-party functionality, privacy or security policies which you are bound by.
7. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
The Entity may share some or all of your information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, collaboration, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of its business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, your information may also be transferred as a business asset.
If another entity acquires the Entity or its business or assets, that entity will possess all your information collected by the Entity and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your information as described in this Privacy Policy. The Entity may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If the Entity makes any changes to this Privacy Policy, the last modified Privacy Policy shall be applicable to you.
8. COMMUNICATIONS
The Entity may periodically send promotional or marketing communications. When you receive promotional or marketing communications from the Entity, you may “opt-out” of these emails by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email you receive. Despite your indicated email preferences, the Entity may send you notices of any updates to its Privacy Policy, Terms of Use or other administrative emails.
9. CONTACT
In the case you have any grievances relating to processing of data or information provided by you, please e-mail the Entity at info@farmlandestate.com