We may process your personal information in different scenarios based on different legal reasons, Such as performing contacts and providing products and/or services to you, based on legitimate business interests or with your prior consent.
I.1 Personal Information what we collect and process and how we use it.
In any scenario in which you interact with us, we are likely to ask you to provide personal information. If you don’t provide the relevant information, you may not be able to achieve the specific purpose of a particular scenario. In general, you may browse our website without providing any Personal Information about yourself. However, we collect certain information such as:
– Information that you provide via our website, including information you provide when you register on our website such as name, phone number, email and mailing address, zip code, consignee information, method of payment and bank account information, etc.
– We collects Personal Information when you participate in various opportunities that we provide, for example: When you order a product or service or make a request. When you register your purchase of a ePeople product. When you submit a warranty card. When you register for subscriptions, technology forum or other communications through the Site or App. When you participate in a contest, promotion, sweepstakes, survey or other promotion. When you participate in a blog or forum. When we conduct market research, meet you at a trade show or other event. We may combine Personal Information that we collect about you with Personal Information you provide to ePeople through other sources, such as product registrations, inquiries or marketing events. We will use the combined Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Statement for as long as it is combined.
– Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this Site, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, demographics, your computers’ operating system, and browser type and information collected via cookies
I.2 Use of your Personal Information
We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
– to provide better usability, troubleshooting and site maintenance;
– to understand which parts of the website are visited and how frequently;
– to create your user ID;
– to identify you once you register on our website;
– to contact you and respond to your questions or requests; and
– to provide access to desirable content based on your preferences.
– to process job application and alumni related requests, more details about which are available on corresponding portals of this website.
I.3 Legal basis of the processing
We process your Personal Information when it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are the party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. This applies in any case where we provide services to you pursuant to a contract, such as when you use our website or process your registration on the website. If you do not provide the Personal Information that we need in order to provide our services, we will not be able to provide our services to you. We process your Personal Information for the performance of a contract in the following circumstances:
– to provide better usability, troubleshooting and site maintenance; and
– to create your user ID.
We process your Personal Information when it is necessary for the purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by us or a third party (when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights). This applies in the following circumstances:
– to identify you once you register on our website; and
– to contact you and respond to your questions or requests;
– to understand which parts of the website are visited and how frequently; and
– to provide access to desirable content based on your preferences
How Personal Information is Disclosed
To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Site. To a third party in the event of any reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of ePeople business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate:
(a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
(b) to comply with legal process;
(c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
(d) to enforce ePeople terms and conditions;
(e) to protect ePeople operations;
(f) to protect ePeople rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others; and
(g) to allow ePeople to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
By you, when you participate in features on a ePeople Site or App that provide the opportunity to interact with ePeople and others (for example a blog, message board, messaging functionality, chat functionality, profile or other social media). When you use these features you should be aware that any information you submit, including your name, location and e-mail address, may be publicly available to others. We are not responsible for any information you choose to submit through these features and we strongly discourage you from disclosing any sensitive Personal Information (such as health or credit card information) through these features. If you use these features, your Personal Information may remain on the Site or App even after you cease use of the Site or App. Other than the above mentioned applications, ePeople has strong privacy policies in safeguarding customers interest and we do not disclose our customers and client details to any other individual or third-party company for any other benefits.
- How we collect data
We collect information in different ways.
We collect information directly from you. We collect information directly from you when you register or fill our contact us form.
We collect information from you passively. We use tracking tools like Google Analytics and Google Webmaster are collecting information about your usage of our website.
We get information about you from third parties. For example, if you use an integrated social media feature on our websites. The third-party social media site will give us certain information about you. This could include your name and email address.
Use of your personal information
We use the information to improve our products and services. We might use your information to customize your experience with us. This could include displaying content based on your preferences.
We use information to look at site trends and customer interests. We may use your information to make our website and products better. We may combine information we get from you with information about you we get from third parties.
We use information for security purposes. We may use the information to protect our company, our customers, or our websites.
We use information for marketing purposes. We might send you information about special promotions. We might also tell you about new features or products.
We use information as otherwise permitted by law.
Sharing of information with third-parties
We will share information with our business partners. This includes a third party who provide or sponsor an event, or who operates a venue where we hold events. Our partners use the information we give them as described in their privacy policies.
We may share information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or to protect ourselves. We will share information to respond to a court order or subpoena. We may also share it if a government agency or investigatory body requests. Or, we might also share information when we are investigating potential fraud.
We may share information with any successor to all or part of our business. For example, if part of our business is sold we may give our customer list as part of that transaction.
We may share your information for reasons not described in this policy. We will tell you before we do this.
III. IP Addresses
Your “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). How We Collect IP Addresses An IP Address is identified and logged automatically in ePeople server log files whenever a user visits the Site, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many web sites.
How ePeople Uses and Discloses IP Addresses?
ePeople uses IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating Site usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, administering the Site and presenting content that is tailored to your country. We may also use and disclose IP Addresses for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information. Please note that we treat IP Addresses, server log files and related information as Non-Personal Information, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.
Internet-based Advertising
ePeople and ePeople third party service providers use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or similar technologies to track the actions of Site users and email recipients across non-affiliate websites over time, in order to personalise your experience on the Site by presenting advertisements that are more relevant to you. For example, we use third party service providers, to present products and offers tailored to the preferences and interests demonstrated by your online activity over time.
- Third Party Sites
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which the Site or the App contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site or the App does not imply endorsement of the linked site by ePeople.
Third Party Advertisers
ePeople may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit a ePeople Site. Please note that these companies may use information about your visit to this Site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit http://networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
- Security
ePeople uses reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under ePeople control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with ePeople is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with ePeople has been compromised), please immediately notify ePeople of the problem by contacting ePeople in accordance with the “Contacting ePeople” section below. This statement is related only to the website and not regarding ePeople products or services. If you feel there is a compromise on your personal information after ePeople has provided you with a solution (for example Salesforce.com ), the privacy policies of Salesforce.com will apply.
- Choices And Access
Your choices regarding ePeople’s use and disclosure of your Personal Information ePeople gives you many choices regarding ePeople’s use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. By contacting the ePeople Inquiry Management Center, you may opt-out from receiving future electronic marketing messages from ePeople and request that we not share your Personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their marketing purposes. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out as described above, we will not be able to remove your Personal Information from the databases of unaffiliated third parties with which ePeople has already shared your Personal Information (i.e., to which we have already provided your Personal Information as of the date that we implement your opt-out request). Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related messages from ePeople, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages. How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress, delete or otherwise limit ePeople use of your Personal Information that has been previously provided to ePeople, you may contact the ePeople Inquiry Management Center. In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from a ePeople database or otherwise let ePeople know what limitations you would like to put on ePeople use of your Personal Information. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
VII. Retention Period
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
VIII. Use Of Site by Children
ePeople is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities. ePeople does not target the Site or the App to children less than fourteen (14) years of age directly or knowingly collect information from children for the purpose of selling products or services. ePeople does participate in select educational programs such as science and environmental awareness in support of schools and communities and we have specific apps designed for schools, colleges and higher education. ePeople does not misuse any personal information inside ePeople products used by these educational institutions.
- Cross-Border Transfer
ePeople is completely hosted on the cloud and Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or where we have engaged a service provider, and by using ePeople Site or App you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including to the United States, which may have different data protection rules than in your country.
- Sensitive Information
We ask that you not send ePeople, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Site or App or otherwise to ePeople.
Contacting ePeople
If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices and this privacy statement, please contact us at, Contact person: Rahul Shankar, 263/42, 5th Main, 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore – 560 011. India. Email us at: enquiry@epeoplebc.com We will respond to your queries within a practical and reasonable period of time.
Updates to this Privacy statement
ePeople may change this Privacy Statement. Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Statement was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Site or App. Your use of the Site or App following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement last updated 11th November 2019.