Privacy Policy

Introduction

At ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED, d/b/a ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED (“us”, “we”, “our” or the “Company”), we value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes our privacy practices for the activities set out below. As per your rights, we inform you how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information relating to individuals. In this Policy, personal data (“Personal Data”) refers to any information that on its own, or in combination with other available information, can identify an individual.

We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we follow the obligations under the below regulations:

  • Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the applicable provincial legislations
  • Quebec Law 25
  • the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Brazil’s Data Protection Legislation (LGPD)
  • California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
  • Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)
  • Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)
  • Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
  • Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
  • South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)

Scope

This policy applies to the ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED websites, domains, applications, services, and products.

This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services or platforms that may be accessed through (non- ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED) links that we may provide to you. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any Personal Data that you provide to these websites will be governed by the third-party’s own privacy policy. We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.

Processing Activities

This Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:

  • Make use of our application and services as an authorized user
  • Visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Statement

Personal Data We Collect

What Personal Data We Collect

When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

  • Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
  • Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card, or other payment method

When you use our products and/or features, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

  • Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
  • Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card, or other payment method

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We collect Personal Data from the following sources:

  • From You: You may give us your Account Information, Payment Information, Financial Information, Demographic Data, Purchase Information, Content, Feedback, Product Information by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:

    • Create an account or purchase products on our website;
    • Use our products or services;
    • Create content through our products or services;
    • Express interest in our products or services;
    • Download software and/or our mobile application;
    • Subscribe to our newsletter;
    • Complete a voluntary market research survey;
    • Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service);
    • When you log in to our website via social media.

  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data (all as described above): Device Data about your equipment, Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns, and Contact Data where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section (below) for further details.

  • Third parties: We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:

    • Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website;
    • Device and Usage Data from third parties, including analytics providers such as Google;
    • Account Information and Payment Data from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms;
    • Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks;
    • Account Information and Payment Data from third parties, including organizations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations, and groups, who share data for the purposes of fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction; and
    • Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services.

If you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the “Contact us” section below.

Device and Usage Data

When you visit an ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED website, we automatically collect and store information about your visit using browser cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer), or similar technology. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies, or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Data We Collect from Third Parties

We may receive your Personal Data from third parties such as companies subscribing to ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED services, partners, and other sources. This Personal Data is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how your Personal Data is handled by third parties. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions, you should first contact the relevant third party for further information about your Personal Data. Where that third party is unresponsive to your rights, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED (contact details below).

Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications, and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.

Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data

We collect and use your Personal Data with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.

Where we process your Personal Data to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations. All of the above processing is necessary in our legitimate interests to provide products and services and to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business, for example, against fraud. Consent will be required to initiate services with you. New consent will be required if any changes are made to the type of data collected. Within our contract, if you fail to provide consent, some services may not be available to you.

International Data Transfer and Storage

Where possible, we store and process data on servers within the general geographical region where you reside (note: your data may be collected in your country but subsequently transferred to another country for processing). When we transfer your Personal Data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we put in place appropriate safeguards to ensure that your Personal Data remains protected. This includes data transfer agreements using the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or another appropriate mechanism to safeguard the transfer.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in the following ways:

  • To operate our Services, such as enabling you to make purchases of our products, and providing you with access to your account;
  • To manage your relationship with us, which includes sending administrative information to you relating to our services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
  • To administer surveys, contests, and other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us;
  • To provide you with customer support and to respond to your inquiries;
  • To manage risk and protect our Services from fraud by verifying your identity, and helping detect and prevent fraud and abuse of our Services;
  • To provide, improve, and personalize our services by analyzing our user base, and using the analysis to improve our website and product offerings;
  • To send you marketing communications we think you may find useful, but only in accordance with your email preferences and as permitted by applicable law;
  • To comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

How We Share Your Personal Data

We may share your Personal Data with third parties in the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers: We may share your Personal Data with service providers who perform services and functions at our direction and on our behalf. These service providers may include cloud storage providers, payment processors, marketing service providers, and other service providers that help us operate our business.
  • Compliance with Laws: We may disclose your Personal Data to a third party if we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, (ii) enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of service, (iii) protect the security or integrity of our Services, (iv) protect ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED, our customers, or the public from harm or illegal activities, or (v) respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose data to assist in preventing a death or serious bodily injury.
  • Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Aggregated or De-identified Data: We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

We will only share your Personal Data in ways that are described in this Policy. We are not in the business of selling information about you to advertisers or other third parties.

Security of Your Personal Data

We are committed to ensuring that your Personal Data is secure. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your Personal Data.

Secure Email We use secure email services to prevent email fraud, protect sensitive emails from unauthorized access, and limit data exposure. This ensures that all email communications are encrypted and secure.

Plugins We utilize security plugins such as Wordfence to protect our website from potential security threats. These plugins prioritize data protection and privacy principles, helping to safeguard your Personal Data.

Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data

Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations. These rights may include:

  • Right to Access: You have the right to access your Personal Data.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data.
  • Right to Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data.
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint with a DPA: If you believe that our processing of your Personal Data infringes data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You can contact your local data protection authority, which can be found here: List of DPAs in the EEA.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt-out from marketing messages that you receive from us.

To exercise any of these rights or if you have any questions regarding your Personal Data, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section below.

Data Retention

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Cookies

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file with information that your browser stores on your device. Information in this file is typically shared with the owner of the site in addition to potential partners and third parties to that business. The collection of this information may be used in the function of the site and/or to improve your experience.

Our Use of Cookies

We utilize cookies on our website to enhance user experience and for analytics purposes. We use Wordfence as a security plugin to help protect our website from potential security threats. Additionally, we use Google’s Gmail and Google Consent Mode for email services and consent management, respectively.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update our Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws. You can see when this Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Policy.

Contact Us

To request a copy of your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, please contact us:

  • Email: ambrish@adfar.tech
  • Postal Address: Data Privacy Officer of ALADFAR VENTURES PRIVATE LIMITED 34 ANKUR BANGLOW, BHARUCH BHARUCH, Bharuch, Gujrat, 392012

This concludes our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us using the provided information.