Privacy Policy

Geeta Bhawan Villa Karjat and our affiliated companies are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize
your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us based on applicable data protection laws and regulations.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to all visitors, users, and others of this website and the social media pages controlled by us.

Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, in general, you can visit/use our Sites/Apps without identifying who you are. Geeta Bhawan Villa Karjat will provide you with the option to deal with us without identifying yourself where it is lawful and practical. However, particular sections on our Sites/Apps may require you to provide personal information in order that we may provide the products/services or information you have requested while visiting/using our Sites/Apps.

This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of what personal information we collect, why we collect (purpose) and what we do with it (use), processing/sharing and transfer of personal information and your rights relating to such personal information shared with us.

Personal Information means any information that identifies you as an individual (‘data subject’ herein referred to as you/your’) and any other information we associate with it. In particular, using a common identifier includes but is not
limited to: first and last name, email address, mailing and residential address, telephone number, title, birth date, gender, occupation, profession, and other information needed to provide the service you have requested.

Sensitive personal data or information means personal information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, and biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

A. Personal Data Information you give us
We may collect Personal Information shared by you on our Sites/Apps. Depending
upon the site(s) and context, this information may include the following :

● Contact Information: Name, phone number, address, city, state, postal/zip code, email address
● Demographic information: Date of birth, gender, occupation, country of origin, educational details, and employer details.
● Account Information:If you create a user account on our website, then we may collect username/name, password, email, mobile number, and answers to your security question.

If you provide us with Personal Information concerning your relatives, friends or other third parties, by doing so you confirm and guarantee that you have received an appropriate consent from such third parties for the disclosure of such Personal Information to us for use for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

B. Information collected automatically Log information Depending upon the Sites/Apps or context, we automatically collect and store certain information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Sites/Apps in server logs (“Log Data”). This includes:
● details of how you used our Sites/Apps;
● Internet Protocol address;
● device event information such as caches, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your visit, time spent on those pages and other statistics and referral URLs; and
● cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Account. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Sites/Apps.

Information collected through cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website downloads onto your computer or other internet-enabled devices (such as mobile phones and tablets) when you visit a website. The cookie will help the website recognize your device the next time you visit.

We may use both session cookies (disappear after you close your browser) and persistent cookies (remain after you close your browser and may be accessed every time you use or connect to our Sites/Apps). We may collect information like the user’s IP address, geographical location, browser/device type and version, operating system, referral source, device, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency, and pattern of user website use through “cookies”.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site, or they may not function properly.

For more information about our use of cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Social Media Widgets
Our sites and applications may include social media features connected with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Google Plus, Pinterest, YouTube, and others. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting or features you are using and may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Sites/Apps. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them

Tracking code in website analytics, a tracking code is a snippet of script that tracks the activity of a website user by collecting data and sending it to the analytics module. The code is generated automatically, is different for each website, and can be installed on each page that needs tracking.

HOW WE COLLECT THE INFORMATION?
We will generally collect your personal information directly from you. This may be achieved through your interactions with us including interactions via our Sites/Apps, other social media applications or internet sites, telephone, email or writing to us.

We may also collect your personal information from a third-party source, such as our vendors, business partners, government authorities, and judicial authorities.

WHY WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?
Unless otherwise provided in the Policy, we may use personal information collected from the Sites/Apps in various ways including:
● To facilitate or fulfill the information, products, or services you have requested.
● To contact the User to confirm your registration on our website.
● To communicate with the User to respond to his/her queries seek feedback or resolve disputes on the product and services.
● For business, marketing, and promotional purposes such as sending information about special promotions, programs, schemes, offers, new features, plans on products/services and marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
● For the legitimate business interest, such as prevention of money laundering,
fraud detection and prevention, and enhancing safety. To consider an application for a career with us.
● To consider an application from prospective Vendors for partnering with us.
● To educate you about us, our products, and services or to understand your interest in improvising the content and performance of our Sites/Apps.
● For maintenance of high quality and standards of products and services.
● To send you important information regarding the Sites/Apps, changes in terms and conditions, user agreements, and policies and/or other administrative information

For internal business operations including:

1. Reviews and data analysis for the website (e.g., to determine the number, and category of visitors to specific pages within the website).
2. To manage, operate, maintain, and secure our Sites/Apps, network system, and other assets and to customize/personalize your experience with us, which may include displaying content based upon your preferences.
3. For the purposes of analyzing the use of the Sites/Apps, enabling and monitoring your use of our Sites/Apps, operating our Sites/Apps, ensuring the security of our Sites/Apps, for maintaining back-ups of our databases.
4. To help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Sites/Apps.
   ● To comply with our legal obligations or as otherwise permitted by law.
   ● To investigate potential breaches, or to protect the rights, property or safety, the Users of our Sites/Apps or others.
   ● For any other purpose necessary or incidental to our business.
   ● For any other purpose for which you give your consent.
   In the event we use your Personal Information for other purposes, not specified above, we will inform you about the specific purposes for processing of your personal information and, when required, our basis for doing so at the time we collect the Personal Information from you to the extent required by law. For the purposes of clarity, we may also use your personal information in combination with information we obtain from third parties about you for the same
   purposes described above. In the event that you provide any personal information on any of the Sites/Apps, you consent to the transfer of such information across country borders, and to the use, processing, and disclosure of such information in global locations, including those that may have different levels of privacy protection than in your own country

THIRD-PARTY LINKS :
Our Sites/Apps may have links to the websites/Apps of other third parties and these Third-party websites/Apps may collect personal information about Users for their own purpose, in such cases, our Privacy Policy does not extend to these external websites/Apps of third parties. Please be aware that if you access these links, you will be leaving our Site(s). We encourage users to read the privacy policies of those websites/apps, as we are not responsible for their content, links, or privacy
procedures

RETENTION, PROCESSING AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION :
Your personal data processed by us are kept in a form that permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed in line with legal, regulatory, contractual, or statutory obligations as applicable.

At the expiry of such periods, your personal data will be deleted or archived to comply with legal/contractual retention obligations or in accordance with applicable statutory limitation periods.

TO WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?
We may share the Personal Information collected from the Sites/Apps with third parties as outlined in this section

1. Affiliates Our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, group and associate companies. These entities may use this information for the purposes outlined above.
2. Business Partners
3. Service Providers who perform services on behalf of us and which may need information about you in order to perform their functions including but not limited to authorized service partners, call center
   operators, marketing contractors, social media website providers, data entry service providers, IT agencies operating handling, or maintaining Sites/Apps, storing/processing information, overseas service providers who work for us etc
4. Vendors who are business associates of ours like suppliers, research and development vendors, professional advisors, agents, representatives etc.
5. Other Partners Any third party with whom co-brands partner or collaborate with or with any other third parties as may be necessary for our business purposes or to investigate potential data incidents or to protect the rights, property and safety of ourselves and the Users of our Sites/Apps or others
6. Legal Authorities We may share your Personal Information in response to any notice, order, investigation demand or request or any other communication from a law enforcement agency which necessitates or mandates the sharing of such personal information, or to otherwise comply with applicable laws.
7. Changes in Corporate Structure or Bankruptcy In the event that we are involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We also may retain a copy of such information.

We DO NOT use or disclose Information for purposes other than as mentioned in this Policy, except with the consent of the User providing such Information or as required by law.

At any stage, you can withdraw your consent to the retention/storage/processing of your Personal Information and we shall erase the Personal Information withdrawn by you unless there is a contractual obligation or legal requirement/obligation to
retain/hold it or otherwise permitted by law to retain it. However, upon such withdrawal, the Company will not be able to communicate with you and provide you with certain information on products and/or services that are required for fulfillment of any obligation.

We may be allowed by law, in particular in case of excessive or manifestly unfounded request, to charge a fee for fulfilling your request, subject to applicable conditions.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
Our Sites/Apps have stringent security practices and measures in place to protect the personal information provided to us. Our database stores Personal Information in a secure environment that is designed to safeguard it from loss, misuse, wrongful disclosure, destruction, and alteration. The security measures are reviewed periodically by us to keep pace with business, technology, and regulatory changes.

● The security and confidentiality of your Personal Data is important to us and we have invested significant resources to protect the safekeeping and confidentiality of your personal data. When using external service providers
acting as processors, we require that they adhere to the required standards. Regardless of where your personal information is transferred or stored, we take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that personal data is kept secure
● We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data.

Please note that email communications are not always secure, so please do not include credit card information or other sensitive information in any email to us.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy. Please refer to the “Updated on” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our sites. Your use of the Sites following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

MISCELLANEOUS
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of India and the courts in New Delhi shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to try any disputes arising thereof. This Privacy Policy shall be governed by any applicable data protection laws.