Privacy policy accounts February 6, 2020
PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as “Policy” or “Privacy Policy”) constitutes a binding agreement between  Popular Essentials INC including any affiliate of Popular Essentials INC and/or any group company of Popular Essentials INC (hereinafter individually and collectively referred to as “Company”) and the person accessing the website https://popularessentials.in  (hereinafter referred to as “Website”) for any purpose, including for accessing information or making use of any functionality provided on or through the Website (“Services”). The Company is headquartered at Bengaluru.

 For the purposes of these Terms, the terms “we”, “us”, or “our” are references to Company, and the terms “you” or “your” are references to the person accessing the Website or Services.

 We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Any information or data collected and processed on the Website is done in accordance with the provisions Information Technology Act, 2000 read with its Rules and other national and state laws relating to the collection and processing of personal data. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding the collection and processing of your information and data.

 This Policy is required to be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use available at https://popularessentials.in/?page_id=44242. Your access to and use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. By accessing and/or using the Website, you represent that you have read, understood and are bound by the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, and that you consent to your information and data being collected, stored and used in the manner laid out in this Privacy Policy.

1. Consent

  • As stated above, by accessing and/or using the Website, you consent to Your Information being collected, stored and used in the manner laid out in this Privacy Policy. The collecting and retaining agency in respect of Your Information is Popular Essentials INC.
  • You hereby acknowledge that the collection of Your Information as described in Clause 1 of this Privacy Policy is necessary to fulfill the purposes specified in Clause 2 of this Privacy Policy.
  • Upon request, you may review Your Information as provided by you to Popular Essentials INC. You may also request that Your Information is corrected, completed, amended or updated. Any requests in this regard may be made to the following entity by way of an email with the subject-line “Privacy Policy: Request to Review/Correct/Complete/Amend/Update Information” (as applicable): grievance@popularessentials.in
  • You may withdraw your consent for the subsequent use of your personal data by Popular Essentials INC, by sending an email to the following entity with the subject-line “Privacy Policy: Withdrawal of Consent”: grievance@popularessentials.in
  •  Clearly stating the following information: (i)identification details, if any; (ii) scope of withdrawal of consent. Popular Essentials INC reserves the right to seek further details from you in order to ascertain the exact nature of the withdrawal of consent. Withdrawal of consent shall not be treated as effective unless the communication is made in the manner described above. Withdrawal of consent may result in Popular Essentials INC being unable to provide further services to you.

2. Company may collect information and data (hereinafter referred to as “Your Information”). Company shall store and use Your Information collected in accordance with the Privacy Policy for the following purposes:

  • Providing relevant, useful and appropriate information/ data/ materials to you;
  • Monitoring, improving and troubleshooting the information/ data/ materials and contents of the Website provided to you or other services provided by Popular Essentials INC;
  • Processing information and documents to enable text indexing, data and linkage finding, extraction of valuable insights and structuring of data;
  • Storing of information, documents and data provided by you in order to train algorithms to better process information and provide relevant insights;
  • Operation, provision or improvement of the Website for all acts incidental or ancillary to the provision of the Website and for developing and providing new technologies and services.

Company does not store or otherwise retain Your Information for longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes set out above. Company may also use cookies to collect and use Your Information in certain cases. This is described in detail in our Cookie Policy below.

3. COOKIES

  1. To optimize our web presence, we use cookies. This allows us to improve your access to the Website and also helps us to learn more about your interests and provide you with essential features and services including:
    • Conducting research and diagnostics to improve the content, products and services;
    • Preventing fraudulent activity;
    • Improving security.
  2. Approved third parties may also set cookies when you interact with the Website. These third parties include search engines, providers of analytical services, social media networks and advertising companies.
  3. You can prevent the storage of cookies by choosing a “disable cookies” option in your browser settings.

4. SECURITY

Company complies with reasonable security practices and procedures as required by the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 by following industry standards such as International Standard IS/ISO/IEC 27001. However, since complete security cannot be ensured by any entity, please note that the Company does not guarantee the security of your information. In the event that Company becomes aware of any breach of security such that it affects Your Information, Company shall notify you using commercially reasonable efforts, such as through a notice on the Website. However, you should look at this Privacy Policy regularly to check for such changes. Company claims no responsibility for the security of any third-party links, websites or resources that you may access through or in connection with the Website.

5. DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

  1. Company does not disclose or transfer Your Information to any other third parties without your consent, unless such disclosure or transfer is:
    • Required in order to comply with any applicable law or court order or direction; or
    • Requested by any appropriate Governmental agency as per applicable law for the purpose of, inter alia, verification of identity, prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or punishment of any offences or incidents.

6. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS

  1. The Website may include and link to features and services (such as social applications like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) that are provided by a third party. If you use these features and services, please understand that the third parties that operate them may collect information from you which will be used in accordance with their own privacy policy and terms of use, which may differ from ours.
  2. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these third party policies or for any personal data that may be collected by or through these websites or services. You should always read the privacy policy of any feature or service you access carefully in order to understand the specific privacy and information usage practices.

7. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We retain the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, for instance when we update the functionality of the Website or when there are regulatory changes. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to generally notify all users of any material changes to this Privacy Policy, such as through a notice on the Website. However, as a user of the Website, you should look at this Privacy Policy regularly to check for such changes. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy, which reflects the effective date of this Privacy Policy. Your continued access or use of the Website after the date of the new Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the new Privacy Policy, you must stop accessing and/or using the Website. You hereby acknowledge that any collection, storage, processing or other use of Your Information shall be governed by the Privacy Policy as applicable at the time of such collection, storage, processing or other use.

8. GRIEVANCE OFFICER

Pursuant to Rule 5(9) of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, Popular Essentials INC has designated the following person as the Grievance Officer:

 

Grievance Officer

Mr. Yusuf Rafique

Popular Essentials INC

Sy No 75, Harokyathanahalli, 

Makali Post, Dasanapura Hobli,

Bengaluru North, Bengaluru Rural,

Karnataka – 562123

 

Email: grievance@popularessentials.in

 

Effective Date: 08-Jun-2024

Last Updated: 08-Jun-2024