Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy for www.arkadianlegal.com (“Website”). The terms and conditions that govern the use of the Website are stated in the Terms of Use, and this Privacy Policy is to be read as part of the Terms of Use. This document stating the Privacy Policy is an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules made there under as applicable, and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures. This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require the publishing of rules and regulations, privacy policy and terms of use for access or usage of the Website.

1. About This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes the ways we gather, use, disclose, and manage your data. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of the aforesaid. It has been drafted and presented here in order to allow for greater transparency so your privacy remains protected.

2. Collection Of Data

Your Personal Data is not collected when you are merely accessing the Website and viewing the webpages. Usage Data, however, is collected automatically when you access and view this Website. The use of the term “data” in this Privacy Policy shall be understood as including Personal Data, Usage Data, and any other information that we may have obtained from you.

    1. What do we consider to be Personal Data?

    Personal Data is any information that relates to your identity or can be linked to an identifiable individual or used to identify an individual. This may include names, email address(es), phone number(s), residential or postal address(es), location, professional information, employment-related or education information, the name of the organisation you represent, financial information including details of your PAN (Personal Account Number) Card, the details of your Aadhaar Card or any other government issued personal identification document. It can only be collected by us when you enter it into a portal on our Website for collecting such data.

    2. What is Usage Data?

    Usage Data includes information such as log files, your device’s Internet Protocol address, nature of device (for example, whether it is a mobile device, desktop, or a laptop), the operating system of your device, type of internet browser being used, browser version, the time and date of you accessing our Website, the webpages of the Website that you viewed, the time spent on those webpages, unique device identifiers that may be implemented in the Website infrastructure, number of clicks, broad demographic information for aggregate use and general diagnostic data. We may also collect any other information that your browser sends to our Website’s servers whenever you visit our Website.

    3. How do we collect data?

    We may collect data through the use of cookies and trackers, or any third-party services we use for our Website may use cookies and trackers. Apart from this, we can only collect the data that you enter on our site, such as through an enquiry form that you may fill and submit. Personal Data is only obtained by us through information you actively entered on our Website, since the cookies and trackers we implement do not specifically collect Personal Data. As such, Personal Data is obtained directly from you, or from others authorized to provide the information and who decide to enter such information on our Website, and from other parties with whom we may work – such as service providers, business partners, advertisers, advertising technology providers, and advertising servers. If you submit Personal Data about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you are providing the information and that said person has consented to have all the information used, disclosed, and transferred in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

    4. What are cookies and what is our policy regarding them?

    Cookies are small bits of data stored in your computer, sent through browsers to servers. They are used to recognise your online presence and track you and your preferences. As mentioned in Clause 2(3) of this Privacy Policy, we may use cookies to collect Usage Data. When you browse the Website, your browser will receive session cookies. You consent to cookie usage by accessing and using the Website, as indicated through the cookie banner that presents itself when you access the Website.

3. Usage And Sharing Of Data

    1. How do we use the collected data?

    Collected data may be used to maintain and improve our Website, including the monitoring of usage of our Website.

    2. What do we NOT do to your data?

    We protect your data by adopting the following policies.

    • 1. We will not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your data to outside parties.
    • 2. We will not seek or collect financial information.

    3. Do we share the data we collect?

    We only share your data with affiliates and third parties, and only in the situations enumerated hereunder.

    • 1. We may share the data with service providers, in order to monitor and analyse the use of our Website, to help support and maintain the Website, or to ensure compliance with applicable law.
    • 2. We may share your data with law enforcement, or in response to valid requests by public authorities such as Courts or government agencies.
    • 3. Log records and data stored on our servers may be accessed by system administrators and troubleshooters.

4. Retention Of Your Data

The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, after which we will delete your data. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations – for example, we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws, to resolve disputes, or to enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We generally retain Usage Data for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or if we are obligated by law to retain this data for longer.

5. Disclaimer

Whilst the Company shall reasonably endeavour to protect and secure the data – particularly personal data – provided by you, we shall not be liable if criminal offences are committed by any third party, in spite of the reasonable security measures adopted by us as part of the Website infrastructure and where unauthorised use or access has been attempted or committed, where such unauthorized use or access could not be prevented despite reasonable safety precautions undertaken by us.

6. Requests For Deletion Of Your Data

You can contact us to enquire about your personal data we may have stored, and you may ask us to delete any of your data that we may have. It will be our endeavour to respond to and honour such requests at the earliest.

7. Changes To This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify or replace the terms in this Privacy Policy at any time, without any prior notification to you personally. If we make any changes to our Privacy Policy, the changes will be reflected here. If at any point we decide to use your information which we may hold in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email.

8. Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or believe that we have not adhered to it, please feel free to contact us at connect@arkadianlegal.com .