Objective:

This Privacy Statement articulates the privacy and data protection principles followed by SimpleMinds Technology LLP with regard to the personal information of its customers (including products, outsourcing and other services clients), partners, employees (current or former employees, trainees), applicants, contractors, prospects and vendors and current or former members of the Board of Directors, whose personal information are processed by SimpleMinds Technology LLP.

This Privacy Statement explains the use and protection of personal information collected by SimpleMinds Technology LLP. It applies to any personal information you provide to SimpleMinds Technology LLP and, subject to local law, any personal information we collect from other sources.

 

Scope of this Privacy Statement:

This Privacy Statement covers our information practices, including how we collect, use, share and protect the personal information you provide to us, through our web sites that link to this Privacy Statement.

SimpleMinds Technology LLP may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links through the SimpleMinds Technology LLP website. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. The personal information you choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties, including any social media websites featured on our website. We encourage you to review the privacy statement or policy of any website before submitting your personal information.

We may also provide social media features on our website that enable you to share SimpleMinds Technology LLP information with your social networks. Your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of information about you, depending on the feature. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings on the social media sites with which you interact to make sure you understand how the information provided by you could be used or shared by those sites.

SimpleMinds Technology LLP will not be liable for any unsolicited information provided by you. You consent to SimpleMinds Technology LLP using such information as per SimpleMinds Technology LLP’s Privacy Statement.

Personal information collected by SimpleMinds Technology LLP:

We may collect personal information such as your First Name, Last Name, E-mail Address, Organization Name and Phone Number.  When you provide information that enables us to respond to your request for products or services, we will, wherever permissible by relevant laws, collect, use and disclose this information to third parties for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.

 

Personal information that you provide to SimpleMinds Technology LLP directly through websites or emails

We may collect personal information such as your First Name, Last Name, E-mail Address, Organization Name and Phone Number, Industry type when you fill forms on or raise a query through our websites, or send emails, call us or write to us.

 

Personal information that is automatically collected by SimpleMinds Technology LLP when you use our website

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In some instances, SimpleMinds Technology LLP automatically collects personal information pertaining to you when you visit our websites and through e-mails that we may exchange. We may use automated technologies including the use of web server logs to collect IP addresses, device details, cookies and web beacons. The collection of this information will allow us to improve the effectiveness of SimpleMinds Technology LLP websites and our marketing activities. Please see the section below on cookies for further details.

Personal information that is collected from third party sources

Engage with SimpleMinds Technology LLP through social media

You can engage with us through social media websites or through features on SimpleMinds Technology LLP websites that integrate with social media sites. When you engage with us through social media sites, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your social media profile based upon your privacy preference settings on such platform.

Personal information that is collected when you access our Websites through mobile devices

Access our Websites through Mobile Devices

If you access our websites on your mobile device, we may collect your personal information such as your First Name, Last Name, E-mail Address, Organization Name, Country, City, Phone Number, IP address and Device details.

When you provide us your mobile phone number, you consent to the use of your mobile phone number for the purposes identified in this Privacy Statement. If you choose to refrain from receiving any text notifications from us on your mobile, we will not be using your mobile number for such purposes unless required to meet legal requirements or legitimate business purposes.

How We Use your Data:

The personal information we collect may be used to:

• provide information and services as requested by you.
• assess queries, requirements, and process requests for products and services.
• to provide subscription related services and information
• to enable you to download collaterals and Marketing materials.
• perform client communication, service, billing and administration.
• conduct data analysis.
• assess web site performance and usage analysis
• maintain leads
• run marketing or promotional campaigns
• create brand awareness
• provide better services and generate demand
• market products and services based on legitimate business interest under the applicable law; or
• conduct processing necessary to fulfil other contractual obligations for the individual.

The legal basis may differ depending on applicable local laws, but generally we consider that our legitimate interests justify the processing; we find such interests to be justified considering that the data is limited to browsing activities related to what is considered business or professional related (our website does not offer any content directed to individual consumers as well as any content which might be used for any inferences about your private life habits or interests), we provide easy opt-out and limit the retention of data. The data that we may receive directly from you is completely voluntary and at your option. Where consent is required specifically, we will obtain consent before processing.

Sharing of personal information with the third parties:

SimpleMinds Technology LLP does not share personal information about you with affiliates, partners, service providers, group entities and non-affiliated companies except: (a) to provide products or services you’ve requested; (b) when we have your permission: or (c) under the following circumstances:

1. We may share information with affiliated entities/subsidiaries/branch offices for legitimate business purposes.
2. We may provide the information to trusted entities who work on behalf of or with SimpleMinds Technology LLP under strict confidentiality agreements. These entities may use your personal information to help SimpleMinds Technology LLP communicate with you about offers from SimpleMinds Technology LLP and for other legitimate business purposes. However, these companies do not have any independent right to further share or disseminate this information.
3. We may share information with statutory authorities, government institutions, law enforcement agencies or other bodies where required for compliance with legal requirements.
4. We may use the information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
5. We may share information where we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action against any illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
6. We may share information with our empanelled vendors for assistance w.r.to setting up Business meetings post your consent.
7. We may share information where we believe it is necessary in order to protect or enforce SimpleMinds Technology LLP’s rights, usage terms, intellectual or physical property or for safety of SimpleMinds Technology LLP.
8. We may share information about you if SimpleMinds Technology LLP is acquired by or merged with another company after ensuring such company offers equivalent level of protection for personal data

Preferences:

SimpleMinds Technology LLP takes reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate and complete. You can access or update your personal information in the following ways.

Profile

If you have created a profile or account on one of our websites, you can update your contact information after you log into your account.

Newsletters

If you request electronic communications, such as an e-newsletter, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in the communication.

Mobile Devices

If you previously chose to receive push notifications on your mobile device from us but no longer wish to receive them, you can manage your preferences either through your device or the application settings. If you no longer wish to have any information collected by the mobile application, you may uninstall the application by using the uninstall process available on your mobile device.

Cookies and other technologies

A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded to a user’s computer or mobile device when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies are then sent back to originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. They are used for a wide variety of purposes such as website analytics – counting visitors and their behaviour, targeted advertising, recording user preferences or for authentication.

Session cookie: Session cookies remain only as long as a browsing session is active, and are intended to avoid user inconvenience during browsing. These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session and expire at the end of the browsing session. Session cookies also assist the user in navigating the website, and allow the user to access secure parts of the webpage when logged in.

Persistent cookie: Persistent cookies are stored on a user’s device even after termination of a browsing session. It helps in recalling the preferences or actions of the user. Persistent cookies are used for a variety of purposes such as retaining the visitor’s language and regional preference(s) at the end of each browsing session. We use services of third-party analytics service provider to analyze cookies to carry out a behavioral analysis in order to enhance user experience and convenience, and also to provide targeted and relevant content to visitors. Depending on the type and settings of your browser, cookies may be accepted by default. You may change the settings of your browser to delete existing cookies or prevent future cookies from being automatically accepted. If you disable cookies, certain parts and functions of our website may not be available. You can learn more about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your browser by clearing its browsing history.

Third Party Cookies

We use cookies from third party companies to provide us with insights about our sites, help us run targeting advertising campaigns, measure effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to make the advertisements more relevant to you. These companies use cookies to collect information about your browsing activities on our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click, assets you download and how long you are on our sites. Based on your browsing of our website you may see our advertisements while browsing through our advertisement partner websites and/or their network websites. In order to opt out from receiving such advertisements, you have to set your preferences on our partner websites. Alternatively, you may also visit Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance websites to opt-out.

Email:

You can contact us at the e-mail or postal address listed in the “Contact Us” Page. Please include your current contact information, the information you are interested in accessing and your requests with regard to the same if any. We will endeavour to respond to your request, subject to reasonable limitations provided by law, unless it infringes on the privacy of other individuals.

If we are unable to entertain your request, we will provide you with the reason for refusal and inform you of any exceptions relied upon.

Anti-Spam policy:

SimpleMinds Technology LLP recognizes the receipt, transmission or distribution of spam emails (i.e. unsolicited bulk emails) as a major concern and has taken reasonable measures to minimize the transmission and effect of spam emails in our computing environment. All emails received by SimpleMinds are subject to spam check. Any email identified as spam will be rejected with sufficient information to the sender for taking necessary action. With this measure, along with other technical spam reduction measures, SimpleMinds hopes to minimize the effect of spam emails. SimpleMinds reserves the right to reject and/or report any suspicious spam emails, to the authorities concerned, for necessary action.

Data Protection and Confidentiality:

SimpleMinds Technology LLP has implemented reasonable and adequate physical, technical and administrative security measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.

SimpleMinds discloses information to third parties only for legitimate purposes such as our service providers and agents who are bound to maintain the confidentiality of personal information and may not use the information for any unauthorized purpose. SimpleMinds will ensure through formally executed contracts that the service providers are committed to “same level of data protection” as applicable data protection laws and regulations.

SimpleMinds will take reasonable steps to ensure that all dealings in Personal Information, shall:

• be processed fairly & lawfully.
• be obtained only with the consent of the information provider.
• be collected, only when:
  • the information is collected for a lawful purpose connected with a function or activity of SimpleMinds; and
  • the collection of the sensitive personal data or information is considered necessary for that purpose.
• be available for review by the information provider, as and when requested.
• be kept secure against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, as per the prescribed standards to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information.

 

Right to opt out

SimpleMinds respects your privacy considerations and hence provides an option to you, to not provide the data or information sought to be collected.

Further, you can also withdraw your consent which was earlier given to SimpleMinds (which shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal), and the same must be communicated to SimpleMinds in writing. Please note you can always unsubscribe to marketing communication through clicking unsubscribe available in the marketing communication(s) you receive.

Retention of personal information:

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as performance of a contract, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our policies.

Disclosure of information:

SimpleMinds may share your personal information with your consent, or where the disclosure is necessary for compliance of a legal obligation or where required by government agencies mandated under law to procure such disclosure. It shall also take steps to ensure that the information transferred to a third party is not further disclosed by it except where permissible under law.