We value your privacy and trust.
To honour that trust, we at Artha a Section 8 Company incorporated in India, adhere to ethical standards in gathering, using and safeguarding any information you provide. In case we ask for any personal information from you, it would be only be with your consent. We will inform you about its usage and use the information only to improve your experience.
The information we collect from you would be retained only as long as needed as part of the cohort interactions. The data would be protected against unauthorized use and misuse. We would not be sharing any personal information publicly, unless needed by law. This privacy policy governs your use of the www.Artha.org.in ('Website') and the other associated products, websites and services managed by the Company.
Your use of the Website and/or our services in connection with Website or products ('Services'), or registrations with us via any modes or usage of any products including SD cards, tablets or any other storage/transmitting device shall signify your acceptance and agreement of this Policy. Your agreement is legally bounded by the same. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, do not use the Website, our products or avail any of our Services.
The Website/Services obtain the information you provide when you register with us. We ask for (a) your name, age, email address, location, phone number (b) transaction-related information, such as when you want to join the course (c) information you provide when you contact us for help (d) information you enter into our system when using certain Services such as participating in discussions or taking surveys. The said information collected from the users could be categorized as Personal Information, Sensitive Personal Information and Associated Information, each individually defined under the Information Technology Rules (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information and Data Protection Rules 2011”) shall be collectively referred to as 'Information' in this Policy. We may use the Information to contact you from time to time to provide you with important information about our services, required notices and marketing promotions. We will not differentiate between who is using the device to access our Website or Services as long as the log in/access credentials match with yours. You shall, at any time while using our Services have an option to withdraw your consent given earlier to us to use such Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information. Withdrawal of such consent is required to be sent in writing to us at the contact details provided.
We send cookies (small files containing a string of characters) to your computer to uniquely identify your browser. Cookies are also used to track preferences, help you login faster and establishes user trends. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies; however you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. We must point out that some of our features and services may not function efficiently if your cookies are disabled.
Our Website may present links that enable us to keep track of whether these links have been followed; it helps us improve our customized content. On clicking on any of the aforementioned links, you may be directed to sites outside our domain. In case there are links to external sites that are not operated by us, information shared there will be subject to their privacy policies. You can decide to share your personal information based on your discretion. We encourage our Website users to be aware and read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.
We may alert you by email or phone (through sms/call) to inform you about new service offerings of the Company and/ or other information which we feel might be useful for you, through the Company or its subsidiaries/affiliates.
We take care to safeguard the confidentiality of information you share with us. We provide physical, electronic, and other procedural safeguards to protect Information we process and maintain. For example, only authorized employees only who need to know information in order to operate, develop or improve our Services/Website is privy to the data shared by you. However, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches though we take every possible step to keep the data secure.
At present we plan to retain user data if you are an active participant for at least three years afterward. However, this practice may be altered depending on legal and business requirements. Under specific circumstances, we may lengthen the retention period for some data if needed to comply with law or voluntary codes of conduct. Unless otherwise prohibited, we may even shorten the retention period for some types of data.
Whenever you access our Website, our servers automatically record certain information that your browser sends. These server logs may include information such as your web request, internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Any part of our Website privacy policy can be changed without any notice. The updated policy shall be posted on the website so that it is always available to the user.