Privacy Policy
The following describes the privacy policy of the Sudha Murty website and its affiliates (the “Trust”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and the manner in which we collect, uses, shares and secures the personal information that we collect or receives via our website [insert] or any sub-domain (collectively, the “Site”). It also describes your choices regarding use, access, and correction of your personal information.
For purposes of applicable data protection regulations, the Trust is the data controller of personal information collected by it via the Site.
What is Personal Information?
As used in this policy, “personal information” means any information that may be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to identify an individual. When we combine any non-personal information with personal information (e.g., technical information, such as the type of browser or operating system that you use), we treat the combined information as personal information.
Collection of Personal Information
Personal Information You Provide to Us – We may collect certain personal information when someone voluntarily sends a direct mail inquiry, an email or online registration, registers to download documents from the Sites, participates in seminars or webinars, requests our information at tradeshows, applies for a job via the Site, or requests information via the Sites. Examples of such personal information include, but are not limited to, individual names, telephone numbers, email addresses, company name, mailing address, account username and password, job title and financial information such as a credit or debit card number. If you apply for a job via the Site, we may also collect personal information via your resume or any cover letter you choose to upload, or via any social media profile to which you elect to provide access. We process personal information you provide to us either in connection with our legitimate business interests, or to the extent necessary for the performance of a contract with you, your company, or our customers.
Personal Information Collected Through Cookies and Similar Technologies – We may collect certain information, including personal information, automatically from visitors to our Sites, and those of its subsidiaries, including the IP address, time visited, pages viewed and related information. When you visit the Sites, open emails from us, use our apps or interact with related tools, widgets or plug-ins, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as through cookies, web beacons and web server logs. The information collected in this manner may include your IP address, unique device identifier, browser characteristics, domain, and other system settings, search queries, device characteristics, operating system type, language preferences, referring URLs, actions take on the Sites, dates and times of Site visits, metadata and other information associated with other files stored on your device.
Uses of Personal Information
We may use your personal information to monitor the performance, and improve the quality of our Site, respond to requests about the Trust and its activities, fulfil requests and for other internal purposes and/or to comply with various legal and regulatory obligations. With your consent, we may also use your personal information to send you information about its activities and for other specified marketing purposes. Unless we obtain your consent to the processing of your personal information, we will process your personal information only in circumstances where there is a legitimate interest to do so.
We may use information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, web server logs and other automated means for purposes such as (a) customizing user visits to the Sites, (b) delivering content tailored to users’ interests and the manner in which our users browse the Sites, and (c) managing the Sites and other aspects of its business. You can change your cookies settings in your browser, however, please note that without cookies you may not be able to use all the features of the Sites. For more information about the cookies we use on the Sites, please click here [Insert cookie policy link].
Sharing of Personal Information
We may share your personal information with our affiliates and/or with our business partners/subcontractors, in order to respond to user needs or otherwise provide services to entities it has engaged with. We may also, with your consent, engage in joint marketing activities with such third parties and/or disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
We may also share your information with our third-party agents who may be acting on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions to assist in our business activities, including, for example, providing notice of an upcoming webinar that may be of interest to the target audience, payment processing or providing other services.
We may disclose your personal information if we are required to do so by law or court order, to enforce or apply these Terms or we believe in good faith that such release is necessary or appropriate to protect our rights, property, or safety.
We may also share or transfer information, including your personal information, in connection with the sale, transfer, acquisition, merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control of the Trust or any affiliated entity (in each case, whether in whole or in part). When one of these events occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to notify users before their personal information is transferred or becomes subject to different privacy practices.
We may sometimes partner with other companies in order to provide their services via a link on the Site, for example, job applications and social media links. In those circumstances, the third-party partners may have access to the personal information you provide to them via their website, and we do not have any control over how they use that personal information. In order to fully understand how your personal information is used by our partners, please carefully review their applicable privacy policies. Except as set forth herein, the Trust does not share your personal information with any third parties.
Other Uses of Personal Information
In addition to the uses described above, we will inform individuals of any other intended uses of their personal information at the time such personal information is collected or before such use is implemented including disclosure to third parties.
Data Security and Retention
We use reasonable methods to secure all personal information by a variety of methods, including restricting access to such personal information only to those people who have a legitimate need to know in order to discharge their job responsibilities on behalf of the Trust, securing access to the facility where the personal information is stored and the use of technology and physical controls to secure the personal information. We are required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you have questions about the security of your personal information, please contact us as described below.
We may retain your personal information for as long as it is needed to fulfil the purposes described in this privacy policy, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce our agreements.
Security of Personal Information by Third Parties
We will require that all third parties acting on behalf of us, and to which personal information is provided, give us adequate contractual assurances that they will safeguard all such personal information in a manner consistent with this policy.
Children under the age of 18
The Site is not intended for minors under the age of 18. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personal information from anyone we know to be under 18 years of age.
Advertising and Newsletters
We may from time to time allow certain third parties to display advertising on our Sites or to manage our advertising on other sites. These third-party partners may use cookies or similar technologies in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. You may change your browser settings to opt out of interest-based advertising.
We will use your personal information to send you emails or newsletters if you have signed up to receive them. If you would like to discontinue receiving this information, you may update your email preferences by using the Unsubscribe link found in emails we send to you, or at your member profile on our website, or by contacting us as described below. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving the foregoing emails, we may still send you a response to any “Contact Us” request as well as administrative, maintenance and operational emails (for example, in connection with a password reset request).
Your Rights
Upon an individual’s request, we will provide reasonable access to any personal information it has about that person. We will also take reasonable steps to allow such individuals to correct, change, modify or delete any such personal information that is shown to be incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete. You may ask us to delete the personal information we hold about you or cease processing such personal information, in certain circumstances. It may not be possible for us to delete or cease processing all the personal information we hold about you where we have an ongoing relationship with you or where we have a legal basis to retain such personal information.
You may access, correct, or request the deletion of your personal information by logging into your account or by contacting us at [info@murtytrust.org]. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Territories
The Site is not intended for use outside the geographical region of India.
Changes
We may amend or modify this policy from time to time without providing any notice. This policy may also be changed, or limited, to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, or as otherwise allowed or required by law.
Contact Information
Questions or comments about this policy, or concerns or complaints, should be sent to [info@murtytrust.org] or to:
Sudha Murty
Attn: Legal Department
[info@murtytrust.org]