PRIVACY POLICY
1. Scope of This
Privacy Notice
This privacy notice
covers those activities provided by UCGlobal Tech
Consultants Pvt. Ltd located at 2nd Floor, Agile
Heights, Ring Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India-226022 (“UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
It covers use of our
website (http://ucglobaltechconsultants.com), marketing for our various brands,
our contact with members of the public (for example, within our recruitment
process) and with those acting in a professional capacity (such as when
enquiring about, researching, reporting on, assessing or engaging in business
discussions). This Privacy Notice explains in detail the types of personal
information we may collect about you when you interact with us on any website
where this Privacy Notice appears.
What this Privacy
Notice Doesn’t Cover:
Marketing and
Advertising Services
This
privacy notice does not cover the activities UCGlobal
Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd. undertakes on behalf of
its clients - in which it acts as a service provider. Should you wish to
enquire about the processing we undertake for any of our clients, or wish to
assert your rights regarding that processing, please contact the relevant
client directly.
Employment
This
Privacy Notice does not cover any data processing carried out by UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt.
Ltd in connection with employment by, or the supply of contracted services to, UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt.
Ltd or its subsidiaries.
2. Sources of Information
We collect personal
information about you from various sources.
We, and our service
providers operating on our behalf, collect Personal Information about
you, directly and indirectly, from the following categories of sources:
We collect personal
information directly from you
We
collect information when you enter into an agreement, participate in a
promotion, contact us, or sign up for our marketing communications and
newsletters. We also collect any personal information you provide if you post a
comment, make a request, or complete a survey.
We collect personal
information from your devices
We
use tracking tools like browser cookies and web beacons to automatically or
passively collect information about you. We collect information when you
interact with our websites, our apps, our ads, or our emails that we or our
vendors send to you.
We receive personal
information from vendors we hire to work on our behalf
For
example, vendors that host or maintain our websites and apps and send
promotional emails for us may give us information. Our employment and
recruiting vendors also give us information. Our marketing agencies,
advertising technology vendors, and analytics providers may also provide us
with information.
We receive personal
information from other businesses
For
example, we may get information from joint marketing partners and other
business partners with whom we have a relationship. Mobile service providers
may also provide information based on the device used to access the Services.
We receive personal
information from social media platforms
If
you post to one of our pages on a social media site or connect to a social
media platform from our website, we may receive information, including
information contained in your social media profile. You acknowledge and
understand that we can access this information even when you are not actively
using the Services. We may also receive information about you if other users of
social media give us access to their profiles and you are one of their
“connections.”
We receive
information about you from other sources
Other
parties may give us personal information about you. These other parties might
also include clients, and business and marketing partners that give us
information they have collected either directly or indirectly from you.
We may also receive Employment-Related Information from a job network or
social network if you choose to import your information from those platforms
when applying for a job with us.
We combine
information
We
combine information collected offline with information we collect online. Or we
may combine information we get from another party with information we already
have. We may also aggregate your information with other consumers’ information
to understand preferences and trends over time. We also combine information
collected across devices, such as computers and mobile devices.
3. Types of
Information We Process
We collect and use
personal information from and about you.
UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd (and the vendors we
hire to perform services on our behalf) collect, receive, and develop several
categories of personal information about you depending on the nature of your
interactions with us. For example:
We collect Contact
Information
For
example, we might collect your name, email address, social media account
handles, phone number, and mailing address.
We collect Commercial
and Preference Information
We
may collect information about our contact history with you and your other
transactions and preferences. We may also collect responses to surveys you
complete. We may collect information about your job and title, details of your
attendance at our events, and your interest in our services.
We collect Internet
and Network Activity Information
If
you use our websites or apps, we may collect information about your operating
system, the browser you are using and your IP address. We might also collect
device identifiers and information about how you use our Wi-Fi network and
other services. We might collect information at the site you came from, or the
site you visit when you leave us. We may collect page interaction information
(such as what areas of the websites you visit and for how long, what search
terms you enter, and what content you view and click on), your use of the
search function on our website, and methods used to browse away from the page.
If you use our mobile apps, we may also look at how often you use the app and
where you downloaded it. We may also collect information about your interaction
with emails or other electronic messages we send you, such as when you open or
click on an email.
We collect Location
Information
We
may infer a location based on your IP address. We automatically collect your
precise GPS location when you access our apps or the mobile version of our
websites. We also collect information about your general location, using your
zip code or postcode and IP address.
We collect
Employment-Related Information
When
you apply for a job, we collect information you submit as part of your
application and resume. This might include your work experience and previous
employment, your education, the URL to your personal or professional websites,
your workplace skill sets and certifications, whether you need a visa or require
sponsorship, and/or salary expectations. If you apply for a job, you may choose
to also voluntarily provide any of the following information: ethnicity,
gender, disability status, and/or veteran status.
We collect and
develop Inferences
Using
the other pieces of personal information collected about you, we may draw
inferences about you, reflecting what we believe to be your preferences,
characteristics, predispositions, and attitudes as well as attributes connected
to your IP address.
4. How We Use Your
Personal Information
We use personal
information as described here.
We use the
above-referenced categories of personal information for the following purposes:
- We use information provided by our clients in
order to provide services to our clients.
- We use information to provide you with
services and fulfill your transactions.
- We use information for marketing purposes. For
example, we might use personal information to provide you with information
about special promotions or offers. We might also use this
information to send push notifications on our app and to serve you ads
about our products and offers. We might tell you about new features or
services. These might be our own offers or products, or third-party
offers or products we think you might find interesting. We use
Google Display Network Impression Reporting to report how our ad
impressions, other uses of ad services and interactions with these ad
impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site. You may
opt-in to receive our email newsletters or to receive text messages from
us.
- We use information to respond to your requests
or questions. We use information to contact you in response to your
feedback or other matters related to our relationship with you (such as
about this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use. If your inquiries or feedback relate
to your leases, purchases, or an account, we may also use your information
to address the matter.
- We use information to analyse and improve our
products and services. For example, may use your information to make
our websites, apps, services, and products better. We might use your
information to customize your experience with us and to conduct research
and analysis.
- We use information to comply with our
obligations, administer our websites and services, and for internal
operations. For example, we use personal information to administer
the websites, such as troubleshooting, data analysis, and testing.
- We use information for security purposes. For
example, we may use personal information to protect our company, our
customers, and our business partners. We also may use personal
information to protect our websites or our services, as well as to detect
and investigate activities that may be illegal or prohibited (such as
cyber-attacks or fraudulent transactions).
- We use information for hiring
purposes for example, we use Contact Information and
Employment-Related Information to review your job applications and contact
you about employment opportunities. If you choose to voluntarily submit
your ethnicity, gender, disability status, and/or veteran status in
connection with a job application, we will use that information for
statistical tracking purposes (not for hiring decisions), in accordance
with applicable law.
- We use information for verification purposes.
For example, we will use certain pieces of personal information to
verify your identity if you make requests pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
The verification steps and the pieces of personal information that
we request may vary depending on the sensitivity and nature of your
request.
- We use information as otherwise disclosed or
permitted by law, or as we may notify you. We may use personal
information to create deidentified or aggregated data which does not
identify you or any other individual. We may use and disclose this
anonymous or aggregated data as we choose.
5. Sharing Personal
Information With Others
We share your
personal information with other parties.
We share personal
information under the following circumstances:
We share your
personal information with vendors and service providers who perform services on
our behalf
We
may share personal information with vendors who assist us with the uses of personal
information described in this Privacy Policy. This may include vendors who send
emails for us, help us manage and operate our websites and apps, provide
advertising or marketing services, provide analytics and search engine support,
track advertising impressions, investigate and prevent data idents, provide
physical and digital security services, audit our business and financial
statements, vet job applicants, provide legal advice, and place our
advertisements on other platforms. We may share your information with
organisations involved with the provision, management or otherwise direct
engagement of events, webinars or other such UCGlobal
Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd hosted functions which you
have registered for or have expressed an interest in. Personal information
received by vendors may also be subject to their privacy policies.
We share your
personal information with our business partners and marketing companies
We
might share information with third parties who help us with our marketing
efforts, including social media platforms, advertising networks, and ad tech
companies. For example, we may share email addresses or other Contact
Information with social media platforms so they can serve our advertising to
you on their platform. Personal information received by our partners may also
be subject to their privacy policies.
We will share your
personal information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or
to protect ourselves, our customers, and others
We
may share any or all categories of personal information to respond to a court
order or subpoena. We may also share this personal information if a government
agency or investigatory body requests it. We might share your personal
information in order to enforce our agreements and to protect our rights and/or
the rights of others. We might share your personal information when we are
investigating potential fraud. This might include fraud we think has happened
during a promotion. Where we have a legal requirement to do so, if you are the winner
of a sweepstakes or contest, we may also share your certain Contact Information
with anyone entitled to request a winner’s list.
We may share your
personal information as part of a transaction, financing, or for other business
needs
For
example, if UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd sells or merges any of its businesses (including
any of our affiliates, divisions, and business units) or assets, applies for
loans, or opens bank accounts, we may disclose your personal information as a
part of that transaction, including to the prospective buyer or partner, lender
or bank, as the case may be. We may share your personal information if there is
a similar change to our corporate structure. We may also share your information
with others as part of certain due diligence processes. We also share
information for the purpose of management and administration of UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd’s business.
We may share personal
information for other reasons we may describe to you from time to time or as
permitted by law.
6. Your Rights Over
Your Personal Information
Opting Out of
Interest Based Advertising
UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd enables users to opt-out
from certain uses of information in a digital environment. If you want to
opt-out from our solutions from the browser you are currently using, click here and our systems will
attempt to place an opt-out cookie on your computer.
While UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt.
Ltd does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals, when our systems detect
the presence of our opt-out cookie, our solutions will stop engaging in IBA for
the opted-out browser or device. And if we have linked two or more browsers or
devices as described above, our systems will attempt to sever the link for the
opted-out browser or device.
Exercising Your
Privacy Rights
You can make the
below more specific requests with respect to your personal information.
Depending on where you live and what you are asking us to do, we may or may not
be obligated to comply with your request, and/or the time required to complete
a request may vary:
- Right to Know – You can request that we disclose
to you the categories of personal information we collected about you, the
categories of sources from which we collected the personal information,
the categories of personal information we sold or disclosed, our business
or commercial purpose for collecting and selling the personal information,
the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal
information, over the past 12 months
- Right to Access – You can request that we
provide you with a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we
collected about you over the past 12 months.
- Right of Deletion – You can request that
we delete your personal information that we maintain about you, subject to
certain exceptions.
- Do Not Sell My Info – You can request that we
not sell your personal information by clicking Do Not Sell My Info. For purposes of this
Privacy Policy, “sell” means the sale of your personal information to an
outside party for monetary or other valuable consideration, subject to
certain exceptions set forth in applicable Indian law. Any opt-out of
cookie-based tracking for advertising purposes is specific to the device,
website, and browser you are using, and is deleted whenever you clear your
browser’s cache.
UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd will not
discriminate against you because you made any of these requests.
You can make these
requests online by emailing us at
hello@ucglobalconsultant.com or by calling us at +1.443.542.4000. We may deny
certain requests, or fulfil a request only in part, based on our legal rights
and obligations. For example, we may retain personal information as permitted
by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes, to maintain an active
account, and to process transactions and facilitate customer requests. Note
that for purposes of these requests under this Privacy Notice, personal
information does not include information about job applicants, employees and
other of our personnel; information about employees and other representatives
of third-party entities we may interact with; or information we have collected
as a service provider to our clients.
We will take
reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your requests.
The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the
personal information and whether you have an account with us.
You may designate an
authorized agent to make a request on their behalf. When submitting the
request, please ensure the authorized agent is identified as an authorized
agent.
For purposes of
making these requests, please also note the following regarding how we collect
and use your personal information as described in this policy, including in the
previous 12 months:
- We may collect, and use for our business and
commercial purposes, the following categories of personal information as
set forth in applicable Indian law: Identifiers; payment and customer
records information; characteristics of protected classifications under
Indian law (which include demographic information such as age and gender);
commercial information; professional or employment information; internet
or other electronic network activity information; geolocation data; audio,
electronic or visual information; and inferences. We collect this
personal information from the sources described above.
- We may disclose each of the foregoing
categories of personal information for the business purposes described in
this Privacy Notice to the extent permitted by applicable law.
- We may sell the foregoing categories of
personal information to our business partners.
7. Where and When We
Send Information Abroad
As UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt.
Ltd is a global organization, we may transfer your personal information outside
of India, to any UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd group company, or to third parties and business
partners inside or outside of India.
By using our websites
and solutions or providing any personal information to us, you consent to the
transfer, processing, and storage of such information outside of your country
of residence where data protection standards may be different.
8. How We Protect
Your Personal Information
UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd has reasonable
security measures in place to help protect personal data from loss, misuse,
unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd has implemented
reasonable, industry-standard security policies, standards and practices
designed to protect information from internal and external threats. The degree
of protection for each piece of information is based on the risk and
consequences associated with having that information compromised. While no
security measures will provide for absolute security, all UCGlobal
Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd employees responsible for
the management of information have the responsibility to adhere to UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd’s documented security controls, which are developed
commensurate with the understood risk.
Our Responsibility
for Website Links
This Privacy Notice
is limited to the personal data collected by UCGlobal
Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd. We do provide links within
this site to other websites, including social media sites such as Facebook,
Twitter and LinkedIn. If you follow these links, your use of these sites will
be governed by their applicable user and privacy notices since their data
practices fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. Further, we can have
no responsibility for or control over the information collected by any
third-party website and we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy
of any information which you may provide on such websites.
Children Under 16
This website is not
intended for children aged 16 or under. We do not actively seek to collect
personal data about children aged 16 or under. If you have any concerns about
your child’s privacy in relation to our services, or if you believe that your
child under the age of 16 may have entered personal data onto our website,
please contact us at hello@ucglobalconsultant.com . We will delete such personal data
from our records or seek verifiable parental or legal guardian consent to
retain such information within a reasonable time.
9. Cookies
A cookie is a small
file which may be downloaded to and stored on your computer, phone, tablet or
other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow web
applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor
its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by being able to remember your
choices and preferences.
We use traffic log
cookies to identify which pages on our websites are being visited. This helps
us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website’s reliability
and to tailor it to customer needs.
Overall, cookies help
us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you
find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your
computer or any information about you on your computer, other than the data you
choose to share with us.
Site specific cookie
information and help in understanding, making choices about and managing
cookies can be found within our cookie notice
10. Contact the UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt.
Ltd Data Protection Officer
If you have any
questions about this Privacy Notice, our approach to privacy or you would like
to exercise any of the rights mentioned in this Privacy Notice you can contact
our Data Protection Officer in any of the following ways:
You can contact us:
Data Protection
Officer
UCGlobal Tech Consultants Pvt. Ltd .
2nd Floor, Agile
Heights, Ring Road, Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh,
India-226022
Telephone:
+1.443.542.4000
(International)
Or by email at:
hello@ucglobalconsultant.com
11. Updates to the
Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice
may be updated from time to time. When we do, we will update this page. The
date of the most recent revision will appear below. You should review this page
from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes that have been
made. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use our
services and please refrain from sharing your personal information with us.
This policy is
effective from September 1, 2022.