Privacy Policy
This policy was updated on 10-Aug-2022
Purpose
This Privacy Statement articulates the privacy and data protection principles followed by Protechnvil Systems Private Limited and its affiliates & subsidiaries around the world (hereinafter referred to as “TECHNVIL”, “company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) with regards to the personal data that is collected, meaning the information about an identifiable individual (“you”,” your”, “user”) when our website https://technvil.com (“website”) is accessed.
TECHNVIL is committed to protecting any personal information that we may receive while you access our website. We believe it is important for you to know how we treat information about you that we may receive when you engage with us. This Privacy Policy is devised to help you feel more confident about the privacy and security of your personal details.
By visiting our website, uploading information on our website, you acknowledge and unconditionally accept the policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, do not use our website & services or provide here any of your personal data.
Eligibility and Scope
The website is intended for all persons who are interested in learning about our products and services. 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
TECHNVIL may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links through the website, you will leave the TECHNVIL website. TECHNVIL does not control those sites or their privacy practices which may differ from TECHNVIL’s practices. 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, is not covered by the TECHNVIL’s Privacy Statement. 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 TECHNVIL information with your social networks and to interact with TECHNVIL on various social media sites. 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.
Our website is not directed at nor targeted at children. No one who has not reached the age of thirteen may use the websites unless supervised by an adult. By accessing this website, you represent and warrant that you are 13 years of age or older.
TECHNVIL will not be liable for any unsolicited information provided by you. You consent to TECHNVIL using such information as per TECHNVIL’s Privacy Statement.
The Information We Collect
We receive both information that is directly provided to us, such as personal information you provide when you visit the Website and information that is passively or automatically collected from You, such as information collected from the browser or device you used to access our website or services. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to all this as the ‘User Information’. To explain further:
Information You Provide to Us:
There are portions of this website where we may need to collect personal information from You for a specific purpose. For example you can register, apply for partner services, seek out enabler connects, post information for our online surveys or register for our events. In the course of these various offerings we may often seek to collect information from your various forms of information such as: your First Name, Last Name, E-mail Address, Job Title, Organization Name, Country, City & Phone Number, demographic info, location and business details. In some instances, you may also be able to submit Information about your business plan. For example, you might submit answers specific to your business / idea for an innovation challenge or hunt posted on the website.
When you provide information that enables us to respond to your request for products or services, we may, wherever permissible by relevant laws, collect, use, and disclose this information to third parties for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement:
Information That is Automatically Collected:
In general, you can visit this Website without telling us who You are or revealing any information about yourself. We may use automated means (e.g., third party analytics services) to collect various types of Information about you, your computer or other device used to access our website. A representative but non-exhaustive list of the types of automatically collected information may include: network or Internet protocol address and type of browser you are using (e.g., Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system You are using (e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS), mobile network, device identifiers, device settings, browser settings, the web pages of the website you have visited, website visited before and after you visited our website, the type of handheld or mobile device used to view the website (e.g., iOS, Android), location information and the content & advertisements you have accessed, seen, forwarded and/or clicked on. Please see our Section titled Cookies, for more information about how the foregoing Information may be collected and used
Information that is collected from third party sources:
You can engage with us through social media websites or through features on TECHNVIL 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.
Information that is collected when you access our website through mobile devices:
If you access our website on your mobile device, we may collect your personal information such as your First Name, Last Name, E-mail Address, Job Title, Organization Name, Country, City, Phone Number, IP address, location 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.
Information that is collected when you apply for a job:
If you want to apply for any job vacancy posted on our website or our social media sites, we may collect applicant’s information which may include but not limite to curriculum vitae (CV), cover letter, employment & education history, qualification & skills, reference contact’s information, position preference, willingness to relocate or work onsite, desired remuneration, background screening information and other information that applicant provides.
How we may use the information
By entering your User Information, you accept that we may retain your User Information and that it may be held by us or any partner that processes it on our behalf. We, along with our partners, shall be entitled to use your User Information for the following purposes:
Provide and communicate with you about feedback, follow up on programs you’ve applied for and/or queries submitted to the team
Fulfil your requests regarding the services, respond to your inquiries without limitation, communicate with you about our products or services that we believe may be of interest to you
To enable you to download collaterals and marketing materials
Enforce the legal terms (including our policies and terms of service without limitation) that govern your use of our Services and/or for the purposes for which you provided the Information
Provide technical support for the Website or in connection with our services and offerings
Prevent fraud or potentially illegal activities (including, without limitation, copyright infringement) on or through our Website or Services
Protect the safety of our other subscribers or users
Create brand awareness
Perform analysis regarding how you use the Services or any part thereof such as market research, including statistical analysis of user behavior which we may disclose to third parties in depersonalized, aggregated form
To enable us to comply with any requirements imposed on us by law
To send you periodic communications (this may include e-mail) about features, products & services, events and special offers. Such communications from us may include promotion of programs being organized by third parties on our website
Information Sharing and Disclosures
To the extent permitted by law and to fulfil the purpose of this website, we may share your Personal Information with agents, contractors or partners of TECHNVIL in connection with the services that these individuals or entities perform for or with TECHNVIL. These agents, contractors or partners are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for TECHNVIL or services for the collaboration in which they and TECHNVIL are engaged in (for example, some of our products are developed and marketed through joint agreements with other companies). We may, for example, provide your information to agents, contractors, or partners for hosting our databases, for data processing services or for mailing you the information that you requested for. You may remove yourself from any such list or notification at any time.
TECHNVIL reserves the right to share your Personal Information to respond to duly authorized information requests of governmental authorities or where required by law. In exceptionally rare circumstances where national, state or company security is an issue. TECHNVIL reserves the right to share our entire database of visitors and customers with appropriate governmental authorities.
We may also be required to disclose your Personal Information in the event of a legal investigation or any such other process where we are required to do so by applicable law or where we have to establish our legal rights or where disclosure is required to prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person.
To the extent permitted by law, we may also provide your Information to a third party in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of the business of this Website to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As a convenience to our visitors, this Website may contain links to a number of sites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we described here may not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection and distribution policies.
We may disclose the User Information as follows:
To service providers or Partners that we have engaged to perform business-related functions on our behalf. This may include service providers that:
(a) conduct research and analytics
(b) create content
(c) provide customer, technical or operational support
(d) conduct or support marketing (such as email or advertising platforms)
(e) fulfill orders and user requests
(g) host our Services, forums and online communities
(h) administer the Website
(i) maintain databases
(j) otherwise support our Services
Any answers submitted by you for a specific program or innovation challenge will be shared with the partners who are a part of that specific Innovation Hunt.
In response to a court order or a subpoena, a law enforcement or government agency’s request or similar request.
With third parties in order to investigate, prevent or take action (in our sole discretion) regarding potentially illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to any person, us, or the Website, or violations of our policies, the law or our Terms of Use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website.
We may share the User Information with our affiliates or group companies so that they can provide, improve, and communicate with you about their own, or their marketing partners’ products and services.
We may share information about you if TECHNVIL is acquired by or merged with another company after ensuring such company offers equivalent level of protection for personal data.
We reserve the right to disclose and transfer the User Information outside India. We will comply with all relevant Data Protection legislation in relation to the period for which we retain any User Information.
Cookies and Other technologies
Cookies
You should be aware that information and data may be automatically collected using Cookies or similar tracking technologies. “Cookies” are text files placed in your computer browser that store basic information that a website can use to recognise repeat site visits and as an example, recall your name if this has been previously supplied. We may use this to understand your service and internet usage, observe behaviour and compile aggregate data in order to improve or customize our products, services offerings or the Website, target the advertising and assess general effectiveness of such advertising. Cookies do not attach to your system and damage your files. If you do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the Cookie feature. Note, however, that “personalised” services may be affected if the cookie option is disabled.
For further information on cookies and cookie banner please refer: https://technvil.com/ cookie-policy/
Google Analytics
We may use third-party Service provider’s Google Analytics to monitor and analyse the use of our Service. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google Maps
TECHNVIL may use Google Maps API Services. To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server and stored there. The website has no influence on this data transfer.
If you are using our website or services by agreeing to our Privacy Policy you hereby also certify that you have read and agree to Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service at https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps/; and Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
HotJar
TECHNVIL may use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize the service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (for example how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
For further details about Hotjar and Hotjar privacy policy, please refer: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/categories/115001323967-About-Hotjar
Facebook Plugin
TECHNVIL may use the Facebook plugins integrated with the website. The Facebook plugins on our website are plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Meta Platforms Inc., USA, integrated. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our page. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visiting our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we do not have any knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign visits to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
Linkedin Plugin
Our website may use features of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, USA. Each time you visit one of our pages that contains LinkedIn features, a connection is established to LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn will be notified that you have visited our web pages with your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn “Recommend” button and are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn will be able to associate your visit to our site with you and your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.
Further information on this can be found in LinkedIn’s data protection declaration at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Youtube Plugin
Our website may use the YouTube video platform operated by YouTube LLC, USA. YouTube is a platform that enables playback of audio and video files.
When you load a page on our website, the integrated YouTube player establishes a connection to YouTube in order to ensure the technical transmission of the video or audio file. When the connection to YouTube is established, data is transferred to YouTube.
For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, further processing and use of the data by YouTube and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy for which you may please refer to https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_in/howyoutubeworks/policies/overview/
Information Security
Security is very important to us. All security procedures are in place to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your User Information. We maintain strict physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect your User Information including your personal information from unauthorized or inappropriate access.
We follow generally accepted standards to collect, store and protect personal data, including the use of encryption. We retain personal data for as long as it is needed to provide the services you have requested, and thereafter for legal and service purposes. These may include retention periods mandated by legal, contractual, or similar obligations for resolving, preserving, enforcing, or defending our legal and contractual rights; needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records or how you access, update, or delete your data etc.
The website will take all reasonable efforts to ensure the confidentiality of personal data, uploaded information etc. and will take reasonable efforts to ensure that the information received from you is not misused. While website will take the above reasonable measures to guard against misuse of personal data/information submitted to it by you, this website cannot guarantee that someone will not overcome our security measures, including, without limitation, the security measures implemented on the website. Therefore, your posting of personal data/ information on this Website constitutes your acceptance of this risk, and by posting of personal data/information, you waive any right to seek legal relief from this website due to any misuse of your information.
Retention of 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.
Linked Services
Our website may contain links to or integrations with other services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other media services and platforms whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult these other services’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.
Newsletter
If you have subscribed to electronic communications, such as an e-newsletter, we collect and use your e-mail address for sending the newsletter. You will be able to unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in the communication.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Privacy Policy is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of India. If any of the parties wish to seek legal recourse, they may do so by using the courts of law in India.
Updates
We may change this privacy policy from time to time and you should check these regularly. Your use of the Website will be deemed an acceptance of the privacy policy existing at that time.
Contact us
In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Website or to receive further information regarding use of the Website, please contact us at:
Protechnvil Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Office 504, Suratwala Mark Plazzo, Hinjewadi Phase 1,
Pune, Maharashtra 411057
Email: contact@technvil.com