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PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) along with the Terms of Use and Service https://www.theindianmonk.in/terms-condition.php (“Terms of Use”), constitute a legally binding agreement (this “Agreement”) between TiM Private Limited, a company duly incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 (herein referred to as “TiM”, “Our”, “We”, “Us”) and the User (“You”, “User”, “Your”) with respect to Your use of Our mobile Application / Website (collectively “Platform”) and Services.


Interpretation and Definitions


  1. We take the privacy of Our Users very seriously and are committed to safeguarding their privacy while providing a personalized and valuable access to Our Platform.
  2. You agree and understand that access to Services is conditional upon Your approval of this Privacy Policy. You agree that Your use of Services includes Your consent to collection, retention and use of Your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and as per the Applicable Law.
  3. The purpose of the Platform and Services is to provide an online platform and medium to its Users to achieve their health and meditation goals through various services offered on the Platform. The arrangement between the Service Providers and TiM shall be governed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. The Services would be made available to such natural persons who have agreed to become buyers on the Website after obtaining due registration, in accordance with the procedure as determined by TiM, from TiMe to TiMe (referred to as “You” or “Your” or “Yourself” or “User”, which terms shall also include natural persons who are accessing the Website merely as visitors). The Services are offered to the Users through various modes which shall include issue of discount coupons and vouchers that can be redeemed for various goods/ services offered for sale by the Sellers
  4. While we try our best to provide security that is commensurate with the industry standards, because of the inherent vulnerabilities of the internet, we cannot ensure or warrant complete security of all information that is being transmitted to us by you.
  5. For the purpose of providing the Services and for other purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, TiM will be required to collect and host certain data and information of the Users. TiM is committed to protecting the Personal Information of the Users and takes all reasonable precautions for maintaining confidentiality of the User’s Personal Information.
  6. This Privacy Policy shall apply to the use of the Website by all Users / Sellers. Accordingly, a condition of each User's use of and access to the Website and to the other services provided by TiM to Users is their acceptance of this Privacy policy. Any User is required to read and understand the provisions set out herein prior to submitting any Sensitive Personal Data or Information to TiM, failing which they are required to leave the Website immediately
  7. This Privacy Policy is published in compliance of the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules, regulations, guidelines and clarifications framed thereunder, including the (Indian) Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

  1. In order to provide Services, we automatically track and collect the following categories of information when You access and/ or use the Platform ("Traffic Data”):
    1. IP addresses;
    2. Domain server details; and
    3. Other information with respect to Your device, interaction of Your device with the Platform, other websites and applications.
  2. In order to provide the Services, we may require You to provide Us with certain information that personally identifies You ("Personal Information"). Personal Information includes the following categories of information :
    1. Contact details, including but not limited to telephone number and e-mail address;
    2. Demographic data (such as TiMe zone, postal address and location details); and
    3. Health data, including but not limited to nutrition data, medical records/ history, height and weight.
  3. You agree and understand that if You communicate with Us by, for example, e-mail or letter or telephone, any information provided in such communication may be collected, retained and used by Us as per the terms of this Privacy Policy.
  4. We may transfer alphanumeric identifiers to Your device through Your web browser to enable Our systems to recognize Your browser, remember information specific to You and/ or provide certain features to You (“Cookies”). We may place both permanent as well as temporary Cookies in Your device, however, such Cookies shall not contain any of Your Personal Information. We do not control and are not liable for any Cookies placed by third parties on Your device
  5. Traffic Data, Personal Information and such other information as may be collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, together constitute the information collected by Us pursuant to Your use of Our Platform and/ or Services (“Information Collected”).
  6. “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” means Personal Information of any individual relating to password; financial information such as bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details; physical, physiological and mental health condition; sexual orientation; medical records and history; biometric information; any detail relating to the above as provided to or received by TiM for processing or storage. However, any data/ information relating to an individual that is freely available or accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law shall not qualify as Sensitive Personal Data or Information. (“Sensitive Personal Data”).
  7. TiM does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children.
  8. TiM may in future include other optional requests for information from the User including through user surveys in order to help TiM customize the Website to deliver personalized information to the User and for other purposes are mentioned herein. Such information may also be collected in the course of contests conducted by TiM. Any such additional Personal Information will also be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  9. TiM may in future include other optional requests for information from the User including through user surveys in order to help TiM customize the Website to deliver personalized information to the User and for other purposes are mentioned herein. Such information may also be collected in the course of contests conducted by TiM. Any such additional Personal Information will also be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  10. When you use the Services for placing order(s) or delivery, we collect precise location data (GPS and network-based). If you permit the TiM app/website to access location services through the permission system used by your mobile operating system ("platform"), we may also collect the precise location of your device when the app is running in the foreground or background to send retail store's promotion. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address in order to make the app/website faster (“Location Information”).
  11. We may collect information about your mobile device, including, for example, the hardware model, operating system and version, software and file names and versions, preferred language, unique device identifier, advertising identifiers, serial number, device motion information, and mobile network information to retrieve running apps and to improve performance. We may access information to find accounts on the device such as directly call phone numbers, read phone status and identity. (“Device Information”).
  12. If you permit the TiM app/website to access the address book on your device through the permission system used by your mobile platform or website, we may access and store names and contact information from your address book on the device to facilitate social interactions through our Services. We may use the said information to check if the user is connected with network or not and to let user call in case if user taps on contact number (“Contacts Information”).
  13. If you are a Service Provider and would like to engage with TiM, we will collect your business name, telephone number, address, zip code, service description. In addition, you may provide (not mandatory) other information about your business. We may also collect payment information from you. (“Service Providers Information”).
  14. TiM reserves the right to record conversations between service providers and users which is facilitated by TiM through chat/messaging mechanism on the platform or calls made through virtual numbers which are provided to safeguard the privacy of consumers and service providers. All the chats/logs/messaging can be used but are not limited to monitor and prohibit abuse, safeguarding the rights of consumers and service providers, resolution of disputes, inter alia.
  15. If it deemed necessary, then at or sole discretion, we may ask and collect supplementary information from third party service providers, such as – credits from a bureau, verification of identification details.
  16. You may log in to the App/website through your Facebook account. If you do so, you must enter the email address and password that you use for your Facebook Account. We will ask you to grant us permission to access and collect your Facebook basic information which includes – name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, date of birth, email address and any other information which has been made public on your Facebook account. If you allow us to access this information, then we will have access to this even if you have chosen not to make that information public. We store the information that we receive from Facebook along with the other information that we collect/receive about you.

USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

  1. We use the Information Collected in such manner that enables Us to provide the Platform, Services and/ or any parts thereof to You in an effective way, including using Information Collected to:
    1. assist You in accessing the Services and/ or any part(s) thereof;
    2. contact and communicate with You from TiMe to TiMe for the provision of Services;
    3. prevent any potentially illegal activity and to screen and prevent undesirable or abusive activity during provision of Services and/ or any part thereof;
    4. monitor, maintain, troubleshoot and/ or improve the Services and/ or any associated features, including evaluation of or devising new features for the Platform;
    5. perform statistical and/ or other analysis of the Information Collected;
    6. analyze and measure Your activity, behavior and trends
    7. use Read_Phone_State permission to check if Your device is connected to the internet or not ; and/ or
    8. audit Your usage of Our Platform or Services
    9. Registration of the User on the Website
    10. Processing the User’s orders / requests and provision of Services (including provision of safe Services).
    11. Completing transactions with Users effectively and billing for the products/ Services provided
    12. Ensuring that the Website content is presented to the Users in an effective manner
    13. Delivery of personalized information and target advertisements to the User
    14. Improvement of Services, features and functionality of the Website along with Technical administration and customization of Website
    15. In case of any contests conducted by TiM in which the User participates, the User Information may be used for prize fulfillment and other aspects of any contest or similar offering
    16. Communicate any changes in our Services or this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use to the Users
    17. Investigating, enforcing, resolving disputes and applying our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, either ourselves or through third party service providers
    18. We may combine aggregate data with the personal information that we collect about you.
  2. In addition to Clause 1 above, we may use the Information Collected (including Personal Information in aggregated form) to aid strategic development, data collection and analytics with respect to Platform and/ or Services provided by Us and to manage Our relationships with Our Service Providers or any third parties.
  3. The Information Collected shall not be used in any form or manner other than as is described in this Privacy Policy, specifically this clause (USE OF INFORMATiON COLLECTED) of this Privacy Policy, and, while We use Our best efforts to protect all Information Collected, this Privacy Policy is not intended to restrict Our use of Information Collected (“Permitted Use”).
  4. From TiMe to TiMe, TiM may use personal information for new and unanticipated uses which are not previously disclosed in the Privacy Policy. If our information practices change regarding information previously collected, then TiM shall make all reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent of any such uses as maybe required by the law.

DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

  1. Notwithstanding anything else contained in this Agreement, we do not disclose any personally identifiable Personal Information to any third parties, other than to the Service Providers to assist them in providing the best Services to You.
  2. TiM makes all User Information accessible to its employees and data processors only on a need-to-know basis. All TiM employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of User Information, are obliged to respect its confidentiality.
  3. Non-personally identifiable information may be disclosed to third party ad servers, ad agencies, technology vendors and research firms to serve advertisements to the Users. TiM may also share its aggregate findings (not specific information) based on information relating to the User’s internet use to prospective, investors, strategic partners, sponsors and others in order to help growth of TiM's business.
  4. TiM may also disclose or transfer the User Information, to another third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets or business of a TiM corporation division or company. Any third party to which TiM transfers or sells its assets will have the right to continue to use the Personal Information and/ or other information that a User provide to us.
  5. TiM may need to disclose/ transfer User’s Personal Information to the following third parties for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use which are -
    1. to our affiliates in India or in other countries who may use and disclose your information for the same purposes as us.
    2. to government institutions/ authorities to the extent required (i) under the laws, rules, and regulations and/ or under orders of any relevant judicial or quasi-judicial authority; (ii) to protect and defend the rights or property of TiM; (iii) to fight fraud and credit risk; (iv) to enforce TiM 's Terms of Use (to which this Privacy Policy is also a part) ; or (v) when TiM , in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others.
    3. If otherwise required by an order under any law for the TiMe being in force including in response to enquiries by Government agencies for the purpose of verification of identity, or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences.
    4. To Sellers and other service providers appointed by TiM for the purpose of carrying out services on TiM’s behalf under contract. Generally, these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information, however certain contractors who provide services on the Website, including the providers of online communications services, will have rights to use and disclose the Personal Information collected in connection with the provision of these services in accordance with their own privacy policies.
  6. Subject to Clause 1 above of this section, we use Our best efforts to use personally identifiable Personal Information in aggregate form so that no individual Person is identified by the third parties with which such information is shared.
  7. We reserve the right to disclose any Information Collected if, in Our reasonable opinion, such disclosure is
    1. required by Applicable Law; or
    2. necessary to protect and defend Our or Our Users’ rights, property and/ or personal safety; or
    3. a Permitted Use.
  8. All the information collected/ stored under this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use is maintained by TiM in electronic form on its equipment, and on the equipment of its employees. User Information may also be converted to physical form from TiMe to TiMe. Regardless of the manner of storage, TiM will keep all User Information confidential and will use/ disclose it only the manner specified under the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
  9. TiM will also ensure that User Information is not kept for a period longer than is required for the purposes for which it is collected or as required under any applicable law.
  10. Part of the functionality of the Website is assisting the Sellers to maintain and organize such information to effect sale and purchase of products. TiM may, therefore, retain and submit all such records to the appropriate authorities, or to Sellers who request access to such information.

CONFIDENTIALITY

  1. We use Our best efforts to keep confidential any Information Collected which is marked confidential or may be of confidential nature in Our opinion, with the exception of such information which
    1. was already known to Us prior to collecting such information from You;
    2. was received from a third party which is not subject to similar confidentiality restrictions;
    3. is independently developed by Us; and/ or
    4. is permitted to be disclosed under the Applicable Law.
  2. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep all the Personal Information private and will not share it with third parties, unless We have a bona fide belief that such disclosure is necessary for Permitted Use or to:
    1. comply with a court order or any other legal process;
    2. protect Our, Our employees’, Users’ or third parties’ rights, property and/ or safety;
    3. enforce the Agreement; and/ or
    4. respond to any claims.
  3. The User is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the User's account access information and password. The User shall be responsible for all uses of the User's account and password, whether or not authorized by the User. The User shall immediately notify TiM of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of the User's account or password.

SECURITY

  1. The security of any Personal Information is important to Us. To protect Personal Information during transmission and upon receipt, we follow generally accepted industry standards and seek to ensure compliance with the Applicable Laws, including the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder.
  2. Our security practices and procedures are certified and are audited on a regular basis (at least once a year) by an independent auditor duly approved by the government.
  3. Although We make best possible efforts to transmit and store all the Information Collected in a secure operating environment that is not open to public, you understand and acknowledge that there is no such thing as complete security and We do not guarantee that there will be no unintended disclosures of any Information Collected.
  4. If We become aware that any of Your Information Collected has been disclosed in a manner that is not in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we will use the best efforts to notify You of the nature and extent of such disclosure (to the extent We know that information) as soon as reasonably possible and as permitted by Applicable Law.
  5. Pursuant to Your use of Services, you may access links to third party websites or applications, including advertisements and/ or promotions. The privacy policies of such third-party links are not under Our control, hence once You leave Our servers, use of any information provided by You will not be governed by this Privacy Policy.
  6. You hereby acknowledge that TiM is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
  7. TiM takes adequate steps to ensure that third parties to whom the Users’ Sensitive Personal Data or Information may be transferred adopt reasonable level of security practices and procedures to ensure security of Personal Information.

UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

  1. We reserve the right, at any TiMe, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy so please review it frequently. We will endeavor to inform You of any changes incorporated in this Privacy Policy that are significant (in Our opinion), however, you are requested to regularly visit and review this page.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE AND RIGHTS

  1. You accept this Privacy Policy by accepting the Agreement and/ or accessing the Services.
  2. You have a legal right to a copy of Your Personal Information held by Us and to correct any errors in such Personal Information. You also have a right to request that We cease to use Your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, unless agreed to the contrary under the Agreement.
  3. You may approach , Grievance Officer, at to address any queries, concerns, discrepancies or grievances with respect to Your Information Collected or this Privacy Policy. We will use Our best efforts to redress the grievances expeditiously, within 1 (one) month from the date of receipt of such grievance.

USER RIGHTS IN RELATION TO PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED

  1. All the information provided to TiM by a User, including Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. User has the right to withdraw his/ her/ its consent at any TiMe, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, but please note that withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
  2. Users can access, modify, correct and delete the Personal Information provided by them which has been voluntarily given by the User and collected by TiM in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. However, if the User updates his/ her information, TiM may keep a copy of the information which User originally provided to TiM in its archives for User documented herein. In case the User seeks to update or correct, his/ her Personal Information, the User may exercise these rights by emailing TiM and communicate the change(s) for updating TiM’s records.
  3. If a User, as a casual visitor, has inadvertently browsed any other pages of this Website prior to reading the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, and such User does not agree with the manner in which such information is obtained, stored or used, merely quitting this browser application should ordinarily clear all temporary cookies installed by TiM. All visitors, however, are encouraged to use the "clear cookies" functionality of their browsers to ensure such clearing/ deletion, as TiM cannot guarantee, predict or provide for the behavior of the equipment of all the visitors of the Website.
  4. If a User has inadvertently submitted any Personal Information to TiM prior to reading the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and such User does not agree with the manner in which such information is collected, stored or used, then such User can ask TiM , by sending an email @ support@TiM.co containing the rectification required, whether TiM is keeping Personal Information about such User, and every User is also entitled to require TiM to delete and destroy all such information relating to such user (but not other Users) in its possession.
  5. In case the User does not provide his/ her information or consent for usage of Personal Information or subsequently withdraws his/ her consent for usage of the Personal Information so collected, TiM reserves the right to discontinue the services for which the said information was sought
  6. TiM shall not be responsible in any manner for the authenticity of the Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information supplied by the User to TiM or any Seller. If a User provides any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete), or TiM has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, TiM has the right to suspend or terminate such account at its sole discretion.
  7. TiM shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive Users' Personal Information or events that are beyond the reasonable control of TiM including, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorized access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, etc.