I. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to www.infoprofile.com (“platforms” or “Services”, including apps and other services), an Enso Webworks Private Limited company ('we,' 'our,' or 'us'). We are committed to protecting your (individual using our Services, Member, or End User, or Visitor) privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and safeguard your information when you use our social media platform. By using our Services, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
We are a social media platform that allows users to connect with their professional peers, office mates, and other professionals. Users (referred to as 'Members') can share their professional and personal identities, engage with their peers, share insights, post and view relevant content, and find business and career opportunities. Content and data on some of our Services may be viewable to non-members (referred to as 'Visitors') as well.
We collect data from you, our regular users, casual visitors, and anyone who visits our website. This data is necessary for us to provide our Services, such as exchanging information, posting openings, subscribing to pages and individuals, and maintaining a paid social profile.
II. APPLICABILITY
The privacy policy of our company applies to all personal data collected from you during the course of your engagement with our platform in a digital format, to non-digital data which has thereafter been converted to digital data, and to the processing of any data outside of India if the same relates to the offering of our Services within the territory of India.
Kindly note that this policy is not applicable to any personal data that is made publicly available by you voluntarily or under any legal obligation.
III. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect the following types of information when you use our Services:
- Personal Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, profile picture, gender, sex, nationality, language, profession, family details, and other information you provide during registration, purchasing, and contacting customer care/support. Upon profile creation, you shall be prompted to furnish specific details, including but not limited to your date of birth, educational background, present employer, professional history, competencies, current location, and a photographic representation. While you possess the liberty to augment your profile with supplementary information, we kindly urge you to exercise caution and refrain from disseminating or appending personal data that you would not desire to be in the public domain.
- User-Generated Content: We collect personal data when you provide, post, share, or upload articles, photos, audio, and videos to our platform. It also includes the information provided when you fill a form, respond to a survey, and any other activity you undertake on our website. We also collect your address book and calendar meeting information if you have synced your contacts or calendars.
- Technical Information: This includes IP addresses, device information (such as device type, browser type), log data (such as access times and pages visited), and cookies.
- Account Data: If you register for a premium service, you will also need to provide your payment information, such as your credit card number and billing address. This data is also collected when you sign into the website with your Social Networking Site (SNS) Account.
- Transaction Data: Upon effecting a purchase on our platform, we shall amass transactional data encompassing particulars such as your nomenclature, electronic mail address, domicile of billing, consignee address, particulars of payment mode, merchant identity, geographical location, acquisition valuation, date of transaction, and, on certain occasions, cursory details pertaining to the acquired items.
- Location Data: We retain the authority to gather location data, encompassing particulars like your urban locale, state, and nation, during the course of your interaction with our Services. The utilization of this data is intended to facilitate the provisioning of content that holds enhanced pertinence to you and to augment the quality of our Services.
IV. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the collected personal information and data of your previous activity on the platform for the following purposes:
- Providing Services: To provide and improve our platform's features, functionality, and user experience.
- Communication: To communicate with you regarding your account, updates, and promotional materials.
- Personalization: To tailor content, advertisements, and recommendations based on your preferences and usage patterns.
- Research and Analytics: To conduct research and development of our Services/platform, analyze user behavior, trends, and preferences in order to enhance our Services and provide you and the other users with a better and more personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our platform.
- Payment: Share your Personal Data with others to enable or “process” a transaction, such as when you choose to use a payment method for a transaction or when you use our Services to do business with a merchant.
- Promotion and Marketing: By keeping a track of your activity on the platform and the information provided, we may assess your eligibility for, and offer you, other Services or promote existing Services; and administer an offer, program, or promotion and market to you on social media.
- Security and Investigations: We use your data for security purposes or to prevent possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors, or others.
- Any other legitimate uses: These include uses that are not prohibited by law.
V. LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING
We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you – e.g., to deliver InfoProfile’s Services you have requested), to comply with lawful obligations and for legitimate or public interests.
Kindly note that we rely on your consent to process personal data, and you have the right to withdraw, decline, and object to the processing.
VI. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- With Third Parties: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our platform and providing Services to you. These entities encompass a spectrum of functions, including but not restricted to technological infrastructure, payment processing, analytics, and customer support. Kindly note that these third-party associates are contractually bound to exercise appropriate safeguards in the handling of your information in alignment with our privacy tenets.
- Legal Compliance: We may share your information to comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests from government authorities. Rest assured, we will exert reasonable endeavors to restrict such disclosures to what is legally necessitated and to notify you to the extent permissible by applicable law.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. In such scenarios, your data shall continue to be governed by the instant privacy policy, and the prospective transferees shall be obligated to adhere to the stipulations herein. We commit to providing prior notification of any such changes to the handling of your information, as mandated by prevailing legal stipulation.
We will only use your Personal Data for these purposes with your consent or where we are permitted to do so by law.
VII. COOKIE USAGE AND INFORMATION COLLECTION
We employ cookies to amass data regarding your browsing patterns and contribute to the enhancement of our website. Cookies are diminutive text files stored on your computer or mobile device.
Our use of cookies spans the following categories:
- Essential Cookies: Non-negotiable for website functionality; these cookies are indispensable and cannot be deactivated. They customarily materialize in response to your actions—e.g., logging in or populating forms.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies capture data pertaining to your website interaction, encompassing page visits and the corresponding duration. The collated information helps in optimizing website efficacy.
- Functional Cookies: Our functional cookies encode your preferences, encompassing linguistic and locational selections. This facilitates a more tailored user experience.
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies monitor cross-website browsing behaviors to present you with pertinent advertisements harmonizing with your proclivities.
You retain the option to obstruct cookies by manipulating your browser settings. Nevertheless, be apprised that this may result in certain website features becoming inoperative.
VIII. LEGAL DISCLOSURES
It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal processes, or if we have a good faith belief that a disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
- Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies;
- Enforce our agreements with you;
- Investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations;
- Protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or
- Exercise or protect the rights and safety of Enso Webworks Private Limited, our Members, personnel, or others.
We will attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
IX. SECURITY MEASURES
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal and sensitive data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These steps include:
- Using industry-standard security measures, such as encryption and firewalls, to protect your data when it is stored or transmitted.
- Requiring all employees who have access to your data to sign a confidentiality agreement.
- Regularly monitoring our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
- Implementing all appropriate technical and organizational measures required to ensure effective adherence to legal data protection requirements.
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
- To enable fraud monitoring, detection, and loss prevention activities.
- To comply with our tax, accounting, and financial reporting obligations.
- Where required by our contractual commitments to our financial partners (and where data retention is mandated by the payment methods you used).
- For other legitimate purposes.
- It is no longer necessary for us to provide you with the Services;
- You have withdrawn your consent to our processing of your personal data;
- You have objected to our processing of your personal data, and we have no overriding legitimate interests to continue processing your data;
- Your personal data has been processed unlawfully;
- We are required to delete your personal data by law;
- You have deleted your account from our platform.
- You contest the accuracy of your personal data, for a period of time that allows us to verify the accuracy of your data;
- The processing is unlawful, but you object to the deletion of your personal data and instead request that we restrict its use;
- We no longer need your personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
- You have objected to our processing of your personal data, pending the verification of whether our legitimate interests override yours;
- Any other reasonable or valid grounds for which you seek a restriction on the processing of your personal data.
- Do not impersonate another person while providing your personal data for utilizing our Services.
- Do not suppress any material information while providing your personal data for any document, unique identifier, proof of identity, or proof of address.
- Only furnish verifiable, authentic, and accurate information while exercising your right to correction, updating, or deletion.
- Do not register any false or frivolous grievances or complaints with a Data Fiduciary or the Data Protection Board.
- The date we post the revised policy on our website; or
- The date we otherwise provide in the notice of the update to you as required by law.
- Posting them on our website;
- Contacting you through your Dashboard;
- Emailing you; or Mailing you a notice at the physical address listed in your account.
- You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally relinquish any and all present and future rights, claims, interests, and ownership over your personal, private, professional, social, and financial data (Data), whether voluntarily provided or automatically collected, to the Platform owner and operator.
- By relinquishing your Data as stipulated in this clause, you release us from any and all legal, moral, ethical, or any other obligations that might have otherwise arisen due to your usage of the Platform. You hereby waive any rights to challenge or assert claims against us arising from Data usage, storage, processing, or any related activities.
- You consent to our use of the relinquished Data for purposes including, but not limited to, enhancing Platform functionality, user experience, research and development, marketing, analytics, and any other legitimate business purposes.
- You affirm that your usage of the Platform and relinquishment of Data rights are voluntary and undertaken without any undue influence, coercion, or deception.
- We cannot warrant the security of any information you send us. There is no guarantee that the data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. However, we shall implement all reasonable safeguards.
X. RETENTION OF THE DATA
We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide our Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when looking for a new job every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open unless you close your account. If you wish to withdraw your consent, you may write to us at the given address, and we shall erase all your personal data accordingly. However, in certain circumstances, we may continue to retain your personal data even after a termination of our Services. This would be done: In cases where we keep personal data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention obligations imposed by applicable law.
XI. DATA BREACH
In the event of a data breach, we will take steps to investigate the incident, notify affected individuals, and mitigate any damage. We shall also notify the appropriate regulatory authorities, i.e., the Data Protection Board and the concerned data principals/users/subscribers.
XII. YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- Access: You have the right to access your personal data that we hold. You can request a copy of your personal data by contacting us at the given email address.
- Correction: You have the right to request that our Company correct any information that you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Update: You have the right to request that our Company update your personal information on our platform.
- Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data. We will delete your personal data if:
- Requests for data deletion can be made to the Consent Manager appointed by the Board or to the given email address.
- Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You also have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another organization.
- Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data. We will stop processing your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- Identity of the Data Processor: You have the right to seek information on the identity of the entities/third parties processing your information.
- Nomination: You have the right to nominate an individual to exercise your rights provided under this policy in the event of your death, unsoundness of mind, or infirmity of body.
- Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of all or some of your personal data. We will restrict the processing of your personal data if:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at helpdesk@infoprofile.com.
We may ask you to provide us with additional information to help us verify your identity and process your request. We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable and within one month.
XIII. YOUR OBLIGATIONS
While we endeavor to safeguard your personal data to the maximum extent possible, we request that you:
XIV. GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL
In the event of any complaint or breach of personal data, you may either approach us at the given address or register a complaint with the Data Protection Board or the Data Protection Authority (Residents of the European Union). Residents of India have the right to contact our Grievance Officer regarding Services within the country, who is obligated to resolve the complaint within one month of its receipt. Residents of the European Union have the right to contact our Data Protection Officer for resolution of any grievance related to our Services in the region. The details of the concerned Officer are available on our platform.
XV. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our platform is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 16 years. However, if the law requires that you must be older for InfoProfile to lawfully provide Services to you without parental consent (including the use of your personal data), then the Minimum Age is such older age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without parental consent.
XVI. STORAGE OF THE DATA COLLECTED
We want you to be able to access InfoProfile from anywhere across the globe. To enable us to provide that service, we operate a global network of servers, including in the UK, EU, etc. The hardware is located in third-party data centers but is owned by the InfoProfile Group. Data collected by Advertising Partners and other Service Providers may also be held in [specify location]. We ensure that the data is adequately protected by ensuring that valid legal mechanisms are in place, and robust contractual standards are implemented. If you seek more information, kindly contact the given email address.
XVII. DATA CONTROLLERS AND CONTRACTING PARTIES
For Residents of the European Union, [specify entity] will be the entity responsible for controlling, collecting, and processing personal data in connection with our Services. For Residents of India, [specify entity] will be the entity responsible for controlling, collecting, and processing your personal data in connection with our Services. As a visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data are subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.
XVIII. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes through the platform or other means, to provide you with the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. In the event of any objections to the policy, you may revoke your consent or close your account. Your continued use of our Services/platform after such notice constitutes your consent to the updated policy.
XIX. CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER RESTRICTED
The personal data collected will not be shared with any entity located in countries that have been blacklisted by the Government of India.
XX. EMAIL OPT-OUT
You can opt out of receiving our marketing emails. To stop receiving our promotional emails, please email us at helpdesk@infoprofile.com.
XXI. THIRD-PARTY SITES
The website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party websites that you may link to from our website. When you click on a link to a third-party website, you may be directed to any website that may be beyond the control of Enso Webworks Private Limited. Enso Webworks Private Limited shall not be responsible for that website's privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of all third-party websites that you visit.
We are not responsible for the content or actions of any third-party websites. We make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or legality of the content of any third-party website. We also do not endorse the views expressed on any third-party website. If you have any concerns about the privacy practices of a third-party website, you should contact that website directly.
XXII. UPDATES AND NOTIFICATIONS
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Services, our privacy practices, or applicable law. The 'Last updated' date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised. Any changes will be effective as of the later of: We will provide you with disclosures and alerts regarding this policy or the personal data we collect by: You can review the most current version of this policy at any time by visiting our website. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at the given email address.
XXIII. JURISDICTION
If you choose to visit the website, your visit and any dispute over the privacy of data or any other dispute with regard to this privacy policy is subject to this policy and the website’s terms of use. In addition to the foregoing, any dispute arising under this policy shall be governed by the Laws of India only, and the courts of Mumbai alone shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
XXIV. CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@infoprofile.com.
XXV. DISCLAIMER
By accessing and using the unpaid version of the website/platform, you acknowledge and agree to the following terms regarding your personal, private, professional, social, and financial data: By continuing to access and use the unpaid version of the Platform, you acknowledge your understanding of, and agreement to, the terms and conditions of this Data Rights and Release Clause. This clause is effective immediately upon your usage of the Platform and shall endure indefinitely, even if you discontinue the usage of the Platform. In the event that any provision or portion of this clause is determined to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.