Privacy Policy
Overview
By accessing the Platform (either as a visitor or a customer), you (hereinafter referred to as “you”, “your”, “user”, as applicable) expressly consent to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of the Information (as defined hereunder) in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time.
This Platform is published and maintained by the Company. This Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time (“Privacy Policy”), is applicable to the websites of the Company. This Privacy Policy along with the terms and conditions (“Terms & Conditions”) and disclaimers (“Disclaimer”) govern your use of the Platform based on the information provided by you to us.
This document is an electronic record in terms of applicable laws including the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000, Indian Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2011, US Privacy Act, 1974, US Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, 2015, UK Data Protection Act, 2018, UK Computer Misuse Act, 1990, their congruent rules, the General Data Protection Regulations for Europe and any other laws as may be applicable to the jurisdiction thereunder as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
How do I Sign Up?
You can register by clicking on the “I’m Indian CDMO” tab on the homepage. Please provide the information in the form that appears. Please note that your email address and contact phone number can only be associated with one User Account. Please review the Terms & Conditions and the Disclaimers before you sign up.
Personal
The Company is the licensed owner of the brand ‘CDMOINDIA’ and the Platform. This Privacy Policy provides brief on the method your data is collected and used by the Company on the Platform. As a visitor to the Platform, you are advised to please read the Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing the services provided by the Platform you agree to the collection and use of your data by the Company in the manner provided in this Privacy Policy.
What information is, or maybe, collected from you?
As part of the registration process on the Platform, the Company may collect the following information(“Information”):
Personal Information:
Personally identifiable information shall include all information that can be linked to a specific individual or to identify any individual, such as the following (“Personal Information”):
Name (including name of the entity and/or its representative, designation), email address, mobile phone number and contact details etc.
We will collect Personal Information about you only as part of a voluntary registration process, online survey or any combination thereof.
Any Personal Information provided by you will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and/or accessible in public domain.
Any comments, messages, blogs, etc. posted/communicated by you on the public comments section of that platform becomes published commented and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.
Please note that the above list is not an exhaustive list and is only an illustrative list and is without prejudice to our right to seek further Personal Information, as may be required for the provision of the Services to you.
We will not be responsible for the accuracy or filtration of any of the content posted by any user, however, we will be entitled to remove any content posted by any user on our Platform which we, in our sole discretion consider offensive, discriminatory, racist, defamatory, or inappropriate in nature.
Note: Any content on the Platform shared by you or end users via reviews, blogs, online chat or instant messages, discussion boards, forums, user testimonials etc. will not be considered as Personal Information and is not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will not be responsible for the accuracy or filtration of any of the content posted on our Platform by you or any end user. However, we are entitled to remove any content posted by any person on our Platform which we, in our sole discretion, consider offensive, discriminatory, racist, defamatory or inappropriate in nature.
When browsing our Platform, you are not required to provide any personal information unless and until you choose to avail any services or sign up for one of our email newsletters or other services available on the Platform. You may, however, visit our selected portion of our Platform anonymously.
Non-Personal Information:
When you visit the Platform, we may collect certain non-personal information such as your internet protocol address, operating system, browser type, internet service provider, information about the pages on the Platform you visit/access, the links you click on the Platform, the number of times you access the page and any such browsing information. This type of information does not identify you personally. We may also collect information about the Services that you use and how you use them, including log-in information and location information, when you are a user of the Services through the Platform.
Automatic Information:
To improve the responsiveness of the Platform for you, we automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate through the Platform. We may use online identifiers like “cookies“, and/or similar electronic tools to collect information to understand your individual interests for analytics and marketing. These server logs may include information such as your web request, internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use cookies primarily for user authentication but may also use them to improve the quality of our Service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends.
User communications:
When you send emails or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services provided through the Platform.
Push Notifications:
We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or the mobile application. If you wish to opt out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings.
How do we Collect the Information?
The Company will collect personally identifiable information about you only as part of a voluntary registration process, on-line survey or any combination thereof. The Platform may contain links to other websites. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites which it does not own, manage or control. The Platform and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Platform.
How is information used?
The Company will process the Information you provide with security, integrity and confidentiality in anyone or more of the following manners, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable laws:
a. Fair use of your personal information to provide personalized features to you on the Platform and to provide for promotional offers to you through the Platform and other channels.
b. Provide this information to its business associates and partners to get in touch with you when necessary to offer the services
c. Use this information to preserve transaction history as governed by applicable law or policy.
d. May also use contact information internally to direct its efforts for product improvement, to contact you as a survey respondent, to notify you if you win any contest; and to send you promotional materials from its contest sponsors or advertisers.
e. Will also use this information to serve requested by you;
f. Use to provide various promotional and advertising materials to you via display advertisements through the Google Ad network on third party websites. You can opt out of Google analytics for display advertising and customize Google display network ads using the Ads Preferences Manager. Information about Customers on an aggregate (excluding any information that may identify you specifically) covering Customer transaction data and Customer demographic and location data may be provided to partners of the Company for the purpose of creating additional features on the Platform, creating appropriate merchandising or creating new products and services and conducting marketing research and statistical analysis of customer behaviour and transactions.
g. To improve our Services.
h. To enforce our Terms & Conditions.
i. To enforce our Disclaimers.
j. To protect the security or integrity of the Platform, our business, Services and users.
k. Preventing, detecting, investigating, and taking action against crimes (including but not limited to fraud and other financial crimes), any other illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of Terms & Conditions in any jurisdiction.
l. To the extent required for identity verification, government sanctions screening and due diligence checks.
m. To publish any testimonials or reviews that you may have provided on the Platform.
n. Conducting surveys, collecting feedback about our Services and contact you about your use of our Platform.
With whom your information will be shared?
The Company will not use your financial information for any purpose other than to complete transaction with you. It does not rent, sell or share your personal information and will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to third parties, save and expect in furtherance to provision of Services. In cases where it has your permission to provide products or services you’ve requested, and such information is necessary to provide these products or services the information may be shared with the Company’s business associates and partners.
The Company may, however, share consumer information on an aggregate with its partners or third parties where it deems necessary. In addition, the Company may use this information for promotional offers, to help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of any person, violations of the Platform’s terms of use.
The Company may also use the information provided by you for internal analytical and research purposes such as auditing, data analysis and research to improve our products, services and customer communication.
Additionally, in the event of audit, reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may share/transfer/assign the Information we have collected to the relevant third party.
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of your information?
To protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control, the Company has in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures.
By browsing, accessing or purchasing from the Platform you agree to bind with the terms of this Privacy Policy, consent to the collection, storage and use of your information provided by you on the Platform. We shall not use the user’s information in any manner apart from the terms mentioned in Terms & Conditions, Disclaimers and this Privacy Policy published in the Platform.
You can at any time withdraw from the consent for collection and use of your Personal Information, but you may not be eligible to visit our Platform or make avail the services we offer if you do so. It is also hereby clarified that your decision to withdraw your consent will not affect the processing of Personal Information based on your previous consent.
You may be asked to provide information anytime you access or browse the Platform, not only during the first time.
What is the personal sensitive data or information that the Company needs?
Financial information such as bank account, credit card or debit card details and other payment gateway details may be required for the payment processing for the services availed by you on the Platform.
Any elaborate detail related to the Personal Information provided by you for us to provide our service.
We may use the detail to create an account and give you access to your registered account on the Platform.
How can you correct inaccuracies in the information?
You may agree to provide accurate information which shall be true and up to date and have access to update it anytime as per your wish. To correct or update any information you have provided, the platform allows you to do it online. In the event of loss of access details, you can send an email to: info@cdmoindia.com.
Financial information:
All financial information collected from you by third party payment gateway providers will be used only for billing and payment processes. The payment gateway is secured and encrypted and authentication will be made by you in the payment gateway and we shall have no role to pay and we shall bear no liability in relation to it. We shall also not be able to resolve any dispute or disagreement between you and such third-party payment service providers. Sensitive details like credit/debit card and net banking information are primarily collected by the third party payment gateways and banks and not by us. However, to the extent such information is stored on our Platform, it remains completely unshared and safe.
Secureness of information:
Although we make measures to protect your sensitive information, Personal Information that is not open to the public, you understand and acknowledge that there is no such thing as complete security, and we will not agree that there are no potential security breaches. Beyond our control there are certain reasonable breaches like computer hacking, unauthorized access to computer data, breaches of security and encryption etc.
We may keep your records of all communications both voice calls, digital messages and emails received from you for the purpose of administrative services and may share that with third parties when required by law or when required to facilitate the user with the services.
Your consent to our publishing of all testimonials and reviews given by you in relation to the services received from our Platform. You agree that we may edit the testimonials or reviews provided by you and republish the edited version in our Platform. If you have any concerns with the edited testimonial or reviews, you can contact via email at info@cdmoindia.com.
We shall be entitled to retain your information for our record for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law and such Information shall be used by us only in consonance with this Privacy Policy.
Cookies
The Company uses cookies to personalize your experience on the Platform and to display advertisements or send you emails of offers of your interest (provided you have not opted out of receiving such emails). Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your device’s hard drive. Cookies allow you to easily access our Platform, by logging you in without having to type your login name each time.
By using this Platform you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Removing or blocking cookies can impact user experience and parts of this Platform may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers will allow you to delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. In the event of you deleting all cookies, you will lose any and all preferences you have set including your preference to opt-out from cookies.
Links to third party sites
The Platform may include links to third party applications/websites (“Third-Party Sites”). Such Third-Party Sites are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our Platform, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the Third-Party Site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these Third-Party Sites, you should contact the relevant Third Party Site directly for more information.
We do not provide any Personal Information or personally identifiable information to third party websites/advertisers/ad-servers without your consent.
Policy updates:
The Company reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice or information. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to the Platform. We encourage you to go through the Privacy Policy whenever you visit the Platform to understand how we use the Information provided.
Grievance Redressal:
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please write to Grievance Officer.
Any complaints, or concerns with regards to content and or comment or breach of this Privacy Policy shall be immediately informed to the designated Grievance Officer as mentioned below via in writing through email. The Grievance Officer shall acknowledge the complaint and redress the complaints within 15 (fifteen) days from the date of receipt of complaint.
Details of the Grievance Officer:
Name: Shruti Ghume
Designation: Director
Email: info@cdmoindia.com
Jurisdiction:
Any kind of dispute arising out of the Platform and its users will be dealt in Mumbai and shall be governed in accordance with Indian Law. Further, the courts of Mumbai shall have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate the same.
If for any reasons, any part of the provision of this Privacy Policy is deemed invalid, the remaining which is valid will be put to use.
Thank you for using the Platform!