At Hashed Emergent, we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal information. By using or accessing our Content in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Remember that your use of HEM’s Content is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.
We adhere to the requirements of the data protection laws in India and this Privacy Policy is in accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2001 (and its rules, amended from time to time), as applicable.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices of your data and information from our Website. By accessing our website, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and agreed to accept all the terms and practices contained in this Privacy Policy. However, this Privacy Policy does not apply to policies set forth by our affiliates, third-party web services and partners, who have their own privacy policies. You may print a copy of this Privacy Policy by clicking here. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact: [email protected].
What this Privacy Policy covers
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Content. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.
Categories of Personal Data We Collect
Below lists the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected:
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Contact Information (e.g., first and last name, email address)
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Device/IP data (e.g., IP address)
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Usage Analytics (e.g. interactions with our web properties and newsletters)
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Demographic Data (e.g., race, gender, veteran status)
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Geolocation Data (e.g., IP-address-based location information)
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Other Identifying information that You Voluntarily Provide (e.g., identifying information in emails or letters you send us)
Sources of Personal Data:
We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:
You :
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When you provide such information directly to us. When Personal Data about you is automatically collected in connection with your use of our Content (see the subsection titled “Information Collected Automatically” below).
Third Parties :
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Vendors: For example, we may use analytics providers to analyze how you interact and engage with the Content, or third parties may help us provide you with customer support.
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Advertising Partners: We receive information about you from some of our vendors who assist us with marketing or promotional services related to how you interact with our Websites, applications, advertisements or communications.
Information Collected Automatically:
The Website and Content use ‘cookies’ and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and other JavaScript scripts and libraries (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our service providers and servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit and use our Website and Content, to analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Website and Content. Cookies are small pieces of data – usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Content. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s).
We use the following types of Cookies:
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Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Website and Content. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
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Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our Content, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our Website and Content. These Cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our Content such as by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Content, what pages visitors view on our Content and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Content. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the Content for those who engage with our advertising. In addition to our own Performance/Analytical Cookies, the Content may contain Performance/Analytical Cookies from third party analytics services. You can learn more about these third parties in the “Personal Data Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In” section below.
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our Website and some of the Content and functionalities may not work.
To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http:///www.allaboutcookies.org.
Why We Use Your Personal Data
We process Personal Data to operate, improve, understand and personalize our Content.
We collect and use Personal Data for the following purposes:
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To meet or fulfill the reason you provided the information to us.
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To collect statistics about your usage of the Website and its patterns.
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To improve and personalize your experience of the Website.
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To communicate with you about the Content, including Service announcements, updates or offers.
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To provide support and assistance for the Content.
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To create and manage your account or other user profiles.
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To personalize Website content and communications based on your preferences.
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To deliver our newsletters, emails and facilitate events.
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To facilitate career counseling services.
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To manage visitors to our offices and protect our proprietary information and intellectual property.
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To respond to user inquiries and fulfill user requests.
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To improve and develop the Content, including testing, research, analysis and product development.
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To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Content.
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To comply with our legal or contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Use.
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To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
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For any other business purpose stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws.
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To contact you.
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. As noted in the list above, we may communicate with you if you’ve provided us the means to do so. For example, if you’ve given us your email address, we may send you promotional email offers or email you about your use of the Content. Also, we may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us, which helps us improve our Content. If you do not want to receive communications from us, please indicate your preference by emailing us at [email protected].
We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Contentand promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.
To Whom We Share Your Personal Data
We disclose your Personal Data as indicated above to the following categories of service providers and other parties:
Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share Personal Data
Service Providers.
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Categories of Personal Data Shared: We disclose Contact Information, Usage Analytics and Demographic Data to our Service Providers.
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Purposes for Sharing: These third-party service providers help us provide our Content and operate our business, including ad networks, analytics providers, security and fraud prevention providers, hosting and other technology and communications providers, and staff augmentation and contract personnel. We also use third-party service providers to help us manage newsletter signups and email services and for event registration. When we share your Personal Data with Service Providers, they may only use your Personal Data for specific purposes relating to assisting us with running our Website and business.
Successors to Our Business.
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Categories of Personal Data Shared: All Personal Data.
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Purposes for Sharing: Your Personal Data may also be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part), including the Website.
Statutory Authorities.
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Categories of Personal Data Shared: All Personal Data.
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Purposes for Sharing: Your Personal Data will only be shared with competent regulatory/statutory/judicial bodies to comply with applicable laws and to respond to lawful requests and due legal process.
We take care to allow your Personal Data to be accessed only by those who really need it in order to perform their tasks and duties, and to third parties who have a legitimate purpose for accessing it, with your consent.
Why and How we store your Personal Data
Data Security
We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. For example, the Contentuse industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of Personal Data you provide to us. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing data is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the complete security of any data you share with us, and except as expressly required by law, we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, loss or inadvertent disclosure of your information or content.
Date Retention
We retain Personal Data about you for as long as we have a business purpose to do so. In some cases, we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.
Amendments
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to revise, change or modify the Privacy Policy from time to time and such modifications shall be binding on you effective immediately upon uploading on the Website. We recommend you to periodically review the Privacy Policy to understand the last updated version and date of the Privacy Policy, available at the title of this webpage, to ensure that you agree with our privacy practices.
Legal Notices
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, please reach out to us using the contact details below. If you have any grievance or complaint regarding your privacy, you may send us a notice in writing and delivered by email to [email protected] and the relevant grievance office will help resolve your concern.