The terms “We” / “Us” / “Our”/ “Company” individually and collectively refer to Life & Law and the terms “You” / “Your” / “Yourself” refer to the users.
We value your privacy and are committed to ensuring that the information we collect, including information provided by our users (“you”, “your”, “yourself”) or the information about visitors to our websites is done so in compliance with the applicable data privacy laws
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we collect and may use information that we obtain about you and how we disclose and share this information.
This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made there under and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents / records in various statutes as amended by the information Technology Act, 2000. This Privacy Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully by using the Website, you indicate that you understand, agree and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Website.
You can visit our website on the World Wide Web without declaring who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Please understand that we are not responsible for the external websites’ privacy policies, which may differ from our policy.
By providing us your Information or by making use of the facilities provided by the Website, You hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of any or all of Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information by us as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such collection, use, storage and transfer of Your Information shall not cause any loss or wrongful gain to you or any other person.
Any unsolicited information shall be treated as stipulated by law, including destroying or de-identifying such information as the law prescribes.
- INFORMATION WE COLLECT [user information ]
We collect your information from you while transacting through our Website. Some of it is mandatory whereas some of it is optional. The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve our sites and provide you the most user-friendly experience.
We respect your privacy and recognizes the need to protect the personally identifiable information i.e. any information by which you can be identified, such as, name, address, telephone number, etc(“Personal Information”) you share with us. We would like to assure you that we follow appropriate standards when it comes to protecting your privacy on our website.
To avail certain services on our Websites, users are required to provide certain information for the registration process also. All required information is service dependent and we may use the above said user information to, maintain, protect, and improve its services (including advertising services) and for developing new services.
Such information will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force.
- COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of information that is placed automatically on your computer’s hard drive when you access certain Websites. The cookie uniquely identifies your browser to the server. Cookies allow us to store information on the server to help make the Web experience better for you and to conduct site analysis and Web site performance review.
- Why cookies are used
Cookies help us provide, protect and improve our services, such as by personalizing content, tailoring and measuring ads, and providing a safer experience.
To improve the responsiveness of the sites for our users, we may use “cookies”, or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user’s individual interests using the Identified Computer. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- The information we collect and analyze is used to improve our service to you. Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at our Website. We use cookies to personalize your experience on the Website, and with respect to advertisements.
- Necessary cookies enable the functionality of a website. These are anonymous cookies that allow users to view the website and use the functions on the website. The information collected by these cookies is not used for marketing purposes. If you do not allow the use of this type of cookie, multiple parts of the website cannot be used.
- Functionality cookies provide you with the best website experience possible. These are cookies that allow ELF to remember the choices and preferences of visitors. Based on this information ELF can show you more personalized information and you do not have to log in every time you visit our website. If you refuse the usage of this type of cookies ELF can offer less support to you.
Performance enhancing cookies are anonymous cookies that are used to improve the website. These cookies collect information about the way visitors use the website, such as information about the most visited pages or the number of displayed error messages. An example of this type of cookies is Google Analytics. More information about Google Analytics can be found. The cookies also do not remember which other websites you have visited.
Cookies are identifiers which websites send to the browser on your computer to facilitate your next visit to our Website. You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the option to decide whether to accept it. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data (such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.
3. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
4. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
5. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
6. LINKS TO THE OTHER SITES
We may from time to time provide links to third party websites for your convenience and information. Such third party websites are not controlled by us.
Further, this Website may contain links to other sites such as business affiliates and software providers. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting other sites and such other sites are not governed by this Policy. We advise you to read their privacy policies before providing your Personal Information to such sites. Our policy discloses the privacy practices for our own web site only. Our site provides links to other websites also that are beyond our control. We shall in no way be responsible in way for your use of such sites.
In addition to the non-personal information collected by Life & Law as described above, we may allow third parties to serve advertisements on our Website and/or collect non-personal information through cookies or web beacons (or other technologies). These third parties may use such information; (i) to help tailor site content to users; (ii) to serve ads on our behalf; (iii) to measure advertising effectiveness (such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased); and/or (iv) to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Third-party cookies and web beacons are governed by each third party’s own privacy policy, not Life & Law Privacy Policy.
When you visit such other website you do so at your own risk. These sites may have their own privacy policies in place, which we recommend that you review if you visit any linked websites. We do not, assume any responsibility or liability for such third party websites, the content of such websites and their privacy practices, nor do we endorse them. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by such other websites prior to providing them with information about you, or entering into any transactions on them.
7. INFORMATION SHARING/DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We share the required information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the user in the following limited circumstances: When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
We propose to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential
- With whom we share your personal data
We sometimes use third parties to process data on our behalf. These parties are called “processors”. When we do so, we put in place strict obligations to ensure that processors solely process your personal data in accordance with our instructions.
- Disclosure of information
We keep your personal data as long as necessary for the purpose for which we use your data. And for as long as the law obligates us to store your data
Who may we disclose your information to: Subject to the existing law, your information could be disclosed to the following types of third parties (whether in India or overseas)-
- Our agents, contractors, service providers, and advisors;
- Our partners;
- Other users of our services;
- Regulatory bodies, government agencies, law enforcement bodies and courts; and
- Any prospective transferee in a scheme of arrangement, amalgamation, merger or sale of shares or sale of business.
- We will not use or disclose information collected about you to a third party otherwise than for the purposes prescribed in this Privacy Policy, unless the disclosure is mandated for compliance of a legal obligation, or where agreed by you contractually, or as otherwise consented. We may exchange the information we collect with third parties (including but not limited to our advisors, consultants and affiliate firms) for the purpose of-
- Providing anonymous statistical information about users of our websites and related usage information, including analytics and search engine providers; or
- Providing services that involve data processing, for example archival, auditing, reference checking, professional advisory, mailing house, delivery, technology, website, research, banking, payment, client contact, data processing, insurance, forensic, litigation, support, marketing and security services.
We may also share personally identifiable data with our company’s subsidiaries and affiliates. All these companies and agents are required to comply with the terms of our privacy policies.
8. INFORMATION SECURITY
Life & Law considers your privacy to be of paramount importance. Therefore we process your personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’). We take appropriate steps to protect the information you share with us. We have implemented technology and security features and strict policy guidelines to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Information from unauthorized access and improper use or disclosure.
All information gathered on our Website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. While we strive to protect your personal data against potential risks and exposures, the absolute security of data in the online sphere cannot be guaranteed. Hence, we ask you to support our information security efforts by not disclosing any data on our website that is particularly sensitive or not required in the specific context.
- Phishing:-
Identity theft and the practice currently known as “phishing” are of great concern to us. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is a priority for us. We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit or debit card information, bank account numbers, PIN numbers or passwords in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. Please refrain from providing such information through any non-secure medium.
However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. If our Privacy Policy changes in the future, it will be posted on the website. We will endeavor to provide effective date along with the Privacy Policy. You should access our Privacy Policy regularly to ensure you understand our current policies. You may submit concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or our privacy practices to the designated Grievance Officer as follows:
Email:- contact@lifeandlaw.in
Please mention “Privacy Policy” in email subject line. We will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns or inquiries as early as possible.
Thank you for using the Website!
9. DATA RETENTION
Subject to any legal requirements that requires the contrary; it is our policy to retain your data only for as long as we believe it to be necessary for the purposes illustrated in this Privacy Policy. Use will store documents and deeds on your behalf for a reasonable period of time. Such papers or files may be stored in an electronic form. This service is currently free of charge.
10. YOUR RIGHT TO YOUR INFORMATION
Sharing your information is entirely voluntary. The privacy laws of some jurisdictions also give individuals the right to access and amend their personal information. You may contact us as provided in the succeeding section, if you would like to request a copy of your data or would like to change the information we hold about you. However, to the extent permissible under law, we may refuse or limit access your personal information or grant access subject to conditions. Upon request, we will remove/block the information you have provided us from our database. However, even after the deletion or termination of your account some of your information may remain stored in our servers for archival purpose only.
11. OPTING-OUT
You may at any time opt out of receiving newsletters and updates from us by selecting the “unsubscribe” option included in the email or other material.
12. GRIEVANCES
If you have any concern in relation to the processing and use of your information or if there are any clarifications you might need with respect to our Privacy Policy, you may contact on above email. If you raise a concern as aforementioned, we shall promptly revert to you with information on how we will handle the grievance and may even seek further details, consult with other parties and maintain record of the interaction.
13. TELL-A-FRIEND
Our website may provide a referral function whereby you may choose to use it to tell a friend about our site. Our site will ask you for your friend’s name and e-mail address as well as your information. The form automatically sends your friend a one-time e-mail inviting him or her to visit the site. We do not access or store this information, except to send this invitation.
14. STORAGE OF INFORMATION
Personally identifiable information you may share with us is stored on our database servers at Life & Law centre Kolhapur (in whatever country they may be located) or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall and other technology to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data Centre’s are designed to be physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons.
15. PROMOTIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL OFFERS
Sometimes we may send offers to selected groups of customers. To accomplish this we may use third parties working on behalf of Life & Law. We provide a variety of mechanisms for you to tell us you do not want to receive such promotional – informational offers. For example, we may provide an opt-in box for customers to receive information that is sent by a third-party fulfilment house, and we make clear that, by opting in, you are submitting your data to a third-party. You can elect not to receive promotional or informational material from us by following the instructions to opt-out as mentioned or included in each of our programs we send to you.
16. WEB BEACONS
On certain Web pages or e-mails, Life & Law may utilize a common Internet technology called a “Web beacon” (also known as an “action tag” or “clear GIF technology”). Web beacons help analyze the effectiveness of Web sites by measuring, for example, the number of visitors to a site or how many visitors clicked on key elements of a site. Web beacons, cookies and other tracking technologies do not automatically obtain personally identifiable information about you.
17. DATA SHARING AND TRANSFER
Life & Law shares personally identifiable data about you with various outside companies or agents doing technological maintenance or working on our behalf to help fulfil business transactions, such as providing customer services, sending marketing communications about our product, services and offers. We may also share personally identifiable data with our company’s subsidiaries and affiliates. All these companies and agents are required to comply with the terms of our privacy policies.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information for these purposes:
a) In connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of the business of the site to which the data relates;
b) To respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government agencies or where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations; or
c) Where needed for corporate audits or to investigate or respond to a complaint or security threat.
18. PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR CHILDREN
Our Web sites are directed at an adult audience. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from anyone we know to be under the age of 18 without the prior, verifiable consent of his or her legal representative. Such legal representative has the right, upon request, to view the information provided by the child and/or to require that it be deleted.
19. CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy statement is effective as of date. From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our website constitutes an acceptance of the then-current Privacy Policy. We also encourage you to visit this page periodically to review any changes.
20. MISCELLANEOUS
Technology and information governance practices are constantly developing and we may therefore need to revise this Privacy Policy in the future. We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time following notice on our website. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting and it is advised that you refer the same on a regular basis. Your continued use of our website and services (as defined under the Terms of Use ) after these changes will constitute your acceptance of these changes. If you do not agree with such changes to our Privacy Policy, you should immediately cease using our website. This Privacy Policy only addresses the collection, processing and use (including disclosure) of information by us through your interaction with us. Other websites that may be accessible through links from the website or e-mails may have their own privacy policies and personal information collection, processing, use, and disclosure practices. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies provided by these other parties prior to providing them with information. This Privacy Policy is to be read along with the Terms of Use. Any undefined term in this Privacy Policy shall have the same meaning assigned to it under the Terms of Use.
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