PRIVACY POLICY

Effective date: 2022-09-30
  1. Introduction
    Welcome to Veattar Jagrukta Forum Veattar Jagrukta Forum(“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://votekiawaaz.org/ (hereinafter referred to as “Service”). Our Privacy Policy governs your visit to https://votekiawaaz.org/, and explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your use of our Service. We use your data to provide and improve Service. By using Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. Our Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern all use of our Service and together with the Privacy Policy constitutes your agreement with us (“agreement”).
  2. Definitions
    SERVICE means the https://votekiawaaz.org/ website operated by Veattar Jagrukta Forum. PERSONAL DATA means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). USAGE DATA is data collected automatically either generated by the use of Service or from Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). COOKIES are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device). THE USER is the individual using our Service.
  3. Information Collection and Use
    We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
  4. Types of Data Collected
    Personal Data
    While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).
    • First name and last name
    • Address, Country, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
    • Phone number and email address
    The data will be used only to intimate you on any developments regarding the questions submitted by you to be asked to your wards specific candidates.
    Usage Data
    We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access Service by or through any device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
    Tracking Cookies Data
    We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use:
    • Preference Cookies: We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
    • Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
  5. Use of Data
    Vote Ki Awaaz uses the collected data, particularly the questions submitted by you, for various purposes: 1. to provide and maintain our Service; 2. to notify you about changes to our Service; 3. to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so; 4. to provide customer support; 5. to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service; 6. to monitor the usage of our Service; 7. to detect, prevent and address technical issues; 8. to fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it;
  6. Retention of Data
    The storage of personal data will be time bound. It will be deleted 2 months after the elections, for which the voters have submitted their data, are conducted. Only the questions submitted to us will be retained.
  7. Transfer of Data
    Veattar Jagrukta Forum will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
  8. Disclosure of Data
    We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
  9. Security of Data
    The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
  10. Analytics
    We may also use Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics to collect information regarding visitor behavior and visitor demographics on some of our Services, and to develop website content. This analytics data is not tied to any Personal Data. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google's collection and Processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  11. CI/CD tools
    We may use third-party Service Providers to automate the development process of our Service.
  12. Payments
    We use a third party payment processor, Razorpay, to process our donations. We neither store nor have access to your credit card, debit card or bank account details. Our Not for profit company runs on a donation revenue model. If you choose to donate, we will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
  13. Links to Other Sites
    Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
  14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
    We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
  15. Contact Us
    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: hello@votekiawaaz.org