Privacy policy
Privacy Statement
Overview
Indian Translators Association hence after referred as “ITAINDIA”, is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to itaindia.org and all its sections (sometimes referred to herein as the “Sites”) and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Your data will be stored and processed in whole or in part in India. The information we gather on our site may be shared within the ITAINDIA on a worldwide basis in order to deliver the products and services we offer in order to undertake analysis of our database such as aggregate profiling of our registered users.
Our site may contain links to other Web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other Web sites to which you choose to link from our Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.
Collection and Use of Information by ITAINDIA
In some areas of itaindia.org, we request or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, contact information, billing information and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, we collect or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your PIN code, age, preferences, gender, interests and favorites. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on the Site where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can open a My itaindia.org, sign up to use a service, post a resume, enter a contest or purchase a product. In addition, we may indirectly collect information about you when you use certain third party services available on itaindia.org. For example, if you register at Itaindia by using your Microsoft Passport user name and password, you authorize us to have access to and store the information in your Passport account profile; such information will be subject to, and treated in accordance with, the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement.
We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of itaindia.org, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses, but is not linked to your personal information.
We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, preferential and/or life style information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular products or services.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about ITAINDIA Sites or refer a job posting to a friend, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site(s) or view the job posting. We do not store this information.
Our Use of Your Information
We use the information we gather on itaindia.org, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the Site, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer.
If you have provided consent for us to do so, we may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from us or our affiliated companies or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered.
We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the Site, and if you have requested, information on new opportunities and additional job postings which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.
In addition, at the time of registration for a itaindia account, you have the option to elect or not elect to receive additional communications, information and promotions, including without limitation, free informational newsletters from us relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, such as career management advice.
We have areas on the itaindia.com Sites where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.
Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of itaindia.com (such as the areas you visit or the services you access), except as set forth below.
- We disclose information to third parties if you consent to such disclosure. For example, if you indicate that you would like to receive information about the opportunities, products or services of third parties at the time you register for a My itaindia account, we supply your contact information to third parties such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators, marketers or others for the purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with you. We use data we have about you (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular third-party.
- We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
- We disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
- We disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party via email or through a prominent notice posted on the ITAINDIA owned Sites.
Other Uses of Information
We also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to ITAINDIA sites (for example, the number of visitors to itaindia job search area) with its clients, partners and other third parties so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to the ITAINDIA Sites and how those visitors use the ITAINDIA sites.
Personal Information on Resumes and Profiles
We attempt to limit access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) only to paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters, and human resource professionals, as well as law enforcement and national security agencies, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We are not responsible for the use made of resumes by third parties who access such resumes while they are in our searchable database. You may remove your resume on itaindia.com at anytime, but, employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to the itaindia.com resume database or to obtain a copy of that database as well as parties who have otherwise gained access may have retained a copy of your resume in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of resumes or profiles in these instances.
Posting to Public Areas
Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of ITAINDIA sites such as in online forums or chat rooms, or in the itaindia searchable resume database, such information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of ITAINDIA sites.
Use of Cookies
We at times use “cookies” to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Access to and Modification of Your Information
You may review, correct, update or change your My itaindia account information at any time.
To change My itaindia account information, simply log into your My itaindia account, go to your Account Profile, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided. Click here to access you’re my itaindia Account Profile page.
If you opted to receive newsletters, commercial e-mails or other communications from itaindia or third parties at the time you created a My itaindia account, but subsequently changed your mind, you may opt-out by editing My itaindia Account Profile as described above. If you previously opted not to receive such communications, you may later opt-in by editing My itaindia Account Profile as well.
We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of itaindia more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can delete your resume from itaindia’s online database, close My itaindia account at any time in which event we will remove all our copies of your resume from itaindia.com, My itaindia account information except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the Internet.
Security of the Personal Information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
Although online payment option is not being offered for the time being, but there are chances that it shall be offered in near future. If online payment option is offered proper protection measures shall be taken to ensure that your credit card information is protected.
Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to materially change our Privacy Statement for Itaindia.org, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.
If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at info@itaindia.org or call us at +91-11-26291676 and speak to one of our representatives. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly answer your question or resolve your problem.
Contact Information
Indian Translators Association with its registered office at K-5/B, Lower Ground Floor, Kalakaji, New Delhi –110019, India