PRIVACY POLICY
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 THEREUNDER
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.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS A LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT BETWEEN YOU AND
SMARTEASYPAY (BOTH TERMS DEFINED BELOW). THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL BE
EFFECTIVE UPON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SAME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN
ELECTRONIC FORM, BY CLICKING ON THE ACCEPT TAB OR BY USE OR THE WEBSITE OR BY
OTHER MEANS) AND WILL GOVERN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND SMARTEASYPAY FOR YOUR
USE OF THE WEBSITE (DEFINED BELOW).
THIS
DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (REASONABLE SECURITY PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES AND
SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA OF INFORMATION) RULES, 2011 UNDER INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000; THAT REQUIRE PUBLISHING OF THE PRIVACY POLICY FOR
COLLECTION, USE, STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA OR
INFORMATION.
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 HEREBY
PROVIDE YOUR UNCONDITIONAL CONSENT OR AGREEMENTS TO SMARTEASYPAY AS PROVIDED UNDER
SECTION 43A AND SECTION 72A OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000.
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 SMARTEASYPAY 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.
Jasper Infotech Private
Limited and its subsidiaries and affiliates and Associate Companies
(individually and/ or collectively, “SMARTEASYPAY”) is/are concerned about the
privacy of the data and information of users (including sellers and
buyers/customers whether registered or non-registered) accessing, offering,
selling or purchasing products or services on SMARTEASYPAY’s websites, mobile sites
or mobile applications (“Website”) on
the Website and otherwise doing business with SMARTEASYPAY. “Associate Companies”
here shall have the same meaning as ascribed in Companies Act, 2013.
The terms “We” / “Us” / “Our” individually and collectively refer to each entity
being part of the definition of SMARTEASYPAY and the terms “You” / “Your” /“Yourself” refer
to the users.
This
Privacy Policy is a contract between You and the respective SMARTEASYPAY entity
whose Website You use or access or You otherwise deal with. This Privacy Policy
shall be read together with the respective Terms Of Use or other terms and
condition of the respective SMARTEASYPAY entity and its respective Website or
nature of business of the Website.
SMARTEASYPAY
has provided this Privacy Policy to familiarise You with:
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The type of data or information that You share with or
provide to SMARTEASYPAY and that SMARTEASYPAY collects from You;
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The purpose for collection of such data or information from
You;
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SMARTEASYPAY’s information security practices and policies; and
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SMARTEASYPAY’s policy on sharing or transferring Your data or
information with third parties.
This
Privacy Policy may be amended / updated from time to time. Upon amending /
updating the Privacy Policy, we will accordingly amend the date above. We
suggest that you regularly check this Privacy Policy to apprise yourself of any
updates. Your continued use of Website or provision of data or information
thereafter will imply Your unconditional acceptance of such updates to this
Privacy Policy.
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Information collected and storage of such Information:
The “Information” (which
shall also include data) provided by You to SMARTEASYPAY or collected from You by
SMARTEASYPAY may consist of “Personal Information” and “Non-Personal Information”.
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Personal Information
Personal
Information is Information collected that can be used to uniquely identify or
contact You. Personal Information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy shall
include, but not be limited to:
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Your user name along with Your password,
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Your name,
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Your address,
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Your telephone number,
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Your e-mail address or other contact information,
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Your date of birth,
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Your gender,
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Information regarding your transactions on the Website,
(including sales or purchase history),
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Your financial information such as bank account information
or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details,
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Internet Protocol address,
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Any other items of ‘sensitive personal data or information’
as such term is defined under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security
Practices and Procedures And Sensitive Personal Data Of Information) Rules,
2011 enacted under the Information Technology Act, 2000;
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Identification code of your communication device which You
use to access the Website or otherwise deal with any SMARTEASYPAY entity,
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Any other Information that You provide during Your
registration process, if any, on the Website.
Such
Personal Information may be collected in various ways including during the
course of You:
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registering as a user on the Website,
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registering as a seller on the Website,
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availing certain services offered on the Website. Such
instances include but are not limited to making an offer for sale, online
purchase, participating in any online survey or contest, communicating with
SMARTEASYPAY’s customer service by phone, email or otherwise or posting user
reviews on the items available on the Website, or
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otherwise doing business on the Website or otherwise dealing
with any SMARTEASYPAY entity.
We may
receive Personal information about you from third parties, such as social media
services, commercially available sources and business partners. If you access
Website through a social media service or connect a service on Website to a
social media service, the information we collect may include your user name
associated with that social media service, any information or content the
social media service has the right to share with us, such as your profile
picture, email address or friends list, and any information you have made
public in connection with that social media service. When you access the
Website or otherwise deal with any SMARTEASYPAY entity through social media
services or when you connect any Website to social media services, you are
authorizing SMARTEASYPAY to collect, store, and use and retain such information and
content in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
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Non-Personal Information
SMARTEASYPAY
may also collect information other than Personal Information from You through
the Website when You visit and / or use the Website. Such information may be
stored in server logs. This Non-Personal Information would not assist SMARTEASYPAY
to identify You personally.
This
Non-Personal Information may include:
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Your geographic location,
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details of Your telecom service provider or internet service
provider,
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the type of browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera,
Google Chrome etc.),
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the operating system of Your system, device and the Website
You last visited before visiting the Website,
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The duration of Your stay on the Website is also stored in
the session along with the date and time of Your access,
Non-Personal
Information is collected through various ways such through the use of cookies.
SMARTEASYPAY may store temporary or permanent ‘cookies’ on Your computer. You can erase
or choose to block these cookies from Your computer. You can configure Your
computer’s browser to alert You when we attempt to send You a cookie with an
option to accept or refuse the cookie. If You have turned cookies off, You may
be prevented from using certain features of the Website.
Ads: SMARTEASYPAY may use third-party service providers to serve ads on
SMARTEASYPAY’s behalf across the internet and sometimes on the Website. They may
collect Non-Personal Information about Your visits to the Website, and Your
interaction with our products and services on the Website.
Please do
note that Personal Information and Non Personal Information may be treated
differently as per this Privacy Policy.
You hereby
represent to SMARTEASYPAY that:
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the Information you provide to SMARTEASYPAY from time to time is
and shall be authentic, correct, current and updated and You have all the
rights, permissions and consents as may be required to provide such Information
to SMARTEASYPAY.
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Your providing the Information to SMARTEASYPAY and SMARTEASYPAY’s
consequent storage, collection, usage, transfer, access or processing of the
same shall not be in violation of any third party agreement, laws, charter
documents, judgments, orders and decrees.
SMARTEASYPAY
and each of SMARTEASYPAY entities officers, directors, contractors or agents shall
not be responsible for the authenticity of the Information that You or any
other user provide to SMARTEASYPAY. You shall indemnify and hold harmless SMARTEASYPAY
and each of SMARTEASYPAY entities officers, directors, contracts or agents and any
third party relying on the Information provided by You in the event You are in
breach of this Privacy Policy including this provision and the immediately
preceding provision above.
Your
Information will primarily be stored in electronic form however certain data
can also be stored in physical form. We may store, collect, process and use
your data in countries other than Republic of India but under compliance with
applicable laws. We may enter into agreements with third parties (in or outside
of India) to store or process your information or data. These third parties may
have their own security standards to safeguard your information or data and we
will on commercial reasonable basis require from such third parties to adopt
reasonable security standards to safeguard your information / data.
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Purpose for collecting, using, storing and processing Your
Information
SMARTEASYPAY
collects, uses, stores and processes Your Information for any purpose as may be
permissible under applicable laws (including where the applicable law provides
for such collection, usage, storage or processes in accordance with the consent
of the user) connected with a function or activity of each of SMARTEASYPAY entities
and shall include the following:
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to facilitate Your use of the Website or other services of
SMARTEASYPAY entities;
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to respond to Your inquiries or fulfil Your requests for
information about the various products and services offered on the Website;
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to provide You with information about products and services
available on the Website and to send You information, materials, and offers
from SMARTEASYPAY;
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to send You important information regarding the Website,
changes in terms and conditions, user agreements, and policies and/or other
administrative information;
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to send You surveys and marketing communications that
SMARTEASYPAY believes may be of interest to You;
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to personalize Your experience on the Website by presenting
advertisements, products and offers tailored to Your preferences;
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to help You address Your problems incurred on the Website
including addressing any technical problems;
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if You purchase any product or avail of any service from the
Website, to complete and fulfil Your purchase, for example, to have Your
payments processed, communicate with You regarding Your purchase and provide
You with related customer service;
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for proper administering of the Website;
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to conduct internal reviews and data analysis for the
Website (e.g., to determine the number of visitors to specific pages within the
Website);
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to improve the services, content and advertising on the
Website;
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to provide value added services such as Single Sign On.
Single Sign On shall mean a session/user authentication process that permits a
user to enter his/her name or mobile number or e-mail address or any
combination thereof and password in order to access multiple websites and
applications;
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to facilitate various programmes and initiatives launched by
SMARTEASYPAY or third party service providers and business associates
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to analyze how our services are used, to measure the
effectiveness of advertisements, to facilitating payments
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to conducting academic research and surveys
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to protect the integrity of the Website;
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to respond to legal, judicial, quasi judicial process and
provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an
investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law;
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to conduct analytical studies on various aspects including
user behaviour, user preferences etc.;
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to permit third parties who may need to contact users who
have bought products from the Website to facilitate installation, service and
any other product related support;
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to implement information security practices;
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to determine any security breaches, computer contaminant or
computer virus;
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to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal
activities and suspected fraud,
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to undertake forensics of the concerned computer resource as
a part of investigation or internal audit;
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to trace computer resources or any person who may have
contravened, or is suspected of having or being likely to contravene, any
provision of law including the Information Technology Act, 2000 that is likely
to have an adverse impact on the services provided on any Website or by
SMARTEASYPAY;
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to enable a potential buyer or investor to evaluate the
business of SMARTEASYPAY (as further described in paragraph 8 of the Privacy
Policy).
[Individually and
collectively referred to as (“Purposes”)]
You hereby
agree and acknowledge that the Information so collected is for lawful purpose
connected with a function or activity of each of the SMARTEASYPAY entities or any
person on their respective behalf, and the collection of Information is
necessary for the Purposes.
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Sharing and disclosure of Your Information
You hereby
unconditionally agree and permit that SMARTEASYPAY may transfer, share, disclose or
part with all or any of Your Information, within and outside of the Republic of
India to various SMARTEASYPAY entities and to third party service providers /
partners / banks and financial institutions for one or more of the Purposes or
as may be required by applicable law. In such case we will contractually oblige
the receiving parties of the Information to ensure the same level of data
protection that is adhered to by SMARTEASYPAY under applicable law.
You
acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permissible under applicable laws, it
is adequate that when SMARTEASYPAY transfers Your Information to any other entity
within or outside Your country of residence, SMARTEASYPAY will place contractual
obligations on the transferee which will oblige the transferee to adhere to the
provisions of this Privacy Policy.
SMARTEASYPAY
may share statistical data and other details (other than Your Personal
Information) without your express or implied consent to facilitates various
programmes or initiatives launched by SMARTEASYPAY, its affiliates, agents, third
party service providers, partners or banks & financial institutions, from
time to time. We may transfer/disclose/share Information (other than Your
Personal Information) to those parties who support our business, such as
providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our services are
used, measuring the effectiveness of advertisements, providing customer / buyer
services, facilitating payments, or conducting academic research and surveys.
These affiliates and third party service providers shall adhere to
confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Notwithstanding the above, We use other third parties such as a credit/debit
card processing company, payment gateway, pre-paid cards etc. to enable You to
make payments for buying products or availing services on SMARTEASYPAY. When You
sign up for these services, You may have the ability to save Your card details
for future reference and faster future payments. In such case, We may share
Your relevant Personal Information as necessary for the third parties to
provide such services, including your name, residence and email address. The
processing of payments or authorization is solely in accordance with these
third parties policies, terms and conditions and we are not in any manner
responsible or liable to You or any third party for any delay or failure at
their end in processing the payments.
SMARTEASYPAY
may also share Personal Information if SMARTEASYPAY believe it is necessary in
order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety
of any person, violations of various terms and conditions or our policies.
We reserve
the right to disclose your information when required to do so by law or
regulation, or under any legal obligation or order under law or in response to
a request from a law enforcement or governmental agency or judicial,
quasi-judicial or any other statutory or constitutional authority or to
establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
You
further agree that such disclosure, sharing and transfer of Your Personal
Information and Non-Personal Information shall not cause any wrongful loss to
You or to any third party, or any wrongful gain to us or to any third party.
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Links to third party websites
Links to
third-party advertisements, third-party websites or any third party electronic
communication service may be provided on the Website which are operated by
third parties and are not controlled by, or affiliated to, or associated with,
SMARTEASYPAY unless expressly specified on the Website.
SMARTEASYPAY
is not responsible for any form of transmission, whatsoever, received by You
from any third party website. Accordingly, SMARTEASYPAY does not make any
representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third
parties or terms of use of such third party websites, nor does SMARTEASYPAY control
or guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data,
text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other
materials available on such third party websites. The inclusion or exclusion
does not imply any endorsement by SMARTEASYPAY of the third party websites, the
website's provider, or the information on the website. The information provided
by You to such third party websites shall be governed in accordance with the
privacy policies of such third party websites and it is recommended that You
review the privacy policy of such third party websites prior to using such
websites.
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Security & Retention
The
security of your Personal Information is important to us. SMARTEASYPAY strives to
ensure the security of Your Personal Information and to protect Your Personal
Information against unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure
or destruction. For this purpose, SMARTEASYPAY adopts internal reviews of the data
collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including
appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where SMARTEASYPAY stores Your Personal Information.
Each of the SMARTEASYPAY entity shall adopt reasonable security practices and
procedures as mandated under applicable laws for the protection of Your
Information. Provided that Your right to claim damages shall be limited to the
right to claim only statutory damages under Information Technology Act, 2000
and You hereby waive and release all SMARTEASYPAY entities from any claim of
damages under contract or under tort.
If you
choose a payment gateway to complete any transaction on Website then Your
credit card data may be stored in compliance with industry standards/ recommended
data security standard for security of financial information such as the
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).
SMARTEASYPAY may share your
Information with third parties under a confidentiality agreement which inter alia provides for that such third
parties not disclosing the Information further unless such disclosure is for
the Purpose. However, SMARTEASYPAY is not responsible for any breach of security or
for any actions of any third parties that receive Your Personal Information.
SMARTEASYPAY is not liable for any loss or injury caused to You as a result of You
providing Your Personal Information to third party (including any third party
websites, even if links to such third party websites are provided on the
Website).
Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Policy or elsewhere, SMARTEASYPAY shall not be held
responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of Your Personal Information, if
such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event (as
defined below).
A Force
Majeure Event shall mean any event that is beyond
the reasonable control of SMARTEASYPAY and shall include, without limitation,
sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or
industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government,
computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer, computer system or computer
network,, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption (provided beyond
reasonable control of SMARTEASYPAY), power or electricity failure or unavailability
of adequate power or electricity.
While We
will endeavor to take all reasonable and appropriate steps to keep secure any
Personal Information which We hold about You and prevent unauthorized access,
You acknowledge that the internet or computer networks are not fully secure and
that We cannot provide any absolute assurance regarding the security of Your
Personal Information.
You agree
that all Personal Information shall be retained till such time required for the
Purpose or required under applicable law, whichever is later. Non-Personal
Information will be retained indefinitely.
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User discretion and opt out
You agree
and acknowledge that You are providing your Information out of your free will.
You have an option not to provide or permit SMARTEASYPAY to collect Your Personal
Information or later on withdraw Your consent with respect to such Personal
Information so provided herein by sending an email to the grievance officer or
such other electronic address of the respective SMARTEASYPAY entity as may be
notified to You. In such case, You should neither visit any Website nor use any
services provided by SMARTEASYPAY entities nor shall contact any of SMARTEASYPAY
entities. Further, SMARTEASYPAY may not deliver products to You, upon Your order,
or SMARTEASYPAY may deny you access from using certain services offered on the
Website.
You can
add or update Your Personal Information on regular basis. Kindly note that
SMARTEASYPAY would retain Your previous Personal Information in its records.
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Grievance Officer
If you
find any discrepancies or have any grievances in relation to the collection,
storage, use, disclosure and transfer of Your Personal Information under this
Privacy Policy or any terms of SMARTEASYPAY’s Terms of Use, Term of Sale and other
terms and conditions or polices of any SMARTEASYPAY entity, please contact the
following:
The
details of the grievance officer may be changed by us from time to time by
updating this Privacy Policy.
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Business / Assets Sale or Transfers
SMARTEASYPAY
may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including Your
Information in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of
assets or business or in the event of bankruptcy. Should such a sale or
transfer occur, such SMARTEASYPAY entity will reasonably ensure that the
Information you have provided and which we have collected is stored and used by
the transferee in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any
third party to which any of SMARTEASYPAY entity transfers or sells as aforesaid
will have the right to continue to use the Information that you provide to us
or collected by us immediately prior to such transfer or sale.
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Further Acknowledgements
You hereby
acknowledge and agree that this Privacy Policy:
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is clear and easily accessible and provide statements of
SMARTEASYPAY policies and practices with respective to the Information;
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provides for the various types of personal or sensitive
personal data of information to be collected;
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provides for the purposes of collection and usage of the
Information;
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provides for disclosure of Information; and
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provides for reasonable security practices and procedures.