Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 08 June 2023
We at Data Sciences Lab, prioritize protecting and securing your Personal Information and are committed to providing you with a safe, seamless and secure experience while accessing or using our Services. Our Privacy Policy helps you understand our practices regarding the collection, use, maintenance and disclosure of your Personal Information. We respect the privacy of your Personal Information and undertake to ensure that the information that we have access to will be treated only in a manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Whenever the Privacy Policy mentions the terms “Data Science Lab” or “we” or “us” or “our”, it refers to Data Sciences Lab ___, which is responsible for your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Pravi Terms of Service, which is available at https://pravi.co and which is incorporated into this Privacy Policy by reference.
We conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws and shall collect, use and process your Personal Information only in accordance with applicable data protection and security laws, regulations and guidelines.
WE DO NOT CONSCIOUSLY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM MINORS (I.E. INDIVIDUALS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE AND/OR ANY SUCH AGE AS REQUIRED IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR YOU TO BE AUTHORISED TO USE OUR SERVICES). IF YOU ARE A MINOR , PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US. IF YOU ARE A PARENT OR A GUARDIAN WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU TO SUPERVISE THE ONLINE ACTIVITY OF YOUR MINOR CHILDREN AND ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILDREN DO NOT DISCLOSE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT WE MAY HAVE UNKNOWINGLY COLLECTED PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM MINORS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT, KINDLY CONTACT US AT THE CONTACT DETAILS PROVIDED HEREIN BELOW, SO THAT WE MAY ADOPT APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE PROMPTLY AND REMOVE THE INFORMATION.
WE URGE YOU TO THOROUGHLY READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY. BY ACCESSING AND USING THE SERVICES OR BY SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND HAVE REPRESENTED YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, (WHICH MAY BE REVISED FROM TIME TO TIME) AND TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE US WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OR INTERACT WITH THE SERVICES.
1. Scope of the Policy
a. This Privacy Policy applies to our Services the Personal Information collected by us through the Services. To make our Services accessible to you and to administer and manage your relationship with us, we will necessarily need to collect, use, disclose and/or process your Personal Information, to which you consent by agreeing to this Privacy Policy. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy the term Personal Information means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person.
b. Our Privacy Policy applies to all clients, visitors, users, students and others who access our Services directly, indirectly or otherwise (“users”, “you”, “your”). If you are a corporate entity, university or an organization, references to the terms “you” and “your” shall include your employees, representatives, agents and students.
c. Our privacy and security practices in connection with the access and use of our Services are governed by the Pravi Terms of Service, which is a binding contract between you and us.
d. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you give your express and unequivocal consent to us to procure your data or the Personal Information of others requested by you, from educational institutions, organizations, third party service providers, public databases etc. You hereby also agree and warrant that you have obtained requisite express consent from all the persons whose Personal Information you provide to us through the Services.
e. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies, third party service providers or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you in search results or other sites linked from our Services. You should consider the privacy practices of those third-parties carefully.
2. Information we collect. We collect information that you provide us directly or automatically when you use the Services. The collection of your Personal Information or any Personal Information provided by you shall be strictly restricted to what is necessary for the purpose of fulfilling the purposes identified herein below. We may collect and retain the following information from and about you or any other person as requested by you if you interact with us through the Services:
a. The information that you voluntarily provide when you access or use our Services and which include but shall not be limited your name, company name, email etc. and the name, age, date of birth, address, PAN, employment history, educational qualification, professional experience, claims, court cases, criminal background, judgments, character, personal reputation, and such other background checks of any persons that you provide to us through the Services.
b. We may also collect information about the pages/links you visit / access on our site, the number of times you access each page, search queries and open posts, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, web browser type, web browser version, internet service provider, site trends, location, referring URL, timestamp information, app packages, app names, urls, email address, poll inputs and the operating system that your computer or device is running etc. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information. We treat such data in the same manner as we treat Personal Information voluntarily provided by you, under this Privacy Policy.
c. We may also collect any information entered by you when you interact with the Services or our personnel for any purpose, including but not limited to reporting a problem with or difficulty using our Services or for providing feedback. When you affirmatively provide an email address and tick the non-pre populated tick box available at the time of providing the email address, you opt in to receive emails from us as permitted by law. To opt out of receiving emails from us, you may either use the “Unsubscribe” button at the end of our emails or send us an opt-out request at [email protected]. Please note that you cannot opt-out of receiving certain administrative or legal notices from us.
d. Any information that we ask for and may collect from various sources, which may include but are not limited to, information you voluntarily provide us at any events, seminars, conferences, talks, promotions, surveys organised by us, and/or information we collect when you submit web forms on our Services or if you use interactive features of our Services.
3. How we use the information. The Personal Information provided to us or that we collect from you through other sources is used to provide the Services and to fulfill our obligations under our agreement with you and/or to comply with the statutory legal obligations. The information collected may be used by us for various purposes including, without limitation:
i. To provide you with information that may be requested by you from time to time;
ii. To contact you regarding our Services;
iii. To register an account on our Services
iv. To carry out background verifications.
v. To provide assistance as and when requested.
vi. To send you updates and confirmations of Services availed;
vii. To enhance other information we have about you to help us better understand you, determine your interests and provide you with more relevant and compelling services;
viii. To maintain, operate and improve the Services;
ix. Contact you to ensure that the information we have in our records is accurate or when in need of additional information in connection with Services;
x. To facilitate communication and improve our business relationship with you and to respond to your queries, requests or complaints and/or resolve any issues and disputes which may arise in connection with any dealings with us;
xi. To monitor and identify areas of our Services in which improvement may be needed;
xii. To investigate, detect and prevent any unauthorized access to the Services and prohibited or illegal activity or omission or misconduct;
xiii. We may use information for the security of our company, customers, employees and/or our Services.
xiv. Sending technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
xv. To comply with any request or direction or lawfully disclose information required by any applicable law, regulation, direction, court order, bylaw, guidance, circular or code applicable to us.
xvi. To undertake marketing research, analysis of customer patterns and choices, statistical and trend analysis in relation to our services.
xvii. Monitoring and analyzing usage, and activities in connection with the Websites and Services and for marketing or advertising purposes;
xviii. To contact you about changes to our site and Service, new Service, features we offer, or other information we think you might find valuable, as well as to provide or enhance features of our Site and Service.
We shall not use your Personal Information for any purpose, than for what it is collected. We may use your Personal Information for purposes not stated herein above but only with your express or implied prior consent for such use.
4. Sharing your Information. We do not rent, sell, share or disclose your Personal Information to third-parties without your consent. We may share your information with the following parties/entities for the purposes of fulfilling our contractual obligations with you:
a. Internal processors. We may disclose your information to our employees, directors, and individuals acting as our agents and contractors. We shall ensure that our internal processors use the information strictly in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
b. External processors. We may share your information with our third party service providers as needed to carry out the performance and functionality of the Services, conduct background verification checks, prepare reports, fulfill your requests, support our business, host, manage and maintain our Services, develop applications for us, carry on analytics, store and backup our data or provide customer support. These external processors shall not store, retain, or use your information, for marketing or any other purpose except for processing the transaction or providing a service on our behalf. We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites. However we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third Parties that receive your Personal Information.
c. We may share information from or about you with subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control, in which case they are legally bound to honor this Privacy Policy . If we are acquired by or merged with another entity, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected about you to the other company.
d. We will share your Personal Information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Data Science Lab if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to, (i) Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (ii) Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violation; (iii) Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues or (iv) Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Data Science Lab, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
5. Storage and Transfer of your Personal Information. The information collected by us will be stored in secure servers located in India. You hereby consent to the storage of your Personal Information in our servers located in India. We do not transfer your Personal Information with third parties, unless it is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you and as permitted by law. We shall make appropriate arrangements to ensure that your data is processed in a secure manner and in compliance with applicable data protection laws, specific to your country.
6. Cookies And Tracking Technologies
a. We may collect Personal Information with the help of tracking tools like browser cookies. The term "cookies" refers to small pieces of information stored on the hard drive of your computer or computer while you view a site. The primary objective of cookies is recordkeeping and uniquely identifying your browser.
b. We use cookies to improve the quality of our Services. Cookies help us to tailor our Services to best suit your preferences and provide you with ease and convenience while accessing our Services. Not all data collected from cookies is Personal Information, such information is collected for creating a better user experience.
c. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our Services in order to tailor it to the needs of the User. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
d. Neither we nor any other Third Parties performing services on our behalf shall use cookies to automatically retrieve any Personal Information from your computer. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may configure your browser either to notify you when you receive a cookie or to disable cookies. It is pertinent you understand that should you choose to disable cookies, some functions of Services may not work properly or may not work at all.
7. Accuracy of information. Since most of the information collected by us is directly from the user/candidates, we cannot guarantee that the information will be accurate. Any information collected by us through a third party source, such third party is responsible for the accuracy of the information.
8. Retention of Information. We may retain information, including in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations of any User, to enforce our Terms of Service, and/or for any other purposes otherwise permitted by law that we deem necessary in our sole discretion. However, once a background check report has been submitted to the user, Data Science Lab shall have no control over user’s use and retention of such information. When we have no ongoing legitimate business, operational, legal or other statutory need to process your Personal Information, we will either anonymize it and will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing.
9. Links To Other Sites. Our Services may contain links to other third party websites. If you choose to click on one of these links you may be taken to websites we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those websites. We do not control and assume no responsibility for the content, security or privacy policies and practices on those websites. We request you to read the privacy policies of those sites to determine how they collect, process, use, disclose and protect your Personal Information.
10. Security.
a. We use strict security measures to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of Personal Information and to protect your Personal Information against unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction
b. We have put in place reasonable and necessary organizational and physical measures and are implementing and updating appropriate administrative, technical, organizational and physical security measures of commercially acceptable security standards to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, use, alteration or disclosure of any information we store. Some of the safeguards we use to protect your information are firewalls and information access controls.
c. Although we have used our best efforts to ensure the security of Personal Information, we cannot guarantee you that Personal Information will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
d. All our employees and intermediaries, who have access to and process your Personal Information, are trained in handling Personal Information and are required to respect the confidentiality of your Personal Information.
e. You agree that any security breaches beyond our reasonable control are at your sole risk and discretion, we cannot and do not accept responsibility for the same. If you have any questions about our security arrangements please contact us at the contact details provided herein under.
11. Privacy Policy Updates. We reserve the right to modify, revise and/or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time so as to reflect our current privacy practices. We may change the Privacy Policy without sending a prior notice of the same. We will post an updated copy/ new version on our Services. Any changes to this notice will come into effect on posting to this page. You are requested to check our website periodically for such updates. If you access our Services after a notice of change has been published on our page, you hereby provide us your consent to the changed terms.
12. Dispute Resolution. If you believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy you may convey the same to us by contacting us in the manner mentioned below. In your email, please describe in as much detail as possible ways in which you believe the Privacy Policy has not been complied with. In addition to the foregoing, any disputes arising under this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of India.
13. Contact Us. If you have questions/complaints/feedback regarding this Policy and/or want to report any violations of this Policy, please feel free to reach out to our Grievance Officer on: [email protected]