PRIVACY POLICY

We, at Nagrika Policy Research Foundation, (hereinafter, ‘Nagrika”), value your privacy and treat all information regarding any transaction you engage in with Nagrika as highly confidential. Our collection, retention and usage of information that the users provide on our website available at the domain http://nagrika.org/ (“Website”) is completely ethical.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?
We offer a number of socially beneficial services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us though we may collect some information in order to provide our full range of services.

We categorize information about you (collectively referred to as "Personal Information") as follows:

a)    Profiling Information: Information which you provide when you register for a Service, which may include some or all of the following: - Information about your personal identity such as gender, marital status, age, preferences, likes and dislikes etc.;
b)    Your contact details such as your physical addresses, postal addresses, telephone and mobile numbers and the like.
c)     Service Usage: Information about your navigation using our Services, for example the URLs of websites, which you visit and from which you request downloads.
d)    Log Information: Information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, date and time of request.
e)    Correspondence Information:  Content, information about your correspondents, and the destination/origin of communications between you and any other person using our Services, which include email communications, blog, chat room and discussion board communications, instant message communications, experts forum communications, fax mail communications, membership of mailing lists etc.
f)      User IDs: Your usernames, passwords, email addresses and other security-related information used by you in relation to our Services in case .
g)    Stored Information:  Data either created by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our servers such as image files, documents etc.

Use of Information

By accepting the Terms of Service you agree that we may collect and store your Personal Information as long as you use our Services subject to the limitations set out in this Privacy Policy

  • We may collect your Profiling and Account Information for the following reasons

    • We need your identity details, contact details to manage our relationship with you and provide Services to you. We may use this information for suggesting features that you might like on our website or in other services provided by us. We will only disclose this information as provided below

    • We use certain of your information in an aggregated form to compile statistical and demographical profiles for our activities. We may disclose such information about you, provided that the information is in an aggregated form that is not capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you.

  • We may collect and store your Service Usage Information to

    • administer our relationship with you

    • comply with any statutory or regulatory requirement

    • compile statistical and demographical profiles about you for our services and to customise our Services to you. While we are entitled to use such information about you for our own internal business purposes without limitation, we will only disclose it in an aggregated form which is not capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you; and

    • monitor your use of our Services for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our Terms of Service

  • We may collect and store your Correspondence Information and Personal Identifiers to:

    • comply with our obligations under law; and

    • monitor your use of our Services in order to ensure your compliance with our Terms of Service. Any Personal Information which we collect and which we may use in an aggregated format ensuring you are not individually identified is our property.

Other than the above scenarios, we may use your personal information:

a)    for purposes related to our research, planning, program development and management;

b)    for purposes connected with the operation, administration, development or enhancement of the our services and the Website; and

c)     where we suspect that fraud or unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in

d)    to conduct our business and to enable us to deliver and improve our Services. We do not for any reason whatsoever sell your Personal Information to any third party or otherwise trade on it.

e)    Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;

f)      Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and

g)    Developing new services

 For any of the information listed above, we will not use or disclose (share, sell or divulge) any of your personal information to any third party unless we have been authorised by you, or are required or authorised to do so by law.

Website only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services

Choices for personal information

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Website features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Website may not be able to provide those services to you.

Donations

When you make a donation through our Website, we may ask you to submit certain personal information that is necessary for us to process the transaction (“Donor Data”). We will not make any other use of Donor Data other than as prescribed hereinbelow. Donor Data may be used for the following purposes:

a)    Distributing receipts and thanking donors for donations

b)    Informing donors about upcoming fundraising and other activities of our organization

c)     Internal analysis, such as research and analytics

d)    Surveys, metrics, and other analytical purposes

e)    Record keeping

f)      Reporting to applicable governmental agencies as required by law

g)    Other purposes related to the fundraising operations

 

Information sharing

We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose personal information about our Website visitors or our offline donors, except as described herein.

Website only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Website in the following limited circumstances:

  • We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information

  • We share information provided by our Website visitors with service providers that we have retained to perform services on our behalf ― for example, to process donations, send direct mails, emailers, greeting cards, making phone calls, and others. We may share your information like phone numbers, email address, etc. with these agencies so that they can perform these activities efficiently. These service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements. However, since we do not have complete control over these third parties, such third parties' usage of your data/info shall be governed by the terms of their privacy policy, over which Nagrika has no control.

  • We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties 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 have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to

a)     satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,

b)     enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof,

c)     detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or

d)     protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Website, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.


If Nagrika becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to Nagrika employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity

Website processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use services through the website, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information.

Enforcement

Website regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Website’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by emailing us at info@nagrika.org

When we receive formal complaints at this address, it is Website’s policy to contact the complainant regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Website and an individual.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at NAGRIKA POLICY RESEARCH FOUNDATION at info@nagrika.org