Green Kisan PRIVACY STATEMENT
Revised22/3/2023
Green Kisan AgritechTM is concerned about your privacy. We
want you to be familiar with how we
collect, use and disclose information. Together with the Green
Kisan Cookies & Similar Technologies
Policy, this Privacy Statement (“Privacy
Statement”) describes our practices in connection with
information that we collect:
•
Through websites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Statement
(the
“Websites”).
• Through software applications made available by us for use on
or through computers and mobile
devices from which you are accessing this Privacy Statement (the
“Apps”).
• Through our social media pages that we control from which you are accessing
this Privacy
Statement (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”).
• Through email
messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Statement.
• Offline where notice is
legally required.
Collectively, we refer to the Websites, the Apps and our Social Media Pages, as the
“Services.”
By providing Personal Information to Green Kisan, you agree to the terms and
conditions of this Privacy
Statement.
If you apply for a job through the Career Center on the
Websites, our use of the Personal Information you
provide through the Career Center is governed by the
Green Kisan Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sections PERSONAL INFORMATIONCollection of Personal Information
Use of Personal Information
Disclosure of Personal Information Other Uses and DisclosuresOTHER
INFORMATIONCollection of
Other Information Uses and Disclosures of Other Information SECURITYCHOICES
AND
ACCESSRETENTION PERIODTHIRD PARTY SERVICESUSE OF SERVICES BY
MINORSJURISDICTION AND
CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERSENSITIVE INFORMATIONTHIRD
PARTY PAYMENT SERVICEUPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY
STATEMENTCONTACTING
USADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or
relates to an identifiable
individual, such as:
• Name
• Postal address (including
billing and shipping addresses)
• Telephone (including mobile phone) or fax number
•
Email address
• Credit and debit card number
• Profile picture
• Social media
account ID
• Vendor or Customer tax ID number
• National ID number, such as Social
Security Number
• Company issued ID number
• Date of Birth
•
Gender
• Financial information when you apply for credit
• Banking information, such as
account and routing numbers
• Passwords and reminder questions/answers
• Purchase
history
• Location/GPS data
Collection of Personal Information
We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a
variety of ways, including:
• Through the Services
• We collect Personal Information
through the Services, for example, when you sign up for a
newsletter, register an account to access the
Services, make an order or purchase, apply for
credit, make a request, register your purchase of a
product, submit a warranty card, or
interact with a chat feature.
• Offline
• We collect Personal Information from you offline, e.g., when you visit our
facilities, attend
one of our trade shows, place an order over the phone, or contact customer service.
• From Other Sources
-We receive your Personal Information from other sources, for
example:
ublicly available databases and other third-party sources publicly available databases
and
other third-party sources
joint marketing partners and service providers (including social
media platforms), when they
share the information with us
-If you connect your social media
account to your Services account, you will share certain Personal
Information from your social media
account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo,
list of social media contacts, and any
other information that may be or you make accessible to us
when you connect your social media account
to your Services account.
- When you participate in a contest, promotion, sweepstakes, survey or other
promotion.
- When you participate in a blog or forum.
We need to collect Personal Information in
order to provide the requested Services to you. If you do not
provide the information requested, we may
not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any
Personal Information relating to other people
to us or to our service providers in connection with the
Services, you represent that you have the
authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in
accordance with this Privacy
Statement.
Use of Personal Information
We and our service providers use Personal Information for
the following purposes.
• Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your
requests. We engage in the
following activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or
to comply with a legal
obligation:
-Providing the Services’ functionality to you, such as
arranging access to your registered account,
and providing you with related customer
service.
-Responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests, when you contact us via one of
our
online contact forms or otherwise, for example, when you send us questions,
suggestions,
compliments or complaints, or when you request a quote or other information about our
Services.
-Completing your transactions and providing you with related customer service.
-Sending
administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
-Allowing you
to send messages to another person if you choose to do so.
-Processing your application for
credit.
• Providing you with our newsletter, information about our products and services and/or
other
materials and facilitating social sharing. We engage in the following activities when we
have
your consent or a legitimate business interest:
-Sending you marketing-related communications (such as by email, text message, WhatsApp
message,
in-App notice and on social media platforms) with information about our services, new
products and
other news about our company.
-Facilitating social sharing functionality that you choose to
use.
• Analysis of Personal Information for business reporting and providing personalized
services.
We engage in the following activities when we have your consent or a legitimate business
interest:
-Analyzing or predicting our users’ preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend
reports
on how our digital content is used, so we can improve our Services.
- Better understanding
you, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you
with information and/or
offers tailored to your interests.
-Better understanding your preferences so that we can deliver
content via our Services that we
believe will be relevant and interesting to you.
• Allowing
you to participate in sweepstakes, contests or other promotions. We engage in the
following activities
to manage our contractual relationship with you.
- We may offer you the opportunity to participate in a
sweepstakes, contest or other promotion.
Some of these promotions have additional rules containing
information about how we will use and
disclose your Personal Information.
• Aggregating
and/or anonymizing Personal Information. We engage in the following activities
when we have a
legitimate business interest:
- We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will
no longer be considered
Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may
use and disclose
for any purpose.
• Accomplishing our business purposes. We engage in the
following activities to manage our
contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal
obligation, and/or because we have a
legitimate interest:
-Data analysis, for example, to improve
the efficiency of our Services.
-Audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and
are compliant with legal,
regulatory or contractual requirements.
-Fraud and security monitoring,
for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts
to commit identity theft.
- Developing
new products and services.
-Enhancing, improving, or modifying our current products and
services.
-Identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of
most
interest to users.
- Determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we
can adapt our campaigns
to the needs and interests of our users.
-Operating and expanding our
business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our
Services are of most interest to our
users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’
interests.
Disclosure of Personal
Information
We disclose Personal Information:
• To our parent company and affiliates for the
purposes described in this Privacy Statement.
You can consult the list and location of entities in our
group of companies here.
• To our third party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us.
- These can
include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment
processing, order
fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision,
customer service, email
delivery, auditing, and other services.
• To third parties, such as agents, retailers,
distributors and other business partners, to permit
them to send you marketing communications,
consistent with your choices.
• To third-party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests, and similar
promotions.
• When you may elect to disclose Personal Information
- On message boards, chat,
profile pages, blogs and other services to which you are able to
post information and content
(including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages).Please
note that any information you post or
disclose through these services will become public and
may be available to other users and the general
public.
• Through your social sharing activity.
-When you connect your Services account with
your social media account, you will share
information with your friends associated with your social
media account, with other users,
and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you
authorize us to facilitate this
sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared
information will be
governed by the social media provider’s privacy policy.
- Additionally,
the provider of the social sharing tool we use on the Services may collect
information related to you,
which may include Personal Information, when you share content
from the Services through your social
media account. The social sharing tool provider’s
collection, use and sharing of information is
subject to its own privacy policy and we are not
responsible for its privacy, security or other
practices.
• To third parties in connection with licensing, joint development or similar
arrangements.
Other Uses and Disclosures
We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or
appropriate, especially when we have
a legal obligation or legitimate business interest to do
so:
• To comply with applicable law and regulations.
- This can include laws outside your
country of residence.
• To cooperate with public and government authorities.
- To respond to
a request or to provide information we believe is important.
- These can include authorities outside
your country of residence.
• To cooperate with law enforcement.
-For example, when we respond
to law enforcement requests and orders or provide
information we believe is important.
• For
other legal reasons.
-To enforce our terms and conditions; and
-To protect our rights, privacy,
safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
• In connection with a sale or
business transaction.
-We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal
Information to a
third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture,
assignment, transfer
or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock
(including in
connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). Such third parties may include, for
example,
an acquiring entity and its advisors.
OTHER INFORMATION
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your
specific identity or does not directly
relate to an identifiable individual.
• Browser and
device information
• App or connected device or vehicle usage data
• Information
collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
• Demographic information and other
information provided by you that does not reveal your specific
identity
• Information that
has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific
identity
•
Physical location
• Information about your agricultural operation
If we are required to treat
Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may
use and disclose it for the
purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in
this
Statement.
Collection of Other Information
We and our service providers may collect
Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
• Through your browser or device
•
Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device,
such as your
Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac),
screen resolution, operating system
name and version, device manufacturer and model,
language, Internet browser type and version and the
name and version of the Services (such
as the App) you are using. We use this information to ensure
that the Services function
properly.
• Through your use of the App
• When you download and use the App, we and our service
providers may track and collect
App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device
accesses our servers and
what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your
device number.
• Using cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies
• Cookies are
pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. We
may use cookies and
similar tracking technologies on the Websites and Apps, as well as in
HTML-formatted e-mail messages
that we send to you. Cookies and similar technologies
allow us to collect information such as browser
type, time spent on the Services, pages
visited, language preferences, and other traffic data. We use
the information collected for
various purposes, including analytics, measuring the effectiveness of our
marketing
campaigns, and to serve you advertising for products and services that we believe will
be
of interest to you. We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. For
more
information, including how you may opt out of certain of our uses of cookies and
similar
technologies, please visit our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy.
• IPAddress
• Your IP address is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet
Service
Provider. An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log
files
whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s)
that
were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by
many
websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as
calculating usage
levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services. We
may also derive your approximate
location from your IP address.
• Physical Location
• We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example,
using satellite, cell
phone tower or WiFi signals. We may use your device’s physical location to
provide you
with personalized location-based services and content. We may also share your
device’s
physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed
and
other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you
with
more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. In
some instances,
you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and/or sharing of your
device’s location, but if
you do, we and/or our marketing partners may not be able to
provide you with the applicable
personalized services and content.
Uses and Disclosures of Other Information
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose,
except where we are required to do
otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine
Other Information with Personal
Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as
Personal Information as long as it is
combined.
SECURITY
We seek to use reasonable
organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal
Information within our
organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be
guaranteed to be 100%
secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer
secure, please
immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
CHOICES AND
ACCESS
Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information
We give you
choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing
purposes. You may
opt-out from:
• Receiving electronic communications from us: If you no longer want to receive
marketing-
related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out by using the unsubscribe
mechanism contained in each such email. If you no longer want to receive marketing related
text
message or SMS messages for which you previously signed up, you may opt-out by replying
STOP
to any such message you receive.
• Our sharing of your Personal Information with affiliates for
their direct marketing purposes:
If you would prefer that we discontinue sharing your Personal
Information on a going-forward
basis with our affiliates for their direct marketing purposes, you may
opt-out of this sharing here.
• Our sharing of your Personal Information with unaffiliated third
parties for their direct
marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we discontinue sharing your
Personal Information
on a going-forward basis with unaffiliated third parties for their direct
marketing purposes, you
may opt-out of this sharing here.
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you
opt-
out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative
messages, from which you cannot opt-out.
How you can access, change or delete your Personal
Information
If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete
Personal Information,
object to the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request
to receive an electronic
copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another
company (to the extent these
rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us here or
Green Kisan Agritech, 12th
floor, Atria, V Ascendas IT park, Madhapur, Hyderabad 500081.
We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
In your request, please make clear
what Personal Information you would like to have changed, and
whether you would like to have your
Personal Information suppressed from our database. For your
protection, we may only implement requests
with respect to the Personal Information associated with the
particular email address that you use to
send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity
before implementing your request. We will
try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably
practicable.
Please note that we may need to
retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete
any transactions that you
began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase
or enter a promotion,
you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until
after the completion of
such purchase or promotion).
If you are a resident of California, under 18 and a registered user of the
Services, you may ask us to
remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by
clicking here. Please note that
your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the
content or information, as, for
example, some of your content may have been reposted by another
user.
RETENTION PERIOD
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light
of the purpose(s) for which it
was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
The criteria used
to determine our retention periods include:
• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship
with you and provide the Services to you (for
example, for as long as you have an account with us or
keep using the Services);
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for
example, certain laws require us to
keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time
before we can delete them); or
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position
(such as in regard to applicable statutes
of limitations, litigation or regulatory
investigations).
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not
responsible for, the privacy, information or other
practices of any third parties, including any third
party operating any website or service to which the
Services link. The inclusion of a link on the
Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or
service by us or by our affiliates.
In
addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies
or
practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other
app
developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless
service
provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you
disclose to other
organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media
Pages.
USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of
thirteen (13), and we do not knowingly
collect Personal Information from individuals under
13.
JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
Your Personal Information may be stored and processed
in any country where we have facilities or in
which we engage service providers, and by using the
Services you understand that your information will
be transferred to countries outside of your country
of residence, including the United States, which may
have data protection rules that are different from
those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts,
law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may
be
entitled to access your Personal Information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA: Some of
the non-EEA countries are
recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data
protection
according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here[ EU
Commission’s
adequacy list online]. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered
adequate by the
European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard
contractual
clauses adopted by the European Commission and binding corporate rules to protect your
Personal
Information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by submitting a request
here.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not
disclose, any sensitive Personal
Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to
racial or ethnic origin, political
opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic
characteristics, criminal background or
trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise
to us.
THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE
We may use a third-party payment service to process payments
made through the Services. If you wish to
make a payment through the Services, your Personal
Information will be collected by such third party and
not by us, and will be subject to the third
party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Statement. We
have no control over, and are not
responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your
Personal
Information.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The “Last Updated” legend at the top of
this Privacy Statement indicates when this Privacy Statement
was last revised. Any changes will become
effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the
Services. Your use of the Services
following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy
Statement.
CONTACTING US
If
you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us using our Privacy Request
form,
or:
Customer Information Center
Green Kisan Agritech,
Because communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other
sensitive
information in your communications to us.
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