Rajneesh Sood & Co. LLP understands and appreciates the importance of your privacy and appreciates your trust in us while sharing your information with us which may be sensitive personal data or information. For the purpose of this policy, sensitive personal data or information is considered as a part of “personal information”. The instant policy depicts how we obtain, process, use, share, disclose information our firm collects through the website and/or offline sources.
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What is Personal Information?
Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011, defines the term “Personal information” to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.
What is sensitive personal data or information?
Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011, defines the term “Sensitive personal data or information of a person” to mean such personal information which consists of information relating to:-
- Password
- Financial information such as Bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details;
- Physical, physiological and mental health condition;
- Sexual orientation;
- Medical records and history;
- Bio-metric information;
- Any detail relating to the above clauses as provided to body corporate for providing service; and
- Any of the information received under above clauses by body corporate for processing, stored or processed under lawful contract or otherwise
Whose information we may collect?
- Visitors to our website
- Individuals who avail or intend to avail our services and/or are representative of client concerns.
- Individuals who apply for any position in our firm.
- Law Interns/ICSI Management Trainees.
- Our consultants/associates.
- Our Employees.
What information we generally collect?
We usually collect basic contact information like, name, email, contact no. and message that you want to share with us. For visitors applying for a job then we may collect other information like social media and a curriculum vitae or bio-data to put it simply. All this information is collected voluntarily through contact forms and subscription forms.
In the case of visitors to our website: www.rsood-attorneys.co.in
- Individuals who avail or intends to avail our services or our client’s representatives or the consultants/associates of the Firm: Name, address, contact information, photograph, copy of ID and address proof (i.e., PAN card/ Aadhaar card/Passport/Voter ID/OCI Card/Driving License/Bank Statement/Electricity Bill or other document), registrations numbers (GST, IEC, TAN etc.) bank account details or any other document depending on the level of our engagement or nature of service that the client intends to avail.
- Individuals who apply for any position in our firm: name, postal address, contact information, photograph, previous employer details, previous job details, date of birth, remuneration information etc.
- Law Interns/ICSI Management Trainees: name, postal address, contact information, academic credentials, photograph, date of birth etc.
- Our Employees/retained lawyers/associates and interns: name, postal address, contact information, academic credentials, enrolment certificates, photograph, date of birth, blood group, bank account details, bio-metric information such as fingerprints (maximum two fingers), copy of ID and address proof (i.e., PAN card/Aadhaar card/Passport/Voter ID/OCI Card/Driving License/Bank Statement/Electricity Bill or other document), remuneration details, dates of payments, details of employment benefits, copy of investment proofs (including LIC, Medical policy, accidental insurance or other investments).
- In case you contact us for availing any service: your name and contact details at first instance.
- Details of your visits to our office, including meeting dates and times.
- The Firm may seek any additional information in relation to any of the above categories depending on the nature of services that one intends to avail or the relationship of the person with us. We may also collect your personal information from other sources, including sources in the public domain.
Our purpose of collection and usage of information:
For uniquely identifying the person and his credentials i.e. verification purposes, either for our own requirements and/or for client’s requirements.
- For the provision of services.
- For assisting the client’s and/or its individual representatives in availing any third party service.
- For hiring a person as an employee/associate etc. by the firm.
- For entering into any commercial arrangement with respect to the provisions of services.
Disclosure of information including sensitive personal data or information:
We may disclose information to third parties where;
- We engage a third-party service provider to provide services that involve data processing, for example archival, auditing, professional advisory (including legal, accounting, financial and business consulting), technology, website, research, banking, payment, client contact, data processing, insurance, forensic, litigation support, security services, issuance of Digital signature certificate, professional certification, attestation of documents etc.
However, some of the third parties with whom we may share personal information may be located outside your country or the country from which the personal information was provided. While such third parties will often be subject to privacy and confidentiality obligations, you accept that, where lawful, such obligations may differ from and be less stringent than the requirements of the privacy laws of the jurisdiction of origin.
Unless required by appropriate law, we will not disclose, use, give or divulge your personal information to any third party for any purposes other than to those third parties who need to know, and such need to know is necessary for delivery/ performance of services by our firm for which you have engaged us.
- We may share personal information without obtaining your consent with Government agencies mandated under the law to obtain information including sensitive personal data or information for the purpose of verification of identity, or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences.
Our reasonable security practices and procedures to protect your personal information:
RS&Co. LLP is committed to protect the information that it receives from you. We take all appropriate, industry standard security measures possible to protect your information against misuse, unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and to ensure the correct use of information, we maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information and data stored on our systems. While no computer system or electronic communication is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented would mitigate the likelihood of security issues/risks to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
Your rights regarding your information:
You may request the removal of your personal information from the systems of RS&Co. LLP at any time by sending a request at below mentioned e-mail. If a request for removal is made, we will exercise all reasonable efforts to promptly remove your personal information. However, we do not guarantee the permanent removal of your personal information, which may, for example, remain in archival or backup copies. RS&Co. LLP employees, interns and consultants should note that such a request may impact your employment or engagement with RS&Co. LLP.
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
RS&Co. LLP reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove the contents of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. All revisions will be updated in this Policy. You should therefore review this policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of any latest changes to its terms.
Links to other websites:
Our website may contain links to enable you to directly visit other websites of interest easily. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore do not take any responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
Your consent:
If you choose to use the website of RS&Co. LLP or have/intend to have any relationship with RS&Co. LLP (i.e., as a client/employee/intern/associate etc.) pursuant to which you choose to share your personal information with us, it shall imply that you have given your unconditional consent to us to retain, use, process, transfer, share your data for all lawful purposes.
Jurisdiction:
Any dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy and the website’s terms of use. All disputes arising out of private information or otherwise related to any information shared with us shall be governed by this Policy/the laws of India and the courts in Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction to take cognizance of the same.
Our Contact information:
If you have any queries or questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise your right to see a copy of the information that we hold about you, or think that information we hold about you may need to be corrected/ updated, want to delete all or any part of it or to object to the processing on legitimate grounds, please feel free to contact us at rscorporate@rsood-attorneys.co.in