Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 1st March 2025

Information IVC VENTURES (Hereinafter 'IVC') collects and controls
We only collect the information that we actually need. Some of that is information that you actively give us when you sign up for an account, register for an event, ask for customer support, or buy something from us. We store your name and contact information, but we don't store credit card numbers (except with your permission and in one of our secured payment gateways). When you visit one of our websites or use our software, we automatically log some basic information like how you got to the site, where you navigated within it, and what features and settings you use. We use this information to improve our websites and services and to drive new product development. Sometimes we receive information indirectly. If you ask about our products through one of our referral programs or reselling partners, or sign in to one of our products through an authentication service provider like LinkedIn or Google, they'll pass on your contact information to us.

What we do with your information
We use your information to provide the services you've requested, create and maintain your accounts, and keep an eye out for unauthorized activity on your accounts. We also use it to communicate with you about the products you're currently using, your customer support requests, new products you may like, chances for you to give us feedback, and policy updates. We analyze the information we collect to understand user needs and to improve our websites and services. We're required to have a legal basis for collecting and processing your information. In most cases, we either have your consent or need the information to provide the service you've requested from us. When that's not the case, we must demonstrate that we have another legal basis, such as our legitimate business interests.

Your choices regarding information use
You can decline certain kinds of information use either by not providing the information in the first place or by opting out later. You can also disable cookies to prevent your browser from giving us information, but if you do so, certain website features may not work properly. We completely disable non-essential and intrusive third-party cookies from all IVC websites and products. We limit access to your personal information to our employees and contractors who have a legitimate need to use it. If we share your information with other parties (like developers, service providers, domain registrars, and reselling partners), they must have appropriate security measures and a valid reason for using your information, typically to serve you.

Your data rights
The European Economic Area (EEA) provides certain rights to data subjects (including access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and the right to object and to complain). IVC undertakes to provide you the same rights no matter where you choose to live. We keep your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete, anonymize, or isolate your information, whichever is appropriate.

Your Rights & Preferences as a Data Subject
Subject to the GDPR and applicable law's limitations, the rights afforded to you as a data subject are:

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RIGHT TO BE INFORMED: You have a right to be informed about the manner in which any of your personal collected or used which we have endeavored to do by way of this Policy.
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RIGHT OF ACCESS: You have a right to access the personal data you have provided by requesting us to provide you with the same.
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RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION: You have a right to request us to amend or update your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
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RIGHT TO ERASURE: You have a right to request us to delete your personal data.
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RIGHT TO RESTRICT: You have a right to request us to temporarily or permanently stop processing all or some of your personal data.
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RIGHT TO OBJECT: You have a right, at any time, to object to our processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You have an absolute right to object to us processing your personal data for the purposes of direct marketing.
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RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY: You have a right to request us to provide you with a copy of your personal data in electronic format and you can transmit that personal data for using another third-party's product/service.
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RIGHT NOT TO BE SUBJECT TO AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING: You have a right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making, including profiling.
Information that IVC processes on your behalf
If you handle other people's data using IVC apps, such as information about your customers or employees, you are entrusting that data to us for processing. If you use a IVC mobile app and give the app access to your contacts and photo library, you are entrusting data to us. The data you entrust to us for processing is called service data. You own your service data. We protect it, limit access to it, and only process it according to your instructions. You may access it, share it through third-party integrations, and request that we export or delete it. We hold the data in your account as long as you choose to use IVC Services. After you terminate your account, your data will be automatically deleted from our active database within 6 months and from our backups within 3 months after that.

Your rights as a data subject
If you are in the European Economic Area and you believe that someone has entrusted your information to us for processing (for instance, your employer or a company whose services you use), you can request certain actions from us regarding your data. To exercise those data rights, please contact the person or company that entrusted the data to us and we will work with them on your request.

Disclosure of personal information
There are some limitations to the privacy we can promise you. We will disclose personal information if it's necessary to comply with a legal obligation, prevent fraud, enforce an agreement, or protect our users' safety. We do not currently honor Do Not Track signals from internet browsers; when a universal standard for processing them emerges, we will follow it. Third-party websites and social media widgets have their own separate privacy policies. Always check the relevant privacy policy before sharing personal information with third parties.

IVC's Privacy Commitment
IVC has worried about customer and user privacy for almost 25 years, long before it became fashionable, politically correct, or legally binding to take such a position. We ask for only the least amount of information necessary, gathering only what we believe is essential for doing business, or for the specific transaction at hand. We let customers know the information we have on them and allow them to opt out of specific engagements. But, by far, our biggest commitment is that we do not make a single dollar from advertising revenue—never have, never will—even from the free editions of our products. This means we avoid the fundamental conflict of interest between gathering customer information and fueling advertising revenue, and the unavoidable compromises in customer privacy that it brings.

Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all IVC websites that link to it. It also applies to the products and services provided by IVC through these websites, our mobile applications, and applications posted by IVC on IVC's online marketplace and in other third-party online marketplaces. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our websites, products or services that have a separate privacy policy.

Information we collect from you
We collect information about you only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. IVC will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) IVC has automatically collected the information, or (c) IVC has obtained the information from a third party. This includes information from account signup, event registrations, form submissions, payment processing, testimonials, and direct interactions with IVC

Information we collect automatically
When you visit our websites, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We use temporary and permanent cookies to identify users of our services and to enhance user experience. We embed unique identifiers in our downloadable products to track usage of the products.

Information we collect from third parties
You can log in to IVC Services using supported federated authentication service providers such as LinkedIn, Microsoft and Google. These services will authenticate your identity and give you the option to share certain personal information with us, such as your name and email address. If someone has referred any of our products or services to you through any of our referral programs, that person may have provided us your name, email address and other personal information. We may also receive information about you from our reselling partners, event organizers, review sites, or social media platforms.

Purposes for using information
We use your information to communicate with you about products, notify you about changes, keep you informed about new products and services, ask for feedback, maintain your accounts, understand how users use our products, provide customer support, detect fraud, update records, analyze trends, and improve marketing campaigns.

Legal bases for collecting and using information
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for information collection and use depends on the personal information concerned and the context in which we collect it. Most of our information collection and processing activities are typically based on contractual necessity, legitimate interests, or your consent. Sometimes, we may be legally required to collect your information, or may need your personal information to protect vital interests.

Who we share your information with
All IVC group entities have access to the information covered in Part I. We do not sell any personal information. We share your information only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy, and only with parties who adopt appropriate confidentiality and security measures. This includes employees and independent contractors, third-party service providers, domain registrars, reselling partners, and marketplace application developers.

Your rights with respect to your information
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, port your data, and object to our use of your information. IVC undertakes to provide you the same rights no matter where you choose to live.

Retention of information
We retain your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we may retain your information for longer periods as permitted or required by law, such as to maintain suppression lists, prevent abuse, if required in connection with a legal claim or proceeding, to enforce our agreements, for tax, accounting, or to comply with other legal obligations. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete or anonymize your information from our active databases.

Children's personal information
Our products and services are not directed to individuals under 16. IVC does not knowingly collect personal information from children who are under 16 years of age for its own purposes. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. Using our products, you can collect information about individuals who may be children. If you process information relating to children, you acknowledge and agree that you will be responsible for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.

Security of your information
At IVC, we take data security very seriously. That's why we have gotten certified for industry standards. We have taken steps to implement appropriate administrative, technical & physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or destruction of the information you entrust to us. If you have any concerns regarding the security of your data, we encourage you to check our Security Policy or write to us with any questions.

Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our management of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices with respect to your personal information, you can reach out to our Data Protection Officer by sending an email to dpo@ivcventure.com or by writing to: Data Protection Officer, IVC Ventures, Baner, Pune, India, 411021.

International transfers of information
We share your personal information and service data within the IVC Group and with third parties engaged by IVC Group for the purposes described above. By accessing or using our products and services or otherwise providing personal information or service data to us, you understand that the processing, transfer, and storage of your personal information or Service Data within the United States of America, the European Economic Area (EEA) and other countries where IVC operates. Such transfers are subject to appropriate data protection agreements.

Automation and Artificial Intelligence
In order to provide enhanced productivity and predictive capabilities to our users, we employ a variety of technologies such as regex parsing, template matching, artificial intelligence and machine learning. In keeping with IVC's promise not to exploit your data in a way that is not respectful of your privacy and confidentiality expectations, we make only the following limited use of service data for these technologies: (i) using anonymized crops of service data to improve accuracy of the algorithms; and (ii) using your organization's data for developing models specific for your organization.

Do Not Track (DNT) requests
Some internet browsers have enabled 'Do Not Track' (DNT) features, which send out a signal to the websites that you visit indicating that you don't wish to be tracked. Currently, there is no standard that governs what websites can or should do when they receive these signals. For now, we do not take action in response to these signals.

External links and public forums
Some pages of our websites may contain links to websites that are not linked to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you not share any personal information with these third parties unless you've checked their privacy policies. We offer publicly accessible blogs and forums on our websites. Please be aware that any information you provide on these blogs and forums may be used to contact you with unsolicited messages. Your posts and certain profile information may remain even after you terminate your account with IVC

Social media widgets
Our websites include social media widgets such as Facebook 'like' buttons and Twitter 'tweet' buttons that let you share articles and other information. These widgets may collect information such as your IP address and the pages you navigate in the website, and may set a cookie to enable the widgets to function properly. Your interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.

Legal disclosures and business transfers
We may be required by law to preserve or disclose your personal information and service data to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to meet national security requirements. We may disclose personal information and service data to a third party if we believe that such disclosure is necessary for preventing fraud, spam filtering, investigating any suspected illegal activity, enforcing our agreements or policies, or protecting the safety of our users. In the unlikely event that we sell our business or get acquired or merged, we will ensure that the acquiring entity is legally bound to honor our commitments to you.

Notification of changes
We may modify the Privacy Policy at any time, upon notifying you through a service announcement or by sending an email to your primary email address. If we make significant changes to the Privacy Policy that affect your rights, you will be provided with at least 30 days' advance notice of the changes by email to your primary email address. If you think that the updated Privacy Policy affects your rights with respect to your use of our products or services, you may terminate your use by sending us an email within 30 days.