PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) has been drafted and published in accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011.

PlasmaGen Biosciences Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as “PGB” “We”, “Us”, “Company” or “Our”) is concerned about the privacy of the users (hereinafter referred to as “You”, “Your” or “User”) of its website located at https://plasmagen.in. (“Website”). This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures for collection, use, storage, processing, disclosure and protection of any information, including, but not limited to, business or personal information provided by You while using the Website.

This policy constitutes a legal agreement between You, as the user of the Website, and the Company, as the owner of the Website. You must be a natural person who is at least 18 years of age. If You are less than 18 years of age, please read through this Privacy Policy with Your parent or legal guardian, and in such a case this Privacy Policy shall be deemed to be a contract between the Company and Your legal guardian or parent and to the extent permissible under applicable laws, enforceable against You.

By visiting or accessing the Website and voluntarily providing Us with information (personal and/ or non- personal), You are consenting to Our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites/ applications that are connected via links to the Website. If You do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not proceed further to use and access this Website.

Your use of the Website will be governed by this Privacy Policy as applicable to the Website together with all policies, notices, guidelines, disclaimers that are published and shared with You from time to time which are incorporated herein by way of reference including but not limited to Terms of Use and such other terms as may be applicable to You in Your capacity as a user of the website. This Privacy Policy shall be enforceable against You in the same manner as any other written agreement.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. You must periodically review the Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Your information provided by You is used, processed, disclosed and stored in accordance with the applicable laws. The information stored in such manner shall be protected by the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this Privacy Policy. Company’s Privacy Policy explains:

  1. What information is collected and why such information is collected;
  2. How such information is used;
  3. How such information can be accessed and updated.

Please read the following Privacy Policy to learn about Our information gathering and dissemination practices.

Information We Collect

During Your use of the Website including access to and/or downloading any content/ newsletters/publications provided on the Website and with respect to Your application to apply for a career opportunity under the tab ‘Career’, Business enquiry under the tab ‘Marketing & Sales’ and ‘Other’ (“Programmes”) on Our Website, We may collect and process such information from You, including but not limited to the information mentioned below:

(a) Personal Information: This includes the information that can be used to uniquely identify or contact You. In order to consider Your application for the Programmes, We may collect a variety of personal information, including but not limited to, Your name, postal address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, etc.

The personal information is collected from You in a voluntary fashion when You provide your credentials on the Website. You may choose to not provide such personal information to Us.

You are required to ensure that Your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete and up to date by logging into Your Account (as defined under the Terms of User), if required, should You choose to create one on Our Website. We shall also provide You with the opportunity to request correction of data relating to Your personal information if the same is inaccurate or delete the data. Further, We may decline to process requests which We find to be contrary to the terms laid down under this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use or any applicable laws, or which require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others or are extremely impractical.

(b) Non-Personal Information: Non-Personal Information is any information that does not reveal Your specific identity, such as, browser information, information collected through Cookies (as defined below), pixel tags and other technologies, demographic information, etc. As is true with most websites, Our Website gathers some information automatically when You visit the URL of the Website and stores it in log files. When You use the Website, We may collect certain information about Your computer to facilitate, evaluate and verify Your use of the Website. For example, We may store environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, speed of the central processing unit (CPU), referring or exit web pages, click patterns and the internet protocol (IP) address of Your computer. This information is generally collected in aggregate form, without necessarily identifying any user individually. However, We may also employ geo-tagging to ascertain the location from where You have accessed our Website, and such data shall be used by Us to ascertain your identity upon You revisiting our Website.

Cookies: Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on a User’s PC when the User accesses a Website. The Website may use temporary cookies to help you access some of the special functions within the database driven areas of the Website. Once you leave Our Website, these cookies expire.

Use of the Information

We, or third parties authorised by Us, may use the information provided by You in the following ways, viz:

  1. Review the information provided by You for the Programmes in Your application in order to ascertain Your eligibility for the Programmes;
  2. Asses Your credentials including but not limited to educational qualifications, work experience as specified in Your application for shortlisting or selection for the Programme;
  3. To conduct any background checks if required as the Company may deem fit;
  4. To update You about the status of Your application and provide You any agreed assistance or support with respect to the Programme;
  5. To update You upon the development and news in relation to the Programmes;
  6. To collect any monies owed by You to the Company;
  7. Provide You updates for any events conducted by the Company;
  8. To contact You, either with respect to any employment opportunities, in addition to the Programme and assess Your candidature for the relevant job or for business enquiry as and when suitable;
  9. Conduct research and analysis to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities on the Website;
  10. Analyze how the Website is used, diagnose service or technical problems, maintain security;
  11. To help You efficiently access the Website;
  12. Monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of viewers, visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns;
  13. To notify You regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with Your account, to resolve a dispute, to confirm Your identity in order to ensure that You are eligible to Use the Website;
  14. For advertising and marketing communications. We may also share Non-Personal Information with third parties such as, Our advertisers, sponsors, investors, business partners;
  15. To carry out Our obligations and to process transactions arising from any contracts entered into between You and Us;
  16. To notify You about changes on the Website;
  17. Notify You, if possible, in the event We become aware of any breach of the security of Your information and take appropriate action to the best of Our ability to remedy such a breach;
  18. To enable Us to comply with legal and regulatory obligations;
  19. To enable us to allow you to access and/or download any content/newsletters/publications.

We will use and retain Your information for such periods as necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce Our agreements.

Information Security

(a) We use reasonable safeguards to protect and preserve the integrity and security of Your information against unauthorized access, loss, theft, unauthorised, reproduction, use or amendment, disclosure or destruction of information We hold. We use reasonable security practices and have in place information security programme, procedures, standards and security policies to protect your information. We encrypt Our services using secure server software, which is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure transactions. We use reasonable security practices and procedures and use secure servers as mandated under applicable laws for the protection of Your information. We review Our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems.

(b) We limit the disclosure of Personal Information to Our employees, independent contractors including vendors, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers and distributors of Our services, on a “need-to-know” basis, and only if the disclosure will enable that entity to provide Us with business, professional, or technical support or fulfill Your request. However, We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive Your Personal Information. We shall not be liable for any loss or injury caused to You as a result of You providing Your Personal Information to third party (including any third party websites) even if links to such third party websites are provided on the Website.

(c) As a registered user with an Account (if applicable), You are responsible for keeping Your password confidential. By submitting Your information on Our Website, You agree to the handling of Your information by the Company in a manner as stated under this Privacy Policy. We will take such steps as We consider reasonably necessary to ensure that Your information is treated securely and in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

(d) By using the Website, You accept the inherent security implications of data transmission over the internet and the world wide web cannot always be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, Your use of the Website will be at Your own risk.

(e) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Privacy Policy or elsewhere, the Company shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of Your Personal Information, if such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event (as defined below). A "Force Majeure Event" shall mean any event that is beyond Our reasonable control and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer, computer system or computer network, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption (provided beyond Our reasonable control), power or electricity failure or unavailability of adequate power or electricity.

(f) You agree and acknowledge that We shall retain all information provided by You until such time as is required by the applicable law or until it is required for Our internal use, whichever is later.

Information We Share

(a) Company may disclose any information provided by You on the Website as may be deemed to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside Your Country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside Your Country of residence; (d) to enforce Our Terms of Use; (e) to protect Our operations or those of any of Our affiliates; (f) to protect Our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of Our affiliates, You or others; and (g) to allow Us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that We may sustain.

(b) We may share personal information with other corporate entities and affiliates to help detect and prevent identity theft, fraud and other potentially illegal acts and to prevent abuse of Our Website or Programme. We may disclose personal information to Our third party providers including but not limited to those who provide products or services such as contact information verification, payment processing, website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, auditing services and other similar services. In such an event, the third parties’ use of Your information will be bound, among other things, by confidentiality obligation and the Privacy Policy. We may store information in locations outside the direct control of the Company (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).

(c) The Company may be involved in the transaction of a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, business re-organization, bankruptcy etc. During such a process, it may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets which may include Your information. However, in such an event of sale or transfer, the Company shall reasonably ensure that Your information collected and stored by the Company is stored and used by the transferee in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any such third party to whom We transfer or sell shall have the right to continue to use the information that You provide to Us or collected by Us immediately prior to such transfer or sale. On completion of the sale or transfer, the Privacy Policy of the third party shall apply with respect to Your information. To stay updated about such business transactions, please read this Policy from time to time.

(d) We assume no liability for any disclosure of information due to errors in transmission, unauthorised third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond Our reasonable control and You agree that You will not hold Us responsible for any breach of security unless such breach has been caused as a direct result of Our gross negligence or wilful default.

Change in Privacy Policy

Company may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way the Company treats Your Personal Information, Company will display a notice on the Website. Unless stated otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies to all information that Company has about You. Notwithstanding the above, Company shall not be required to notify You of any changes made to the Privacy Policy. If You use the Website after notice of changes published on the Website, You hereby provides Your consent to the changed practices.

Choice/Opt-Out

(a)Company provides all its Users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications from Us or on behalf of Our partners after setting up an Account.

(b) If You want to remove Your contact information from all Our lists and newsletters, please write to us at info@plasmagen.in with “unsubscribe” as the subject.

Exclution

(a)This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information other than such information collected by the Company through the Website. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information the User provides Us through this Website or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Website. All such unsolicited information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and the Company shall be free to use, process or disclose such unsolicited information without any limitations.

(b) We make no representation that the content contained on the Website is appropriate or to be used or accessed outside of the Republic of India. The Company’s responsibility with respect to such information shall be as per the laws of Republic of India. If the User uses or accesses the Website from outside the Republic of India, the User does so at the User’s own risk and is responsible for compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction.

Severability

We have taken every effort to ensure that this Privacy Policy adheres with the applicable laws. The invalidity or unenforceability of any part of this Policy shall not prejudice or affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information other than the information collected by the Company through the Website. This Privacy Policy shall be inapplicable to any unsolicited information You provide Us through this Website or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted in any public areas of the Website. All unsolicited information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and the Company shall be free to use and/ or disclose such unsolicited information without any limitations.

Waiver

Any rights or remedies under this Privacy Policies may be waived only in writing. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any such right or remedy does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy, or any other right or remedy.

Disclaimer

Please be advised that any sensitive personal information procured by Us, shall be:

i. processed fairly and lawfully;

ii. obtained only for specified and lawful purposes, and not be used in any manner which is against the law or policy in force in India;

iii. adequate, relevant, and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which it is required;

iv. able to be reviewed by the User, from time to time and updated-if need arises; and

v. not kept longer than for the time which it is required or the purpose for which it is required.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Terms of Use are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website or this Terms of Use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Questions and Grievances

Your grievances, questions or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to Our HR/Grievance officer mentioned below:

Name: Mr. Awadhesh Tiwari

Email Id: awadhesh@plasmagen.in