PRIVACY POLICY
Addrey Consultancy is a cyberspace consulting firm based out of India with a comprehensive domestic and global practice portfolio. Addrey Consultancy was started in the year 2018 by Managing Partner Paathik Muni and Ankita Verma.
This knowledge-site (www.adreyconsultancy.com) is owned and operated by Parents company (“Addrey Consultancy”), and is a resource for your informational and educational purposes only.
Our Privacy Policy is designed and developed to ensure the privacy and security of your personal information provided to us. We follow this Policy in accordance with applicable laws, including but not limited to the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
In this Policy, and wherever so relevant, the words ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ shall be deemed to mean Addrey Consultancy, and the words ‘its’, ‘you’ and ‘your’ ‘user” shall, wherever the context so requires, mean and include the user using our website.
It is clarified that for the purposes of this website, the laws of the of India shall be applicable law. By using our website, and clicking on the ‘I Agree’ button at the bottom of the Disclaimer on the homepage of the website, the User agrees to the terms of this Policy as if set-out in the Disclaimer itself.
We do not warrant that any content or information contained on this knowledge-site is accurate, correct, complete or up-to-date, and hereby disclaims any and all liability to any person for any actual or threatened loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident or otherwise. Adery Consultancy assumes no liability for the interpretation and/or use of the content and/or information contained on this knowledge-site, nor does it offer any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied in relation to such content or information.
We do not intend that links / URLs contained on this knowledge-site re-directing users to third party websites be considered as referrals to, endorsements of, or affiliations with any such third party website operators. We are not responsible for, and makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, about the content or information contained on such third party websites to which links may be provided on this knowledge-site.
This knowledge-site is not intended to be and you should not consider the content or information contained therein to be an advertisement, solicitation, inducement or invitation for an Attorney-Client relationship. Transmission, receipt or use of this knowledge-site, including content and information contained therein, does not constitute nor create an Attorney-Client relationship between Addrey Consultancy and You.
1.General Information and Purpose of Website
1.1 By using our website, you (the User) are hereby consenting to collection of your information by us. However, it is clarified that we do not ask, solicit, expect, induce and/ or request you to share sensitive personal data or information. For the purposes of this Policy, the term ‘sensitive personal data or information’ shall mean and include personal information which consists of information relating to
1.1.1 Password;
1.1.2 Financial information such as bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details;
1.1.3. Physical, physiological and mental health conditions;
1.1.4. Sexual orientation;
1.1.5 Medical records and history;
1.1.6 Biometric information;
1.1.7 Any detail relating to the above clauses as provided to body corporate for providing service; and
1.1.8 Any of the information received under above clauses by body corporate for processing, stored or processed under lawful contract or otherwise; provided that any information that is freely available or accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force shall not be regarded as sensitive personal information.
- From whom we may collect
- Visitors of Website
1.2.2 Client Who use our services Job Applicants
- Current Employees
- Interns
- Attorneys of Addrey Consultancy
- Partners of Addrey Consultancy
1.3. Information Collection
Any information that can be used to uniquely identify a person. We may collect your personal information as required under laws and regulations and when you are a recipient of our services, apply for a position with us, or are employed or retained by us. The information we collect about you will depend on your relationship with us. We may also collect your personal data from other sources, including sources in the public domain. The information we may collect includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1.3.1 Your name, your employer and your title, postal address, phone number, date of birth and email address.
1.3.2 Details of your visits to any of our offices, including meeting dates and times.
1.3.3. Data related to your visit of our website or electronic mailers and updates that we may send to you from time to time.
1.3.4 In the case of employees, Attorneys and interns: certain financial information such as your bank account details and biometric information such as fingerprints.
1.3.5 Your contact with us, such as: an email or letter you send to us and other records of any contact you may have with us.
1.3.6 Your account information, such as: dates of payments made, owed or received.
Since we do not ask, solicit, expect, induce and/ or request you to share sensitive personal data or information with us (as set-out above), please note that we are under no obligation to protect such sensitive personal data or information even if shared by you of your own free volition. We request you to refrain from writing to us when such correspondence contains sensitive personal data or information under Applicable Law. By entering your name and e-mail address, and of your own free volition providing us any other document through this website or through any submission form as may be contained on this website, you agree to share such information and/ or document with us of your own free volition, and We shall in no way be said to have solicited, induced or otherwise requested you for providing us such information.
2.Usage of Information
Unless required by applicable data protection regulation, Addrey Consultancy will not disclose, use, give or distribute any personal information to third parties for any purposes other than to those third parties that need to know, and such need to know is necessary for delivery of services in relation to your engagement or employment with us.
We may disclose personal information to third parties where:
2.1 You have consented to us sharing your personal information in this way.
2.2 We are under a legal, regulatory or professional obligation to do so (for example, in order to comply with applicable laws) or to protect the rights and interests, property, or safety of Addrey Consultancy, our clients or others or the Nation at large.
2.3 It is relevant in the circumstances to disclose the information to our clients, your employer or place of business, and your professional advisers.
2.4 We use 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, and security services
2.5 Some of the third parties with whom we 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.
3. How We Protect Your Personal Information
Addrey Consultancy is committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We take all appropriate, industry standard security measures possible to protect your information against misuse, unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy, and 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 system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
4. Third Party Links
Our websites may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. Please note that this privacy statement applies only to the personal information that we collect through our websites or otherwise in the course of our business dealings, and we cannot be responsible for personal information that third parties may collect, store and use through their websites which an individual may access after clicking the links that may be provided on our websites. An individual should always carefully read the privacy policy of each website they visit even if some of them may be listed as micro site to main Addrey Consultancy site.
5. Data Security
The security, integrity and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures that are designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification. From time to time, we review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. However, please be aware that despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We follow a network-wide security policy. Only authorised personnel are provided access to sensitive personal information and these personnel have agreed to maintain confidentiality, security and integrity of this information. While we follow the standard industry practices and takes reasonable security measures to protect the personal information under our control, information may be disclosed through any unlawful or unauthorised access or regulatory environment and measures or interception of transmissions or private communications and other users and third parties may abuse or misuse an individual’s personal information. We disclaim all liability for error in transmissions and unauthorised access or interceptions, abuse or misuse by third parties and other users. However, we may be required to share the aforesaid information with government authorities and agencies for the purposes of verification of identity or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution and punishment of offences. Your use of our website expressly specifies that you agree and consent that we may disclose your information stored by us in accordance with this Policy if so required under Applicable Law.
6. Cookies
This section explains how we use cookies and similar technologies (we’ll refer to them collectively as “cookies”) to recognize you when you visit our Platform. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive. If you do not de-activate or erase the cookie, each time you use the same browser or mobile device to access the Platform, our web servers will be notified of your visit to the Platform and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage.
Cookies set by the website or app owner (in this case, Addrey Consultancy (www.adreyconsultancy.com) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Cookies can also be categorized as session cookies (which are erased once you close the browser or shut down the device) and persistent cookies (which remain even after closing the browser or shutting down the device/application and which are activated each time you visit the Platform). The session cookies use encrypted data to authenticate you. The persistent cookies do not store account numbers or passwords. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies.
Why we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical and/or security reasons in order for our Platform to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. First party cookies are mainly served to enable basic functionality on our Platform; including web analytics cookies that help us understand how users use our web pages and how we can improve their use.
We also use cookies to enable us to track and target the interests of Platform visitors to enhance the experience on our Platform by researching visiting patterns; assisting our partners to track user visits to the Platforms; and to track progress and participation in promotions. We use first and third party cookies for these purposes.
Cookies we use
The specific categories of first and third party cookies served through our Platform and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary):
Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for enabling access and use of our Platform. They provide necessary functionality to ensure the proper performance, security and functionality of our Platform. These cookies cannot be disabled.
Statistical Cookies: Statistical cookies including analytics cookies collect information in aggregate form to help us determine and understand how users interact with and use our Platform. We use this information to help us to improve and optimize our Platform and its security.
Personalisation and Service Cookies: These cookies are used to remember your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They remember your registration and login details and your settings and preferences such as language and region. They are also used to ensure you don’t have to login every time you use your browser to comment on articles and to ensure interactive services work effectively. Personalization cookies are also used to recommend content we think you’ll be interested in by serving and measuring relevant advertising, based on what you’ve looked at before.
Personalization cookies may also include social media cookies which are used to enable you to log into our Platform using your social media accounts and to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Platform through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.
Marketing Cookies: Marketing cookies help us to ensure that provide you with more targeted and relevant marketing. We will also use marketing cookies to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing communications by monitoring open rate and conversions.
Use of other tracking technologies, like web beacons
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to our Platform. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Platform or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Platform to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Platform from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
How can I control cookies?
You can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring the privacy setting of the browser you are using to access the Platform or the “privacy setting” of your device. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. If you adjust the privacy setting in the browser, your device will continue collecting data unless you adjust the privacy setting of the device, and vice versa.
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If you choose to set your web browser controls to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
Certain features of the Platform depend on cookies. Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies may be lost.
Google Analytics (More information) Our Platform uses Google Analytics, an internet analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google’s cookies allow us analyze use of the Platform by telling us which pages our users are viewing, which ones are most popular, what time of day our Platform are visited, if users have previously visited our Platform, from which website users are redirected to our Platform were and the like. The data generated by the cookie about your use of the Platform will be transmitted to Google and stored by Google on their servers.
The Platform uses an anonymization tool of IP addresses so that the IP addresses are truncated within the territory of the Member States of the European Union and the other members of the agreement on the European Economic Area. The non-truncated IP address are only exceptionally transmitted to Google’s servers and then truncated there.
Google uses the data on behalf of Addrey Consultancy (www.adreyconsultancy.com) to evaluate your use of the Platform, to compile reports on website activity for the website operators and for other website activity and internet usage services. Google may disclose this information to third parties under the terms of the law or for further processing by third parties on behalf of Google. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, visit:
The Google Help pages and Privacy Policy: Google Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy; and
The Google Analytics Help Center:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
The IP address that your browser will pass on to Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data stored by Google. Through your browser settings, you can block cookies; however, this can lead to problems with the use of some functionalities of the website.
You may also submit your curriculum vitae (CV) to us through the appropriate mechanism provided for on the website. However, it is expressly clarified that submission of your CV does not mean that we shall review it, nor does it under any circumstance imply that we shall write back to you either rejecting your proposal to work for us, or accepting it. Replying to any CVs received will be at Addrey Consultancy’s sole discretion, and you explicitly agree that you shall have no right or remedy in that regard. Submission of a CV does not also mean any solicitation, inducement or offer to work with us or for us or for any person(s) (either legal or natural) on our behalf. In the event that you choose to submit your CV to us, you agree to the conditions set-out in this paragraph.
8. Your rights regarding your information
You have the following rights with regard to your Personal Information:
You may request us to removal your personal information from Addrey Consultancy ’s systems at any time by emailing the address provided below. If a request for removal is made, we will exercise all reasonable efforts to promptly remove your personal information. However, we do no guarantee the permanent removal of your personal information, which may, for example, remain in archival or backup copies. Addrey Consultancy’s employees, interns, attorneys and consultants should note that such a request may impact your employment or engagement with us.
Some of the information we receive is not retained. Contact information about visitors (such as information generated though registration for access to areas on the site) will be kept as long as the information is required for the purposes for which it was collected or until a user requests that we delete that information or as required by law. Mailing list information, discussion posts and email are kept for only the period of time considered reasonable to facilitate the visitor’s requests. Information that is kept by us will be destroyed or deleted after a reasonable period from the time when it becomes outdated or is no longer required. We may, however, need to retain copies of information (which may include personal information) for internal record-keeping purposes and/or for compliance with applicable law or professional standards, whose requirements may be more than that of laws and rules requiring data protection and privacy. We may however choose to retain all information about you in case you are a client or have ever availed our services for our private records.
9. Change in Privacy Policy
Technologies and information governance practices are constantly developing. Hence we may therefore need to revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. You should therefore review this policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to its terms. We reserve the right to modify or amend this statement at any time with or without notice for legal, administrative and technical reasons. The effective date will be displayed at the beginning of this statement. We do not take responsibility whatsoever to apprise of any change in this policy.
10. Contact Details for Comments and Questions
Data.privacy@adrey.in
If an individual has any questions or grievances regarding anything covered by this privacy Policy, he or she can contact us Paathik.muni@adrey.in and we will take your suggestions into advisement and try to answer any such question you may have. However, such correspondence shall under no circumstances be said to be us giving you legal advice. Should you require any legal advice, we would recommend that you book an appointment with us or seek independent legal counsel in that regard, and not rely on this e-mail address to correspondent with us for legal advice or opinion.
Personal information including sensitive personal information provided to Addrey Consultancy through its website is provided voluntarily by visitors. Should visitors subsequently choose to withdraw their consent in respect of their personal information, unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations, we will provide instructions on the appropriate website area or in communications to our visitors. Alternatively.