Your privacy and the protection of your sensitive personal information are important to us. Because we collect and/or store certain information from and about you, it is necessary for you to understand and agree to our privacy policy. By using the Company’s website (“Site”) and the services provided on or through the Site (“Services”), you consent to the Privacy Policy of the Company.

This Policy discloses which information do we collect about you and how do we use it. We also detail below our security policy, which describes how your sensitive personal information is protected both electronically and physically.

Information that we may collect from you and about you

We may collect personal and personally identifiable information from you while you use our Site and/or the Services. The information may need to be submitted during registration or may be asked by us at a later stage or may be captured automatically by our systems, depending on your use of the Site and/or the Services. Some of the information that is sought from you must be provided and some is optional.

In addition to the above information, we also gather names and email addresses of people who contact us through our Site with questions about us or the Services. We collect this information for the sole purpose of responding to such inquiries and do not use the contact information unless consented to by those people.

We also collect information about your computer and your visits to our Site, such as your IP address, IMAC address (or any other similar unique identifier) geographical location, browser type, length of visit, and page views through the use of log files. We use this information in the administration of our Site, research and analysis for improving our Site and Services, to evaluate the success of particular marketing/advertising campaigns, search engine optimization strategies, marketing activities, and for keeping a record of the transactions entered into through the Site. We maintain such information in our logs. We use also use such information for optimizing our Site.

No personal or personally identifiable information about any user that is collected will ever be distributed to any third party for any purpose, in any manner that is contrary to applicable laws and regulations.

How and When Your Information Is Shared With Other Parties

We may share your information with law enforcement or other government agencies as required by law or for the purposes of limiting fraud. We reserve the right to disclose your personal and personally identifiable information when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

Company works with a number of trusted partners that perform vital functions as part of our operations. Information is shared with these third parties only to the extent necessary for us to process the transactions you initiate or perform other specific services or for protection of legal rights. Our partners are legally and contractually required to keep your information private and secure.

You can view and change/update your information

You can access all of your personal and personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by visiting your profile in the My Account section of our Site (if applicable). This section of the site is password-protected to better safeguard your information, and if you need to change any other information in your profile, or if you have any questions relating to your privacy, you can contact us at [email protected]

Communications from our Site

When you register on our Site, you will receive emails that confirm specific actions you requested. You will receive e-mail notifications confirming your registration, the successful verification of email addresses, and other information that requires verification or confirmation. We may also send you responses to emails you send us or queries posted by you, if applicable. From time to time, we may also send user surveys, requests for user feedback regarding your experience of the Site or Services or marketing offers. The completion of these surveys or requests for feedback or acceptance of any offer is strictly voluntary.

Passwords

At a minimum, we require the use of both numbers and letters in your password. We have also instituted secure steps by which you can regain access to your account should you forget your password, including the use of a security question. Your password is not known to any employee or a third party with whom we may partner, and we will never ask for your password as a means of identifying yourself. You should never share your password with anyone, and if you ever receive an email purporting to come from us that asks for your password, you should immediately report this development to [email protected]

Web-related Information Collection

We use cookies on our web site, including session ID cookies, non-persistent cookies, and persistent cookies. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the webserver to identify and track the web browser and load the pages according to a user’s preferences for that particular site, including the personalization of content. Cookies are also used to gather statistical data, such as which pages are visited, what is downloaded, the ISP’s domain name and country of origin, and the addresses of sites visited immediately before, and after coming to our site, as well as your “clickstream” activity (meaning, the paths taken by visitors to our site as they navigate from page to page) and transactional attributes in accordance with the information, you voluntarily submit in the course of using our site. This anonymous data is aggregated for analysis to ensure proper functioning of our site, in terms of navigation and usability, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. At no time do any of our cookies capture any personally identifiable information. 

More importantly, using cookies also helps us protect the security of your account. Session ID cookies follow your activities on our site so that we can ensure that no one is making changes to your profile on your behalf. This information is encrypted and no personal data about you is stored on our servers.

We may send a cookie that can be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of our web site, to improve its usability and for evaluating our marketing effectiveness as described above. We may also use that information to recognize your computer when you visit our web site (if you select the “remember me on this computer” option, and to personalize our web site for you. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector). Blocking cookies, however, can also have a negative impact on the usability of many web sites.

Cookies may have long-term expiration dates, or none, and thus can stay in your hard drive for months at a time. While you can remove them as instructed by the help content in your chosen browser, disabling cookies will prevent you from using our site. As with many transactional web sites, cookies must be enabled in order to use our site.

We use third-party tracking services that use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate (such as page views and referral page information) to track the success of our marketing efforts to bring people to our site as well as overall site performance. 

Compliance with Laws

Since the Site and the Company is resident in India, we comply with all applicable Indian laws. Indian laws require us to keep your personal and sensitive information private and take adequate security measures for keeping your personal and sensitive information secure. We may also be required to maintain your personal and sensitive information with us for a given period of time in order to be compliant with applicable laws. We take all steps to ensure compliance with all applicable laws at all times.

Security Policy

We have in place adequate safeguards for protecting your personal and sensitive information through strict policies and procedures, both electronically and physically. All data collected by the Company is considered highly confidential, and is maintained in a pass-word protected environment. The security of the data is achieved through a combination of network firewalls and servers with hardened operating systems. All our systems and servers are housed in a secure facility. Access to the systems and servers, both physical and electronic, is controlled and sanctioned by a high-ranking officer of the Company.

Changes to this Policy

The Company reserves the right to make changes to this Policy. If we do this, we will notify you of any such changes by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Site or by sending you an e-mail. You should check this Privacy Policy link on our Site periodically for changes. All changes shall be effective upon posting or communication.

Your Queries

In case you have any doubts or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, you may write to us at [email protected] 

Legal/Terms of Use

Alliance Knowledge Partners is an Indian entity. The following Terms will be governed and interpreted as per the laws of India. This ‘Legal/Terms of Use” section constitutes the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of the Alliance Knowledge Partners Site.

These Terms govern your access and use of this web site. By accessing or using the Alliance Knowledge Partners web site, you indicate your full acceptance and acknowledgement of these terms and conditions. Alliance Knowledge Partners may modify these terms and conditions from time-to-time as posted on this web site.

To read Alliance Knowledge Partners’s policies on data collection, storage and use, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Usage of Site

The information contained and accessed on this site is for general guidance and is intended to offer the user general information of interest. The information provided is not intended to replace or serve as substitute for any audit, advisory, tax or other professional advice, consultation or service. Please note – this does not constitute an offer for our services or a contractual obligation to perform a service for a client unless agreed upon mutually in a written contract. We suggest that you fill up our inquiry/contact us form or inquiry forms on respective practice pages to obtain such services.

Restrictions on use

As content on the Site (including any concepts, ideas, methods, procedures, processes, know-how, techniques, programs, publications, models, products templates, technologies, software, designs, art work, graphics and information on or described in the Site) are owned and/or copyrighted by Alliance Knowledge Partners unless specified otherwise. Alliance Knowledge Partners content (all forms) may be copyrighted, proprietary and subject to intellectual property or other rights (which rights are owned by Alliance Knowledge Partners), any unauthorized use of any materials on the Site may violate copyright, trademark and other laws or applicable intellectual property or other rights.

Permission is granted to download materials from this web site for your informational and personal (i.e., non-commercial) use only, and is limited to one copy. Any other reproduction or editing by any means, mechanical or electronic, without the express written permission of Alliance Knowledge Partners is strictly prohibited. You may not refer to the URL of this web site nor link to this web site without the prior written approval of Alliance Knowledge Partners.

Users are encouraged to print or distribute content (e.g., via link on a social network) provided that:

• The intended use of the content is purely personal and non-commercial.
• All copyright, trademark and similar notices are retained.
• The content is not used as or implies that Alliance Knowledge Partners  is providing a testimonial or endorsement of an organization, its products or services.

Materials on the Site may not be modified, reproduced, publicly displayed, performed, distributed or used for any public or commercial purposes without explicit written permission from the appropriate content or material provider (including third-party links). Alliance Knowledge Partners bears no risk, responsibility or liability in the event that a user does not obtain such explicit written permission as advised by Alliance Knowledge Partners .

You agree that Alliance Knowledge Partners may, in its sole discretion, at any time terminate your access to the web site and any account(s) you may have in connection with the web site. Alliance Knowledge Partners may also monitor access to the web site.

Trademarks & Logos

The Alliance Knowledge Partners name and logo are registered trademarks and other product and service names mentioned on the Site may be the registered trademarks or trademarks of Alliance Knowledge Partners. Use of these marks requires express prior permission from and a license agreement with Alliance Knowledge Partners. Unauthorized use of these and any other of Alliance Knowledge Partners’ logo or trademarks will be prohibited to the fullest extent of the law. To request this written approval, contact the webmaster or use the “Contact us” feature.

Linked Sites

Third-party links may be provided as a convenience to our users. Alliance Knowledge Partners does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. Alliance Knowledge Partners vigorously protects its reputation and trademarks and Alliance Knowledge Partners reserves the right to request removal of any link to our web site. The privacy policy and terms of use applicable on these other web sites may be different from those on the Alliance Knowledge Partners Site. If you choose to access a site linked to from the Alliance Knowledge Partners Site, you shall do so at your own risk and Alliance Knowledge Partners has no liability for any loss or damage arising due to your use of these sites.

The following web link activities are explicitly prohibited by Alliance Knowledge Partners and may present trademark and copyright infringement issues:

• Linking activities that involves unauthorized use of our logo/trademarks
• A form of link that disguises the URL and/or bypasses the homepage or pages containing the entity copyright, legal disclaimer and online policy statement.

Submissions

Personal Information that may be collected by Alliance Knowledge Partners is shared by you voluntarily via the web site and is governed by the terms detailed in our Privacy Policy.

You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the material you submit, and you have full responsibility for the message and its legality.

Restriction of Liability

Despite Alliance Knowledge Partners’ efforts to provide accurate information, it is not possible to completely ensure that all information posted on this web site is constantly correct. Alliance Knowledge Partners assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the materials on the server. THIS WEB SITE AND ALL INFORMATION, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED HEREIN IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The materials are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment of Alliance Knowledge Partners.

Alliance Knowledge Partners AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES, INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE Alliance Knowledge Partners SITE.