Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and disclose Your information when You use our Service is mentioned below in this Privacy Policy Statement. It further states Your privacy rights and how You are protected by the law.

We utilize Your Personal Information To Provide and Enhance Our service. By accessing Our service, you agree to the gathering and use of data in accordance with this Privacy Policy statement.

Interpretations and Definitions

Interpretation 

Capitalized letters in the words mentioned below have meanings stated under the following conditions. The following definitions shall mean the same irrespective of whether they are mentioned in singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this statement:

  • You mean the person accessing or using Our service, the company or other legal entity accessing or using the service on behalf of such an individual, as applicable. You can be addressed as the Data Subject, or as the user utilizing Our service.
  • Company (Addressed as either “Our”, “Us”, “we” or “the Company” in this Privacy Policy Statement) refers to SmartPoint Technologies Pvt Ltd, Futura TechPark, 334 Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Sholinganallur. For GDPR purposes, the company is the data controller.
  • Affiliate refers to an entity that has controls, is controlled, or is under shared control with a party, where “control” is defined as ownership of 50% or more of the equity interest, shares, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of managing authorities.
  • Account means the creation of a unique account that only You can use to access our service or to access parts of our service.
  • Service refers to the website.
  • Country refers to Our location that is Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Service Provider means any legal entity that processes and provides data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals that the Company has employed for facilitating the Service or to perform services related to or assist the company in analyzing how the service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, service providers are considered Data Processors.
  • Third-Party Social Media Service refers to any website that may or may not be a social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the service.
  • Personal Data is any data that relates to an individual who is identified or is identifiable for the purposes for GDPR. Personal data pertains to information such as Your name, identification number, location data, online identifier, or to one or more factors relating to the genetic, mental, physiological, physical, social, or cultural identity. For CCPA purposes, any identifiable information that relates to, defines, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly with You is referred to as Personal Data.
  • Cookies are small files of data that are stored in Your computer, smartphone device, or any other device by a website. Cookies contain the details of your browsing history on that website besides many other uses.
  • Device is any hardware device that can access the Service such as a laptop, desktop, smartphone, or a digital tablet.
  • Usage Data is the information that is either gather automatically or generated by the use of the Service from the Service’s infrastructure itself.
  • Data Controller – for GDPR purposes, Data Controller refers to the Company as the legal entity which either alone or with joint persons defines the objectives and means of the processing of Personal Data.
  • Do Not Track refers to a concept in the industry by which users can control the tracking of their online activities from websites. 
  • Business, as per CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that gathers the personal information of consumers and determines the purposes and means of the processing of their information, or on behalf of such information is gathered and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information.
  • Sale means selling, releasing, renting, transferring, making available, disseminating, or otherwise communicating in writing, orally, or by electronic means or any other, a user’s personal information to another business or a third party.

Collection and Use of Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

When You use Our Service, We may ask You to give us specific personal information that we can use to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
  • Usage Data
Usage Data

When You use Our Service, the Usage Data is collected automatically.

Usage Data includes information such as the IP address of your device, type of browser, version of the browser, the pages of Our Service you visit, how long You spend on those pages, and other diagnostic data.

Usage Data we may collect when You use Our Service from a mobile device includes but is not limited to the type of mobile you use, its IP address, Operating System, Browser type, and other diagnostic data.

We may also gather data that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our website.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

To track your activity on Our Service and store specific information, we use Cookies and other similar tracking technologies. We use tracking technologies in the form of tags, scripts, and beacons to gather the information that helps analyze and improve Our Service.

You can configure Your Browser to deny all Cookies or to notify You when a Cookie is being sent. However, by refusing Cookies, you may not be able to access some parts of Our Service.

There are two types of Cookies. They are “Persistent” and “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies stay on your computer or mobile device when you go offline. Whereas session Cookies are truncated as soon as you close your web browsing session. 

We use a combination of both persistent and session Cookies for the purposes mentioned below:

  • Necessary/Essential Cookies Type: Session cookies Administered by: Us

Purpose: Essential cookies are important to provide Services and for allowing you to use some of the website’s features. They prevent fraudulent use of user accounts by authenticating user profiles. Without these Cookies, the website may not work properly.

  • Cookies Policy/Notice Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent cookies Administered by: Us

These cookies confirm if the user using our Service has accepted the use of Cookies on the website.

  • Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent cookies Administered by: Us

Functionality Cookies enable us to remember the choices you make when you use the website. That includes saving your login details and language preference. These Cookies allow us to offer you a personalized experience and lets you avoid having to re-enter your preferences every time you use our website.

  • Tracking and Performance Cookies Type: Persistent cookies Administered by: Third-Parties

These Cookies gather information about the traffic to the website and how individuals use the Website. The data collected using these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. We may also use tracking cookies to test and optimize ads, pages, features, or new website functionalities.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Your Personal Data for the following reasons:

  • To offer and maintain our Service, including monitoring Your usage of our Service.
  • To manage Your Account and to manage your registration onto Our Service. The Personal Data you choose to provide us with gives you access to various functionalities of the Services that are available to you as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract, that is the undertaking, development, and compliance of the purchase contract for the products, services, or items you have purchased from us through Our Services.
  • To contact you by e-mail, telephone calls, SMS, or other similar forms of electronic communication such as mobile notifications concerning updates regarding new functionalities, products, or contracted services, including service updates.
  • To offer you new announcements, discounts, and other general information about other goods, events, and services which we offer that are similar to the Services you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have chosen not to receive such news.
  • To manage your requests and to handle your requests to Us.

SmartPoint may share your Personal Data in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers – Service Providers may receive your personal information from us to monitor and assess the use of our Service, and to contact You.
  • For Business Transfers – During events such as mergers, acquisition of all or a part of our business to another company, financing, and sale of Company assets, we may share your information.
  • With Affiliates – We may share Your information with our affiliates. They include Our parent company and other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that are in control of or are under common control with us.
  • With Business Partners – We may share your information with our partners to provide you with better product recommendations, services, and discounts.
  • With other users – When You send personal information or interact with other users, such information may be in public view and may get distributed outside. Third-party social media websites may be able to see Your and the other user’s interaction with each other such as names, pictures, profiles, and activity descriptions.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy Statement. The Company retains and uses your Personal Data to abide by legal obligations, resolve legal conflicts, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain your Usage Data for internal assessment purposes. Usage Data is usually retained for a short period, except when we use it to strengthen our security or to improve our service. Then, we are legally obligated to store the data for longer periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

The Company processes your information, including Personal Data at Our offices and other places where the parties involved in the processing are situated. It means that we have the rights to transfer to and maintain this data on computers that are situated outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you give The Company consent to transfer your Personal Data.

We take maximum measures to make sure that your data is treated fairly and in accordance with this Privacy statement. The Company does not transfer your Personal Data unless there are adequate security steps to safeguard your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

In the event of an acquisition, merger, or asset sale, the Company may choose to transfer your Personal Data. We will provide prior intimation before your Personal Data is transferred and subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under legal circumstances, we may be required to hand over your Personal Data to the law if they require so in response to valid requests by law enforcement authorities.

Other legal requirements

The Company may share your Personal Data when it is necessary to:

  • Abide by a legal obligation.
  • Protect and safeguard the rights or property of the Company.
  • Stall or investigate possible wrongdoings in connection with the Service.
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of Our Service.
  • Seek protection against legal liability.

Security of your Personal Data

We value your Personal Data and take special steps to protect it. But remember that no data that is transmitted over the internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee its absolute security. 

Detailed information on the processing of your Personal Data

Service Providers who have access to Your Personal Data for executing tasks are obligated not to share your information for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to analyze and optimize our Service.

  • Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that keeps a track of and reports website traffic. Google collects the data for monitoring how our Service is used. This information is shared with other Google services. Google uses the data it collects to contextualize and personalize its ads. You can choose to not disclose your activity to Google Analytics by installing a browser add-on that allows you to do so. The add-on stops Google Analytics Javascript from disclosing information with the analytics service regarding visits activity. To know more about the privacy practices of Google, please visit Google’s Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Email Marketing

We may make use of your Personal Data to contact You with relevant marketing, promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to You. You may choose to opt-out of getting any communications from Us by clicking on the Unsubscribe link in the email you receive from us or by contacting Us.

For managing and sending emails to You, we may use Email marketing service providers such as:

  • Mailchimp is an email marketing automation platform provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. To know more about the privacy practices of the platform, please visit their Privacy Policy at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
  • AWeber is an email marketing sending service offered by AWeber Communications. For more information on its privacy practices, please visit its Privacy Statement at https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm.

Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous

The Company may make use of third-party Service Providers to provide better Service to You.

  • Invisible reCAPTCHA is an invisible captcha service that is operated by Google. It may gather information from You and Your Device for security purposes. The data the reCAPTCHA collects is in accordance with the Privacy Statement of Google. https://policies.google.coma/privacy?hl=en

GDPR Privacy

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We value the confidentiality of your personal information. In accordance with that, You can exercise specific rights.

As per this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, You have the right to:

  • Request access to Your personal data. The right to access, update or delete the data we have on You. You can access your accounts section to access, update or request the deletion of the information we have on You. If you are unable to perform these actions, please reach out to Us to assist You. You can also choose to receive a copy of your Personal Data.
  • Request correction of the Personal Data that We have of You. You have the right to correct any incorrect or incomplete information We hold about You.
  • Object to processing of Your Personal Data. If you have a legitimate reason to object to our processing of your Personal Data, then you have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to request Us to delete Your Personal Data when there is no proper reason for Us to continue to hold or process it.
  • Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. Upon your request, We will provide Your Personal Data in a structured, machine-readable format to You or a third party You have chosen. Please remember that this right is only valid to automated data which You had initially provided permission for Us or where We used the data to perform a contract with you.
  • Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent to allow us to use Your Personal Data. Doing so may render us unable to provide you with access to specific functionalities of Our Service.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

By contacting Us, You may exercise Your rights of access, cancellation, rectification and opposition. When you choose to exercise Your rights, we may ask You to confirm your Identity before executing those actions. 

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about the way We collect and use Your Personal Data. If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you can find more information on your GDPR Data Protection Rights by contacting Your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Facebook Fan Page

Data Controller for the Facebook Fan Page

We act as the Data Controller of Your Personal Data when You use Our Service. As the administrator of the Facebook Fan Page https://business.facebook.com/SmartPointTechnologies/, the Company and the operator of the social networking platform – Facebook are Joint Controllers.

The Company has entered into agreements with the social networking website. That defines the terms for how we use the Facebook Fan Page among other things. Most of the terms are based on Facebook’s Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

For more information on how Facebook manages your personal information, you can visit Facebook’s Privacy Policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Alternatively, you can contact Facebook at Facebook, Inc. ATTN, Privacy Operations, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.

Facebook Insights

We gain Insights from Facebook as per GDPR for obtaining anonymized statistical data about Our users.

To allow us to gain insights, Facebook places Cookies on the devices of users who visit our Facebook Fan Page. Each Cookie contains a unique identifier code that remains active for a time period of two years, unless if it is deleted before the end of this two-year period.

Facebook collects, stores, and processes the data stored in the Cookie, especially when users use the Facebook services, services that are offered by other members of the Facebook Fan Page, and services by other companies that use services provided by Facebook.

To get more information on the privacy measures Facebook takes, please visit its Privacy Policy Statement at https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy.

CCPA Privacy

Your Rights Under the CCPA

If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights as per this Privacy Policy:

  • The right to notice. You must be given proper notice as to what categories of Personal Data are being gathered about you and for what purposes they are being used.
  • The right to access / to request. You can get information from the Company that concerns the sharing of Your Personal Data and the information that has been gathered in the past 12 months by either the Company, or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes. 
  • The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You have the right to ask the Company to not sell Your personal information to third parties. You can exercise this right by visiting the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.
  • The right to know about your Personal Data. You have the right to get Company information regarding the sharing of the following:
  • The categories of Personal Data We collect about You
  • The sources from which We collect Your Personal Data
  • The purpose of collecting or selling your Personal Data
  • Categories of third parties with whom We share your Personal Data
  • Specific Personal Information we have collected about You
  • The right to delete Personal Data. You also reserve the right to request the erasure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months.
  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for using any of Your consumer’s rights, including by:
  • Denying services or goods to You
  • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of offers or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Offering goods or services that are of a different level or quality.
  • Suggesting that You will receive a different price for services or goods or a different quality or level of goods and services.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

If You are a California resident, you can contact us by either emailing, calling, or visiting the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or web page.

The Company will share and deliver the required data free of charge within 45 days of getting Your verification request. The time period to offer the requested information maybe be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We respect your personal information and do not sell it. However, our partner Service Providers may use forms of technology that “sells” your Personal Data as defined by CCPA law.

If you want to opt out of having your personal information for internet-based marketing purposes, you may do so by following the instructions below.

It is important to note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. To opt out completely, You may need to opt out on all the browsers that You use.

Website

You can opt out of getting ads that are personalized by following the instructions present on Our Service:

  • From Our “Cookie Consent” notice banner
  • Or from our “CCPA Opt-out” notice banner
  • Or from our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” notice banner
  • Or from our “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link

By opting out, a Cookie will be placed on Your device that is unique to the browser you use to opt out. If you decide to change browsers or delete the cookies, you will need to opt out again.

Mobile devices

Your smartphone device may give you the ability to decline the use of information about the apps you use for serving targeted ads that are of your interest:

  • “Opt out of Internet-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices.
  • “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices.

You can also halt the gathering of location information via your mobile device by changing the settings on your mobile device.

“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Do Not Track signals do not elicit a response from Our Service.

Some third-party websites do store a record of Your browsing activities. When You are visiting such websites, You can change the settings in Your web browser to let websites know that you don’t want to be tracked. You can enable or disable “Do Not Track” by visiting the settings page of Your web browser.

Link to Other Websites

Our Service may have links to external websites that are not operated by Us. By clicking on the third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. We strongly recommend You to peruse the Privacy Policy of any site You visit.

We do not have any control over and assume no responsibility for the content, practices, or privacy policies of third-party sites or services.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may make changes to our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will inform You of any updates by publishing the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know through email and/or a strong notice on Our Service, before the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We advise you to regularly review this Privacy Statement. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective from when they are published on this page.

Contact us

If you have any doubts about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us: