Posted as of 07 April 2021
Last updated as of 07 April 2021
This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in terms of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions about electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
This Privacy Policy is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Indian Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 and Rule 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 of Information Technology Act, 2000 amended through Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008 that require publishing this Privacy Policy for access or usage of the Website.
GENERAL TERMS
1. All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have such meanings as have been assigned to them respectively in the Terms Of Use. The rules of interpretation contained in the Terms of Use shall also apply to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is at all times required to be read along with the Terms of Use.
2. Aarts Maestro Private Limited is committed to the protection of personal information provided by their users on their website www.aartsmaestro.com (“Website”). Users agree that use of the Website implies consent to the collection, retention and use of user's personal information in accordance with the Terms of use and this Privacy Policy.
3. In this Privacy Policy, “We”, “Us” or “Our” shall refer to Aarts Maestro Private Limited, and “You”, “Your”, “Yourself”, “User” shall mean and refer to registered Users of this Website.
4. No User information is rented or sold by us to any third party. A high standard of security is maintained by us for Users. However, the transmission of information via the internet and web networks is not entirely secure. While we do our best to protect Users’ information, particularly with respect to protection of Users’ personal data, we cannot ensure the security of Users’ data transmitted via the internet, web network or any other networks.
5. To provide you with uninterrupted use of the Website, we may collect and, in some circumstances, disclose information about you with your permission. To ensure better protection of your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our information collection and disclosure policies, and the choices you make about the way your information is collected and used.
6. We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy. Users are requested to review this Privacy Policy frequently. If any change has been incorporated in this Privacy Policy, then we will post such changes on this page.
COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
The Website is committed to respecting your privacy. Note that the following information is collected from you in the manner specified below:
1. Personal Information
In order to provide services, we require our User’s to disclose the following information:
a. Registration data, such as full name, gender, age, email ID and phone number, etc.
b. Demographic data, such as location, address, etc.
2. Event Specific Information
The Website lists different kinds of events for the Users to participate. Each of these events are goverened by the rules created by their hosts. If an User chooses to participate in an event, they must abide by all the rules of the said event. In cases, where additional information is requested by the event, the User is liable to provide the same. Such information shall be collected only upon the user’s explicit acceptance to participate in the event & share such information at the time of participation. Refusal to provide the same will lead to immediate disqualification.
3. User Verification
We may instruct you to provide government authenticated documents for verification at any stage during your accessibility to the services either provided by the website or through an external host of the various events through our platform. Refusal to provide the same will lead to immediate disqualification.
4. Minor Policy
Our Website can be accesed by minors, under supervision of parent / guardian to participate in relevant events.
During the process of registration BOTH minors along with their guardian/parent are asked to disclose personal information such as name, gender, age, email ID and phone number, LOCATION, ADDRESS ETC .
Minors and parents/guardians may ALSO be asked to provide additional information in a specific event, in such a case, they are liable to provide the information. Refusal to provide the same will lead to immediate disqualification.
5. Payment Information
When an User makes any transaction on the Website, the payment gateway provider may collect the User’s personal information such as address or billing information, including credit/debit card number and expiration date etc. This information may be stored by the payment gateway partner and such payment gateway partners are not under our control. The User can visit such payment gateways at their own risk. We strongly advise Users to familiarize themselves with the privacy policy provided by such payment gateways prior to providing them with information or entering into any transactions with them. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for any discrepancies arising out of such transactions.
6. Traffic Data
In order to provide Services, we track and collect the following categories of information when a Users uses our Services:
a. IP addresses,
b. Domain servers,
c. User interaction with our Website, such as the pages visited, searches, and the dates and times of such visits,
d. Other information associated with the interaction of User's device and the Services
7. Third Party Websites
Our Website may contain links to third party websites, platform or links. Users agree and understand that privacy policies of these third party websites are not under our control. Users understand that once a User leaves our Website, use of any information such User provides will be governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site used by such User. Further, our Website may contain links to Third-Party Sites. If you click on the links to Third-Party Websites, you leave our Website.Therfore, you are no longer goverened by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content of these Third-Party Websites or for the security of your personal information when you use the Third Party Websites. These third-party service providers and Third-Party Sites may have their own privacy policies governing the storage and retention of your personal information that you may be subject to. We strongly advise Users to review the Third Party Site's privacy policy as it relates to safeguarding your personal information.
8. Cookies
We use data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the Website."Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. Cookies help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our Website. Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices ( Google Analytics is a service, not device) like Google analytics on certain pages of the Website that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.
9. Security of data
We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us and information that we have accessed. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. Our Website cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you provide will not be intercepted while being transmitted to the Website over the Internet.
USING YOUR INFORMATION
The information provided by you shall be used to provide and improve the service for you and all users.
i. To provide and personalize Service
ii. To evaluate and develop new features, technologies, and improvements to the website
iii. For marketing, promotion, and advertising purposes
iv. To comply with legal obligations and law enforcement requests
v. To fulfil contractual obligations with third parties, for example, payment gateway and ad agency and to take appropriate action concerning reports of intellectual property infringement and inappropriate content
vi. To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
vii. To conduct business planning, reporting, and forecasting
For more details about the nature of such communications, please refer to our Terms of Service. Further, your data may be collected and stored by us for internal record.
We use your tracking information such as IP addresses, and or Device ID to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information and make further services available to you.
We will not sell, license, or trade your personal information. We will not share your personal information with others unless they are acting under our instructions or we are required to do so by law.
Information collected via our server logs includes users' IP addresses and the pages visited; this will be used to manage the web system and troubleshoot problems.
SHARING YOUR DATA
We have set out the categories of the personal data collected or generated through your use of the website.
• Publicly available information
• Personal data you may choose to share.
Recipients of the data Reason for sharing
Host of the event and activity • To provide the host with the basic details as may be required by the host to organize the events on the website.
• To enable jurors to judge, shortliste candidates, award prizes and certificates.
Community To create a dialogue between you and the community regarding the events and other services of the Website.
• Parties we may share information to
1. Event Organizer/Host
2. Payment processors
3. Partners
4. Law enforcement and data protection authorities
We may share some or all of your personal information with another business, should we plan to merge with, or be acquired by that business entity, or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business. Should such a transaction occur that other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information.
CONFIDENTIALITY
We take user privacy very seriously. We will keep all Personal Information private and will not share it with third parties, unless we believe in good faith that disclosure of such Personal Information or any other information we collect is necessary for permitted Use or to:
1. Comply with a court order or other legal process.
2. Protect the rights, property or safety of Aartmaestro or another party,
3. Enforce the Agreement, including Terms of Use,
4. Respond to claims in relation to violation of rights of third-parties by us.
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties which may include the host of the events and the third-party payment gateways, whether they are on our Website or other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Information collected will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005, any rules made thereunder or any other law for the time being in force.
We does not disclose User’s Personal Information to any third parties other than to our employees, agents, consultants and affiliates. As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed:
1. We reserve the right to disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or if we believe that it is necessary to do so to protect and defend the rights, property and/or personal safety of the Website, the Services, or other Users.
2. To build up marketing profiles for our Website,
3. To aid strategic development, data collection and business analytics for our Website
4. To audit usage of our Services,
5. To enhance User’s experience of our Services.
DATA REMOVAL
We acknowledge that it is within User’s rigts to ask our Website to remove User data. We allow the requested data to be removed only after the completeion of the event the User is engaged with. We do not allow any removal of data amidst an ongoing event the user is engaged with. If the user is a winner of any event, then such information cannot be removed from the website. Additionally we may store User data as backup for research purposes.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG IN
Our Website uses social media plugin that are embedded onto the Website.
he collection and transmission of this data is based on the consent you have given, of which you were expressly notified when you visited our website.
The data collected by the above-mentioned plugin cannot be viewed directly by us, but can only be used within the scope of placing advertisements.
The following data are transmitted, according to our knowledge:
1. IP address
2. User identification if you are logged in to the corresponding service
3. previously visited page (referrer), if you followed a link
4. Browser type and settings
5. URL of the page on which the social plugin is embedded
6. the date and time of the visit
7. technical specifications of the operating system
8. Location-related information
9. Cookies.
DISCLAIMER
NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, IMPLIED, EXPRESSED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY AND FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS, IS GIVEN WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY US.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. WE AND ALL OWNERS OF THE CONTENT MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. NEITHER US NOR ANY OWNER OF CONTENT WARRANTS THAT THE SERVICES OR CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE IS FREE OF MALWARE OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. BESIDES, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION NOR DO WE WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS (OR THE CONTENT THEREOF), USER CONTENT, DEVICES OR ANY OTHER PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED, PROMOTED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY ON OR THROUGH OUR SERVICES OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, OR FEATURED IN ANY BANNER AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF THE FOREGOING. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION WHETHER ORAL OR IN WRITING OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY ON BEHALF OF US. WHILE USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU MAY HAVE ACCESS TO EXPLICIT CONTENT FILTERING FEATURES, BUT USE OF THESE FEATURES MAY STILL RESULT IN SOME EXPLICIT CONTENT BEING SERVED AND YOU SHOULD NOT RELY ON SUCH FEATURES TO FILTER ALL EXPLICIT CONTENT. THIS SECTION APPLIES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
THIS SECTION DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS AS A USER AND CONSUMER OF THE PLATFORM.
CONTROL OF YOUR PASSWORD
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You must protect it against unauthorized access to your account and information by choosing your password carefully and keeping your password and computer secure by signing out after using our services.
You agree not to use the account, username, email address or password of another User at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any consistent unauthorized use of your account or access to your password even after changing it.
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You must protect it against unauthorized access to your account and information by choosing your password carefully and keeping your password and computer secure by signing out after using our services.
SEVERABILITY
Each paragraph of this Privacy Policy shall be and remain separate from and independent of and severable from all and any other paragraphs herein except where otherwise expressly indicated or indicated by the context of the agreement. The decision or declaration that one or more of the paragraphs are null and void shall not affect the remaining paragraphs of this privacy policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you should contact us by sending an e-mail to please email to [email protected]