PRIVACY POLICY:-

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Wockhardt Foundation and its subsidiaries are committed to respect your privacy and choices while using our website. The statement highlights our privacy practices regarding personal information that we hold about you.

• PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT AND PROCESS:

 

For the purposes of privacy statement, ‘Personal Information’ is any data which relates to an individual/ donor who may be identified from that data, or from a combination of a set of data, and other information which is or may be in possession of Wockhardt Foundation.

 

In general, you may browse our website without providing any Personal Information about yourself. However, certain information such as your IP address, demographics, your computers’ operating system, and browser type may be collected in order to provide better usability, troubleshooting, site maintenance, and to understand which parts of the website are visited and how frequently.

 

When you register on our website or would like to comment on our content, we may require you to provide us with certain Personal Information such as your name, email address, designation, company, country and telephone number, for one or more of the following purposes: user ID creation, identifying you, contacting you and provide access to desirable content based on your preferences. While accessing certain sections of the Wockhardt Foundation website such as Recruitment you may also be required to provide additional Personal Information for Wockhardt Foundation to process the corresponding request.

 

• CONSEQUENCES OF NOT PROVIDING PERSONAL INFORMATION:

 

If you choose not to provide your Personal Information that is mandatory to process your request, we may not be able to provide the corresponding service.

 

• DATA RECIPIENTS, TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:

 

Wockhardt Foundation does not share your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes without seeking your prior permission. Wockhardt Foundation will seek your prior consent to using or sharing Personal Information for any purpose beyond the requirement for which it was originally collected.

We may share your Personal Information within Wockhardt Foundation or with any of its subsidiaries, business partners, service vendors, authorized third-party agents, or contractors located in any part of the world for the purposes of data processing, storage, or to provide a requested service or transaction, after ensuring that such entities are contractually bound by data privacy obligations.

When required, Wockhardt Foundation may disclose Personal Information to external law enforcement bodies or regulatory authorities, in order to comply with legal obligations.

 

• COLLECTION OF INFORMATION:

 

•    Site Browsing:

 

You browse the Site anonymously. We do not require you to identify yourself or reveal any Personal Information while browsing through the Site. However, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site or interact with us without supplying us with Personal Information. For instance, you would not be able to transact at the Site or make any donations at the Site, without providing the Site with Personal Information. If you desire to register yourself at the Site, you would be required to provide your Personal Information.

While you are browsing through the Site, the Site’s operating system may automatically record some general information (“General Information”) about your visit such as:

(i) the date and time you visit the Site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to us from another website

(ii) the type of browser you are using (such as Internet Explorer version ‘X’)

This General Information is not Personal Information. The Foundation’s tracking system does not record personal information about individuals or link this information to any Personal Information collected from you.

The General Information is used by the Foundation for statistical analysis, for tracking overall traffic patterns on the Site and to gauge the public interest in the Foundation and the Site. Such General Information may be shared by the Foundation with any person, at the Foundation’s sole discretion.

 

• USE OF COOKIES:

 

Cookies are small text files that, like most other Web servers, we place in your device that you use to access our website. This is done to recognize your device during a session or in your future visits to our website, primarily in order to provide better use experience.

 

• Types of cookies used:

Session cookie: Session cookies remain only as long as a browsing session is active, and are intended to avoid user inconvenience during browsing. These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session and expire at the end of the browsing session. Session cookies also assist the user in navigating the website, and allow the user to access secure parts of the webpage when logged in.

Persistent cookie: Persistent cookies are stored on a user’s device even after termination of a browsing session. It helps in recalling the preferences or actions of the user. Persistent cookies are used for a variety of purposes such as retaining the visitor’s language and regional preference(s) at the end of each browsing session. We may use services of third-party analytics service provider to analyze cookies to carry out a behavioral analysis in order to enhance user experience and convenience, and also to provide targeted and relevant content to visitors.

Depending on the type and settings of your browser, cookies may be accepted by default. You may change the settings of your browser to delete existing cookies or prevent future cookies from being automatically accepted. If you disable cookies, certain parts and functions of our website may not be available.

 

• ACCESS, CORRECTION, OBJECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

 

Depending on local law, you may access, update, or correct your Personal Information that we hold, including your profile and preferences. You may do so in the corresponding sections where such information was provided. If you have difficulty in updating or accessing your Personal Information as stated above, you may contact us at support@wockhardtfoundation.org

 

• DATA SECURITY:

 

Wockhardt Foundation adopts reasonable and appropriate security practices and procedures that includes administrative, physical security and technical controls in order to safeguard your Personal Information.

 

• DATA RETENTION:

 

Wockhardt Foundation may retain your Personal Information as long as there is a business requirement, subject to adherence to the applicable laws, or if otherwise required to be retained under applicable laws.

 

• LINKED WEBSITES:

 

Wockhardt Foundation may provide links to third-party websites and services. However, Wockhardt Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements, practices, or the contents of such third-party websites.

 

• COPYRIGHT PROTECTION:

 

All content on this Site including graphics, text, icons, interfaces, audio clips, logos, images and software is the property of the Foundation and/or its content suppliers and is protected by Indian and international copyright laws. The arrangement and compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of the Foundation and protected by Indian and international copyright laws. Permission is given to use the resources of this Site only for the limited purposes of making enquiries, making a donation or placing an order for the purchase of the Foundation’s products. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content on this Site can only be made with the express permission of the Foundation. All other trademarks, brands and copyrights other than those belonging to the Foundation belong to their respective owners and are their property.

 

• DONATIONS:

 

The Foundation takes the utmost care to process donations as per the instructions given by our donors, online and offline. All donations once processed will not be refunded.

 

Recurring Payments: You can link your debit card, credit card or a bank account as a stored method of online payment. The online donations to the Foundation through your preferred method of Payment shall be on a recurring basis. Once a payment is processed, it cannot be cancelled and the Foundation will have no obligation to honour, stop, correct, reverse or recall the payment. The recurring donations authorize the Foundation to store and automatically charge your selected method of payment in the payment amount, without further consent or instructions from you. The Foundation shall not be liable for any penalty charge(s) levied by any bank or other financial institution upon you, in case of dishonour of a transaction for any reason(s). You shall additionally be liable in case of any penalty that might be charged to the Foundation if the recurring payment(s) has failed.

 

In case of any changes made in the stored method of Payment, the recurring payment(s) associated with it may be temporarily paused or cancelled. Nevertheless in such a case, you may still owe such payment to the Foundation. If at any time you wish to stop the donations, you may contact your concerned Bank(s) to that effect and cancel the recurring transactions, before the next scheduled payment.

 

• HOW TO CONTACT US:

       Email: support@wockhardtfoundation.org

       Contact: 022-71596758

 

• UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT:

 

The Wockhardt Foundation shall be absolutely entitled at its sole discretion from time to time add to, alter, delete or modify any of the terms and conditions contained herein. Such changes, additions, alterations, deletions or modifications shall be binding on you once you visit the Site after the Privacy Policy has been so amended.

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