2 The Logical Indian has adopted this Privacy Policy to inform you of what information We collect from you through Website, how We collect the information, how We may use it and the steps We take to protect it. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, any information that uniquely identifies Our user such as your name, address, contact number or email address, is referred to as “Personal Information”. We lay great emphasis on Our privacy and security standards to guard against identity theft and provide security for your Personal Information. We regularly re-evaluate Our privacy and security policies and adapt them as necessary to respond to new challenges. 1.3 By using the Website, you unconditionally agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and consent to usage, storage and handling of the information submitted by you in accordance with the terms contained hereunder. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not proceed further to use the Website. 2. USER INFORMATION 2.1 The Logical Indian collects your Personal Information when you successfully submit content to Us on the Website (“User Information”). User Information is the data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a person and/or the business entity that a person represents and shall include, but not be limited to, information regarding your Personal Information, information associated to your social networking platform and such other information for the purposes of identification and verification. 2.2 When you submit User Information on the Website, it shall be deemed that you have granted Us the right to collect, store, process, handle and use such User Information, in accordance with this Privacy Policy (as amended from time to time). 2.3 You may visit the Website and browse the Website without having to provide User Information. Where possible, We indicate which fields are mandatory and which fields are optional to be filled on the Website while submitting any content. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to submit particular information or features on the Website. When you visit the Website, We may collect certain non-personal information such as your internet protocol address, operating system, browser type, and internet service provider. This type of information does not identify you personally during your visit to the Website. 2.4 By using this Website, you consent to the collection, storage and use of the User Information that you provide for any of the services that We may offer and you consent to Our collection of any changes or updates that you may provide to the User Information. We collect only such User Information that We believe to be relevant for the purpose of identification and verification and is required to understand you. 2.5 We clarify that We shall not be liable, for any reason whatsoever, for the authenticity of any User Information provided by you to Us. You hereby confirm that the User Information provided by you is and shall continue to be valid, true and accurate to the best of your knowledge. In case of any change in the User Information, you may intimate Us in writing by contacting Us at [email protected]. 3.COLLECTION OF INFORMATION 3.1 To enhance your use of the Website, We may collect technical and navigational information each time you visit the Website, which are saved in server logs. These are encrypted statistics, which help Us in improving the efficiency of the Website by giving Us information relating to your use of the Website. Such information may include details of: (i) the server (internet protocol) from where the Website is being accessed; (ii) the browser and operating system used to browse the Website; (iii) pages visited; (iv) details of your last visit to the Website, including time, date and the duration of your session on the Website; etc. 3.2 This information may be used by Us, for example, to understand the number of users visiting the Website, to alert you to any software compatibility issues, or it may be to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use of the Website in improving Our functionality. While collecting such information, your anonymity is maintained at all times and, at no time We can identify you personally, unless you submit the User Information on the Website or submit such content which requires Us to identify you or through the email feature. 3.3 The Logical Indian may make anonymous or aggregate User Information and disclose such data only in a non-personally identifiable manner to: (i) Advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes, such as the number of users and how many users clicked on a particular The Logical Indian’s proposal/project; (ii) Organizations approved by The Logical Indian that conduct research on social, legal, development and policy issues, agrarian issues, among many others. 3.4 Such information does not identify you individually. Access to User Information and any other Personal Information provided by you is strictly restricted and used in accordance with specific internal procedures and safeguard governing access, in order to operate, develop or improve the services provided by Us. We assure that the above mentioned parties have been selected in accordance with our security policies and practices and are bound by confidentiality obligations, and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations. 3.5 We may also use third-party vendors or service providers to help Us provide the service to you, such as sending e-mail messages on Our behalf or hosting and operating a particular feature or functionality of the Website. Our contractual arrangements with these third parties outline the appropriate use and handling of your information and prohibit them from using any of your Personal Information and/or User Information for purposes unrelated to the product or service they provide. We require such third parties to maintain the confidentiality of the information We provide to them. 3.6 Third-party service providers used by Us include without limitation Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar. 3.7 You acknowledge that apart from your User Information, if you voluntarily upload or exchange or submit any data, content, information, pictorial representations and/or images including comments on the Website, such content may contain information including User Information and the same may be available to the other users of the Website. The Logical Indian will not be liable in any case whatsoever for the voluntary disclosure and dissemination of such User Information on the Website. 3.8 The User Information collected and/or processed by Us is saved, at Our sole discretion, on cloud servers provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, We do not store any User Information submitted to Us voluntarily while notifying Us of any errors that you find in any content on the Website. 3.9 All User Information and/or Personal Information collected for the purposes of providing any services is retained by Us for the duration of such services and an additional duration of 30 (thirty) days following the date on which such services are terminated. Upon expiry of this duration, all User Information and/or Personal Information in relation to such services is automatically deleted from Our servers.