Privacy Policy
PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WEBSITE
Bitrocket Labs Private Limited is a company incorporated under Companies Act, 2013 having their registered office address at Block B, AKR Tech Park, Garvebhavipalya, Krishna Reddy Industrial Area, Bangalore south, Bangalore-560068 (hereinafter referred to as "Company” which expression shall, unless it be repugnant to the context thereof, be deemed to include permitted successors and assigns). The Company is providing various services through its website and facilitates the Customers with better credit and loan services.
We recognize the importance of privacy confidentiality and security of personal Information of our Customers and this Privacy policy explains our intent and ensures the best and safe experience to our Customers. As used herein, “Customers” shall mean anyone who uses or accesses the Website (“Platform”) on any mobile phone, tablet, console, or other device (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Device/”).
You are encouraged to read this Privacy Policy regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information from time to time to keep yourself updated with the changes & updates that are made to this Policy. The Privacy Policy covers the products and services provided on the Website. This Policy shall, at all times be read and construed in consonance and along with the terms and conditions of use and access of the Platform (“T&C”).
This Privacy Policy is published in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data of Information) Rules, 2011 under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and other applicable laws that provide rules, regulations and guidelines on access, collection, usage, disclosure, transfer or otherwise processing of personal information and sensitive personal information. This Policy highlights inter alia the type of data shared/collected from a Customer in the course of the Customer’s usage of the Platform.
By accessing or using any version of the designated platforms, you signify that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by this Privacy Policy of the Company and any other applicable law. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 18. Use of the platform is available only for persons capable of forming a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. If you are providing any information of a minor under the age of 18, you represent that you are legally authorized to do so. This Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature.
The terms “We”/ “Us”/ “Our” individually and collectively refer to and are synonymous with the term ‘the Company’ and the terms “You”/“Your”/ “Yourself” are to be construed to be synonymous with the term ‘Customer’.
All defined terms used within this Policy but not specifically defined herein shall draw their meaning from the definition ascribed to such term under the T&C.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We collect from you your personal data when you provide us with it. However, if you at your choice, intentionally or unintentionally disclose some personal data other than the description provided in this paragraph then such data shall continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy.
Name of the Customer;
Identification Number
Father’s Name
Phone number (mobile and/or residence and/or alternative) of the Customer;
Gender of the Customer;
Date of birth of the Customer;
Address (official/residence/other) of the Customer;
Email Id (primary/alternative) of the Customer;
Internet protocol (IP) address of the Customer; and
Marital Status
Income type and status (Organization name if salaried employee or details of Business if self- employed)
Device information
SECURITY PRECAUTIONS
We are committed to provide a secure and seamless experience to the Customer, in order to ensure better services. We desist from accessing mobile phone resources like file and media, contact list, call logs, telephony functions,etc. We may take a one-time access for camera, microphone, location or any other facility necessary for the purpose of on-boarding/ KYC requirements only, with your explicit consent. We have adopted reasonable security practices and procedures to protect you from unauthorized access, damage, use, modification, disclosure or impairment of the information under our control. Whenever you change or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession, we adhere to such reasonable security practices and procedures, protecting it against unauthorized access. We are sharing the personal information of Customers for a limited period and on explicit consent basis to the Lending Partner. We do not store any other data which is not required to serve the Customer in a seamless and effective manner.
PURPOSE AND USE OF INFORMATION
All Information collected/stored by the Platform shall be used for:
- registering/sourcing services by you on the Platform and facilitate transaction including, providing assistance to completion of online personal loan submission form;
- measuring consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates;
- sharing with our affiliates, business partners and other third parties for the purpose of providing you products and services, including but not limited to Financial Institutions, Credit Information Companies, for the purpose of underwriting and approval of loan (including personal loans) and other financial products' transactions/related transactions, or for doing a check of your credit profile on your behalf;
- undertaking KYC due diligence, credit assessment and checking your eligibility for the financial products offered on our platform (including financial and identity checks);
- Periodic assessment of creditworthiness via Bureaus and other financial institutions;
- providing you a safe, efficient, smooth, enhanced customer experience, fulfilled services; availed on platform including carrying out your instructions to make and receive payments;
- enforcing, investigating, resolving disputes; troubleshooting problems; helping promote a safe service; collecting money;
- reporting on financial / regulatory / policy and developing and retaining different types of risk management strategies;
- customizing and enhancing your experience; detecting and protecting us against error, fraud and other criminal activity;
- displaying tailored financial product offers to you and enabling you to apply for certain products and services for which you have chosen to apply; sending you offers based on your previous orders and your interests;
- sharing with you, updates, information on products/service improvements along with their terms and conditions;
- facilitating promotion, marketing, web analytics, and advertising activities (to the extent we use your personal information to market our products and services to you, we will provide you the ability to opt-out of such uses);
- complying with financial services regulations including retention of financial information and transactions;
- improving our internal customer training;
- checking your eligibility for certain products/services including but not limited to credit and payment products and provide you access to the services being offered by us, our affiliates or lending partners;
- analyzing demographic and profile data about our Customers' activity on the platform;
- diagnosing problems with our server, and administering or conducting online surveys.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share or disclose your personal information with our other corporate entities, affiliates, lending partners, technology partners, merchants and other third parties (credit bureau, recovery teams). This disclosure may be required for enhancing your experience, to comply with our legal obligations, to enforce our agreement(s) with you, to facilitate our marketing and advertising activities, to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities related to our services, for providing credit defaults and credit information, for communicating with you, for enhancing your credit limit if applicable, and also to register you for the products or services that you would be opting for.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal identifiable information without your explicit consent. We may share Personal Information with trusted service providers or our affiliates who assist us in operating our website for payment processing, supplementing the information you provide us in order to provide you with better service, account administration, perform statistical analysis, provide marketing assistance, host the website, index user profile pages and usernames as part of the URL, technical and customer support. Any third parties receiving your Personal Information from us are prohibited from using your Personal Information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
- AppsFlyer: To track attribution of our referrals & downloads
- MoEngage: To provide us omni-channel services of Customer engagement, campaigns and data analytics. Customer action related events are sent for this purpose
- Google Cloud Provider (GCP): Our secure infrastructure provider
- comply with a court order or other legal process;
- protect the rights, property or safety of the Company or another party;
- enforce our Terms of Use; or
- respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT:
We provide all Customers with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential (promotional, marketing-related) communications from us on behalf of our partners. If Customers give explicit consent, the Company may use their information for marketing purposes, not including information collected from other sources. Customers may choose not to receive marketing materials by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each email, indicating so when contacted, or by contacting the Company directly. With Customers' explicit consent, the Company may disclose certain information to other affiliate entities and partners that are not acting as suppliers or business partners.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES:
Customers may come across links to third-party websites or apps not affiliated with the Company during their use of the app services. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites, or for any acts or omissions by those third parties during Customers' transactions with them.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the platform. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We are not sharing any personal data with third parties.
DATA STORAGE AND DELETION:
We retain your personal information in accordance with applicable laws, for a period no longer than that is required for the purposes for which it was collected. There further, we do not store any biometric data or information, personal information which is not part of the specific service that you have signed up for.
the purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);
whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);
whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);
how valuable your information is (both now and in the future);
any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;
the levels of risk, cost, and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;
how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate;
any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you); and
the time period your account remains active.
After data retention period is over in the normal course of Customer’s usage of services;
Upon Account deletion request by the Customer
In both the above cases, data deletion is performed using database deletion of records within the requirements of applicable laws of transaction and monitoring related audit trail retention as mentioned above. The process of deletion, upon request, is performed within 30 days of raising the request to allow for all transaction related settlement processes to complete.
9. CONSENT
10. USE OF COOKIES & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information) to help provide and enhance our services and tailor content and ads. By continuing, you agree to the use of cookies. We use cookies to help us remember and save your preferences for future visits and keep track of advertisements. We may store temporary or permanent ‘cookies’ on your computer. If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. You can erase or choose to block these cookies from your computer. You can configure your computer’s browser to alert you when we attempt to send you a cookie with an option to accept or refuse the cookie. If you have turned cookies off, you may be prevented from using certain features of the website. However, you can still place orders over the telephone or by contacting consumer service. In the course of displaying advertisements regarding its services or optimizing services to its users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on the user’s browser/device. We do not store personally identifiable information in the cookies. Further, we do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within its services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information from you, for which we are not responsible or liable. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all external sites.
RESPONSIBILITY WITH YOU
When you submit any Personal Information to us, you represent that you have the lawful right to submit the Personal Information and agree that you will not submit any information unless you are legally entitled to do so and that such Personal Information is true, complete, and accurate. You may not use a false email address or other identifying information to impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content.
UPDATION OF POLICY
The Company reserves the right to change or update this Policy at any time without prior notice. The Customer shall be notified of any change to the Policy having the effect of curtailing or limiting the existing Customer rights under the Policy. Any such changes or updating of the Policy shall be immediately effective upon posting to the Platform and your continued use is deemed approval of all such changes.
GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL
The Customer may report violation or breach of privacy, Information or identify theft or grievances in relation to the Information shared, collected, stored, or disseminated by the Company in relation to the Platform may please reach out at. The grievances shall be redressed within 30 days from the date of receipt.
Grievance Officer:
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
In the event of any dispute arising between the parties with respect to this Policy, the same shall be referred to a sole arbitrator mutually appointed by the Parties and the arbitration shall be in accordance with Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996. The language of arbitration proceedings shall be English. The seat and place of arbitration shall be Bangalore, India and the decision of the Arbitrator shall be final and binding on both parties herein.
This contract shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Bangalore, India and shall be governed by the Indian laws.