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INTRODUCTION
HelloPe Financial Services Pvt Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "HelloPe/ we/ our") acknowledges the expectations of its customers (hereinafter referred to as "customer/ you/ your") regarding privacy, confidentiality and security of personal information that resides with the HelloPe. Keeping personal information of customers secure and preventing any misuse thereof, is therefore, a top priority of HelloPe.
We state that HelloPe is strongly committed to protect the privacy of its customers and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures in line with applicable laws and regulations as well as the best industry practice to protect the confidentiality of your personal information and its transmission through our website.
This Privacy & Security Policy (hereinafter referred to as "Policy") therefore, explains how we protect your personal information provided to us on our website i.e. www.hellope.co.in (hereinafter referred to as "Website") and how we use that information in connection with the service offered through the Website (hereinafter called as "Service") and must be read in conjunction with our General Terms of Use.
This Policy is published and shall be construed to be 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 and regulations that require publishing of the privacy notice for collection, usage, storage, disclosure and transfer of sensitive personal data or information.
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information ("PI") means any information/ documents/ details that relates to a natural person, which either directly or indirectly in combination with other information available with HelloPe, can identify such person.
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WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WE GATHER
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at the Website
Here are the types of information we gather
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CUSTOMER SERVICES
- We receive and store any information you enter on our Website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our services and features.
- We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like, we use "cookies" and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses the Website or advertisements and other content served by or on behalf of the Website on other websites. We may also receive/store information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device.
- We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
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How do We Use The Information
HelloPe collects your information when you register for an account, when you use its products or services, visit its Website's pages. When you register with the Website and sign in you are not anonymous to us. Also, you are asked for your contact number and other details during registration and may be sent SMS, electronic mails ("e-mails") , notifications, Whatsapp messages about our services to your wireless device
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CREDIT INFORMATION REPORT
1. Charges:
- Your Credit Information (credit score and credit information report) is procured through a 'soft search' of your credit records with Credit Information Companies "CICs" and HelloPe has no control over the content or accuracy of information provided in your credit information by CICs. HelloPe gets this information from CIC for and on your behalf only when you agree to appoint HelloPe as your lawfully appointed authorized agent/ representative for collecting your credit information from CICs. By consenting to use and avail your credit information report through HelloPe, you agree that HelloPe and CICs shall be entitled to rely on your authorization and consent granted by you to HelloPe.
- Availing your credit information through HelloPe is subject to your passing of appropriate identity authentication for security and privacy purposes. HelloPe shall not notify you the reasons if you are unable to pass such identity authentications and not able to view and/or use your credit information.
- HelloPe may analyze and profile your credit information in order to assist you in being better informed about, understand and manage your credit score/rating, identify and inform you of credit products that are likely to be suited to your circumstances, to identify whether you may benefit from additional guidance concerning your credit score and steps you can take to improve your score and credit history etc. For more details please access HelloPe's Terms of Service for Credit Information Report.
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OPT-OUT
In case you do not want to be disturbed over telephonic calls, kindly fill up the details requested in the below table, including the details of the telephone number(s) on which you do not wish to be contacted and submit the same at info@hellope.co.in from your email address registered at HelloPe. The details that you provide through the opt-out email will remain confidential and once you have submitted the same to us, your telephone number(s) will be removed from all our telemarketing calling lists within 15 working days. We will make every effort to ensure that you do not get any further telemarketing calls on such telephone number(s). The details to be submitted for opting-out shall be as below:
Title* First Name* Last Name* Country* State* City* Email Mobile Number # Landline Phone Number
• Mandatory fields
Please enter your 10-digit mobile number.
If you wish to have all your details permanently deleted from our database, please email info@hellope.co.in along with your full name, mobile number and email address. All your details will be permanently deleted and the same confirmed to you via email within 15 working days.
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PURPOSE AND USAGE
- HelloPe will not sell or rent your PI to anyone for commercial purposes to anyone in a way that is contrary to the commitments made and/or other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may share your information to an affiliate and/or business partner. HelloPe may also share, sell, and/or transfer your personally identifiable information to any successor-in-interest as a result of a sale of any part of our business or upon the merger, reorganization, or consolidation of it with another entity on a basis that it is not the surviving entity. As used in this Privacy Policy, the term "Person" includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or any other entity). We limit the collection and use of your personal information. We may make anonymous or aggregate personal information and disclose such data only in a non-personally identifiable manner. Such information does not identify you individually. Access to your account information and any other personal identifiably information is strictly restricted and used only in accordance with specific internal procedures, and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, in order to operate, develop or improve our services. We may use third party service providers to enable you to provide with our services.
We may also share your information, without obtaining your prior written consent, with government agencies mandated under the law to obtain information for the purpose of verification of identity, or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences, or where disclosure is necessary for compliance of a legal obligation. You agree and consent for the Website to disclose your information, if so required, under applicable law.
There are number of products/services such as loans, credit cards, mutual funds, offered by third Parties on the Website, such as lenders, banks, credit card issuers. If you choose to apply for these separate products or services, disclose information to these providers, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policies in addition to the Privacy Policy of the Website. HelloPe is not responsible for their privacy policies. We encourage you to visit and read about the privacy notices and procedures adopted by these third parties/providers, when you apply for their products or services.
Further HelloPe may use your information to:
Communicate with you about products, services and promotional offers offered by HelloPe or by its business partners, or other third parties Assist third parties like our business partners and/or service providers in facilitating and delivering products and services to you, process payments and your applications send you any administrative notices, offer alerts and other communications relevant to your use of the Website; display tailored product offers to you and enable you to apply for certain products and services; Send you information about special promotions or offers offered by HelloPe or any of its business partners. We might also tell you about new features or products/services. These might be our own offers or products/services, or third-party offers or products/services with whom HelloPe has a tie - up carry market research, project planning, troubleshooting issues, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity; improve our Services and manage our customer relationships better, and to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content; enforce HelloPe General Terms of Use; comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
You also agree and consent to us collecting, storing, processing, transferring and sharing information (including sensitive personal information) related to you with third parties or service providers for the purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy.
- In the event that you access the Service as brought to you by one of our partners either through the Website or on being redirected from a co-branded URL or any other website , your name, e-mail address, mobile number, date of birth, employment type, residency status, income details/proofs, Form 26 AS, PAN, details of loan / credit card/ mutual fund applied for and loan, credit card and mutual fund status or any other financial product status may be provided to that partner when your application is submitted and whenever the status of application is updated. HelloPe has a business relationship with these partners and you may not opt-out of sharing your information with these partners if you have applied via a co-branded URL or any other website or directly through the Website as the case may be.
- For availing the Service such as applying for credit information report, loan, credit card, mutual fund or any other financial product we will require you to provide/upload on the Website the details such as a your name, parentage, marital status, email address, nationality, location, mobile number, PAN, employment & income details/proofs, Form 26 AS, recent photograph, signature image, other Know Your Customer (KYC) documents like address proof, identity proof and personally identifying information.
INTIMATION BY CUSTOMERS REGARDING CHANGE IN PERSONAL INFORMATION:
- If your PI provided to us when you had applied for a product on our Website changes, you may update it whenever you apply for a new product via our Website. To review and update your PI and to ensure that the same is accurate while your application is in process, you may contact us at info@hellope.co.in. You will not be able to update the information you have provided in an application after a decision has already been made on it; however, you may create and submit a new application with your updated information.
- Note: We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, contact us at info@hellope.co.in. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. However, we will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements.
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RETENTION OF YOUR DATA
- HelloPe will retain your information for as long as it is necessary for providing you the Services available on the Website or your request for termination of your account with HelloPe, whichever is later.
- Post termination of your account, HelloPe may continue to use your anonymized data aggregated or in combination with anonymized data of other users. We use this aggregated anonymized data for data analysis, profiling and research purposes, for example to gain insights about our users and their profiles. We may keep your contact information along with your application details (if any) for fraud prevention purposes and for the exercise/defense of a legal claim or for providing evidence in legal proceeding(s).
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EMAIL & SMS COMMUNICATIONS FROM US AND OUR PARTNERS
We provide our registered customers with periodic phone calls, emailers and email/SMS/Whatsapp alerts. We also allow users to subscribe to email newsletters and from time to time may transmit emails promoting HelloPe or third-party products. Subject to the express consent clause above, HelloPe's Website subscribers may opt-out of receiving our promotional emails and terminate their newsletter subscriptions by following the instructions in the emails. Opting out in this manner will not end transmission of service-related e-mails/SMS/Whatsapp, such as e-mail/SMS alerts. The above services are also provided by our partners.
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LOG FILES
This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may use the collected log information about you to improve services offered to you, to improve marketing, analytics, or Website functionality.
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TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
HelloPe and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service. To manage flash cookies, please visit the flash player support page.
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BEHAVIOURAL TARGETING / RE-TARGETING
We partner with a third-party service provider to either display advertising on our Website or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this Website and other websites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
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THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT BE GIVEN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION UNLESS YOU GIVE CONSENT TO HELLOPE:
There are several products and services, such as credit information report, loans, credit cards, mutual fund and other financial products being offered by third parties on our Website, such as lenders, banks, credit card issuers and mutual funds (collectively "Offers"). If you choose to apply for these separate products or services, disclose information to the providers, or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policies. You should evaluate the practices of these external services providers before deciding to use their services. HelloPe is not responsible for their privacy practices.
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TESTIMONIALS, BLOGS AND OTHER FORUMS ON HELLOPE WEBSITE:
- With your consent HelloPe may post your testimonial along with your name. If you want your testimonial removed, please contact HelloPe at info@hellope.co.in.
- If you use a blog, comments section or other public forum on Website, any information you submit there can be read, collected or used by other users and could be used to send you messages. HelloPe shall not be held responsible for the PI you choose to submit in these forums.
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ADDITIONAL POLICY INFORMATION:
- Widgets: Our website includes widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our Website to provide specific services from another company (e.g. displaying the news, opinions, music, etc.). PI, such as your email address, may be collected through the widget. Cookies may also be set by the widget to enable it to function properly. Information collected by this Widget is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it and not by the HelloPe.
- Single Sign-On: You can log in to our Website using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain PI with us such as your sign-in information, name and email address to link between the sites. Social networking media services like Facebook & Twitter give you the option to post information about your activities on this Website to your profile page to share with others within your network.
- Like Button: If you use the "Like" button to share something that item will appear on your Facebook profile page and on your friends' newsfeed depending on your Facebook privacy settings. You may also receive updates in your Facebook newsfeed from this Website or item in the future. Facebook also collects information such as which pages you have visited on this and other sites that have implemented the "Like" button.
- Links to 3rd Party Sites: Our Website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of HelloPe. If you submit your PI to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
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WE KEEP YOUR DATA SECURE:
- We follow generally accepted standards to protect the PI submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Since no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can contact us at info@hellope.co.in.
- We use a combination of firewalls, encryption techniques and authentication procedures, among others, to maintain the security of your online session and to protect HelloPe online accounts and systems from unauthorized access.
- When you register for the Service, HelloPe requires a password from you for your privacy and security. HelloPe transmits information such as your login credentials for Website or Account Credentials securely.
- Our servers are in secure facilities where access requires multiple levels of authentication, including an identity card and biometrics recognition procedures. Security personnel monitor the facilities 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
- Our databases are protected from general employee access both physically and logically. We encrypt your Service password so that your password cannot be recovered, even by us. All backup drives and tapes also are encrypted.
- We enforce physical access controls to our buildings. No employee can put PI on any insecure machine (i.e., nothing can be taken from the database and put on an insecure laptop). We permit only authorized employees who are trained in the proper handling of customer information, to have access to aforesaid PI.
- HelloPe has been verified for its use of SSL encryption technologies. In addition, HelloPe tests the Website using Acunetix scan for any failure points that would allow hacking. However, it is important to understand that these precautions apply only to our Website and systems.
In Case of a Security Breach
Procedures are in place for reporting, recording, investigation and closure of security breaches. Security incidents are analysed, and preventive/corrective actions taken to minimise recurrence of an incident. Action to correct and recover from security breaches and system failures are controlled. Security breach response process includes ensuring that clearly identified and authorised staff are allowed access to production systems and data. All emergency actions taken are documented in detail. Emergency action is reported to management and reviewed in an orderly manner. The integrity of business systems and controls is confirmed with minimal delay. Audit trails and similar evidence are collected and secured, as appropriate, for:
- Internal problem analysis.
- Use as evidence in relation to a potential breach of contract, breach of regulatory requirement or in the event of civil or criminal proceedings, e.g. under Copyrights Act, Information Technology Act;
- Negotiating for compensation from software and service suppliers.
- Settlement of Insurance claims, wherever applicable.
During security incidents, all the relevant stakeholders (both internal and relevant partners) are informed and provided with the status updates they need in a streamlined format with status updates and relevant information that works best for them. Identifying key stakeholders during incidents is done based on the incident severity by the Management. A follow-up analysis of the incident is performed after an incident has been fully handled. A security incident report is prepared by a person designated by the incident co-ordination team and distributed to the top Management for advice and action.
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ALL PRIVATE INFORMATION IS ENCRYPTED AND COMMUNICATED SECURELY:
All communications between your computer/mobile and our Website that contain any PI are encrypted. This enables client and server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery.
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YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR LOGIN ID AND PASSWORD:
- You are responsible for maintaining the security of your login ID and Password and must not provide these credentials to any third party. If you believe that they have been stolen or been made known to others, you must contact us immediately at info@hellope.co.inWe are not responsible if someone else accesses your account through the login credential they have obtained from you or through a violation by you of this Privacy and Security Policy or the HelloPe Terms of Use.
- If you have any security related concern, please contact us at info@hellope.co.inWe will work closely with you to ensure a rapid and personal response to your concerns.