The Pouch - Prathi BitCraft LLP, respect your privacy. Accordingly, we have reviewed our
policies and practices to ensure that they meet all applicable legislation in relation to your privacy and
will continue to ensure that its policies and practices comply in all respects with any future laws and
regulations in relation to your privacy purpose of this document is to inform you of the policies that have
been put in place to protect your interests in this respect.
1. Fair and lawful information-handling
We will process all the data we collect and hold on you fairly and in accordance with applicable law. As
further explained in this policy statement, we will ensure the quality and security of your data and we
will fully respect your rights, interests and fundamental freedoms with regard to your data.
2. Legitimate purposes
We will only collect, record, process and store data which are needed to fulfil our contractual obligations
towards our consumers, our partners, and the customers of our partners; to serve other legitimate
business interests such as credit assessment or marketing; or to comply with legal requirements.
We may disclose to any other company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP and
to third parties authorised by us such information as may be necessary to provide you with products and
services you have requested or for the purpose of verification of details relating to your data held by us
for legitimate purposes.
3. Data quality
We will employ effective procedures and safeguards to ensure that the data we hold on you are
adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were obtained, as well as
accurate and up-to-date. Where we become aware of any inaccuracies in the data we hold, we will
correct and, where appropriate, delete incorrect data.
Retention periods are in place to ensure that data are only stored whilst they are required for the
purposes in question or to meet legal and regulatory requirements. Where data are no longer required,
we will ensure that they are disposed off in a secure manner.
4. Information to you
When we collect data from you, we will identify ourselves and inform you of the purpose(s) for which we
collect the data. If we are collecting data from you on behalf of one of our sister or subsidiary
companies, or affiliates, associates or partners, we will identify that sister or subsidiary company or
affiliate, associate or partner (the "controller") and explain that we are acting as the agent (or
"processor") for that other company. If our affiliate, associate or partner is a non-Indian company which
has appointed a representative in India, we will also inform you of the identity of that representative . If
we have obtained data on you other than directly from you, we will inform you of this as soon as
practicable after we have entered the data in our files or computers (unless you were already aware of
the fact).
We may also record or monitor telephone calls to and from any Prathi BitCraft LLP, without
notification, for staff training and quality control purposes.
5. When will we seek your prior consent?
We will go further and ask for your prior consent in the following circumstances:
- A credit check on you
- Before we pass on any of your data to other companies for direct marketing purposes, by offering you
the opportunity to object to such disclosures either through a "tick-box" on your purchase order form or
booking form or membership application or enrolment form, or by asking you to notify us by telephone,
fax or e-mail. (If you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us, please notify us of each
e-mail account you use.)
- if we process sensitive data on you under any contract with you (or under a contract between you and a
company we represent).
6. Special restrictions on the use of sensitive data
- required to be kept by law
- needed for legal proceedings or to establish, exercise or defend legal rights (including protection
against fraud)
- clearly and strictly necessary to fulfil a contract between you and us (or between you and a company
we represent) or
- needed to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another person (for instance, if medical
data are urgently required after an accident and you cannot give your consent).
7. Your rights
You have the right to require us or our partners to cease the communication of advertising or marketing
material to you, and we will ensure that your request is complied with. This includes the right to
withdraw your consent to third-party direct-marketing use of your data at any time.
You have the right to see all the data we hold on you. Should you wish to have access to all or a
particular part of your data, please contact the Data Protection Officer / Grievance Officer at
Pouch - Prathi BitCraft LLP., by email: support@pouch.club. Such access will be
granted in accordance with the requirements of applicable legislation and subject to any discretionary
allowance for us to make a charge payable by you to cover our administration costs incurred in providing
you with such data. Such payment to be made on application for access to your data and to be no more
than the maximum stipulated by applicable legislation. The information will be forwarded to you within
an appropriate period of time in accordance with applicable legislation, but in any event no more than
40 days from the date of such request for access.
Where any discrepancies are discovered following your enquiry, we will take immediate steps to validate
and, where appropriate, correct our records. We will confirm the actions taken in writing to you within
an appropriate period of time in accordance with applicable legislation, but in any event no more than
40 days after receiving your request to amend our records.
8. Security of information
We will only provide access to data on you to those of our employees who need such access in order to
carry out any necessary processing. We have taken appropriate steps to ensure the security of data
whether it is stored in computer systems, paper files or other storage media. We expect the same high
standards of security and confidentiality of any sub-contractors we employ to process data for us.
9. Transfer of information outside the area of operation of this Mobile App or Web site
Data on you may, on occasion, be transferred to Prathi BitCraft LLP's facilities, or to any other
company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP, or to its or their affiliates, or to
data processing agencies ("processors") or third parties, outside the area of operation of this Mobile App
or Web site for analysis, technical processing or other legitimate purposes. The countries where such
other facilities or companies are situated may have no data protection legislation, or laws which are less
rigorous than the legislation applicable to the area of operation of this Mobile App or Web site.
In such cases, we will ensure that your rights with regards to any such processing and your data will still
be adequately protected. Within the Prathi BitCraft LLP we have agreed world-wide
acceptance of the standards with regard to the processing of personal. If we transfer your data to
agencies or third parties outside the area or operation of this Mobile App or Web site, we require similar,
binding contractual undertakings, and we monitor compliance. Our affiliates, associates and partners
have agreed to adopt equivalent measures.
10. Direct marketing
We, or any other company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or third parties
authorised by us, may market to you directly through any media to keep you informed of further offers
from us, or any other company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or third
parties authorised by us, which may be of interest to you (unless you write to us asking us to exclude you
from such offers or alternatively telephone, fax or e-mail us to that effect or you have done so previously
and such exclusion is still operative) and for our own administration, market analyses and operational
reviews. (If you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us, please notify us of each
e-mail account you use.)
We, or any other company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or third parties
authorised by us, may make contact with you by post, e-mail, telephone (including automated dialling
equipment), facsimile transmissions, and/or pre-recorded messages for the purposes set out herein
(unless you notify us either in writing or by telephone, fax or e-mail that you object to being contacted in
a particular stated way and/or by a certain stated company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or by third parties authorised by us). (If you use more than one e-mail address to
communicate with us, please notify us of each e-mail account you use.)
We, or any other company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or third parties
authorised by us, will always act according to your wishes and preferences. Whenever we, or any other
company or companies within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or third parties authorised by us,
directly market to you by telephone or fax, we, or any other company or companies within the
Prathi BitCraft LLP or third parties authorised by us, will comply beforehand with the
requirements of applicable legislation under and by which you have recorded your desire not to be
contacted by telephone and/or fax, as the case may be, for the purposes of direct marketing by any
organisation. If you have notified such desire according to the laws of your country of domicile, then we
will not call or fax you unless you subsequently notify us directly (either in writing, or by telephone, fax
or e-mail) that this no longer applies or at least does not apply to any other company or companies
within the Prathi BitCraft LLP or to third parties authorised by us. (If you use more than
one e-mail address to communicate with us, please notify us of each e-mail account you use.)
11. Internet
At Prathi BitCraft LLP, we are committed to protecting your privacy in the following ways:
- When you use this Mobile App or Web site for information or transactional purposes on-line, we may
need to know your name, e-mail address, mailing address and contact telephone number, facsimile
number, credit card number and expiration date, and other related information. This allows us to process
and fulfill your requirements and requests.
- When you use this Mobile App or Web site for transactional purposes on-line we use a secure server.
The secure server software ("SSL") encrypts all PII,credit card (if and when applicable), or any other personal details you input before it is sent to us. We use
Aws as an officially recognised trusted third party to secure this
Mobile App or Web site and to encrypt your PII or any other sensitive information.
- When you use this Mobile App or Web site, we may monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to
help us develop its design and layout.
- When you use this Mobile App or Web site, we may also use the data we collect to occasionally notify
you about important functionality changes to it, and to notify you of new products or services, and
special offers we think you'll find valuable and of interest.
- When you use this Mobile App or Web site, and enter a contest or other promotional feature, we may
ask for your name, address, contact telephone number, e-mail address, and facsimile number so that we
can administer the contest and notify winners accordingly.
- When you use this Mobile App or Web site, we may provide aggregate statistics about members of
Prathi BitCraft LLP entering into transactions on-line, sales, traffic patterns and related Mobile App or Web site
information to reputable third parties, but these statistics will include no personally identifying data.
- Prathi BitCraft LLP is the sole controller of all data held in relation to your use of this Mobile App or Web site
for information and transactional purposes on-line and all processing of data relating to your
requirements and requests is therefore subject to the data protection laws and regulations of your
country of domicile. If no such laws and regulations exist in your country of domicile, then all processing
of data relating to your requirements and requests is subject to Indian data protection laws and
regulations only being the laws applicable to the area of operation of this Mobile App or Web site.
- We will maintain records relating to your use of this Mobile App or Web site for information and
transactional purposes on-line (including information about you provided by yourself or by third parties).
We shall be entitled to process those data for the purpose of providing your requirements and requests
and to keep you informed of further offers from us which may be of interest (unless you write to us
asking us to exclude you from such offers or alternatively telephone, fax or e-mail us to that effect). (If
you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us, please notify us of each e-mail account
you use.) We shall be entitled to disclose to any other company or companies within the PPrathi BitCraft LLP, or to third parties authorised by us, such information as may be necessary to
provide your requirements and requests or for the purpose of verification of details relating to any
requests for information or transactions on-line you may make with Prathi BitCraft LLP.
- We will not send you e-mails that you do not want, but we cannot guarantee that third parties to whom
your details are sent will not do so.
- You are entitled to receive a copy of any data held by us on you in accordance with the requirements of
applicable legislation and subject to any discretionary allowance for Prathi BitCraft LLP to make a charge
payable by you to cover our administration costs incurred in providing you with such data. Such payment
to be made on application for access to your data and to be no more than the maximum stipulated by
applicable legislation. The information will be forwarded to you within an appropriate period of time in
accordance with applicable legislation, but in any event no more than 40 days from the date of such
request for access.
- Where any discrepancies are discovered following your enquiry, we will take immediate steps to
validate and, where appropriate, correct our records. We will confirm the actions taken in writing to you
within an appropriate period of time in accordance with applicable legislation, but in any event no more
than 40 days after receiving your request to amend our records.
- We will always seek your consent before disclosing data relating to you for the making of offers by third
parties by informing you of an intention to process your data for such purposes, and offering you a
possibility to opt out of such use of your data, in a form or document returned to us or by notifying us by
telephone, fax or e-mail. (If you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us, complete
this form for each e-mail account you use.)
- If at any time you feel that Prathi BitCraft LLP has not adhered to these principles, please either notify us in
writing or by telephone, fax or e-mail and we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to determine
and correct the problem promptly. Prathi BitCraft LLP welcomes your questions and comments about privacy