Privacy Policy for members & donors

We collect and generate various data points about you.

Data by which you are identified is termed as “Personal Data”. Personal Data does not mean information that is freely available or accessible in the public domain.

Your Privacy is of utmost importance to us and the protection of your Personal Data is a key commitment for us.

We are governed by the provisions of applicable law in India including the Information Technology Act 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 to maintain the privacy of your Personal Data.

  1. Personal Data
    Personal Data we may collect from you are as under:

    1. Personal details (e.g. name, contact details including, email id, mobile/ landline no., residential address, date of birth, documents such as identity card/passport details / Aadhaar details / PAN / GST/ Voter ID/driving license, and/or education details) provided by you to us to avail various services from us or to become our beneficiary member.
    2. Your details including transaction history, payment details etc.;
    3. images of documents/ photos required to avail any of our services.
    4. voice recordings of our conversations with our agent with you to address your queries/grievances, and to enhance our future services;
    5. specimen signature(s) for processing of your application received by us;
    6. opinions provided by you to us by way of feedback or responses to surveys;
    7. information obtained from your mobile device by way of using our app like device location, communication information including contacts and call logs, device information (including storage, model, mobile network), transactional and promotional SMS/app notifications.
    8. We will not be seeking any additional approvals for using the logo on ADIF promotional materials
  2. Sharing of your Personal Data
    Any Personal Data that we have access to shall never be shared without your consent.In various processes/submission of applications / availment of product/service offerings, we even seek your explicit consent to use/share your Personal Data. In our business and operational processes, we only share the data on a partial and “need-to-know” basis to designated personnel or partners or service providers
    We will share your data with competent/ legal/statutory/regulatory agencies/authorities or partners/service providers acting on our behalf (as the case may be) in the following cases:

    1. only for enabling the provision of the products/services availed by you, strictly on a “need to know” basis and subject to applicable laws.
    2. it is directed or required by legal/regulatory/statutory/governmental authorities under applicable laws/regulations though a legally obligated request.
    3. it is required by financial institutions to verify, mitigate or prevent fraud or to manage risk or recover funds in accordance with applicable laws/regulations.
  3. Usage of Your Personal Data
    We use your Personal Data in our business activities for providing our or our partners’ products/services and to perform, among other actions, the following:

    1. to facilitate the transactions or report on these transactions;
    2. to undertake research and analytics for offering or improving our products/services and their security and service quality;
    3. to check and process your requirements submitted to us for services and/or instructions or requests received from you in respect of these services;
    4. to share with you, updates on changes to the services and their terms and conditions;
    5. to take up or investigate any complaints/claims/disputes;
    6. to respond to your queries or feedback submitted by you;
    7. to verify your identity for us to provide services to you;
    8. to carry screenings or due diligence checks as lawfully required by us;
    9. to monitor and review services from time to time;
    10. to undertake financial/regulatory/management reporting;
    11. for conducting audits and for record-keeping purposes;

    External processing: We may provide your personal information to our affiliates or other trusted partners or persons or service providers engaged by us, or institutions that we partner with to assist us with providing you with services to better serve your needs and interests, based on your instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

    We also use your Personal Data to fulfill the requirements of applicable laws/regulations and/or court orders/regulatory directives received by us.

  4. Purging of your Personal Data
    1. You may disassociate with Alliance of Digital India Foundation at any point in time by communicating through email or registered post. With this, we will no longer provide your data for external processing as mentioned above. However, we retain your Personal Data as long as the purpose for its usage exists, after which the same is disposed off by us except for any record retention required as per applicable law.
    2. The provisions of various laws require your transaction logs to be stored for longer periods post the deletion of an account. Further, in the event of the pendency of any legal/regulatory proceeding or receipt of any legal and/or regulatory direction to that effect, we may be required by the law of the land to retain your Personal Data for longer periods.
  5. Cookie Policy
    1. Please note that a “cookie” is a small piece of information stored by a web server on a web browser so it can be later read back from that browser.
    2. We may use cookie and tracking technology depending on the features offered.
    3. No Personal Data will be collected via cookies and other tracking technology; however, if you previously provided Personal Data, cookies may be tied to such information.
  6. Links to other websites
    Our website may contain links to other websites which are not maintained by us. This privacy policy only applies to us. You are requested to read the other websites’ privacy policies when visiting these websites.
  7. Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures
    We take various steps and measures to protect the security of your Personal Data from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We use the latest secure server layers encryption and access control on our systems. Our safety and security processes are audited by a third-party cybersecurity audit agency from time to time.We have provided multiple levels of security to safeguard your data.
  8. Contact us
    You may contact us on any aspect of this policy or for any discrepancies/grievances with respect to your Personal Data, by writing to us on email at contact@adif.in
  9. Policy Review & Updates
    This policy will be reviewed by us as and when required and the same may change at any time. The latest & most updated policy can always be found at our website.While we will make reasonable efforts to keep you posted on any updates to this privacy policy, to make sure that you are aware of any changes, we recommend that you review this policy periodicallyIn this policy, the words “we”, “ours” and/or “us” refer to Alliance of Digital India Foundation and “you” and/or “your” refer to our visitors/users/members/stakeholders.
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