Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy Outlines How We Collect, Use, Disclose, And Protect Your Personal Information. By Using Our Services, You Consent To The Practices Described In This Policy.
This privacy policy ("Policy") explains the policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of your information by RateperSQFT and/or affiliate(s) (collectively referred to as the "Company"), which operates its website (ratepersqft.com), platforms, applications, m-web platforms and other platforms (collectively referred to as "Sites") for delivery of information, products, offerings, and content via any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (collectively the "Services").
This Policy forms part and parcel of the Terms of Use and other terms on the Site ("Terms of Use"). Capitalized terms that have been used here but are undefined shall have the same meaning as attributed to them in the Terms of Use. This policy is effective from the date and time a user registers with ratepersqft.com and accepts the terms and conditions laid out on the website. Please read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use carefully before using our Services. Note that this Privacy Policy applies to both our website and our mobile application.
RateperSQFT is an intellectual property of KDM Proptech Private Limited. RateperSQFT respects the privacy of its users and is committed to protecting it in all respects. With a view to offering the most enriching and holistic internet experience to its users, RateperSQFT offers a vast repository of Online Sites and a variety of community services. The information about the user as collected by RateperSQFT is: (a) information supplied by users and (b) information automatically tracked while navigation (Information). By using RateperSQFT’s website or its services, you consent to the collection, storage, use, transfer, share, and distribution of the personal information you provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of the services that we offer on our website, i.e. ratepersqft.com., and through our RateperSQFT mobile application.
INFORMATION RECEIVED, COLLECTED AND STORED BY THE COMPANY
REGISTRATION DATA
When you register on the Site to avail of any of the Services provided by us, we ask you to provide basic contact information such as your name, sex, age, address, pin code, contact number, occupation, interests, email address, etc. When you register through your accounts on other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc., we shall retrieve Information from such accounts to continue to interact with you and to continue providing our Services.
VOLUNTARY INFORMATION
We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback or comments, change your content or email preferences, respond to a survey, or establish any communications with us.
INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED/ TRACKED WHILE NAVIGATION COOKIES
To improve the responsiveness of the website for our Users, we may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number for User Identification (User ID) to understand the User's individual interests using the identified computer or device. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer or device. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or device. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads, etc.), a process that we do not control. We receive and store certain types of Information whenever you interact with us via our Site, App, or Services through your computer/laptop/netbook or mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device etc.
OPTING OUT
If a User opts out of using the Ads Settings, the unique Double Click cookie ID on the User's browser is overwritten with the phrase "OPT_OUT". Because there is no longer a unique cookie ID, the opt-out cookie can't be associated with a particular browser.
LOG FILE INFORMATION
We automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet and mobile number, including your IP address, when you visit our site, application, or services. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data such as the pages you view. We automatically receive and log information from your browser, including your IP address, your computer's name, your operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed. We may also collect log information from your device, including your location, IP address, your device's name, device's serial number or unique identification number (e.g. UDiD on your iOS device), your device operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed, etc.
CLEAR GIFS
We may use "clear GIFs" (Web Beacons) to track the online usage patterns of our Users in an anonymous manner, without personally identifying the User. We may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our Users to track which emails are opened by recipients. We use this information to inter-alia deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our Sites or Services to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our Sites to improve the quality, functionality, and interactivity of our Sites and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our Users come without personally identifying the Users.
INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may receive information about you from other sources, add it to our account information, and treat it in accordance with this Policy. If you provide information to the platform provider or other partner whom we provide services, your account information and order information may be passed on to us.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES/AD-SERVERS
The Sites may include links to other websites or applications. Such websites or applications are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the application, you are visiting. That privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the application's homepage, you should contact the application owners directly for more information. When we present Information to our advertisers to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Sites, it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages/content within our Sites. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Sites. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or other personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other websites or applications, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third-party websites/advertisers/ad-servers without your consent.
INFORMATION USED BY THE COMPANY
The information as supplied by the users enables us to improve the Services and provides you with the most user-friendly experience. In some cases/provisions of certain service(s) or utility(ies), we may require your contact address as well. All required Information is service dependent and the Company may use the above said user Information to, maintain, protect, and improve the Services (including advertising and personalization on the Sites) and for developing new services. We may also use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages about our Services and/or such additional updates and features about third-party products and services with an option to subscribe/unsubscribe (where feasible). We may, however, use your email address for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major changes, for customer service purposes, billing, etc.). Any personally identifiable information provided by you will not be considered sensitive if it is freely available and/or accessible in the public domain like any comments, messages, blogs, or scribbles available on social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Any post/upload/conveyed/communication by users on the public sections of the Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Policy. In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information on the Sites, we may not be able to provide certain services on the Sites to you. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the same at the time of opening your account. In any case, we will not be liable and/or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information. When you register with the Sites or Services, we contact you from time to time about updating your personal information to provide the Users with such features that we believe may benefit/interest you.
USER PAYMENT INFORMATION AND SECURITY
All the payments you make through our website or app are processed via Razorpay. Hence, all the payment-related information and details i.e. your card details, bank information, etc. are collected and processed by our payment gateway. We do not collect or store your payment data.
HOW COLLECTED DATA IS USED?
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit and/or use our Sites or Services. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or any personally identifiable information) about your visits or use of particular websites, mobile applications, or services, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. RateperSQFT also allows advertisers and creators to serve advertisements directly, using Times Internet Limited's own ad-serving technologies.
INFORMATION SHARING
Personal information will be used to allow you to log in to your account on the Site or to resolve specific service issues, inform you of our new services or features, and communicate with you in relation to your use of the Site. Any other information collected will be used for business purposes and this may include the User's viewing and/or advertising of residential or commercial real estate, rental properties, or use of associated services; analytical purposes, data usage; improving the Site, or user experience; and providing targeted advertisements to you. The Company shares your Information with any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the User in the following limited circumstances
The Company proposes to share such Information to conduct its business and to share such Information for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such Information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
The Company may present Information to our advertisers and third parties to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Sites, however, it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.
The Company may share your Information regarding your activities on Sites with third-party social websites to populate your social wall that is visible to other people. However, you will have the option to set your privacy settings, where you can decide what you would like to share or not to share with others.
We may share your Information to enforce or protect our rights or that any employees, directors, or officers or when we have reason to believe that disclosing Information of the User(s) is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or our Sites, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
Your E-mail address is made available to other organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. Registered telephone numbers of customers coming on our site may receive telephone or text message contact from us with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you use the Services or Sites (or any of its sub-sites), we make good faith efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible, subject to any requirement for such personal information or sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. All information gathered is securely stored within the Company-controlled database. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit or use our Sites or Services. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or any personally identifiable information) about your visits or use of particular websites, mobile applications, or services, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
HOW TO MANAGE AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND RELEVANT DATA
By following certain simple steps, you can manage and delete your selected information as well as your account with RateperSQFT.
If you want to delete any data you’ve posted on our website, you can delete it by clicking on the Delete button..
If you want to exercise your privacy rights to permanently delete your account, you can do it by using the Permanently Deactivate button available in your Profile section. Once you click on this button, a popup window with a warning message will appear to confirm that you really want to permanently delete your account. Once you click the Agree button, a confirmation link will be sent to you via email and text message to your registered mobile number. The confirmation link expires in 72 hours (3 days). If you click on this link within this time frame and confirm your request for the permanent deletion of your RateperSQFT account, your account will be permanently deleted. If you don’t log in to your account for one year, it will be permanently deactivated, and the data will be irrecoverable. However, logging in to your account within one year will lead your account back to the previous normalcy.
UPDATES/CHANGES
The internet is an ever-evolving medium. We may alter our Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law, or any other variant. In any case, we reserve the right to change (at any point of time) the terms of this Policy or the Terms of Use. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on the Sites. Your use of the Sites or Services after such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. In any case, you are advised to review this Policy periodically on the Sites to ensure that you are aware of the latest version.
MISCELLANEOUS SECURITY
We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, we cannot absolutely guarantee the protection of any information shared with us.
ACCURACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF ACCOUNT INFORMATION
Customers are responsible for maintaining the secrecy and accuracy of password, email address, and other account information at all times. RateperSQFT is not responsible for any personal data transmitted to a third party as a result of incorrect account-related information.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. Navigating to another website does not make RateperSQFT liable for the misuse of any information by any website controller to which we may link. Also, there shall be websites that use our ratepersqft.com search function, and RateperSQFT is not liable for the content available on such websites.
QUESTIONS/GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL
Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints, abuse, or concerns with regards to the use, processing, and disclosure of Information provided by you or breach of these terms should immediately be informed to the designated Grievance Officer, the details of the respective grievance officer are being provided in Terms of Use via in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature to Puja Das ("Grievance Officer").
Name : Puja Das
Designation: Grievance Officer
Address : 2nd Floor, Aastha Tower, CK Rd, Pan Bazaar, Guwahati, Assam 781001
Contact Details:
Email : pd@ratepersqft.com
*This Privacy Policy is subject to changes. Please periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.