The Rishi & Milan Khosla Foundation shall hereinafter be referred to as ‘RMKF’.
Policy Contents
- The information we may collect about you online;
- The use and role of cookies and similar technologies on our Website;
- How we will protect and use information we collect about and from you.
- Intellectual property, usage restrictions and telemarketing limitations.
- Social media usage.
INFORMATION GATHERED
You can visit the Website without revealing your identity or any Personal Information about yourself. However, you may not be able to access specific services, available today or in the future, such as updates and access to our reports and newsletters that requires subscription or need you to reveal your identity and/or other information about you.
Information that we collect from you may include your name and email address. In addition, we may collect demographic information such as information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, media, Internet Protocol (IP) address and connection, information about online activity such as feature usage and click paths, and other data that you may provide in surveys or online profiles. We may combine demographic information with Personal Information to tailor our offerings or web pages to your preferences or interests.
RMKF does not collect any Sensitive Personal Information (“SPI”). SPI means personal information such as your password; physical, physiological and mental health condition; medical records and history; biometric Information, sexual orientation and financial information (such as bank account details or credit card numbers).
Personal Information collected by RMKF shall not be disclosed without your express consent, save as otherwise set out in this Policy or as provided in an agreement between RMKF and you or as required by law. It is clarified that this condition shall not apply to publicly available information, including SPI, in relation to you on the Website.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify you, including, but not limited to, your first and last name, identity proof, an email address, phone number or other contact information.
We ordinarily do not collect Personal Information from you when you subscribe to any of our services or otherwise. That said, if due to a future functionality if we do, you will be voluntarily allowed to provide or decline to provide such information. If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s) and other materials, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter and materials to you.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We may utilise “cookies” and other tracking technologies. A “cookie” is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about your activity on our Website. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by you. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you may need to re-enter certain information to gain access to certain parts of the Website.
Tracking technologies may automatically record information such as Internet domain and host names; other information about your geographic location; IP addresses; browser software and operating system types; CPU type; your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); click paths; and dates and times that our Website is accessed.
Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Website experience and consequently your web experience. We may also analyze information that does not include Personal Information for trends and statistics.
USES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use Personal Information and other information received and collected from you to provide the services you have requested, including for the purpose of sending newsletters or updates or to contact you upon your request, or to respond to your query and when otherwise necessary. We may also use Personal Information for auditing, research and analysis, and to operate and improve our services internally. In certain circumstances, we may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties. When we use third parties to assist us in processing your Personal Information, we require that they comply with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We may also share such information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
Where we propose to use your Personal Information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We will keep confidential and protect your Personal Information except where disclosure is required or permitted by law.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and, once we receive it, for storage and disposal. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We limit access to Personal Information to trustees, employees, agents, advisors and consultants who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
Service providers are an important means by which we maintain our Website and mailing lists. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on our behalf through confidentiality agreements and otherwise. We do not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on our behalf unless such transfer is legally required.
If you choose to provide us with your Personal Information, we may transfer that Personal Information from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Your Personal Information may be collected and stored on servers located in the territory of India and such other countries as we may disclose from time to time.
Social Media
We are likely to create social media plugins and/or links for direct sharing of limited excerpts from our website on to your favorite social media websites and applications. This feature is not mandatory to use nor does not using it hampers your web browsing experience here. That said, usage of these plugins and/or links is subject to privacy policies governing the respective social media websites and applications.
Intellectual Property Rights
All Material appearing on the website (including but not limited to trademarks, logos, text, graphical images, audio and video) is the property of RMKF. Any infringement shall be defended to the fullest extent permitted by law and in a jurisdiction having the closest nexus to the infringer. RMKF reserves all rights over this website and its contents.
Usage Restrictions/Limitations
You shall not print copies of the information on this site for your personal use and/or store the files on your computer for personal use or any other purpose. You shall not distribute text, graphics or images to others without the express written consent of RMKF.
You shall not, without our prior written consent, copy, reproduce, modify, reuse and/or distribute any information/material from this website in any manner including but not limited to any other server or any another system.
No reproduction of any part of the website may be sold or distributed for commercial gain, nor shall it be modified or incorporated in any other work, publication or site, whether in hard copy or electronic format, including but not limited to postings to any other site.
The user has a limited right to store, print or download extracts from this website for personal, non-commercial use only to the extent permissible by the (Indian) Copyright Act, 1957, the (Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000 and other applicable statutes and treaties around the world. These laws are applicable and enforceable against all entities throughout the world.
The user shall not (whether directly or through any software program) create a database in any form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this website. No part of this website, in any form, shall be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in or linked to any other website, domain address, public or private electronic retrieval system or service without express and prior written permission of RMKF.
The user shall not or cause another to tamper with the website which is likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to RMKF or to the public including destruction, deletion and / or alteration of any part of this website which diminishes its value / utility or affects it injuriously. Failure to comply with the above gives rise to severe civil and criminal consequences, including but not limited to imprisonment and imposition of substantial fine and/or penalty. All legal remedies shall be invoked without prior and specific notice to the infringer.
Products and Services
All information, whether pro bono publico, charitable, commercial, whether or not pertaining to focus areas or any products or services, whether or not for commercial gain, portrayed on this website are part of the RMKF initiatives and cannot be guaranteed to be available upon demand. We also cannot ensure that the outreach of programs enlisted herein will be available to individuals beyond the intended beneficiaries.
We reserve the right to include or exclude any programs from our focus and to modify any specifications at any time, without providing prior notice.
Telemarketing
As with all information, RMKF does not sell any data in bulk to third parties that can be misused for telemarketing or bulk mailing or any other wrongful purposes. In addition, RMKF does not sell any user’s personal information or business information until and unless it is permitted by the user. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding product or service usage on RMKF network is provided in an aggregated form only and does not include any personally identifiable information about any individual user.
No Representations and Warranties
The information on this website has been included in good faith and is for general information purposes only. It should not be relied upon for any specific purpose and no representation or warranty is given as regards its accuracy, relevance or completeness by RMKF.
While RMKF has tried to make the information contained in this website as accurate as possible, it accepts no responsibility and / or liability of any kind incurred as a result thereof.
RMKF makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, lack of viruses or other harmful components of this website or the information contained therein. The same is provided on an ‘as is’ basis without warranty of any kind.
No information on this website shall constitute an invitation to invest in RMKF. Neither RMKF nor its affiliates, officers, employees or agents shall be liable for any loss, damage or expense arising out of any access to or use of this website or any website linked to it, including, without limitation, any loss of profit, indirect, incidental or consequential loss.
Information about the Founders and Grantees is provided on an ‘as is’ basis without warranty of any kind and usage of their Intellectual Property Rights (including but not limited to trademarks, logos, text, graphical images, audio and video) is subject to prior written consent from each individual / entity. Nothing contained on the website or herein shall constitute a representation amounting to consent to use of the same.