The Indian Institute of Architects
Karnataka Chapter
Karnataka Chapter
Last updated: November 12, 2021 - Effective from: November 13, 2021.
This Privacy Policy covers the information we collect about you when you use our applications or website, or otherwise interact with us (for example, by attending our events), unless a different policy is displayed.
“ The Indian Institute of Architects - Karnataka
Chapter ” herinafter referred to as “IIA-KC” ("us", "we", or "our")
operates the www.iiakarnataka.com website and the IIA-KC mobile
applications (the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding
the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our
Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as
described in this Privacy Policy.
We use your Personal Information for
providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the
collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless
otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have
the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with this
policy, do not access or use our Services or interact with any other aspect of
our business.
Information Collection And Use: While using our Service, we may ask you to
provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to
contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is
not limited to, your email address, name, phone number, postal address, other
information ("Personal Information").
Account and Profile Information: We
collect information about you when you register on the Services, create or
modify your profile, set preferences, sign-up for or make purchases through the
Services. You also have the option of adding a display name, profile photo, job
title, and other details to your profile information to be displayed in our
Services. We keep track of your preferences when you select settings within the
Services.
Content you provide through our applications: The Services
include the applications you use, where we collect and store content that you
post, send, receive and share. This content includes any information about you
that you may choose to include. Examples of content we collect and store
include: your email address, your Linkedin job title, name, picture, summary,
number of connections and location, the theme and description added to an
invitation, the venue of your invitation including name, address and picture,
your geo location, the information about guests (names, job titles and pictures)
joining your invitation, the messages you exchange in chat, your request to join
other invitations (submitted, pending), comments you enter in Feedback pages,
and any feedback you provide to us. We collect content using analytics
techniques that hash, filter or otherwise scrub the information to exclude
information that might identify you or your organization; and we collect
clickstream data about how you interact with and use features in the Services.
Server and data center administrators can disable our collection of this
information from the Services via the administrator settings or prevent this
information from being shared with us by blocking transmission at the local
network level.
Content you provide through our website: The Services also
include our website owned or operated by us. We collect other content that you
submit to this website, for example, you provide content to us when you
subscribe to our newsletter (your name, surname and email address). This
collection is performed via Mailchimp or equivalent CRM (& their own privacy
policies address how they use such information).
Information we collect
automatically when you use the Services
Log Data: We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you
visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a computing
device such as a mobile phone, tablet or personal computer ("Log Data"). This
Log Data may include information such as your computing device's Internet
Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service
that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages
and other statistics.
When you access the Service by or through a computing
device, this Log Data may include information such as the type of computing
device you use, your computing device’s unique ID, the IP address of your
computing device, your computing device operating system, the type of computing
device Internet browser you use and other statistics. In addition, we may use
third party services such as Google Analytics , Mailchimp or equivalent that
collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our
Service's functionality. These third party service providers have their own
privacy policies addressing how they use such information.
Location
information: We may use and store information about your location, if you give
us permission to do so. We use this information to provide features of our
Service, to improve and customize our Service. You can enable or disable
location services when you use our Service at anytime, through your computing
device settings.
Information we receive from other sources, or Other Partners: We receive
information about you and your activities on and off the Services from
third-party partners, such as advertising and market research partners who
provide us with information about your interest in and engagement with, our
Services.
How we use information we collect
To provide the Services and personalize your experience: We use information
about you to provide the Services to you, including to process transactions with
you, authenticate you when you log in, provide user support, and operate and
maintain the Services. For example, we use the name and picture you provide in
your account to identify you to other Service users. Our Services also include
tailored features that personalize your experience, enhance your experience, and
improve your ability to meet up with other users. For example, we may use your
stated job title and activity to return search results we think are relevant to
your job function. We also use information about you to connect you with other
users.
For research and development: We are always looking for ways to make our
Services smarter, faster, secure, integrated and useful to you. We use
collective learnings about how people use our Services and feedback provided
directly to us to troubleshoot and to identify trends, usage, activity patterns
and areas for integration and improvement of the Services. In some cases, we
apply these learnings across our Services to improve and develop similar
features or to better integrate the services you use. We also test and analyze
certain new features with some users before rolling the feature out to all
users.
To communicate with you about the Services: We use your contact
information to send transactional communications via email and within the
Services, including confirming your invitations, reminding you of coming events,
responding to your comments, questions and requests, providing user support, and
sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative
messages. We send you email notifications when you or others interact with you
on the Services, for example, when new events are created in your proximity or
when you’ve got a request to join your event submitted by another user. We also
provide tailored communications based on your activity and interactions with us.
We also send you communications as you onboard to the Service to help you become
more proficient in using that Service. These communications are part of the
Services and in most cases you cannot opt out of them. If an opt out is
available, you will find that option within the communication itself or in your
account settings.
Customer support: We use your information to resolve
technical issues you encounter, to respond to your requests for assistance, to
analyze crash information, and to repair and improve the Service.
For safety and security: We use information about you and your Service use to
verify accounts and activity, to monitor suspicious or fraudulent activity and
to identify violations of Service policies.
To protect our legitimate
business interests and legal rights: Where required by law or where we believe
it is necessary to protect our legal rights, interests and the interests of
others, we use information about you in connection with legal claims,
compliance, regulatory, and audit functions.
With your consent: We use
information about you where you have given us consent to do so for a specific
purpose not listed above. For example, we may publish testimonials or featured
user stories to promote the Services, with your permission.
Legal bases for
processing (for EEA users): If you are an individual in the European Economic
Area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have
legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws. The legal bases depend on the
Services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your
information only where:
If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific
purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not
affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your
information because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you
have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no
longer using the Services.
How we share information we collect: We share information we collect about you in the ways discussed below, including in connection with possible business transfers, but we are not in the business of selling information about you to advertisers or other third parties. When you use the Services, we share certain information about you with other Service users.
For user experience: You can create content (e.g. an invitation), which may contain information about you, and grant permission to others to see, share, join that content based on settings you or your administrator (if applicable) select. Some of the features of the Service display some or all of your profile information to other Service users when you interact within the Service. For example, when you send a request to join an invitation, we display your profile picture and name within the invitation card so that other users with access to the Service can see it and request to join if interested. When you send a message to another user, the recipient can view any information in your profile. Similarly, when you publish an invitation, your name is displayed as the admin of that invitation, and Service users with permission to access the Service can view your profile information as well.
Sharing with third parties: We share information with third parties that help us operate, provide, improve, integrate, customize and support our Services.
Service Providers: We work with third-party service providers to provide website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, virtual infrastructure, analysis and other services for us, which may require them to access or use information about you. If a service provider needs to access information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under close instruction from us, including policies and procedures designed to protect your information.
Links to Third Party Sites: The Services may include links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit information to any of those third party sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies, not this one. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
With your consent: We share information about you with third parties when you give us consent to do so. For example, we often display personal testimonials of satisfied users on our public websites. With your consent, we may post your name alongside the testimonial.
Compliance with Enforcement Requests and Applicable Laws; Enforcement of Our Rights: In exceptional circumstances, we may share information about you with a third party if we believe that sharing is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to meet national security requirements, (b) enforce our agreements, policies and terms of service, (c) protect the security or integrity of our services, (d) protect IIA-KC, our users or the public from harm or illegal activities, or (e) respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose information to assist in preventing the death or serious bodily injury of any person.
How we store and secure information we collect
Information storage and security: We use data hosting service providers in the United States and Europe to host the information we collect, and we use technical measures to secure your data. For more information on where we store your information, please see us on support@iiakarnataka.com, cc: nigliamith@yahoo.com . While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
How long we keep information: How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information, as described in further detail below. After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible (for example, because the information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.
Account information: We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and a reasonable period thereafter in case you decide to re-activate the Services. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our Services. Where we retain information for Service improvement and development, we take steps to eliminate information that directly identifies you, and we only use the information to uncover collective insights about the use of our Services, not to specifically analyze personal characteristics about you.
Information you share on the Services: If your account is deactivated or disabled, some of your information and the content you have provided will remain in order to allow other users to make full use of the Services. For example, we continue to display messages you sent to the users that received them and continue to display content you provided when applicable.
Marketing information: If you have elected to receive marketing emails from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences for a reasonable period of time from the date you last expressed interest in our Services, such as when you last opened an email from us or ceased using your IIA-KC account. We retain information derived from cookies and other tracking technologies for a reasonable period of time from the date such information was created. Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computing device's storage. We use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
How to access and control your information: You have certain choices available to you when it comes to your information. Below is a summary of those choices, how to exercise them and any limitations.
Access and update your information: Our Services give you the ability to access and update certain information about you within the Service. For example, you can access your profile information from your account. You can update your profile information within your profile settings and modify content that contains information about you using the editing tools associated with that content (e.g. editing invitation).
Deactivate your account: If you no longer wish to use our Services, you may be able to deactivate your Services account. If you wish to deactivate your account, that setting is available to you in your account settings. If you are unable to deactivate an account through your account settings, please contact us at support@iiakarnataka.com cc: nigliamith@yahoo.com . Please be aware that deactivating your account does not delete your information; your information remains visible to other Service users based on your pastparticipation within the Services. For more information on how to delete your information, see below.
Delete your information: Our Services give you the ability to delete certain information about you from within the Service. For example, you can remove content that contains information about you and you can remove certain profile information within your profile settings. Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, to complete transactions or to comply with our legal obligations.
Request that we stop using your information: In some cases, you may ask us to stop accessing, storing, using and otherwise processing your information where you believe we don't have the appropriate rights to do so. For example, if you believe a Services account was created for you without your permission or you are no longer an active user, you can request that we delete your account as provided in this policy. Where you gave us consent to use your information for a limited purpose, you can contact us to withdraw that consent, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place at the time. You can also opt-out of our use of your information for marketing purposes by contacting us, as provided below. When you make such requests, we may need time to investigate and facilitate your request. If there is delay or dispute as to whether we have the right to continue using your information, we will restrict any further use of your information until the request is honored or the dispute is resolved.
Opt out of communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us by using the unsubscribe link within each email, updating your email preferences within your Service account settings menu, or by contacting us as provided below to have your contact information removed from our promotional email list or registration database. Even after you opt out from receiving promotional messages from us, you will continue to receive transactional messages from us regarding our Services. You can opt out of some notification messages in your account settings.
How we transfer information we collect internationally: We collect information globally and primarily store that information in the United States and Europe. We transfer, process and store your information outside of your country of residence, to wherever we or our third-party service providers operate for the purpose of providing you the Services. Whenever we transfer your information, we take steps to protect it.
International transfers to third parties: Some of the third parties described in this privacy policy, which provide services to us under contract, are based in other countries that may not have equivalent privacy and data protection laws to the country in which you reside. When we share information of customers in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, we make use of the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks, European Commission-approved standard contractual data protection clauses, binding corporate rules for transfers to data processors, or other appropriate legal mechanisms to safeguard the transfer.
Other important privacy information
Our policy towards children: The Services are not directed to individuals under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@iiakarnataka.com cc: nigliamith@yahoo.com . Changes to our Privacy Policy: We may change this privacy policy from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by adding a notice on the Services homepages, login screens, or by sending you an email notification. We encourage you to review our privacy policy whenever you use the Services to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you disagree with any changes to this privacy policy, you will need to stop using the Services and deactivate your account(s), as outlined above. Contact Us: Your information is controlled by IIA-KC. If you have questions or concerns about how your information is handled, please direct your inquiry to IIA-KC, which we have appointed to be responsible for facilitating such inquiries or, if you are a resident of the European Economic Area, please contact us at support@iiakarnataka.com cc: nigliamith@yahoo.com . IIA-KC