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Globalindianfoundation.org Privacy and Information Security Policy ("Privacy Policy" or "Policy")

Effective Date: November 30, 2013

Welcome. This Policy is designed to help you understand how Globalindianfoundation.org and its properties (the "Site") collect personally identifying information about you and how the Foundation uses and discloses that personal information. Globalindianfoundation.org is a Web site of the Global Indian Foundation ("GIF", the "Foundation," "we," "us" etc.), a charitable trust existing under the laws of Singapore. Your privacy is important to us and the Foundation is committed to the protection of your privacy. You may contact us at our Address For Queries and Notices. This Policy applies to information that personally identifies you (other than publicly available information) ("personal information") collected on Globalindianfoundation.org or other sites managed by the GIF or, where indicated, other information you provide to us.

USE OF OUR SITE OR PROVISION OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION CONSTITUTES AGREEMENT TO THIS POLICY. DO NOT USE THE SITE OR PROVIDE PERSONAL INFORMATION (OR ALLOW OTHERS TO DO SO ON YOUR BEHALF) IF YOU (AND YOUR PRINCIPAL IF YOU ARE ACTING AS AGENT) DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THE TERMS OF USE INCLUDING THIS POLICY AND ANY APPLICABLE SUPPLEMENTAL PRIVACY POLICY.

Table of Contents

  • 1. How Does This Policy Relate to Use of the Site?
  • 2. Information We Collect That You Do Not Provide
  • 3. Information We Collect That You Do Provide
  • 4. Information You Provide About Others
  • 5. What We Generally Do with Personal Information Collected
  • 6. Your Ability to Update Personal Information
  • 7. Information Security
  • 8. Your Particular Consents
  • 9. Children
  • 10. Identity Theft
  • 11. Amendments
  • 12. Information About Enforcement of Our Policy
  • 13. Supplemental Privacy Policy—Jobs

1. How Does This Policy Relate to Use of the Site?

This Policy is part of and incorporated into the Globalindianfoundation.org Terms of Use ("Terms of Use"), which is the contract between you and the Foundation governing use of the Site. Parts of the Terms of Use affect this Policy, so, unless you have already done so, please review them prior to using the Site. Terms used but not defined in this Policy have the definitions in the Terms of Use.

This Policy is supplemented by additional policies relevant to particular activities, and each of the supplemental policies is incorporated into this Policy. Here are examples of areas in which you will encounter supplemental privacy policies but this list is not exhaustive, but only indicative: if a supplemental policy is included on the Site with respect to a particular activity, or if one is included on a Third Party site relating to the mission of the Foundation, those supplemental policies will also apply and are also incorporated in this Policy.

2. Information We Collect That You Do Not Provide

Sometimes we collect personal information without you having to enter any information on the Site. For example, we may receive personal information from public sources or from third parties (which we may combine with other information from other sources).

In addition, we may collect some information automatically from visitors to the Site, for example through the use of "cookies", "web beacons", and other tracking mechanisms. We collect at least the following: your domain name and host for Internet access; the Internet address of the site from which you came; the date and time of your access; your computer's IP address and information about its operating system, browser and host; the date and time you access the Site and the pages you visit. If you do not want to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them. However, if you turn cookies off, you may not have access to some of the Site's services and features. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issues cookies when you access the Site. We also may employ Web beacons from third parties to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the operations of our site. We prohibit Web beacons on our site from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information.

3. Information We Collect That You Do Provide

It is always your choice, or the choice of anyone acting for you, whether or not to provide any personal information. Some personal information must be provided to participate in certain programs or activities (such as to apply for a job), so the decision not to provide information might limit or eliminate certain functions of the Site or the ability to participate. Other information is up to your good judgment, e.g., do not provide personal information about yourself that could be misused by others in a chat room, bulletin board, blog or similar forum and do not provide personal information about others without their permission. The kinds of personal information we tend to request about you or others include but are not limited to your name, email address, native language, organization name, job title, city, state / province, region, age, locations for internet access and devices used. Additional information about what we collect is available in any supplemental privacy policies for particular activities.

4. Information You Provide About Others

Do not supply personal information about others unless you are authorized or required to do so by applicable law or contract and you consent to the Terms of Use (including this Policy and supplemental policies) on behalf of yourself and the "data subject" (the person about whom you supply personal information). Before supplying personal information about others (except as otherwise allowed by law or contract), you must make available for the data subject's review, and obtain their written consent to, said Terms of Use and policies. By submitting any personal information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you complied with all the conditions specified above before submitting the personal information. If the applicable law allows you to supply the personal information without doing the foregoing, you represent and warrant that you have abided by that law and that it allows us to receive and Disclose the information under this Policy without any further action on our part. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless against any/all the claims actions, suits, proceedings, judgments, decrees, expenses, notices, summons, litigations, demands, damages, penalties, compromises, settlements, etc. filed, initiated, issued or claimed against the Foundation and/or losses, damages, costs suffered by the Foundation as a result of your failure to comply with this paragraph.

The Foundation works with third parties on certain programs, and often those Third Parties own and/or are responsible for that program's Web site. In those cases, if you provide personal information, you will be giving it to a third party and their privacy policy will apply. You agree that if they provide your personal information to us then our Policy would become applicable to what we receive.

5. What We Generally Do with Personal Information Collected

In general, we use personal information we collect to pursue our mission and operations and to engage in the activity (and related activities) for which we collect it.  Specifically, we may use your personal information to:

  1. 1. To fulfill our obligations to you and to respond to any questions or requests;
  2. 2. To contact you about material changes in our Site Terms or Policies;
  3. 3. To comply with the law and/or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform with the requirements of law or to comply with legal process served on us;
  4. 4. To provide to third parties as a result of any reorganization process;
  5. 5. To share it with our marketing, advertising or other service providers to help them understand our prospective clients and provide support services in a better manner.
  6. 6. If you sign up for a blog, feed or newsletter, we may put you on our mailing list or even the list of a Third Party who we think has a similar mission.
  7. 7. If you apply for a job, we'll use the information to find out about you and share it with service providers and others we view as relevant to the employment process.

Further information is available in the supplemental policies for some activities, but you should assume that we will use all information for all lawful purposes. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to make all lawful, worldwide uses of personal information, including without limitation, to: collect, use, access (or bar access), process, fulfil, disclose, display, share, respond to legal process or otherwise exercise our rights under applicable law, transfer, store, verify, enforce, delete, and otherwise deal with personal information, and information other than personal information (collectively "Disclose").

6. Your Ability to Update Personal Information

To the extent our systems require your personal information; in general, they provide the ability for you to update and modify your information.  If you have any questions about what personal information about you the Foundation retains, please contact us at [email protected]. The foundation endeavours to keep your personal information accurate and up to date.   If your personal information has changed, you may submit your new information there as well. Some activities allow some updating, e.g., you may update your "Jobs" profile by using the functionality in that section of the Site. 

We keep personal information for as long as we think is necessary or advisable and we reserve the right to retain it to the full extent not prohibited by law. We may discard personal information in our discretion, so you should retain your own records, and not rely upon our storage of any personal information or other data.

7. Information Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information received from our users from unauthorized use or disclosure.

8. Your Particular Consents

In addition to consenting to the Terms of Use, including this Policy (and any relevant supplemental policies), the Foundation is interested in letting you know about, and receiving your particular consent to, a few activities relating to personal information that will help us to deal with personal information that is Disclosed in furtherance of our mission, operations and programs. These are described immediately below.

  • Consent to International Transfer and Disclosure of Personal Information:
    We are involved in programs and activities in Singapore. You agree that the Foundation and those with whom we share personal information ("Recipients") may Disclose and transfer your personal information worldwide (including outside of Singapore, if you are based in Asia) for any purpose relating to our or their mission, operations, programs, or otherwise that is not allowed or prohibited by this Policy.

  • Consent to Electronic Notice If There is a Security Breach:
    If we or a Recipient is required to provide notice of unauthorized access or other invasion of certain security systems, you agree that we (or they) may do so when required (or voluntarily) by posting notice on our Site or sending notice to any email address we have for you, in our (or their) good faith discretion. You agree that notice to you will count as notice to others for whom you are acting, and agree to pass the notice on to them.

9. Children

We do not want to collect information from children. Do not provide any personal information unless you are at least 13 years of age, and please caution your children not to provide any. If a child under 13 has provided personal information, a parent or guardian may so inform us by writing us at Our Address for queries and notices (see below) and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete it from our database, subject to applicable law and this Policy.

10. Identity Theft

If anyone believes they are a victim of identity theft entitled by law to request information from us, write us at Our Address For Queries and Notices and we'll explain what information we require in order to respond. After receiving that information, we will supply (without charge) information we then have that we are legally required to provide (subject to applicable law and reserving all rights and defences).

11. Amendments

We will be changing what we do and how and why we Disclose data periodically—this Policy describes what we currently envision, but that will change as we change. You agree that this Policy amends and replaces any previous privacy policy(ies). We may further amend all or part of this Policy in the same way that we make amendments to our Terms of Use and such amended versions will be posted on this page. You are requested to check our Policy and Terms of Use on a regular basis.

12. Information About Enforcement of Our Policy

This Policy is part of and supplemented by our Terms of Use, which together with any supplemental privacy policy form a contract. If there is a conflict between the Terms of Use and this Policy, the latest version of this Policy will prevail. We and you are bound by the Terms of Use, including this Policy. If you think we are in default, you may contact us by writing to Our Address For Queries and Notices. There are no third party beneficiaries of this Policy.

Our Address for Queries and Notices:

Attn: Legal

Supplemental Privacy Policy—Jobs

Welcome. This Supplemental Privacy Policy—Jobs ("Jobs Policy") supplements the Privacy Policy for Globalindianfoundation.org ("Site"). It applies if you use the "Careers" section of the Site or if you allow or cause someone else to use it for you. We are an equal opportunity employer.

This Jobs Policy is part of our Privacy and Information Security Policy ("Privacy Policy") which is part of our Terms of Use; terms used but not defined in this Jobs Policy are defined in those documents. CREATING A PROFILE, SUBMITTING ANY INFORMATION RELATING TO A POSSIBLE JOB OPPORTUNITY, MAKING ANY APPLICATION(S), OR ALLOWING SOMEONE ELSE (SUCH AS A RECRUITER) TO DO THAT FOR YOU, WILL BE YOUR CONSENT TO OUR TERMS OF USE, INCLUDING OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL POLICY.

If you are a recruiter, friend or someone other than job applicant ("Applicant"), you represent and warrant to the Foundation that you have shown the Applicant the Terms of Use (including the Privacy Policy and Jobs Policy) and that you have obtained written consent from the Applicant to the above-mentioned terms and policies or that you are otherwise authorized to do so and to submit personal information about the Applicant.

Information That We Collect in Jobs.

The information submitted about an Applicant online tends to be preliminary information. If we think there might be a good fit for a position, we often will ask the Applicant to complete a more formal application and also to authorize us for formal interview.

Access to Information

You may update your profile personal information by using the Site functionality in the Jobs section. The Foundation retains profiles in accordance with our records retention policy. We reserve the right to delete them and other information stored by or for you, so do not store, for example, the only copy of a resume with us (and sometimes information will need to be re-entered). Profiles may be deleted at any time upon request by contacting [email protected]. Neither changes to or deletion of a profile will alter information already submitted or relied upon.

How We Use Information Collected in Jobs.

In addition to the uses of personal information

If Applicant gets a job with us, we store the application and other information upon which we relied in Applicant's personnel file and we may base post-employment decisions on it (including disciplinary actions).

Security.

  • 1. We store data associated with your application on a Site provided by a service provider. The data is not encrypted but the service provider has agreed to provide a commercially reasonable level of security.

  • 2. Please be wary of email "phishing" or other scams by persons pretending to be us or a Third Party working with us – if you are contacted and asked for sensitive personal information such as financial information or your social security number etc., you should assume that someone is trying to defraud you. We will already have that information if you provided it to us on one of our documents and so will anyone with whom we share personal information: generally we do not need to ask for it again. If you'd like to check with us to help determine if the person communicating with you is really us or someone we shared with, please contact [email protected].