EzCred Technologies Privacy Policy

Effective Date: Feb 1st 2017

SCOPE AND APPLICATION
The Privacy Policy covers the practices for handling and securing your Personal Information by EzCred Technologies. This Privacy Policy is applicable to persons who purchase any product or services from EzCred Technologies through our mobile applications, websites, mobile sites and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”) and through other interactions and communications you have with us.

COMMITMENT
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SCOPE AND APPLICATION
The privacy of our users, whether they are our former or existing registered user or merely a visitor to our Website or mobile application, is important to us and we are strongly committed to their right to privacy and to keeping their personal and other information secure. We encourage the users to read our privacy statement to understand what types of personally identifiable information we collect and how we use this information.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND HOW WE USE IT?
Personal Information
For the purpose of providing you services, we require you to enroll yourself on our Website/App and get yourself registered.
1) If you choose to become a registered member of our Services, you are required to share your name, e-mail address, gender, date of birth, postal address, phone number, profile picture, family details, and other details shared via application form or via email or via any other medium (Personally Identifiable Information).
2) EzCred Technologies may also collect other information specific to provide you service each time such as name, bank statements, KYC documents, personal details, family details and other information via application form or via email or via any other electronic medium or via printed form (Service Information).
3) Information exchanged by you with EzCred Technologies in the form of written communication, responses to emails, feedback required from you, participation in discussions, etc. is handled with confidentiality and is available for the exclusive use of EzCred Technologies

Please note that EzCred Technologies DOES NOT trade or sell your Personal Information in any manner, except as specified herein, or if express consent is sought from you.

Non-Personal Information
This information includes the IP address of the device used to connect to EzCred Technologies's website along with other information such as browser details, operating system used, the name of the website that redirected the visitor to the EzCred Technologies's website, etc. Also, when you browse our site or receive one of our emails, EzCred Technologies and our affiliated companies, use cookies and/or pixel tags to collect information and store your online preferences.

Other
We may from time to time add or enhance products/services available on our Website and mobile application. To the extent these products/services are provided to and used by you, we will use the information you provide in this regard to facilitate the products/service requested. For example, if you email us with a question, we will use your email address, name, nature of the question, etc. to respond to your question. We may also store and publish such information to assist us in making the site and mobile application the better and easier to use.

Promotional Initiatives
EzCred Technologies may have presence on social networking websites including but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs which are promotional and business initiatives to connect to a larger group of people. The domain links contained therein may either direct you to our Website or request your participation by way of feedback, suggestions. EzCred Technologies in this regard fully disclaims any liability(ies) or claim(s), which may arise by use/misuse of your feedback, suggestions, views, etc. on any of the aforementioned networking websites or blogs, by any third party whether or not known to EzCred Technologies.

WHAT ANDROID PERMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED WHILE USING OUR MOBILE APPLICATIONS?
EzCred Technologies may have presence on social networking websites including but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs which are promotional and business initiatives to connect to a larger group of people. The domain links contained therein may either direct you to our Website or request your participation by way of feedback, suggestions. EzCred Technologies in this regard fully disclaims any liability(ies) or claim(s), which may arise by use/misuse of your feedback, suggestions, views, etc. on any of the aforementioned networking websites or blogs, by any third party whether or not known to EzCred Technologies.

Android permissions:
Device & App history: We need your device permission to get information about your device, like OS name, OS version, mobile network, hardware model, preferred language, installed apps etc. Based on these inputs, we intend to optimize your overall experience by understanding your preferences and by using OS specific capabilities
Identity This permission enables us to know about details of your account(s) on your mobile device. We use this info to auto-fill your email ID’s and provide a typing free in-funnel experience. It also allows facilitating your Facebook login.
Contacts: If you allow us to access your contacts, it enables us to make it easy to get referred by your friends and also send across referral links to your friends. This information will be stored on our servers and synced from your phone.
Location:This permission enables us to provide you a personalized experience based on your location. When you plan to make an EMI payment using a nearby collection outlet, we auto-detect your location and suggest you the nearest outlet. This permission also enables us to know more about your popular hanging out areas and factor those in our algorithm.
SMS: If you allow us to access your SMS, we read your SMS to autofill and verify the OTP used to validate your mobile number when creating an account with EzCred Technologies - this provides you a seamless experience during that process. We also collect your SMS data to analyze the data around specific financial transactions for statistical analysis or for credit rating.
Phone: The app requires access to make phone calls so that you can make phone calls to our customer contact center directly through the app. This permission also enables us to understand more about your social interactions and factor that in our credit scoring algorithm.
Photos/Media/Files: The libraries in the app use these permissions to make it easy for you to upload existing pictures from the gallery or save newly clicked photos for document submission.
Camera: This permission enables us to make it easy for you to click the picture of necessary documents for online submission.
Wi-Fi connection information: When you allow us the permission to detect your Wi-Fi connection, we optimize your experience based on the connection speed.
Device ID and Phone number: This permission is used to detect your Android ID through which we can uniquely identify users.
Phone Accounts: This permission is used to verify through the multiple account sources that the phone belongs to you.
Call Logs: This permission is used to identify your active contacts. This will help for better credit profiling of the consumer. This will also help in fraud prevention.
Installed Apps: This permission is used to identify the user segment and show better loan schemes and provide better services to the consumer.
Note: EzCred Technologies Consumer app can collect relavent consumer phone information even when EzCred Technologies Consumer app is not used.

WITH WHOM YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS SHARED?
Any information share by you is used by us and/or authorized third parties/service partners to support your interaction with us, to offer you services in the best possible manner and to contact you again about other services and products that we offer. By submitting your Personal Information to EzCred Technologies, you expressly acknowledge and consent to EzCred Technologies to use such information and to process the same in a manner deemed fit by EzCred Technologies. This may involve conducting data analysis, research based on reviews about deals, transfer of your Personal Information to third party experts for the purpose of outsourcing services offered to you by EzCred Technologies, etc.

DOES EzCred Technologies PROTECT MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
EzCred Technologies is committed to protecting the privacy and the confidentiality of your Personal Information. Whenever EzCred Technologies obtains Personal Information from you, our Website uses commercially reasonable efforts and general industry standards to protect it from any unauthorized access or disclosure. Access to your Personal Information is limited to EzCred Technologies’s personnel and such authorized third parties who may host your data on our behalf or may assist us in providing the products and services requested by you. EzCred Technologies uses its best endeavors to maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that aim to protect your information against loss, misuse, damage, modification, and unauthorized access or disclosure. However, EzCred Technologies assumes no liability whatsoever for any disclosure of Personal Information due to unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or any other acts or omissions beyond reasonable control of EzCred Technologies.

DOES EzCred Technologies PROTECT MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
EzCred Technologies is committed to protecting the privacy and the confidentiality of your Personal Information. Whenever EzCred Technologies obtains Personal Information from you, our Website uses commercially reasonable efforts and general industry standards to protect it from any unauthorized access or disclosure. Access to your Personal Information is limited to EzCred Technologies’s personnel and such authorized third parties who may host your data on our behalf or may assist us in providing the products and services requested by you. EzCred Technologies uses its best endeavors to maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that aim to protect your information against loss, misuse, damage, modification, and unauthorized access or disclosure. However, EzCred Technologies assumes no liability whatsoever for any disclosure of Personal Information due to unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or any other acts or omissions beyond reasonable control of EzCred Technologies.

WHAT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS ARE IN PLACE TO PROTECT AGAINST THE LOSS, MISUSE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR INFORMATION?
EzCred Technologies makes every reasonable effort to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of your information shared with us. We implement standard measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception of Personal Information. However, no Internet site can fully eliminate security risks. We reserve the right to disclose information shared by you without your consent (express or implied) and without any liabilities to you when required or permitted by law and we have a good-faith belief that (i) such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us or (ii) to conform to the legal requirements, compliance/reporting to administrative and judicial authorities, as may be required (iii) protect and defend the rights or property of the website owners of EzCred Technologies, or the users of EzCred Technologies, (iv) person(s) or company (ies) who provide certain support services to us, and (v) person(s) or company (ies) who share certain responsibilities/obligations of EzCred Technologies. Further, we reserve the right to disclose information shared by you without your consent with entities engaged in providing the credit scores or credit information related services like CIBIL, etc.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PLATFORM PERMISSIONS
Most mobile platforms (iOS, Android, etc.) have defined certain types of device data that apps cannot access without your consent. And these platforms have different permission systems for obtaining your consent. The iOS platform will alert you the first time the EzCred Technologies app wants permission to access certain types of data and will let you consent (or not consent) to that request. Android devices will notify you of the permissions that the EzCred Technologies app seeks before you first use the app, and your use of the app constitutes your consent. Sometimes these permissions require more explanation than the platforms themselves provide, and the permissions we request will change over time, so we’ve created these pages to serve as authoritative and up-to-date resources for our users.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your payment-related transactions.For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.When you click on links on our website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
1. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
2. If our website is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, please contact us at [email protected]. EzCred Technologies will respond to all reasonable concerns or inquiries.
CONSENT
By accessing our Website or mobile application (or both) and using them on a continued basis, you expressly consent and confirm to EzCred Technologies collecting, maintaining, using, processing and disclosing your Personal and other Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
I HAVE A COMPLAINT/CONCERN
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made thereunder, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer who can be contacted with respect to any complaints or concerns including those pertaining to breach of EzCred Technologies’s Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and other polices or questions are published as under:Grievance Officer Name: Amiya Pathak
Email address: [email protected]
The Grievance Officer can be contacted between 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday except on public holidays.