This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure and protection of your information when you use our website located at www.myazad.in, or the MyAZAD mobile application made available by AZAD GROUP HOTELS. (“MyAZAD”, “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”), a private company established under the laws of India having its registered office at First Floor, Azad Corporate offfice, kowdiar , kurvankonam Rd, Trivandrum - 695003
The terms “you” and “your” refer to the user of the MyAZAD Delivery Platform. The term “Services” refers to any services offered by MyAZAD whether on the MyAZAD Delivery Platform or otherwise.
Please read this Policy before using the MyAZAD Delivery Platform or submitting any personal information to MyAZAD. This Policy is a part of and incorporated within, and is to be read along with, the Terms of Use.
By using the MyAZAD Delivery Platform and the Services, you agree and consent to the collection, transfer, use, storage, disclosure and sharing of your information as described and collected by us in accordance with this Policy. If you do not agree with the Policy, please do not use or access the MyAZAD Delivery Platform.
POLICY CHANGES
We may occasionally update this Policy and such changes will be posted on this page. If we make any significant changes to this Policy we will endeavour to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, such as via prominent notice on the MyAZAD Delivery Platform or to your email address on record and where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent. To the extent permitted under the applicable law, your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Policy shall constitute your consent to the updated Policy.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
MyAzad Customer App
Device Information: In order to improve your app experience and lend stability to our services to you, we may collect information or employ third party plugins that collect information about the devices you use to access our Services, including the hardware models, operating systems and versions, software, versions, preferred languages, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers, serial numbers, device motion information, mobile network information and phone state. The information collected thus will be disclosed to or collected directly by these plugins and may be used to improve the services offered to you.
MyAzad Driver App
MyAzad App Developer collects location data in the background to enable customers to track live delivery orders even when the app is in the background.
COOKIES
Our MyAZAD Delivery Platform and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs, “flash cookies” and similar files or technologies to collect and store information with respect to your use of the Services and third-party websites.
Cookies are small files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, apps, online media and advertisements. We use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:
Authenticating users;
Remembering user preferences and settings;
Determining the popularity of content;
Delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns;
Analysing site traffic and trends, and generally understanding the online behaviours and interests of people who interact with our services.
A pixel tag (also called a web beacon or clear GIF) is a tiny graphic with a unique identifier, embedded invisibly on a webpage (or an online ad or email), and is used to count or track things like activity on a webpage or ad impressions or clicks, as well as to access cookies stored on users’ computers. We use pixel tags to measure the popularity of our various pages, features and services. We also may include web beacons in e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether the message has been opened and for other analytics.
To modify your cookie settings, please visit your browser’s settings. By using our Services with your browser settings to accept cookies, you are consenting to our use of cookies in the manner described in this section.
We may also allow third parties to provide audience measurement and analytics services for us, to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet, and to track and report on the performance of those advertisements. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs and other technologies to identify your device when you visit the MyAZAD Delivery Platform and use our Services, as well as when you visit other online sites and services.
Please see our Cookie Policy for more information regarding the use of cookies and other technologies described in this section, including regarding your choices relating to such technologies.
USES OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use the information we collect for following purposes, including:
To provide, personalise, maintain and improve our products and services, such as to enable deliveries and other services, enable features to personalise your MyAZAD account;
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the relevant information and services;
To administer and enhance the security of our MyAZAD Delivery Platform and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
To provide you with information about services we consider similar to those that you are already using, or have enquired about, or may interest you. If you are a registered user, we will contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS or telephone or other internet based instant messaging systems) with information about these services;
To understand our users (what they do on our Services, what features they like, how they use them, etc.), improve the content and features of our Services (such as by personalizing content to your interests), process and complete your transactions, make special offers, provide customer support, process and respond to your queries;
To generate and review reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user base and Service usage patterns;
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services, if any; or
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
If you are a partner restaurant or merchant or delivery partner, to track the progress of delivery or status of the order placed by our customers.
To carry out academic research with academic partners.
We may combine the information that we receive from third parties with the information you give to us and information we collect about you for the purposes set out above. Further, we may anonymize and/or de-identify information collected from you through the Services or via other means, including via the use of third-party web analytic tools. As a result, our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not restricted by this Policy, and it may be used and disclosed to others without limitation.
We analyse the log files of our MyAZAD Delivery Platform that may contain Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring, app crashes, page viewed and exit websites and applications, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. This helps us to administer the website, to learn about user behavior on the site, to improve our product and services, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
DISCLOSURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your information that we collect for following purposes:
With Service Providers: We may share your information with our vendors, consultants, marketing partners, research firms and other service providers or business partners, such as Payment processing companies, to support our business. For example, your information may be shared with outside vendors to send you emails and messages or push notifications to your devices in relation to our Services, to help us analyze and improve the use of our Services, to process and collect payments. We also may use vendors for other projects, such as conducting surveys or organizing sweepstakes for us.
For Crime Prevention or Investigation: We may share this information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us, when we are:
Obligated under the applicable laws or in good faith to respond to court orders and processes; or
Detecting and preventing against actual or potential occurrence of identity theft, fraud, abuse of Services and other illegal acts;
Responding to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the intellectual property rights of a third party;
Under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements, policies or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others, or in the event of a claim or dispute relating to your use of our Services. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud detection and credit risk reduction.
For Internal Use: We may share your information with any present or future member of our “Group” (as defined below)or affiliates for our internal business purposes The term “Group” means, with respect to any person, any entity that is controlled by such person, or any entity that controls such person, or any entity that is under common control with such person, whether directly or indirectly, or, in the case of a natural person, any Relative (as such term is defined in the Companies Act, 1956 and Companies Act, 2013 to the extent applicable) of such person.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
We may share your information other than as described in this Policy if we notify you and you consent to the sharing.
GRIEVANCE OFFICER AND MyAZAD Delivery Platform
If you have any queries relating to the processing or usage of information provided by you in connection with this Policy, please email us at myazad.1940@gmail.com or write to our Grievance Officer at the following address: First Floor, Azad Corporate offfice, kowdiar , kurvankonam Rd, Trivandrum - 695003
If you come across any abuse or violation of the Policy, please report to myazad.1940@gmail.com
Further, please note that the MyAZAD Delivery Platform stores your data with the cloud platform of Amazon Web Services & Digital Ocean, which may store this data on their servers located outside of India. Cloud providers has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information. In the event you have questions or concerns about the security measures adopted by the Cloud Provider, you can write to our Grievance Officer at the address provided above.