This privacy policy constitutes an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract under the Information Technology Act, 2000 as well as the Rules made thereunder. Together with the Amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents/records in various statutes, as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This Privacy Policy does not require any signature, whether physical, electronic or digital.

This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and Vedanta Kalinga Lancers. The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the same (directly or indirectly in electronic form, by clicking on the “I ACCEPT” tab or by use of the website of the by other means) and will govern the relationship between you and Vedanta Kalinga Lancers for your use of the Website.

This Document has been published and shall be construed under and in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data of Information) Rules, 2011 under the Information Technology Act, 2000 that require publishing of the Privacy Policy for collection, use, storage and transfer of sensitive personal data or information.

You hereby provide your unconditional consent or agreement to Vedanta Kalinga Lancers to collect, store, use, process and transfer any or all of your information in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Policy and as provided under the Information Technology Act, 2000.

Vedanta Kalinga Lancers and its subsidiaries and affiliates and Associate Companies (individually and/ or collectively, “Vedanta Kalinga Lancers”) is/are concerned about the privacy of the data and information of users (whether registered or non-registered) accessing, or purchasing products on Vedanta Kalinga Lancers’s websites, mobile sites or mobile applications (“Website“) on the Website and otherwise doing business with Vedanta Kalinga Lancers. “Associate Companies” here shall have the same meaning as ascribed in Companies Act, 2013.

The terms “We” / “Us” / “Our” individually and collectively refer to each entity being part of the definition of Vedanta Kalinga Lancers and the terms “You” /”Your” / “Yourself” refer to the users/visitor of this platform. This Privacy Policy is a contract between You and the respective Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entity whose Website You use or access or You otherwise deal with. This Privacy Policy shall be read together with the respective Terms of Use or other terms and condition of the respective Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entity and its respective Website or nature of business of the Website.

This document is subject to be updated from time to time, we recommend that you consult it regularly. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers suggest that you regularly check this Privacy Policy to apprise yourself of any updates. Your continued use of Website or provision of data or information thereafter will imply Your unconditional acceptance of such updates to this Privacy Policy.

Collection And Use of Personal Information

• To receive one or more of our publications or newsletters (hereinafter referred to as “product”), you must provide complete information in the appropriate forms, which includes but is not limited to contact information (name, address, telephone number, email address, information regarding transaction on the website, financial information, internet protocol address, any other item of sensitive personal data as defined under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data of Information) Rules, 2011, hereinafter referred to as “Personal Information”) that will make it possible for us to send you the requested documents or contact you in the event it is deemed necessary by us.
• Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may also collect information other than Personal Information from you through the website when you visit and/ or use the Website. Such information may be stored in server logs. This would not assist Vedanta Kalinga Lancers to identify you personally, such information may include your geographical location, details of your telecom service provider/internet service provider, the type of browser, the operating system of your system, device and the website you last visited before visiting the Website, duration of your stay on the Website may also be stored in the session along with the date and time of your access, non-personal information is collected through various ways such as through the use of cookies, service data, correspondence data(as defined below)(hereinafter referred to as Non-Personal Information). Moreover, you can choose to end a subscription or customized service at any time. Notwithstanding anything provided hereinabove, the information so collected by us through the website will be retained by us until the purpose for the collection/storage or otherwise is completed or in case the same is required to be retained in order to comply with a statutory policy/judicial order etc, whichever is later.
• Vedanta Kalinga Lancers will not use your personal information for any purposes other than those described below: –
  • to facilitate Your use of the Website or other services of Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entities;
  • to respond to Your inquiries or fulfil Your requests for information about the various products offered on the Website;
  • to provide You with information about products available on the Website and to send You information, materials, and offers from Vedanta Kalinga Lancers;
  • to send You important information regarding the Website, changes in terms and conditions, user agreements, and policies and/or other administrative information;
  • to help You address Your problems incurred on the Website including addressing any technical problems;
  • if You purchase any product, to complete and fulfil Your purchase, for example, to have Your payments processed, communicate with You regarding Your purchase and provide You with related customer service;
  • for proper administering of the Website;
  • to conduct internal reviews and data analysis for the Website (e.g., to determine the number of visitors to specific pages within the Website);
  • to provide value added services such as Single Sign On. Single Sign On shall mean a session/user authentication process that permits a user to enter his/her name or mobile number or e-mail address or any combination thereof and password in order to access multiple websites and applications;
  • to facilitate seamless purchase experience while making a transaction by pre-populating the OTP received through SMS by you;
  • to facilitate various programmes and initiatives launched by Vedanta Kalinga Lancers or third party service providers and business associates;
  • to analyze how our services are used, to measure the effectiveness of advertisements, to facilitating payments;
  • to conducting academic research and surveys;
  • to protect the integrity of the Website;
  • to respond to legal, judicial, quasi-judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law;
  • to conduct analytical studies on various aspects including user behaviour, user preferences, etc.;
  • to permit third parties who may need to contact users who have bought products from the Website to facilitate installation, service, and any other product related support;
  • to implement information security practices;
  • to determine any security breaches, computer contaminant or computer virus;
  • to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities and suspected fraud;
  • to undertake forensics of the concerned computer resource as a part of investigation or internal audit;
  • to trace computer resources or any person who may have contravened, or is suspected of having or being likely to contravene, any provision of law including the Information Technology Act, 2000 that is likely to have an adverse impact on the products provided on any Website or by Vedanta Kalinga Lancers;
  • to enable a potential buyer or investor to evaluate the business of Vedanta Kalinga Lancers (as further described in paragraph 8 of the Privacy Policy). [Individually and collectively referred to as (“Purposes”)] You hereby agree and acknowledge that the Information so collected is for lawful purpose connected with a function or activity of each of the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entities or any person on their respective behalf, and the collection of Information is necessary for the Purposes
• Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may use third-party service provider to serve ads on Vedanta’s behalf across the internet and sometimes on the Website. They may collect non-personal information about your website visits to the Website, your interaction with our product on the Website. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers also reserves the right, however, to disclose information on the users of its site in the following circumstances: to adhere to the provisions of a law or regulation, to ensure its defence in the event of legal action, or to protect its rights or those of site users.

Use of Cookies

• At present, the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers website does not use any cookies.
• Cookies essentially consist of information on users that servers transmit to browsers when websites are viewed. This information can then be recovered at the time of subsequent visits. The information recorded can include items such as the date and hour a website was viewed, a reply to an online questionnaire, personal information collected by the server, etc. Cookies can in fact be useful, given that they save information concerning your preferences.
• Use of cookies is very widespread, with most servers and browsers accepting them by default. To check all the cookies generated, simply look on your hard drive, where these are saved. You can, if you prefer, choose to disable this function on your system.

Hyperlinks

• The Vedanta Kalinga Lancers website includes hyperlinks to other websites that are not controlled by Vedanta Kalinga Lancers or its subsidiaries. These links are provided for your convenience, and should not be construed to mean that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers in any way endorses these sites. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers is not responsible for information other than that contained on its own site or those of its subsidiaries, and expressly excludes any liability in relation to the accuracy of this information or the use of your data collected by way of these hyperlinks. This privacy statement does not apply to these other sites. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers recommend that you read the privacy statement of any site where you will be providing personal information, in order to understand how the information collected will be used.

Service Data

• If you are a website visitor, You hereby unconditionally agree and permit that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may automatically process information about your computer and internet connection (including your IP address, operating system and browser type), your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, cookie information, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your Website use (“Service Data”). The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our Website.

Correspondence Data

• You hereby unconditionally agree and permit that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (“Correspondence Data”) either by email or through the interactive messaging features of the Website. The Correspondence Data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping.

Notification Data

• You hereby unconditionally agree and permit that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our push notifications (“Notification Data”). The Notification Data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications.

Sharing and disclosure of Your Information

You hereby unconditionally agree and permit that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may transfer, share, disclose or part with all or any of Your Information, within and outside of the Republic of India to various Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entities and to third party service providers / partners / banks and financial institutions for one or more of the Purposes or as may be required by applicable law. In such case we will contractually oblige the receiving parties of the Information to ensure the same level of data protection that is adhered to by Vedanta Kalinga Lancers under applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permissible under applicable laws, it is adequate that when Vedanta Kalinga Lancers transfers Your Information to any other entity within or outside Your country of residence, Vedanta Kalinga Lancers will place contractual obligations on the transferee which will oblige the transferee to adhere to the provisions of this Privacy Policy. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may also share Personal Information if it believes that the same is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action with respect to illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of various terms and conditions or our policies. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers reserve the right to disclose your information when required to do so by law or regulation, or under any legal obligation or order under law or in response to a request from a law enforcement or governmental agency or judicial, quasi-judicial or any other statutory or constitutional authority or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Security & Retention

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers strives to ensure the security of Your Personal Information and to protect Your Personal Information against unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction. For this purpose, Vedanta Kalinga Lancers adopts internal reviews of the data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where Vedanta Kalinga Lancers stores Your Personal Information. Each of the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entity shall adopt reasonable security practices and procedures as mandated under applicable laws for the protection of Your Information. Provided that Your right to claim damages shall be limited to the right to claim only statutory damages under Information Technology Act, 2000 and You hereby waive and release all Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entities from any claim of damages under contract or under tort. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may share your Information with third parties under a confidentiality agreement which inter alia provides that such third parties shall not disclose the Information further unless such disclosure is for the Purpose mentioned under this Policy. However, Vedanta Kalinga Lancers is not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive Your Personal Information. Vedanta Kalinga Lancers is not liable for any loss or injury caused to You as a result of You providing Your Personal Information to third party (including any third party websites, even if links to such third party websites are provided on the Website). While Vedanta Kalinga Lancers will endeavour to take all reasonable and appropriate steps to keep secure any Personal Information which Vedanta Kalinga Lancers hold about You and prevent unauthorized access, You acknowledge that the internet or computer networks are not fully secure and that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers cannot provide any absolute assurance regarding the security of Your Personal Information. You agree that all Personal Information shall be retained till such time required for the Purpose or required under applicable law, whichever is later. Non-Personal Information will be retained indefinitely.

User discretion and opt out

You agree and acknowledge that You are providing your Information out of your free will. You have an option not to provide or permit Vedanta Kalinga Lancers to collect Your Personal Information or later on withdraw Your consent with respect to such Personal Information so provided herein by sending an email to the grievance officer or such other electronic address of the respective Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entity as many be notified to You. In such case, You should neither visit any Website nor use any services provided by Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entities nor shall contact any of Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entities. Further, Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may, in its sole discretion, not deliver products to You, upon Your order. You can add or update Your Personal Information on regular basis. Kindly note that Vedanta Kalinga Lancers would retain Your previous Personal Information in its records until such time as mentioned under this Agreement. You may address any discrepancies and grievances in relation to the processing of the information to the Grievance Officer: Mr. Jitendra Kumar Patra Head – IT, Vedanta Kalinga Lancers, Lanjigarh Email: [email protected] Business / Assets Sale or Transfers Vedanta Kalinga Lancers may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including Your Information in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or business or in the event of bankruptcy. Should such a sale or transfer occur, such Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entity will reasonably endeavour to ensure that the Information you have provided and which we have collected is stored and used by the transferee in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any third party to which any of Vedanta Kalinga Lancers entity transfers or sells as aforesaid will have the right to continue to use the Information that you provide to us or collected by us immediately prior to such transfer or sale.

Further Acknowledgements

You hereby acknowledge and agree that this Privacy Policy:

• is clear and easily accessible and provide statements of Vedanta Kalinga Lancers policies and practices with respective to the Information;
• provides for the various types of personal or sensitive personal data of information to be collected;
• provides for the purposes of collection and usage of the Information;
• provides for disclosure of Information; and
• provides for reasonable security practices and procedures.