Our website address is: https://hearingaidkart.com.
This privacy policy (the “Policy”) is intended to inform you of the types of information Hearing Aid Kart Pvt Ltd. (“we” or “us” or “Hearing Aid Kart”) collects, as well as our policies and practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of that information through the web pages at www.Hearingaidkart.com/ (the “Site”) and the Hearing Aid Kart App and Rewards Program (“Platform”).
Please read this Policy carefully, because by using the Site and/or Platform, you are acknowledging that you understand and agree to the terms of this Policy, and consent to the types of information and the manner in which we may collect, use and disclose such information. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the Site or Platform.
We reserve the right to change the provisions of this Policy at any time. We will alert you that changes have been made by indicating on the Policy the date it was updated. We encourage you to review this Policy from time to time to make sure that you understand how any information you provide will be used. Each time you access the Site or use the Platform, the most recent version of the Policy will apply. Your continued use of the Site or Platform following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
We will ensure that all Personal Information (as defined below) that we collect and maintain will be (i) processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner; (ii) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; (iii) adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary; (iv) accurate and kept up to date; and (v) processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the Personal Information, including protection against unauthorized or lawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage.
I. Information we collect:
Personal Information You Provide to Us
When you register for and access or use the Platform, we collect personal information, including name, email address, year of birth, phone number, password, gender, location and other demographic information (such as any answers to questions posed in the App which you respond to in order to access the Service, including your response to Red Flag questions) and any other information that you may provide while accessing or using the Platform. All collectively referred to us “Personal Information”.
We only have access to and collect personal information that you voluntarily give us by filling out our forms, surveys and answering questions which are part of the Platform, or via email or other direct contact from you via text, social media or Website interaction, phone calls or voice messages.
If you do not want this information to be shared with our employees, service providers and subcontractors, upon your request, we will not share your information. However, your ability to access and use the Site and/or Platform, and request services, may be limited or interrupted.
Information Collected by Automated Means
Whenever you use the Site and/or Platform, we and/or our service providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically collect information about how the Site is accessed and used (“Usage Information”). Usage Information may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page viewed, the time, how many users visited the Site, and the website you visited immediately before the Site. This statistical data provides us with information about the use of the Site and/or Platform, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page, which websites they are coming from and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on, which part of the Platform are used most, by whom and how. Usage Information also includes error messages and crash analytics. Usage Information helps us to keep the Site user friendly and to provide visitors with readily accessible and helpful information. We may also use your Usage Information to troubleshoot issues with access or use of our Site and/or Platforms. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.
We believe that such technology usage is fair, lawful, and proportional to the legitimate interest and needs of our business, and that our methodology fairly addresses each user’s legitimate rights and expectations in view of the context and purpose for the collection and use of the information collected.
The personal information provided in the Platform, including your usage of the hearing aids, App, Rewards program, hearing check results, hearing aid settings and usage data are all stored by us, and can be accessed by members of the Hearing Aid Kart only in order to assist you in the use, maintenance or operation of the Platform or devices.
If you choose to access and use the Hearing Test on the Site, any test data can be synced back to us in an anonymized form. If you choose to add personal data to such a result by leaving your contact details or enquiring with us or interacting via the Test with one of our Hearing Aid Kart members, then the test results may be made available to us too. The information saved by this service includes your results and answers to all pre-test questions, your contact details (if provided) and any personal information provided (if provided).
Cookie Use
When you visit the Site, we may use “cookies” which are small files stored as text on your computer or device. In some countries, we are not permitted to send cookies to the browser of a user without the prior consent of the affected user. In this case, we will seek such consent. The remainder of this section assumes that either the use of cookies is not restricted by applicable law, or if it is restricted that the individual has explicitly consented to the use of the cookies.
These “cookies” and other similar technologies like pixels, web beacons (also known as “clear GIFs”) and local storage may be used to collect information about how you use the Services and provide features to you.
If a visitor does not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow the visitor to reject cookies. Please note that if you use your browser settings to modify or block all cookies, you may not be able to access parts of the Services and your user experience may be severely degraded. We may share non-Personal Information obtained via cookies with our advertisers and affiliates.
Information provided by these cookies are essential to help us provide the Services in a manner that is adapted to each user’s specific needs. We believe that such means are fair, lawful, and proportional to the legitimate interest and needs of our business, and that our methodology fairly addresses each user’s legitimate rights and expectations in view of the context and purpose for the collection and use of the information collected.
II. How Do We Use Your Information?
We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will also use your information as follows:
Registration and Profile Creation – A user may need to complete a registration form and create an account or profile with us in order to use certain aspects of our Site or Platform. During registration, a user is required to give certain information. This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our Site and/or Platform in which you have expressed interest or subscribed to and allow you to easily update your contract information.
Customer Service – Once you purchase a device or service from us, we may contact you via phone call, email, text or App notifications in the future to tell you about changes to our services, or changes to this Policy, support you, ask you to provide feedback, or to sell you products or services in the future.
Sales and Marketing – if you request to be called back, leave an enquiry on our Site or social media platforms, or request to be called or contacted, we may contact you via text, email or phone call.
If at any time you wish that we cease communication with you, please notify us using the contact information provided below in the “Contact Us” section.
III. Do We Share Your Information?
Except as provided herein, we will not trade, rent, share or sell your Personal Information to third parties.
Except as provided herein, unless you ask or provide your consent to do so, we will not share your Personal Information with any third party outside of our organization, except as necessary with our service providers and subcontractors in order to troubleshoot issues you may have with our Site, the Platform or your account. Only employees, service providers and subcontractors who need the Personal Information to perform a specific job are granted access to Personal Information. The computers/servers in which we store Personal Information are kept in a secure environment.
We will disclose Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our policies; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or protect the safety and security of our Site, the Platform us, our employees, our service providers, our subcontractors, other third parties, or equipment that belongs to us, our service providers, or our subcontractors. Disclosures in this limited scenario would be made to a court of law, law enforcement, or other public or government authority.
We may use non-identifiable anonymous data that is based on users’ access or use of the Site and/or Platform that may be used by us to improve the Site and/or the Platform. We may also use anonymized data based on your use of the Platform, including de-identified health data and combine such de-identified data with data or other anonymous data (“Aggregate Data”). Aggregate Data may include information that describes the habits, usage patterns, survey responses and/or demographic information of users as a group, but does not identify any particular users. We may provide anonymized data and Aggregate Data to our third-party collaborators and partners.
Your Access to and Control Over Your Information
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. Our Site and Platform do not currently respond to browser-based do-not-track signals. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being set, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the proper way to modify your browser’s cookies setting.
If you disable cookies, some features may be disabled that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services may not function properly.
You may do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our Site:
- See what data we have about you; if any.
- Change or correct any contact information we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
We do not charge for these services. Your request will be processed within 30 days of the date on which we receive it.
If you do not want your information to be shared with our employees, service providers and subcontractors, upon your request, we will not share your information. However, your ability to access and use the Site and the Platform may be limited or interrupted.
IV. What Steps Do We Take to Protect Your Information?
We take measures designed to protect your Personal Information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Personal Information we process and maintain. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other types of misuse. To protect the confidentiality of Personal Information maintained in your account, you must keep your password confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of the Site and Platform by any person using your password. Please advise us immediately if you believe your password has been misused. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us might have been compromised, or if you suspect that someone else is using your account, please contact us immediately using the contact information provided below in the “Contact Us” Section.
V. Does This Policy Apply to Other Websites Linked to Or from the Site?
The Site or Platform may contain links to other websites. Any Personal Information you provide on linked pages or sites is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. This Policy does not apply to such linked sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of these websites or any other sites that are linked to or from the Site and/or the Platform. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with Personal Information.
VI. Online Hearing Test
If you don’t have audiology Report, or haven’t tested your ear so far, we give a probationary option to test your hearing online. After getting result you may assume your hearing loss and order related products. But for best results we strongly recommend book an appointment online or consult with our RCI registered certified professionals. They are always with you to provide best guidance and make your hearing easy. We are not responsible for any happenings/incidents/decisions that may occurs on the basis of Online Hearing Test Result. This result is just for better understanding and it can’t interpret the actual hearing loss or any problems.
VII. Miscellaneous
This Policy and the privacy practices of Hearing Aid Kart will be subject exclusively to the laws of the India. Please note that Hearing Aid Kart servers are located in the India. Hearing Aid Kart makes no representation that this Policy and our practices comply with the laws of any other country or jurisdiction. Users of the Site who reside outside the India do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. If you reside outside of the India, by using the Site or Platform, you consent to the transfer, processing, and use of your information outside of your country.
If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of our assets, the Site, our Platform, and your information as collected, processed and maintained through our Platform may be included in the assets sold or transferred to the acquirer. You agree that we may transfer or assign the information we have collected about you in connection with any such event. In the event of a bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership or assignment for the benefit of creditors, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
VIII. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact via email us at: [email protected]. To exercise any of your rights in this Privacy Policy please contact us in writing, via email or postal mail as indicated above, so that we may consider your request under applicable law. Please be aware that your request will not be accepted for review unless you provide the following:
- The name, phone number, pseudonym, email address, or other identifier that you have used to use the Site or Platform, or if you are not a registered user of the service, or have not otherwise previously interacted with us, your first and last name and an address where we can correspond with you.
- State or Country in which you are located.
- Clear description of the information or content you wish to receive or to be deleted or corrected, or the action you wish to be taken; and
- Sufficient information to allow us to locate the content or information to be deleted, removed or corrected
For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request.
In addition, please note that, depending on the nature of your inquiry, request or complaint, we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request and may require proof of identity, such as in the form of a government issued ID and proof of geographical address.
We will attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
