Privacy Policy

This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how Consultancy Bazaar collects, processes, uses, shares and protects information (including personal data) about Consultants and End-users (as defined in Website Terms and Conditions) on www.consultancybazaar.com (“Website”). The data refers to but not limiting to name, date of birth, gender, address of location, email address, phone number, message exchanges during consultation, bank account details and the payment details of Consultants shared/used on the Website. Protection of data of all the Consultants and End Users of the Services is Consultancy Bazaar’s “top-most priority”. Use of and access to the Services (as defined in Website Terms and Conditions) is subject to this Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. Any capitalized term used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning attributed to it in Website Terms and Conditions.

With this Privacy Policy declaration, Consultancy Bazaar reserves the right to change, modify, add or delete portions of the terms of this Privacy Policy, at its sole discretion, at any time. If any of the User of the Website who is providing Services as a Consultant or End-User of the Website who is seeking service, does not agree with this, may stop accessing and using the Website. If one uses the Services on behalf of someone else or an entity (such as employer), the User represents that he or she is authorized by such individual or entity to (i) accept this Privacy Policy on such individual’s or entity’s behalf, and (ii) consent on behalf of such individual or entity to our collection, use and disclosure of such individual’s or entity’s information as described in this Privacy Policy.

By using the Services or by otherwise giving Consultancy Bazaar your information, you will be deemed to have read, understood and agreed to the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy. You hereby consent to our collection, use and sharing, disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

THE REASON FOR USERS PRIVACY POLICY
1. This USERS PRIVACY POLICY is published in agreement with:
  1. Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000;
  2. Regulation 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the “SPI Rules”);
  3. Regulation 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011.
2. This USERS PRIVACY POLICY at Consultancy Bazaar states the following:
  1. How and to whom Consultancy Bazaar will disclose user’s related information?
  2. The type of information collected from the Users, including Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Data or Information as defined below relating to an individual; and
  3. The purpose means and modes of collection, usage, processing, retention and destruction of such information.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AT CONSULTANCY BAZAAR
1. Generally some of the Services require CONSULTANCY BAZAAR to know who the user is, so that best services can be given based on their needs. When they access the Services, or through any interaction with CONSULTANCY BAZAAR via emails, telephone calls or other correspondence, we may ask them to voluntarily provide CONSULTANCY BAZAAR with certain information that individually identifies its users or could be used to individually identify them. The Users hereby consent to the collection of such information by Consultancy Bazaar.
2. The Users at Consultancy Bazaar can be of two categories:
  1. User who would register them as Consultants at Consultancy Bazaar Website provide service to others; and
  2. The other category of Users is End-Users (not Consultants) are those who would register at Consultancy Bazaar to seek Services from Consultants.
3. Without prejudice to the generality of the above, information collected by CONSULTANCY BAZAAR from the users may include (but is not limited to) the following:
  1. Data regarding Users usage of the services and history of the appointments made by or with Users using Services;
  2. Demographic data (such as Users gender, date of birth and pin code);
  3. Contact data (such as Users email address and phone number);
  4. Other information that Users voluntarily choose to provide to Consultancy Bazaar (such as information shared by Users with us through emails or letters).
4. Some of the information collected from Users by Consultancy Bazaar may constitute ‘personal information’ or ‘sensitive personal data or information’ under the SPI Rules.
5. “Personal Information” is defined under the SPI Rules to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available to a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.
6. The SPI Rules further define “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” of a person to mean personal information about that person relating to:
  1. Sexual orientation;
  2. Visitor details as provided at the time of registration or thereafter; and
  3. Passwords;
  4. Information received by body corporate under lawful contract or otherwise;
7. Consultancy Bazaar will be free to use, collect and disclose information that is freely available in the public domain without any individual Users consent.
PRIVACY STATEMENTS AT CONSULTANCY BAZAAR
1. BELOW ARE THE CONDITIONS APPLICABLE FOR ALL USERS BOTH CONSULTANTS AND USERS (NOT CONSULTANTS):
  1. A suggestive list of information that Consultancy Bazaar may require from its Users of Consultancy Bazaar to provide and to enable use of the Services is provided in the in this Privacy Policy.
  2. Accordingly, a condition of each User’s use of and access to the Services is their acceptance of the Terms and Conditions, which also involves acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any User that does not agree with any provisions of the same has the option to suspend the Services provided by Consultancy Bazaar immediately.
  3. All the information or data provided to Consultancy Bazaar by a User, including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. The Users understand that Consultancy Bazaar may use certain information of theirs, which has been designated as Personal Information or ‘Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules, (a) for the purpose of providing the Users Services, (b) for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, (c) for sale or transfer of such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates (e) debugging customer support related issues.. (f) for the purpose of contacting the Users to complete any transaction if they do not complete a transaction after having provided us with their contact information in the course of completing such steps that are designed for completion of the transaction. Consultancy Bazaar also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the End-User for the following purposes:
    1. Analyzing anonymized practice information for commercial use.
    2. Contacting End-Users for taking product and service feedback.
    3. Publishing such information on the Website.
    4. Contacting End-Users for offering new products or services.
    5. Analyzing software usage patterns for improving product design and utility.
  4. If Users have voluntarily provided their Personal Information to Consultancy Bazaar for any of the purposes stated above, they hereby consent to such collection and use of such information by Consultancy Bazaar. However, Consultancy Bazaar shall not contact the Users on their telephone number(s) for any purpose including those mentioned in the above sub-sections, if such telephone number is registered with the Do Not Call registry (“DNC Registry”) under the PDPA without Users express, clear and un-ambiguous written consent.
    1. Consultancy Bazaar does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Services and, therefore, Consultancy Bazaar specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Services, and you agree that you waive any claims against Consultancy Bazaar relating to same, and to the extent such waiver may be ineffective, you agree to release any claims against Consultancy Bazaar relating to the same.
    2. Collection use and disclosure of information which has been designated as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules requires Users express consent. By affirming the assent to this Privacy Policy, it is understood that Users provide consent to such use, collection and disclosure as required under applicable law.
    3. If Users provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete), or Consultancy Bazaar has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, Consultancy Bazaar may, at its sole discretion, may discontinue the provision of the Services to its Users and block their access to the Website. There may be situations where Consultancy Bazaar will not correct, delete or update your Personal Data, including (a) where the Personal Data is opinion data that is kept solely for evaluative purpose; and (b) the Personal Data is in documents related to a prosecution if all proceedings relating to the prosecution have not been completed. The Users are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information submits to Consultancy Bazaar, such as contact information provided as part of account registration. If the Users personal information changes, it is understood that the information will be corrected, inaccuracies will be deleted, or information will be amended by making the change on Consultancy Bazaar’s Consultant and End Users Profile edit after they login in the information page or by contacting Consultancy Bazaar through support@consultancybazaar.com. The Consultancy Bazaar will make all efforts on good trust to make requested changes in its active databases as soon as reasonably practical & possible.
    4. If Users wish to cancel account or discontinue using Consultancy Bazaar, they may contact us through support@consultancybazaar.com. Consultancy Bazaar will retain information for as long as Users account with the Services is active and as needed to provide the Services. Consultancy Bazaar shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force. After a period of time, the Users data may be anonymized and aggregated, and then may be held by Consultancy Bazaar as long as necessary for us to provide Services effectively, but the usage of such data will be only for analytic purposes. Please note that Users withdrawal of consent or cancellation of account may result in Consultancy Bazaar being unable to provide its Services to such a User or to terminate any existing relationship Consultancy Bazaar may have with that User.
    5. If Users wish to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding the Services, please send email at support@consultancybazaar.com.
    6. A visitor to the Consultancy Bazaar website may have limited access to the Website if they do not create an account on the Website. Such unregistered Users cannot approach or contact Consultants until they register and then they can share their number and name with the consultants. They can only view the Profile of Consultants registered. It is very clear, in order to have access to all the features and benefits on our Website, a User must first create an account on Consultancy Bazaar Website. To create an account, a User is required to provide the following information, which Users recognizes and expressly acknowledges is Personal Information allowing others, including Consultancy Bazaar, to identify the User: name, User ID, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, age, phone number, password chosen by the User. Consultancy Bazaar may, in future may request for other information to be included on the registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers (if any) from Consultancy Bazaar, is optional. This in future may also include other optional requests for information from the User to help Consultancy Bazaar to customize the Website to deliver personalized information to the User.
    7. The Consultancy Bazaar has applied best Industry practices and security policies, rules and practical procedures to protect the personal data that it has under its control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. However, for any data loss or theft due to unauthorized access to the User’s electronic devices through which the User avails the Services, Consultancy Bazaar shall not be held liable for any loss whatsoever incurred by the User.
    8. This Privacy Policy here applies to Services that are owned and operated by Consultancy Bazaar. Consultancy Bazaar does not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within its Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on the User's computer, collect data or solicit personal information from the Users, for which Consultancy Bazaar is not responsible or liable. Consequently, Consultancy Bazaar does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor does Consultancy Bazaar guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by Consultancy Bazaar of the website, the website's provider, or the information on the website. If a User decides to visit a third party website linked to the Website, He/She/It does this entirely at own risk. Consultancy Bazaar encourages the User to read the privacy policies of that website.
    9. The Consultancy Bazaar website may enable User to communicate with other Users or Consultants to post information to be accessed by others, whereupon other Users and Consultants may collect such data. Such Users, can be any moderators or administrators, who may not be authorized Consultancy Bazaar representatives or agents, and their opinions or statements do not necessarily reflect those of Consultancy Bazaar, and they are not authorized to bind Consultancy Bazaar to any contract. Consultancy Bazaar hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any reliance or misuse of such information that is made available by Users or visitors in such a manner.
    10. Consultancy Bazaar takes the rights to privacy of their Users seriously and other than as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, will only disclose Users Personal Information in the event it is required to do so as per law, rule, regulation, law enforcement agency, governmental official, legal authority or similar requirements or when Consultancy Bazaar, in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk, or to enforce or apply the Terms and Conditions.
    11. Consultancy Bazaar does not collect information about the visitors of the Website from other sources, such as private organizations, public records or bodies. The Consultancy Bazaar does save information for the purposes of registration of the Users and the collection, use, storage and disclosure of which each Users who must agree under the Terms and Conditions in order for Consultancy Bazaar to effectively render the Services to such Users.
    12. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing services to its Users, Consultancy Bazaar may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on the User’s browser. The cookies however, do not store any Personal Information of the User. The Users may adjust internet browser to disable cookies. If cookies are disabled, the Users may still use the Website, but the Website may be limited in the use of some of the features. The Website uses temporary cookies to store certain information which is not sensitive personal data or information and such information is used by Consultancy Bazaar and its service providers for the technical administration of the Website, research and development, and for User administration.
    13. Consultancy Bazaar maintains a strict "ZERO-SPAM" policy and standards, which means that Consultancy Bazaar does not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give its Users e-mail address to a third party without prior consent from its Users. Consultancy Bazaar understands this as its responsibility to keep email addresses of its Users very confidential and be very careful in handling such sensitive information.
    14. As per the current communication standards on the Internet to provide Services to its Users, Consultancy Bazaar gets the Internet Protocol (IP) address of each User’s computer (or the proxy server a User used to access the World Wide Web), User’s computer operating system and type of web browser the User is using, email patterns, as well as the name of User’s ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help Consultancy Bazaar improve its Service it provides to its users. Normally, as per communications standards on the Internet, when a User or the End-User or anyone who visits the Website, Consultancy Bazaar automatically receives the URL of the site from which anyone visits. The linkage between User’s IP address and User’s personally identifiable information is not shared with or disclosed to third parties. Notwithstanding the above, Consultancy Bazaar holds the right to share and/or disclose some of the aggregate findings (not the specific data) in anonymized form (i.e., non-personally identifiable) with advertisers, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and others in order to help grow its business and use it in a way to provide better service to its Users.
    15. Consultancy Bazaar takes a great care in applying reasonable security measures and procedures and has a wide-ranging documented information security programmer and information security policies that contain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are proportionate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of Consultancy Bazaar’s business. Consultancy Bazaar puts a huge stress in taking care of the data collection procedures just to safeguard its customers.
  5. Consultancy Bazaar may share information of Users, with its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates for internal reasons, including business and operational purposes. Consultancy Bazaar also reserves the right to disclose and transfer all such information: (i) to a subsequent owner of the Services or applicable database; or (ii) in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, and/or assets or other corporate change.
PRIVACY POLICY NOTE FOR CONSULTANTS:
1. As part of the registration as well as the application creation and submission process that is available to Consultants on Consultancy Bazaar, certain information which includes Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data, or Information is collected from the Consultants of the Consultancy Bazaar.
2. All the statements hereby mentioned about the Privacy Policy applies to all Consultants of Consultancy Bazaar, and all are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or information to Consultancy Bazaar, failing which they are required to leave the Services, including the Website of the Consultancy Bazaar with the immediate effect or immediately.
3. Consultants at Consultancy Bazaar who provide personally identifiable information, to Consultancy Bazaar, which is used to help the Consultants describe and identify themselves. This information is exclusively owned by Consultancy Bazaar and will be the owner of this information and Consultants are understood to have given consent to Consultancy Bazaar collecting, using, processing and/or disclosing this information for the purposes hereinafter stated. Consultancy Bazaar may use such information for various purposes such as commercial purposes, for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates. Consultancy Bazaar also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the Consultants for the following purposes:
  1. Publishing such information on the Consultancy Bazaar Website.
  2. Contacting Consultants for offering new products or services subject to the telephone number registered with the DNC Registry.
  3. Contacting Consultants for taking website or any other product feedback.
  4. Analyzing software usage patterns for improving product design and utility.
4. Consultancy Bazaar has a provision to enable automatically the listing of Consultants information on its Website or Consultants work location added using its website or software. The Consultants information listed on Website is displayed when End-Users search for Consultant(s) on Website, and the Consultants information listed on Website is used by End-Users to request for consultancy. Any personally identifiable information of the Consultants listed on the Website is not generated by Consultancy Bazaar and is provided to Consultancy Bazaar by Consultants who wish to enlist themselves on the Website o is collected by Consultancy Bazaar from the public domain. Consultancy Bazaar displays such information on its Website on an “as-is” basis making no representation or warranty on the accuracy or completeness of the information. As such, we strongly encourage Consultants to check the accuracy and completeness of their information from time to time, and inform Consultancy Bazaar immediately of any discrepancies, changes or updates to such information. Consultancy Bazaar will, however, take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this information in the interest of entire ecosystem of Consultancy Bazaar and its Consultants and Users.
5. Consultancy Bazaar doesn’t display information for Consultants who have not signed up or registered for the Services. Consultants that have agreed to Consultancy Bazaar in collecting, processing and/or disclosing their information on the Consultancy Bazaar Website. Such defined Consultants are verified by Consultancy Bazaar or its associates, and Consultancy Bazaar makes every effort to capture accurate information for such Consultants who use Consultancy Bazaar website to display their services. However, Consultancy Bazaar does not undertake any liability for any incorrect or incomplete information appearing on the Website for such Consultants.
6. Consultancy Bazaar allows Consultants to create their profile as part of listing their services on the website. Consultancy Bazaar allows Consultants to add their professional information. This involves giving information of the addresses of offices, homes, or any other location which is the place of carrying out their consultancy/profession, date of birth, photos, videos from social media sites like Youtube, Vimeo, their social media profile links, professional details and industry vertical/profession they chose while registering with Consultancy Bazaar, to name a few. In some cases, Consultants may be providing information about their clients. It is expected that Consultants are putting this data about their Clients after due approval from their respective clients. It is the responsibility of Consultants to share this data with Consultancy Bazaar. Consultancy Bazaar does not stand responsible if this data is the personal property of some third party/person or organization/Client and has been uploaded without their consent. In such a situation, Consultancy Bazaar will not be held responsible for such breach of the data privacy policy by the Consultants. Consultancy Bazaar expects and addresses all the Consultants to be careful in uploading data, for example, the photos uploaded by the Consultants during the listing/registering their profession at Consultancy Bazaar. In the event of such a breach in data Policy by Consultants, Consultancy Bazaar reserves the right to take action against the Consultant in the course of law of land. This can also lead to the cancellation of the listing of the Consultant's profile in Consultancy Bazaar.
7. Consultancy Bazaar assumes that the Consultants registered at Consultancy Bazaar who use WhatsApp facility at Consultancy Bazaar site based are doing so based on their acceptance of Terms and Conditions (XV: of the section 'PROFILE RELATED POLICIES'). However, Consultancy Bazaar never shares the Cell Phone/ Mobile Numbers with our partners, vendors for any business or commercial reasons, whatsoever not related to Consultancy Bazaar, and whenever it is done in relation to Business of Consultancy Bazaar, will be purely under the Contract of maintaining the privacy policy of our Website. This will be purely for Business purposes to enhance Consultancy Bazaar services to Consultants of our Website. We may however reserve the right to use the phone numbers as per our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for any future purposes which the company management feels deemed fit to enhance business scope and scale.
POLICY FOR END-USERS (NOT CONSULTANTS) WHO WILL USE SERVICES OF CONSULTANTS AT CONSULTANCY BAZAAR:
1. As part of the registration/application creation and submission process that is available to Users (not Consultants) on this Website, certain information, including Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information is collected from such Users by Consultancy Bazaar.
  1. All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all such Users, and all are therefore required to read, understand and agree with the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information to Consultancy Bazaar, failing which they are required to leave the Consultancy Bazaar immediately and not stay at the webpage of Consultancy Bazaar and close the page of Consultancy Bazaar.
  2. If Users (not Consultants) have unintentionally submitted any such information to Consultancy Bazaar prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and do not agree with the manner in which such information is collected, processed, stored, used or disclosed, then Users (not Consultants) may access, modify and delete such information by using options provided on the Consultancy Bazaar Website. In addition, the Users (not Consultants) can, by sending an email to support@consultancybazaar.com, inquire whether Consultancy Bazaar is in possession of his/her/its personal data, and may also require Consultancy Bazaar to delete and destroy all such information.
  3. Consultants of Consultancy Bazaar whose personally recognizable information, the information they have chosen to provide on the Consultancy Bazaar website is used to help them (Consultants) describe and identify themselves. Any other information that does not personally identify the Consultants as an individual, is collected by Consultancy Bazaar from them (such as, patterns of utilization described above) and is exclusively owned by Consultancy Bazaar. Consultancy Bazaar may also use such information in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates. In particular, Consultancy Bazaar reserves with it the right to use anonymized Consultants demographic information for the following purposes:
    1. Examining software usage designs for improving product design and utility.
    2. Examining such information for research and development of new technologies.
    3. Using analysis of such information in other commercial product offerings of Consultancy Bazaar.
    4. Sharing analysis of such information with third parties for commercial use.
  4. Consultancy Bazaar will communicate with the registered Users (not Consultants) through email, phone and notices posted on the Website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. The Consultants can change their e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into their "Account" at www.consultancybazaar.com and changing the account settings. The Consultancy Bazaar Website has a very clear way of changing their information so that they can keep it latest.
  5. Sometimes, Consultancy Bazaar conducts whenever it feels necessary for its business requirement, a User’s (not Consultants) survey to collect information about Consultants preferences. These surveys are optional for Consultants and if they choose to respond, their responses will be kept anonymous and will not be made public or shared with others. Similarly, Consultancy Bazaar may run and offer contests to qualifying Consultants in which we ask for contact and demographic information such as name, email address and mailing address. The demographic information that Consultancy Bazaar collects in the registration process and through surveys is used to help Consultancy Bazaar improve its Services to meet the needs and preferences of Consultants.
  6. Consultancy Bazaar as it deemed important may keep records of electronic communications and telephone calls received and made for making appointments or other purposes for the purpose of administration of Services, customer support, research and development and for better listing of Consultants at Consultancy Bazaar.
  7. All Consultancy Bazaar employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal data or information, are indebted to respect the confidentiality of every Consultants and Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data and Information. Consultancy Bazaar has put in place procedures and technologies as per good industry practices and in accordance with the applicable laws, to maintain security of all personal data from the point of collection to the point of destruction. Any third-party data processor to which Consultancy Bazaar transfers Personal Data shall have to agree to comply with those procedures and policies or put in place adequate measures on their own.
  8. Consultancy Bazaar may also disclose or transfer Users (not Consultants) of Consultancy Bazaar personal and other information provided by them, to a third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets of a Consultancy Bazaar corporation division or company. Any third party to which Consultancy Bazaar transfers or sells its assets to will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that End-Users provide to us, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the Website.
  9. Consultancy Bazaar understands that to the extent necessary to provide Users (not Consultants) with the Services, Consultancy Bazaar may provide their Personal Information to third party contractors who work on behalf of or with Consultancy Bazaar to provide End-Users with such Services, to help Consultancy Bazaar communicate with End-Users or to maintain the Website. Mostly these are third party contractors who do not have any independent right to share this information; however certain contractors who provide services on the Website, including the providers of online communications services, may use and disclose the personal information collected in connection with the provision of these Services in accordance with their own privacy policies. In such circumstances, Users (not Consultants) consent to Consultancy Bazaar disclosing their Personal Information to contractors, solely for the intended purposes only.
  10. Consultancy Bazaar assumes that the END-USERS registered at Consultancy Bazaar who use WhatsApp facility at Consultancy Bazaar site based are doing so based on their acceptance of Terms and Conditions (D.a. X: of the section 'PROFILE RELATED POLICIES'). However, Consultancy Bazaar never shares the Cell Phone/ Mobile Numbers with our partners, vendors for any business or commercial reasons, whatsoever not related to Consultancy Bazaar, and whenever it is done in relation to Business of Consultancy Bazaar, will be purely under the Contract of maintaining the privacy policy of our Website. This will be purely for Business purposes to enhance Consultancy Bazaar services to END-USERS of our Website. As per our privacy policy, we use the numbers for Consultancy Bazaar business purposes, needs, and serving our clients. We may however reserve the right to use the phone numbers as per our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for any future purposes which the Consultancy Bazaar feels deemed fit to enhance business scope and scale.
SOCIAL MEDIA LOGIN:
1. If you log in via a third party service like Google, then they may send us general information about you, so we can identify you as a legitimate user and create a Consultancy Bazaar account for you, using the data provided by the third party service.
2. We currently allow login from the following third party services:
  1. Google - We obtain Email Address, Name and Profile Picture from Google Signin.
3. We do not use this information to post to any of your social media accounts without your consent.
CASUAL VISITORS NOTE:
1. If you, as a casual visitor, have unintentionally browsed any other page of this Website prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which such information is obtained, collected, processed, stored, used, disclosed or retained, merely quitting this browser application should ordinarily clear all temporary cookies installed by Consultancy Bazaar. All visitors, however, are encouraged to use the “clear cookies” functionality of their browsers to ensure such clearing / deletion, as Consultancy Bazaar cannot guarantee, predict or provide for the behavior of the equipment of all the visitors of the Website.
2. Users visiting and using Consultancy Bazaar will not be considered a casual visitor if he/she/it willingly submitted any personal data or information to Consultancy Bazaar by any means, including email, post or through the registration process on the Website. All such visitors will be deemed to be, and will be treated as, Users for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, and in which case, all the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to such persons.
3. No sensitive personal data or information is automatically collected by Consultancy Bazaar from any casual visitors of this Website, who are merely visiting or reading the Website of Consultancy Bazaar.
4. However, certain provisions of this Privacy Policy are applicable to even such casual visitors, and such casual visitors are also required to read, understand and understood to accept the privacy statements set out herein, failing which they are required to leave the Consultancy Bazaar Website immediately.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY POLICY AT CONSULTANCY BAZAAR:
1. Consultancy Bazaar takes all necessary measures to protect Users and Consultants personal information both online and off-line, and implements reasonable security practices and measures including certain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are consistent with respect to the information being collected and the nature of Consultancy Bazaar’s business. The Users and Consultants personal information is maintained by Consultancy Bazaar in electronic form on its equipment, and on the equipment of its employees. Such information may also be converted to physical form from time to time for official purpose.
2. Administrator at Consultancy Bazaar will have information of Users and Consultants who use Consultancy Bazaar password. At the same time, it is important for Users and Consultants who use Consultancy Bazaar to protect against unauthorized access to their password, computer and mobile phone. Consultancy Bazaar recommends its Users and Consultants to certainly log off from the Website when finished working on the Website. Consultancy Bazaar does not support any liability for any unauthorized use of Users and Consultants account and password. If any User or Consultant suspects any unauthorized use of their account, they must immediately notify Consultancy Bazaar by sending an email to support@consultancybazaar.com. The Users and Consultants shall be liable to protect Consultancy Bazaar due to any loss suffered by it due to such unauthorized use of their account and password.
3. One of the functionality of Consultancy Bazaar is assisting the Consultants to maintain and organize such information. Consultancy Bazaar may, therefore, retain and submit all such records to the appropriate authorities, or to Consultants who request access to such information.
4. Consultancy Bazaar makes all Users both Consultants and Users (not Consultants) information accessible to its employees, agents or partners and third parties only on a need-to-know basis and binds only its employees to strict confidentiality obligations.
5. Part of the functionality of the Consultancy Bazaar is assisting the Users to access personal and consultancy related information while using Consultancy Bazaar Website. Consultancy Bazaar may, therefore, retain and submit all such records of the relevant Users for business & operation purpose of Consultancy Bazaar.
6. Notwithstanding the above, Consultancy Bazaar is not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of Personal Information by our partners and third parties outside the scope of our agreement with such partners and third parties. Further, Consultancy Bazaar shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties or events that are beyond the reasonable control of Consultancy Bazaar including but not limited to, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorized access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality of Internet service or telephone service of the User etc.
TIME TO TIME CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY:
1. Consultancy Bazaar may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice to its Users. In the occurrence of significant changes in the way Consultancy Bazaar treats User’s personally identifiable information, or in the Privacy Policy itself, Consultancy Bazaar will display a notice on the Website or send Users an email, as provided for above. This Consultancy Bazaar requests Users to or may review the changed terms prior to continuing to use the Consultancy Bazaar Services. If any User objects to any of the changes to Consultancy Bazaar terms, and User may no longer wish to use the Services, may contact support@consultancybazaar.com to deactivate the account. Unless stated otherwise, Consultancy Bazaar’s current Privacy Policy applies to all information that Consultancy Bazaar has about Users and their accounts.
2. If a User uses the Services or accesses the Website after a notice of changes has been sent to such User or published on the Website, it is understood that such User hereby provides his/her/its consent to the changed terms and Conditions.
RIGHTS OF CONSULTANCY BAZAAR ON BLOGS PUBLISHED
1. Consultancy Bazaar has a blog section on the website where it publishes/ blogs on regular basis. The blog has currently two sections Articles and Interviews. Blog publishing rights belong to Consultancy Bazaar. It is Consultancy Bazaar that decides what the content would be and no Consultant and User registered at Consultancy Bazaar have the right to decide, what the content will be. Consultancy Bazaar reserves the right to decide the content. Consultancy Bazaar is taking all possible measures to have the original content to be published and any data matching elsewhere will non-intentional and purely co-incidence. If any Consultant, Users of Consultancy Bazaar, or individual, the organization brings into notice by writing to contact email id support@consultancybazaar.com, Consultancy Bazaar promises to do full due-diligence and in that case, if any objections raised are found to be genuine, Consultancy Bazaar would sincerely address the concern and if needed would remove the blog which is violating the content any privacy policy. Today, this blog is used for marketing and purpose depending upon the business needs of Consultancy Bazaar and is not used for monetizing purposes. But tomorrow if business needs arise, Consultancy Bazaar may use the blogs for monetizing purposes by asking Consultants to pay for blogging services where Consultants registered with Consultancy Bazaar will get the promotion/advertising services. Articles section includes generic business-related topics concerning Consultancy Bazaar, write-ups on Consultants who are registered with it, related to Consultants, and publishing articles on requests made by Consultancy Bazaar. In other words, Consultancy Bazaar may invite Consultants to provide inputs in the form of write-up and or interview. No Consultants can demand publication of their articles or blogs and it is the sole right of Consultancy Bazaar to decide for which consultant the write-up needs to be done. Consultancy Bazaar reserves the right to decide which professional data needs to be published and which not to. Specifically, interviews of Consultants may include series of questions and answers. The interview-related Content copy write lies with Consultancy Bazaar and we on the content and hold the right to publish the content. The interview taken is published or not published is Consultancy Bazaar's right to decide and is the sole decision authority. The answers given by Consultants are their own views and we do not hold the responsibility for their data. Although, CB would be taking care of any data violation here, and if anything is brought into notice on the above email, Consultancy Bazaar would take appropriate actions to mitigate the risk of privacy violation or sentiments hurt.
PRIVACY POLICY ON CHILDREN'S AND MINOR'S USING CONSULTANCY BAZAAR
1. Consultancy Bazaar strongly recommends parents and guardians to supervise the online activities of their minor children and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. Such available online tools also can prevent minors from revealing their name, address, and other personally identifiable information online without parental permission. Although the Consultancy Bazaar Website and Services are not intended for use by minors, Consultancy Bazaar respects the privacy of minors who may inadvertently use the internet or the mobile application.
AGREEMENT TO THE POLICY
1. All the Users accept that this Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms and Conditions of the Website and the other Services, and Users unconditionally agree that becoming a User of the Website and its Services signifies Users (i) agree to this Privacy Policy, and (ii) consent to Consultancy Bazaar using, collecting, processing and/or disclosing Users Personal Information in the manner and for the purposes laid out in this said Privacy Policy. The Users visit to the Website and use of the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
KINDLY NOTE THE ADDRESS FOR PRIVACY QUESTIONS
1. If Users have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Consultancy Bazaar's information collection, use and disclosure practices, Users are requested to contact, the Data Protection Officer appointed by Consultancy Bazaar in accordance with applicable law. Consultancy Bazaar will use reasonable efforts to respond promptly to any requests, questions or concerns, which Users may have regarding Consultancy Bazaar using of Users personal information. If Users have grievance with respect to Consultancy Bazaar use of their information, the Users may communicate such grievance to the Data Protection Officer:
  
  Name: Mr. Prashant Sanwal
  
  Consultancy Bazaar ®
  
  Apaurusheya Ventures Private Limited ®
  
  338-C, Sector-B, Mahanagar,
  
  Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (UP),
  
  India. Pin: 226006.
  
  Email: support@consultancybazaar.com