Privacy Policy

The Digital Idea (Business Name) and/or its affiliates (“The Digital Idea,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our,”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through its compliance with its privacy policies. This policy describes:

the types of information that The Digital Idea may collect from you when you access or use its websites, applications, and other online services (collectively, referred as “Services”); and
its practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies only to the information The Digital Idea collects through its Services, in email, text, and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with its Services.

The Digital Idea offers a wide range of services in the digital marketing, graphics & visual designing, and web design & development area, both in the physical and virtual realm, customized marketing solutions for the kind of small-medium and large scale industries.

I. Information and Data – We collect

The Digital Idea (“ the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) collects several types of information from and about users of our Services, including:

A. Your Personal Information (“PI”) – Personal Information is the information that can be associated with a specific person and could be used to identify and provide better services to that specific person but not limited to the name, gender, address, email ID, DOB, photo, contact details, nationality, qualifications, work history, personal ID like passport number, spouse information, income, budget and plans of individuals whether from that data, or from the data and other information that we have, or is likely to have access to. We do not consider personal information to include information that has been made anonymous or aggregated so that it can no longer be used to identify a specific person, whether in combination with other information or otherwise.

We collect documents like academic records, resumes or CV, passport copies, and other certificates required for the entire process.
We collect information from an individual who has an interest in customized marketing and development solutions and wants to hire our services.
We collect information from consultants or individuals who are engaged in different activities managed by The Digital Idea.
We collect information from individuals who sign up / register for email subscriptions, newsletters, online workshops, virtual events, and webinar sessions.
We also collect data from third parties. We protect data obtained from third parties according to the practices described in this policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These third-party sources vary over time but have included

· Database providers from trusted and validated sources;

· Social networks when you grant permission to The Digital Idea to access your data;

· Partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities;

· Publicly-available sources such as open government databases or other data in the public domain.

When you visit our website, we may collect some information by automated means such as

· Cookies, web beacons, web server logs, and pixels,

· Through IP address,

· Operating Systems,

· Referring URLs,

· Dates and time of visits to our websites,

· Browser characteristics,

· Actions taken on the website for collecting information uploaded,

· Unique device identifier and other statistics.

A “cookie” is a file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected devices to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon,” also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF, links webpages to web servers and their cookies and is used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. Through these automated collection methods, we may obtain “clickstream data,” which is a log of the links and other content on which a visitor clicks while browsing a website.

II. Information and Data – We use or share

A. We do not disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Global Privacy Policy or separate notices provided in connection with particular activities.

We share or use your personal data to provide the services you have requested or authorized. For example, we share your content with third parties (Our Partners) when you tell us to do so, such as when you want our services like digital marketing, designing or web development services for your business or any events and express the will to meet representatives that provide more information about growth in your business opportunities.
We may share personal data among The Digital Idea’s affiliates, sub-agents and subsidiaries.
We may share personal data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this statement. For example, companies we’ve hired to provide value-added services. In such cases, these companies must abide by our data privacy and security requirements and are not allowed to use personal data they receive from us for any other purpose
We may also disclose personal data as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.

B. We use the information for providing services and for solving your inquires. Without the necessary information, we may not be able to provide full services to you. We will obtain your consent before collecting any Sensitive Information.

C. In addition, we use information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, web server logs, and other automated means for purposes such as

customizing our user’s use of our websites;
delivering content tailored to our users’ interests and the manner in which our users use our websites; and
managing our websites and other aspects of our business.

D. We also use third-party analytics services on our websites, such as those of Google Analytics. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs, and web beacons to help us analyze your use of our websites. The information collected through these means (including IP address) may be disclosed to these analytics providers and other relevant third parties who use the information, for example, to evaluate the use of the websites. To learn more about these analytics services and how to opt-out, please visit the following sites and any sites contained in the country-specific addenda:

Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

III. Information and Data Collection – Our purpose is to collect, use and share

We use data to make the connection between the prospective clients and our partners, we connect you with our value-added service partners such as social media marketing partners, CRM partners, lead generation platforms, social media post scheduling platforms, etc.
We use data for providing services viz. audit of website, business profile analysis, promoting the services, designing the posts and website development, etc.
We collect data to research for statistical, analytical, and training purposes.
We collect data to respond to your query related to technical solutions.
We collect data to provide you information regarding statistics of your branding and work progress.

IV. Information and Data Transfers

We transfer the personal information we collect about you to countries outside of the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

V. Information and Data – We protect and keep secure

We have implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to your information and to maintain data security. We take reasonable steps to protect the PI we hold against interference, loss, unauthorized access, modifications, use or disclosure, and other misuses.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. The third-party service providers concerning payment gateway and payment processing are all validated as compliant with the payment card industry standard (generally referred to as PCI compliant service providers).
We do maintenance of computer technology, people, and process-based security measures for example firewalls, network security configurations, use of passwords, and other appropriate measures where information is held in electronic form.
We provide regular updates to security systems and configurations to protect our systems from malicious activity.
We restrict access to data to only those staff that need access to carry out our business activities.

However, you should be aware that if you submit information to us electronically the internet is not a secure environment. We take reasonable steps to provide a secure channel for receiving information but cannot protect Personal Information before it reaches us.

When the Personal Information that we collect is no longer required, we will destroy, delete it securely, or ensure that the information is de-identified following our information destruction and de-identification policy, unless we are required by law to retain a copy of the Personal Information or the information is contained in a Commonwealth record.

VI. Changes to this privacy policy

The Digital Idea reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the features of our services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes.
The use of the information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here. Please review the changes carefully.

Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent and acceptance of those changes.

VII. Information and Data – How you can request to access and correct these

You have the right to seek access to any of your Personal Information held by us unless there is a valid reason under the Privacy Act for us to withhold the information.

You should know that at any time you can ask us what information we hold for you, and you can ask us to correct it if it is inaccurate.
If you would like to review, change or delete the personal information we have collected from you, or permanently delete your account, please submit a request regarding your personal data by email, post, or telephone, please contact us as indicated in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy.

VIII. Job applicants

If your information is submitted to us through our Service when applying for a position with our company, the information will be used to consider your application. We may retain your information for any period of time. This information may be shared with other companies to evaluate your qualifications for the particular position or other available positions, as well as with third-party service providers retained by us to collect, maintain and analyze candidate submissions for job postings. For more details please refer to Privacy Policy on our careers page.

IX. Refund Policy

We offer a refund if we have missed deadlines or there is any breach of service committed by one of our experts. In this case, we also take strict action against the expert, except to issue an immediate refund. However, if the refund request is made based on ‘change of mind’, we have a ‘No Refund, Exchange Only’ policy. All products are sold “as is”. You may contact us within 120 days from the purchase date if you wish to exchange your purchase for a product of equal or lesser value.

X. How to contact us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, would like to exercise your rights, or would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contacts us at email: info@thedigitalidea.com.