Privacy Policy | Herkey

1. This Policy explains, among other things:

1.1. The information we may collect about you online or otherwise on/through the Platform;

1.2. How we collect the information pertaining to you;

1.3. How we may use the information collected pertaining to you;

1.4. The use and role of cookies and similar technologies on the Platform;

1.5. How we will protect, maintain and use information we collect about and from you;

1.6. The circumstances and situations in which we might disclose, transfer or share your Personal Information with any third party;

1.7. When we may use your Personal Information to contact you;

1.8. How you may request deletion of records of your Personal Information;

1.9. How to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate, valid, true and current; and

1.10. Whom can you contact with respect to any concerns you may have regarding our use of your Personal Information.

2. Information Gathered

2.1. In general, you can visit the Platform without revealing your identity or any Personal Information about yourself. However, you may not be able to access significant portions, features and sections of the Platform or use certain Services unless you login using your existing Account (as defined herein) credentials on the Platform and absent such credentials, create a new Account to register on the Platform and sign up for the Services on the Platform and/or reveal/disclose your identity and/or other information about you, including Personal Information, that we may require from time to time.

2.2. Information that we collect from you at the time of your registration on the Platform, which shall be through creating an account on the Platform (“Account”) or at any other time will vary depending upon the activity you seek to engage in or the Services that you seek to avail, and in this respect, if you choose to sign up for our Services as either a HER User/Candidate or an Entity, we may, at the first instance collect a username, password, contact number and email address from you. Further, if you are registered on the Platform as a HER User/Candidate and wish to avail any Services, as part of your Account profile on the Platform, you may be required to provide, inter alia, the following information:

• name;
• date of birth;
• contact details, including email address, contact number;
• account profile image;
• milestones;
• current location;
• location preference;
• industry preference;
• expertise preference;
• job type preference;
• educational qualifications and details;
• professional qualifications;
• awards and recognition;
• work experience and life experience;
• a copy of your resume/curriculum vitae.
• career stage (e.g., Restarter) description;
• specific skill sets;
• current employer/engagement (if any);
• current designation (if any);
• previous employer/engagement (if any);
• previous designation (if any);
• data relating to your current and past remuneration or salary;
• desired remuneration;
• professional, academic or personal references and recommendations;

2.3. If you are registered on the Platform as a HER User/Candidate and wish to upload your resume/curriculum vitae on the Platform to avail any Services, you can use the Resume upload/drop feature (“Resume Upload Feature”) available on the Platform. If you wish to upload your resume/curriculum vitae on the Platform from your Google Drive account, you may be required to sign in/log in to your Account using your Gmail account, connect your Google Drive account with the Platform and allow/provide permission to the Platform to extract your resume/curriculum vitae from your Google Drive account and list it on the Platform. When using the Resume Upload Feature, the permission you provide us to access your Google Drive account would only allow us to extract your resume/curriculum vitae from your Google Drive account and list it on the Platform, and unless otherwise agreed between you and us, we will not access your Google Drive account without your prior permission for any other purpose whatsoever. You agree and undertake to upload only your resume/curriculum vitae on the Platform when using the Resume Upload Feature. To the extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever if you upload any document, information or content (whether or not containing any Personal Information) other than your resume/curriculum vitae on the Platform using the Resume Upload Feature and which gets stored on the servers of the Platform. When accessing a HER User’s/Candidate’s Google Drive account to extract his/her resume/curriculum vitae available therein and listing it on the Platform, pursuant to the permission provided by the HER User/Candidate, we endeavour to comply with the policies of Google LLC regarding the access, authorization, verification, collection, fetching, use and uploading of any information or document extracted or derived by us from the Google Drive account of the HER User/Candidate.

2.4. If you are registered on the Platform as an Entity and wish to avail any Services, as part of your Account profile on the Platform, you may be required to provide, inter alia, the following information:

• name of organisation;
• organisation's contact details;
• registered office address and principal place of business address;
• location;
• contact person's details;
• team size;
• industry;
• services and expertise;
• official social media profile(s) and their respective URL(s);
• official website URL;
• company vision;
• company values; and
• women specific policies and facilities.

2.5. You understand that the username of your Account may be listed publicly on the Platform and/or with respect to the Services, including on your profile page and in search results on the Platform. When you communicate with us or use the Platform or any Services to communicate with other Users, we may collect, record, process and store all or certain information about such communication, including Personal Information, in relation to such communication.

2.6. In addition, we may collect demographic information pertaining to you such as, without limitation, information about your computer, hardware, software, device, Internet Protocol (IP) address and connection, information about your online activity on the Platform such as Platform’s feature/offering usage and click paths, and other data/information that you may provide in surveys, opinion polls, research studies undertaken by or on behalf of us or while completing or with respect to your Account profile. We may combine your demographic information with Personal Information to tailor our offerings (including Services), the Platform or web pages to your preferences or interests.

2.7. If the Session, Event, or Group is ticketed, we will collect and process payment details, billing information, applicable Goods and Services Tax (GST) information and a record of the transaction.

2.8. If you use our virtual wallet feature “Hercoins”, we will collect and process your Hercoin balance, issuance, and redemption history.

2.9. If you choose to sign in to your Account with your social media account or email account to access the Platform or any Services, or otherwise connect your social media account or email account with the Platform or any Services, you consent to our collection, storage, use, processing, treatment, maintenance, disclosure, sharing and transfer, in accordance with this Policy, of the information that you make available to us through your social media account or email account interface. We do not actively pre-screen any document, file, certificate, records, information or content (whether or not containing any Personal Information), uploaded, posted or stored by you on the Platform, but we reserve the right to refuse access to the Account or remove, moderate or delete or refuse temporary access to any document, file, certificate, records, information or content uploaded, posted or stored by you on the Platform at any time and for any reason whatsoever, including but not limited to when any of the aforementioned is found to be unlawful, forged, offensive, pornographic, infringing any right (including, without limitation, privacy rights) of any person or violating this Policy, Terms of Use or applicable laws. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for any document, file, certificate, records, information or content (whether or not containing any Personal Information) uploaded, posted or stored by you to the Platform and we shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever in this regard.

2.10. Personal information that you provide towards creation of a publicly visible profile on our Platform may be indexed by search engines (such as www.google.com and www.bing.com) and may appear in search results on such search engines. Please note that we do not control third-party search engines and cannot guarantee the removal of indexed data from their search results.

2.11. You acknowledge that if you host or participate in a free Session or Event, you consent to such Session or Event to be recorded by us. Such recordings may capture your name, image, voice, and any other information you choose to share during the Session or Event, and may be stored and made available on the Platform.

3. Personal Information

3.1. "Personal Information" means and includes any information that may be used to identify you, including, but not limited to, in case of a natural person, your first and last name, age, place of residence, permanent residential address, date of birth, marital status, email address, phone number or other contact information, photograph, profile, candidature, any information related to your professional or academic qualifications, followers and following on the Platform, groups, posts on the Platform including comments and reactions, profile summary, voice recording(s), video recording(s), any communication that you make with us or our representative(s) and which communication has information in relation to you which is in the nature of Personal Information, password, physical, physiological and mental health condition; Aadhar card and number and/or any other government-issued and recognised identity document and number; financial information (such as bank account details, payment details, billing details, digital wallet details or credit card numbers, etc.); transaction details of any transactions you carry out on/through the Platform; and in case of a legal person, organisation’s contact details, organisation’s contact person’s details, organisation’s profile, photographs, any communication that you make with us or our representative(s) and which communication has information in relation to you which is in the nature of Personal Information. Any information that is freely available or accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any law for the time being in force shall not be regarded as Personal Information within this Policy.

3.2. We may collect Personal Information from you when you register and create an Account profile on the Platform to avail any Services, before you avail any Services, during the course of availing any Services or otherwise when you voluntarily provide such information to us, or otherwise as provided in this Policy or Terms of Use. Further, we may use the Personal Information in order to verify your credentials, for the purpose of permitting continued access to our Services, to contact you in the course of rendering the Services or otherwise for such purposes as mentioned in this Policy or the Terms of Use.

3.3. You acknowledge that in the course of providing the Services, the Company may receive Personal Information when you voluntarily provide it, update your Account profile, or upload content, photos, recordings or documents on the Platform. You hereby consent and agree to allow the Company to collect, use, process, treat, maintain, store and display such Personal Information on the Platform and disclose it in accordance with this Policy and the Terms of Use. If the Personal Information you provide relates to another person or entity, you represent and warrant that you have obtained their prior consent for such disclosure, processing and transfer in accordance with this Policy and the Terms of Use.

3.4. You have the sole right to determine what Personal Information you wish to share on the Platform or in relation to the Services, and you may control the visibility of your Personal Information by adjusting your privacy settings on your Account. If you choose to maintain a private profile, your Personal Information will be collected and used only by the Company for provision of Services requested by you or as required by law. If you choose to maintain a public profile, any Personal Information you share on your Account profile or in public areas of the Platform may be accessed, collected and used by others, and may result in unsolicited messages or contact. Any such disclosure is solely at your own risk, and the Company shall not be liable for any consequences thereof.

4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

4.1. The Platform or any part thereof may utilise data collection tools such as “cookies” and other tracking technologies. A “cookie” is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about your activity on the Platform. Some cookies and other technologies we use may serve to save and/or recall Personal Information previously indicated/provided by you on the Platform. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set/update the settings of most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies by modifying the settings within your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you may need to re-enter your Personal Information each time you try to gain access to certain parts of the Platform. Further, while the option of accepting cookies is up to you, certain features of the Platform including the Services may not be accessible without accepting cookies. If you choose to eliminate cookies, the full functionality of the Services may be impaired for you.

4.2. Additionally, you may encounter cookies or other tracking technologies on the Platform or any part thereof that are placed by third parties like Google, Meta, etc. We do not control the use of cookies and other tracking technologies by third parties and shall not be liable for any reason whatsoever for the third-party cookies and other tracking technologies placed on the Platform or any part thereof.

4.3. Cookies and tracking technologies may automatically collect, record and store certain information, including without limitation, your electronic device’s connection to the internet; your Internet domain and host names; other information about your geographic location and IP addresses; your browser’s software and operating system types; your CPU type; your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); click paths; and dates and times that the Platform is accessed.

4.4. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve the Platform, tailor the Platform and its usability to the interests of the Users, remember choices you make (such as User/Account name, email address, phone number etc.), deliver content that is most relevant to you and your interests, and improve and enhance your experience using the Platform and the Services. We may also analyse information that does not include Personal Information for measuring traffic and User activity on the Platform, trends and statistics.

5. Uses of Personal Information

5.1. We process your Personal Information:
(a) When you have consented to the use of your Personal Information in a particular way.
(b) For certain legitimate uses. In particular, such legitimate uses could include the following, which you acknowledge and agree constitute purposes for which you are voluntarily providing your Personal Information:
(i) To provide you with Services and products requested by you, or to respond to your inquiries, both in relation to the Services being provided by us, and any other general queries you may have. In other words, so we can perform our contract with you or take steps at your request before entering into one.
(ii) To operate the Platform and provide you with tailored advertising, surveys, and communications in respect of our products and offerings and those of our affiliates and group entities.
(iii) To analyze and improve the safety and security of our network and services - we do this as it is necessary to ensure a safe and secure Platform for the Users, such as by implementing and enhancing security measures and protections and protecting against fraud, spam, abuse, phishing, unauthorized transactions, and other criminal and illegal activity.
(iv) To engage in technical maintenance and trouble-shooting problems and errors associated with the Platform;
(v) To undertake data analytics for the purpose of enhancing the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of our Platform and Services, including any personalized services - we do this as it is necessary to pursue the legitimate object of providing an innovative and tailored offering to our Users on a sustained basis.
(vi) To share your Personal Information with Entities, Partners, and third-party service providers engaged by us that help us provide and improve the Services, for the purpose of providing and improving the Services, provided that such parties are bound by appropriate confidentiality and data protection obligations.
(vii) To gauge User engagement.
(viii) To notify you about any important information pertaining to the Platform/Services or any changes to our Services, this Policy, the Terms of Use or any terms or policies applicable to the Platform and/or Services.
(ix) To comply with applicable laws.
(x) To manage disputes, raised by you or any third party, that may arise as a consequence of provision of the Services to you.

5.2. You acknowledge that in the course of/with respect to your use of the Platform and/or Services we may receive your Personal Information, when you choose to provide such Personal Information (either through a testimonial or through emails sent to us) related to your use of/experience with the Platform and/or Services, and you hereby consent and agree to allow us to store and display the Personal Information (including without limitation, your name, place of residence, photograph and testimonial) collected in this manner on the Platform and disclose it on the Platform in accordance with the terms of this Policy and Terms of Use.

5.3. Where we propose to use your Personal Information for any uses or purposes other than as specified in this Policy or Terms of Use, we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use of Personal Information other than as listed under this Policy.

6. Confidentiality and Security

6.1. We will keep confidential and protect your Personal Information except where disclosure is required or permitted by law, or in instances where we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, legal obligation, legal process, request from government or judicial authorities, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address security, fraud, imminent harm or technical issues, or to enforce this Policy, the Terms of Use and any other or any terms or policies pertaining to the Platform and/or Services, including investigation of any potential violation thereof, or where use and disclosure thereof has been permitted by you or is otherwise permitted under this Policy or the Terms of Use.

6.2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Policy, we shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of your Personal Information if such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event. A “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any event that is beyond the reasonable control of the Company and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, unavailability of any communication system, acts of governmental or judicial authority, hacking of the Platform or any part thereof, unauthorized access to the Platform’s data, technical snags/failures and breach of Platform’s security and encryption.

6.3. We limit access to Personal Information to our employees, agents, service providers, partners, clients, vendors, affiliates, representatives and personnel whom we believe reasonably need access to your Personal Information to provide Services to you.

6.4. If you choose to provide us with your Personal Information, you understand and agree that we may use, transfer, process and/or store that Personal Information from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world in accordance with applicable laws, and that our affiliates, service providers, clients, vendors or partners may also, subject to applicable laws and terms contained herein, use, transfer, process and/or store the Information in jurisdictions other than India in accordance with applicable laws. Your Personal Information may be collected and stored on servers located in the territory of India and such other countries as we may disclose from time to time.

7. Sharing and disclosure of your Personal Information

7.1. We may engage third party service providers, vendors or partners to help us provide certain services, including Services, to you on our behalf. We may provide/share information pertaining to you, including Personal Information to such third-party service providers, vendors or partners to help us deliver our products, information, and Services efficiently and effectively. We may also engage third party service providers to maintain, improve or optimize the Platform, Services and/or mailing lists. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers, vendors and partners are obligated to protect Personal Information on our behalf, by entering into confidentiality agreements with such third-party service providers, vendors and partners or otherwise. However, we are not liable and cannot be held liable for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties, including any of our third-party service providers, partners, clients or vendors, that receive your information. We do not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on our behalf unless otherwise provided herein or such transfer is legally required. Similarly, unless otherwise provided herein, we will not sell Personal Information collected by us without your consent.

7.2. In certain circumstances as may be solely determined by us, we may share your aggregated Personal Information, in a non-personally identifiable manner with third parties such as our business partners, clients, investors, prospective investors, advertisers, analytics partner, or affiliates. The Company may also use aggregated and anonymised Personal Information (which does not identify you individually) for analytical, research, trend-mapping, statistical, or improvement purposes, including for enhancing the Services and the Platform.

7.3. We may also share such information with third parties in limited circumstances including when complying with applicable law, responding to duly authorised legal process, governmental requests, preventing fraud or imminent harm, ensuring the security of our network and our services, and for other legitimate uses prescribed under law.

7.4. We may share your Personal Information as provided by you and data concerning your usage of the Platform with our affiliates and group entities to enable our affiliates and group entities to reach out to you in relation to the products and/ or services offered by them.

8. Your rights with respect to your Personal Information

From time-to-time, may we seek your consent to use your Personal Information for a particular purpose. Where you consent to our doing so, we will use it for that purpose. Where you no longer want us to use your information for that purpose, you may withdraw your consent to this use.

8.1. Withdrawal of consent

You are entitled to withdraw consent for processing of your Personal Information by emailing a specific request to admin@herkey.com. Withdrawal of consent with respect to all or any part of your Personal Information may result in immediate withdrawal of your eligibility to avail the Services provided on the Platform/otherwise and the termination of any subscription or other service for which such Personal Information is necessary to provide. Your withdrawal of consent shall not operate to cause us to cease any processing of Personal Information that is necessary for compliance with applicable law or the order of a court/executive authority, or purposes for which non-consensual processing is permitted under applicable law.

8.2 Deletion of Personal Information

(i) You have the right to request through written communication, deletion of the records of your Personal Information and SPI (and not of other Users) in our possession.
(ii) To request deletion of records of your Personal Information in our possession, please write to us at admin@herkey.com. Please note that we may request you to provide additional information to confirm your identity before deleting any records of your Personal Information. In some cases, deletion may be accomplished through de-identification of the Personal Information If we are unable to verify your identity or request, we may not be able to fulfil your request.
(iii) You also acknowledge that we may delay/decline any request to delete your Personal Information records in certain situations, such as if the retention of Personal Information records is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, or to exercise our rights or remedies under law or contract, or to exercise or defend a legal claim against us, or which may be retained by us for purposes for which non-consensual processing is permitted under applicable law.
(iv) When you request deletion of your Personal Information, we follow a deletion process that ensures that the information is safely and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymised form. We try to ensure that our services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion. Due to this, there may be a time gap between when you request deletion and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems. We assure you that we will complete the deletion process (except in relation to Personal Information that is retained as per the paragraph above) as soon as practical and within the timelines prescribed under applicable laws.

8.3. Other Rights

(i) You are entitled to seek:
(a) a summary of your Personal Information being processed by us and the processing activities being undertaken by us;
(b) the identity of persons with whom your Personal Information has been shared by us and the nature of Personal Information shared with such persons; and(c) access, correction, completion and updates to the Personal Information stored with us.

You may write to us at admin@herkey.com for any additional information that you seek about how we handle your Personal Information and any requests in relation thereto, not specifically covered elsewhere in this Policy. We will endeavour to acknowledge each request and respond to your request within forty-eight (48) hours or such other timeline as provided by applicable law. We retain the right to examine your request for additional information in relation to how we handle your Personal Information, to ensure that your request is in accordance with applicable law. We also retain the right to reject any such request made by you, in accordance with applicable law including, if such request is, without limitation, manifestly unfounded and without a demonstrable intention to exercise your right to access information, or a misuse of your right to request additional information. Please note that certain information or requests for information that may be sought by you, which are in furtherance of your lawful right to access your data, may involve, without limitation, disclosure of Personal Information of a third party, and/or information which is subject to confidentiality/non- disclosure obligations under law or contract. In such cases, we will inform you of any impediments to the disclosure of information requested by you in our response to your request.

9. Data Security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of your Personal Information that we collect and store. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store your Personal Information. We have a comprehensive information security program and information security policies, which contain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures adopted by us for the protection of Personal Information. Information gathered by us is stored securely using several information security applications including firewalls. However, security is always relative, and we cannot guarantee that our security measures are absolute and cannot be breached. Data, which is transmitted over the internet, is inherently exposed to security risks or threats. For instance, information transmitted via chat or email can be compromised and used by others. Therefore, we cannot guarantee any security for such information in the course of transmission through the internet infrastructure or any unsolicited disclosures made by any User availing the services of the Platform.

10. Retention

Your Personal Information, may be retained and may continue to be used by us until: (i) the relevant purposes (including the provision of Services) for the use of your Personal Information as provided in this Policy and the Terms of Use are no longer applicable; or (ii) we are no longer required by applicable laws, regulations, contractual obligations or legitimate business purposes to retain your Personal Information or the retention of your Personal Information is not required for the establishment, exercise or defense of any legal claim or the retention of your Personal Information is not required for purposes of tax or regulatory compliance. After this period, your Personal Information will be deleted or in some cases anonymised.

11. Third Party Platforms and Services

The Platform may contain links, references, posts, materials, content from third party websites, applications or services, as well as integrations with third-party payment gateway partners(“External Resources”) outside of our control. Your visit to or interaction with any External Resource including any information provided by you therein, irrespective of whether the link to such External Resource originated on the Platform, is governed by the terms and privacy policies of such External Resource, and your interaction with any External Resource is outside the purview of our control and is at your own risk. As we cannot control the activities of External Resources, we cannot accept responsibility for any collection, use, treatment, processing, maintenance, disclosure, transfer and management of your information by such External Resources, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy and security practices as we do. We are not responsible for the functionality, security measures, privacy practices or the content of External Resources and this Policy will not govern your access or use of any External Resources that you visit or use. Therefore, if you visit any External Resource, irrespective of whether the External Resource is linked or referenced to the Platform, you should consult that External Resources’ privacy policy and terms before providing any information therein. Further, we are not responsible for the privacy practices, the use of cookies, or the privacy policies adopted by our payment gateway providers, third party service providers, clients, partners or vendors.

12. Contacting You

12.1. Based on the Personal Information you provide to us, we may contact you:

• To provide or facilitate the delivery of the Services you may have requested;
• To facilitate any of your Services transactions;
• To contact you upon your request, respond to your queries, requests or complaints or when otherwise necessary;
• To notify you about any changes to our Services, this Policy or any terms or policies applicable to the Platform and/or Services;
• Where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
• To invite you to participate in surveys, opinion polls, testimonials etc., about the Platform, Services or otherwise (participation is always voluntary);
• To provide you information about our products and/or services, including new products and/or services, and other marketing communications, where you have specifically agreed to receive this.

13. Change of Control and Limitation of Liability

13.1. In the event that ownership or control of the Company was to change or in the event the Company sells or transfers all or a portion of its business, or its assets, to another entity (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition or similar transaction), your Personal Information may be transferred, shared, disclosed, sold or assigned as part of the transaction. You hereby expressly grant consent and permission to the Company for transferring, sharing, disclosing, selling or assigning, as the case may be, your Personal Information to such transferee or buyer. Such transferee or buyer would be obliged to honour the commitments made in this Policy. If such a transfer, sharing, disclosure, sale or assignment results in a change in the nature of processing of your Personal Information, the Company will provide you notice about the choices you have to decline to permit such a transfer, sharing, disclosure, sale or assignment of Personal Information, as the case may be. This Policy is only a description of the Company’s operation regarding your Personal Information. We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time without giving you prior notice.

13.2. THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ITS WEBSITE, ITS SERVERS, OR EMAILS SENT BY IT OR ON ITS BEHALF ARE VIRUS FREE. THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF ITS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO COMPENSATORY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, INCOME OR PROFIT, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES.

13.3. IN THE EVENT OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION BREACH, WE SHALL INFORM THE AFFECTED USERS IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

14. Accuracy and Updating Information

14.1 The Company shall take commercially reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of any Personal Information processed in relation to the provision of the Services, as required by law. In this regard, you hereby warrant and confirm that any information, including Personal Information you provide or share on the Platform, in relation to your Account and in relation to availing any Services, is and shall continue to be valid, true, current and accurate to the best of your knowledge. Based on such warranty and confirmation, the Company shall not be liable, for any reason, in any manner, and under any circumstance whatsoever, for the authenticity, correctness, trueness, validity or accuracy of any information, including Personal Information provided by a User on the Platform, in relation to the User’s Account or in relation to availing any Services.

14.2. You agree to, at your own expense, protect, indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from and against all losses, liabilities, claims, demands, suits, actions, judgments, costs, expenses and damages (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) arising from or relating to, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part any claim or allegation that any Personal Information shared or provided by you on the Platform or in relation to availing any Services infringes any right (including, without limitation, privacy rights) of any person.

14.3. To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information we wish to maintain accurate and current Personal Information. Where we collect Personal Information from you on the Platform, should you need to update or correct that Personal Information, please contact us and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in the relevant Personal Information that we hold as soon as practicable. You can obtain the information we currently hold about you by emailing the Company at admin@herkey.com from the email address provided by you to the Company at the time of your registration on the Platform. We will use our best efforts to send you the information within 14 days of receipt of your email. Notwithstanding the foregoing if you wish to correct or update any document containing your Personal Information and uploaded by you to the Platform, you may correct or update such Personal Information directly by uploading the updated document to the Platform, and you agree to notify us immediately about such updation by emailing us at admin@herkey.com.

14.4. If any information, including Personal Information that you provide or share on the Platform or in relation to your Account or availing any Services is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete), or if we have reasonable grounds to suspect or believe that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your Account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Platform or any Services provided therein at our sole discretion, in addition to any right that we may have against you at law or in equity, for any misrepresentation of information provided by you.

15. Protection of Account Information and Password

15.1. You are solely responsible for any activity under your Account, and you are responsible for maintaining strict confidentiality of your Account password and other credentials. It is your sole responsibility to control access to and use of your Account. Any breach of this provision constitutes a violation of this Policy and may result in termination of your Account and/or access to the Platform or Services. If you become aware of or reasonably suspect any breach of security of your Account, including compromise of your Account password, you must notify us immediately. We will not be responsible or liable to you or anyone claiming through you for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with the obligations stated in this provision.

16. Termination of User Account

16.1. In the event that you choose to terminate or delete your Account, or if your Account has been terminated by us for any reason, such as, without limitation, violation of the Terms of Use or this Policy, the Company shall within a reasonable period of time and subject to the terms contained herein, delete and remove all your Personal Information that you may have submitted to us and which is stored in your Account. You acknowledge and agree that anonymized or non-personally identifiable information pertaining to you and as available with us may continue to be used, processed, stored, maintained, disclosed and/or displayed by the Company or its affiliates, service providers, partners, clients and third parties as a part of any surveys or research or tabulations conducted/compiled whether on the Platform or elsewhere or for any other purpose whatsoever in accordance with applicable laws. Should you choose to terminate or delete your Account, please contact us at admin@herkey.com, and we will tend to such a request as soon as possible.

17. Public Areas of the Platform

17.1. Any information that you post on or through the public areas of the Platform (e.g., chat rooms or discussion/networking areas/groups (including, Groups)/sessions) will be generally available and accessible to anyone who is a part of or using such public areas of the Platform, and such information may be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages or contact from others. Any information that you provide about yourself in public areas of the Platform is solely at your own risk and we shall not be liable in any respect whatsoever.

18. Consent and Amendments

By using the Platform and/or any Services, you consent to the terms of this Policy and to our collection, use, treatment, processing, maintenance, disclosure, transfer, sharing and management of your Personal Information for the purposes and in the manner provided under this Policy, Terms of Use and/or applicable laws. The Company may amend this Policy from time to time, which amendments will be posted on this page, and we will, in accordance with applicable laws, inform you with details of the amendments. However, you are advised to review this Policy periodically by visiting this page, as your continued access to or use of the Platform and/or the Services following the posting of any amendments to this Policy on this page will constitute your binding acceptance of such amendments and the amended Policy. If You do not agree to the amended Policy, you should discontinue accessing the Platform and the Services.

19. Severability

19.1. If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide over a matter relating to this Policy, rules that any provision of this Policy is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, then that provision will be modified to the extent necessary to render it, as modified, valid and enforceable under applicable laws, and such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect the rest of the provisions of this Policy. The remaining provisions of this Policy will continue to be valid and enforceable.

20. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

20.1. You agree that this Policy and the terms contained herein, shall be subject to and governed by the laws of the Republic of India and the courts at Bengaluru, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction to entertain any proceedings in relation to any disputes arising out of or in relation to this Policy.

21. Grievance Redressal

21.1. If you have any grievance, comments, privacy-related questions, concerns, or complaints, about our practice under this Policy, please contact our grievance officer at:

• Contact Number:
  • For HerUsers – +91 9741065202 (Pooja)
  • For ForHer Users – +91 7619654173 (Simran)
  • For Other Users – +91 7619654173 (Simran)
• Email:
• admin@herkey.com

21.2. Any complaint or grievance raised by you must include the following information:

• (a) Your name and contact details: name, contact number and email address;
• (b) Description of the complaint or grievance in relation to which such complaint or grievance is made;
• (c) A statement under penalty of perjury that the information provided in the complaint or grievance is accurate; and
• (d) Your signature.

We shall provide a response to any complaint or grievance received within the timelines prescribed under law.