Chrome Extension Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy from Vantage Circle is aimed to provide our users with a brief understanding of the information that is collected, where it is stored, and how it is processed by our google chrome extension.
We, at Vantage Circle under the aegis of Bargain Technologies Pvt Ltd., are committed to safeguarding our users’ data. Any information collected is only meant to help us personalize our services for our users and provide them with the best experience possible. At the same time, we would like to bring to your attention that our partner websites (product or service vendors listed within our platform) have their own set of privacy policies as we do not have any controlling authority over them or own them. As such, we would highly recommend you to review their privacy policy once you’re redirected from our website or visit them externally.
Type of Information Collected
Our extension does not collect any personal data about the user or any other thing that could be personally identifiable to them.
We only collect information that you as our user provide us like your company name, city, country of operation, employee ID, or that is generated while you are using our extension on your browser like payback points value, subdomain, and authorization token. All these data are then securely stored in the session storage.
Our extension does not acquire, modify or control anything stored on your device neither it collects your search history, emails, and browsing data until and unless you visit any website that is listed with us as our trusted partner offering the best deals and offers on various products and services to our users.
We may also collect some technical data about your system and regarding the use of our services via the extension that would help us develop better products and improve our existing services for our users.
How is Information Collected?
The collection of information mainly happens through cookies when you use our services via the browser extension. These cookies only collect statistical data related to your visits on your website that in no way is personally identifiable to you.
Only when required these cookies are downloaded to your device automatically and are stored on the internal storage or hard drive of your device as it contains information that we might need to transfer to you to ensure smooth delivery of our services.
Apart from cookies, we rely on data that we collect from you that may include your name, address, company name, employment status, marital status, e-mail address, or any other general information that could be associated with your account on our platform.
All this information is saved on secured servers and we have stringent security measures to prevent any unlawful access, alteration, or loss of any data under our custody.
How Do We Use the Collected Information?
The use of any collected information is only meant for improving our platform and delivering our users better service. We primarily use the collected data associated with your account to show you the best deals, brands, categories, or any other recommendations to enhance your experience on our platform.
The information collected could be shared with our support executives on a need to know basis as well as our subsidiaries, holding company, and its other subsidiaries (if any) whenever the requirement for retaining your data arises.
Sharing of Information with Partners and 3rd Parties
We highly prioritize our users’ privacy and going by our data protection principles we do not share any sort of personal information related to our users with our partners except any statistical data that would help them provide you with better deals and products.
Also, we do not share, sell, or exchange the personal information of users with any third-party websites.
However, we may be liable to disclose any of your information to 3rd parties if :
- We sell our Company any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
- Whenever we are legally required to disclose your information.
- To assist fraud protection and minimize credit risk.
Anything related to disclosing your information would be communicated with our users ahead of making any changes with the option to halt their data from being shared with other entities.
Security Precautions for Users
We have placed advanced security measures to protect any data under our control from unauthorized alteration, sharing, and loss. All our measures are updated and audited by our team from time to time as a part of our data protection best practices followed in our organization.
Whenever you change or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access.
However, we also like to emphasize that the transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure and we can not guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk.
You are also responsible for safeguarding any kind of confidential information or account-related credentials shared with you by us or where you have chosen yourself to maintain your access to our platform and services.
We do update our “Privacy Policies” from time to time so we would also advise our users to check this policy regularly.
Contact Us
We welcome any queries, comments, or requests you may have regarding this privacy policy. Please get in touch with us at support@vantagecircle.com.