Privacy Policy

On Vantage Circle ("Mobile Application") we are dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy while using it.

This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal information that you provide to us, or that we collect from you. By using our Mobile Application, you agree to be bound by all of the provisions of the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any of the provisions put out below, you must discontinue the access to and use of our Mobile Application immediately.

We safeguard your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, applicable law and the following Vantage Circle Privacy Principles. We refer to industry standards and use reasonable administrative, technical and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.

We do update this Policy from time to time, so please do review this Policy regularly.

If you choose to use our Mobile Application, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The personal information that we collect is used for providing and improving the service of the Mobile Application.

For a better and seamless experience, while using our Mobile application, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to:

• Photograph, Location, Phone Number, Details of your visits to our Mobile Application and the resources that you access.
• Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
• Providing location access to show nearby offers, classified ads and restaurants
• Providing camera/gallery access to upload your profile picture or to attach an image to your classified ad.

The Mobile Application does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.

All the information is available to support staff on a need-to-know basis. They have access to personal information needed for necessary support, but may not use it for any other purposes. Further, they process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by the applicable law.

In case of an error in the Mobile application, we would like to inform you that we collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone, known as Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol ("IP") address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the Mobile Application, the time and date of your use of the Mobile Application, and other statistics.

Cookies or Shared Defaults are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are stored inside the Mobile Application's container in the internal memory of your phone as you use the application.

The Mobile Application uses Cookies/Shared Defaults to store information regarding your Mobile Application's usage and your session data to ensure a smooth and seamless user experience. The Mobile Application also encrypts this data so it is not accessible by other applications or services,or by a jail-broken/rooted device either. The Mobile Application may share some non-personally identifiable information with third party code and libraries to improve your user experience. However, If you choose to clear the App Data on your phone, all the stored container data is cleared. If you do choose to clear the data , you may not be able to use some features of the Mobile Application and might have to log in freshly again.

On occasion, we may gather information about your phone for our services and to provide statistical information regarding the use of our Mobile Application to our advertisers. Such information will not identify you personally as it is merely a statistical data about our visitors and their use of our Mobile Application. This statistical data does not identify any personal information whatsoever.

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate our Service;
• To provide the Service on our behalf;
• To perform Service-related services; or
• To assist us in analyzing how our Service is being used.

We would like to inform users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

The information that we collect and store is primarily used to help us provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

• To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our products or services.
• To provide information on other products which we feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such information.
• To meet our contractual and service commitments to you.
• To improve and customize our products and services for you.
• To send you SMS regarding your account, transactions and new offers
• To notify you about any changes to our mobile app, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.
• If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about products and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you. .
• If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you only when you have provided consent and only by those means you provided consent for.
• If you do not want us to use your data for our services or third parties, you will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you provide your details to us on the form on which we collect your data.
• Please be advised that we do not reveal information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers but we may, on occasion, provide them with aggregate statistical information about our visitors.

Vantage Circle Mobile Application uses PayU Payments (also known as PayUMoney) to perform online transactions.

For enabling you to make payments using our Services, PayU may, upon your consent, store your financial information such as your bank account or details mentioned on your credit cards or debit cards, or other payment instrument details etc. that are required for a successful transaction. For certain Services, including our bill payment service, PayU requires your bill payment account information such as your account number, payment history, your account history with PayU etc. We also store transaction details such as amount spent, merchant name, transaction ID, date and time of transaction, of your e-commerce transactions. Furthermore, we may also store information relating to your income and lifestyle levels.

PayU Payments does not store your CVV or bank passwords.
In order to improve the user experience, there is also an optional provision to store the Card Number/ Expiry and your Name.

We would like to clarify that all information stored by PayU Payments is in accordance with PCI DSS Certification standards.

Vantage Circle is a platform hosted in the cloud and we use cloud infrastructure around the world for geographic redundancy/failover while storing our customer data.

Unless you ask us to do so, we will store and retain your data forever and we do not delete any of the information you have entered into our platform even on termination or suspension of your account.

If you want to delete your account, please email us at support@vantagecircle.com . Any Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into on our Mobile Application will be encrypted to ensure its safety.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Wherever we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our Mobile Application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Wherever applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group. This includes our subsidiaries, our holding company and its other subsidiaries (if any). We may also disclose your personal information to third parties: Wherever we sell our Company or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party; where we are legally required to disclose your information, solely done to assist fraud protection and minimise credit risk.

We provide all users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential (promotional, marketing-related) communications from us,or on behalf of our partners, after setting up an account. If you want to remove your contact information from all our lists and newsletters, please visit My Account Section to Unsubscribe. We do not sell or share any of your personal information without your consent. If it is required to share any of your information with a third party, we take your consent before sharing the same.

We value your trust in providing us with your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

While availing a deal or offer listed on our Mobile Application but provided by an external site or application, you may be redirected to the said external website or application. Note that these external sites or applications are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites/applications. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or applications.

Our Mobile Application has stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. 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. This Privacy Policy is also aimed at giving you control or and protecting your personal information in accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules and regulations made thereunder. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain features of our Mobile Application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Our Mobile Application and Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us to take necessary actions.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at support@vantagecircle.com

In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below:

Mr. Anjan Pathak
E-mail: grievanceofficer@vantagecircle.com