We, at Afford Medical Technologies Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as "Afford Medical" or “Afford Medical Technologies” or "Affordmed" or "Affordmedtech" or "Us" or "We" or "Our"), understand and appreciate the concerns that visitors to our website may have and to that end, are committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors. Towards this, we have adopted a privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy" or "Policy") that governs how the information provided by you on the website is used, collected, disclosed, updated and protected. We urge you to read our Privacy Policy carefully before using the website.
The Privacy Policy meets and complies with the extant laws of India. Visitors from other countries may be advised that the laws and regulations in India in relation to privacy may differ from that of other countries. All information that may be provided by you will be used in accordance with the laws and regulations having the force of law in India.
This document is an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (the “IT Act”) and the rules made thereunder as applicable and amended, pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the IT Act. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signature. This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the rules and regulations, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for access or usage of www.affordmed.com. The words and expressions used in this Policy but not defined herein will have the meaning assigned to them under the IT Act.
We may collect information from you through your use of our website, when you request information from us or engage our services or transact/trade with us.
This Privacy Policy only covers the Affordmed website and does not extend to any other website, even if links to such third party websites may have been provided on any part of this website. We would like to draw your notice to the fact that if you click on any link provided in any content hosted on our website, you may be leaving the website and visiting another website to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. We shall not be bound to expressly intimate this to you, though in most instances, but not always, such an action may result in a new browser window opening. This Privacy Policy constitutes sufficient, reasonable and adequate caution and advice and Afford Medical is in no manner responsible for the actions undertaken by you outside of this website.
Therefore, you would be advised to first verify the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or the hypertext transfer protocol (http) or the hypertext transfer protocol secure (https) address displayed in the address bar of your web browser to confirm and satisfy yourself whether or not you are still accessing the Affordmed website (www.affordmed.com), prior to providing any information. If you have left the Affordmed website or have been redirected by a link on any page on the Affordmed website to any third party website, this Privacy Policy shall not apply to such non-Affordmed (and/or) third party websites. You should apprise yourself of the privacy policy of such websites as they may differ substantially from the terms of this Policy.
We collect contact information such as email address, contact phone number, etc. via the contact us form where you voluntarily provide such information to us. We also collect information such as contact details, education, previous employment history, skill proficiency, and the like when you submit a job application for employment opportunities at Affordmed. In some circumstances, we collect personal data about you from a third party source, including, personal data from your organisation, other organisations with whom you have dealings, inter alia, government agencies, credit reporting agencies, information or service providers or from publicly available records. Any data collected offline or via e-mail communications between You and Us shall be beyond the scope of this privacy policy. In addition, we may collect information automatically such as date & time of access, device information, electronic data (http headers, IP address, cookies, web beacons/pixel tags, browser information, information about your hardware and software, wi-fi network data), (geo)location information, etc.
We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes only ("Permitted Purposes"):
Where you have expressly given us your consent, we may process your Personal Information also for the following purposes:
We may process your personal data, depending on the Permitted Purpose we use your personal data for, on one or more of the following legal grounds:
In the following circumstances:
Affordmed uses encryption, for the transmission of visitor registration and transaction requests and information. Affordmed uses reasonable security measures, at the minimum those mandated under the IT Act and read with Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011, to safeguard and protect your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information. When the information provided by a visitor is not transmitted through these encryption procedures, the visitor's computer system (if configured accordingly) will display an appropriate message. While the website may still be served via http, we suggest all visitors to access the website via https instead.
However, the internet is an open system and Affordmed makes no assurance that the personal information which may be provided by a visitor will not be intercepted or accessed by others and decrypted. We shall not be liable or responsible should any confidential or other information provided by or pertaining to the visitor (including names, IDs, place of work, etc.) be intercepted and subsequently used by an unintended recipient, despite the security systems implemented.
Information that you send to us in electronic form may not be secure and, unless you are already a client, will not be treated as privileged or confidential.
You may submit your details on the contact us form to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We shall not be responsible for the authenticity of the personal information or sensitive personal data or information supplied by the user. It is not guaranteed that the information submitted by you is retained or archived by us. In such events, we may not be able to fulfil your request for access, correction or deletion of such information.
Cookies enable us to store information about your preferences and we use them to improve the functionality of our website and your experience when using it.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. When you visit our site, strictly necessary cookies will be placed on your device. You can change the cookie settings that will be placed when you visit our website by changing the settings on your browser.
Whether a cookie is 'first' or 'third' party refers to the domain placing the cookie. First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.
These cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Certain or all parts of the websites may be rendered inaccessible or may not function as intended if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies)
Please note that internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details. The links provided hereunder were functional and relevant as on the date of publication of this policy. Affordmed cannot guarantee that these links are relevant, safe, secure at the time of your access. Please exercise caution before accessing these links.
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time and such amendments shall be effective from the date on which it is posted on our website. We reserve the right to amend this Policy without the consent or concurrence of any third party visitor.
By providing information on this website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to the disclosure of such information to third parties in accordance with the terms hereof.