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SAWALI FOUNDATION is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality of the user information.

Hence, it has in place the Privacy Policy which protects the personal information that it collects from its users.

This Privacy Policy describes how SAWALI FOUNDATION collects and handles certain information it may collect and/or receive from you via the use of this Website or the mobile application.

This Privacy Policy is published in compliance of: the Information Technology Act, 2000; and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the “SPI Rules”).

This Privacy Policy applies to current and former visitors to our website www.sawalifoundation.org (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) and our mobile App users. By visiting and/or using our Website & App, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

This policy (hereinafter referred to as the “Privacy Policy”) is to inform you regarding the collection and use of your Personal Information by SAWALI FOUNDATION, which is collected during your visit to our Website. For the purpose of these Privacy Policy, wherever the context so requires, “you” “your” or “user”, shall mean any natural or legal person who has agreed to visit and access the Website anonymously or agreed to provide his/her personal information by registering on the Website. The terms, “we”, “us”, “our”, appearing in this Privacy Policy shall mean and refer to SAWALI FOUNDATION owners and proprietors of the Trademark SAWALI FOUNDATION and domain name sawalifoundation.org

This Statement does not apply to your use of a third-party site linked to on this website.

Collection of data

Personal identification information

Our team may collect some personal identification information from users of the App. Users may be asked for credible information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number etc. You may, however, visit our website/mobile application anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from you only if you give your consent to us. You can always refuse to provide personal identification information, which may keep you from engaging in certain website/mobile application-related activities. Non-Personal Identification Information Our team may collect non-personal identification information of users whenever they interact with our website/mobile application.

Non-personal identification information

may include the browser name, the type of computer, IP Address and some other technical information about your means of connection to our website/mobile application, such as the operating system, the Internet service providers utilized, and other similar information. The Mobile App is only used to collect photos and videos of the crop fields as the user takes pictures and videos of experiments and work-related activities. As per the functionality of the App we may collect the precise location & that location is tagged to experiments that the user collects.

How do we collect the information

Our services include creating awareness about Agriculture Insurance, supporting farmers in the Enrollment process, helping farmers to get timely claims & the mobile Application of CCE (Crop cutting experiments). Your personal information will normally be provided to us by your application process in through the App. We may also need to obtain information from third parties such as insurance companies, insurance brokers or agents, credit organizations, motor vehicle and driver licensing authorities, financial institutions, medical professionals and publicly available sources. When you attend any of our event or webinar. You may provide some information directly, or it may be provided by your employer or colleagues. – When you fill a form at the website/mobile application – When you register on the website/application – When you make any transaction, subscribe to the newsletters – If you contact us with a complaint or query. – When you engage with us over social media.

Controllers of Personal Information

Your personal data will be stored at the secured servers of SAWALI FOUNDATION. Use of collected information We may use the personal information that is collected from you to provide requested products and services and for our internal business purposes, including, but not limited to:

  • Responding to queries and request submitted by you
  • Facilitating orders or applications submitted by you
  • To carry out any obligation in relation to any agreement that you may have with us
  • Sending you information about special offers & promotions of the products through email, postal mail, courier or telephone.
  • Maintaining & managing your account with us.
  • Send notices & communications relevant to you use of the services.
  • Carrying our “Know your client” checks prior to starting a new engagement Most of the personal information that we collect is on behalf of insurance companies. Insurance companies use this information to assess claims on crop damage or if there is less harvest. An insurance company is the sole owner of this information.

Log Files

Like most standard websites, we use log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer to you, to improve marketing, analytics or site functionality.

Information sharing & disclosure

Upon registration on our Website, your Personal Information is encrypted and stored on servers. The Storage Servers are under complete control of SAWALI FOUNDATION and its authorized representatives. SAWALI FOUNDATION may share your Information submitted on the Website to any third party/service provider/business partner without obtaining your prior consent in the following limited circumstances:

  • When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms and Conditions; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
  • SAWALI FOUNDATION proposes to share such information with its employees for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
  • SAWALI FOUNDATION may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when the user visits the Website. These companies may use personal information about the user’s visit to the Website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to the user.
  • SAWALI FOUNDATION shall transfer information about you in case SAWALI FOUNDATION is acquired by or merged with another company.
  • The collected Personal Information may be shared to selected third parties, such as the insurance companies, our affiliates, and business partners, after seeking appropriate consent from you at the time of collecting the Personal Information from you. The third parties with whom we will share your Personal Information will not use your Personal Information for any purposes other than for what we have agreed with them. Additionally, all third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information, are also required to maintain the minimum levels of security and protection.
  • We might also share your Personal Information with insurance providers (“Insurance Companies”) for the purpose of facilitating the issuance and service of your insurance policies. The Insurance Companies may ask for some additional information such as your bank details and other financial information (“Additional Information”) before issuing a policy to you. We will inform you if we are collecting this Additional Information from you on behalf of the Insurance Companies. The Additional Information collected by us on behalf of the Insurance Companies will be exclusively under the control and protection of the Insurance Companies and we will not be responsible for the storage and protection of such Additional Information. Therefore, before submitting any such Additional Information to us or the Insurance Company directly, we recommend that you enquire with the respective Insurance Companies to understand their privacy policy and practices.

We will keep your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purpose of providing you with the services mentioned hereinabove.

Collecting Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For session ID cookies, once you close your browser or log out, the cookie terminates and is erased. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your computer’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Session ID cookies may be used by PRP to track user preferences while the user is visiting the website. They also help to minimize load times and save on server processing. Persistent cookies may be used by PRP to store whether, for example, you want your password remembered or not, and other information. Cookies used on the PRP website do not contain personally identifiable information.

Acceptance of the Privacy Policy

By using either the mobile or the web version of the www.sawalifoundation.org or the Mobile App, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms mentioned above, we request you to not use this website/portal/mobile application. Your continued use of the website/mobile application following the posting of changes to this privacy policy terms will be deemed your acceptance of the changes made.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion. In the process, if we make any substantial changes in the manner in which we utilize, store or share your personal information, we will inform you by posting such changes here on this Privacy Policy page. Please check our Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at http://www.sawalifoundation.org/privacy-policy/

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

Ankush Nagar, Beed, Maharashtra - 431122, Email: sawalifoundation@yahoo.com

This policy was last modified on 21/07/2023.