1. Introduction
We, at Make My Career Technologies Pvt Ltd and our affiliated companies worldwide
(hereinafter collectively referred to as "MMCTPL"), are committed to respecting your online
privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of any personally
identifiable information you share with us. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how MMCTPL
collects, uses, discloses and transfers personal information of users through its websites and
applications, including through www.aajiveka.com, mobile applications and online services
(collectively, the "Platform"). This policy applies to those who visit the Platform, or whose
information MMCTPL otherwise receives in connection with its services (such as contact
information of individuals associated with MMCTPL including partners) (hereinafter collectively
referred to as "Users"). For the purposes of the Privacy Policy, "You" or "Your" shall mean the
person who is accessing the Platform.
2. Types of Personal Information collected by MMCTPL
"Personal information" (PI) - means any information relating to an identified or
identifiable natural person including common identifiers such as a name, an identification
number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical,
physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person and
any other information that is so categorized by applicable laws. We collect information about
you and/or your usage to provide better services and offerings. The Personal Information that we
collect, and how we collect it, depends upon how you interact with us. We collect the following
categories of Personal Information in the following ways:
- Name, email address, password, country, city, contact number and company/organization that
you are associated with, when the you sign up for alerts on the Platform;
- Information that one would usually include in a resume, including name, contact details
including e-mail address and mobile number, work experience, educational qualifications,
data relating to your current and past remuneration or salary, a copy of your resume, etc.
when you register on the Platform;
- Information about the services that you use and how you use them, including log information
and location information, when you are a user of the services through the Platform;
- We may collect your Personal Information such as name, age, contact details, preferences,
etc. through surveys and forms, when you choose to participate in these surveys etc.;
- We may also collect information relating to your caste and information about whether you are
eligible for any affirmative action programmes or policies, if you opt to provide such
information;
- When you communicate with MMCTPL or use the Platform to communicate with other Users (such
as partners), we collect information about your communication and any information you choose
to provide;
- When you visit the Platform, we use cookies to automatically collect, store and use
technical information about your system and interaction with our Platform;
- When you use a device to access the Platform, MMCTPL may collect technical or other related
information from the device as well as the device location;
- To the extent permitted by law, MMCTPL may record and monitor your communications with us to
ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies. This
may include the recording of telephone conversations;
- If you choose to sign in with your social media account to access the Platform, or otherwise
connect your social media account with the services of the Platform, you consent to our
collection, storage, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, of the information
that you make available to us through the social media interface. Please see your social
media provider's privacy policy and help center for more information about how they share
information when you choose to connect your account.
3. How MMCTPL may use your Personal Information
We will only use your personal data in a fair and reasonable manner, and where we have a lawful
reason to do so.
Our use of your personal data depends on the purpose for which you interact
with us. We may process your Personal Information for the following purposes:
- Providing our services and products to you including to send you job alerts, calendar
alerts, relevant search results, recommended jobs and/or candidates (as the case maybe), and
other social media communication facilities;
- Protecting our Users and providing you with customer support;
- We use information collected from cookies and other technologies, to improve your user
experience and the overall quality of our services (for more information please refer to
paragraph 4 below). When showing you tailored ads, we will not associate an identifier from
cookies or similar technologies with sensitive categories, such as those based on race,
religion, sexual orientation or health.
- Improving the Platform and its content to provide better features and services.
- Conducting market research and surveys with the aim of improving our products and services.
- Sending you information about our products and services for marketing purposes and
promotions;
- Preventing, detecting, investigating and taking action against crimes (including but not
limited to fraud and other financial crimes), any other illegal activities, suspected fraud,
or violations of MMCTPL’s Terms of Use in any jurisdiction
- To the extent required for identity verification, government sanctions screening and due
diligence checks.
- Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights in connection with legal proceedings
(including any prospective legal proceedings) and seeking professional or legal advice in
relation to such legal proceedings.
4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small
text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about web-site activity. Some
cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by
a user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and
how to remove them.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block
cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies,
you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of
the Platform.
Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet
protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and
dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies
allows us to improve our Platform and the overall website experience. We may also analysis
information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.
5. The Basis/ Grounds which we rely on for collection and processing of your
Personal Information:
Your Personal Information is collected and processed by MMCTPL based on the following legal
grounds depending upon the nature of Personal Information and the purposes for which it is
processed.
- Consent
MMCTPL relies on your consent in order to process your Personal Information in certain
situations. If MMCTPL requires your consent to collect and process certain Personal
Information, as per the requirements under the applicable data protection laws, your consent
is sought at the time of collection of your Personal Information and such processing will
only be performed where consent is secured.
- Compliance with a legal obligation:
Your Personal Information may be processed by MMCTPL, to the extent that such processing is
necessary to allow MMCTPL to comply with a legal obligation. An example of this would be if
MMCTPL is required to disclose your Personal Information to respond to a court order or if
MMCTPL is required to retain specific records for a fixed period to comply with requirements
under any applicable law.
6. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We restrict access to your Personal Information to employees who we believe reasonably need to
know/or that information to fulfill their jobs to provide, operate, develop, or improve our
products or services.
MMCTPL does not disclose, transfer or share your Personal Information with others except with:
- Our affiliates and group companies to the extent required for our internal business and/or
administrative purposes and/or general corporate operations and for provision of services
aimed at helping you in your career enhancement;
- Potential recruiters if we determine that your resume matches a particular job description/
vacancy available with such recruiters. By registering on the Platform and consenting to the
terms of this Privacy Policy, you agree that MMCTPL may contact you or forward your resume
to potential recruiters;
- Third parties including enforcement, regulatory and judicial authorities, if we determine
that disclosure of your Personal Information is required to a) respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against
legal claims; or b) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any
person, violations of MMCTPL’s Terms of Use or as otherwise required by law;
- In the event of a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets or any other situation
involving the transfer of some or all of MMCTPL’s business assets we may disclose Personal
Information to those involved in the negotiation or transfer.
- Third party service providers and marketing partners that MMCTPL engages to a) provide
services over the Platform on MMCTPL’s behalf; b) maintain the Platform and mailing lists;
or c) communicate with you on MMCTPL’s behalf about offers relating to its products and/or
services. MMCTPL will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service
providers are obligated to protect your Personal Information and are also subject to
appropriate confidentiality / non-disclosure obligations.
- Third party advertisers to display advertisements to you when you visit the Platform. The
third-party advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance
agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores,
airlines, and software companies). These companies may use information about you and your
visits to this Platform and other web sites to provide advertisements on this Platform.
The Company does not provide any Personal Information to the advertiser when you interact with
or view a targeted advertisement. However, if you interact with or view an advertisement, the
advertiser may make certain assumptions and, in the process, learn certain Personal Information
about you. For instance, if you view and click an advertisement that is targeted towards women
in the age group 18- 24 from a specific geographic area, the advertiser may assume that you meet
the relevant criteria.
MMCTPL does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties
who are not bound to act on MMCTPL's behalf unless such transfer is legally required.
If your Personal Information is transferred outside India, we take the necessary steps to
protect your Personal Information in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
7. Third Party Content:
Please be aware that the Platform sometimes contains links to other sites that are not governed
by this Privacy Policy. Users may be directed to third-party sites for more information, such as
advertisers, blogs, content sponsorships, vendor services, social networks, etc.
MMCTPL makes no representations or warranties regarding how your information is stored or used
on third-party servers. We recommend that you review the applicable privacy statements and
policies of each third-party site linked from the Platform to determine their use of your
personal information.
8. Children
To use the Platform, you agree that you must be the minimum age (described in this paragraph
below) or older.
The minimum age for these purposes shall be eighteen (18), however if local laws require that
you must be older for MMCTPL to be able to lawfully provide the services over the Platform to
you then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age.
If you are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must use the
Platform under the supervision of your parent, legal guardian or responsible adult.
9. Retention of Personal Information
Your Personal Information will not be retained by MMCTPL any longer than it is necessary for the
purposes for which the Personal Information is processed and/or in accordance with legal,
regulatory, contractual or statutory obligations as applicable.
At the expiry of such periods, your Personal Information will be deleted or archived in
compliance with applicable laws.
10. Controlling your personal information
You have the right to invoke your rights which are available to data principals or data subjects
(as per applicable laws and regulations) in relation to your Personal Information which is being
processed by MMCTPL.
MMCTPL provides you the ability to keep your Personal Information accurate and up-to-date. If at
any time you would like to a) rectify, update or correct your Personal Information; b) obtain
confirmation on whether or not your Personal Information is processed by it; c) access your
Personal Information or exercise your right to data portability; or d) exercise your right to
restrict the continuing disclosure of your Personal Information to any third party by MMCTPL in
certain circumstances, you are requested to contact us using the contact details mentions in
paragraph 14 below. We will require you to provide a valid proof of your identity, in order to
ensure that your rights are respected.
For the exercise of certain rights, you may be required to approach the relevant authority /
designated officer as per the provisions of the applicable data protection laws/ MMCTPL may in
accordance with the provisions of applicable data protection laws, charge a fee for fulfilling
your request, in particular in case of excessive or manifestly unfounded request. Further you
acknowledge that the above mentioned rights are not absolute and are subject to limitations as
per the applicable data protection laws.
At any time, if you wish to delete your account on naukri.com, you may do so by using the
settings available in your account.
11. Confidentiality and Security
- The security and confidentiality of your Personal Information is important to us and
MMCTPL has invested significant resources to protect the safekeeping and confidentiality of
your personal data. When using external service providers acting as processors, we require
that they adhere to the same standards as MMCTPL does. Regardless of where your Personal
Information is transferred or stored, we take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that
personal data is kept secure.
- We seek to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000
and Rules made there under to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy. We
have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in
India to protect your Personal Information, details of which are available at the following
link: trust.naukri.com. By accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy, you agree that the
standards and practices being implemented by us, are reasonable and sufficient for the
protection of your Personal Information.
12. Social media
MMCTPL operates channels, pages and accounts on some social media sites to inform, assist and
engage with customers. MMCTPL monitors and records comments and posts made on these channels
about itself in order to improve its products and services.
Please note that you must not communicate the following information to MMCTPL through such
social media sites:
- sensitive personal data including (i) special categories of personal data meaning any
information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical
beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the
purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a
natural person's sex life or sexual orientation and (ii) other sensitive personal data such as
criminal convictions and offences and national identification number ; - Excessive,
inappropriate, offensive or defamatory content. MMCTPL is not responsible for any information
posted on those sites other than the information posted by its employees on its behalf. MMCTPL
is only responsible for its own use of the Personal Information received through such sites.
13. Changes to this Privacy Policy
MMCTPL reserves the right to update, change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. The
Privacy Policy shall come to effect from the date of publication of such update, change or
modification.
14. Disclaimer
MMCTPL does not store any account related information or any credit / debit card details. MMCTPL
shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by Users as a result of any disclosure
(inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the User's account, credit cards or
debit cards in the course of any online transactions or payments made for any products and/or
services offered through the Platform.
In case any Personal Information is shared by you with MMCTPL, which is not requested by MMCTPL
during registration, (whether mandatorily or optionally), MMCTPL will not be liable for any
information security breach or disclosure in relation to such information.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the protection of your Personal
Information, please contact MMCTPL’s Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer at the
following:
15. Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer
In case you have any complaints and/or grievances in relation to the processing of your Personal
Information you can send your complaints via e-mail.
16. Refund Policy
We do not refund any payments. However, if you have a service-related concern, please get in touch with our customer care team and we will ensure that we address your concern on high priority.