At IIPTA we take your and your information privacy very seriously. Please read below to know more about our Privacy Policy.

IIPTA is a brand of Indian Institute of Patent and Trademark Education and Research Private Limited.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Indian Institute of Patent and Trademark Education and Research Private Limited collect, use, share and disclose your personal and other information in connection with the websites, application or other services that refers to or links to the Policy (collectively, our “Services”). This Policy applies to all registered members of IIPTA (“Members”) and any other person who accesses our Site, using any of our applications, Services or events at any point for any amount of time (a “Visitor”), unless otherwise specified. By visiting our Site, you are agreeing to the terms of this Policy. Please carefully review this Policy. Please do not use our Site, Application or any other Service if you do not find the Policy acceptable. Further your continued use of our Services constitutes consent to the Policy and the use and sharing of your information as mentioned herein.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect various types of personal information in connection with the Services, namely:

  • information you provide us directly;
  • information we collect about your device(s) and your use of our Services, including through cookies, web beacons, and other internet technologies; and
  • information we obtain from third-party sources.

PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US DIRECTLY

We collect various types of information and content that you provide us directly. In order to Inquire about our Services, events and other activities, enroll as a member or to access some of our Services, you will be requested to provide us with your name, telephone number, email address, postal address, and where applicable company or organization name. We also collect other content and information that you provide us directly, including the content and information you may add to your member network or other community profile and photographs or other information or verification documentation for yourself or your company you submit or provide us and the communications that you transmit through our networks. We collect billing and payment information you provide when you access some of our Services or purchase products and services. We also collect information that you provide us when you participate in our surveys, events. If you do not provide us with the requested information, we may be unable to deliver you the Services in full.

To the extent that you disclose to us any personal information of another individual, we assume that you have obtained such individual’s consent for the disclosure of such personal information as well as the processing of the same in accordance with the terms of this Policy.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DEVICE(S) AND YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES

We collect information about how you use our Services and, depending on the access permissions you have chosen for your device, other information, as specified below, from and about the computers, phones, and other devices where you install or access our Services. We use standard internet technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about your computer or device and your online activity, as explained in more detail in the section on cookies.

The information we collect in this respect is:

  • your browser type and operating system;
  • IP address and device identifiers;
  • your browsing behavior on our Services, such as the amount of time spent viewing our online Services and the links you click within our online Services;
  • websites you visit before or after our websites;
  • whether you have opened or forwarded our e-mails or connected to offers or links that we send you; and
  • your general or specific geographic location, such as through GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi signals to the extent permitted by the settings of your devices.

If you use our internet connection, networks, telecommunications systems or information processing systems, your activity and any files or messages on those systems may also be monitored by IIPTA at any time, in accordance with applicable law, for purposes of an investigation or to ensure compliance with company policies.

INFORMATION FROM THIRD-PARTY SOURCES

We obtain information about you from your company or organization, including when they may create or supplement your profile for you in the member network. You can review and amend this profile at any time. For further details, see below.

We also receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources and other third parties as permitted by law. We may combine this information with other information we receive from or about you, where necessary to provide the Services you requested.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the personal information that we collect as necessary and appropriate for the following purposes:

  • To provide our products and services. We use your personal information to provide you with the products, services, and features that you or your company or organization have requested; to respond to inquiries we receive from you or your company or organization; to verify your identity; in connection with a transaction that you or your company or organization has initiated; to deliver notifications and other operational communications; and for troubleshooting.
  • To improve our products and services and to analyze how users navigate and use our products and services and individual features.
  • To manage the performance of our products and services.
  • For audit and reporting purposes, to perform accounting and administrative tasks, and to enforce or manage legal claims.
  • To deliver advertising and promotional communications, subject to any legally required consent, which we will seek at the appropriate time. For example, we may periodically contact you with offers and information about our products, services, features, and events; to send you newsletters or other information about topics that we believe may be of interest; to conduct online surveys; and to otherwise promote our products, services, features, and events. We also may deliver targeted advertisements to you, both on and off the Services.
  • For security and to protect, enforce, or defend legal rights, privacy, safety or property, whether our own or that of our employees or agents or others, and to enforce compliance with IIPTA policies and to comply with applicable law and government requests.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We disclose your personal information in the following circumstances to the following parties:

  • Among Mabbit companies. Our services are provided by affiliates of Indian Institute of Patent and Trademark Education and Research Private Limited depending on where you are located and the services you use. Hustle shares personal information with those affiliates for the purposes mentioned above. These affiliates use your information in accordance with this policy.
  • Our Community. Our Services include online and offline member communities, forums and networks that allow you to share and connect with others. We make this possible for IIPTA members by creating a profile for new members that contains your name and the name of your company or other organization. This profile is created automatically and is accessible to other members of the forum or network, some of which include all IIPTA members. You can supplement your profile by adding additional information about yourself and your company or organization and by posting content and comments and you may be able to share your profile with a broader audience.
  • Service Providers. We rely on third-party service providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf. For example, we may rely on service providers to host data and platforms, fulfill our product and service requests and answer your questions, send e-mails on our behalf, process payment card or other transactions, and analyze data to improve our products and services. To do so, we may need to share your personal information with them for the purposes described under “Use of Personal Information”.
  • Other Parties When Required by Law and as Necessary to Provide and Protect Our Services. In some instances we and our service providers disclose your personal information to law firms, auditors, consultants, the police, courts, tribunals and other law enforcement agencies:
    • to provide you with the services you or your company or organization request, such as a disclosure of your information to a landlord in connection with a lease agreement, or to auditors or consultants;
    • to comply with the law or respond to legal process or a request for cooperation by a government entity or law enforcement (which may include lawful access requests by Indian and other courts, law enforcement and governmental authorities);
    • to detect, suppress, and prevent fraud or verify and enforce compliance with the policies governing our Services; or
    • there permitted by law, to protect our rights, property, and safety or that of any of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers or employees and where otherwise required by law.
  • Other Parties in Connection with a Corporate Transaction. We will disclose your personal information to an acquiror in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of a business or assets to that third party, such as in connection with a merger or in the event of a bankruptcy reorganization or liquidation.
  • Third-Party Partners, With Your Consent. We may request your consent to share personal information about you with third parties so that they may provide you with special offers, promotional materials, and other materials that may be of interest to you.
  • Other Parties at Your Company’s or Organization’s Direction. In addition to the disclosures described in this Policy, we may share information about you with third parties when your company or organization requests such sharing. For example, we periodically may partner with third parties to make products or services available to individual members or participating companies and organizations. If you or your company or organization requests to participate, we may share your information with the relevant third party in connection with the requested product or service.
  • Aggregated and Non-Personal Information. We also share with third parties information in a manner that does not identify particular individuals, for example, information that has been aggregated with other records.

Our Services contain links to other sites that we do not own or operate. We provide links to these third-party sites as a convenience to our members. They are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked services. The linked services are subject to their separate and independent privacy statements, notices, and terms, which we recommend you read carefully. The collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information will be subject to the privacy policies of the third party and not this Policy.

THIRD PARTIES THAT PROVIDE CONTENT OR FUNCTIONALITY ON OUR SERVICES

We also partner with the following categories of third parties to collect, analyze, and use some of the personal information described in this Policy:

  • Third-parties that provide features and functionality on the Services by means of plug-ins. Even if you do not click on or interact with social networking services or other plug-ins, they may collect information about you, such as your IP address and the pages that you view.
  • Advertising providers help us and our advertisers provide advertisements on our Services or elsewhere, including advertisements that are targeted based on your online behavior, and analytics companies help us measure and evaluate the usage of our services.
  • Other content providers may offer products and services on our Services and may operate contents, sweepstakes, or surveys on our Services.

These third parties collect or receive certain information about your use of our Services, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, and Internet technologies and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected across different websites and online services.

Some of these companies participate in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers choices about whether to receive targeted advertising. Please visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiativeand the Digital Advertising Alliance and the European Interactive Advertising Digital Alliance (EDAA) to learn more. Canadian users may also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada. Further information in local languages may be available at Your Online Choices.

INFORMATION SECURITY

We have in place various procedures to safeguard your information. Although we take such steps to protect your information, no security program is foolproof and thus we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal or other information.

MARKETING RULES

If you opt-in to receive marketing emails from third-parties, IIPTA will provide your personal information to third parties, so that those third parties may directly contact you about non-Hustle products and services. If you later choose to opt-out of receiving marketing emails from third parties, please contact the third party directly and/or follow the instructions at the bottom of their marketing emails.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN

The Services are not directed to children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16. Where different age limitations apply, we comply with them. We recommend that persons over 16 but under 18 years of age ask their parents for permission before using the Site or sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

CCTV

IIPTA’s buildings have CCTV installed to protect the safety of Hustle’s employees, members, and guests and their property, as well as to improve our products and services and to analyze how users navigate and use our spaces. Recordings may be accessed by IIPTA in India and elsewhere and may be shared with competent authorities in accordance with applicable laws. The recordings are retained for a limited period of time, but may be kept longer for the investigation of an incident or when competent authorities request us to retain them longer.

COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, AND OTHER INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES

We, as well as certain third parties that provide content and other functionality on our Services, use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies on our online Services.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small file that may be stored on your computer or other device. A cookie enables the entity that put the cookie on your device to recognize it across different websites, services, devices, and browsing sessions.

Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on the computer of the user and which help the website analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookies about the use of our websites will generally be transmitted to, and stored on Google servers. Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator for the purpose of evaluating the use of the website by the users, compiling reports on the website activity and providing other services relating to the website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address which your browser transmits in the framework of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other Google data. You may prevent the storage of the cookies by using a particular browser setting. Please note however that in this case you may not be able to fully use all the functions of our websites. Users may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of our websites (including their IP address) and its processing by Google by downloading and installing a Browser-Plugin which is available here.

You can object to the use of cookies. When you use a web browser to access the Services, you may configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. Click the “Help” menu of your browser to learn more about how to change your cookie preferences. The operating system of your device may contain additional controls for cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to access and use certain features of the Services. To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, please click here.

WEB BEACONS

Web beacons and similar technologies are small bits of code, which are embedded in web pages, advertisements, and e-mail, that communicate with third parties. We use web beacons, for example, to count the number of users who have visited a particular web page, to deliver or communicate with cookies, and to understand usage patterns. We also may include web beacons in e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

There are other local storage and internet technologies, such as Local Shared Objects (also referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, that operate similarly to the cookies discussed above in that they are stored on your device and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences across different services and sessions. Please note that these technologies are distinct from cookies, and you may not be able to control them using standard browser tools and settings. For information about disabling or deleting information contained in Flash cookies, please click here.

HOW WE USE THESE TECHNOLOGIES

Our websites use these technologies for the following purposes:

  • Administering our Services.
  • Improving our Services, including helping us measure and research the effectiveness of our content, features, advertisements, and other communications. For example, we measure which pages and features website visitors are accessing and how much time they are spending on our webpages. We may include web beacons in e-mails, for example, to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.
  • Storing your sign-in credentials and preferences so that you do not have to enter those credentials and preferences every time you log on to a Service.
  • Helping us and third parties provide you with relevant content and advertising by collecting information about your use of our Services and other websites.

Legal Purposes

We also may use or share your personal or non-personal information with third parties when we believe, in our sole discretion, that doing so is necessary:

to comply with applicable law or a court order, subpoena, or other legal process;
to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations or our terms and conditions, or situations involving threats to our property or the property of physical safety of any person or third party;
to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims; or
to facilitate the financing, securitization, insuring, sale, assignment, bankruptcy, or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets.
Aggregated Information: From time to time, IIPTA also may share de-identified and aggregated information about Site users, such as by publishing a report on the trends in usage of the Site. Similarly, the information that IIPTA collects through surveys will be disclosed in de-identified and aggregate form, unless the privacy policy for that particular survey specifies otherwise.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

IIPTA will review its data security measures and this privacy policy from time to time and may make changes to the Site or to its privacy practices. In that case, IIPTA may need to revise this Policy to reflect those changes. IIPTA will post all such changes on the Site, so we encourage you to review this Policy periodically.

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

If you have any questions or comments regarding our Policy, please contact us at:

Policy Director
Indian Institute of Patent and Trademark
12, Frist Floor, Hargobind Enclave
Anand Vihar,
New Delhi, Delhi 110092
[email protected]

Effective Date: April 1, 2017