This Privacy Policy applies to the sspartners.in (“the Site”)   

This Privacy Notice sets out the privacy practices relevant to this Site and explains how information is collected via the Site, how it is used, your rights and what controls you have. Please take the time to review this Privacy Notice carefully as it tells you how information is collected and how it is used.

This Privacy Policy applies to current and former visitors to our website and to our online customers. By visiting and/or using our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy

sspartners.in is a property of Sandeep Singla & Associates (“SSA”), Chartered Accountants , a Firm Registered under The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India having its registered office at E127GF, Sushant Shopping Arcade, Sushant Lok-1, Gurgaon -122009, India.

The Site’s policy may change time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

This Privacy Notice covers:

  • Information we collect
  • Use of cookies
  • Use of your information
  • Promotional updates and communications
  • Disclosing your information
  • Storage and retention
  • Safeguarding your information
  • Third Party links
  • Your rights
  • Changes to this Privacy Notice
  • Contacting us

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In running and maintaining the Site, we may collect and process the following data about you:

Information we collect from you

Information provided voluntarily by you, in particular your name, company, job function or department, address and contact details such as your telephone number, email address or fax number when you sign up to or request a newsletter or by any completing forms on the Site, or when requesting any information from us;

Information that you provide, when you contact us or otherwise communicate with us by any means. This may include, for example reporting a problem, submitting queries, concerns and comments regarding the Site or its content or providing us with any information about you.

Employment details that we may receive if you send us a CV, resumé or other details of your employment history in connection with an advertised job vacancy or general enquiry regarding employment opportunities with us.

Information we collect about you from your use of the Site

Information about your use of the Site, in particular, details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access. Such information includes the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used to connect your device to the Internet, information about your visit, and traffic, data identifying the country associated with your IP address. Our web servers also collect certain other communication information about all visitors to this Site, including host names and the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) or the domain name associated with a visitor’s transit to, through and from our Site (including date and time) and a record of which pages have been requested.

This information is used to produce aggregate visitor statistics in relation to which pages are being accessed. It may also be used to monitor usage patterns on this Site in order to improve navigation and design features to help you get information more easily.

Apps QR codes or other related technologies

When you scan a QR Code, the third party that we engage to provide those QR Codes may collect certain information from your mobile device (such as your mobile device identifier and IP address). We use this information only for the purpose of providing statistical reports to us about users of the Site and our services.

Technical Information

We may automatically collect additional technical information such as the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet, type of internet browsers you use and version, time-zone setting, time and date of information requests, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream through which you linked to this Site and the associated domains. The information collected is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on the Site and to remedy any errors which may occur during your visit to the Site.

Social Media Platforms

You may wish to participate in the various blogs, forums and other social media platforms hosted by Sandeep Singla & Associates (“Social Media Platforms”) which we make available to you. The main aim of these Social Media Platforms is to facilitate and allow you to share content. However, SSA cannot be held responsible if you share personal information on Social Media Platforms that is subsequently used, misused or otherwise appropriated by another user.

SSA may also provide links to other social media platforms maintained on separate servers by individuals or organisations over which Firm has no control. SSA makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy or any other aspect of the information located on such servers. A link to a third party’s website should not be construed as an endorsement by either SSA or that third party of the other or its products and services. SSA makes no representations or warranties regarding how user data is stored or used on third party servers. We recommend reviewing the Privacy Notice of each third-party website linked from this Site to determine their use of your personal data. We have also implemented social plug-ins from Social Media Platforms on the Site. Where a relevant social plug-in appears on the Site your browser visiting the Site will set up a direct connection to the servers of the Social Media Platform. These servers will recognise that you are visiting this Site. If you are a member of the relevant Social Media Platform and you are logged in when visiting this Site information will be allocated by the Social Media Platform to your personal social media account with them. By clicking on the relevant plug-in icon on the Site (such as a ‘Like’ button) then this information will be shared with your Social Media Platform personal user account. Visit the Privacy Notice of the relevant Social Media Platform provider to learn more about your rights and choices.

USE OF COOKIES

We use cookies to assist us in improving the Site by collecting information about you and your device. Please refer to our full   Cookie Policy below for details of how cookies are used and how you can elect to disable their use on your device. 

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information that we collect from you in our legitimate interests to assist us in providing our services to you or in the case of our promotional or marketing communications to you, where we have your consent (as described below). In addition to this, we may also use the information for one or more of the following purposes and lawful grounds:

Information we collect from you

  1. To contact you in our legitimate interests, in situations where you have asked us to do so, (for example if you request via the Site that we phone you);
  2. To provide you with information which you have requested from us in our legitimate interest or, where required with your consent. (For example, if you request a product sheet or newsletter from us);
  3. To provide information to you relating to other services that may be of interest to you. Such additional information will only be provided where you have separately consented to receive such information.
  4. To obtain in our legitimate interest or where required by national law or with your consent, your feedback on our services which may include by way of a market research survey.

We may also send you further information about our services or keep you informed of legal updates through our periodic newsletters, provided you have consented to being contacted for these purposes, including where you have specifically registered or subscribed to receive emails. Where you have consented to our newsletters we may also collect information using web beacons that help us to understand if a newsletter has been opened. For more information on our use of cookies and similar technologies, see our cookies policy

If at any time you decide you no longer wish to receive updates and invitations in this way, you can unsubscribe. Please refer to our PROMOTIONAL UPDATES AND COMMUNICATIONS section below.

No data or information obtained by this site will be used for dissemination or sale to outside parties for consumer marketing purposes or host mailings on behalf of third parties outside the SSA firm.

Information we collect about you from your use of the Site

We will use this information in our legitimate interests, where we have considered these are not overridden by your rights:

  • To administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and survey purposes.
  • To keep our Site safe and secure.
  • To improve our Site to ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for our and for your device.
  • To measure and understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver relevant advertising to you.

 

PROMOTIONAL UPDATES AND COMMUNICATIONS

SSA gives you choices regarding the collection and usage of your personally identifiable information. If you have registered for any SSA related updates through the site, and do not wish to receive future communications, please use the unsubscribe link in our communication.

 

DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION

In order to provide the best information to you in response to your business enquiry or request for information.

We may share your information with organisations that help us provide the services described in this Privacy Notice and who may process such data on our behalf and in accordance with this Privacy Notice, to support the Site and our services. For example, SSA may need to give these details to a third party – such as a mailing house or mailing broadcast services, provider– if it was necessary to enable us to deliver you with the information you had requested or to a third party providing back office support or IT, hosting or software services, or to market research organisations engaged to obtain client feedback on our services for us. We may also share information with our legal advisors, auditors or other professional advisors.

In relation to information obtained about you from your use of the Site, we may share a cookie identifier and IP data with analytic and advertising network services providers to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Site and subject to the Cookies Policy.

We may disclose personal information in other circumstances where:

  • you agree to this;
  • as permitted by applicable laws;
  • if we are required to do so by law, Court order, legal obligation or regulatory authority;
  • for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime; or
  • if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of SSA, the Site or its visitors.

 

In the event that we undergo reorganisation or are sold to a third party, you agree that any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party.

STORAGE AND RETENTION

Information collected from visitors to the Site will only be kept in order to provide the required service. Where you ultimately become a client of  SSA, your data will be retained for as long as you maintain a client relationship with us, in order to meet our contractual obligations to you and for a period after that to identify issues, respect claim limitation periods and to resolve any legal proceedings.

We may also retain aggregate information beyond this time for research purposes and to help improve our services. Information is held and ultimately destroyed in accordance with SSA’s data retention policies. Should you require your information to be updated, amended or deleted from our records please contact [email protected] outlining your requirements.

See also ‘Your Rights’ in relation to requests you may make in respect to personal data processed by us about you.

SAFEGUARDING YOUR INFORMATION

Data sent to us using forms on the Site are encrypted in transmission.

Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Any Messages that you send to us by email may not be secure. We recommend that you do not send any confidential information to SSA by email. If you choose to send any confidential information to us via email you do so at your own risk with the knowledge that a third party may intercept this information. Instructions sent by you via email and to the Site are processed exclusively at your risk.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Occasionally we include links to third parties on the Site. Where we provide a link it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site’s policy towards visitor privacy. You should review their Privacy Notice before using that website or sending them any personal data.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right under certain circumstances to:

  • be provided with a copy of the personal data held by us
  • request the rectification or erasure of your personal data held by us
  • request that we restrict the processing of your personal data (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information for example)
  • object to the further processing of your personal data, including the right to object to direct marketing (as mentioned in the ‘Promotional Updates and Communications’ section).
  • request that your provided personal data be moved to a third party.

Where the processing of your personal information is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time by contacting us.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

SSA wants to offer you the best possible browsing experience. Consequently, additional functions, features, products or services may be incorporated into the Site from time to time. This, and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information, may result in periodic changes to this Privacy Notice. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Notice regularly to review any amendments.

 

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Notice, please contact the Sandeep Singla & Associates Office at

E-127GF, Sushant Shopping Arcade,
Sushant Lok-1, Gurgaon -122009, India 
Email: [email protected]

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COOKIE POLICY

  1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file, which often includes a unique identifier, which is issued to your computer or device when you visit a website.

Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

We use cookies to improve the quality of the Site and service and to enhance your browsing experience. A number of cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your web browser. Others are used when, for example, we remember information you have asked us to (such as language preferences) and will last for a longer duration. 
 

  1. How does SSA use cookies?

Cookies are only used to record aggregated data about your use of the Site including details of your visits such as pages viewed and the resources that you access. Such information also includes traffic data, location data and other communication data, all of which is used to help us improve the Site and therefore give you a better user experience.  Some cookies are set by us and some by third parties delivering services on our behalf.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Essential cookies:  these enable you to navigate round the Site, manage your login session so you can move easily from one page to another within the Site and so that your page requests are loaded in smooth and secure manner.
  • Analytic cookies: these collect statistical information about how you use the Site so that we can improve the Site, they also remember that you have used the Site before; this means we can identify the number of unique visitors we receive to different parts of the Site
  • Functional cookies these, remember information you have asked us to (such as language preferences) and will last for a longer duration. 
  1. How to control and delete cookies

SSA will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.

You can prevent the collection of analytic and retargeting data described above that is generated by cookies by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available from the following link [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout] .

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can set your browser to either accept all new cookies, have it notify you when you receive a new cookie or disable cookies altogether. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are used on the Site, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. Please refer to the Help function within your browser to learn how to do this, as every device is different.

Please note that by blocking or deleting cookies on the Site, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site if you do so.
 

  1. Cookies set on Third Party sites

The Site will from time to time embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. SSA does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.