Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting our website at www.hintree.org (“Website”). Your privacy is important to us, and HINTREE PUBLICATIONS, including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“HINTREE,” “the company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy whilst providing personalized and valuable service. Here at HINTREE, we are committed to safeguarding your data while rendering our professional services. This website comprises a portfolio of services and products offered by HINTREE that operates through various group entities including, but not limited to, entities located in India. This privacy policy governs our data collection, processing, and usage practices. Our privacy policy is designed to allow you to make an informed choice regarding the use, access, and correction of your personal information.
Collection of Your Personal Data
We may collect your personal data when you provide us with it, for example in response to a survey, when you apply for a job, register for events, register for personalized services, request information about products, use our services, or request customer support. Personal Information such as full name, gender, date of birth, country location, postal address, zip code, job title, company information, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, commercial information, such as purchase history and referral source, payment information (including bank and other details) billing address, and work and education profile. This data may include IP address, operating system, and browser type. We also collect data relating to your personal preferences regarding the journals you like to read, your most preferred published papers, etc. (“Personal Information”). We do not intentionally collect more personal data than described here. However, if you at your choice, intentionally or unintentionally disclose some personal data other than the description provided in this paragraph then such data shall continue to be governed by this privacy policy. We may also have acquired your Personal Information from a third-party service provider or publicly available data source.
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). We don’t collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
The Website may contain links to other sites. HINTREE is not responsible for the privacy notices or the content of such third-party websites even if:
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You accessed the third-party website using links from our website; or
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You accessed our website using links from a third-party website.
Using Your Personal Data
Employing Data Controller: Hintree uses the personal information we collect only in compliance with this privacy policy. We will never sell your personal information to any third party without your explicit consent. in addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to (a) assist you with service, partnership, or employment requests; (b) send you information that we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means; (c) send you marketing communications relating to our business, current services, new services or promotions; (d) respond to an enquiry, question, or concern that you may have raised; (e) perform analytics and create a database to improve your browsing experience and enhance the functionality of our services; or (f) send you on email or by any other means a suggested reading list based on your personal preferences submitted to us.
We may share Personal Information with trusted service providers or our affiliates for payment processing, supplementing the information you provide us to provide you with better service, account administration, perform statistical analysis, provide marketing assistance, host the website, index user profile pages and usernames as part of the URL, technical and customer support. Any third parties receiving your personal information from us are prohibited from using your personal information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. After you place an order on our website, you may need to make payments for the services you have ordered. To process your payments, we use several third-party payment processors. The payment provider will process your payment if you choose to process your payment via a payment gateway. If you give us banking or other payment mode details, we solely use such details to process payment refunds, if any, to you. The third-party payment processors we use also collect, use, and process your information, including payment information, following their respective privacy policies. To ensure that the security and integrity of the website are safeguarded, HINTREE may monitor your Personal Information. HINTREE may under certain circumstances engage a trusted third-party service provider to manage the technical operations involved in hosting the website. We will share the Personal Information if the disclosure was required by law, rule or regulation or was in response to a valid order of a court or authorized agency of government or other legal processes. We may be required to process Personal information for legal and compliance reasons, such as the prevention, detection, or investigation of a crime, loss prevention or prevention of fraud. We may also use personal information to meet our internal and external audit requirements and for information security purposes.
Inbound and Outbound Transfer of Personal Information: To facilitate our global operations, we may transfer and access your Personal Information across geographical borders to our subsidiaries or affiliates or service providers working on our behalf in other countries with different data protection laws that may not be on par with that of the origin country. A transfer of personal information has a broad meaning and occurs when information is communicated, moved, accessed, or otherwise sent to another country. This privacy policy shall apply even if we transfer personal information to countries outside your country. To the extent that it may be necessary, and solely to provide the service available on the Website to you, we may disclose to a such third party any of your Personal Information that may be necessary for the procurement of services from the third party. In cases where personal information would need to be transferred outside of a country where HINTREE operates, towards other jurisdictions, specific requirements may apply for such Transfer to be allowed. We may also transfer personal information to a third party located outside your country of origin without having to implement the above measures if you have given consent to us for the transfer of your Personal Information. By using the services, you expressly agree to the transfers of personal data to third countries where this requires your consent.
Employing Data Processor: We shall use and process the information or data we collect through Data Controllers/Controllers (“Business Partners”) as per the instructions given by Controllers and in compliance with the terms and conditions applicable to Processors under the Controller/Processor Binding Agreement entered with the Controllers and applicable Regulations. We agree not to process such information to sub-processors (Sub-contractor), unless prior written consent is sought from the Controller, and in the event where general consent has been given by the Controller, we shall inform the Controller of any new sub-processor. We shall have the same contractual obligations reflected with the sub-processors as agreed with the Controller and assume complete responsibility for the actions and inactions of such sub-processors. Upon written request from the controller, we agree to delete or return all the Personal Information or data to the Controller after the end of the provision of services relating to processing, unless there is a legal obligation or basis for us to retain a copy of such information or data for further processing. In addition to the implementation of appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security, we shall make available to the Controller all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with our obligations and allow the Controller or another auditor appointed by the Controller for conducting audits, including inspections, to demonstrate that processing meets the requirements of the Regulation, and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.
Employing Data Processor: We shall use and process the information or data we collect through Data Controllers/Controllers (“Business Partners”) as per the instructions given by Controllers and in compliance with the terms and conditions applicable to Processors under the Controller/Processor Binding Agreement entered with the Controllers and applicable Regulations. We agree not to process such information to sub-processors (Sub-contractor), unless prior written consent is sought from the Controller, and in the event where general consent has been given by the Controller, we shall inform the Controller of any new sub-processor. We shall have the same contractual obligations reflected with the sub-processors as agreed with the Controller and assume complete responsibility for the actions and inactions of such sub-processors. Upon written request from the controller, we agree to delete or return all the Personal Information or data to the Controller after the end of the provision of services relating to processing, unless there is a legal obligation or basis for us to retain a copy of such information or data for further processing. In addition to the implementation of appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security, we shall make available to the Controller all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with our obligations and allow the Controller or another auditor appointed by the Controller for conducting audits, including inspections, to demonstrate that processing meets the requirements of the Regulation, and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.
Retention of Personal Information
We retain the personal information that you provide us if an account is active or as needed to provide the service(s) or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, maintain accurate financial and other records, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you wish to terminate your account or request that we no longer use your Personal Information, please contact us.
We will retain your information for no longer than necessary, considering the following:
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Purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future).
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Whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation).
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Whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent).
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In what way valuable your information is (both now and in the future).
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In the least relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained.
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The levels of risk, cost, and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information.
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By what method hard it is to ensure that the information will be kept up to date and accurate.
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In the least relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you).
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The time your account remains active.
Use of Cookies & Similar Technologies
Cookies are data files that are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes. We use cookies, including essential, functional, and analytical cookies. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy.
Payments Based Personal Information
The site uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption when accepting payment-related Personal Information, to ensure that your payment-related Personal Information is secure. To protect your credit card information, all online transactions are conducted using secure 256-bit SSL encryption. Encryption ensures that no information is accessible to unknown parties. HINTREE hereby undertakes not to store your credit card information, thereby reducing the possibility of fraudulent charges being made by HINTREE.
Testimonials & Public Forums
We post on our website customer testimonials/comments/reviews that may contain Personal Information. Before posting the testimonial, we obtain the customer’s consent to post their name along with their testimonial. If you want your testimonial removed, please contact us. Our websites offer publicly accessible blogs, community forums, or discussion board posts. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. You agree and acknowledge that the use of such information is not confidential, does not constitute Personal Information, and is not subject to protection under HINTREE’s privacy policy.
Our Responsibilities Towards You
When you submit any personal information to us, you represent that you have the lawful right to submit the Personal Information and agree that you will not submit any information unless you are legally entitled to do so and that such personal information is true, complete, and accurate. You may not use a false email address or other identifying information to impersonate any person or entity or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content. Any improper collection or misuse of personal information violates this privacy policy and the applicable terms and conditions of use. You agree not to misuse any Personal Information available on our website or to gather it or use robots or other automated scripts, codes, or functionalities to do so. We may immediately suspend or terminate your access to our website without notice if we become aware that you are in breach of applicable terms and conditions of use or of this privacy policy.
Subscription & Un-Subscription From Communications
Your registered email address will be automatically subscribed to our newsletters, which will contain information on company updates, author resources, latest offers, and new services by HINTREE. You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of our e-mails, or by contacting us. Customers cannot opt-out of receiving transactional emails related to their account with us.
Sensitive Personal Information
We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us. However, if you intentionally or unintentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information.
Amendments to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to keep up with changing legislation and best practices. We encourage you to check our website frequently to see the current privacy policy so that you are informed of how HINTREE is using and protecting your personal information. If we make any significant change, we will place a prominent notice on the website and provide an updated effective date. Your continued use of this website or the service(s) following the posting of any amendment, modification, or change to this policy shall constitute your acceptance of the amendments to this Policy. You can choose to discontinue the use of the Websites or service(s) if you do not accept the terms of this policy or any modified version of this policy.