Privacy Policy
– Date of Effect
The information you have chosen to provide may be used by Vrikshanic to create and deliver to you emails such as our newsletters, surveys or other email messages containing product and event information, cosmetics tips or promotions. If at any time you decide that you would not like to receive these emails, you may select the ‘Unsubscribe’ link on the email or edit your information and consent to receive email and other communication in the ‘Profile’ section for registered users.
If you have chosen to leave your mobile phone number on Vrikshanic website, you may receive text message/SMS alerts/Whatsapp messages containing product and event information, cosmetics tips or promotions on your mobile phone. Please note that Vrikshanic will never send you any unsolicited text message on your mobile phone. Vrikshanic does not charge any fee for you to receive any text message from us. However, your mobile service provider may charge you for sending and/or receiving text messages and air-time, as well as any other standard applicable rates charged by your mobile service provider.
If you have chosen to leave your mobile phone number or landline number on Vrikshanic, you may receive phone calls containing product and event information, cosmetics tips or promotions on your mobile phone or landline phone.
If you have chosen to provide us with your contact information, we may provide you with service related announcements by any means, including email, concerning the website or contact you regarding your customer service requests or questions. For example, all registered users will receive a welcoming email to confirm their registration. These types of communications are necessary to serve you, respond to your concerns and to provide the high level of customer service that Vrikshanic offers its customers.
We may use your personal information you have chosen to give us to provide you with customised service and use of our website. For example, we may suggest products that would be of particular interest to you. Such customised information may be conveyed to you by way of emails or text messages/sms and phone calls.
On occasion, Vrikshanic may sponsor special events (such as contests, promotions or other offerings), questionnaires and surveys. There may be specific rules applicable to these promotions that explain how any personal information you provide will be processed. We strongly suggest you review any applicable rules before participating. To the extent any special event, questionnaire or survey is not subject to specific rules, the processing of personal information is governed by this Privacy Policy and the purposes it sets forth.
If you provide personal information to us with respect to employment, such as your resume, we will treat such personal information as confidential and use it only to consider you for current and future employment opportunities and to contact you with respect to employment with us or our affiliates. An “Affiliate” is a person or entity that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by, or is under common control with, our company. We will retain your information for further recruitment opportunities that may arise, unless you tell us that you no longer wish for us to retain your information.
We use various technologies to collect information relating to your visit to our website, such as the Uniform Resource Locater (URL) that referred you to our website, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, etc. This enables us to enhance and customise your experience on our website. For example, we may collect the Internet Protocol (IP) address identifying your computer or device and indicating your geographic region for statistical purposes. In some instances, we may use these technologies in combination with the personally identifiable information you provide on the website. These technologies may provide a variety of information such as whether you have visited Vrikshanic before. They also may enable you to save your preferences. Each technology is explained below.
Web Beacons (also called clear gifs and pixel tags), tracking links and/or similar technology consist of a few lines of code and are embedded on the pages of our website. They are often used in combination with Cookies and are often not visible to the user of the website. Web Beacons may relay information to third parties such as our service providers and may be used in order to track customer response to certain advertising, to better target interactive advertising and to enhance customer support and usability. If you reject our Cookies (see Cookie section below), you will prevent Web Beacons from relaying this information about you and may limit your use of some of our website features.
Browser Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our website. Flash Cookies are similar to Browser Cookies except that they can store data more complex than simple text and are stored in your browser rather than on your hard drive. You can have your browser and/or plugs to your browser, such as flash, notify you of, or automatically reject, Cookies. If you reject our Cookies or opt-out of the use of cookies, you may still use this website, but you may be limited in the use of some of its features.
We will not provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for their use in marketing their products or services to you without your consent, except as provided in the “Business Transfers” Section below. In addition, we do not sell or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information about our website visitors except as described here.
We may share your personal information with our Affiliates that distribute and market Vrikshanic. Our Affiliates may use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy including, if you have so chosen, sending you product information, cosmetic tips or promotions. If you prefer that we not share your personal information with our Affiliates, please do not provide it to us. We are unable to offer the benefits of Vrikshanic to anyone who does not consent to the sharing of their personal information with our Affiliates.
We may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf consistent with this Privacy Policy. Examples include webstore management companies, order processing companies, courier companies, data analysis firms, customer support specialists, email vendors, web-hosting companies and fulfilment companies (e.g., companies that coordinate mailings). Such third parties may be provided with access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use such information other than on our behalf and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell certain of our assets. In such transactions, user information, including personal information, generally is one of the transferred business assets, and by submitting your personally identifiable information on the website you agree that your data may be transferred to such parties in these circumstances.
Vrikshanic, our Affiliates and third parties who may receive your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the databases in which your personal information is stored shall be located in India and are required to honour the privacy representations made in this Privacy Policy under applicable laws of this country. In case of transfer of data to any other country, legal protections applicable to personal information in the concerned country will apply.
The Vrikshanic Online website is not designed for persons under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, you may browse Vrikshanic Online website, but please do not provide your personal information to us. For example, you cannot register. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a visitor under the age of 13 on the website, we will delete the information from our records.
We maintain reasonable safeguards for this website to protect against unauthorised disclosure, use, alteration or destruction of the personal information you provide on Vrikshanic online website. If you have any questions about security at our Site, you can email us at support@vrikshanic.com.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here. We suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy. Please find the effective date of the Privacy Policy at the top of this page.
We have taken great efforts to ensure that your visit to Vrikshanic online website is an excellent and fruitful one and that your privacy is constantly respected. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us by email at support@vrikshanic.com.
On our pages, you will find a button linking to our Facebook page. Please note that, with the use of this button, data about the visit to our pages can be linked to your Facebook profile.
