Last revised on July 30, 2008 16:18 IST

Privacy Policy and Terms of Usage

gcollab PRIVACY STATEMENT

PRIVACY OF gcollab USERS

Welcome to the gcollab Privacy Statement.

tmail (a service provided by gcollab) is the trademark¹ of RAD Solutions Private Limited² (“Service Provider”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”).

We thank you for your interest and hope that you take the time to read the following terms and conditions regarding the measures we take to safeguard your privacy. The objective of our Privacy Statement is to disclose and explain what information we collect, use, and share and to explain the privacy choices that you can make. By accessing the services provided by gcollab.com (“Website”) you agree to the collection and use of your information by gcollab.com in the manner enumerated in this Privacy Statement. Please note that your use of this Website is subject to your agreement with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.  You can access this policy at anytime at http://www.gcollab.com/gcollab/terms.

For any clarification or questions regarding this privacy statement please contact:

Customer Care – gcollab

RAD Solutions Private Limited
Email: enquiry at radsolutions co in
And/or address: Khandelwal Green Park,Plot No-162, kolathia, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar  751017, India

Please be advised that this Privacy Statement does not encompass information collected elsewhere, including but not limited to, offline and online sites linked from this Website. These other sites should be governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our website and servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide or obtain is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Statement periodically; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page, so check back often. Kindly note that access and use of the Website by you will constitute your acceptance of any modifications or revisions to the Privacy Policy as on the date of your access.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

To register, operate and maintain an account with gcollab we require the provision of certain personal information by you. This information includes (but is not limited to) data that specifically identifies an individual, such as a user ID, name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other account number, and information about the individual’s activities when directly linked to that person. Personal information also includes demographic information such as date of birth, gender, geographic area, and occupation, information regarding activities and preferences when such information is linked to other personal information that identifies you.

COLLECTION AND USAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our Website collects personal and identifying information with your voluntary knowledge and consent.   Upon your visiting our website, we collect information in order to service your accounts, save your time and optimize your customer experience. We use what is commonly referred to as “cookie” technology to collect site statistical information and improve your customer experience. Cookies set by us do not capture any personally identifiable information, such as your individual e-mail address.

Our servers may also automatically collect information about your computer when you visit the Website, including but not limited to the type of browser software and version you use, the operating system and platform you are running, the website that referred you to us , your IP or internet protocol address used to connect your computer to the Internet, average time spent on our site, pages viewed, information searched for, access times, “clickstream data” and other relevant information about your online experience.

You may browse our Website anonymously by choosing not to provide us with any such information as your name or e-mail address, or choosing not to register during your visits to our sites. When you browse this way, we will not link your online activity with the accounts you may have with us.

Our website may use “web beacons” and /or “pop-ups” to present offers. These offers may be on other sites on which tmail advertises, or in our e-mails. This enables us to enhance e-mail offers and track website usage. We sometimes use third parties who are our business partners or sub-contractors to manage web beacons and the data they collect; however, web beacons do not capture your individual e-mail address or any other personal information that you enter on our website.

Web beacons are sometimes used on gcollab.com web pages where transactions take place. In addition, the e-mail offers that we send may contain web beacons to help us record response rates and to assist us in measuring the effectiveness of the services. No personally identifiable information such as name, address, telephone number, credit card number, or e-mail address is ever collected or passed via the use of web beacons.

Service Provider uses personally identifying information you supply through the Website to provide you with the service you have requested. If you apply for products and services online, we may share information we collect about you with credit bureaus and similar organizations if we have your express consent or when required or permitted by law. To the extent permitted by law, we may disclose personally identifiable information to government authorities or third parties pursuant to a legal request, subpoena, or other legal process. We may use or disclose your information as permitted by law to perform charge verifications, report or collect debts owed, fight fraud, or protect the legal rights of gcollab, tmail and RAD Solutions, our customers, our other websites, or its users.

We may also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance or forums and job search software, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services.

We offer you choices when we ask for personal information, whenever reasonably possible. You may decline to provide personal information to us and/or refuse cookies in your browser, although please be aware that some of our features or services may not function properly as a result. We make every endeavor to provide you access to your personal information upon request and to let you correct such data if it is incorrect and delete or modify the same, when reasonably possible.

We assure you that we do not sell or share personal information with marketers outside of RAD Solutions, its business partners and affiliates for purposes of offering their own products or services.

Kindly note that as our business changes, we may buy or sell various assets. In the event all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by Service Provider, its parent or any subsidiary or affiliated entity are sold, assigned, transferred or acquired by another company, the information from and about our Website users may be among the transferred assets.

We normally do not expose your email ID or gcollab user ID to other users of the system, except for a few cases where you might like to share your user ID. For example, the executors of a "task" can see the user ID of one another. Also, your ID is passed to the people whom you invite to gcollab/tmail.

SECURITY MEASURES UNDERTAKEN BY US

The security of your personal information and email address and its protection is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We maintain and follow accepted industry standards of practice to protect your personal data and email address, both during transmission and thereafter, upon receipt of the same. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, can be guaranteed as being completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information and email address, we are not able to guarantee its absolute security. In the event of a breach of our security we do however, have recourse to the law which affords punishment to those who breach the security and privacy of internet users.

On our part, to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information provided to us, we have in place appropriate physical, electronic and administrative procedures. For instance, the database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall. Access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited and only to authorized members of our personnel and that the information is disclosed to such personnel strictly on need to know basis to complete the transaction and to provide the services requested by you.

Although we will strive to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. The same shall apply to information disseminated and shared via public forums such as public discussion areas, forums and chats. We are not responsible for such information disseminated and shared on such public forums and cannot ensure its protection or the protection of your privacy. By using this site, you understand and agree that we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.

PRIVACY AND CHILDREN

This Website is not intended for use by children, (those under the age of 18 years). No one under age 18 is allowed to provide any personal information or use our public discussion areas, forums and chats. It is your responsibility as parents/ guardians of the children to ensure that your children do not access this website. 
If your children disclose information about themselves in publicly accessible areas of the Website, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so.

PARTICIPATION AND ADHERENCE OF gcollab AND tmail USERS

In using this website and the tmail and other services available herein you agree not to:

1. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is not permitted by law, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or sexist, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.

2. Utilize the services in any manner whatsoever so as to contact or communicate with minors (i.e. those below the age of eighteen) without the express permission, knowledge and consent of their parents or guardians.

3. Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Government official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.

4.Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the service.

5.Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements, without limitation).

6.Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any
patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party.

7.Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation.

8. Utilize the services in any manner whatsoever so as to promote, disseminate, convey, express, obey (without limitation) any seditious, defamatory, illegal or otherwise harmful material.

Please note that you may take a single copy of the Content displayed on the website for your use only, provided that you do not remove any trademarks, copyright and any other notice contained in such Content. You shall not archive or retain any Content in any form without written permission.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances shall the Service Provider be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses resulting from the use or the inability to use our services or access content, the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from transactions entered into through or from the website, the unauthorized access to or alterations of your transmissions or data, statements or conduct of any third party on the service, or any other matter relating to the service, even if the Service Provider has been advised of the possibility of damages.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold the Service Provider harmless from all claims, damages and expenses (including attorney's fees) made by any third party arising out of your content, your use of the website, your connection to the website, your violation of this Agreement, our Terms of Use or our Privacy Statement and the development, operation, maintenance, use and contents of your account.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:

The gcollab web site contains facts, views, opinions, statements and recommendations of users of the gcollab.com website, advertisers, third party information providers and organizations.

The web site does not represent or endorse the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information displayed, uploaded or distributed through the web site. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement or information shall be at your sole risk.

The Service Provider makes no warranty or representation whatsoever regarding the web site or any content, advertising, services or products provided through or in connection with the web site.

TERMS FOR VIEWING THE WEBSITE AND FORUMS

The contents of this website and the forums is under copyright of RAD Solutions Private Limited. You are not permitted to copy or distribute the content of this website without prior written permission from RAD Solutions. Please note that the Service Provider cannot be held responsible or liable for any of the content of this forum and does not endorse any of the views shared and expressed herein by its customers and the users of the forum and website.

INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION, ACCESS AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION

For certain services such as tmail, personal web pages, contests and shopping, registration by the visitor is required. By registering, you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms which shall be posted at an appropriate location of the website. Each registration is for a single individual user only. To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User ID and Password. Therefore, we do not permit any of the following:

1. Any other person sharing your User ID and Password

2. Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with gcollab as users of the website.

3. Access through a single User ID and Password being made available to multiple users on a network.

If we reasonably believe that a User ID and Password are being misused in any manner, including as clarified above, we reserve the right to cancel access rights of the User ID immediately without notice, and block access to all users from the IP address from which the misuse took place.

WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMER

Please be aware that your use of this website, its services and products as may be applicable, is at your own risk. This website is provided by RAD Solutions Private Limited on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, this website disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. You acknowledge that any warranty that is provided in connection with any of the products or services made available on or through gcollab.com is provided solely by the owner, advertiser or manufacturer of that product and/or service and not the Service Provider or RAD Solutions Private Limited.

We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the website or the information, content, materials, or products on the website, including that gcollab.com and its services will meet your requirements,  gcollab.com will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free, the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you though gcollab.com will meet your expectations, be reliable or accurate, and errors in the software will be corrected.

You accept and covenant that the sole remedy for dissatisfaction with gcollab.com, site-related services and/or content or information contained within the site is to stop using the site and/or its services. Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of gcollab.com is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.

ADVERTISING

It may be that a portion of our website contains advertising/other material submitted to gcollab.com by third parties. The responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the website complies with applicable International and National law is exclusively on the advertisers and the Service Provider will not be responsible for any claim, error, omission or inaccuracy in advertising material. gcollab has the sole discretion and reserves the right to omit, suspend or change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. The acceptance of advertisements on the website will be subject to such terms and conditions of the Service Provider which are available on request.

DELAYS  

Let it be known that the Service Provider is at no time liable or responsible to you for any interruption or delay in access to the website irrespective of the cause.

INDIAN LAW

The Agreement shall be governed by the Laws of India. The Courts of law at Bhubaneswar shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under this agreement.

INTERPRETATION

For purposes of this Agreement, the term

“Gender and Number” Unless the context otherwise requires, all words (whether gender-specific or gender neutral) shall be deemed to include each of the masculine, feminine and neuter genders, and words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa.

“Headings” of the Articles and Sections of this Privacy Statement have been included for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to affect the meaning of the operative provisions of this Privacy Statement.

“Include not Limiting”  "Include,"  "including," "are inclusive of", and similar expressions are not expressions of limitation and shall be construed as if followed by the words "without limitation".

"Person" includes any natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, governmental agency, or other entity other than the parties

AGREEMENT

These constitute an agreement between the users of the website and the Service Provider with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, whether written or oral, and whether earlier published on this website or not regarding such subject matter.

SEVERABILITY

If any provision of this Agreement shall  be determined to be unlawful by a court of law or judicial authority, then such provision shall be severed from this Agreement. The unenforceability of such provision shall not affect the enforceability of any others or of the remainder of this Agreement.

TERMINATION

Notwithstanding the right to termination enumerated hereinabove, we at gcollab.com reserve the right to terminate your account without any prior notice, for:

1. Any violation or breach of the aforesaid terms and conditions.
2. Any other reason so deemed fit.

CHANGE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USAGE

Privacy Policy and Terms of Usage is subject to change without any prior notice.

gcollab services are currently free for all types of use, including both commercial and non-commercial use.

DOMAINS OWNED BY US

All the terms and conditions stated above applies to our website gcollab.com, and all the domains which redirect to gcollab.com, including 

gcollab.net
egtask.com
tmail.co.in

1. Application Number 1578941. The application for the registration of the trademark “tmail” has been made before the Registrar of Trademarks, Kolkata by RAD Solutions Private Limited. The application is presently pending before the aforesaid Registrar.
2. RAD Solutions Private Limited is a software development and web-based services provider company. It is incorporated and existing under the laws of India. Its head office is located at Bhubaneshwar.