Privacy Policy
Onward Technologies Limited and its subsidiaries hereinafter referred as ‘Onward, Company or We’ is dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of information entrusted to it. As part of this fundamental obligation, Onward is committed to the appropriate protection and use of personal information (referred to as “Personal Information”) that has been collected online.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.onwardgroup.com (our "Website"). Please review this Privacy Statement ("Privacy Statement") to learn more about how we collect, use, share, and protect the Personal Information that we have obtained.
This privacy statement explains how Onward collects and uses Personal Information online and describes the rights you have with respect to your Personal Information.
This policy applies to the information we collect:
- On this Website.
- In email and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our sites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 18 years. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 18, except as part of an engagement to provide professional services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@onwardgroup.com
1.0 Personal Information we may collect and process:
For the purposes of this privacy statement, Personal Information is any data that relates to an individual who may be identified from that data or from a combination of a set of data and other information which is or may be in possession of Onward.
In general, you may browse our website without providing any Personal Information about yourself. However, certain information such as your IP address, demographics, your computer's operating system, and browser type may be collected in order to provide better usability, troubleshooting, site maintenance, and to understand which parts of the website are visited and how frequently.
When you register on our website or would like to comment on our content, we may require you to provide us with certain Personal Information such as your name, email address, designation, company, country, and telephone number, for one or more of the following purposes: user ID creation, identifying you, contacting you and provide access to desirable content based on your preferences. While accessing certain sections of the Onward Website such as Careers, you may also be required to provide additional Personal Information for Onward to process the corresponding request.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose Personal Information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- We may also disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Onward, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
2.0 Consequences of not providing Personal Information
If you choose not to provide your Personal Information that is mandatory to process your request, we may not be able to provide the corresponding service.
3.0 Data recipients, transfer, and disclosure of Personal Information:
Onward does not share your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes without seeking your prior permission. Onward will seek your consent prior to using or sharing Personal Information for any purpose beyond the requirement for which it was originally collected.
We may share your Personal Information within Onward or with any of its subsidiaries, business partners, service vendors, authorized third-party agents, or contractors located in any part of the world for the purposes of data processing, storage, or to provide a requested service or transaction, after ensuring that such entities are contractually bound by data privacy obligations.
When required, Onward may disclose Personal Information to external law enforcement bodies or regulatory authorities, in order to comply with legal obligations.
4.0 Use of cookies:
Cookies are small text files that, like most other Web servers, we place in your device that you use to access our website. This is done to recognize your device during a session or in your future visits to our website, primarily to provide better user experience.
Session cookie: Session cookies remain only as long as a browsing session is active, and are intended to avoid user inconvenience during browsing. These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session and expire at the end of the browsing session. Session cookies also assist the user in navigating the website, and allow the user to access secure parts of the webpage when logged in.
Persistent cookie: Persistent cookies are stored on a user's device even after termination of a browsing session. It helps in recalling the preferences or actions of the user. Persistent cookies are used for a variety of purposes such as retaining the visitor's language and regional preference(s) at the end of each browsing session. We may use services of third-party analytics service provider to analyze cookies to carry out a behavioral analysis in order to enhance user experience and convenience, and also to provide targeted and relevant content to visitors.
Depending on the type and settings of your browser, cookies may be accepted by default. You may change the settings of your browser to delete existing cookies or prevent future cookies from being automatically accepted. If you disable cookies, certain parts and functions of our website may not be available. You can learn more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
5.0 Access, correction, objection of your Personal Information: Depending on local law, you may access, update, or correct your Personal Information that we hold, including your profile and preferences. You may do so in the corresponding sections where such information was provided. If you have difficulty in updating or accessing your Personal Information as stated above, you may contact us at privacy@onwardgroup.com
6.0 Data security:
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Onward adopts reasonable and appropriate security practices and procedures that include administrative, physical security, and technical controls in order to safeguard your Personal Information.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.
We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
7.0 Data retention:
Onward may retain your Personal Information as long as there is a business requirement, or if otherwise required under applicable laws.
8.0 Updates to this privacy statement:
Onward may change the data privacy practices and update this privacy statement as and when the need arises, and the same will be made available on the website. But our commitment to protect the privacy of website users will continue to remain.
9.0 E-mail Disclaimer:
The E-mail, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others, and delete it from your system. Any other use of this E-mail and/or attachments is prohibited. This message is not meant to constitute an electronic signature or an intent to contract electronically. All personal messages express views solely of the sender, which are not to be attributed to the organization.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy:
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information:
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy@onwardgroup.com