Privacy Policy
1. Who is Reliance GAS Lifestyle India Private Limited?
Reliance GAS Lifestyle India Private Limited, a company
incorporated under the laws of India, having its registered
office at 8th Floor, Maker Tower ‘E’, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai –
400005 (“the Company”) offers various retail solutions,
including through its website www.gasjeans.in (“Website”) and
other applications (together referred to as "Platforms") which
inter alia facilitates the sale and purchase of apparels,
accessories and such other products sold under the brand ‘GAS’
("Products") by users of the Platforms ("Users").
2. What is this Privacy Policy?
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”), together with the
terms of use, describes the Company’s policies and procedures on
the collection, use and disclosure of the information provided
by Users and Visitors (as defined herein below) of the
Platforms. The Company shall not use the User’s information in
any manner except as provided under this Privacy Policy. Every
User who accesses or uses the Platforms shall be bound by this
Privacy Policy.
3. Why this Privacy Policy?
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This Privacy Policy is published pursuant to: 3.1.1. Section
43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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Regulation 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable
Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal
Information) Rules, 2011 (“SPI Rules”)
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Regulation 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries
Guidelines) Rules, 2011.
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This Privacy Policy sets out the type of information collected
from the Users, including the nature of the sensitive personal
data or information, the purpose, means and modes of usage of
such information and how and to whom the Company shall
disclose such information.
4. What type of information is covered by this
Privacy Policy?
The Privacy Policy applies to information collected and
processed by the Company consisting of following:
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Personal information is information related to a visitor, or a
combination of pieces of information that could reasonably
allow him to be identified. Personal information may consist
of full name, personal contact numbers, residential address,
email address, gender or date of birth. While information such
as date of birth in isolation may not be enough to uniquely
identify the visitor, a combination of full name and date of
birth may be sufficient to do so.
Sensitive personal data or information is such personal
information that is collected, received, stored, transmitted or
processed by the Company, consisting of:
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Financial information such as bank account or credit card or
debit card or other payment instrument details
- Physical, physiological and mental health condition
- Medical records and history
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Any detail relating to the above personal information
categories as provided to the Company for providing service
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Any of the information received under above personal
information categories by the Company for processing, stored
or processed under lawful contract or otherwise.
Please note that any information that is freely available or
accessible in public domain or furnished under the Right to
Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in
force shall not be regarded as sensitive personal information.
Users Note
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A condition of each User’s use of and access to the Platforms
and to other services provided by the Company to Users
(collectively referred to as the “Services”), is his/her/its
acceptance of the terms of use which also involves acceptance
of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any User who does not
agree with any provisions of the Terms of Use or this Privacy
Policy is advised not to accept the Terms of Use and may leave
the Platforms.
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While browsing the Platforms, a User is not required to
provide personal information as set out under paragraph 4.1
and paragraph 4.2 until and unless such User chooses to avail
or sign up for any of the Services. All the information
provided to the Company by a User, including personal
information and personally identifiable information, is
voluntary. The User has the right to request the withdrawal of
his/her/its consent at any time, in accordance with the terms
of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. It is the User’s
duty to ensure strict caution while giving out any personally
identifiable information about himself/herself/itself or
his/her family members in use of any of the Services. The
Company does not endorse the content, messages or information
found in any Services and therefore, the Company specifically
disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any
actions resulting from the User’s participation in any
Services. As a condition to use the Services, you as a User
agree to waive any claims against the Company relating to the
same, and to the extent such waiver may be ineffective, you
agree to release any claims against the Company relating to
the same.
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Users can access, modify, correct and eliminate the data about
him/her/it which has been collected pursuant to his/her/its
decision to become a User. Any grievances in relation to the
information shared by the User with the Company may be brought
to the attention of grievance officer in accordance with
clause 8 of this Privacy Policy.
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For the use of the Services and purchase of Products, you may
be required to pay the Company with a credit card,
wire-transfer, or debit card through the Company’s third party
payment gateway provider and such third party payment gateway
provider may be required to collect certain financial
information from you including, but not restricted to, your
credit/debit card number or your bank account details
(collectively referred to as “Financial Information”). All
Financial Information collected from the Users’ by the
Company’s third party payment gateway providers will be used
only for billing and payment processes. The verification of
the Financial Information shall be accomplished only by the
User through a process of authentication in which the Company
shall have no role to play.
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Personal information, personally identifiable information and
/ or Financial Information shall be collected by the Company
on an ongoing basis, without need for further, separate
consent from the User (aside from the acceptance of this
Privacy Policy) for one or more of the following reasons:
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To identify the User, to understand his/her/its needs and
resolve disputes, if any
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To set up, manage and offer products and to enhance the
Services to meet the User’s requirements
- To provide ongoing service
- To meet legal and regulatory requirements
- To resolve technical issues and troubleshoot problems
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To aid the Company in collecting monies from Users for
transactions carried out on the Platforms
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To keep Users apprised of the Company’s (or third parties’)
promotions and offers
- To customize User experience
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To detect and protect the Company from error, fraud and other
criminal activities
- To enforce the Terms of Use
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Other reasons which, prior to being put into effect, shall be
communicated to the Users through an update carried out to
this Privacy Policy.
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The Financial Information collected from the Users is
transacted through secure digital platforms of approved
payment gateways which are under encryption, thereby complying
with reasonably expected technology standards. While the
Company shall make reasonable endeavors to ensure that the
User’s personal information and the Financial Information is
duly protected by undertaking security measures prescribed
under applicable laws, the User is strongly advised to
exercise discretion while providing personal information or
Financial Information while using the Services given that the
Internet is susceptible to security breaches.
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Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when a
User visits the Platforms, the Company automatically receives
the uniform resource locator of the site from which such User
visits the Platforms, details of the website such User is
visiting on leaving the Platforms, the internet protocol
(“IP”) address of each User’s computer operating system, type
of web browser the User is using, email patterns, and the name
of the User’s internet service provider. This information is
used solely to analyze overall User trends and to help the
Company in improving its Services. Please note that the link
between the User’s IP address and the User’s personally
identifiable information is not shared with third parties
without such User’s permission or except when required by law
or to provide or facilitate the User with the Services.
Notwithstanding the above, the User acknowledges the Company’s
right to share some of the aggregate findings, including the
personal information provided by the Users in an
unidentifiable form, and not the specific data with
advertisers, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and
others in order to help grow the business. The amount of
information sent to the Company depends on the settings of the
web browser used by the User to access the Platforms. The User
may refer to the browser used, if the User wishes to learn
what information is provided to the Company.
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The Platforms use temporary cookies to store certain data. The
Company does not store personally identifiable information in
the cookies. Information collected by the Company, by any
means whatsoever, that does not personally identify the User
as an individual (such as patterns of utilization described
above) is exclusively owned by the Company and may be used by
the Company and third party service providers for technical
administration of the Platforms, user administration,
research, development, and other purposes. Additionally, the
Company may sell or otherwise transfer such research,
statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or
non-personally identifiable form to its parent company, group
companies, subsidiaries, associates, affiliates, suppliers,
vendors, sister concerns, service providers and service
partners and other third parties (collectively referred to as
“Other Parties”).
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A User may set or amend his/her/its web browsers to delete or
disable cookies. If a User chooses to disable cookies on
his/her/its computer or mobile telecommunication device, it
may impair, degrade or restrict access to certain areas of the
Platforms. Merely closing the web browser should ordinarily
clear all temporary cookies installed by the Company. However,
Users are encouraged to use the “clear cookies” functionality
of their browsers to ensure deletion, as the Company cannot
guarantee, predict or provide for the behavior of the
equipment of all the Users of the Platforms.
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The Company may allow other companies or entities to serve
advertisements to Users. These companies or entities include
third party advertisement servers, advertisement agencies,
advertisement technology vendors and research firms. The
Company may target some advertisements to Users that fit a
certain general profile. The Company does not use personally
identifiable information to target advertisements to specific
Users. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing
the Services to its Users, the Company may allow authorized
third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on the
User’s browser.
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The Company does not exercise control over the websites
displayed as search results or links from within the Services.
These other sites may place their own cookies or other files
on the Users’ computer, collect data or solicit personal
information or Financial Information from the Users, for which
the Company shall not be held responsible or liable. The
Company does not make any representations concerning the
privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms
of use of such websites, nor does the Company guarantee the
accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data,
text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages
or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion
or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by the Company of
such websites, the websites’ provider, or the information on
the website.
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When a User visits or uses the Platforms, the Company may
access, collect, monitor and/or remotely store data in
relation to the User’s location, which may also include global
positioning system coordinates or similar information
regarding the location of the device using which the User has
visited or used the Platforms. The location data does not
collect or share any personally identifiable information about
the User.
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The Company may keep records of telephone calls received from
and made to Users for the purpose of administration of
Services, research and development, training, business
intelligence, business development, or for User
administration. The Company may share the telephone records
with third parties when required by law or when required to
provide or facilitate the User with the Services.
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The Company may choose to conduct contests and surveys to
collect relevant information about the Users’ preferences.
These surveys and contests are optional and if the User
chooses to respond, his/her/its responses will be kept
anonymous. The demographic information that the User provides
while availing or signing-up for the Services and through any
surveys or contests is used to help the Company improve its
services to meet the needs and preferences of Users.
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The Company does not knowingly collect personal data from
children (only persons above the aged of 18 shall be permitted
to use the Services as provided in the Terms of Use). In an
event, where in contravention of the Terms of Use, a person
below the age of 18 uses the Services, the Company shall not
be held liable or responsible for any damage or injury
suffered by such person in logging into the Platforms and
making use of the Services.
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The Company has implemented security policies, rules and
technical measures, as required under applicable law including
firewalls, transport layer security and other physical and
electronic security measures to protect the Financial
Information and personal information that it has under its
control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure,
unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or
accidental loss. It is expressly stated that the Company shall
not be responsible for any breach of security or for any
action of any third parties that receive Users’ personal data
or events that are beyond the reasonable control of the
Company including, acts of government, computer hacking,
unauthorized access to computer data and storage device,
computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, etc.
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The Company may be required to disclose personal information
or Financial Information to governmental institutions or
authorities when such disclosure is requisitioned under any
law or judicial decree or when the Company, in its sole
discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights
or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or
property, to fight fraud and credit risk, or to enforce or
apply the Terms of Use.
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The Company may share/use personal information and personally
identifiable information provided by Users with the Other
Parties for the purposes of:enabling Users to enjoy the
Services and to use the Products, including sharing
information with Other Parties to provide services, technical
support etc. in relation to the Products
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detecting and preventing identity theft, fraud or any other
potentially illegal acts
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monitoring and enhancing User interest and engagement,
including through promotional activity, personal messages to
Users using personally identifiable information provided by
Users, etc
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processing the purchase of Products on the Platforms. To the
extent that Other Parties have access to the personal
information, the Company shall make efforts to ensure that the
Other Parties treat such personal information at least as
protectively as they treat personally identifiable information
obtained from their users or members.
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The Company or the Other Parties may merge with or be acquired
by another business entity. In such an event, the Company and
the Other Parties may be required to transfer the personal
information to such merging or acquiring party, as the case
may be. While sharing such personal information with the
acquiring or merging entity, as the case may be, the Company
and the Other Parties shall make reasonable endeavors to
ensure that the User’s personal information is duly protected
by the acquiring or merging entity, as the case may be, by
undertaking security measures prescribed under applicable
laws.
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The Company may also disclose or transfer the personal and
other information provided by Users, to any third party as a
part of reorganization or a sale of the assets, division or
transfer of a part or whole of the company. Any third party to
which the Company transfers or sells its assets will have the
right to continue to use the personal and other information
that Users provide to the Company.
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All the Company employees and data processors, who have access
to and are associated with the processing of personal
information or Financial Information provided by Users are
obliged to respect the confidentiality of every User’s
personal information or Financial Information.
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The User’s visit to and/or use of the Platforms and any
dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and the
Terms of Use. The Company may update this Privacy Policy at
any time, with or without advance notice. The Company shall
not be required to notify the Users of any changes made to
this Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility, in such cases,
to review the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time.
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All information collected from the Users by the Company is
maintained in electronic form on servers and/or cloud systems
and shall be accessible by certain employees of the Company.
The User information may also be converted to physical form
from time to time. Regardless of the manner of storage, the
Company shall make commercially reasonable endeavors to ensure
that the User information is rendered confidential, and will
disclose User information only in accordance with the terms of
this Privacy Policy.
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The User consents to the Company reproducing/publishing all
testimonials and reviews given by the User (whether on the
Website, social media platforms, or in any other manner
whatsoever) in relation to the Company or any of the Products,
together with the User’s name and location, on the Website, on
such page and in such position as the Company may determine in
its sole discretion. The User agrees that the Company may edit
the testimonials and reviews provided by the User and
reproduce/publish such edited or paraphrased versions of the
testimonials and reviews on the Website. If the User has any
concerns with the reproduction/publication of any testimonial
or review provided by the User on the Website, the User may
contact the Company at [email protected].
6. Visitors Note
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No personal information or Financial Information is
automatically collected from any visitors of the Platforms who
are merely perusing or browsing the Platforms (“Visitor”).
Nevertheless, the provisions of this Privacy Policy are
applicable to Visitors, and Visitors are required to read,
understand and accept the privacy statements set out herein,
failing which they are required to leave the Platforms
immediately.
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A User will not merely be a Visitor if the User has willingly
submitted any personal information or Financial Information
(including phone numbers, email addresses, responses to
surveys, etc.) to the Company through any means, including
email, telephone calls, telephonic messaging or while availing
or signing-up for the Services. All such Visitors will be
deemed to be, and will be treated as, Users for the purposes
of this Privacy Policy, and in which case, all the statements
in this Privacy Policy shall apply to the User.
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If you, as a Visitor, have inadvertently browsed any other
pages of the Platforms prior to reading the privacy statements
set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which
such information is obtained, stored or used, merely quitting
the Platforms should ordinarily clear all temporary cookies
installed by the Company. All Visitors, however, are
encouraged to use the “clear cookies” functionality on their
browsers to ensure such clearing or deletion, as the Company
cannot guarantee, predict or provide for the behavior of the
equipment of all the Visitors of the Platforms.
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If you are accessing the Platforms from outside India, it is
solely your responsibility to ensure that your access does not
breach or violate any local or national law applicable in the
place from where you are making the access, for the time being
in force.
7. Opt-Out Policy
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The third party service providers with whom the Company may
share personal information or Financial Information provided
by Users are not permitted to market their own services or
send promotional e-mails or engage in promotional
communication with the Users. The Company provides all Users
with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential,
promotional, or marketing-related communication from itself or
its partners. These settings can be found on the Platforms.
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If a User wishes to remove his/her/its contact information
from all the Company’s lists and newsletters, the User can
click on the "unsubscribe" link or follow the instructions in
each e-mail message. Alternatively, the User can contact the
Company at [email protected]. The Company reserves the right
to limit membership based on availability of contact
information. All Users will be notified by email prior to any
actions taken.
8. Feedback or Concern
For feedback or concern, if any, kindly contact Grievance
Officer at:
Email Address: [email protected]
Contact No.: 022-48966109