Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy (“ Privacy Policy ”) governs the collection, use,
disclosure and protection of personal information of individuals
provided to Lenskart Solutions Pvt. Ltd (“the Company ” or “ We ” or “
Us ” or “ Ourselves ”) including through ‘lenskart.com/en-us/’ (‘Website’) or
Company’s retail stores (‘Stores’). This Privacy Policy is intended to
provide clear and complete information about the personal information
of individuals that the Company collects in connection with the
Company’s services on the Website or Stores and the way such personal
information is stored and used.
We are committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of individuals provided to Us by users of the Website and/or at the Stores (“ User ” or “ Users ” or “You ” or “ Your ”).
We are committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of individuals provided to Us by users of the Website and/or at the Stores (“ User ” or “ Users ” or “You ” or “ Your ”).
1. Acceptance of terms of the Privacy Policy by the Users:
This Privacy Policy is applicable to You when You access and use Our
Website/Stores. By accessing and/or using the Website/Store, You
signify Your acceptance of the Privacy Policy and expressly consent to
Our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of Your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy. If You do not agree
to this Privacy Policy and/or to Our processing of Your
data/information in the manner outlined in this Privacy Policy, please
do not use this Website or submit any personal information to Us. We
reserve the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time
and for any reason. However, We commit to ensuring that the privacy
rights of individuals shall be maintained. In order to keep You
informed, We shall notify Users of changes to Our Privacy Policy by
identifying such modification/alteration along with the effective date
of such modification/alteration to the Privacy Policy for a period of
not less than two weeks on the home page of the Website.
BY USING OUR SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
You may withdraw Your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of Your personal information by Us upon reasonable notice being given to Us stating such withdrawal of consent given or deemed to have been given in respect of our collection, use or disclosure of Your personal information. We will inform You of the likely consequences of withdrawing Your consent/deemed consent. We will cease (and cause any of our data intermediaries and agents to cease) collecting, using or disclosing the personal information unless it is required or authorized under applicable laws.
BY USING OUR SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
You may withdraw Your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of Your personal information by Us upon reasonable notice being given to Us stating such withdrawal of consent given or deemed to have been given in respect of our collection, use or disclosure of Your personal information. We will inform You of the likely consequences of withdrawing Your consent/deemed consent. We will cease (and cause any of our data intermediaries and agents to cease) collecting, using or disclosing the personal information unless it is required or authorized under applicable laws.
- Scope of the Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy refers and applies only to the Website and Store.
Its main aim is to inform the Users of the way their personal
information is collected and processed, providing relevant information
to the User, as well as fixing the accessing conditions and the use of
the Website and Store.
Information collected
3.1 Personal data/information:
Personal Information means any information that may be used to
identify an individual, including but not limited to the following:
- Information about Your personal identity inter alia as name, age, sex, facial recognition, etc.
- Your contact details such as Your address, postal code, telephone or mobile number and facsimile;
- User ID information such as Your username, email address and other security-related information used by You in relation to access and use Our Website and its content, User ID of social networks, etc.
The aforementioned shall collectively be referred to as “Personal Information”. Personal Information will also include any personally identifiable information provided by You in any form during any interaction or communication with Us.
When You use Our Website, We collect and store Your Personal Information in order to record, support and facilitate Your participation in the activities You select, track Your preferences, to notify You of any updated information and new activities and other related functions offered by the Us, keep You informed about Our latest, special offers, and other products and services available on/at the Website/Store, to assist You with customer service or technical support issues, to follow up with You after Your visit to the Website/Store. For the aforesaid purpose, We only collect such personal information that We consider relevant to understand You or Your interests.
Personal Information may also get collected and shared with third parties if there is content from/relating to the Website/Store that You specifically and knowingly upload, share or transmit to an email recipient, online community, or to the public, e.g. uploaded photos, posted reviews or comments, or information about You or anything posted by You that You choose to share with others through features which may be provided on Our Website. Such uploaded, shared or transmitted content will also be subject to the privacy policy of the online community, website, social media or other platforms to which You upload, share or transmit the content.
- Information about Your personal identity inter alia as name, age, sex, facial recognition, etc.
- Your contact details such as Your address, postal code, telephone or mobile number and facsimile;
- User ID information such as Your username, email address and other security-related information used by You in relation to access and use Our Website and its content, User ID of social networks, etc.
The aforementioned shall collectively be referred to as “Personal Information”. Personal Information will also include any personally identifiable information provided by You in any form during any interaction or communication with Us.
When You use Our Website, We collect and store Your Personal Information in order to record, support and facilitate Your participation in the activities You select, track Your preferences, to notify You of any updated information and new activities and other related functions offered by the Us, keep You informed about Our latest, special offers, and other products and services available on/at the Website/Store, to assist You with customer service or technical support issues, to follow up with You after Your visit to the Website/Store. For the aforesaid purpose, We only collect such personal information that We consider relevant to understand You or Your interests.
Personal Information may also get collected and shared with third parties if there is content from/relating to the Website/Store that You specifically and knowingly upload, share or transmit to an email recipient, online community, or to the public, e.g. uploaded photos, posted reviews or comments, or information about You or anything posted by You that You choose to share with others through features which may be provided on Our Website. Such uploaded, shared or transmitted content will also be subject to the privacy policy of the online community, website, social media or other platforms to which You upload, share or transmit the content.
3.2 Information we collect during access and use of Our
Website :
Apart from any Personal Information provided by You, We may also
collect certain non-personal and/or technical information through
third-party sources, platforms (such as social networking websites,
databases, online marketing firms, and ad targeting firms) and other
channels.
3.3 Information we collect from other sources:
We may access information about You from third-party sources and
platforms (such as social networking websites, databases, online
marketing firms, and ad targeting firms), including:
if You access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook, Twitter) regarding the Website/Stores/Us, we may collect, personal contact information and/or any Personal Information that is part of Your profile on a third party social network (e.g. Facebook) and that You allow that third party social network to share with us (e.g. name, email address, gender, birthday, city, profile picture, user ID, friend list). You can learn more about the data that we may obtain about You by visiting the privacy policies on the website of the relevant third party social network.
demographic data, such as age range, gender, and interests;
advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times You viewed a particular ad; and
unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location at the point of access in accordance with applicable law.
third-party sources.
Sometimes this data can be shared with partners who help Us deliver ads to You on third party websites/entities not controlled by Us.
The aforementioned information herein collected by Us under clause 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are collectively referred to as “ Information ”.
if You access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook, Twitter) regarding the Website/Stores/Us, we may collect, personal contact information and/or any Personal Information that is part of Your profile on a third party social network (e.g. Facebook) and that You allow that third party social network to share with us (e.g. name, email address, gender, birthday, city, profile picture, user ID, friend list). You can learn more about the data that we may obtain about You by visiting the privacy policies on the website of the relevant third party social network.
demographic data, such as age range, gender, and interests;
advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times You viewed a particular ad; and
unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location at the point of access in accordance with applicable law.
third-party sources.
Sometimes this data can be shared with partners who help Us deliver ads to You on third party websites/entities not controlled by Us.
The aforementioned information herein collected by Us under clause 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are collectively referred to as “ Information ”.
How will Information be used:
We use the information to understand Your needs and accordingly
facilitate Our services and route You through the relevant information
that meets Your needs. We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any
personally identifying information of Our Users. We may provide the
Information to Our affiliates and service providers under contract
(such as customer care, data analytics) to support the operation of
the Website/Stores and Our services. To the extent we use Your
personal information to market to You, we will provide You the ability
to opt-out of such uses.
We may also use the Information to provide contents and services that are targeted to Your interests. By accepting Privacy Policy, You expressly agree to receive this communications/information. If You do not wish to receive these communications, You may opt-out of the receipt of certain communications by sending an email at support@lenskart.us specifying the communication/information You do not want to receive.
We may also use the Information to provide contents and services that are targeted to Your interests. By accepting Privacy Policy, You expressly agree to receive this communications/information. If You do not wish to receive these communications, You may opt-out of the receipt of certain communications by sending an email at support@lenskart.us specifying the communication/information You do not want to receive.
4.1 Processing for User Login
We may use the Information for processing Your login for Our Website.
4.2 Technical and functional management
We use technical data such as Your IP address to help diagnose
problems and resolve issues related to the functionality of the
Website.
Improvement of Our Services/Website
We aggregate and analyze the Information that We collect and may use the same to monitor and analyze the use of Our Services/Website, to increase Our Website's functionality, and to better tailor Our content and design to suit Our Users’/visitors' needs so as to provide them with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using Our services/Website.
Request Fulfillment & to improve customer service
We may also use the information that We collect to fulfill Your requests for products, services, and information, which helps us respond to Your customer service requests and support needs, more efficiently. For example, We may use Your contact information to respond to Your customer service requests or to enable You to participate in features on the Website such as surveys, polls, sweepstakes, and message boards. We may also use information in the aggregate to understand how Our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on at Our Stores/Website and use feedback You provide to improve Our products and services.
Further, We use the Information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; measure consumer interest in the services provided by Us, inform You about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize Your experience; detect and protect Us against error, fraud, and other criminal activity; enforce Our User Agreement, and in general to improve the Users experience.
Improvement of Our Services/Website
We aggregate and analyze the Information that We collect and may use the same to monitor and analyze the use of Our Services/Website, to increase Our Website's functionality, and to better tailor Our content and design to suit Our Users’/visitors' needs so as to provide them with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using Our services/Website.
Request Fulfillment & to improve customer service
We may also use the information that We collect to fulfill Your requests for products, services, and information, which helps us respond to Your customer service requests and support needs, more efficiently. For example, We may use Your contact information to respond to Your customer service requests or to enable You to participate in features on the Website such as surveys, polls, sweepstakes, and message boards. We may also use information in the aggregate to understand how Our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on at Our Stores/Website and use feedback You provide to improve Our products and services.
Further, We use the Information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; measure consumer interest in the services provided by Us, inform You about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize Your experience; detect and protect Us against error, fraud, and other criminal activity; enforce Our User Agreement, and in general to improve the Users experience.
4.5 Email Communications w.r.t Marketing and Newsletters
etc.
We may use the Information that we collect to send You e-mail
communications, such as editorial updates, information about Your
account or changes to the Website, newsletters, marketing and
promotional messages about Our own or Our marketing partners' products
and services that may be of interest to You. It may also be used to
respond to Your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. If You
signed up for one of Our email newsletters, we will also send You the
newsletters that You requested. If You decide to opt-in to Our mailing
list, You will receive emails that may include company news, updates,
related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User
would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, We include
detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User
may contact us via Our Website.
4.6 Enforcement:
We may use the information that we collect to prevent illegal
activities, to enforce the Privacy Policy, and to otherwise protect
Our rights and the rights of Our Users.
In addition to the uses identified above, we may use the information that We collect for any other purposes disclosed to You at the time We collect Your information.
In addition to the uses identified above, we may use the information that We collect for any other purposes disclosed to You at the time We collect Your information.
5. Disclosure of Information to Others
5.1 Legal Requests and/or Compliance with Applicable Laws
We cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory inquiries, as well as
other third parties to enforce laws, such as intellectual property
rights, fraud, and other rights, to help protect You and the
community. Therefore, in response to a verified request by any
statutory authority including but not limited to law enforcement
agency or other government officials relating to a criminal
investigation or alleged illegal activity, We may (and You authorize
us to) disclose, as per the applicable laws, some of Your personal
information as is reasonably necessary to respond/comply with the
statutory mandate including but not limited to court orders or another
legal process.
We may access, use, transfer or disclose Your Personal Information to third parties such as government or law enforcement authorities or private parties if it is legally and statutorily required to do so under any of the following conditions:
To satisfy any applicable law, rule, regulation, governmental requests or legal process.
To protect and/or defend and/or enforce Our Privacy Policy for online services or other policies applicable to any online services in case of potential violations.
To secure Our systems.
To respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party.
To protect the rights, property or personal safety of the Users and the public in general for any reason.
To detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
To prevent or stop activity we may consider to be or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.
All credit/debit cards details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties.
In case of any illegal, ethical or legally actionable activity, we may use IP address or other device identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in Our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to You. However, we shall not sell, share or rent the Users Personal Information to any third party or use any user's e-mail id for sending any unsolicited emails.
We may access, use, transfer or disclose Your Personal Information to third parties such as government or law enforcement authorities or private parties if it is legally and statutorily required to do so under any of the following conditions:
To satisfy any applicable law, rule, regulation, governmental requests or legal process.
To protect and/or defend and/or enforce Our Privacy Policy for online services or other policies applicable to any online services in case of potential violations.
To secure Our systems.
To respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party.
To protect the rights, property or personal safety of the Users and the public in general for any reason.
To detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
To prevent or stop activity we may consider to be or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.
All credit/debit cards details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties.
In case of any illegal, ethical or legally actionable activity, we may use IP address or other device identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in Our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to You. However, we shall not sell, share or rent the Users Personal Information to any third party or use any user's e-mail id for sending any unsolicited emails.
5.2 Other Corporate Entities
We share much of Our data, including Information about You, with Our
parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and joint ventures that are
committed to serving Your online requests and related services,
throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to
Your personal information, they remain bound by the existing Privacy
Policy. As we continue to develop Our business, we might sell or buy
stores, subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, Users’
Information generally is one of the transferred business assets but
shall remain subject to the terms and conditions contained in this
Privacy Policy.
5.3 Internal Service Providers
We may employ third parties services to facilitate or outsource one or
more aspects of the business, product and service operations that we
provide to You through the Website/Stores (e.g., search technology,
discussion boards, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs,
co-branded credit cards) and therefore we may provide some of Your
personal information to these internal service providers. These
internal service providers' are subject to the terms of this Privacy
Policy and confidentiality agreements with us and other legal
restrictions that prohibit their use of Your personal information for
any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced
service. In the event of Your direct involvement with the internal
service provider, any additional information disclosed by You to them
shall be subject to internal service provider’s own applicable privacy
policy and the Company shall not be responsible for the same.
5.4 With Users’ explicit consent
We do not sell or rent Users’ personal information to third parties
for their marketing purposes, but with Your explicit consent, we may
disclose Your personal information (i) to other registered users of
the Website/Store for the purpose of facilitating the communications
and transactions, if any, amongst the Users (ii) to third parties for
their marketing and advertising purposes; (iii) to send You
promotions, notifications, or other services. However, the Users have
the right to opt-out of receiving marketing communications about the
Company/Website/Store by sending us an email at [*]
6. Protection and Security Information collected by the
Company
We take Our security responsibilities very seriously and take all
reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect Your
Personal Information once we have received them. We use security
measures consistent with current best practices to protect Your
Personal Information. These measures include technical, procedural,
monitoring and tracking steps intended to safeguard data from misuse,
unauthorized access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction.
We also have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the applicable laws prevalent in United Arab Emirates to protect Personal Information about You and, accordingly, we take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of Your Personal Information, to ensure the protection and preservation of Your privacy. However, no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information You transmit to us and You understand that any information that You share is done at Your own risk.
We also have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the applicable laws prevalent in United Arab Emirates to protect Personal Information about You and, accordingly, we take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of Your Personal Information, to ensure the protection and preservation of Your privacy. However, no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information You transmit to us and You understand that any information that You share is done at Your own risk.
7. Retention of Personal Information
Unless specified otherwise in this Privacy Policy, we will retain Your
Information as permitted or required by applicable law. In some cases,
even after cancellation of the user account, Your Information may be
retained for the purpose of legal and regulatory compliances,
resolving disputes, concluding activities related to account
cancellation, enforcing Our agreements, Privacy Policy or for any
other reason which may be deemed necessary. However, the information
of the User will get anonymized upon cancellation of the user account
except for the abovementioned purposes.
Change in Personal Information
You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the Personal
Information submitted to Us at the time of login. If there are any
changes in Your Personal Information details, please contact us by
e-mail at support@lenskart.us to correct or update the information.
9. Indemnification
You agree and undertake to indemnify and hold harmless Us, from and
against any and all suit, dispute, actions, damages, costs, and
expenses, if any, of whatsoever nature, arising out of or in any way
connected with this Privacy Policy, Information and/or Your use or
access of the Website/Stores.
You expressly understand that under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall We be liable to You or any other person or entity for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including, but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, resulting from circumstances, including but not limited to: (i) unauthorized access to or alteration of Information; (ii) any unauthorized access to or use of Our secure servers and/or any and all information stored therein.
You expressly understand that under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall We be liable to You or any other person or entity for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including, but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, resulting from circumstances, including but not limited to: (i) unauthorized access to or alteration of Information; (ii) any unauthorized access to or use of Our secure servers and/or any and all information stored therein.
10. Data Protection Officer
If You believe that information we hold about You is incorrect or out
of date, or if You have concerns or further queries about how We are
handling Your Personal Information or any problem or complaint about
such matters, please contact our Data Protection Officer at
support@lenskart.us