Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Privacy Statement”) for Alpha Plus Consulting and Research Centre Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as APCORE).

APCORE understands that your privacy is important. APCORE is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on alphapluscore.com (the “Website”), including the Website subscription pages or other websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Statement. In addition, information that you submit to APCORE in response to an email request for information or other outreach from APCORE, or through APCORE’s job opportunities processes, will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

APCORE may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed about the information we collect, and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here. This Website may contain links to external websites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. APCORE does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party websites to which we link. We urge you to review the privacy policies of any such websites before you submit information there.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of the information as described here.

INFORMATION THAT WE MAY COLLECT AND USE IT

APCORE collects information from you when you create your account for the Website, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities, databases, or register for webinars, conferences, quiz contests, and other APCORE -sponsored events. If you do not provide such information, you will not be able to create an account for the Website and avail of the services/facilities indicated above.

Personal information that we collect includes: names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, subject areas of interest and/or demographic information.

In addition, we sometimes aggregate demographic information and the types of systems and browsers of users. APCORE also may conduct user surveys on the Web or use technologies to provide APCORE with information on a number of areas, such as user identity, user viewing habits, viewing timings, whether or not users found what they were searching for, whether the Website content is relevant to user needs, and the like.

How do we use personal information?

The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Website and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:

  1. We may use the information to process your enquiries or help improve our services.
  2. We may use the information for the purposes of enhancing user experience. This includes:
  1. Tailoring your experience at the Website with relevant APCORE materials;
  2. Understanding the Website’s user population, identifying subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Website is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors;
  3. Improving our web content and navigation;
  4. Informing you about updates to the service and notifying you about other products and services offered by APCORE and its Group Companies, that may be of interest to you, including information regarding publications and events
  5. Measuring and improving the effectiveness of APCORE marketing programs across different channels.
  1. For compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and other statutory requirements.
  2. Insofar as you have granted us consent to the processing of personal information for specific purposes (for example, your application form for opportunities with APCORE), the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

As a Policy, we do not sell, share, or rent or otherwise make available your personal information to other parties, except that we may disclose the information to third parties who perform services on our behalf and have a need to access the information in connection with those services. Any third parties will only process this information to the extent to which and within the limits that APCORE itself is permitted to process that data. In addition, APCORE may disclose your contact information in response to enquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Website or otherwise provided to APCORE.

HOW WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

The third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Website include:

  • our associates;
  • our group companies;
  • our advisors;
  • our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services and marketing and events services;
  • our business partners for our publications and event co-organized by APCORE and them;
  • law enforcement agencies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order

In our endeavour towards becoming a global organization we may transfer personal information which is collected on the Website or through other means across the Alpha Plus Group of companies to help operate our business efficiently. This also includes third parties located in different countries around the world. These arrangements may involve your personal information being located in various countries around the world. We only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect information held in that country. In addition, the Website may be viewed and accessed anywhere in the world including countries that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personally identifiable information. By using the Website, submitting information through this Website, or submitting personal information to APCORE through other means you voluntarily consent to such international transfer and hosting of such information to those countries and parties.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

APCORE shall retain your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it is collected. We may retain your personal information for longer if they may be the subject of a legal claim, or may otherwise be relevant for future litigation.

MARKETING

If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every e-mail that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to APCORE e-mail newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

APCORE may use cookies on this Website and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Website and our communications with you. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions and settings. Once you have consented to use cookies, we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time you will need to delete our cookies using your web browsers settings. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Website may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies.

We may use “persistent cookies” to improve your experience when using the Website; “session cookies” to enable your use of our Website and to remember your settings, where session cookies get deleted automatically at the end of your visit; and “web analytics cookies” used by us or third-party providers to analyze how the Website and our services are used.

By continuing to browse or use our Websites and services, you agree that we can store and access cookies and other tracking technologies.

SECURITY PROCESSES

APCORE has in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized employees and service providers will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or service provider having access to any personally-identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personally-identifiable information, APCORE cannot guarantee that your personally-identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and APCORE cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This website contains links to other Websites not operated by APCORE.

APCORE is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non- APCORE websites to which we link from the Website. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and websites not governed by our Privacy Statement. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.

COMPLIANCE WITH LAW

APCORE complies with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. APCORE may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms of use of the Website or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Website, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

USE OF APCORE WEBSITES

Your access to and use of the Website are subject to this Privacy Statement and certain other terms and conditions, contained in our Terms of Use.

CONTACT US

If you have any queries about this Privacy Statement or the practices of this Website, you may reach the administrator through the ‘Consult Us’ section.