Introduction
Inductive Quotient Analytics India Pvt Ltd and its affiliates’ (hereafter referred as ‘IQA’) value our relationship with our business partners, clients and any party who may be interested in IQA business services and solutions for any reason and we are committed to protecting your information by handling it responsibly and safeguarding it using appropriate technical, administrative and physical security measures. This Statement outlines the types of personal information collected on our Website, how this data is used and safeguarded as well as how users may exercise their rights with respect to personal information.
If you reside in India, you are contracting with Inductive Quotient Analytics India Pvt Ltd, Floor 6th, Krishe Sapphire, Madhapur, Hyderabad (500081), Telangana, India. If you reside outside of India, you are contracting with one of the IQA companies & Subsidiaries.
This Privacy Policy applies to inductivequotient.com, IQA-branded apps, platforms, etc., IQA company pages, communications and services (“Services”), including off-site Services, such as our email services, customer care and support services, the “Contact us”; “Apply with IQA” and “Share on” plugins on our digital properties.
Who we are
This Privacy Policy applies to IQA and its affiliates, subsidiaries, and contracted service providers who will collect, use, and maintain your personal data in connection with services you have requested.
This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the Inductive Quotient Analytics India Pvt Ltd, so when we mention IQA, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice, we are referring to the relevant company in IQA responsible for processing your data.
IQA is firmly committed to privacy, the responsible use of information, the need to safeguard the privacy of our clients and visitors to our website, and to maintaining compliance with privacy legislation. IQA will ensure that the data you supply to IQA is processed fairly and lawfully, and with skill and care. We take our responsibilities in respect of your personal data extremely seriously.
This statement sets out IQA’s privacy policy for the collection and processing of personal information through your use of this website, including any information you may provide through this website when you contact us for any reason such as:
- joining our marketing list
- applying for a role with us
- registering for an event
- downloading content
- requesting information about our services
- sending IQA a request for proposal or
- filling in a survey
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children under the age of 13 through this website.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications as well as embedded content such as YouTube videos. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information which identifies an individual. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
- Contact Data – includes email address, phone number, postal address or other information included in CVs
- Identity Data – includes first name, last name, photo, or other information included in CVs
- Marketing and Communications Data – includes your Contact Details for us to send marketing communications to you
- Profile Data – includes your username and password for IQA Job Search and applications made by you
- Technical Data – includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data – includes information about how you use our website
We also collect, use and share “Aggregated Data” such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us on this website. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- subscribe to our service, events, or publications
- request marketing to be sent to you
- send us information about a request for proposal
- contact us in relation to a business, media, supplier, or career enquiry
- apply for a role with IQA or
- give us some feedback
Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy below for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from analytics providers.
How we use your personal data?
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
- where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
- where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
- to match your details with job vacancies at IQA, and to engage with you in relation to the recruitment process
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data. You have the right to opt out from marketing at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email you receive from us or by contacting us.
Why we use your personal data?
Below we have described all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity:
To manage our relationship with you may include:
(a) Telling you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our services)
Purpose/Activity:
To enable you to participate in a competition or complete a survey
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Usage
(d) Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our services, to develop them and grow our business)
Purpose/Activity:
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
Purpose/Activity
To deliver relevant website content, marketing communications and advertisements to you. To contact you following you making a request for further information from us via the website. To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you. To personalise the IQA Job Search site to you when you log in
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy. To provide a personalised IQA Job Search site to candidates)
Purpose/Activity
To use data analytics to improve our website, IQA Job Search, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
Type of Data
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
Purpose/Activity
To enable you to apply for jobs at IQA, to match you to jobs, to contact you in relation to the recruitment process, and to share your details internally with relevant hiring managers. (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Usage
(d) Marketing and Communications
(e) Technical
(f) Profile
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recruit applicants into roles at PA)
Purpose/Activity
To keep your recruitment information on file (if you have asked us to do so) to contact you about future jobs at IQAwhich match your profile and to contact you about IQAjobs, services, news and other developments
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Usage
(d) Marketing and Communications
(e) Technical
(f) Profile
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recruit applicants into roles at PA)
Purpose/Activity
To conduct online media checks on candidates (as required by regulation in some jurisdictions) to determine if there is any information about you in the public domain that might affect your suitability for the applied role *.
Type of Data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recruit applicants into roles at IQA)
(b) Necessary in order to comply with a legal obligation (due to the nature of IQA’s business and the work we undertake for certain clients)
* Note checks will not be undertaken until just before the final stage of the recruitment process. Any information obtained by these checks, which brings your suitability for the applied role into question, will be shared with you so that you will have an opportunity to correct or explain the information before any final decision is made on your application. Information obtained from a check will not be retained by us should your application not proceed, and neither will it be passed to any third party without your consent.
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. If you no longer want to receive marketing communications from us, you can click the unsubscribe link in any email you receive from us or contact us.
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you.
You will receive marketing communications from us if you:
- have requested information from us
- purchased services from us
- provided us with your contact details when we met you at a IQA event, conference, or meeting
- have a IQA Job Search account
- and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving marketing communications from us
Opting out
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email you receive from us or by contacting us.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, IQA may still hold personal data provided to us as a result of a purchase, service experience or other transaction with IQA.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes that we collected it for, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Correcting and updating your profile
To help us keep our IQA Job Search information up to date we would be grateful if you would let us know as soon as any of your contact details change or if you notice any inaccuracies in your details or your IQA Job Search profile.
Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above.
- Internal Third Parties
- External Third Parties
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. We will not disclose any personal data you have given to us other than as described in this statement, unless you have authorised us to so do, or if we are required to do so by law. Please note that if at any time IQA is required by law to release information about you, IQA will do so and will co-operate fully with the relevant authorities.
Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes, however different retention periods may apply to such data in different countries to reflect national legislation.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you
Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you?
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Cookie Policy
What are ‘Cookies’?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our content partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant content on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will receive a less targeted experience.
Please contact us if you want more information about the cookies we use.