WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
1.1 Customers and Vendors
During the course of your
relationship with us, we collect personal information such as your name, postal address,
telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, contact and billing information,
transaction history (including order, lead, demo and service/repair history) and credit
card or other financial information. Through your in-person communications and/or online
interactions with Labindia, we will ask you to provide information regarding your
personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with our products and
contact preferences. We will combine the information you provide to us through different
communications and contact channels, such as combining data collected online with
information provided offline. In addition, personal information will be required to
determine access eligibility for certain restricted parts of our Website. If you attend
any of our virtual events, we may also take audio and video recordings of your
participation, provided that any audio and/or video recording will only be taken with
your express prior written consent.
1.2 All visitors to Labindia
websites
While you are visiting our Website or participating in
our virtual events, we may collect some technical data related to your browsing session
such as IP address, approximate geolocation based on your IP address, browser type and
language, number of visits to our Website, and the hyperlinks you visited. We use such
technical data in aggregate form without identifying you personally for Labindia’s own
reporting, statistics and website enhancements, as well as for information security
purposes. In addition, we use individual IP address information to derive the
approximate geolocation of our users and deliver the most relevant content, and in other
circumstances to direct you to the appropriate customer service/chat agent. We may have
the ability to link an individual IP address to you as a customer if you have also
provided us with your information while registering on Labindia.com or otherwise filling
out various product, promotional and other forms on this Website.
Log
Files: As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information
automatically and store it in log files. This information will include internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages,
operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We use this information to
improve services we offer you, analytics and site functionality and also to comply with
legal obligations, where applicable. We do not use this data for any other purpose.
Technologies such as: cookies, clear gifs, tags and scripts are used by us and our
analytics companies Google Analytics and Eloqua. These technologies are used in
analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and
to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We will receive
reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as
well as aggregated basis. We also will use Clear Gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us
know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the
effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing
campaigns. For this reason, Clear Gifs will be tied to your personal
information.
Website Tracking: We use Google Analytics, which is web
analytics tools, to help us understand how users engage with our Website. Like many
services, Google Analytics track your movement through our site (i.e. the pages you have
seen and the links you have clicked on) and help us measure how you interact with the
content that we provide. This information is used to compile reports and to help us
improve our Website. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual
visitors. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to
www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and exercise the opt-out provided by Google
by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information, please see Section 7
(“How We Use Cookies”).
1.3 Visitors to Our Physical
Locations
If you visit our physical locations, please note that
we will collect your name; the name of your company; your reason for visiting our
location; the date, time, and duration of your visit; your phone number; your email
address; and your country of residence (for non-citizens) for the purposes of recording
and controlling access into our offices for security and safety reasons. At certain
locations, we may have a CCTV system and, thus, may also collect your video imagery for
surveillance purposes. Additionally, to comply with applicable environmental, health,
and safety regulations, we may ask you to undergo safety training and attest to your
understanding of applicable safety standards at the facility you are visiting. In
response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, we will take your temperature and ask you to
complete a questionnaire regarding any symptoms you may be experiencing, your recent
travel history, and any exposure to a COVID-19 positive individual.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
2.1 General Disclosures
Labindia will use the personal
information that we collect from you for the purposes set out below. As it is in our
legitimate interests to be responsive to you, to ensure the proper functioning of our
products and organization and to provide you with a better service, we will use your
personal information as follows.
We will use your contact and sign-in information
such as your name, postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address for
the following purposes:
• To communicate with you if you submit a query or request a
quote.
• To determine access eligibility for certain restricted parts of our
Website.
• To sign you up if you subscribe to receive our newsletter or content or if
you sign up for our webinars.
• To provide the services to you, including providing
quotes, proposals, demonstrations and generating contracts.
• To provide customer
services to you, including set-up and installation of products, processing and
investigating complaints, providing professional services, training and
certification.
• To conduct research and development, provide quality assurance and
product validation.
• To comply with our regulatory requirements for compliance
purposes.
• To perform services and support on our products.
• To improve our
services and products.
• To facilitate conferences.
• To provide user forums to
discuss our products and services.
• To provide marketing communications to you (with
your consent where required by applicable law), improve our brand management and conduct
market research.
• To provide transactional messages to you related to inquiries you
make, products or services you purchase, information related to warranty, software
updates, product feedback surveys and other communications as required to facilitate our
relationship with you.
We will use your Website usage information, such as your IP
address, browser type, number of visits to our Website and the hyperlinks visited for
the following purposes:
• To respond to technical or service problems;
• To
personalize our Website and communications;
• To ensure content from our Website is
presented in the most effective manner for you and your device;
• To monitor and
analyze trends, usage and activity in connection with our Website and to improve our
Website;
• To administer the Website and for internal operations, in order to conduct
troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey analysis;
•
If applicable, to comply with local regulations;
• To keep the Website safe and
secure; and
• To measure and understand the effectiveness of the content that we
serve to you and others.
As part of the legal and regulatory obligations that we are
subject to, we may also use your contact, usage and payment information to comply with
such obligations and to comply with governmental and regulatory decisions. We will use
your personal information to better understand your needs and to provide you with a
better service, including by responding to your correspondence, and providing updates on
services and benefits. Whenever we collect credit card numbers or other financial data,
the data is only used for payment processing and the data is not retained for any other
purpose. If you visit our offices or physical facilities, we will use your personal data
for the purpose of ensuring the security and safety of our locations and the health of
our employees, contractors, and other visitors at our locations.
2.2 User
Forums
The Website may contain areas where users can transmit or
post communications, for example on blogs, chat rooms, bulletin boards or user forums.
You should be aware that any personal information you submit there can be read,
collected, or used by other users, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages.
We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in such public
areas.
2.3 Marketing Communications
To the extent
permitted by applicable laws (including only with your consent where required by
applicable laws), we will send you periodic marketing messages from Labindia, including
newsletters, promotions and special offers. We will use your name, postal address,
telephone number, fax number, social media profile and/or email address to send these
messages to you. You are able to opt out of receiving such messages without any negative
effect to your relationship with Labindia by following the unsubscribe instructions
included within this Privacy Statement and included in each marketing message. Please
keep in mind that if you choose not to receive these marketing messages, you will
continue to receive transactional messages from Labindia about recent transactions,
including request for quotes, purchases and software updates. We also reserve the right
to contact you when we believe it necessary, including where required by law. The choice
to opt out of promotional emails will be offered at the bottom of our online
communications to you.
WHERE AND WHY WE TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your information with selected recipients. These categories of recipients
include:
• Cloud storage providers to store the personal information you provide and for disaster
recovery services;
• Service providers that provide us with customer relationship management services;
• Services providers that provide us with survey services;
• Service providers that provide us with market research and digital marketing services;
• Agents and suppliers that provide us with technology and other professional services;
• Authorized service providers including for field service engineering;
• Distributors of our products and services
• Sales management services providers that provide us with SaaS services;
• Services providers including that provide us with invoicing services;
• Our professional advisors, auditors and business partners; and
• Support providers to provide customer support services.
HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the business
purposes for which your personal information was collected. The length of time we keep
your personal information may vary depending on the legal basis for processing your
personal information, our regulatory obligations (e.g., compliance with healthcare,
financial, tax, employment, and social security regulations), and our need to establish,
exercise, or defend legal claims. Additionally, we follow our contractual rights and
responsibilities with respect to processing and retaining personal information. Please
note that, if we process your personal information on the legal basis of your consent
and you withdraw your consent, your personal information will not be retained unless
another legal basis for retaining your data has been established and communicated to
you.
HOW WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE
Labindia is committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. To prevent
unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate
use of personal information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and
organizational measures to safeguard and secure it.Unfortunately, the transmission of
information over the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security
of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
6.1 What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text file containing small
amounts of information stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a webpage.
Session cookies are erased when the user closes the web browser or browser tab.
Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive until they expire or are deleted. Cookies
will also be set by third parties operating on our behalf (e.g., to help us analyze web
traffic or to improve your web navigation experience).
6.2 Types of
Cookies We Use
We use the following types of cookies on our
Website to help us analyze web traffic, to improve your web experience, and to better
target our marketing of products and services:
• Strictly necessary
cookies, which are essential in order to enable you to move around the
website and use its features.
• Performance cookies, which collect
information about how you use the website, for instance, which pages you visit most
often.
• Functionality cookies, which allow the website to remember
choices you make (e.g., remembering your user name, language, or the region you are in)
and provide enhanced, more personal features.
• Advertising cookies,
which are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They
are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help
measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
To facilitate the analysis of
web traffic, an ID is assigned to help us uniquely identify you each time you return to
our Website.
6.3 Why We Use Cookies
By gathering and
remembering information about your website preferences through cookies, we can provide a
better web and marketing experience. Specifically, cookies enable us to:
• Tailor our
Website’s operation to your needs, likes, and dislikes.
• Provide an automated log-in
process as a convenience for previously registered customers, ensuring that you will be
identified accurately and linked with your registration data.
• Ensure you are not
surveyed multiple times during your visit(s) to a Labindia website.
• Provide a
better web experience by letting us monitor what is working and what is
not.
6.4 Third Party Cookies
We also partner with
third-party ad networks to either display advertising on our Website or to manage our
advertising on other sites. You may receive advertisements based on information relating
to your access to and use of the Website and other websites or online services on any of
your devices, as well as on information received from third parties. Our ad network
partners place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser, including through the use
of pixel tags. They also use these technologies, along with information they collect
about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile
phone and a laptop.
6.5 How to Manage Cookies
As a user,
you have the ability to accept or decline the use of cookies. Where required by law, we
make this available for you to manage within the website settings.
law, Labindia indicates its use of cookies through a prominent banner on our Website.
Cookies can be removed explicitly using functionality built into most web browsers and
you can refuse to accept cookies by activating this setting on your browser. You can
also set up your web browser to notify you of cookie placement requests, to ask for
permission to accept them, or to decline cookies completely. For information on how to
adjust your browser regarding cookies, please visit:
Microsoft Edge:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-guide-chromium/storage/cookies
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari:
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Opera: https://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/
If you choose to decline cookies, parts of the Website will be unavailable to you.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
7.1 Links to Third-Party Websites
Links to third-party websites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use
these links, you will leave the Labindia Website. Labindia has
not reviewed, does not control, and is not responsible for these websites,
their content, or their privacy statement. Thus, we do not endorse or
make any representations about them, any information, software, or other products or
materials found there, or any results of using them. If you decide to access any of the
third-party sites linked to Labindia’s website, you do so
entirely at your own risk and acknowledge that there might be risks
that are not controlled or otherwise related to Labindia’s activities.
7.2 Use of the Website by Minors
The Website is not directed to individuals under the age of
sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from
individuals under 16.
7.3 Changes to the Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement is effective as of the date stated at the start
of this Privacy Statement. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy
Statement at any time by posting the revised policy on our Website and updating the date
the statement was last revised at the start of this Privacy Statement, so please review
it frequently. If we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will notify you
by email or by means of a prominent notice on our home
page.