Privacy Policy
This document defines the scope of privacy and degree of confidentiality protecting the information which the
User inputs during account registration at the Websites or Applications and normal use of the services,
programs and facilities of Cogent websites and application. At any time the User can, at his/her discretion,
allow or forbid the collection and use of his/her personal information. Our legal basis for the collection of
user data is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR and the customer's consent.
By using our websites or applications, the User provides his/her consent to the Company to collect, use and
discloses User's personal information according to the rules and provisions of this Privacy Policy.
Cogent (hereinafter "Company") is committed to protecting the privacy of information that we collect from and
about our website visitors, our cloud based solutions and our mobile applications available in iOS and android
platforms which stores the data in our cloud server. Cogent's customer is responsible for protecting the
privacy of information that was collected through the Cogent's software products which have been installed at
the customer premises. This document contains the rules upon which such information is gathered and used.
These rules apply to any personal and non personal information gathered at and/or by the Company.
1. PERSONAL INFORMATION:
- The Company requires Users who register to use its services ("Services")
offered on the website to give contact information, such as their name, company name, address, phone number,
and email address, and qualification and billing information (if require), such as billing name and address,
and the number of users within the organization that will be using the services. At the time you express
interest in attaining additional information, or when you register for the service, we may also ask for
additional personal information, such as title, department name, fax number, or additional company
information, such as annual revenues, number of employees, or industry. Users can update their personal
information at any time by logging into the website and editing their Personal Information within setup.
Users can view their updated profile to confirm their edits have been made.
- On our web applications, contact and
identity information such as Name, mobile number, email, Government ID number, Photo, etc. about the visitor
would be captured.
- On our mobile apps, we have option to
collect to the data from the Phonebook or contact data and camera based on the contact selected by the user.
Cogent mobile application for Android helps users to automatically read our business related OTP SMS text
messages.
- On our social distancing app, We are
committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our application users. In this app, we are capturing
only the Name, Mobile Number & Email address of you and sending OTP & verification link to the registered
mobile & email address respectively.
- Use of Personal Data
- When you sign up into our application services, we will store your data on our database to enable us
to provide those services and to improve those services by making them more relevant.
- We will only send you information if you have given us your consent.
- We do not share user data with third parties except as described in this notice
- Protection of your Personal
Information
- We will not use your personal data other than for the purposes described in this notice.
- Except as described above, we will not sell your personal data or share it with any third parties.
- We will not keep your personal data for longer than is necessary for the stated purposes except to
the extent required by law.
- We will take all reasonable and necessary technical and organisational measures to protect your
personal data.
2. NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION:
- The Company also collects non-personal information from you, such as your
browser type, the URL of the previous Platform you visited, your ISP, operating system, and your Internet
protocol (IP) Address, browser type, browser language, referring URL, features accessed, errors generated,
time zone, geo-location data, operating system information, and other such information that is transmitted
in the header of the user's HTTP request ("Non-Personal Information"). Non-Personal Information cannot be
easily used to personally identify the User.
- We may use mobile analytics software to allow us to understand the
functionality of our application and any crashes on your mobile device. When you use our mobile applications
we may also collect your city location, device model and version, OS version and Cogent Subscription Service
credentials.
- Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you
visit some websites. We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience,
management of the signup process and user management, general administration including tracking login and
usage, managing newsletter or email subscription/surveys, shopping and payment facilities. In some special
cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties for Analytics, advertising, social media, you
can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our Platform from functioning
properly.
- Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies, which are
automatically deleted by your browser after the end of your visit to our website. Session cookies provide us
with information about visitor behavior on our website, which we analyze. With the knowledge gained, we will
make our websites more user-friendly, place important content on the most popular pages and develop our
marketing strategies according to the interests of our target audience. Other cookies are stored longer on
your device and allow us to recognize you as a user during a subsequent visit to our website. We do not pass
on information that we receive through our cookies to third parties. By using the
"Incognito" or "Private" mode of your browser, or by means of adjusting the settings in
your browser, you can prevent the installation of cookies. As a result, some of the facilitation of
operating our website will no longer work.
- In general, you can visit cogent websites without telling us who you are or
revealing any information about yourself. However, our web servers automatically collect the domain names/IP
Address of visitors. This information is used to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the
site, pages viewed and similar information which is used to measure our services, evaluate performance and
improve our content/services.
- Our legal basis for the use of cookies is Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR and Art. 6 (1)
f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to optimize our product, increase user experience, enhance our customer
support and improve our internal process efficiency.
3. USE OF USER'S INFORMATION:
The
Company uses the information that it collects to set up services for its Users. Users' email addresses and any
personal customer information will not be distributed or shared with third parties except to the extent
necessary to provide the User with a requested service, or under circumstances required by law. The Company
will disclose User's personal information when we believe in good faith that any applicable law, regulation,
or legal process requires it, or where the Company believes disclosure is necessary to protect or enforce its
rights or the rights of another user. We also disclose aggregated User statistics in order to describe our
services and reach to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties. However, aggregate data is
not traceable to the User specifically. The Company may use contractors to help us with our operations. Some
or all of these contractors may access our databases of user information. These contractors will enter into an
agreement with the Company that places restrictive provisions on their use and disclosure of all information
they obtain through the relationship. The Company may share personal information with global partners for the
purpose of providing Users with high quality, localized service. The Company may use Non-Personal Information
to track the use of our websites or applications and for other internal purposes, such as providing,
maintaining, evaluating, and improving the Services and the Website/Application. Our mobile application
handles camera sensor data for capturing the photo of the visitor. It also handles the phonebook in which user
will select the contact from their mobile contacts for creating visitor appointments.
4. THIRD PARTY LINKS:
Our
websites may contain links to other websites or applications. The Company is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of these other websites or applications. Users and visitors must check the policy
statement of these others websites or applications to understand their policies. Users and visitors who access
a linked websites or applications may be disclosing their private information. It is your responsibility to
keep such information private and confident.
5. OPT-OUT POLICY:
- We will provide you access to your personal data stored by us at any time. If
you wish, you will receive it in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format. We will be happy
to correct, edit, limit, or delete your personal data at your request, provided that no statutory storage
requirements are in conflict, or forward them to another responsible office. If your personal data stored
with us has been processed incorrectly, out-of-date, or unlawfully, you can restrict its processing by us.
Finally, you may change or revoke your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time
with future effect. To contact us for any of these concerns, please email us at unsubscribe@cogentmail.com. Our
legal basis for the disclosure, correction, deletion, limitation of processing and data transmission is the
respective request of the data subject.
- Users can opt out of being contacted by the company, or receiving information
from the Company, at any time by sending an email to unsubscribe@cogentmail.com. The Website/Application offers its visitors
and Users a means to choose how it may use information provided. If, at any time after registering for
information or ordering services, the User changes his mind about receiving information from www.usetouchpoint.com or about
sharing your information with third parties, send us a request specifying your new choice. Simply send the
request to unsubscribe@cogentmail.com.
- You have the right to complain about the improper processing of your personal
data (such as collection, storage, modification, transfer, deletion, etc.) by emailing us at privacy@cogentmail.com.
6. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER:
We may
transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information, to affiliated entities, or to
other third parties (as provided herein) across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other
countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with
laws governing data collection and use that may differ from other countries law, please note that you are
transferring information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the
same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to India and
the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal information, as described in this Privacy
Policy.
7. PERSONAL DATA AND INFORMATION:
We work
hard to protect our users from unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of
information we hold. In particular:
- We encrypt our services using SSL.
- We review our information collection, storage and processing practices,
including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems.
- We restrict access to personal information to employees, contractors and
agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict
contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these
obligations.
8. COMPLIANCE AND COOPERATION WITH REGULATORY
AUTHORITIES:
We
regularly review our compliance with our Privacy Policy. When we receive formal written complaints, we will
contact the person who made the complaint to follow up. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities,
including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data
that we cannot resolve with our users directly
9. RETENTION, DELETION OR BLOCKING OF DATA:
We adhere
to the principles of purpose limitation and data minimization. Therefore, we only store your personal data for
as long as it is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as long as the many storage periods
required by law. After discontinuation of the respective purpose or expiry of these deadlines, the
corresponding data will be blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions. Our legal basis for
the deletion or blocking of personal data is Art. 5 (1) b) GDPR and Art. 5 (1) c) GDPR.
10. FORUMS AND INTERACTIVE SERVICES:
There may
be social media features and interactive services within our websites and applications, such as blogs, chat
rooms, forums, instant messaging, Facebook like button & widgets, etc., and other service member zones that
allow them to input their data, details, materials, comments or other similar communications. Using such
services, the User should realize that they are open for wide access and review, and any personal data that
he/she published become viewable by third parties. The Company is not responsible for the security of the
User's information that is passed by the User to third parties or provided during use of such services.
Materials that will be placed by the User in such areas of the Website will be stored in systems of Company
for an indefinite time, if otherwise not directly documented in each particular case.
11. MINOR USERS:
The
Company does not intend to and will not purposely collect, require or request personal information from
persons under 18 years of age without permission from parent or legal guardian. If the User is a minor, he/she
should not enter his/her personal information or use our websites or applications in any way prior to
obtaining the consent of the parent or legal guardian.
12. CHANGES TO THESE RULES:
The
Company reserves the right to change rules of Privacy Policy at any time without notice. In case of a
substantial change of confidentiality rules and policies of use of the User's personal information, the
Company shall publish the changes on the Website. The User is advised to refer to the text of this page at
each visit to the Website.