Privacy Policy.

USER INFORMATION AND PRIVACY

Aalayam and/or its affiliates are committed to protecting all the information you share with us. We follow stringent procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of data stored on our systems. Only those individuals who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access. Any individual who violates our privacy and/or security policies is subject to disciplinary action, including possible termination and civil and/or criminal prosecution, Aalayam’s top most priority is in protecting your confidential information and privacy.

This privacy policy tells you how we use your personal information collected through the “www.shopaalayam.com”. Please read this privacy policy before using “www.shopaalayam.com" or submitting any personal information. This policy will be updated subject to any changes in information collection, activities performed or any applicable regulations. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the “www.shopaalayam.com”  to make sure that you understand how the personal information you provide to us will be used.

Please Note:

The privacy practices set forth in this policy are for “www.shopaalayam.com” only. If you link to other web sites, please review those privacy policies, which may be very different.


COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION

I. COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

Aalayam collects, processes, and retains information about you when you visit our “www.shopaalayam.com”. You may choose to provide us with information, such as your name, email address, company information, street address, telephone number, or other information, to access protected information on “www.shopaalayam.com” or so we can follow up with you after your visit. Personal information may include, but is not limited to your name, your email address(es), telephone number(s), country, city, and state. 

II. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To gather details about prospect customers;

  • To send periodic emails, subject to your prior approval;

  • To select Content, improve quality and facilitate use of the other interface channels;

  • To obtain third-party Services;

III. FAIRNESS AND PURPOSE

Aalayam will collect adequate, relevant and necessary personal information and will process information fairly and lawfully for the purpose it is collected. The purpose of collection will be specified not later than at the time of data collection or on each occasion of change of purpose.


DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION

I. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

Aalayam does not share, sell, rent, or trade personal information collected through its “www.shopaalayam.com” with third parties for their sole promotional purposes or as otherwise outlined in this Privacy Policy. Aalayam may share information with third party service providers contracted to provide services on our behalf for processing to provide your employment related services and benefits and other business purposes. These third party service providers may only use information we provide to them as requested and instructed by Aalayam. Aalayam may disclose your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate:

    • under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;

    • to comply with legal process;

    • to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence, for national security and/or law enforcement purposes;

    • to enforce our terms and conditions; and

    • to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Additionally, in the event of a reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may transfer the Personal Information which we have collected to the affiliates/subsidiaries/ relevant third party. 

We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when:

    • permitted or required by law; or,

    • trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorised transactions; or,

    • investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to these companies for marketing purposes.

We use the services of Squarespace for providing us the Cloud Services for our website “www.shopaalayam.com”. Please read the privacy policy of Squarespace for further information. 

If Aalayam goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, the personal information collected from the customers (i.e. collected through our website(s) / retail stores) may be treated as an assets-transferred. Not having a retrospective effect, a notice will appear on our website(s) for 30 days after any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

To improve your experience, and to offer you products in which you might be interested, we provide links to business alliance companies, Aalayam dealers, and other third-party sites. When you click on these links, you will be transferred out of our website and connected to the website of the organisation or company that you selected. Because Aalayam does not control these sites (even if an affiliation exists between our websites and a third party site), you are encouraged to review their individual privacy notices. If you visit a website that is linked to our sites, you should consult that site's privacy policy before providing any Customer Identifiable Information. Aalayam does not assume any responsibility or liability in elation with conduct of such third parties.

II. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

When conducting business, working on Company projects, or implementing new processes or systems, an operation may require the transfer of personal information to other entities or third parties that are located outside of the Aalayam operation’s country of business. While permissible data transfer mechanisms are defined by applicable law or regulation, examples include:

          • a data transfer agreement with the party who will access or obtain the personal information;

          • notice to and/or approval from a country’s local data protection authority; or

          • notice to and/or consent from the individual whose data is to be transferred.


CONSENT AND CONTROL

I. CONSENT

Consent is often referred to as an individual’s choice to “opt-in” or “opt-out” of the Company’s use of personal information and is usually obtained by a “check box” or signature confirming the individual understands and agrees to the processing of their personal information. At times, express written consent from the individual may be required based on the information processing activity. Aalayam receives consent from individuals prior to:

          • collecting, using, or processing their personal information, including sensitive personal information, in certain ways or sharing the individual’s personal information with any third party;

          • transferring the individual’s personal information outside of the individual’s country of residence

          • using or placing web cookies on an individual’s computer or other electronic devices.

II. CONTROL OF YOUR INFORMATION

You may request to review, correct, update, suppress, or otherwise modify any of your personal information that you have previously provided to us through "www.shopaalayam.com", or object to the use or processing of such personal information by us. If you have concerns regarding access to or the correction of your personal information, please contact us at privacy contact information below in “Privacy Contact Information” of this policy. In your request, please make clear what personal information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your personal information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information that you have provided to us.

While the majority of questions and issues related to access can be handled quickly, complex requests may take more research and time. In such cases, issues will be addressed, or you will be contacted regarding the nature of the problem and appropriate next steps, within thirty days.

III. DATA STORAGE

Aalayam may transfer your information from “www.shopaalayam.com” to other databases and store it on Aalayam or other supplier systems. Aalayam ensures appropriate security controls while storing data on its or its suppliers systems.


COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorised employees, business partners, clients, vendors, affiliates/subsidiaries and other third party providers (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.

Aalayam ensures that our supplier employs industry standard security measures to ensure the security of information through legally binding terms and conditions. However, users of our “www.shopaalayam.com” are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID, or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any Workday websites. Access to and use of password protected and/or secure area of “www.shopaalayam.com” is restricted to authorised users only. Unauthorised access to such areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.


RETENTION AND DISPOSAL

Your personal information shall be retained by Aalayam only as long as necessary for the fulfilment of the stated purposes, and should be disposed thereafter. We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish that we no longer use your information to provide you services, please contact us. We will respond to your request to within 30 days of receipt of the request. However, we may also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.


YOUR CONSENT

Your consent to personal data collection and processing may be revoked by notifying us via our contact page. For users below the age of 16, the consent should be provided by the holder of parental responsibility of the child.

Please note, in case you (the customer) is not willing to provide consent or withdraw the consent at any given point of time, Aalayam shall not be able to provision the services as detailed above. 


PRIVACY CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions regarding our privacy Statement or if you need to update, change or remove information, you can do so by contacting +91 9243114425 and/or hello@shopaalayam.com


CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy without any prior notice. Your continued subscription to our Services constitutes an acceptance of the current Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions. Therefore, we encourage you to visit this page periodically to review any changes.