Optima Value Pro (“OVP”/ “we” / “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy applies to the products and services provided by Optima Value Pro through our websites, mobile applications and web applications. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, store, use and distribute information about our users through the Website and Services.
Consent: By using the Website or our Services you consent to the use of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. We will not actively collect Personal Information for the purpose of sale or marketing in a way that specifically identifies the individual. In other words, we don’t sell customer lists. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time. However, withdrawing consent may result in your inability to continue using the Website and/or the Services.
Collection of Information: We aim to collect, use and disclose only such information as is required to enable us to manage your account, to provide the Services, to maintain our customer/visitor lists, to respond to your inquiries or provide feedback, for identification and authentication purposes, for service improvement. We will maintain the confidentiality of any contact information you provide to us on signing up for our Services or contacting us with questions or for further information and we will use it only for the purposes for which we have collected it (subject to the exclusions and disclosures we have listed below), unless you agree that we may disclose it to other third parties.
Two types of information may be collected through the Website and our Services: Personal Information and Non-Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not extend to the collection, use or disclosure of the following information which is currently not limited by applicable privacy laws: (a) information that is publicly available, such as names, addresses, telephone numbers and electronic address when listed in a directory or made available through directory assistance; or (b) Non-Personal Information (as defined further below).
“Personal Information” is personally identifiable information, such as your name, address and e-mail address,. At the time of collection, we will clearly identify the information being collected and the purposes for which it will be used. It is always your choice whether or not to provide Personal Information but if you choose not to provide certain requested Personal Information, in some instances you may not be able to register to use the Website or be able to access and use the Website at all. In other instances, your choice not to provide certain other Personal Information may mean that you will not be able to use certain features of the Website. We may collect Personal Information in respect of the Website through registration processes; communications with you; information downloads; service purchases; user support; surveys.
“Non-Personal Information” is information of an anonymous nature, such as an Internet Protocol
Address
(IP Address), the domain used to access the Website, and the type and version of browser or
operating
system being used by visitors to the website. Aggregate information, such as demographic statistics
of
our users (e.g. average age or geographical allocation of our users), number of visitors, what pages
users access or visit, and average time spent on the Website is not considered Personal Information.
Similarly, business contact information such as the name, title, business address, or telephone
number
of a business or professional person or an employee of an organization is not considered Personal
Information.
Although the use of certain Non-Personal Information collected, used or disclosed through the
Internet
as described herein is not restricted (and to the extent that such is the case, the obligations
under
this Privacy Policy do not apply to such information), we provide information in this Privacy Policy
about the collection of such information for the sake of transparency with respect to the operation
of
the Website. Such Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating
this
Website. For example, our web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information that is
provided through your browser or stored in a cookie when you choose to visit the Website.
Payment processing: When you buy something from us, we ask you to provide your name, contact information, and credit card information or other payment account information. When you submit your card information, we store the name and address of the cardholder, the expiry date and the last four digits of the credit card number. We do not store the actual credit card number. For quick processing of future payments, if you have given us your approval, we may store your credit card information or other payment information in an encrypted format in the secured servers of our Payment Gateway Service Providers.
Testimonials: When you authorize us to post testimonials about our products and services on websites, we may include your name and other personal information in the testimonial. You will be given an opportunity to review and approve the testimonial before we post it. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us
Interactions with OVP: We may record, analyse and use your interactions with us, including email, telephone, and chat conversations with our sales and customer support professionals, for improving our interactions with you and other customers.
Information from browsers, devices and servers: When you visit our websites, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We include these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our websites. This information is collected to fix any bugs or issues that arise in the application and to enhance user experiences.
Information from application logs and mobile analytics: We collect information about your use of our products, services and mobile applications from application logs and in-house usage analytics tools, and use it to understand how your business use and needs can improve our products. This information includes clicks, features accessed, access time and frequency, errors generated, performance data, storage utilized, user settings and configurations, and devices used to access and their locations. We collect this information to improve our product and your user experience.
Information from mobile devices: Our mobile applications requests access to the camera, contact information, photo library, and other information stored on your mobile device. Once granted our application will provide the services related to it. Similarly, when you elect to provide access, location-based information is also collected for purposes including, but not limited to, locating nearby contacts or setting location-based reminders. This information will be exclusively shared with our mapping providers and will be used only for mapping user locations.
Information from third parties: i) signups using federated authentication service providers, such as LinkedIn, Google, Facebook. These services will authenticate your identity and give you the option to share certain personal information with us, such as your name and email address. ii) Referral programs iii) Social media sites and other publicly available sources.
Use of Information: We collect information for the following purposes:
Account & Transactional Information: We collect information about your Company (such as company name, address and contact information), Users (such as user name, address, phone number, email address, appraisal designations, performance and usage statistics, and language preferences) and Properties/Appraisals (such as property and location information, and client/requestor information) to communicate with you about products that you have downloaded and services that you have signed up for, changes to this Privacy Policy / Terms and Conditions, forgotten password requests, or security related issues. To set up and maintain your account, enabling collaborations, backing up and restoring your data are additional reason to collect your information.
Marketing Communications: If you opt-in to receive marketing communications from us, we will keep you up to date on our products and services, ask you to participate in surveys or provide us feedback of our products. You may withdraw your consent to receiving marketing communications from us at any time by following the opt-out instructions in each communication, or by contacting our marketing department at info@optimavaluepro.com
Statistics: We also collect statistics about use of the Services. This information will be kept confidential, however, aggregate statistics that do not personally identify an individual will be kept by us and such aggregate statistics may be made available to other members or third parties. To update, expand and analyse our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you and to analyse trends, administer our websites, and track visitor navigations on our websites to understand what visitors are looking for and to better help them.
System Logs & Cookies: Cookies are used by us to track content usage and traffic on the Website. A cookie is a feature of your web browser that consists of a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server. The Website uses cookies to help it compile aggregate statistics about usage of this Website, such as how many users visit the Website, how long users spend viewing the Website, and what pages are viewed most often. This information is used to improve the content of the Website. You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the Website. Your IP address is reported by your web browser whenever you visit a page on the Website. This information is recorded together with your registration information on our databases.
Push notifications: If you have enabled notification on our desktop and mobile applications, we will push notifications through a push notification provider such as Apple Push Notification Service, Google Cloud Messaging or Windows Push Notification Services. You can manage your push notification preferences or deactivate these notifications by turning off notifications in the application or device settings.
Disclosures & Transfers: We have put in place contractual and other organizational safeguards with our agents to ensure a proper level of protection of your Personal Information. In addition to those measures, we will not disclose or transfer your Personal Information to third parties without your permission, except as specified in this Privacy Policy (see further Important Exceptions below).
Our business partners (Third Parties) may include:
Software developers;
Hardware vendors;
System integrators;
Payment processors;
From time to time we may employ third parties to help us improve the Website and/or the Services. These
third parties may have limited access to databases of user information solely for the purpose of helping
us to improve the Website and/or the Services and they will be subject to contractual restrictions
prohibiting them from using the information about our members for any other purpose.
As at the date of this Privacy Policy, we share Personal Information about you in respect of the Website only with our hosting service, Amazon Web Services. Your Personal Information may be available to the Indian government or its agencies under a lawful order, irrespective of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.
Important Exceptions: We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other Website members, other users of the Services, or anyone else (including the rights or property of anyone else) that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by and in accordance with the law. We may also disclose your Personal Information in connection with a corporate re-organization, a merger or amalgamation with another entity, a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets or stock, including any due diligence exercise carried out in relation to the same, provided that the information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information.
Security: The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use
commercially reasonable
efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment. We take technical,
contractual, administrative, and physical security steps designed to protect Personal Information that
you provide to us. We have implemented procedures designed to limit the dissemination of your Personal
Information to only such designated staff as are reasonably necessary to carry out the stated purposes
we have communicated to you.
In certain areas, such as when you provide credit card or other payment information to us, the Website
works to help protect the security of your credit card and other payment information during transmission
by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your Personal Information. For instance,
never give out your email account information or your password for the Services to third parties.
Retention: We will keep your Personal Information for as long as it remains necessary for the identified purpose or as required by law, which may extend beyond the termination of our relationship with you. We may retain certain data as necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained personal information will remain subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you request that your name be removed from our databases, it may not be possible to completely delete all your Personal Information due to technological and legal constraints.
Amendment of this Policy: We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy in the future, we will post an appropriate notice on our Privacy Policy page www.optimavaluepro.com. Any non-material change (such as clarifications) to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date the change is posted and any material changes will become effective 30 days from their posting on the Website. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Information that we have about you. The date on which the latest update was made is indicated at the bottom of this document. We recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your reference and revisit this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Website signifies your acceptance of any changes.
Access and Accuracy: You have the right to access the Personal Information we hold
about you in order to verify the Personal Information we have collected in respect to you and to have a
general account of our uses of that information. Upon receipt of your written request, we will provide
you with a copy of your Personal Information although in certain limited circumstances, we may not be
able to make all relevant information available to you such as where that information also pertains to
another user. In such circumstances we will provide reasons for the denial to you upon request. We will
endeavour to deal with all requests for access and modifications in a timely manner.
We will make every reasonable effort to keep your Personal Information accurate and up-to-date, and we
will provide you with mechanisms to update, correct, delete or add to your Personal Information as
appropriate. As appropriate, this amended Personal Information will be transmitted to those parties to
which we are permitted to disclose your information. Having accurate Personal Information about you
enables us to give you the best possible service.
Children's Privacy: These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.
Contact Us: You can help by keeping us informed of any changes such as a change of address or telephone number. If you would like to access your information, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions of if you find any errors in our information about you, please contact us at: www.optimavaluepro.com