Paradox Legal is committed to safeguarding the privacy of any person who accesses and uses the website (“User”) (www.paradoxlegal.com) (“Website”) that is owned and operated by Paradox Legal. In this privacy policy, use of the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refers to Paradox Legal.

This policy has been provided to familiarize you with the manner in which Paradox Legal collects, uses, shares and discloses your information that is collected through www.paradoxlegal.com and associated mobile applications.

This Policy shall be construed to be provided in compliance with the Information Technology Act 2000 and the rules framed thereunder (as amended from time to time) (“IT Act”). The words and expressions used in this Policy but not defined herein will have the meaning assigned to them under the IT Act.

This privacy policy should be at all times read along with the terms and conditions of use of the Website. By accessing and using this Website, you accept and agree to be bound by and comply with (i) this privacy policy, (ii) the Disclaimer and, (iii) the Terms of Use

1. The Information That We Collect

We collect your Information when you access our website or communicate with us through email or other digital channels. This information may include personal information as defined under applicable Indian data protection laws. The Information we collect includes, but is not restricted to, the following:

• Name, qualifications, an identification number for our personnel, work and home contact details (email address, phone numbers, physical address), language(s) spoken, gender, date of birth, Voter ID, passport number, PAN Card, marital status, dependents, emergency contact information, photograph, biometric information, medical records, and history, information relating to your physical, physiological or mental health, and passwords.
• Financial details (including bank and Demat accounts), salaries, retainership fees, and stipends.
• Career management information, designation, contractual information, system and application access data, and device-related information.
• Performance-related information: letters of application, resume / CV, or other provided documents, performance, and development reviews.
• Data collected while using the Website or any mobile applications, including data collected automatically such as device ID, IP Address, web browser type, page views, operating system, timing and frequency of use of the Website or application, application/website navigation.
• Any other Information that is collected pursuant to our contractual relations with service providers or clients while providing services or during onboarding.
• Aadhaar information: You may provide your Aadhaar details for identification purposes. Please note that it is not mandatory for you to do so, and you may give other identification documents such as a PAN card, passport, or driving license. However, we may require Aadhaar information from you to comply with the requirements of applicable law. We shall inform you when such collection is mandatory.

We limit the data collected to what is strictly necessary to complete the purposes provided hereinbelow.

We may collect personal data about you in a number of circumstances, including

• when you or your organisation browse, make an enquiry or otherwise interact on the Website;
• when you attend a seminar or another Paradox Legal event or sign up to receive personal data from us, including for training purposes; or
• when you or your organisation offer to provide services to us.

2. Uses of Information Collected

We do not sell or rent Personal Information. We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes only (“Permitted Purposes”):

• to verify whether you are entitled to access and use the Website and the services made available through the Website. This Personal Information may also be used to enable Paradox Legal to enhance your experience of the Website.
• to provide legal advice or other services or things you may have requested, including online or legal technology services or solutions as instructed or requested by you or your organisation;
• to manage and administer your or your organisation’s business relationship with Paradox Legal, including processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing and collection and support services;
• to comply with our legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), compliance screening or recording obligations (including obligations under antitrust laws, export laws, trade sanction and embargo laws and for anti-money laundering, financial and credit check and fraud and crime prevention and detection purposes), which may include automated checks of your contact data or other information you provide about your identity against applicable sanctioned-party lists and may contact you to confirm your identity in case of a potential match or recording interaction with you which may be relevant for compliance purposes;
• to analyze and improve our services and communications with you;
• to protect the security of and manage access to our premises, information technology and communication systems, online platforms, websites and other systems and to prevent and detect security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities;
• for insurance purposes;
• to monitor and assess compliance with our policies and standards;
• to identify persons authorized to trade on behalf of our clients, customers, suppliers and/or service providers;
• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and requests anywhere in the world, including reporting to and/or being audited by national and international regulatory bodies;
• to enable vendors and service providers to provide various services subscribed to by you including contact information verification, payment processing, customer service, website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, information technology services, and other similar services, Paradox Legal may disclose your Personal Information to its affiliates, group companies, consultants, vendors and contractors under confidentiality restrictions;
• for any purpose related and/or ancillary to any of the above or any other purpose for which your Personal Information was provided to us.

3. Your Rights

• You may request us to confirm whether or not certain Personal Data belonging to you is being processed by Paradox Legal, and if yes, seek access to such Personal Data or other information pertaining to such Personal Data such as the purpose of processing, category of personal data and names of third parties having access to such Personal Data.
• You also have the right to ensure that the Personal Data shared with us is accurate and complete, depending on the purpose of processing such Personal Data.
• You also have the right to erasure of your Personal Data. Such erasure shall not be affected, however, if required for compliance with any legal obligation or for enforcing any legal claims.
• You may exercise your rights under this section in relation to your Personal Data by writing to us at support@paradoxlegal.com.

4. Disclosures and Transfer

All Information that we collect is disclosed or transferred only under the following circumstances to the entities/individuals identified below:

• Disclosures to our personnel and within Paradox Legal: Access to your Information within Paradox Legal will be limited to the personnel who need to know the information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We may use third-party vendor solutions for storing your Information. However, we will ensure that the Information is protected in the same manner as Paradox Legal protects your information and that same data protection standards are implemented.
  
  
• Disclosures or Transfers to Third Parties: We may disclose Information to third parties for other purposes with your explicit consent or when such disclosure is essential for the performance of a contractual agreement between Paradox Legal and yourself. To this end you explicitly consent to the transfer of your Information (including Aadhaar information) for any of the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Our practice is to only provide third parties with Information that is strictly necessary to achieve the intended processing purposes and enable them to deliver the expected services. We are committed to refraining from sharing personal data unless required by law or when it aligns with the intended purposes of the data processing. To the best of our abilities, we endeavor to modify our contracts to ensure the security of shared data. In all our arrangements, we include provisions to safeguard personal data and prevent any unauthorized or inappropriate use. We take utmost care in protecting your information and maintaining the highest level of data privacy standards.
  
  
• Mandatory Disclosures or Transfers: We may disclose Information if required to do so by law or if it is necessary to comply with a court order, judicial or other government warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.

5. Protection of Your Information

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to keep your Personal Information confidential and secure in accordance with our internal procedures covering the storage, disclosure of and access to Personal Information. Personal Information may be kept on our personal data technology systems, those of our contractors or in paper files.

We take reasonable security measures, at the minimum those mandated under the IT Act and read with Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011, to safeguard and protect your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information.

Paradox Legal implements such measures, as stated above, to protect against unauthorized access to, and unlawful interception of, Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information. Additionally, we have adopted measures to ensure that your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information is accessible to our employees or partners’ employees strictly on a need-to-know basis. You accept the inherent security implications of providing information over internet / cellular / data networks and will not hold Paradox Legal responsible for any breach of security or the disclosure of Personal Information unless Paradox Legal has been grossly and willfully negligent.

6. Retention of Your Personal Information

Your Personal Information shall not be retained for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which we collect or process them, unless otherwise required for the purposes of fulfilling any legal obligation.

You also have right to request us to update, amend, correct, complete or delete your Personal Information retained by us through email.

We may also retain your Personal Information where necessary for compliance with a legal obligation applicable to Paradox Legal, or in order to protect your interests.

7. Indemnity

You agree and undertake to indemnify us in any suit or dispute by any third party arising out of disclosure of information by you to third parties either through our website or otherwise, and your use and access of websites, applications and resources of third parties. We assume no liability for any actions of third parties with regard to your Information or Personal Information which you may have disclosed to such third parties.

8. Amendments to this Privacy Policy

Paradox Legal may change these terms of use at any time without notice. Any amendment will be effective immediately. You are encouraged to periodically visit this page to review the Terms and Conditions and any changes thereto. Discontinuing use of the Website will not affect the applicability of the Terms and Conditions to your prior uses of the Website.

9. Links to other websites

The Website may include links to other Websites whose privacy practices may differ from ours. Paradox Legal does not provide any Personal Information to such third-party websites. If you submit your Personal Information to any of those sites, your information will be governed by their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy statement of any website you visit. Paradox Legal shall not be liable for any loss, damage, claim or expenses suffered by you as a result of accessing these third-party sites and features.

10. Jurisdiction

If a User visits the Website, after choosing to do so, then any dispute regarding breach of privacy will be subject to this privacy policy and its terms and conditions of use. The Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of India without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.

Any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to this privacy policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Delhi to resolve such disputes between the parties.

11. Data Protection Officer

If you wish to report a security breach, have a problem that you are unable to resolve or otherwise require any other assistance in respect of the Website and this privacy policy, you may contact our Grievance Officer whose details are provided below:

E-mail: support@paradoxlegal.com.