Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership along with Google introduced the 'Bolo app' which uses speech recognition and text-to-speech technology to help students learn Hindi and English at the DN Nagar Municipal School, Andheri, Mumbai on March 08, 2019.
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of Foundation. This Privacy Notice sets out the way in which we collect, use, disclose, transfer,
and store your personal data when you use our website or other digital platforms.
You are advised to carefully read the Privacy Notice before using this website.
Please note that our website and other digital platforms may contain links to third party websites /
digital platforms which are provided for your convenience. We are only responsible for the
privacy practices and security of our own digital platforms. We recommend that you check the
privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other website / digital platform
that you visit from our website.
Information Gathering and Use
We collect information from you in a number of ways, for example when you:
• Make a donation
• Sign up to our campaign
• Sign up to stay updated
We won’t collect or record your personal information unless you choose to give it us.
Use of Personal Information
We use the information you give us in the following ways:
• To make sure we have an accurate record of all the donations we receive.
• To email you with news and information about Foundation and our campaigns, but only if you
have agreed to this.
• To make sure you are receiving the most appropriate and relevant information for you.
• To find out more about you and the people who are visiting our website, donating or joining our
campaign.
Privacy of our email lists
• Individuals who join our mailing lists via our website or through our campaigning engagements
are added to our email database. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our
lists to anyone.
Cookie Policy
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website. These will be placed in your computer’s hard disk and enable us to recognise you as a
user when you next visit.
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• Foundation uses well-recognised and proven technology for payments. Payment information is
transferred by the use of an SSL connection which offers the highest degree of security that your
browser is able to support.
• Several layers of built-in security, including an advanced firewall system, encryption of credit
card numbers, and use of passwords, protect the collected information.
External Web Services
• We use a number of external web services on our site to display content within our web pages.
For example, to display video we use YouTube. As with the social buttons, we cannot prevent
these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of the content we
embed on our site.
• The Site contains links to other websites for the benefit of it’s visitors. This Privacy Policy does
not apply to such other websites. Foundation is not expressly or impliedly responsible for, or
liable to any loss or damage caused to you by the collection, use and retention of Personal
Information by such website in any manner whatsoever. It is important that you review the
privacy policies of all websites you visit before you disclose any information to such websites.
Changes to Privacy Policy
• As and when the need arises, Foundation may alter its privacy policy in accordance with the
latest technology and trends. We strive to provide you with timely notice of these changes. You
may reach out to us if you have any queries about any changes made to our practices.
Contact us :
• If you have any questions at all about our privacy policy, please email
us: communication@piramalfoundation.org
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In the first place, we would like to remind you that use of the Site implies that you have the necessary
hardware and software resources for use of the Internet available with yourself.
Furthermore, we would like to remind you that the Internet does not allow the guarantying of the
security, availability and integrity of data transmissions, accordingly we cannot be held liable in the
event of errors, omissions, deletions, delays, faults (including, but not limited to, by the actions of
viruses), of the lines of communication, the hardware and the software which is not under our control or
in the event of non-authorized use or possible degradation of the content published on this Site.
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morality, the principles set forth herein and in compliance with the rights of others.
Any information and comments or views given by you or any blogger in relation to any health condition,
personal data, individuals, issues or any information whatsoever, are your own views/opinions and are
given by you solely at your own will and accord and under the capacity of an independent viewer /
blogger and the Company takes no responsibility as to the individual views expressed on this site by the
User.
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expressed by the users on the site. Company assures to take all reasonable steps to filter the comments
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This Website may contain links to other Websites (“Linked Sites/Hypertext links) operated by parties
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be also subjected to the Terms of Use and Disclaimer policies, if any, contained within each such site and
the terms of use of this site. In the event that any of the Terms contained herein conflict with the terms
of use contained within any such site, then the terms of use for such third party site shall prevail. The
linked Sites are not under the control of Piramal Foundation and we are not responsible for the
contents of any linked Site or any link contained in a linked Site, or any changes or updates to such sites.
Piramal Foundation will not directly or indirectly be liable for any loss that may arise to the User as a
result of his accessing the linked Sites of third party.
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any portion thereof without notice or justification. Further Piramal Foundation reserves the right at any
time to charge fees for access to any Services provided by it. It shall put up a notice to this effect with
necessary details at the relevant point of time.
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disassemble, copy, modify, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish or create derivative
works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products, tools or Services accessed from this
Website. The User may not rent, lease, sell, sublicense, lend or in any manner allow any other party to
use the Services, with or without consideration.
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The User represents that he is aware that in the process of subscribing to the Services or parts of it,
Piramal Foundation may obtain information relating to the User, including that of a confidential nature.
This information will be used by Piramal Foundation for its internal purposes and will be kept
confidential. Notwithstanding anything contained above, Piramal Foundation reserves the right to
disclose personal information where it believes in good faith that such disclosure is required by law, to
perform necessary credit checks or collect or report debts owed to Piramal Foundation, to protect
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all information that Piramal Foundation may possess or may obtain pursuant to the use of Services has
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the applicable new legislation and/or regulations and/or to improve the Site. Any modification and/or
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employees, representatives and agents or any third party from and against any cause of action ,claim or
demand, including without limitation any reasonable legal, accounting or other professional fees,
brought by or on the user's behalf in excess of the liability described herein or by / on account of a third
party due to or arising out of User's use of this Website, the Services contained herein, the violation of
any intellectual property or any other right of any person or entity.
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The User warrants that it shall obtain independent advice before making any Financial or other decision
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Piramal Foundation expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express,
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of Services free from disruption or interruption.
The Services should not be construed to be an advertisement for solicitation for Donations for non-
governmental organizations or other charitable organizations listed in this Website.
Piramal Foundation shall not be responsible for any loss or liability incurred to the user as a
consequence of his/her or any other person on his behalf taking any financial, investment or other
decisions based on the information, research reports, analysis, etc. provided on the Website or by usage
of the Website.
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delay, interruption, failure, deletion or defect of/in the Services provided by it.
Piramal Foundation warrant that the content, information or any activity conducted on this site is in
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or indirectly, to the User or any third party, as a consequence of the failure of its equipment, howsoever
defined, or that of Internet Services Provider, User or any third party to function in such manner as is
reasonably expected of such equipment. Piramal Foundation shall not be responsible for any downtime
of such equipment. Piramal Foundation makes no representations or warranties, either express or
implied that the research, development, marketing, distribution, use or provision of the Services will not
infringe any patent, copyright or other right of any third party.
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The User agrees that neither Piramal Foundation nor its directors or employees shall be liable for any
direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, resulting from the
use/delivery/performance or the inability to use/deliver/perform the Services or any cost of repair &
correction Services or resulting from the Services subscribed to or obtained or messages received or
transactions entered into through or of User's transmissions or data, even if Piramal Foundation or its
employees have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
The User further agrees that Piramal Foundation shall not be liable for any damages arising from
interruption, suspension or termination of Services, whether such interruption, suspension or
termination was justified or not, negligent or intentional, inadvertent or advertent
The User also agrees that his sole remedy under this Terms of Use is cancellation of the Services.
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submission. All submissions, including any data, queries, feedback, ideas, comments or suggestion shall
become the exclusive property of Piramal Foundation or its affiliates and may be used, without further
permission, for commercial or non-commercial use without additional consideration of any kind to User.
19. Monitoring:
We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor any activity and content associated with the W (s)
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take any action that we deem appropriate (which may include, but is not limited to, issuing warnings,
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Piramal Foundation reserves the right to list, deny listing, or delist any NGO from the Website.
Submission of documents by a NGO does not in itself guarantee automatic listing. Piramal Foundation
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Nothing contained in this Terms of Use is in derogation of Piramal Foundation's right to comply with
Governmental, Court and Law enforcement requests or requirements relating to use of this Website,
Services or information provided to or gathered by Piramal Foundation with respect to such use.
This Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between the User and Piramal Foundation with
respect to this Website and the Services provided by Piramal Foundation.
If the User violates any term of this Terms of Use, Piramal Foundation may terminate the User's access
to this Website, without waiving any other rights. The User would continue to remain liable for any
liabilities that may have arisen before the termination.
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third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer
virus – is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other internet
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solely at the own will and accord and Piramal Foundation is no way takes responsibility as to the
individual; views expressed on this site by the User, and no action can lie against Piramal
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use of Piramal Foundation services, including its content without user’s prior permission.
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is in accordance with all the applicable laws and regulations.
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