Access Livelihoods Consulting India Ltd. (ALC India) and Transforming India Initiative (TII) are committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies only to the ALC India Website and governs data collection and usage. By using the ALC India Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

ALC India and TII collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected during your visit to our page. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used only for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through ALC India public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: ALC India and TII does not read any of your private online communications.

We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from ALC India so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the ALC India websites.

ALC India and TII collects and uses your personal information to operate the Website and deliver the services you have requested. We may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from ALC India and its affiliates. ALC India may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

ALC India and TII does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about an offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, ALC India and TII may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to ALC India and TII, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. we keep track of the websites and pages our customers visit within ALC India, to determine what ALC India services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within ALC India to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

ALC India websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on ALC India or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ALC India; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of ALC India, or the public.

ALC India Websites use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize ALC India pages, or register with ALC India site or services, a cookie helps us recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses and so on. When you return to the same ALC India Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the ALC India features that you customized. You can accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the ALC India services or websites you visit.

We secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. ALC India and TII secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected using encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

ALC India and TII will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

Fees once paid is non-refundable. However, if anyone is not satisfied with the service he may contact us at tiimarketing@alcindia.org with the valid reason(s). If the request is accepted (to discontinue the service) by ALC India, then the amount (as decided by ALC India) will be credited back to the respective bank account in 20-25 working days.