GlobeTrend Climate Impact

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Internet domain names https://www.climate-change.in/ (hereinafter referred to as "GCI" and/ or “GCI Platform” and/ or “GCI Website”) are owned by GlobeTrend Climate Impact, India.

When we refer to GlobeTrend Climate Impact and/ or GCI Platform in this document, it includes any other website, features, applications, widgets or online services that are owned and/ or controlled by GlobeTrend Climate Impact and that post a link to this Privacy Policy.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact and its Affiliates (collectively, " GlobeTrend Climate Impact ", "we" or "us") helps with services to yield a positive Impact to Climate of our Globe. GlobeTrend Climate Impact do testing, inspection, auditing, evaluation, monitoring, validation, verification, assurance, counselling and credits-trading services for Green projects being pursued under CDM methodology, Verra Registry Programs, GS (Gold Standard), GCC (Global Carbon Council). As a new generation innovator with strategic partnerships in the making, Data Privacy of our users is our highest priority. We consider it our duty to be transparent, in relation to the data collected and its utilization.

This Privacy & Cookie Notice outlines, how we collect data, its utilization and storage with respect to a user's rights against the information collected for both Members and Visitors of the website and our products. By using our services, you agree to the terms of this Policy.

We make sure that all data is acquired with consent and is processed fairly in a lawful manner with transparency safeguarding the rights of our users.

What information is collected, How & Why?

We may collect your personal/non-personal information when you visit our website, and provide us data in the Forms on our Websites or when you interact with the Websites.. "Personal Information" means any information that may be used to identify an individual/ Organization, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home, Qualifications, Achievements etc.

When you contact us on GCI Website, you provide information about yourself, which may include Personal/ Company Information, including your username (“Profile”) etc

Blogs/ Community Forums:

We may offer public forums or blogs. If you participate, your comments and questions will be publicly displayed. You may choose, through such features or otherwise, to submit or post questions, comments, or other content (collectively, “User Forum Content”). Please note that your use of such Community Forums would be subject to GCI Rules and Terms of Service. Further, anything you post in a Community Forum would become public as others will have access to your User Forum Content and may use it or share it with third parties. If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personal Information in your User Forum Content or use Community Forums to link to your Profile, that information will be considered public information and the protections of this Privacy Policy will not apply.

• The browser type and version used
• The operating system used
• The website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers)
• The sub-websites
• The date and time of access to the Internet site
• An Internet protocol address (IP address)
• Your Geographical Location
• The device used to access the website
• Search terms used
• Local time
• Visit frequency
• Your browsing behavior on the page and viewing history
• Internet service provider of the accessing system
• Detailed traffic logs, database of customers (from surveys conducted, for example) etc.

Referals:
The URL or advertisement that referred you to GCI, the search terms you entered into a search engine that led you to GCI, areas within GCI Websites that you visited, and other information commonly shared when browsers communicate with websites. We may combine this information with other information that we collect.

While processing the acquired personal data, GlobeTrend Climate Impact makes sure that it does not affect the basic privacy or legal rights of the user. The data collected is used to:

Prepare/ Refine the content of our websites to make them interactive and user-friendly.

Optimize the content of our website as per visitor preferences, monitoring most frequented pages and queries

Serve the content and advertisements, that may interest you

Ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology

Provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary in case of criminal activities or a cyber-attack, if required

GlobeTrend Climate Impact endeavours to analyze collected data and information statistically, with the aim of improving the data protection and data security of our website and its visitors and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact neither intends to intrude privacy of its Users nor sell their information. Still, if a User presumes that there may be a breach of this intent, please feel free to write to support@climate-change.in giving specifics of the instance and we would be more than happy to give clarity on the subject and/ or rectify, if there had been any unintentional lapse.

Cookies & other Tracking Technologies

A cookie is a micro file located within your browser that facilitates Website features and functionalities. Cookies gather information comprising a unique identifier, user preferences, profile information, membership information, user activity on the website. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a Web user and general use. We collect this information to provide a better user-journey of our website and to enhance the overall experience of our website/products.

Generally speaking, all Cookies fall under two broad categories: Persistent Cookies and Session Cookies. A Persistent Cookie helps us recognize you as an existing user. Persistent cookie stays in your browser and will be recognized by GlobeTrend Climate Impact upon your return to the site. Session cookies only last for the duration of the session (usually the time spent on the website).

Further, some cookies may get used in/ by GCI Platform/ Website which, may fall in any of the categories mentioned in below paragraphs.

Third Party Cookies:

these are cookies that a third party places on your device when you click on their Link, while browsing through our Site. For example, XYZ may place a cookie on your browsing device if you click on its link, while browsing GCI Website.

Performance Enhancing Cookies:

These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, which pages you visit and if you got any error messages. These cookies generally do not gather information but collect anonymous information which is used for how the Website works.

Must-Have Cookies:

These cookies are desired to have since they enable User to surf the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, some services that user sought, may not be able to be served by GCI .

Preference Cookies:

These cookies may allow GCI to remember your choices (eg: username, language or your State/ City), and the changes in your choices like may be text size, font etc. They may also be used to provide services you’ve asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous.

Interest based Cookies:

Advertisers may also serve cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. These may remember your number of visits to GCI website and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Which basically means that you may see some GCI advertisements, elsewhere on Internet, had you visited our website once.

Customized Content Cookies:

Flash Cookies:

To improve UX, Local Shared Objects (Flash cookies) may be employed to provide functions such as remembering your settings and preferences. Eg: remembering settings of Adobe Flash Player to deliver special content, such as video clips or animation.

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the web site.

Tracking technologies may record information such as internet domain and host names; internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our web site and your web experience. We may also analyze information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.

Web Beacons

GlobeTrend Climate Impact, our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and/ or service providers may also employ “web beacons” and/or “tracking tags” and/ or similar technologies, to assess what content on our Website/ Service is popular/ effective and to be able to serve relevant promotional content to you. Web beacons are small graphics with a unique identifier that may be invisible to you, and are used to track online activity of Internet users. They are embedded in the web pages and/ or email messages. These may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count number of Website visitors, their navigation through the webpages, to count how many sent emails were actually opened by recipients, or to count how many particular pages/ blogs/ articles or links were actually viewed.

Embedded Scripts

GlobeTrend Climate Impact and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and/ or service providers may also employ Embedded Script, which is basically a programming code that is designed to collect information about User’s interactions with the Website, such as the links clicked on etc. This code is temporarily downloaded onto User’s computer/ other device used to interact with the Website and may be deactivated/ deleted, when User disconnects/ logs-out from the Website.

Subscription to Periodic Newsletters/ Mailers

Upon visiting GlobeTrend Climate Impact website, users may be given an opportunity to subscribe to our periodic newsletters and emails after providing consent. Such Periodic newsletters/ Mails may only be received if you have opted in for it. If such Newsletters are sent, they would come with a link providing the user with the option to opt out of the service.

However, GlobeTrend Climate Impact reserves the right to send non-periodic and transaction/ promotion related mailers/ SMS/ communication to its Users.

The newsletter/ mail/ communication may contain tracking pixels which provides us the information if and when an e-mail was opened. Such data collected in the tracking pixels is used to analyze and optimize the shipping time of the newsletter, and to improve the content of future newsletters as per the interest shown by the receivers.

We do not Sell your collected information to any third-party as such. However, we may utilize collected information internally within GlobeTrend Climate Impact departments. We will not Sell your information with other interested parties unless you have given us your consent to do so. We can use your data to promote our Products and Services so that you are aware of latest upgrades/ features etc. GlobeTrend Climate Impact is obliged to utilize your information for internal purposes, under any/all applicable and judicial laws with/without your consent.

Third Party Services, Information Sharing and Disclosure

Third parties may provide certain services on GCI Platforms, on GlobeTrend Climate Impact behalf. GlobeTrend Climate Impact may provide information, including Personal Information, that GlobeTrend Climate Impact collects on the web to such third-party service providers to help us deliver programs, products, information, and services. There are also Service providers who are an important means by which GlobeTrend Climate Impact maintains its web sites, domain, mailing lists, hosting etc. GlobeTrend Climate Impact will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on GlobeTrend Climate Impact behalf.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on GlobeTrend Climate Impact 's behalf, unless such transfer is legally required. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims and it would become necessary in such a case to share information in order to facilitate investigation or to prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of GlobeTrend Climate Impact’s Terms of Website Use &/ or Contract signed while award of a Project by an Employer, or otherwise, as required by Law, Law enforcing/ adjudicating agencies.

There may be Third Party Advertisers on GlobeTrend Climate Impact’s websites however, GlobeTrend Climate Impact does not provide any personal information to such advertisers when you interact with or view a targeted Ad. However, by interacting with/ Clicking the Advertisement or viewing an Ad/ content, you may be directed to that third party’s/ other website and thereby, you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will may make an assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the Ad. The fact that there may be third party Advertisements/ Links on GCI Platform, does not mean GlobeTrend Climate Impact’s endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information from you. We encourage you to read their privacy policies or statements of such other websites you visit.

Lastly, we reserve the right to transfer information about you if GlobeTrend Climate Impact gets acquired or is merged with another company. In this event, GlobeTrend Climate Impact will notify you before information about you is transferred and maybe becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Use of Collected Information

GlobeTrend Climate Impact (including our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and/ or service providers) may use information collected as mentioned in the Policy, for one or more of following purposes, as relevant:

To provide and improve our Service, address your queries, process your registration, verify the information you provided is valid, compliance and for internal business purposes.

To send/ display administrative communications, newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you.

To tailor our content/ offers that we display to you, on GCI Platform and elsewhere online.

To administer and develop our business relationship with you and, if applicable, the corporation or other legal entity you represent.

To enforce and comply with the law, including to conduct an investigation, to protect the IPR, Trademarks and rights of GlobeTrend Climate Impact, to protect safety of public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, fraudulent, unethical or legally actionable activity.

We may also use Device Identifiers to identify GCI Users and, may do so in cooperation with third parties, at our discretion.

For the purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information, with your consent, and as further described in this Privacy Policy.

Use of your Personal Information

To honour our mutual Contractual Commitments, obligations to our investors, or to take steps at User’s request in anticipation of entering into a contract with them.

To further our legitimate interests in commercial activities, such as the following, in ways that do not override fundamental rights and freedom of individuals:

Running and maintaining our Website, its Services.

Analysing and improving our business.

Communications, including marketing and responding to your inquiries about our services. We do not share your Personal Information with third parties for third party’s marketing purposes unless, you have agreed to do so.

Addressing information security needs and protecting our Users, Ourselves and others.

To Comply with Legal Obligations, we may need to use and disclose Personal Information in certain ways, or if, asked by Security and/ or Government agencies, Bankers etc.

Sharing of Information/ Disclosure

GlobeTrend Climate Impact may share aggregated Non-Identifying Information and/ or disclose Non-Identifying Information (including, without limitation, Hashed Information) with third parties. GlobeTrend Climate Impact may also share the information collected about you, including Personal Information, as disclosed yourself as described in this Privacy Policy, or in the following circumstances:

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web analytics/ optimisation, online advertising, payment processing, fraud detection and improvement of GCI ’s Platform) or to assist us in analysing how our Service is used. These third parties may have access to your Personal Information in order to perform these tasks on our behalf.

You may be presented with an opportunity to receive information and/or marketing offers from one or more third parties. If you agree at that time to have your Personal Information shared, your Personal Information will be disclosed to that third party (or parties) and will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of that third party. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties, and, if you later decide that you no longer want to receive communications from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly. You also may request, sometimes through your use of a Social Media/ Network Site or similar interactive feature or third party application, that we share information about you with a third party and we will typically do so under those circumstances.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact will share information with government agencies as required by law in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements and, including without limitation, in connection with reporting earnings/ taxes etc. We will cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), or, at the request of governmental authorities or other third parties conducting an investigation where we determine in our sole discretion the disclosure is necessary to (a) protect the property and rights of GlobeTrend Climate Impact or a third party, (b) protect the safety of the public or any person, or (c) prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or pose a risk of being, illegal, fraudulent, unethical or legally actionable activity.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact may share information, including Personal Information, with its Subsidiary companies, if any and any current or future subsidiaries or affiliates, primarily for business and operational purposes. We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets (including, in each case, as part of the due-diligence process with any potential acquiring entity) or in the event of bankruptcy.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (herein referred to as “Promotion”) that may require registration. By participating in such a Promotion, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, except where prohibited by law, allowing the sponsor(s) of the Promotion to use your name, voice, likeness, or other indicia of persona, in advertising or marketing associated with the Promotion. If you choose to enter a Promotion, your Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, including, without limitation, in connection with winner selection, prize, and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion’s official rules.

Advertising Servers/ Analytics

GlobeTrend Climate Impact may employ/ work with network advertisers, advertising agencies, analytics service providers and other vendors, to provide GCI , information regarding traffic on its Website/ Platform, including pages viewed and the actions taken when visitors came; to serve our advertisements on other web sites, within mobile apps and elsewhere online; and to provide us with information regarding the use of our Platform/ Service and the effectiveness of our advertisements. Our service providers may collect certain information about your website visits and activity on the Platform as well as other websites or services, they may set and access their own tracking technologies on your device (including cookies and web beacons), and may use that information to show you targeted advertisements. Some of these parties may collect Personal Information when you visit the GCI Platform or other online websites and services. We may also share certain Non-Identifying Information with these parties, including Hashed Information, in connection with the services they provide us.

Security of Data

GlobeTrend Climate Impact takes all commercially reasonable steps to protect and secure the information it collects and stores about its Users.

All access to the Site is encrypted using industry-standard Transport Layer Security technology (“TLS”).

When you enter sensitive information (like Income Tax or Bank details etc), we encrypt the transmission of that information using Secure Socket Layer technology (“SSL”).

GCI Website/ Platform is HTTPS Certificate compliant to ensure protection.

Nonetheless, it is pertinent to note that that no method of transmission over Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Thus, while GlobeTrend Climate Impact strives, in its own best interest and reputation, to protect your Personal Information/ Data, it does not insure and warrant security of any information you transmitted to GCI or stored with GCI and is indemnified from any unfortunate breaches, that may happen.

Further, GlobeTrend Climate Impact endeavours to conduct business across Countries and Continents, and is a Company incorporated in India. Though, its Service Providers like Data Centre/ Cloud/ VPS hosting providers etc, may be located in Europe, Asia-Pacific or any other region. These countries generally follow similar or better data protection laws however, GlobeTrend Climate Impact cannot guarantee this aspect and data protection laws may vary from your country of residence or from which you initially provided the information from.

Users are advised to be careful about Phishing while browsing/ searching for GlobeTrend Climate Impact’s Website/ Platform. Phishing websites imitate legitimate websites in order to obtain personal or financial information. Please ensure that there is a HTTPS Security Lock in the URL mentioned in the Website Address Bar and the Website name is precisely https://www.climate-change.in/ (with no spelling mistakes).

Your Consent

By using GCI Platform and Website, you hereby give consent to the terms of this online Privacy Policy and to GlobeTrend Climate Impact’s processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where GlobeTrend Climate Impact collects Personal Information on the web and uses different types of Cookies as mentioned in above paragraphs (or their modifications/ new versions/ improvements).

Modifications to this Privacy Policy

GlobeTrend Climate Impact reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at its own discretion, at any point in time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification.Therefore, we encourage you to read our policy regularly for any recent updates.

Disclaimer

GlobeTrend Climate Impact uses Third Party Payment Gateway(s) and does not store any Financial Information like Credit Card or Debit Card details. Further, GlobeTrend Climate Impact will use best efforts and care as is possible to ensure, that all generic and personal information/ data, which it collects from its Users for the purpose of utilisation of the Platform, does not fall in the wrong hands. For completing online transactions involving payments on GlobeTrend Climate Impact Website, the Registered User is directed to a Secure Third Party Payment Gateway. GlobeTrend Climate Impact does not store or keep financial data such as Credit/ Debit card number/password/PIN/ "Personal Account Related Information" etc. Since the transaction happens on a third party network not controlled by GlobeTrend Climate Impact, the Personal Account Related Information is not accessible to anyone at GlobeTrend Climate Impact, which itself ensures maximum security.

GlobeTrend Climate Impact will not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user's account and / or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards / debit cards and / or their verification process and particulars nor for any error, omission or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.

Copyright Notice

All aspects of this website – design, text, graphics, forms, underlying source code, Website flow and Process and all other literary and artistic aspects – are copyright of GlobeTrend Climate Impact and its affiliates.

While accessing GCI web pages, you agree that any downloading of content is for non-commercial and non-transferrable reference only. No part of this website may be copied in any form or by any means without prior permission of the Website Owner.

Nonetheless, realizing and according due sensitivity to our User’s Privacy, GlobeTrend Climate Impact, address any concerns regarding safety of personal data:

GlobeTrend Climate Impact has its Registered Office 340, Tower B3, Spaze i-Tech Park, Sector 49, Sohna Road, Gurugram (Haryana) - 122018. India Phone: +91 - 124 - 4371108

Email: support@climate-change.in

Websites: https://www.climate-change.in/