PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is issued by IRL MEETUPS LLP incorporated in India, having its registered office at #421/J, Sri Krishna Temple Road, Binnamangala, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 560038 (“IRL”, “we”, or “us” or “our”), govern your (“User” or “you” or “your” or “yours”) usage of our web platform by the name and style “In Real Life” including all future releases of our website, hosted at https://inreallife.co/ (“Website”). For the purpose of these Terms, the dashboard and the Website shall be collectively referred to as (the “Platform”).

 

Through this Policy, IRL aims to demonstrate its commitment towards protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.

 

This Policy is applicable to all the information collected, received, possessed, owned, controlled, stored, dealt with, shared with, accessed by, or handled by IRL in respect of a User. Please read this Policy along with the Terms and Conditions available at https://inreallife.co/

 

1. USER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT

 

User acknowledges that by accessing the Platform, User expressly consents and confirms to collection, maintenance, usage, handling, storage and disclosure of User information, including sensitive personal data, by IRL, in connection with the services we offer to you through the Platform (“Services”), in accordance with this Policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information that you may provide to third parties, such as members, and others with whom you may share information about yourself.

Users acknowledge that she/he has an option to not provide or agree to the collection of personal data. If a User chooses to not grant us access to such personal data when requested, we will not be in a position to provide the User with the Services. In such an event, we encourage you to stop using the Services and accessing the Platform. In addition to this, in the event you do not consent to our access to your personal data, we may have to terminate, suspend or limit your access to the Services or Platform or part thereof, as may be the case.  

2. PURPOSE OF COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Our primary goal in accessing, collecting and using your information, is to provide you with a curated, safe, and customized experience of our Services. More importantly, we only collect and process personal information of the User that we consider necessary for providing the Services and enabling your use of our Platform.

In general, you can browse the Website of IRL without disclosing your identity or revealing any personal information about yourself. However, to create an account on the Platform you will be required to provide us with certain information in connection with the Services.

 

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

1. IRL collects the following types of data sets from you:

 

1. Personal data collected directly from you

This type of data is the personal data you provide us. You consent to provide us access to such personal data through your continued use of the Services or through interaction over the Platform. This includes:

1. Identity and Profile-related Data: This includes personal information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable User, e.g. name,  gender, date of birth, password, password validation, single/past marital status, family details,  location, pincode,  educational qualification, current work designation, college or university, hometown and also lifestyle preferences like smoking, drinking, employment verification information and other similar details shared via the Platform.

 

2. Contact data: This includes your email addresses and phone numbers.

3. Identification data: In connection with the Services and your use of the Platform, we may also require you to share, or we may collect identification documents issued by government or other authorities to you, including details of or pertaining to the last 4 digits of your Aadhaar number.

4. Personal data: We collect personal details when you participate in a profiling interview. The details we collect are subjective and usually in response to questions about you and your likes/dislikes. These details are necessary to ensure we are able to create a curated experience for you based on your needs and interests.

2. Personal data collected through your use of the Platform and from your device

This type of data is the personal data collected through your use of the Platform and Services, and ancillary data required for the purposes of fraud detection. The information that the Platform collects, and its usage will solely depend on how you manage your privacy controls on your device. It includes:

1. Device Data: The information we collect from your device includes IP addresses, SDK version, operating system and browser type. We collect information about your device to undertake fraud detection, provide automatic updates and additional security so that your account is not used in other people’s devices.

2. Usage Data: We track certain information about you based on how you use the Platform and Services. We use this information to do research on our Users' demographics, interests, and behaviours to better understand, protect and serve our Users and improve our Services. This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated, anonymized basis.

3. Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Platform, including the type of browser that you use; the time, duration, and frequency of your access; Platform pages viewed; your IP address; and the page you visited before visiting our Platform.

4. Marketing and communications data: This includes your preferences in receiving marketing messages from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. Personal Data Collected from Third Parties 

This type of data is personal data about you received from various third parties and public sources including our third-party service providers for advertising and User analytics purposes, and other publicly available sources in connection with our provision of Services to you, or in connection with your use of the Platform or Services that you choose to avail. Please note that we do not have any control over personal data that you may choose to make publicly available. For example, if you post reviews, comments, or messages on public sections of the Platform or on an application store (such as the Play Store), you do so at your own risk. We are not liable for any third-party misuse of such data.

4. USE OF PERSONAL DATA

1. By using our Platform and submitting your personal data to IRL, you expressly acknowledge and consent to use of such information in a manner specified under this Policy. Such personal data can be used for various purposes including:

 

1. To register you as a user of the Platform and verifying User identity;
2. Facilitating your usage of Platform and our Services;
3. To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you of changes to any Services;
4. To send User surveys and marketing communications that IRL believes may be of User’s interest;
5. To diagnose technical problems, provide support and help Users in addressing troubleshoot problems;
6. To send and receive communications, show advertisements, notifications and make promotional offers;
7. To understand your preferences and requirements;
8. To permit User to participate in interactive features offered through the Platform;
9. To improve the content, our business and delivery models and protect the integrity of the Platform;
10. To increase/improve the Services offered on the Platform;
11. To ensure compliance with all applicable laws.
12. To respond to court orders, establish or exercise our legal rights, or defend ourselves against legal claims;
13. To perform our obligations that arise out of the arrangement we are about to enter or have entered with you; and
14. To enforce our Terms.

5. HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS SHARED

1. Except as required under applicable laws or pursuant to a court/government order, any information or data shared by us with third parties shall be undertaken after obtaining your explicit consent, solely to render the Services to you.

 

2. We will share your information with third parties to facilitate provisioning of Services by us to you only in such manner as described below:

 

1. We may disclose your information to our vendor partners;
2. We may disclose your information to our third-party service providers for providing the Services as detailed under the Terms & Conditions;
3. We may share your information with our third-party partners in order to conduct data analysis in order to serve you better and provide services on our Platform;
4. We may disclose your information, without prior notice, if required under any law or if we are under a duty to do so in order to comply with any legal obligation or an order from the government and/or a statutory authority, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or assign such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our Users, or others; 
5. We may share your data with our affiliates and/or group companies for data processing and analysis;
6. We and our affiliates may share your information with another business entity should we (or our assets) merge with, or be acquired by that business entity, or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business for continuity of business.

3. If you fail to provide consent for sharing of such data when requested by us, we may not be able to provide the Services to you.

6. COOKIES

1. IRL may use "cookies" as required on the Website. “Cookies" is a term generally used for small text files a web site uses to recognize repeat users, facilitate the User's ongoing access to and use of the site, allow a site to track usage behaviour and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising, preferences etc. Cookies themselves do not personally identify the User, but it identifies User device. For the purpose of this Policy, you are informed that cookies also exist within mobile applications when a browser is needed to view certain content or display an advertisement within the application. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the computer that has no meaning outside the assigning site.

2. Users are being made aware that IRL cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data on the Platform. If Users do not want information collected through the use of cookies, they may change the settings in the browsers that allows them to deny or accept the cookie feature as per User discretion and in the manner agreed by them.

7. WEB BEACONS

The web pages of the Platform contain electronic images known as “web beacons”, sometimes called single-pixel gifs and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyse how the Platform is used. Web beacons may also be used in some of IRL’s  emails so as to know which emails and links recipients have opened, allowing it to gauge the effectiveness of its customer communications and marketing campaigns.

8. DATA PROTECTION AND SECURITY

1. Pursuant to Information and Technology Act, 2000 and Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, IRL endeavours to protect sensitive personal and personal data of the Users.

2. We store and process your personal information on cloud servers located in India. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and bit data encryption using SSL, and information access authorization controls. We use reasonable safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, reproduction, use or amendment. To achieve the same, we use reasonable security practices and procedures as mandated under applicable laws for the protection of your information.

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

 

1. Data Storage and Revocation of Consent

We will store your information and/or data for such a period as may be required by us to enforce or enable a third party to enforce its legal rights and obligations against you.

You may, however, withdraw your consent at any time. Such a request shall be complied with by Us subject to the applicable laws and the terms of the loan availed through the Platform.

2. Data Retention

You agree and acknowledge that your personal data will continue to be stored and retained by us as required or permitted by applicable laws or as required for defending future legal claims against us or our financial partners.

3. Data Deletion

All the other details will be deleted upon your request for the deletion of the data, provided there is no active Service being availed by you.

4. Data destruction protocol

You can request the erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to forget personal data. We shall comply with any request, subject to applicable laws.

10. UPDATE USER INFORMATION

Users are required to update their information available with IRL as and when there are any changes. Users are also entitled to review the information provided and ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient be corrected or amended as feasible. You may write to support@inreallife.co.

11. THIRD-PARTY WEBLINKS

User acknowledges that the Platform may contain links to other websites. If a User clicks on a third-party link, the User will be directed to that website. Note that these external sites are not operated by IRL. Therefore, it is strongly advised that Users review the privacy policy of these websites/external links. IRLhas no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

12. CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

In the event IRL modifies this Privacy Policy, the same will be updated on the Platform. In case of any material changes to the Policy, the Users will be notified by means of a notice on Platform prior to the change becoming effective. The Users are encouraged to periodically review this page for the latest information on IRL’s privacy practices.