Welcome to the CAFirms Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

When you use CAFirms.org services, you trust us with your information. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. This is important; we hope you will take time to read it carefully. And remember, you can find controls to manage your information and protect your privacy and security at My Account.

CAFirms.org is committed to ensuring that any use or sharing of your information with anyone shall be only in accordance with the procedures described in this Privacy Policy. The terms “we”, “CAFirms”, “our” and “us” refer to CAFirms.org, and the terms “you” and “your” refer to a user of the Website CAFirms.org.

Please read this Privacy Policy before using the Website or submitting any personal information to CAFirms.

PRIVACY POLICY IS PART OF OUR TERMS OF SERVICE

This Privacy Policy is a part of and incorporated within, and is to be read along with, the Terms of Service.

Who we are

We are an online platform at https://cafirms.org for Chartered Accountants, CA Firms, Companies, Taxpayers and other stake holders who are interested in the world of finance.

Your Consent

By using the Website, you agree and consent to the collection, use and sharing of your information collected by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive promotional, transactional and commercial communications from CAFirms through email or SMS.

Policy Changes

If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially change how we treat your personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, such as via prominent notice on the Website or to your email address on record and where required by law, we will obtain your consent. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute your consent to the updated Privacy Policy.

Links to other websites

The Website may contain links to other websites. Any personal information about you collected whilst visiting such websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to exercise caution and review the privacy policies applicable to such websites before accessing them. CAFirms shall not be responsible for and has no control over the practices and content of any website accessed using the links contained on our Website. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any information disclosed by you to visitors of our Website or third parties.

Competency to Contract

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone who is a minor or otherwise incompetent to contract, or knowingly allow such persons to register on CAFirms, except without parental consent.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collects your personal data through registration, contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds. However some of your plugins may collect personal data.

Registration

When you register yourself on CAFirms.org we collect some information. You will be required to give us personal information about yourself while creating your account with CAFirms.org

The information you give us will include your name, e-mail address, phone number and location details, and may include your personal description, photograph, professional registration details, qualification, designation, etc.

The Website enables you to add articles, service details, texts, photographs, videos, links, and files to share with others. All material that you upload, publish or display to others via the Website will be referred to collectively as “Your Content“. You acknowledge and agree that, as part of using the Website, Your Content may be viewed by the general public.

Your name, photograph, personal description and any other information that you choose to add to your public profile will be available for viewing to other users of the Website.

All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. The comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

While you submit a contact form, we collect information including your name, email address, phone number etc. These information shall be used for communicating purpose only.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, links etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.