Tata Sons Private Limited (“Tata Sons” or “we”) takes the privacy of your information seriously. This privacy statement explains what personal data we collect from you on this website (www.tata.com) and how we use that data. 

This privacy statement applies to www.tata.com. This website may contain links to other websites whose privacy policy may differ from those of Tata Sons. If you provide data to any of these websites, your data is governed by their privacy statements.

Definitions

1. In this privacy policy, the following definitions are used:

Data    
includes information that you submit to Tata Sons via the website, information which is accessed by Tata Sons pursuant to your visit to the website because of

Data Protection Laws  
any applicable law relating to the processing of personal Data, including the GDPR and the Information Technology Act, 2000, as amended or substituted;

GDPR 
the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679;

Tata Sons or us
Tata Sons Private Limited, a company incorporated in India whose registered office is at Bombay House, 24 Homi Mody Street, Mumbai, India, 400001;

User or you     
the natural person who accesses the website;

Website          
the website that you are currently using, www.tata.com

Scope

Tata Sons collects data on this Website. You can visit this Website without telling us who you are. However, you may not be able to access certain functionalities of this Website if you do so.  

You can make choices about our collection and use of your data. For instance, you may want to access, edit or remove the personal information in the Website.

When you are asked to provide personal data, you may choose to not provide the information. However, if you do not provide the personal data you will not be able to participate in competitions.

Data Collected

2. We may collect information or pieces of information that could allow you to be identified, including:

 a. Contact information: We collect your first name, last name, phone number and email id;

 b. Organisation or campus details; registration number and team member details;

3. How We Collect Data

We collect your data in the following ways:

 a. data is given to us by you when you register;

 b. data that is collected automatically pursuant to your visit to this Website.

4. Data shared by You

Tata Sons may collect your Data in several ways from your use of this Website.  For instance:

 a. when you or your team members register for a competition;

 b. when you elect to receive any communications (including any newsletter, promotional offers) from us;

 c. from the information gathered when you visit the Website.

5. Data that is collected automatically

a.       We may automatically collect some information about your visit to this Website (such as IP address, navigation on the Website, etc.)

b.       Our web servers or affiliates who provide analytics and performance enhancement services may collect IP address, operating system details, browsing details, device details and language settings.

 6. Our Use of Data

Data may be used by us for the following purposes:

a.       to evaluate your entry in the competition;

b.       to reach out to you for competition results and related activities;

c.       transmission by email or communication of competition and marketing related materials to you;

d.       contact for survey or feedback;

e.       to enable our group entities to reach out to you in relation to their programs managed by them/ products or services offered by them;

f.        to execute other activities such as marketing campaign, promotional communications for which consent is taken appropriately.

We may use your data for the above purposes if we deem it necessary to do so for our legitimate interests. If you are not satisfied with this, you have the right to object in certain circumstances (see the section headed "Your rights" below).

 7. Who we share Data With

We may share your personal Data with:

 a. Tata Sons-controlled affiliates and subsidiaries and other entities within the Tata group of companies, to assist them to reach out to you in relation to their programs or campaigns (including marketing and sales)

 b. our employees and professional advisors working on our behalf for the purposes described in this policy statement; and

 c. Service-providers who assist in protecting and securing our systems and provide services to us which require the processing of personal data, such as to host your information or to process your information for data profiling and user analysis.

We usually do not share personal Data collected from the Website with other third parties. However, this may happen if:

(a)    You request or authorize us to do so;

(b)    We need to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process; or

(c)    We need to operate and maintain the security of this Website, including preventing or stopping an attack on our computer systems or networks.

9. Your data accessed by other users of the Website

Your Data may be accessed and processed by some individuals from Tata Sons, Tata Group companies or our affiliates that require access to your data for the purposes mentioned in this privacy statement.

10. Keeping Data Secure

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your Data and we store your Data on secure servers.

Technical and organisational measures include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss or unauthorised access to your Data, please send an email to tas@tata.com.

11. Retention of Personal Data

Tata Sons retains personal Data for as long as necessary to provide the access to and use of the Website, or for other essential purposes such as analysing participations and results in competitions, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for different data types and purposes, actual retention periods can vary significantly.

Even if we delete your Data, it may persist on backup or archival media for audit, legal, tax or regulatory purposes.

12. Your Rights

When we process Data about you, we do so with your one-time consent and/or as necessary to provide the Website you use, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfil other legitimate interests of Tata Sons as described in this privacy statement.

Below, you will find additional privacy information that you may find important. Tata Sons adheres to applicable data protection laws in the European Economic Area, which if applicable includes the following rights in relation to your Data:

 a. Right to access - the right to request

(i) copies of the information we hold about you at any time, or

(ii) that we modify, update or delete such information.

If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this, unless your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request.  If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reasons why.

 b. Right to correct - the right to have your Data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

 c. Right to erase - the right to request that we delete or remove your Data from our systems.

 d. Right to restrict our use of your Data - the right to limit the way in which we can use it. We may not be able to block Google from tracking user behaviour as well as some demographic data, including Age and Geography.

 e. Right to data portability - the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your Data.

 f. Right to object - the right to object to our use of your Data by giving it to third parties referred in paragraph 8 above. For information about managing your contact data, email subscriptions and promotional communications, please submit a request to us on tas@tata.com

We will use reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is maintained and up to date. However, you are under a duty to inform us of all changes to your personal data to ensure that it is up to date and we will update or delete your personal data accordingly.

If you want Tata Sons to change your or your team members’ information, please log-in to your profile and make changes. If you want Tata Sons to remove it from the database entirely, please send an email at tas@tata.com.

13. Security of Personal Data

Tata Sons is committed to protecting the security of your Data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

14. Where We Store and Process Personal Data

In general, personal Data collected and processed under this statement is hosted on servers located in India. Tata Sons is part of a corporate group with affiliates and subsidiaries based in the European Economic Area (EEA), the U.S. and Asia.  We take steps to ensure that the Data we collect under this privacy statement is processed according to the provisions of this statement and the requirements of applicable law wherever the data is located.

To ensure that your Data receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate safeguards and procedures with the third parties we share your Data with. This ensures your Data is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with the Data Protection Laws.

15. Link to other websites

This Website may, from time to time, provide links to other websites. We have no control over such websites and are not responsible for the content of these websites. This privacy policy does not extend to your use of such websites. You are advised to read the privacy policy or statement of other websites prior to using them.

16. Severability

If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of this privacy policy (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of this privacy policy will not be affected.

17. Changes to this Privacy Statement

Tata Sons reserves the right to change this privacy statement as it may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy statement on your first use of the Website following the alterations.