Privacy Policy

SmartlivingIndia.com is an ecommerce platform of DIGX Tech Solutions a registered company.

Smart Living India (“SmartLivingIndia” or “Digx” or “Digx Tech Solutions” or “we”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its visitors and users (hereafter the “Visitors,” “you” or “your”), takes the privacy of your information utmost seriously. While we follow the best practices of ISO 27001:2013, we aim for our websites to be a safe and enjoyable environment for you.

This Privacy Notice describes the types of personal information we collect from you through our website (including sub-domains and microsites) and mobile applications. It also describes the purposes for which we collect that personal information, the other parties with whom we may share it and the measures we take to protect the security of your data. It also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.

You are advised to carefully read this Privacy Notice before using or availing any of our products and/or services.

This privacy policy (hereafter the “Policy”) primarily describes:

• the information that we collect through the Website or otherwise, which is hosted and operated from India;
• the information that we collect by employees or other third parties, business partners or vendors.
• the use and role of cookies and similar technologies on the Website; and
• the security measures have in place to protect the information that we gather through the Website or otherwise.

This Policy also governs SmartLivingIndia’s collection of information by any other means, including, your usage of our services and products or the collection of information by any parent, or subsidiaries of Digx Tech Solutions (“Other Entities”) during your business association with Smart Living India. Visitors are encouraged to read this Policy before using the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy and the Terms and Conditions, available at smartlivingindia.com.

Information Gathered by the Smart Living India

‘Smart Living India’ gathers three basic types of information:

• “Personal Information”, information from which an individual can be identified; which includes personal information such as passwords, information as defined under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (“SPDI Rules”), However, they are completely encrypted and not even our team members will be able to view
• “Suggestions and feedback”, 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
• “Profile Information,” from which an individual can access their auto profile; 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.

Personal Information: You are not ordinarily required to register or provide Personal Information in order to access the Website, though certain functionalities such as a registered account, through which purchasers of products may receive discounts on online purchases, participating in any contests, etc., may require registration. Smart Living India collects Personal Information from you only when you voluntarily provide it to Smart Living India – for example, in contacting Smart Living India through the Website, filling in the form for applying for a vacancy or exploring business opportunities with Smart Living India, answering surveys and polls, entering contests, sweepstakes, raffles and similar promotions, signing up for email updates and announcements concerning the Smart Living India products and special promotions. Personal Information may include your contact information (such as your name, postal address, telephone numbers and/or email address), which will be collected if you wish to purchase any product or merchandise made available through the Website (“Transaction”).

Sensitive Personal Data and Information: We will not collect any sensitive personal data or information (“SPDI”). We do not process Credit/Debit Cards in our website and thus we do not store any card data as well. We use trusted and certified Third-party Payment Processors to secure your transactions. Our website has SSL enabled to encrypt all traffic between you and the website.

Communication Channel

Special Promotions and Product Information: In addition, Smart Living India reserves the right to use your Personal Information for sending you the e-mails or messages on updates and announcements concerning Smart Living India products and special promotions. You may opt-out of receiving these messages from Smart Living India at any time.

Critical Communications: Smart Living India may from time to time and as may be necessary use your Personal Information to send emails consisting of important information regarding the Website, your Transactions, or for notifying any amendments or modifications to the terms, conditions, and policies of Smart Living India with respect to use of this Website (“Critical Emails”). Since Critical Emails would consist of important information you shall not have the option of not receiving Critical Emails.

Third Party Service Providers: Smart Living India works with third parties who provide services, including website hosting, credit card processing, data analysis, newsletter services, promotional activities, and other administrative services. Smart Living India may share your Personal Information, with such third parties, as may be necessary, for the purpose of enabling such third parties discharge the provision of such services.

Server Log Files

Your Internet Protocol (IP) address is an identifying number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). This number is identified and logged automatically in the SmartLivingIndia’s server log files whenever you visit the Website, along with the time(s) of your visit(s) and the page(s) that you visited. IP addresses of all Visitors are used by the Smart Living India to calculate the Website usage levels, to help diagnose problems with the Website’s servers, and to administer the Website. Smart Living India may also use IP addresses to communicate or to block access by Visitors who fail to comply with the Policy and/or the Terms and Conditions of Use of the Website. Collecting IP addresses is a standard practice followed on the Internet and is carried out automatically by many websites.

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.

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 visit our login page, 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, 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.

Who we share your data with: If you request a password reset, your IP address might be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, 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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. 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.

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.

For more details, write to info@smartlivingindia.com

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Next Revisions

We continuously update our policies basis the enhancement that we do to our business model and we shall notify to our visitors as and when required.

Updated on: 5 Sep 2023