This website is owned and operated by Invest India. You should read these terms carefully before using this website. Invest India reserves all rights in respect of this website.

India Investment Grid has been created to provide information to the general public. The documents and information displayed in this website are for reference purposes only and does not purport to be a legal document.

Neither Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, nor Invest India does warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within the India Investment Grid platform. As a result of updates and corrections, the web contents are subject to change regularly.

The information posted on this website could include hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by non-Government/private organisations. IIG is providing these links and pointers solely for your information and convenience.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Indian Laws. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of India.

By accessing or using this website, you unconditionally agree to these Terms and as they may be modified and/or supplemented any time by Invest India without notice. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms, we request you to please redirect from the website.

Changes since the previous version of this notice

None. This is the first version.

What data does India Investment Grid collect?

Why India Investment Grid needs your data?

We need your Basic Personal Data to support our legitimate interests in enabling you to create and use an India Investment Grid ID. This allows you to access information and services, and to manage your account settings and preferences.

If you do not want us to use your Basic Personal Data as described above, you have the option of not using your India Investment Grid ID, or even asking us to delete your India Investment Grid ID.

How your data was obtained?

This is how we obtained your Basic Personal Data when your India Investment Grid ID was created:

• When using the India Investment Grid registration process, your Basic Personal Data would have been entered by you.
• If your India Investment Grid ID was created through our Knowledge Partner (ProjectsToday), your Basic Personal Data would have been collected from the partner.
• You may have used the India Investment Grid ID Profile Editor to update or add to your Basic Personal Data.
• Your IP Address is obtained when you make a network connection to us.

How India Investment Grid uses your data?

This is how India Investment Grid ID uses your Basic Personal Data:

• To uniquely identify you, and to supply your authenticated identity to IIG or third party applications and services
• To communicate with you about your India Investment Grid ID
• To perform security/audit logging, including in conjunction with your IP Address
• To perform problem determination, system administration, usage tracking, and support activities and
• To set secure cookies which maintain your authenticated user session.

Applications and services may use your Basic Personal Data in these ways:

• To uniquely identify you
• To communicate with you about your Account status
• To authorize your level of access
• To reflect your Basic Personal Data to you (for example, an on-screen greeting)
• To perform security/audit logging, including in conjunction with your IP Address
• To perform problem determination, system administration, subscription management, usage tracking, and support activities and
• To set secure cookies which maintain your authenticated user session(s) with applications or services.

Where appropriate, Invest India may use selected partners to process your Basic Personal Data.

Applications or services which use your Basic Personal Data for purposes different than those above will provide you with notification, or when appropriate, an opportunity to consent to such use.

If you do not wish your Basic Personal Data to be used for the above purposes, you have the option of not using your India Investment Grid ID, or even asking us to delete your India Investment Grid ID.

How India Investment Grid protects your data?

For the legitimate interests explained above under "Why we need your data", your Basic Personal Data is protected in these ways:

• When appropriate, we use secure communications and storage to protect your personal data from unauthorized access or disclosure.
• We require applications or services which use your personal data for purposes other than those described here to justify those uses, provide appropriate notice, and where applicable, allow you to consent to such usage.

How long we keep your data?

Invest India will keep your Basic Personal Data while you have an active India Investment Grid ID. If you choose to delete your India Investment Grid ID, we will delete your data. However, data already present in security or audit logs, support records, or business transaction records, may be retained for those purposes. Our retention policies determine how long we will retain this data. For additional information regarding data retention, refer to our Privacy Statement.

Your rights

Our Privacy Statement provides more information about your personal data rights. It also provides contact information if you have questions or concerns regarding our handling of your personal data.

Ownership, use and intellectual property rights

This website and all intellectual property rights in it, including but not limited to any content, are owned by Invest India. Invest India reserves all its rights in any intellectual property in connection with these Terms.

Where third party intellectual property rights are involved in the non-text contents found on this website, authorisation or permission to reproduce or distribute or otherwise use any such non-text contents must be obtained from the intellectual property owners concerned.

If you intend to reproduce, distribute or otherwise use any contents on any linked websites, you shall obtain all necessary authorisation or permission from the intellectual property owners concerned.

Disclaimer of warranties and liability

This website has been compiled in good faith by Invest India.

While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, the information on this website is provided to you on an "AS IS" basis for a general, indicative purpose only without any express or implied warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, relevance or fitness of the materials on this website for any particular purpose.

You are responsible for making your own assessment of all information contained on the website. This website and information contained therein is not a substitute for independent professional advice and users should obtain any appropriate professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances. This website does not, in any case, replace professional guidance on matters concerning accounting, tax, the law or other such specific areas.

Any reference to any specific product, process or service by a provider, manufacturer or distributor does not constitute or imply endorsement or recommendation by Invest India.

Invest India will not be liable for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies, or misstatements or misrepresentations (whether express or implied) concerning any such information on this website, and will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on this website or the information contained therein or the inability to use our website.

Modifications, changes and access

Invest India reserves the right to omit, suspend or edit all information compiled by Invest India on this website at any time in its sole discretion without giving any reason or prior notice.

India Invest may at any time modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the website (or any part thereof) without notice and shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the website.

Hyperlinks/ third party websites and materials

The India Investment Grid platform may contain materials contributed by third parties. To facilitate access to information provided by or via third parties, Invest India may provide or assist in providing links to external websites through its webpages.

Invest India states that it has not approved or endorsed the materials contributed by third parties on the India Investment Grid website or any external websites linked to this website. The provision of any such materials or links to external websites shall not constitute any form of co-operation or affiliation with Invest India of any such third parties or external websites. Provision of, or assistance in providing, materials contributed by third parties on the India Investment Grid website or links to external websites gives rise to no statement, representation or warranty, express or implied, that Invest India agrees or does not disagree with the contents of any such materials or external websites and Invest India will not have or accept any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) however arising from or in respect of any use or misuse of or reliance on the contents of any such materials or external websites delivered on or via the India Investment Grid website or inability to use any of them.

Invest India has included links to external websites and other Government of India initiatives to help users better understand India. India Investment Grid's inclusion of such links and content does not imply any endorsement of any material on linked sites or recommendation of that company or provider over another.

Using the website

We seek to make the website as accessible as possible. If you have any difficulties using the website, please contact us at contact@indiainvestmentgrid.com.

We reserve all rights to deny or restrict access to this website to any particular person or to block access from a particular internet address to this website for any non-compliance with any part of these Terms or any applicable law.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Invest India and its officers, agents, contractors, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including all legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the website, your connection to the website, your breach of the Terms, or your violation of any rights of another.

Governing law

The access and use of this website and its materials, and the Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

Material featured on the "India Investment Grid " (IIG) web portal may be reproduced free of charge after taking proper permission by sending a mail to us. However, the material has to be reproduced accurately and not to be used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Wherever the material is being published or issued to others, the source must be prominently acknowledged. However, the permission to reproduce this material shall not extend to any material which is identified as being copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the departments/copyright holders concerned.

HYPERLINKING POLICY

Links to external websites/portals

At many places in the portal, you shall find links to other websites/portals. The links have been placed for your convenience. IIG is not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this portal should not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.

Links to IIG website by other websites

We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on this site and no prior permission is required for the same. However, we would like you to inform us about any links provided to this portal so that you can be informed of any changes or modifications therein. Also, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The pages belonging to this site must load into a newly opened browser window of the User.

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 20th August, 2018.

At Invest India, we recognize the importance of protecting your personal information and are committed to processing it responsibly and in compliance with applicable data protection laws in all countries in which Invest India operates.

This privacy statement describes Invest India's general privacy practices that apply to personal information we collect, use and share about consumers and other individuals within our clients, business partners, supplier and other organizations with which Invest India has or contemplates a business relationship.

Personal Data collected are held in order to provide a better service to you. We may collect, store and use the following kinds of information:

• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation)
• Information that you provide to us for the purposes of using our website services (including your name, contact details, company name, email, and telephone numbers, a record of our contact with you and your areas of interest e.g. sectors, events, publications, etc.)
• Any other information that you choose to send to us.
• Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

Using your personal information:

We may use your personal information to:

• Administer the website.
• Enable your use of the information available on the website
• Send you email notifications which you have specifically requested
• Send you our communications, publications, newsletter, invitations relating to our activities and such like as you may select, request or as we may consider being may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (and you can choose to ‘opt-out’ of these mailings by informing us at any time if you no longer require communications)
• To provide services or information to facilitate companies to set up or expand their business operation in India
• To measure the success of specific campaigns and for general market research and for registration for events
• Provide third parties with overall statistic information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user
• Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website
• Keep the website secure and prevent fraud
• Verify compliance with the terms governing the use of the website.

How India Investment Grid use your data ?

Applications and services may use your Basic Personal Data in below mentioned ways:

• To uniquely identify you
• To communicate with you about your Account status
• To authorize your level of access
• To reflect your Basic Personal Data to you (for example, an on-screen greeting)
• To perform security/audit logging, including in conjunction with your IP Address
• To perform problem determination, system administration, subscription management, usage tracking, and support activities and
• To set secure cookies which maintain your authenticated user session(s) with applications or services.

Security and Retention of Personal Data:

• We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
• We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) servers.
• Only authorised people have access to, custody of and the means of using personal data India Investment Grid collects.
• Invest India retains personal data so long as the data are still required for the purposes mentioned above.
• You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is not inherently secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
• Invest India promotes a privacy-aware culture that respects and is sensitive to the rights of its external contacts.

Retention period

We will not retain personal information longer than necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it is processed, including the security of our processing complying with legal and regulatory obligations (e.g. audit, accounting and statutory retention terms), handling disputes, and for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims in the countries where Invest India operates.

The retention period for storage of the user data would be 3 years from the closure/discontinuance of the website/services.

Cookies:

We use only "session" cookies on the website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. We will use the session cookies to keep track of you whilst you navigate the website.

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. Please note that blocking all cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including this one.

Disclosures:

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers or agents, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law
• In connection with any on-going or prospective legal proceedings
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights

To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information. All disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of the Delhi (India) Courts.

Your rights:

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold of you. Please note that provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence (as deemed by Invest India) of your identity.

You can request to access, update or correct your personal information. You also have the right to object to direct marketing.

You may have additional rights pursuant to your local law applicable to the processing. For example, if the processing of your personal information is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), and your personal information is processed based on legitimate interests, you have the right to object to the processing on grounds relating to your specific situation. Under EUGDPR you may also have the right to request to have your personal information deleted or restricted and ask for portability of your personal information.

Right to lodge a complaint

In the event you consider our processing of your personal information not to be compliant with the applicable data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint by choosing any of the two options mentioned below-

• Directly with India Investment Grid by using the  contact-us  link
• With the competent data protection authority of your respective country. (The name and contact details of the Data Protection Authorities in the European Union can be found here)

Third party websites:

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible or accountable for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

All disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of the Delhi (India) courts.

Information security and accuracy

We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its accuracy. India Investment Grid platform has reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help us protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. For example, we encrypt certain sensitive personal information when we transmit such information over the internet. We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

Updating information/ contacting us:

If you have a question related to this Privacy Statement, please use the contact-us link. Your message will be forwarded to the appropriate member of Invest India's Data Privacy Team, such as Data Protection Officers or members of their teams.

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the controller of your personal information is "Invest India, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi 110001 ". If the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated or if you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please contact us through using the contact-us.

Changes to our privacy statements

From time to time we may update this Privacy Statement, as well as any other specific privacy statement. When making changes to this Privacy Statement, we will add a new date at the top of this Privacy Statement.