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Introduction

This Privacy Policy (Policy or Privacy Policy) sets out how The Funnki Store (The Funnki Store, also identified by we or us or our, and their respective connotations) uses and protects any personal information of users (usersyou or your, and their respective connotations) that we collect from or through the (A) website https://www.funnki.com/ (Website), and/or (B) use of the Platform, products and services offered by us (our Services), or when users otherwise seek to do business or make contact with us.

This Policy is published in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, which requires the publishing of a privacy policy for handling of or dealing in personal information including sensitive personal data or information (collectively, Personal Information).

The Funnki Store is committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected and Personal Information is protected. Should we ask you to provide any information by which you can be identified when using this Platform, be rest assured that it will only be used strictly in accordance with this Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to the collection, receipt, storage, usage, processing, disclosure, transfer and protection of your Personal Information when you use our Platform or avail any Services offered by The Funnki Store, and does not extend to any information collected and/or by the websites or applications of any third-parties.

Our user's privacy is extremely important to us. We recognize the privacy concerns of the users and hence as a commitment to provide safe and secure experience on our Platform, we have formulated this Privacy Policy to help Users make an informed decision

BY USING THE PLATFORM OR AVAILING ANY SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO THE PRACTICES AND POLICIES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PRIVACY POLICY. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING, DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR DELETE PORTIONS OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION, AT ANY TIME. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME, DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE OR APP OR ANY SERVICES OR GIVE US ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION. IF YOU USE THE WEBSITE OR APP OR SERVICES ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE (SUCH AS YOUR CHILD) OR AN ENTITY (SUCH AS YOUR EMPLOYER), YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AUTHORISED BY SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO (I) ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY ON SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S OR ENTITY'S BEHALF, AND (II) CONSENT ON BEHALF OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S OR ENTITY'S INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

What information do we collect?

We learn, collect, and store your Personal Information (that we consider necessary) when you use our Platform. We use this information to provide you with a safe, efficient, smooth, and customised experience, which includes, without limitation, displaying content such as recommended products that might interest you and communicating with you about your orders, new products, and latest promotional offers. 

Here are the types of information we gather:

1) Information you provide us
We receive and store the information you explicitly provide to us. This includes Personal Information such as your username along with your password, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and other contact information, date of birth, gender, financial information such as bank account information, credit/debit card or other payment instrument details and any other information that you provide during your time on the Platform.

2) Information collected automatically
Whenever you interact with our Platform, we automatically receive, record, and analyse information from your browser, server or device, which includes, without limitation, your IP address, geolocation data, device identification, “cookie” information, the type of browser and/or device you're using to access our Platform, information about your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device and purchase history; which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as best-selling products, products you viewed or searched for, products you may like. We may also use browser data such as cookies, flash cookies, or similar data on certain parts of our Platform. We may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. 

3) Information from other sources We may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media services, commercially available sources, and business partners. If you access our Platform through a social media service or connect a service on our Platform to a social media service, the information we collect may include but is not limited to your user name, profile picture, email address, friends list and any other information associated with that social media service, which the social media service has the right to share with us and any other information or content you have made public in connection with that social media service. Whenever you access the Platform or contact us through social media services, you authorize us to collect, store, analyze and use such information in accordance with this Policy.

If The Funnki Store has reasons to suspect that the information provided by any user is misleading, inaccurate, obsolete or incomplete, The Funnki Store reserves the right to refuse provision of the Services to the user, at its sole discretion without incurring any liability to the user or any third-party. We will not be liable for reliance on or consequences of any misleading, inaccurate, obsolete or incomplete information.

When you sign in to your account on the Platform, you consent to our collection, storage, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How it is used

The Personal Information so collected may be shared with SEBI/ NSE/ BSE, KYC Registration Agencies (KRAs) etc. solely for the purpose of processing your transaction requests or serving you better.

We may use your Personal Information to identify, investigate, prevent, deter or take action regarding unethical or illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Use, breach of our agreement with you or as otherwise required by law (collectively referred to as Purpose(s)).

We may also use your Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws to provide you with the Services, enhance the user experience, manage our relationship with you, build user insights, analyse data for the introduction of new services and features, and as may be required to comply with any regulatory requirements and contractual obligations, which may inter alia include:

  • To create and maintain user accounts, including personalization to improve the user experience;
  • To process information such as credit card payments and provide support services related to payment, billing and invoicing;
  • To engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including KYC verification, cloud-hosting services, off-site backups, email service providers, and customer support providers. We will only share Personal Information with third parties to the extent necessary to perform these functions, in accordance with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and applicable laws;
  • To improve and enable users to use the Platform and avail our Services, and ensure efficient customer care experience, increasing efficiency of existing features, and develop new features;
  • To perform research and analysis for our understanding, information, analysis, services and technologies in order to provide all users improved quality of care; and ensuring that the content and advertising displayed are customized to your interests and preferences;
  • To dispatch transaction-related communications such as welcome letters and billing reminders;
  • To audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies
  • To notify the necessary information related to the Platform and Services and user accounts on the Platform from time to time;
  • To maintain records and provide users with an efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Platform;
  • To use or disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Platform; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Platform or our users, and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates or the Users of the Platform or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection;
  • We may send users newsletters and e-mails to market other products and Services we provide;
  • We may use Personal Information, including sensitive information of the users to create non-identifiable 'aggregate data';
  • To analyse overall trends to help us improve the Platform and Services, including displaying detailed analytics to users;
  • Verify users’ identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity;
  • To comply with applicable laws, rules, and regulations; and
  • In any other way consistent with this Privacy Policy and to support the above activities.
How do we use cookies?

A cookie is a small file that we, after obtaining your permission, transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser, only if you allow. This file helps us recognize your browser and respond to you as an individual, as well as provide personalized features and advertisements based on your needs, likes, dislikes and behavior on our Platform. We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, to advertise to you on other sites, and to compile aggregate data about traffic and interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. The help menu on most browsers will tell you how to prevent the browser from accepting new cookies and deleting/ disabling existing cookies.

However, disabling/deleting our cookies could prevent you from taking full advantage of our Platform’s various features. A banner asking you to accept our cookies policy will be displayed upon the first visit to our Platform (or the first visit after you delete your cookies). Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies and/or you have not accepted our cookies policy, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Platform.

Do we share the information we receive?
We never have and never will commercially exploit such information by selling it to third parties. We share customer information only as described below, and in no other manner:

1) Third-party service providers
We employ other companies and individuals to perform some functions on our behalf. These functions include but are not limited to fulfilling orders, delivering packages, analysing customer data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links, and processing payments. For optimum fulfilment of these functions, they have access only to such customer information as is needed to perform their functions, and are contractually bound to not use it for any other purpose.


2) Compliance with law
We may be required to share customer information with government authorities and agencies for the purposes of verification of identity or for prevention, detection or investigation, including of cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences. Further, we may release account and other Personal Information when we believe release is appropriate to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of The Funnki Store, our users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies, organizations, government or regulatory authorities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We also reserve the right to disclose your Personal Information to third parties in an anonymous or aggregate form, to understand industry trends, patterns and add value and improve the quality of Services imparted by us to you. We provide your Personal Information to our business partners, representatives and third-party processors to administer and process for the purposes notified to you in this Privacy Policy, and we may also share such details with third parties (such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, insurers or legal advisors) to obtain professional advice. Any such processing will be governed by an agreement in the form required by law, preserving any and all of your statutory data protection rights. You authorize us to exchange, transfer, share, part with all or any of your Personal Information, across borders and from your country to any other countries across the world with our affiliates/agents/third party service providers/partners/banks and financial institutions for the Purposes specified under this Privacy Policy or as may be required by applicable law.


3) Business transfers
As we develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, all information, including Personal Information collected and stored by us may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to an acquirer, or successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which all such information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.


4) With your consent
Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties and you will have the option to choose whether or not you'd like such information to be shared.
Is your information secure?

In one word, absolutely. The security of your Personal Information is very important to us. We use adequate security policies, rules, and technical measures, as required under applicable law, to safeguard and protect your information from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification, and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.

Who can use our Services?
Our Services can be used by adults and minors subject to the legal consent of their parent or legal guardian. If you have achieved the age of majority and intend to avail the Services, or if you are the legal guardian of a minor intending to avail the Services, i.e., any person below 18 (eighteen) years of age, you hereby agree and acknowledge that you have provided your informed and unconditional consent on behalf of yourself or on behalf of the minor (as applicable), in accordance with applicable laws.
Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We have adopted reasonable security practices and procedures including role-based access, secure communication, password protection, encryption, etc. to ensure that the Personal Information collected is secure.

We restrict access to your Personal Information to us and our affiliates’ employees, agents, third party service providers, partners, and agencies who need to know such Personal Information in relation to the Purposes as specified above in this Privacy Policy, provided that such entities agree to abide by this Privacy Policy.

We have also implemented information security practices and standards and have in place information security programmes and policies containing managerial, technical, operational and physical security measures that are in compliance with the applicable laws including, so as to protect the information provided to us from unauthorized access, use, modification, damage, disclosure or impairment. Further, we may from time to time use reasonable additional or alternative procedures to ensure the security and confidentiality of your Personal Information through our investment platform.

If you think that the security of your account has been compromised, change your password and contact us immediately.

Contact
Please direct any queries and requests relating to our use of information or this Privacy Policy to us by an email to care@funnki.com.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by all laws applicable within the territory of India. By using our Website, Platform and/or Services, you are agreeing to the terms of the Privacy Policy, thereby consenting to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Kolkata, India, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Website, Platform and/or Services, or the Privacy Policy.