Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 30th Jan 2025
Legal Notice
THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS AN ELECTRONIC RECORD IN THE FORM OF AN ELECTRONIC CONTRACT FORMED UNDER THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000 AND THE RULES MADE THEREUNDER AND THE AMENDED PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS / RECORDS IN VARIOUS STATUTES AS AMENDED BY THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000. THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY PHYSICAL, ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL SIGNATURE.
THIS DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (REASONABLE SECURITY PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES AND SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA OF INFORMATION) RULES, 2011 UNDER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000; THAT REQUIRE PUBLISHING OF THE PRIVACY POLICY FOR COLLECTION, USE, STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA OR INFORMATION.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS A LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT BETWEEN YOU AND GETHYRA APPLICATION. THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL BE EFFECTIVE UPON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SAME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN ELECTRONIC FORM, BY CLICKING ON THE "I ACCEPT" TAB OR BY USE OR THE WEBSITE OR BY OTHER MEANS) AND WILL GOVERN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND GETHYRA APPLICATION FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU INDICATE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND, AGREE AND CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE. YOU HEREBY PROVIDE YOUR UNCONDITIONAL CONSENT OR AGREEMENTS TO GetHyra APPLICATION AS PROVIDED UNDER SECTION 43A AND SECTION 72A OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000.
Consent
By providing us Your Information or by making use of the facilities provided by the Website, you hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of any or all of Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information by GetHyra Application as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such collection, use, storage and transfer of Your Information shall not cause any loss or wrongful gain to You or any other person.
Definitions
"GetHyra Application" or "We" or "Us" or "Our" is concerned about the privacy of the data and information of users ("You" or "Your" or "Yourself") accessing the services on the GetHyra Application.
This Privacy Policy is a contract between You and GetHyra Application.
This Privacy Policy shall be read together with the respective Terms of Use or other terms and conditions of GetHyra Application.
This Privacy Policy is designed to tell You about Our practices regarding collection, use, and disclosure of information or data that You may provide via this Website. Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this Website.
1. Collection and Storage of Information
1.1 Types of Information
The Information provided by You to GetHyra Application or collected from You by GetHyra Application may consist of "Personal Information" and "Non-Personal Information".
1.2 Personal Information
Personal Information means any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such a person.
- Name, address, contact number, e-mail address
- Information regarding your transactions on the Website
- Financial information
- Internet Protocol address
- Device identification codes
- Any other sensitive personal data as defined under applicable laws
1.3 Collection Methods
Personal Information may be collected during registration, service usage, surveys, contests, or when posting reviews.
1.4 Third-Party Information
We may receive Personal information about You from third parties.
- Social media services
- Commercially available sources
- Business partners
- When accessing through social media: username, profile picture, email, friends list, and public information
- By connecting Website to social media services, you authorize GetHyra Application to collect, store, use and retain such information according to this Privacy Policy
1.5 Non-Personal Information
We collect non-personal information including geographic location, service provider details, browser type, operating system, and website usage data.
1.6 Cookies
GetHyra Application may store temporary or permanent "cookies" on Your computer. You can erase or block these cookies from your computer by configuring Your browser to alert You when We attempt to send You a cookie. If You have turned cookies off, You may be prevented from using certain features of the Website.
2. Purpose for Collecting Information
GetHyra Application collects, uses, stores and processes your Information for the following purposes:
- To facilitate Your use of the Website
- To respond to Your inquiries about our services
- To provide information about services and offers
- To send important updates regarding terms, policies, and administrative information
- To send surveys and marketing communications
- To personalize Your experience
- To help address technical problems
- To fulfill services you have requested
- To protect Website integrity
- To conduct internal reviews and data analysis
- To improve services and content
- To conduct research and surveys
- To respond to legal processes
- To implement security practices
- To investigate security breaches
- To prevent fraud
- To conduct forensics investigations
- To trace computer resources for investigation
- To send periodic emails and updates
3. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information
3.1 Third-Party Services
The Services are not available to You hereby unconditionally agree and permit that GetHyra Application may transfer, share, disclose or part with all or any of Your Information, within and outside of the US to third party service providers / partners / banks and financial institutions for one or more of the Purposes or as may be required by applicable law. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
3.2 Data Transfer Agreement
You acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permissible under applicable laws, it is adequate that when GetHyra Application transfers Your Information to any other entity within or outside Your country of residence, GetHyra Application will place contractual obligations on the transferee which will oblige the transferee to adhere to the provisions of this Privacy Policy.
3.3 Statistical and Technical Data
GetHyra Application may share statistical data and other details (other than Your Personal Information) without Your express or implied consent to facilitate various programmes or initiatives launched by GetHyra Application, its affiliates, agents, third party service providers, partners or banks & financial institutions, from time to time. We may transfer/disclose/share Information (other than Your Personal Information) to those parties who support Our business, such as providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how Our services are used, providing merchants services, facilitating payments, or conducting academic research and surveys. These affiliates and third party service providers shall adhere to confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy. Notwithstanding the above, We use other third parties such as a credit/debit card processing company, payment gateway, pre-paid cards etc. to enable You to make payments for availing services. When You sign up for these services, You may have the ability to save Your card details for future reference and faster future payments. In such cases, We may share Your relevant Personal Information as necessary for the third parties to provide such services, including Your name and email address. The processing of payments or authorization is solely in accordance with these third parties policies, terms and conditions and We are not in any manner responsible or liable to You or any third party for any delay or failure at their end in processing the payments.
3.4 Security and Legal Compliance
We may also share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of various terms and conditions or our policies.
3.5 Legal Obligations
We reserve the right to disclose your information when required to do so by law or regulation, or under any legal obligation or order under law or in response to a request from a law enforcement or governmental agency or judicial, quasi-judicial or any other statutory or constitutional authority or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
3.6 No Wrongful Loss
You further agree that such disclosure, sharing and transfer of Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information shall not cause any wrongful loss to You or to any third party, or any wrongful gain to Us or to any third party.
3.7 Business Transfers
We and Our affiliates will share / sell some or all of Your personal information with another business entity should We (or Our assets) plan to merge with, or be acquired by that business entity, or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business. Should such a transaction occur that another business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this Privacy Policy with respect to Your Personal Information.
4. Link to Other Websites
4.1 Third-Party Links
Our Website may provide links to other sites. These links are provided for Your convenience only and the provision of these links does not mean that sites are related or associated with Us. Please note that these Sites have their terms of use and privacy policies. You should check their privacy policy before You submit Your Personal Information or any other data with them. We don't guarantee the content and the security of those sites.
4.2 Third-Party Features
We may have certain features on Our Website which may be hosted by third parties, Your interaction with such features shall be governed by the privacy policy of such third parties.
4.3 Limitation of Liability
We shall not be responsible for any loss, damage, claim or expense caused as a result of You accessing these third party sites and features.
5. Security
5.1 Security Measures
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of Your Information and to protect Your Personal Information against unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction. We adopt adequate measures to prevent unauthorized access to Your Personal Information.
5.2 Security Review
We reserve the right to conduct a security review at any time to verify Your identity. You agree to provide us all the information that we request for the security review. If You fail to comply with any security request, We reserve the right to terminate Your account with Us and prohibit Your access to the Website.
5.3 Third Party Actions
We are not liable and cannot be held liable for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive Your Personal Information.
5.4 Intellectual Property
The trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on the Website ("Marks") are the property of GetHyra Application or their merchants or respective third parties. You are not permitted to use the Marks without the prior consent of GetHyra Application, the merchants or the third party that may own the Marks
5.5 Force Majeure
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Policy or elsewhere, We shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage or misuse of Your Personal Information, if such loss, damage or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event (as defined below).
5.6 Data Encryption
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
Force Majeure Definition
A "Force Majeure Event" shall mean any event that is beyond Our reasonable control and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, etc.
6. Choice/Opt-Out
You agree and acknowledge that you are providing your information out of your free will. You have an option not to provide or permit GetHyra Application to collect Your Personal Information or later on withdraw Your consent with respect to such Personal Information so provided herein by sending an email to the grievance officer or such other electronic address as may be notified to You.
7. Updates to this Privacy Policy
GetHyra Application may change the data privacy practices and update this Privacy Policy as and when the need arises, and the same will be made available on the Website. But our commitment to protect the privacy of Website users will continue to remain. We suggest that you regularly check this Privacy Policy to apprise yourself of any updates. Your continued use of Website or provision of data or information thereafter will imply Your unconditional acceptance of such updates to this Privacy Policy.
8. Google Workspace APIs Data Usage
GetHyra Application uses Google Workspace APIs to provide certain functionalities within our service. When you use our Google Workspace integration, we collect and process the following data:
- Basic profile information (name, email)
- Email access for sending emails
We explicitly affirm that:
- This data is used solely for providing and improving our direct service functionalities
- NOT used to develop, improve, or train generalized Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) models
- Data is protected using industry-standard encryption and security measures
- We do not sell or transfer this data to third parties except as necessary to provide our services
- We do not use this data for advertising, marketing, or any purposes unrelated to core functionality
- Data is retained only as long as necessary to provide our services
- You can request deletion of your Google Workspace data at any time by contacting our support team
All data handling complies with:
- Google API Services User Data Policy
- Our security protocols including encryption at rest and in transit
- Regular security audits and monitoring
9. Data Retention and Deletion
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting our support team or Grievance Officer.
When data retention periods expire, we securely delete or destroy the data using industry-standard methods.
For Google Workspace data specifically, we delete the data immediately upon your request or when you disconnect our application from your Google account.
10. Google AdSense
Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses "non personally identifiable information" and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
11. Updates to Privacy Policy
GetHyra Application may update this Privacy Policy as needed. Continued use of the Website implies acceptance of such updates.
12. Grievance Officer
In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000, our Grievance Officer's contact details are:
Name: Pratik Dalal
Phone: +1 (650) 282-0630
Email: pratik@gethyra.com