Updated as on 26-January-2022
Figital Technologies Private Limited, a private limited company having its registered office at The Executive Zone, Sakthi Towers, 766, Anna Salai, Chennai – 600 002 referred to as “Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” which owns and operates the website www.ncash.ai and/or the mobile application ‘Ncaish’ (collectively referred to as the “Platform”) is committed to protecting Your privacy and the information that You share while using the Platform. We value the trust You place in Us. That’s why We maintain the highest security standards for securing the transactions and Your information.
This Privacy Policy specifies the manner in which personal data and other information are collected, received, stored, processed, disclosed, transferred, dealt with, or otherwise handled by the Company. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that You provide to, or that is collected by, any third-party (excluding the Company or its group entities/affiliates set out in paragraph 3 below) through the Platform, and any Third-Party Sites that You access or use in connection with the services offered on the Platform.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully prior to using or registering on the Platform or accessing/availing the services made available on the Platform including interalia in relation to mutual fund distribution, stock broking services, investment advisory services and KRA/KYC verification (“Services”).
By visiting the Platform, You (“You” or “Your”), accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of use of the Platform (“Terms”) and shall be read harmoniously and in conjunction with the Terms.
A. We collect Personal Information (defined below) from You when You register or set up an account with Us on the Platform. You can browse certain sections of the Platform without being a registered member, however, to avail certain Services on the Platform (such as investing in Stocks and Mutual funds) You are required to register with Us. This Privacy Policy applies to information that:
B. In addition to the above, the following information is defined as “Personal Information” under Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices & Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 (“SPDI Rules”) to mean 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 person. The SPDI Rules further define “sensitive personal data or information” of a person to mean personal information about that person relating to the following: (i) passwords; (ii) financial information such as bank accounts, credit and debit card details or other payment instrument details; (iii) physical, physiological and mental health condition; (iv) sexual orientation; (v) medical records and history; (vi) biometric information; (vii) information received by body corporate under lawful contract or otherwise; (viii) visitor details as provided at the time of registration or thereafter; and (ix) call data records.
(Points (A) and (B) shall collectively referred to as “Personal Information”).
All transactional information including financial information gathered by the Company shall be stored on servers, log files and any other storage system owned by the Company or by third parties in India. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide You a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience on the Platform. The information collected allows Us to provide the Services and features on the Platform that most likely meet Your needs, and to customize the Platform to make Your experience safer and easier. More importantly, while doing so, We collect the above – mentioned Personal Information from You that We consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
We may also collect certain non-personal information, such as Your internet protocol address, web request, operating system, browser type, URL, internet service provider, IP address, aggregate user data, browser type, software and hardware attributes, pages You request, and cookie information, etc. which will not identify with You specifically (“Non – Personal Information”), while You browse, access or use the Platform. We receive and store Non – Personal Information, by the use of data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the Platform, in order to help and analyze Our web – page flow, track user trends, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. We offer certain additional features on the Platform that are only available through the use of a “cookie”. We place both permanent and temporary cookies in Your computer’s hard drive.
We also use cookies to allow You to enter Your password less frequently during a session on the Platform. Most cookies are “session cookies,” meaning that they are automatically deleted from Your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline Our cookies if Your browser permits, although in that case, You may not be able to use certain features or Services being provided on the Platform or You may be required to re-enter Your password each time you log – in or access the Platform during a session.
In general, You can browse the Platform without telling Us who You are or revealing any Personal Information about Yourself. In such a case, we will only collect and store the Non – Personal Information. Once You give us your Personal Information, You are not anonymous to Us. Wherever possible, while providing the information to Us, We indicate which fields are mandatory and which fields are optional for You. You always have the option to not provide the Personal Information to Us through the Platform by choosing to not use a particular Service or feature being provided by Us on the Platform, which requires You to provide such information. We may automatically track certain information about You based upon Your behaviour on the Platform. We use this information to do internal research on Your demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve You. This information is compiled and analysed by the Company on an aggregated basis and not individually, in a manner that does not specifically identify You.
If You choose to post messages on our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, We will collect and store such information You provide to Us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support, respond to queries and inquires, and troubleshoot problems and improve the Services.
If You send us correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about Your activities or postings on the Platform, We may collect and retain such information into a file specific to You for responding to Your request and addressing concerns in relation to Your use of the Platform. We shall be entitled to retain Your Personal Information and other information for such duration as may be required for the purposes specified hereunder and will be used by Us only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
By providing your Personal Information (including any changes thereto as may be provided by You from time to time) and / or accessing the Platform, you are consenting to collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information by Us for the purposes and to the persons (as applicable) outlined in this Privacy Policy (as amended from time to time). Collection of information which has been designated as ‘sensitive personal data or information’ under the SPDI Rules requires Your express consent and by affirming your assent to this Privacy Policy, You provide your consent to such collection as required under Applicable Laws (as defined below). Our Services/Platform may be unavailable to You in the event such consent through an email is not given or choose to withhold Personal Information. In such cases, we will not be liable and/or responsible for the denial of rendering Services/accessing Platform to You on account of inadequacy of Personal Information provided by You.
We use the Personal Information and other Non-Personal Information, for the following: (i) to provide and improve the Services on the Platform that You request; (ii) to resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems; (iii) to help promote a safe service on the Platform and protect the security and integrity of the Platform, the Services and the users; (iv) collect money from You in relation to the Services, (v) inform You about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; (vi) customize Your experience on the Platform or share marketing material with You; (vii) to detect, prevent and protect Us from any errors, fraud and other criminal or prohibited activity on the Platform; (viii) enforce and inform about our terms and conditions; (ix) to process and fulfil Your request for Services or respond to Your comments, and queries on the Platform; (x) to contact You; (xi) to allow Our business partners and/or associates to present customised messages to You; (xii) to communicate important notices or changes in the Services, use of the Platform and the terms/policies which govern the relationship between You and the Company and with Our affiliates as set out in paragraph 3 below for providing Services to You; and (xiii) for any other purpose after obtaining Your consent at the time of collection. You also specifically agree and consent to Us and/our group, affiliate companies collecting, storing, processing, transferring and sharing information (including Personal Information) related to You with third parties such as Banks, financial institutions, credit information companies, entities registered under applicable laws with Securities Exchange Board of India, National Stock Exchange of India Limited/BSE Limited/Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest of India (CERSAI)/payment gateways/ collecting banks/KRAs etc. solely for the purpose of reviewing your profile and processing your transaction requests for the Services or for such other products/services offered by us or our group, affiliate or associates.
In addition to the above, we identify and use Your IP address to help diagnose problems with Our server, resolve such problems and administer the Platform. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.
We may occasionally ask You to complete optional online surveys. These surveys may ask You for Your contact information and demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level). We use this information to tailor Your experience at the Platform, providing You with content that We think you might be interested in and to display content according to Your preferences. We use Your Personal Information to send You promotional emails, however, we will provide You the ability to opt-out of receiving such emails from Us. If You opt out, the Company may still send You non promotional emails, such as emails about the Services and Your account on the Platform. Unless and until, You explicitly give Your consent to Us, to do so, We will not share Your Personal Information with another user of the Platform and vice versa.
When You sign up for our Services/Platform, you are opting in to receive emails, text messages and/or WhatsApp messages from Us. We will take reasonable steps to accurately record the Personal Information that You provide to Us and any subsequent updates requested by You will be received at the back-end of our system and will be effected on the Platform/internal records, only upon approval from Us. As an user, You have the right to access, correct, delete or transfer your Personal Information that We hold.
You can log in to manage Your email preferences and follow the “unsubscribe” instructions in commercial email messages. Thereafter, We will either delete Your Personal Information or de identify it so that it is anonymous and not attributed to Your identity. Upon deletion of Your Personal Information, copies of Your Personal Information may remain viewable in cached and archived pages.
We can retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with Applicable Laws. The criteria for determining the duration for which We will keep your Personal Information are as follows: (i) We will retain copies of Your Personal Information in a form that permits identification only for as long as is necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including for the length of time We have an ongoing relationship with You and provide the Services/Platform access to You; (ii) if there is a legal obligation to which We are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of Your transactions for a certain period of time before We can delete them); or (iii) keeping in view Our legitimate interests (litigation or regulatory investigations).
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, We hereby declare that this document is an electronic record in terms of Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000 and is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures. Further, we declare that it shall always be in adherence with the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules 2020, to the extent applicable to the Services rendered by Us.
This Privacy Policy is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 4(1) of SPDI Rules that require publishing the rules and regulations, privacy policy and Terms for access or usage of the Platform and Regulation 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011.
We may make Your Personal Information and/or other Non-Personal Information available to Our group entities/ affiliates including Figital Technology Private Limited (“Figital”) to enable providing You Services through the Platform. Please note that all information shared with our group entities or affiliates or made available to our group entities or affiliates will be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy. In addition to the Personal Information and in order to provide Services to You, Figital may also collect Your Aadhaar, finger – print details and signature solely for completing the account opening procedures and authenticating Your transactions on the Platform. The act of providing Your Aadhaar is voluntary in nature and the Company, hereby agrees and acknowledges that Figital will collect, use and store such details in compliance with Applicable Laws and this Privacy Policy.
We may also disclose Your Personal Information to third party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who work for the Company, who are bound by contractual obligations to keep such personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them. This disclosure may be required for Us, for instance, to provide You access to Our Services and process payments including validation of Your bank accounts, to facilitate and assist Our marketing and advertising activities/initiatives, for undertaking auditing or data analysis, or to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities related to Our Services. We do not disclose Your Personal Information to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes without Your explicit consent.
The Company may disclose Your information, to the extent necessary: (i) to comply with laws and to respond to lawful requests and legal process, (ii) to protect the rights and property of the Company, Our users, and others, including to enforce the Terms, and (iii) in an emergency to protect the personal safety and assets of the Company, the users, or any person. In such an event the Company is in no manner responsible for informing You or seeking Your approval or consent. We and Our group entities or affiliates (to the extent Personal Information is collected by them) may, in compliance with Applicable Laws, share/transfer/assign all of Your Personal Information and other information with any other business entit(ies), in the event of a merger, sale, re-organization, amalgamation, joint ventures, assignment, restructuring of business or transfer or disposition of all or any portion of Our business.
You hereby choose to provide Your explicit consent to connect/integrate Your email account(s) with Your account on the Platform by clicking on the authentication email sent by the Company on Your registered email address. You will be expressly asked in each case whether You want to connect Your email address with Your account on the Platform. You can also choose to enable Our access to one or more of Your email accounts by connecting such account(s) with Your account on the Platform. Once connected, the Platform will securely access and analyze the emails including attachments from CAMS or Karvy’s Consolidated Account Statement (CAS) and passwords, if any to populate and track Your investments details and history including those made through the account on the Platform and consolidate them at one place. Such data obtained by this integration will be used by the Company solely for providing the Services and improving Your experience of the features of the Platform and to consolidate your investment details and history. The Company hereby agrees and acknowledges that it shall not use or transfer any data or information received from the integration of the email addresses with the account on the Platform to third parties for serving ads, including retargeting, personalized, or interest-based advertising. Further, Company hereby undertakes to ensure that its employees, agents, contractors, and successors shall at all times comply with applicable laws. We encourage You to review the information prior to giving Your consent for integration of the email addresses with the account on the Platform. You may at any time opt to de-link Your email addresses connected with the account opened on the Platform, by managing these connections with the options provided on the Platform. For example, Google Mail’s permission settings are located at: myaccount.google.com/permissions. A user can de-link the access to their email accounts any time they wish.
Ncaish’s use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Our Platform may link You to other third – party Platforms (“Third – Party Sites”) that may collect Your Personal Information including Your IP address, browser specification, or operating system. The Company is not in any manner responsible for the security of such information or their privacy practices or content of those Third – Party Sites. Additionally, You may also encounter “cookies” or other similar devices on certain pages of the Third – Party Sites and it is hereby clarified by the Company that the Platform does not control the use of cookies by these Third – Party Sites. These third-party service providers and Third-Party Sites may have their own privacy policies governing the storage and retention of Your information that You may be subject to. This Privacy Policy does not govern any information provided to, stored on, or used by these third-party providers and Third-Party Sites. We recommend that when You enter a Third-Party Site, You review the Third Party Site’s privacy policy as it relates to safeguarding of Your information. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when You visit the Platform. These companies may use information (not including Your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about Your visits to the Platform and Third Party Sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to You. You agree and acknowledge that We are not be liable for the information published in search results or by any Third-Party Sites.
Our Platform has reasonable security measures and safeguards in place to protect Your privacy and Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction, and alteration of the information in compliance with Applicable Laws. Further, whenever You access Your account on the Platform or any information relating to it, We offer the use of a secure server. We cannot however ensure or warrant the security of any information You transmit to the Company or guarantee that Your Personal Information and/or other Non-Personal Information provided for availing the Services or accessing the Platform will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by a breach of any of Our security measures and safeguards. It is further clarified that You have, so long as You access and/or use the Platform (directly or indirectly), the obligation to ensure that You shall at all times, take adequate physical, managerial, and technical safeguards, at Your end, to preserve the integrity and security of Your data which shall include and not be limited to Your Personal Information. When payment information is being transmitted on or through the Platform, it will be protected by encryption technology. You expressly consent to the sharing of Your information with third party service providers, including payment gateways, to process payments and manage your payment-related information. Hence, the Company cannot guarantee that transmissions of Your payment-related information or Personal Information will always be secure or that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat the security measures taken by the Company or the Company’s third-party service providers. The Company assumes no liability or responsibility for disclosure of Your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third – party access, or other causes beyond its control. You play an important role in keeping Your personal information secure. You shall not share Your Personal Information or other security information for Your account with anyone. The Company has undertaken reasonable measures to protect Your rights of privacy with respect to Your usage of the Platform controlled by Us and Our Services. However, We shall not be liable for any unauthorized or unlawful disclosures of Your personal information made by any third parties who are not subject to Our control.
Your Consent: By visiting the Platform or setting up/creating an account on the Platform for availing the Services on the Platform at such time, You signify Your acceptance to the provisions of the Privacy Policy.
Withdrawal of consent: You may choose to withdraw Your consent provided hereunder at any point in time. Such withdrawal of consent must be sent in writing to support@ncash.ai. In case You do not provide Your consent or later withdraw Your consent, We request you not to access the Platform and/or use the Services and also reserve the right to not provide You any Services through the Platform. In such a scenario, the Company may delete Your information (Personal or otherwise) or de-identify it so that it is anonymous and not attributable to You.
Changes to Privacy Policy: We reserve the unconditional right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time, without specifically notifying You of such changes. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately. You should review this Privacy Policy regularly for changes. You can determine if changes have been made by checking the “Last Updated” legend above. Your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy shall signify Your consent to such changes and agreement to be legally bound by the same.
If You have any grievance with respect to the Platform, please feel free to reach out to the grievance officer, the name and contact details of this Officer have been provided below:
Name: Kirthana RA
Email: support@ncash.ai
Please feel free to contact us at support@ncash.ai regarding any questions on the Privacy Policy.