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Privacy Commitment

Tata Capital Limited and its subsidiary and/or affiliate companies as defined under relevant laws including
Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited and Tata Securities Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Tata
Capital/we/our”), take privacy of its customers, or any other person visiting or using any office, branch,
website, portal, application or other platform provided by Tata Capital or communicating with us over
telephone, WhatsApp, face-to-face or any other method or availing the products and services physically
or vide the online application forms and questionnaires (hereinafter referred to as “User/you/your”) very
seriously and are committed to protect your personal data. This Privacy Commitment sets out the way in
which we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal data.

You are advised to carefully read the Privacy Commitment before using this or any other platform,
application or channels or communicating with us or sharing information/data. Tata Capital will not be
liable / responsible for any breach of privacy owing to User’s negligence.

Please note that our application and other digital platforms may contain links to third party applications /
digital platforms which are provided for your convenience. We are only responsible for the privacy
practices and security of our own digital platforms. We recommend that you check the privacy and security
policies and procedures of each and every other application / digital platform that you visit.

1. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND WHAT DO WE USE IT FOR?


A. Personal data is data that can be used to identify or contact a single person (such as name,
address, e-mail address, PAN Number, user name, location, employment details, telephone
number, age, date of birth, gender and other KYC data you submit to our application,
sensitive information such as information relating to your health life).
B. All personal data that we collect about you will be recorded, used, and protected by us in
accordance with applicable data protection legislation and this Privacy Commitment. We
may supplement the information that you provide with other information that we obtain
from our dealings with you or which we receive from other organizations, for example, our
sponsors and partners.
C. We may collect such personal data through telephonic conversations with any employees or
representatives of Tata Capital or any of its customer service agents and/or any other mode
of communication or submitted by you vide documents, images or in any other form and
whether in the physical or digital/online mode. You agree that any such communication
whether written or oral may be recorded to comply with Tata Capital’s internal processes or
any applicable law.
D. To facilitate onboarding procedures for particular services, we may need access to your
device's SMS features. Certain applications may occasionally collect transactional SMS data,
which would include sender names, SMS content, and received timestamps, and share it with
third parties. This information is used to examine your spending and financial patterns, which
helps with credit evaluations and may lead to speedier approval processes and greater credit
limits. It is important to note that we do not access or analyze personal messages.
E. In order to assess for fraud, if any, and to better understand your risk profile, we may,
through certain applications, periodically gather metadata information about the apps that
are installed on your mobile device. This information includes the name of the application,
package name, installed time, updated time, version name, and version code of each
installed application. We may also gather information about how you use applications like
VPNs and gaming apps. A link on our platform directs to an approved third-party SDK that
gathers data on our behalf and stores it on a secure server for analysis. Application-level
encryption safeguards and protects the data that has been stored.
F. You represent to us that you are above the age of 18 and are in contracting capacity to access
our platform and share your personal data with us.
G. Please note, if you don’t choose to provide us with the requested personal data, we will be
unable to offer you our products or services.

In broad terms, we use your personal data for the following purposes:
i. to administer and provide products and services you request or have expressed an interest
in;
ii. to communicate with you in the event that any products or services you have requested are
unavailable;
iii. for fraud screening and prevention purposes and to protect Tata Capital’s legal rights and
comply with Tata Capital’s legal obligations;
iv. for record keeping purposes, to comply with laws and regulations, and to comply with other
legal processes and law enforcement requirements;
v. to carry out market research so that we can improve the products and services we offer;
vi. to track your activity on our digital platforms;
vii. to create an individual profile for you so that we can understand and respect your
preferences;
viii. to personalize and improve your experience on our digital platforms and allow you to utilize
digital platforms’ features by granting Tata Capital access to information from your device;
ix. to personalize and/ tailor any communications that we may send you;
x. for profiling purposes to enable us to personalize and/or tailor any marketing
communications that you may consent to receive from us;
xi. to inform you about important details like Tata Capital’s digital platforms, change in terms,
conditions and policies and /or other administrative information important to meet your
interests;
xii. to address your requests and queries and manage your relationship with Tata Capital;
xiii. to access your eligibility for our products or services and provide you with such products or
services which you may have shown interest in or requested for;
xiv. to perform activities such as data analysis, audits, usage trends to determine the
effectiveness of Tata Capital’s campaigns and as input into improving products and services;
xv. for security and business continuity and risk management;
xvi. for system or product development and planning, audit and administrative purposes;
xvii. to meet the legitimate interests to be pursued by Tata Capital or by a third party.

H. When you sign up with us for an online account, register to receive marketing
communications from us, fill in one of our forms (whether online or offline), contact us or
otherwise expressly provide us with your personal data, we may collect and store any
personal data that you provide to us and may use it to personalize and improve your
experience on our digital platforms, provide products and services you request from us, and
carry out profiling and market research.
I. We may also infer your country of location from the IP address you have used to access our
digital platforms and we may analyze which marketing activity led to your taking specific
action on our digital platforms (e.g. downloading the app).

2. OFFERS AND OPPORTUNTIES FROM US AND OUR PARTNERS

We want you to be the first to know about new products and services, and occasional offers from
our partners. We may share these offers with you only with your prior consent. You can
unsubscribe from receiving these offers by emailing us. Please note, if you don’t choose to receive
this information, we will be unable to keep you informed of new services, products, events or
special offers that may interest you.

3. WHY DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

A. We may process your personal data for legitimate interests, including providing you with
services and for service improvement purposes.
B. It may be deemed necessary to process personal data for the following purposes of legitimate
interests by us such as :
i. To deliver services in respect to requests raised by you.
ii. To ensure continued relationship with our customers, partners or suppliers.
iii. To prevent misuse or fraudulent activities on our platforms.
iv. To uphold performance of contracts with us.
v. Protecting our interests.
vi. To maintain compliance with legal obligations.
C. Tata Capital takes special consideration to ensure that the legitimate processing of data do
not override the fundamental rights and freedoms of the User.

4. WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?


A. Under certain conditions Tata Capital may share your information with third parties including
but not limited to its group companies, vendors, service providers, data processors, banks,
financial institutions, credit bureaus, telecommunication companies, statutory bodies etc.
for customer verification, personalization of products and services, credit rating, data
enrichment, marketing or promotion of the products or services of Tata Capital or of any
other service provider. Tata Capital may use the personal data to improve its services to you
and to keep you updated about its new products or other information that may be of interest
to you.
B. Tata Capital may share information in the course of normal business operations, such as
providing services you have subscribed for, and any activity related to these services such as
collection of fees. It may become necessary for Tata Capital to disclose your personal data to
its agents and contractors in the course of normal business operations for the above referred
purpose. However, these parties would be required to use the information obtained from
Tata Capital for such purposes exclusively. Tata Capital will endeavor to take all reasonable
steps to ensure that the confidentiality of your information is maintained by third parties to
whom it discloses such information. Tata Capital may be required to disclose your personal
data to the statutory authorities in connection with any legal process that may be initiated
by such authorities in accordance with applicable laws.
C. Tata Capital may occasionally invite selected third parties to participate in offers we feel
would be attractive to customers of Tata Capital. Tata Capital may also share your
information to provide you with superior services and a range of offers. Tata Capital may use
this information to advise you of products, services and other marketing materials, which we
think, may be of interest to you. Tata Capital may also invite visitors to this site to participate
in market research and surveys and other similar activities. Tata Capital reserve the right to
communicate your personal information to any third party that makes a legally compliant
request for disclosure.

5. HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?


A. You are responsible for providing Tata Capital with accurate and complete personal data.
Please notify us of any changes to your personal data. Tata Capital shall take reasonable steps
to ensure that your personal data is kept accurate, complete, and current.
B. Tata Capital shall not retain such Information longer than permissible. Such information
however may be retained for a longer period where we need the information for legal,
regulatory, accounting or other legitimate purposes which may include but not be limited to
filing/ addressing complaints, responding to any queries raised by any of our regulators/
customers/ governmental bodies, any legal claims etc. To determine the appropriate
retention period for personal data, Tata Capital considers the amount, nature and sensitivity
of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your
personal data, the purposes for which it processes your personal data and whether it can
achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some
circumstances Tata Capital may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be
associated with you and use such information.
C. Tata Capital only collects data from Users in accordance with the consents obtained from
such Users and after informing them about the consequences of refusing to provide personal
data or withdrawing consent for the identified purposes and maintains a record of such
consents. This Privacy Commitment also covers the terms of the consents granted by you to
Tata Capital for the information submitted by you. All information provided by you is purely
voluntary and optional and you may choose not to provide the information. You may also
withdraw your consent to collect/ provide/share/process the information by communicating
to the email id given below in writing. However, in any of the above cases (i) you may not be
able to access some of the features or pages of the digital platform/ applications (ii) you may
not be able to avail some or all of our products or services or if you have already availed, such
products or services may be withdrawn, curtailed or cancelled as per the terms thereof. In
some cases, it is essential for the information to be
collected/retained/stored/processed/shared either regulatorily, or as a matter of policy or
for any of the purposes above and you are requested not to avail the products or services if
you do not wish to provide the information or provide consent to collect/share/process the
same since it may not be possible to delete/purge/return such information if you choose to
withdraw consent. For any queries in this regard, you may contact the email ids mentioned
later in this document.
D. Tata Capital ensures that an appropriate data privacy commitment is provided to the Users
at the time or before collecting their personal data including Sensitive Personal Data either
by the terms of this Privacy Commitment or otherwise.

6. HOW DO WE SAFEGUARD YOUR PERSONAL DATA?


A. Tata Capital has put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and
will comply with the legal requirements in this regard. Tata Capital is strongly committed to
protecting the privacy of its Users and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures to
protect the confidentiality of the customer information and its transmission through the
world wide web and it shall not be held liable for disclosure of the confidential information
when in accordance with its privacy policy or in terms of the agreements, if any, with the
customers. Tata Capital uses procedural and technical safeguards to secure your information
from unauthorized access and use, alteration and destruction. In addition, access to your
personal data is limited to only those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties
who have a need to know. They will only process your personal data on Tata Capital’s
instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
B. In addition, like most platforms, Tata Capital uses small bits of data called “Cookies” stored
on User’s computers to stimulate a continuous connection. “Cookies” let Tata Capital store
information about your preferences and passwords and allow you to move to different pages
of our secure site without having to re-enter your password information. Any information
collected is stored in secure databases protected via a variety of access controls and is
treated as confidential information by Tata Capital. Therefore, you should be careful with
usage of the username and password by maintaining confidentiality and ensure that you do
not knowingly or accidentally share, provide and facilitate unauthorized use of it.
C. Tata Capital will protect your personal data against unauthorized use, dissemination or
publication in the same manner in which Tata Capital would protect its confidential
information of like nature.

7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THEM?
A. We provide you with reasonable access to view and review your personal data and request
correction and deletion where appropriate. In order to protect your privacy, we will take
reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your personal data.
B. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about how we handle your personal data,
then you may contact us as per the details mentioned in paragraph 10 below:
C. You have the right to tell us if you:
i. would like to confirm whether the company processes data about you;
ii. would like to access your data;
iii. would like to correct or update your personal data;
iv. would like to port your data or would like a copy of the personal data which we hold
about you;
v. would like to delete your personal data in our records; and
vi. would like to withdraw a consent provided earlier
D. You also have the right to file complaint to the authorities.
E. To exercise any of the above listed rights you may contact the respective Privacy/Grievance
Officers as per the aforementioned details. To assist us in dealing with your request, please
provide your full name, address, date of birth, email address and some document for
identification.

8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY COMMITMENT

We may change our Privacy Commitment from time to time and post the updated version of the
same. We encourage you to visit frequently to stay informed about how we use your personal
data.

9. PROHIBITED ACTIONS

While visiting or using our application or digital platform, you agree not to, by any means
(including hacking, cracking or defacing any portion of the
website/applications/portals/platforms) indulge in illegal or unauthorized activities including the
following:
i. Restrict or inhibit any authorized user from using application or digital platform
ii. Use the application or digital platform for unlawful purposes
iii. Harvest or collect information about application or digital platform’s users without their express
consent
iv. "Frame" or "mirror" any part of the application or digital platform without our prior authorization
v. Engage in spamming or flooding
vi. Transmit any software or other materials that contain any virus, time bomb, or other harmful or
disruptive component
vii. Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in the application
or digital platform
viii. Use any device, application or process to retrieve, index, "data mine" or in any way reproduce or
circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the application or digital platform
ix. Permit or help anyone without access to the application or digital platform to use the application
or digital platform through your username and password or otherwise.

10. HANDLING PRIVACY CONCERNS

If you have any questions about this Privacy Commitment or if you believe that your personal
data is not handled in accordance with the applicable law or this document, then you may contact
us as at [email protected]:

Details of our Nodal Grievance Redressal Officers are as under:

Tata Capital Limited Rajesh Kumar-


[email protected]
Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited Ajai Shukla-
[email protected]
Tata Securities Limited Vishal Pandit-
[email protected]

Registered Office address of Tata Capital Limited and its subsidiaries-


11th Floor,
Tower A, Peninsula Business Park,
Ganpatrao Kadam Marg,
Lower Parel,
Mumbai , Maharashtra – 400013

11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Privacy Commitment shall be governed by the laws of India and the Courts of Mumbai (India)
shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to try any dispute arising thereof.

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