Privacy Notice and Data Security Policy

PravasiTax operates the website pravasitax.com.  IIt is PravasiTax’s policy to protect your privacy and ensure your personal data is secure with relation to any information we may collect while operating our websites or providing services.

Gathering of Personally Identifying Information

Users of PravasiTax’s website choose to interact with PravasiTax in ways that require PravasiTax to gather personally identifying information. Those who engage in transactions with PravasiTax – by purchasing access to the PravasiTax to assist in preparing their income tax return services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including, as necessary, the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, PravasiTax collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with PravasiTax. PravasiTax does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

PravasiTax discloses potentially personally-identifying information only to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on PravasiTax’s behalf or to provide services available at PravasiTax’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. PravasiTax takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying information.

PravasiTax does not sell or rent your personal or tax return information to anyone. PravasiTax does not share your personal or tax return information for marketing or promotional use. We analyse your information to learn about the use of PravasiTax services to help us to develop new product and services.

PravasiTax may use consultants or service entities on our behalf to perform services for you but these persons are not allowed to use your information for their own purposes.

PravasiTax may access and/or disclose your information if it is necessary to comply with the law or legal process, to protect or defend PravasiTax. For example, we may be required to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement action such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant and wherever possible with your consent. PravasiTax reserves the right to trace the information which is deleted from the portal in a situation when the investigation under any law has been initiated.

PravasiTax uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for encryption to ensure that data transmitted between your web browser and our servers, and data stored on our servers, is secure.

As part of its data security strategy, PravasiTax has identified and assessed the risks to information security in each relevant area of the company’s operation and established commensurate safeguards to mitigate these risks.

All payment transactions are processed through a payment gateway provider and related data is not stored or processed on our servers.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. PravasiTax uses cookies to help PravasiTax identify and track visitors, their usage of PravasiTax website, and their website access preferences. PravasiTax visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using PravasiTax’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of PravasiTax’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Information Security

PravasiTax ensure to protect your personal information and tax return information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration by using industry-recognized security safeguards, coupled with carefully developed security procedures and practices. PravasiTax maintain electronic and procedural safeguards of all tax return information and uses both internal and external resources to review its security procedures. PravasiTax whenever requires transmitting of sensitive information, such as tax return or credit card information, it is supported by encryption of all the information transmitted to us.

Customer Testimonials

We post customer testimonials and comments on our Websites, which may contain Personal Information. We post this information only when receiving this from the customer over mail or on our social media pages.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include link to third-party sites on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. PravasiTax therefore has no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, PravasiTax may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in PravasiTax’s sole discretion. PravasiTax encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Arbitration

Any dispute arising under the privacy policy shall be governed by the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and the same shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Cochin, Kerala.