Privacy Policy

We, at Economic Laws Practice (“ELP”), understand and appreciate the concerns that visitors to our website may have and to that end, are committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors. Towards this, we have adopted a privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) that governs how the information provided by you on the ELP website is used, collected, disclosed, updated and protected. We urge you to read our Privacy Policy carefully before using the ELP website.

The Privacy Policy of ELP meets and complies with the extant laws of India. Visitors from other countries may be advised that the laws and regulations in India in relation to privacy may differ from that of other countries. All information that may be provided by you will be used in accordance with the laws and regulations having the force of law in India.

We may collect information from you through your use of our website, when you request information from us or engage our services.

Websites covered by this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy only covers the ELP website and does not extend to any other website, even if links to such third party websites may have been provided on any part of the ELP website. We would like to draw your notice to the fact that if you click on any link provided in any content hosted on our website, you may be leaving the ELP website and visiting another website to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. ELP shall not be bound to expressly intimate this to you, though in most instances, but not always, such an action may result in a new browser window opening. This Privacy Policy constitutes sufficient, reasonable and adequate caution and advice and ELP is in no manner responsible for the actions undertaken by you outside of the ELP website.

Therefore, you would be advised to first verify the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or the hypertext transfer protocol (http) address displayed in the address bar of your web browser to confirm and satisfy yourself whether or not you are still accessing the ELP website (www.elplaw.in), prior to providing any information. If you have left the ELP website or have been redirected by a link on any page on the ELP website to any third party website, this Privacy Policy shall not apply to such non-ELP and / or third party websites. You should apprise yourself of the privacy policy of such websites as they may differ substantially from the terms of this Policy.

Information collected on the ELP website

Demographic and Aggregate Information

We may collect demographic and aggregate information from the users of the ELP website to improve the website content and usage. The term ‘demographic information’ means anonymous information such as geographical location and particulars of the industry of the visitors. The term ‘aggregate information’ means data about a group or category of services or visitors from which individual identities have been removed. Please note that demographic and aggregate information does not include any information that can identify an individual.

Online applications and registration

On certain pages on our website, visitors may be prompted to provide certain personal information in a particular capacity (eg., internship applications, registrations for access to the Knowledge Centre page or subscription to newsletters).

Such personal information may include information capable of identifying a user such as age, gender, name, place of work, profession, marital status etc. Additionally, we may collect log in related information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, date and time of request and your usernames, passwords, email addresses and other security-related information used by you in relation to this website.

We assure you that the personal information collected in this manner will be solely used for the purpose specified at the point of collection. For example, any personal information collected as a part of an application for an internship will be used only for the purpose of review of such information for selection of interns.

Comments and E-mail

On certain pages forming part of the ELP website, visitors are given the opportunity, but are not bound, to provide comments on the content along with their names. Please note that ELP does not require its visitors to provide such comments, and the making of any comments is entirely optional. In relation to any comments provided by you at the designated pages of the ELP website, ELP retains the right to edit, publish and delete such comments without the need to obtain any prior consent or confirmation from you.

If an online form or an e-mail submitted by a user contains personal information, we will only use such personal information to the extent necessary to respond to any comment or question from such user. We will limit access to such personal information and will keep such personal information in a secure system. We may keep hard copies of certain information on file. However, we will ensure that any personal information stored in hard copies is kept at a secure location.

Cookies

We would like to make the users aware that the ELP website uses cookies. The term ‘cookies’ is used to denote small text files placed on your hard drive when you visit a website. These files identify your computer and record your preferences and other data about your visit so that when you return to the website, the website can recognize you and can personalize your visit. Please note that the cookies used on our websites are not linked to a visitor’s personal information.

We use cookies to collect information so that we can determine how to improve the website experience by seeing which pages, areas or features are most popular as well as to personalize the website based on visitor preference. As technology advances and cookies provide more functionality, we expect to utilize them in different ways. If so, we will update this Privacy Policy to identify such new uses of cookies.

However, if you wish, you can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that some areas of our website may not function properly if you disable cookies. There are many sources for additional information about Internet cookies, and we encourage anyone concerned about the use of cookies to do more research on the topic so you can make an informed decision about accepting them from any site.

ELP may also use “web beacons” (also known as “web bugs,” “action tags,” “pixel trackers,” or “clear GIFs”), which are small, graphic images on a web page, web-based document or in an e-mail message that are designed to allow us or a third party to collect certain information and monitor user activity on our sites. Web beacons are invisible to the user because they are typically very small (only 1-by-1 pixels) and have the same color as the background of the web page, document or e-mail message. We may use web beacons to collect non-personal information such as the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to, the URL of the page the web beacon comes from, and the time it was activated (such as when you view the web page, advertisement or e-mail that contains the web beacon). Web beacons can be linked to personal information, but we do not use web beacons that link to personal information. We may permit third parties to place web beacons on our sites, but these web beacons are not linked to personal information either.

ELP maintains log files, which contain Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses. An IP address is a numeric address that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. We do not link IP addresses to personal information. In general, we only use log files to monitor traffic on our website and to troubleshoot technical problems. In the event of abuse, however, we may block certain IP addresses.

Disclosure of Information

We may disclose demographic and aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To associates retained by ELP and partners of the firm.
  • For the protection of your information.
  • For the purpose of recruitment.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • To provide and improve our services to you and to our clients including handling personal information of others on behalf of our clients.
  • To manage our relationship with you and our clients.
  • To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements and to protect the rights of ELP, its partners and associates.
  • With your consent.

Please note that we do not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make any of your personal information available for a commercial purpose, except as expressly provided in this Policy or with your prior permission.

Security

ELP uses 128-bit encryption, which is currently the permitted level of encryption in India, for the transmission of visitor registration and transaction requests and information. When the information provided by visitor is not transmitted through this encryption procedures, the visitor’s computer system (if configured accordingly) will display an appropriate message.

However, the internet is an open system and ELP makes no assurance that the personal information which may be provided by a visitor will not be intercepted or accessed by others and decrypted. ELP, its partners, associates, employees, agents and representatives shall not be liable or responsible should any confidential or other information provided by or pertaining to the visitor (including names, IDs, place of work, etc.) be intercepted and subsequently used by an unintended recipient, despite the security systems implemented by it.

Information that you send to us in electronic form may not be secure and, unless you are already a client, will not be treated as privileged or confidential.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information
You may send us an e-mail at contact@elp-in.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We shall not be responsible for the authenticity of the personal information or sensitive personal data or information supplied by the user.

Amendments to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time and such amendments shall be effective from the date on which it is posted on our website. We reserve the right to amend this Policy without the consent or concurrence of any third party visitor.

Consent

By providing information on this website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to the disclosure of such information to third parties in accordance with the terms hereof.

We hope that this gives you a clear idea of our practices in relation to privacy. If you require any further information, feel free to e-mail as at contact@elp-in.com