Privacy Policy—Users

Your Privacy Is Important To Us The following information is provided to explain our policy for safeguarding your privacy while using our Web site.

The purpose of our site is to provide you with information about our company and our professional services. By using our site, you accept the conditions of our privacy policy.

Hansa|GCR LLC, its parent company Hansa Research Pvt. Ltd., and its parent company R K Swamy | Hansa Pvt. Ltd. are the sole owners of the information collected on www.hansagcr.com. Hansa|GCR collects information, some of which may be personally identifiable, from our users at several different points on our Web site as described below.

Hansa|GCR does not market to children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children on this Web site.

Log Files As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this Web site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. For more information about cookies, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_cookies.

We use persistent cookies only when you choose to register by completing a form on our Web site that enables you to access and download certain documents and/or other digital content (“materials”) we may place on the site from time to time (see “Information Collection & Use” below). No personally identifiable information is stored in these persistent cookies; they only identify the IP address your computer used to access our site at the time you chose to complete the form in order to download the materials. We use this persistent cookie as a convenience to you, so that if you return to the site using the same computer and IP address, and you have not manually deleted our cookie, you do not need to complete the form(s) again to download additional material that would otherwise require you to complete the form(s).

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features of our site, such as downloading materials that require registration, will be limited.

Information Collection & Use In general you may freely access the content on our Web site and download materials we provide without providing any personally identifiable information. However, there are some materials available on this Web site that will require that you register with us before you can download them. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as your name and email address).

You may also choose to provide us with contact information by completing a special form that indicates you specifically request contact from us.

By providing your contact information either for registration or to request contact from us, you are expressly agreeing to receive (“opting in” to) future marketing communications and/or business development contact from us, until such time as you inform us that you no longer wish to receive such communications or contact (“opting out;” see “Choice/Opt Out” below).

As described above under “Cookies,” when you register on our Web site we do not store any of your personally identifiable information in the persistent cookie we place in your Internet browser’s cookie database.

Security The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Any personal information you provide is contained behind a network firewall and is accessible only to a limited number of employees who have special access rights to such information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, please send an e-mail with your question(s) to us at services@hansagcr.com.

Information Sharing and Disclosure We do not sell, rent, provide access to, or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable information you provide us to unaffiliated persons or organizations for commercial gain (“unaffiliated persons or organizations” are defined as persons not employed by an organization owned in whole or in part by R K Swamy | Hansa Pvt. Ltd. and organizations that are not owned in whole or in part by R K Swamy | Hansa Pvt. Ltd.). There are only two circumstances under which we disclose personally identifiable information:

  1. We use a third-party Web site technology services company for maintenance and enhancement of our Web site. This service provider has secure access to our Web server via a virtual private network (VPN) connection. Because any personally identifiable information you have shared with us is stored on our Web server, this service provider has access to this information. In addition, this service provider will, from time to time and only when necessary to provide its services to us, copy files from our Web server to its own secure servers. This service provider is provided access to our Web server only on the condition that it maintains the same or higher security as we provide for all data on the server, including any personally identifiable information.
  2. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our company or Web site.

Choice/Opt-out We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information.

If you no longer wish to receive any promotional communications from us, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by e-mailing us at services@hansagcr.com with the word “Remove” in the subject line. Additionally you may write to us at the following address and specify the e-mail address(es) to which you no longer want us to send promotional messages: Hansa|GCR, 308 SW 1st Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97204-3400.

Links to Other Sites This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Hansa|GCR. Please be aware that we, Hansa|GCR, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information If your personally identifiable information changes, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at services@hansagcr.com. Please provide the existing personal information so that we can locate your record(s), and, as appropriate, provide us with the updated information.

Business Transitions In the event Hansa|GCR goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified by a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us by email at services@hansagcr.com or write to us at Hansa|GCR, 308 SW 1st Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97204-3400, Attention: Privacy Policy.