Arghay Consulting ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website arghayconsulting.co.in or engage our services.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information you provide directly
- Contact enquiries: Name, email address, company name, phone number, and message content when you submit our contact form.
- Newsletter subscriptions: Email address when you subscribe to our newsletter.
- Training enrolments: Name, email, company, and payment details when booking a training course.
1.2 Information collected automatically
- IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited.
- Cookies and similar tracking technologies (see our Cookie Policy).
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Respond to enquiries and provide the services you request.
- Send marketing communications where you have opted in (you can unsubscribe at any time).
- Improve our website, services, and training products.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.
- Detect and prevent fraud or abuse.
3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)
Where the GDPR applies, we rely on the following lawful bases:
- Contract: Processing necessary to perform a contract with you (e.g., delivering training).
- Legitimate interests: Responding to enquiries, improving our services, security monitoring.
- Consent: Marketing emails (you may withdraw consent at any time).
- Legal obligation: Compliance with applicable law.
4. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. We may share it with:
- Service providers who help us operate our website and deliver services (email delivery, hosting, analytics), bound by confidentiality agreements.
- Professional advisers (lawyers, accountants) where necessary.
- Law enforcement or regulators where required by law.
- Business transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your data may be transferred as a business asset.
5. Data Retention
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Contact form data is retained for 3 years; newsletter subscriber data until you unsubscribe.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Request erasure ("right to be forgotten").
- Object to or restrict processing.
- Data portability (receive your data in a machine-readable format).
- Withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent).
- Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@arghayconsulting.co.in.
7. International Transfers
Our servers are located in India. If you are accessing our services from outside India, your data may be transferred to and processed in India. We apply appropriate safeguards where required by applicable law.
8. Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to read their privacy policies.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by posting a prominent notice on our website or by email. The "last updated" date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last revised.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Arghay Consulting
Email: info@arghayconsulting.co.in
Website: arghayconsulting.co.in