Privacy and Cookies Policies

Privacy Policy

RIIV India Private Limited

INTRODUCTION

We, at RIIV India Private Limited and our affiliated companies worldwide (hereinafter collectively referred to as "RIIV"), are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how RIIV collects, uses, discloses and transfers personal information of users through its websites and applications, including through https://russellinvestments.com/in (collectively, the "Platform"). This policy applies to those who visit the Platform, or whose information RIIV otherwise receives (such as contact information of individuals associated with RIIV including partners) (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Users"). For the purposes of the Privacy Policy, "You" or "Your" shall mean the person who is accessing the Platform.

Types of Personal Information collected by RIIV

"Personal information" (PI) - means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person including common identifiers such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person and any other information that is so categorized by applicable laws. The Personal Information that we collect, and how we collect it, depends upon how you interact with us. We collect the following categories of Personal Information in the following ways:

  • Name, email address, password, country, city, contact number and company/organization that you are associated with, when you sign up for on the Platform
  • Information that one would usually include in a resume, including name, contact details including e-mail address and mobile number, work experience, educational qualifications, data relating to your current and past remuneration or salary, a copy of your resume, etc. when you register on the Platform
  • We may collect your Personal Information such as name, age, contact details, preferences, etc. through surveys and forms, when you choose to participate in these surveys etc.
  • We may also collect information relating to your caste and information about whether you are eligible for any affirmative action programmes or policies, if you opt to provide such information
  • When you visit the Platform, we use cookies to automatically collect, store and use technical information about your system and interaction with our Platform
  • When you use a device to access the Platform, RIIV may collect technical or other related information from the device as well as the device location
  • To the extent permitted by law, RIIV may record and monitor your communications with us to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies.

How RIIV may use your Personal Information

We will only use your personal data in a fair and reasonable manner, and where we have a lawful reason to do so.

Our use of your personal data depends on the purpose for which you interact with us. We may process your Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Providing job alerts, calendar alerts, relevant search results, recommended jobs, and other communication facilities
  • We use information collected from cookies and other technologies, to improve your user experience
  • Improving the Platform and its content to provide better features
  • Preventing, detecting, investigating and taking action against crimes (including but not limited to fraud and other financial crimes), any other illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of RIIV’s Terms of Use in any jurisdiction
  • Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights in connection with legal proceedings (including any prospective legal proceedings) and seeking professional or legal advice in relation to such legal proceedings.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about web-site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them.

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Platform and the overall website experience. We may also analyse information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.

For more information about our use of cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy

The Basis/ Grounds which we rely on for collection and processing of your Personal Information

Your Personal Information is collected and processed by RIIV based on the following legal grounds depending upon the nature of Personal Information and the purposes for which it is processed.

  • Consent: RIIV relies on your consent in order to process your Personal Information in certain situations. If RIIV requires your consent to collect and process certain Personal Information, as per the requirements under the applicable data protection laws, your consent is sought at the time of collection of your Personal Information and such processing will only be performed where consent is secured.
  • Compliance with a legal obligation: Your Personal Information may be processed by RIIV, to the extent that such processing is necessary to allow RIIV to comply with a legal obligation. An example of this would be if RIIV is required to disclose your Personal Information to respond to a court order or if RIIV is required to retain specific records for a fixed period to comply with requirements under any applicable law.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We restrict access to your Personal Information to employees who we believe reasonably need to know/or that information to fulfil their jobs to provide, operate, develop, or improve our products or services.

RIIV does not disclose, transfer or share your Personal Information with others except with:

  • Our affiliates and group companies to the extent required for our internal business and/or administrative purposes and/or general corporate operations and for helping you in your career enhancement
  • Third parties including enforcement, regulatory and judicial authorities, if we determine that disclosure of your Personal Information is required to a) respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or b) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of RIIV’s Terms of Use or as otherwise required by law
  • In the event of a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets or any other situation involving the transfer of some or all of RIIV’s business assets we may disclose Personal Information to those involved in the negotiation or transfer

RIIV does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on RIIV's behalf unless such transfer is legally required. If your Personal Information is transferred outside India, we take the necessary steps to protect your Personal Information in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Third Party Content

Please be aware that the Platform sometimes contains links to other sites that are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Users may be directed to third-party sites for more information, such as advertisers, blogs, content sponsorships, vendor services, social networks, etc.

To the extent that your data is retained by RIIV, this Policy continues to apply, however, RIIV makes no representations or warranties regarding how your information is stored or used on third-party servers. We recommend that you review the applicable privacy statements and policies of each third-party site linked from the Platform to determine their use of your personal information.

Children

We only keep your personal information for as long as it is required (whether to provide you with services or as required by law or regulations). Once it is no longer needed, it is destroyed in accordance with our records management and destruction policies. How long we keep your information depends on the reasons for which it was collected. The type of product or service and the kind of information also affects the length of time we retain information. Your information may be kept even if you are no longer a client with us so long as it is legally necessary for us to have sufficient information to respond to any issues that may arise at a later date.

Retention of Personal Information

Your Personal Information will not be retained by RIIV any longer than it is necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Information is processed and/or in accordance with legal, regulatory, contractual or statutory obligations as applicable.

At the expiry of such periods, your Personal Information will be deleted or archived in compliance with applicable laws.

Controlling your personal information

You have the right to invoke your rights which are available to data principals or data subjects (as per applicable laws and regulations) in relation to your Personal Information which is being processed by RIIV.

RIIV provides you the ability to keep your Personal Information accurate and up-to-date. If at any time you would like to a) rectify, update or correct your Personal Information; b) obtain confirmation on whether or not your Personal Information is processed by it; c) access your Personal Information or exercise your right to data portability; or d) exercise your right to restrict the continuing disclosure of your Personal Information to any third party by RIIV in certain circumstances, you are requested to contact us using the contact details mentions in paragraph 14 below. We will require you to provide a valid proof of your identity, in order to ensure that your rights are respected.

For the exercise of certain rights, you may be required to approach the relevant authority / designated officer as per the provisions of the applicable data protection laws/ RIIV may in accordance with the provisions of applicable data protection laws, charge a fee for fulfilling your request, in particular in case of excessive or manifestly unfounded request. Further you acknowledge that the above mentioned rights are not absolute and are subject to limitations as per the applicable data protection laws.

Confidentiality and Security

  • The security and confidentiality of your Personal Information is important to us and RIIV has invested significant resources to protect the safekeeping and confidentiality of your personal data. When using external service providers acting as processors, we require that they adhere to the same standards as RIIV does. Regardless of where your Personal Information is transferred or stored, we take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that personal data is kept secure.
  • We seek to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made there under to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in India to protect your Personal Information. By accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy, you agree that the standards and practices being implemented by us, are reasonable and sufficient for the protection of your Personal Information.

Social media

RIIV operates channels, pages and accounts on some social media sites to inform, assist and engage with candidates. RIIV monitors and records comments and posts made on these channels about itself in order to improve.

Please note that you must not communicate the following information to RIIV through such social media sites:- sensitive personal data including (i) special categories of personal data meaning any information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation and (ii) other sensitive personal data such as criminal convictions and offences and national identification number ; - Excessive, inappropriate, offensive or defamatory content. RIIV is not responsible for any information posted on those sites other than the information posted by its employees on its behalf. RIIV is only responsible for its own use of the Personal Information received through such sites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

RIIV reserves the right to update, change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. The Privacy Policy shall come to effect from the date of publication of such update, change or modification.

Disclaimer

In case any Personal Information is shared by you with RIIV, which is not requested by RIIV during registration, (whether mandatorily or optionally), RIIV will not be liable for any information security breach or disclosure in relation to such information.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the protection of your Personal Information, please contact RIIV’s Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer at the following:

Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer

In case you have any complaints and/or grievances in relation to the processing of your Personal Information you can send your complaints via e-mail to our grievance officer:

Grievance Officer: Manju Mishra

Address: 02-123, Wework, Oberoi Commerz II, 1 Mohan Gokhale Road, Colony No. 2, Off Western Express Highway, Goregaon East, Mumbai, 400063, India

Email id: Grievance@russellinvestments.com

Cookies Policy

We use cookies across our websites to improve their performance and enhance your user experience. This policy explains what cookies are, how to disable them and outlines a description of the cookies we use.What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating web domain on your subsequent visits to that domain. Most web pages contain elements from multiple web domains so when you visit the Website, your browser may receive cookies from several sources.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember preferences and generally improve the user experience. They can also be used to tailor advertising to your interests through tracking your browsing across websites.

Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser and persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed (for example to remember your user preferences when you return to the site).

By using this website (https://russellinvestments.com/in) (the "Website") you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookies Policy. You will have seen a pop up to this effect on your first visit to this website; although it will not usually appear on subsequent visits you may withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions below.

Disabling Cookies/ Withdrawing your ‘consent’

If you do not agree to the use of these cookies please disable them by following the instructions for your browser set out here. Please note that some of the services will not function so well if cookies are disabled. Where the organisation setting the cookie provides an automated disabling tool in respect of its cookie(s) we list the name of that organisation, the category of cookies it sets together with a link to its automated disabling tool. In all other cases, we list the names of the cookies themselves and their source at the date of this Cookies policy so that you can easily identify and disable them if you want through your browser controls.

Some browsers make is possible for you to signal that you do not want your internet browsing activity to be tracked. Disabling tracking may interfere with some uses of the Website and the services provided on the Website.

After your initial visit to the Website we may change the cookies we use. This cookies policy will always allow you to know who is placing cookies, for what purpose and give you the means to disable them so you should check it from time to time.at Types Of Cookies Does Russell Investments Use?

We describe the categories of cookies Russell Investments and its affiliates and its contractors use below.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for (such as navigating between pages) cannot be provided.

Cookie Name Purpose
ASP.NET_SessionId,ASPSESSIONID********

Keeps a record of your current Russell Investments session so that we can provide consistent functionality across the site. It expires when you logout, close your browser or if you clear your cache of browsing history.

ASPSESSIONID******** will generate a random set of 8 letters that will change with every session.

Performance and website functionality cookies

We make use of analytic cookies to analyse how our visitors use our Website and to monitor Website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our contractors.

The Website currently uses the following analytic cookies:

Cookie Name Purpose/Value Category
APISID, HSID, LOGIN_INFO, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, dkv We use YouTube to embed videos. The VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie attempts to estimate your bandwidth. The PREF cookie may be used by YouTube to store session preferences that relate to your activity when watching the embedded videos. These cookies don't gather information that identifies a user. Performance
ASP.NET_SessionId Keeps a record of your current Russell Investments session so that we can provide consistent functionality across the site. It expires when you logout, close your browser or if you clear your cache. Strictly necessary
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE This cookie is used to identify repeat visits from a single user. Performance
ri.com This will remember your preferences from the russellinvestments.com so your preferences will persist on future visits. These preferences include: country selection; audience type selection; acceptance of cookies. Functionality
website#lang This will remember your language preference from the russellinvestments.com so your preference will persist on future visits. Functionality
Nmstat This cookie is used to help record the visitor’s use of the website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. Functionality
cerosdomaintracking Users are tracked with a unique user token stored as a first-party cookie in the user’s browser. The token is specific to the root domain of the Experience and not the individual user. Performance
cerosexperiencetracking An Experience is recorded when the Experience is loaded into a user’s browser. This information can be used to enhance the user webpage experience with interactive webpage display. Performance

Google Analytics

Cookie Name Purpose/Value Category
_ga Used by Google to distinguish users. (stored 2 years) Performance
_gat_*** This cookie is used by Google to throttle request rate. (stored 1 minute) Performance
_gid Used by Google to distinguish users. (stored 24 hours) Performance
_gac Used by Google to store campaign information for AdWords.(stored 90 days) Performance
_medium, _source, _campaign, _content Used by Russell Investments to store campaign sources and attribute to other site activity. Performance
1P_JAR Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes. Performance
UULE Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes. Performance

Further Information

Access Google’s privacy policy in respect of Google Analytics here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

You may opt out of tracking by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Marketing cookies

Cookie Name Purpose/Value Category
ELOQUA, ELQSTATUS These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. If you click through to our website from an email sent by Eloqua, we are subsequently able to identify the pages you visit on russellinvestments.com. This information is stored securely in Eloqua and never, under any circumstances, supplied to third parties.

 

Performance

HTML email web beacons

Our emails may contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to you, to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.

Use of IP addresses and web logs

We may also use your IP address and browser type to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Website and to improve the service we offer to you. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the internet. Your IP address might also be used to gather broad demographic information.

We may perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com) to more accurately gauge our users’ demographics.

Use of IP addresses and web logs

We may also use your IP address and browser type to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Website and to improve the service we offer to you. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the internet. Your IP address might also be used to gather broad demographic information.

We may perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com) to more accurately gauge our users’ demographics.

Cookies policy does not cover third party websites

Please note that this cookies policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third party websites which may be linked to this Website.

Changes to the Cookies Policy

We reserve the right to update/amend/revise/ this cookies policy without any notice and we would encourage you to review the policy from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies.

This cookies policy was last updated on 28 October 2020.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact:

Grievance Officer: Manju Mishra

Address: 02-123, Wework, Oberoi Commerz II, 1 Mohan Gokhale Road, Colony No. 2, Off Western Express Highway, Goregaon East, Mumbai, 400063, India

E-mail id: Grievance@russellinvestments.com