Privacy Policy | Pagaar India

At Pagaar India (accessible from www.pagaarindia.com), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy informs you how we collect, process, share, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website, and explains your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. General Information & Consent

Pagaar India operates as a digital job portal matching job seekers with potential recruiters. By accessing or using our website, you consent to the collection, storage, and processing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with any part of this policy, please refrain from using our services. Your continued use of the website signifies your acceptance of these practices.

2. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information from and about our users to provide a secure, efficient, and personalized job matching environment.

A. For Job Seekers

We collect the following personal and professional details when you create an account, build your profile, or apply for jobs:

Identity Data: Full name, gender, date of birth, profile photo, and avatar.
Contact Data: Personal email address, mobile phone number, and current city/address.
Professional Data: Educational background, job history, past employers, key skills, industry certifications, portfolio links, and standard resume/CV files uploaded to our servers.
Preferences: Preferred job roles, industry category, expected salary ranges, job type (full-time, part-time, remote, hybrid), and preferred work locations.

B. For Recruiters and Employers

To maintain platform integrity and prevent job scams, we collect the following details from recruiting users:

Company Information: Company name, registration documents, Tax/GST details, corporate logo, website URL, and detailed company description.
Contact Details: Official corporate email address, verified office telephone number, and physical office location.
Job Postings: Title, description, key skills required, job category, salary range, and specific application instructions.

C. Automatically Collected Technical Data

When you navigate through Pagaar India, our servers automatically collect log files and usage statistics, including:

Log files: IP (Internet Protocol) address, browser brand/version, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamps, referring/exit pages, and click paths.
Device details: Operating system, hardware model, unique device identifiers, and language settings.
Cookies & Tracking: Session state cookies, preference cookies, and security tokens.

3. How We Use Your Information

We process your data based on legitimate business interests, performance of a service, and legal compliance. Specifically, we use the data to:

Facilitate Recruitment: Match Job Seekers with relevant job listings and enable candidate profiles/resumes to be delivered to recruiters when a seeker applies.
Verification & Security: Audit corporate profiles and recruiters to prevent employment fraud, check compliance with local laws, and keep the job portal safe.
Communications: Send automated job alerts, application status updates, system security alerts, and administrative messages.
System Improvement: Analyze how our platform is used, diagnose server errors, optimize page load times, and improve the user interface.
Advertising & Promotion: Display relevant advertisements, including Google AdSense network ads, to keep our basic search services free.

4. Cookies and Advertising (Google AdSense)

Pagaar India utilizes 'cookies' to remember your portal preferences and capture anonymous browsing behavior for performance tracking.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the Internet.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie Compliance:

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Pagaar India and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings at: google.com/settings/ads.

Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting: aboutads.info.

5. Data Sharing, Disclosures & No-Sale Policy

Recruiter Access: By submitting a job application on Pagaar India, you explicitly authorize us to share your identity, professional details, and CV file with the respective recruiter.

No Data Sale: We maintain a strict policy against selling or renting your personal contact details (such as your phone number and personal email) to third-party marketing companies for advertising campaigns.

Legal Disclosures: We may disclose information if required to do so by applicable law, court order, or government regulation, particularly in response to a formal request from law enforcement agencies under the Indian Information Technology Act (2000).

Service Providers: We may share technical data with trusted cloud providers and analytics platforms (e.g., hosting, database, email distribution providers) under confidentiality agreements.

6. Data Security & Retention

Security Measures: We employ industry-standard encryption, SSL protocols, secured cloud database servers, and password hashing to safeguard your credentials and CV files from unauthorized access or alteration. However, please note that no method of transmission over the internet is completely bulletproof.

Retention Policy: We retain your personal data for as long as your portal account remains active, or as long as necessary to fulfill the recruitment matching purposes outlined here, or to comply with statutory legal requirements.

7. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR / CCPA / DPDP Compliance)

Depending on your region, you have rights to manage and request corrections to your information:

Right to Access/Correct: You can edit your professional details, update contact details, or upload a new resume directly through your Account Dashboard.
Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten): You can request complete erasure of your job seeker or recruiter profile by emailing our support desk.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to withdraw your consent for future data processing at any point, subject to account suspension.

8. Children's Privacy

Pagaar India does not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under the age of 13. If we discover that we have collected information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will delete that profile data from our databases immediately.

9. Indian Information Technology Act Grievance Officer

In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 (India) and the rules made thereunder, any user grievances regarding data processing or privacy concerns can be directed to our designated Grievance Officer:

Designated Officer: Grievance Redressal Officer, Pagaar India

Email Address: info@pagaarindia.com

Official Website: www.pagaarindia.com

Note: We will acknowledge your grievance within 36 hours and resolve the issue within 30 days of receiving the compliant email.