Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals & employers to allow them to be more productive with their recruitment process. Our services are designed to promote a risk-free decision-making environment for our members by providing the comprehensive authentic required information as services to empower & upgrade Human Resource Management.
When you use our Services you agree to all of these terms. Your use of our Services is also subject to our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use, share, and store your personal information.
You agree that by clicking “Join Now”, “Join Ratifys”, “Sign Up” or similar, registering, accessing or using our services (described below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with Ratifys (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “User Agreement”), do not click “Join Now” (or similar) and do not access or otherwise use any of our Services. If you wish to terminate this contract, at any time you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or using our Services.
This Contract applies to Ratifys.com, Ratifys-branded apps, Ratifys Consultancy and other Ratifys-related sites, apps, communications and other services that state that they are offered under this Contract (“Services”), including the offsite collection of data for those Services, such as our ads and the “Apply with Ratifys” and “Share with Ratifys” plugins. Registered users of our Services are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”.
You are entering into this Contract with Ratifys (also referred to as “we” and “us”).
You are entering into this Contract with Ratifys Informatics Private Limited (“Ratifys”) and Ratifys will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.
If you reside outside of the “Designated Countries”, you are entering into this Contract with Ratifys Informatics Private Limited (“Ratifys”) and Ratifys will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.
This Contract applies to Members and Visitors.
As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and updates.
When you register and join the Ratifys Services, you become a Member. If you have chosen not to register for our Services, you may access certain features as a “Visitor.”
We may make changes to the Contract.
We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date.
Here are some promises that you make to us in this Contract:
You’re eligible to enter into this Contract and you (Subscriber Admin) are at least our “Minimum Qualification.”
The Services are not for use by anyone who is creating an account for a unregistered company.
To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the "Minimum Qualification"(described below) or older; (2) you will only have one Ratifys account, which must be in your registered company email id; and (3) you are not already restricted by Ratifys from using the Services. Creating an account with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons creating account for unregistered company.
“Minimum Qualification” means an organisation which is formed and registered with the appropriate statutory authority of the country as a 'company or corporation' in accordance with the corporate and securities law of that country.
The "Ratifys" shall conduct Background Screening Services for the Client’s (the organisation whose subscriber admin account has been created on Ratifys online portal) existing or potential employees upon receipt of the required information.
The client is solely responsible to take the candidate’s authorization. The client is giving consent to "Ratifys" to conduct personal verification, employment verification, document verification, legal verification, and other opted services of their candidates/employees/staff.
The Client acknowledges that the Ratifys merely passes on the information (Background Report) obtained while conducting background screenings and is not the Ratifys shall not be liable for any consequences arising from the reliance on such information by the Client. However, the Ratifys shall take reasonable procedures to accurately transcribe the information as provided by the respective screening authorities or source of verification. All such information provided by the Service Provider (Ratifys and Ratifys onboarded service partners) is intended for the sole purpose of the Client to assist in making an employment / related decision and is not for any unauthorized and/or public dissemination.
Standard Information for Background Screening:
The Client agrees to provide to the Service Provider all information required for completing the background verification process in the form and manner specified by the Service Provider. The information required would be subject to change and the Service Provider shall intimate the Client of any such change from time to time.
On receipt of the verification requests, the Service Provider shall check the information provided by the Client and shall intimate any insufficiencies in the provided information to the Client through email. Unless otherwise specified by the
Client, the Service Provider shall initiate the verification process with the assumption that the insufficiencies would be provided by the Client subsequently. In the event that the Service Provider does not receive the insufficient information.
within 15 working days from the date of receipt of verification request, the Service Provider shall dispatch the Final Reports for such verification request and such reports shall be subject to applicable fee. If the insufficient information is subsequently received within fifteen (15) days from the date of dispatch of the Final Report, the Service Provider shall issue a supplementary report upon completion of the verification without any additional fee.
Authorization from the Client: The Client agrees to provide an authorization in the form and manner prescribed in Annexure IV, to the Service Provider to conduct background verification of the Client’s employees whether existing or potential, as requested for from time to time.
Authorization from the Candidate: It is mandatory to provide authorization duly signed by the candidate to start the background verification process and to ensure that there is no breach of privacy regulation. In the event of any candidate’s authorization not being provided to the Service Provider by the Client, the Service Provider would assume that the Client has obtained such authorization and the Client shall take full responsibility for any breach of privacy regulation.
Verification Responses: The Verification Reports are issued based on verifications obtained either verbally or in writing from the verifying authorities such as universities / educational institutes, references, past employers, police authorities or any other third parties etc. The Client certifies that it shall hold the Verification Reports issued by the Service Provider in strict confidence and not disclose the information contained therein to any party not involved in it’s employment / related decision. Furthermore, the Client shall not use the data given in the Report to create, compile, or maintain a database of any sort. Submission of Verification Reports: The Service Provider shall dispatch the Verification Reports by e-mail to the recipient designated by the Client in soft copy format (PDF file) and in hard copy format (if required by the client).
Turnaround Time: Unless otherwise agreed and specified by the Service Provider, Final Verification Reports shall be sent within fifteen (15) working days from the date of receipt of the complete information and applicable authorizations in the form and manner specified by the Service Provider. The Turnaround Time shall be applicable to all verification requests received from the Client including requests for reverifications. The Turnaround Time shall not be applicable where a written verification response is sought from the respective verifying authority. In such cases the Service Provider shall issue the Final Verification Report within the Turnaround Time with verifications obtained verbally and shall issue a Supplementary Verification Report upon receipt of the written verification response from the respective verifying authority.
Contact with Past Employers, Educational Institutes and Local Authorities: While the Service Provider, shall make every reasonable effort to complete the verifications as agreed herein, the Service Provider shall not be responsible for educational institutes, past employers, local authorities who do not act in response to the verification requests despite repeated attempts. In cases where the Service Provider has not received the required information from the Client e.g. permission to contact the current employer, insufficient information from the candidate within the specified time, it shall issue the Final Verification Report specifying the same. A supplementary report will be issued at a later stage when such information is received from the Client and the verification has been completed. Also if verification has not been completed despite repeated attempts, the Service Provider will record the same as “unable to verify” and issue the Final Verification Report. A Supplementary Report shall be issued if verification is received subsequently. The Client can, at its discretion, request the Service Provider to make one more attempt to verify an unverified aspect.
Where we process data based on consent, we will ask for your explicit consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, but that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal. Where we rely on contract, we will ask that you agree to the processing of personal data that is necessary for entering into or performance of your contract with us. We will rely on legitimate interests as a basis for data processing where the processing of your data is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
You will keep your password a secret
You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law.
Members are account holders. You agree to: (1) use a strong password and keep it confidential; (2) not transfer any part of your account (e.g., features, tokens etc) and (3) follow the law and our list of Dos and Don’ts and Professional Community Policies. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.
As between you (Subscriber Admin) and others (including your employees), their (Subscriber Manager & Subscriber Executive) account belongs to you. However, if the Services were purchased by another party for you to use (e.g. Subscriber Admin rights bought by your employee), the party paying for such Service has the right to control access to and get reports on your use of such paid Service. You can change rights in this case if needed from account settings.
You’ll honour your payment obligations and you are okay with us storing your payment information. You understand that there may be fees and taxes that are added to our prices.
Refunds are subject to our policy.
If you buy any of our paid Services (“Subscription Services” & “Add On Services”), you agree to pay us the applicable fees and taxes and to additional terms specific to the paid Services. Failure to pay these fees will result in the termination of your paid Services. Also, you agree that:
You can get a copy of your invoice through your Ratifys account settings under “Purchase History”.
You’re okay with us providing notices and messages to you through our websites, apps, and contact information. If your contact information is out of date, you may miss out on important notices.
You agree that we will provide notices and messages to you in the following ways: (1) within the Service, or (2) sent to the contact information you provided us (e.g., email, mobile number, physical address). You agree to keep your contact information up to date.
Please review your settings to control and limit messages you receive from us.
When you share information on our Services, others can see, copy and use that information.
Our Services allow reporting and sharing of information in many ways. Information and content that you share or report may be seen by other Members, Paid Users, Free Users, Visitors or others (including off of the Services). Where we have made rights available.
You own all of the content, feedback and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to it.
We’ll honour the choices you make of granting us right to your information & the information would be used for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.
As between you and Ratifys, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting Ratifys and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license:
A worldwide, transferable and sub licensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish and process, information and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.
You and Ratifys agree that if content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.
You and Ratifys agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with, the terms of the Privacy Policy.
By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to Ratifys, you agree that Ratifys can use and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.
You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your Ratifys profile will be truthful.
You agree to only provide content or information that does not violate the law nor anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). You also agree that your profile information will be truthful. Ratifys may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.
We may change or end any Service or modify our prices prospectively.
We may change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services. We may also modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice to the extent allowed under the law.
We don’t promise to store or keep showing any information, report and content that you’ve requested. Ratifys is not a storage service. You agree that we have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content, report or information that you or others provide, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.
Your use of others’ content and information posted on our Services, is at your own risk.
Others may offer their own products and services through our Services, and we aren’t responsible for those third-party activities.
By using the Services, you may encounter content or information that might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading, illegal, offensive or otherwise harmful. Ratifys generally does not review content provided by our Members or others. You agree that we are not responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our Services, and you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse. You also acknowledge the risk that you or your organization may be mistakenly associated with content about others when we let connections and followers know you or your organization were mentioned in the news. Members have choices about this feature.
We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on our Services.
Ratifys reserves the right to limit your use of the Services. Ratifys reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if you breach this Contract or the law or are misusing the Services (e.g., violating any of the Dos and Don’ts or Professional Community Policies).
We’re providing you notice about our intellectual property rights.
Ratifys reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. Ratifys, and “in” logos and other Ratifys trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ratifys.
We use data and information about you to make relevant suggestions to you and others.
We use the information and data that you provide and that we have about individuals or member team to make recommendations, decision making, verification process, content and reports that may be useful to you.
This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.
RATIFYS AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY ABOUT THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, RATIFYS AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW (AND UNLESS RATIFYS HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), RATIFYS, INCLUDING ITS AFFILIATES, WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION (E.G., OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS), LOSS OF DATA (E.G., DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF, OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT) OR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.
RATIFYS AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR ANY AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS (A) THE TOTAL FEES PAID OR PAYABLE BY YOU TO RATIFYS FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF THIS CONTRACT, IF ANY, OR (B) US
These limitations of liability do not apply to liability for death or personal injury or for fraud, gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or in cases of negligence where a material obligation has been breached, a material obligation being such which forms a prerequisite to our delivery of services and on which you may reasonably rely, but only to the extent that the damages were directly caused by the breach and were foreseeable upon conclusion of this Contract and to the extent that they are typical in the context of this Contract.
We can each end this Contract, but some rights and obligations survive.
Both you and Ratifys may terminate this Contract at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination:
You can visit our Help Center to close your account.
In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, depending on where you live, you and Ratifys agree to resolve it in Ahmedabad courts using Indian Law.
Here are some important details about the Contract.
If a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it unenforceable, you and we agree that the court should modify the terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the court cannot do that, you and we agree to ask the court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Contract.
This Contract (including additional terms that may be provided by us when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements for the Services.
If we don't act to enforce a breach of this Contract, that does not mean that Ratifys has waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that Ratifys may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that buys it without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this Contract.
You agree that the only way to provide us legal notice is at the addresses provided in Section 10.
Ratifys is a community of professionals. This list of “Dos and Don’ts” along with our Professional Community Policies limit what you can and cannot do on our Services.
You agree that you will:
You agree that you will not:
Contact information for complaints about content provided by our Members.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. We provide a policy and process for complaints concerning content posted by our Members.
Our Contact information. Our Help Center also provides information about our Services.
For general inquiries, you may contact us online. For legal notices or service of process, you may write us at [email protected]
Our Privacy Policy has been updated.
Ratifys mission is to connect the world’s professionals to allow them to be more productive and successful. Central to this mission is our commitment to be transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared.
This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Services (described below). We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Settings and our Help Center.
Settings are available to Members of Ratifys and Visitors are provided separate controls. Learn More.
We are a verification & informative platform for professionals. People use our Services to find and verify employee information which helps them in their decision making. Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor to our Services.
Our registered users (“Subscriber”) share their professional identities, exchange knowledge and professional insights, and generate & accept employee verification requests for enhancing decision making capabilities. Content and data on some of our Services is viewable to non-members (“Visitors”).
This Privacy Policy, including our Cookie Policy applies to your use of our Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to Ratifys.com, Ratifys-branded apps, Ratifys Learning and other Ratifysrelated sites, apps, communications and services (“Services”), including off-site Services, such as our ad services and the “Apply with Ratifys” and “Share with Ratifys” plugins, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy.
Ratifys Informative Private Limited (“Ratifys”) will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.
As a Visitor or Subscriber of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.
Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.”
Ratifys (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.
You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.
You provide data to create an account with us.
To create an account you need to provide data including your name, company name, company details, company email address, mobile number, and a password. If you register for a premium Service, you will need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information.
You create your Ratifys profile (a complete profile helps you get the most from our Services).
You have choices about the information on your company profile, such as your organisation/company type, work nature, other organisation parameters, photo, city or area and endorsements.
You give other data to us, such as by syncing your address book or calendar.
We collect personal data for the verification request from you when you initiate employee verification from our Services, such as when you fill out a form, (e.g., with demographic data, personal information, past employment information, documents information etc.), respond to a employee verification application on our Services. All the information shared would be shared on your behalf for verification process.
Others may verify & write about initiated verification request.
We receive notes on personal, employment, document, legal data, about your verification request when you use the employee verification & information services, such as employee work & attribute details.
We receive data about you when you use some of the other services provided by us or our affiliates, including Microsoft. For example, you may choose to send us information about your service request in Mailing apps and services, such as Outlook etc, for improved professional communication activities on our Services.
We log your visits and use of our Services, including mobile apps.
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., know your employee) or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
We collect data through cookies and similar technologies.
As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. We also allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. If you are outside the Designated Countries, we also collect (or rely on others who collect) information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system and browser information) so we can provide our Members with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness. You can opt out from our use of data from cookies and similar technologies that track your behaviour on the sites of others for ad targeting and other ad-related purposes.
We receive data through cookies and similar technologies.
When you visit or leave our Services (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.
If you communicate through our Services, we learn about that.
We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, if you get a Ratifys verification request, we track whether you have acted on it and will send you reminders. We also use automatic scanning technology on messages/shared reports to support and protect our site. For example, we use this technology to suggest possible responses to messages/shared reports and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement or Professional Community Policies from our Services.
We get data when you visit sites that include our ads, cookies or some of our plugins or when you log-in to others’ services with your Ratifys account.
We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log-in with Ratifys or visit others’ services that include some of our plugins (such as “Apply with Ratifys”) or our ads, cookies or similar technologies.
We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use data.
Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services.
How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.
Our Services help you to verify information which improves your decision making capabilities.
We use your data & data provided by you to authorize access to our Services.
Our Services allow you to get more authentic & relevant information which improves your decision making capabilities for better human resource management.
We contact you by enable information sharing between Subscriber, Visitors & Guest Users.
We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your Ratifys inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services, network updates, reminders, job suggestions and promotional messages from us and our partners. You may change your communication preferences at any time. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.
We also enable sharing between you and others through our Services, including for example verification requests and messages between connections.
We promote our Services to you and others.
In addition to advertising our Services, we use Members’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services.
We develop our Services and conduct research
We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Services in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.
We seek to create economic opportunity for Members of the global workforce and to help them be more productive and successful. We use the personal data available to us to research social, economic and workplace trends. In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as aggregated data rather than personal data.
We use data to help you and fix problems.
We use data to help you and fix problems.
We use data to generate insights that do not identify you.
We use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our members, their profession or industry, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on, or to publish visitor demographics for a Service or create demographic workforce insights.
We use data for security, fraud prevention and investigations.
We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors or others.
Any data that you include on your profile and information you shares in employee verification process and other data you take on our Services will be seen by others, consistent as per Ratifys policy.
Subscriber may need to store reports and other information outside of our Service.
We share your data across our different Services and Ratifys affiliated entities.
We will share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others.
We may use others to help us with our Services.
We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others.
It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Ratifys, our Members, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
We keep most of your personal data for as long as your account is open.
We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when looking for verification request every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open, unless you close your account. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
You can access or delete your Company/Organisation data. You have many choices about how your data is collected, used and shared.
For Company/Organisation data that we have about you, you can:
We keep some of your data even after you close your account.
If you choose to close your Ratifys account, your Company/Organisation data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below.
We retain your Company/Organisation data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account for breach of our Professional Community Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.
Information you have shared with others (e.g., verification request, rate your employee) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other Members have copied out of our Services. Groups content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
We monitor for and try to prevent security breaches. Please use the security features available through our Services.
We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
We store and use your data outside your country.
We process data both inside and outside of the Republic of India and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country.
We have lawful bases to collect, use and share data about your data. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can withdraw consent you have provided by going to settings.
We will only collect and process Personal/Company/Organisation data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent(where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the Ratifys Services you have requested) and “legitimate interests.”
Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. Learn More. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer here.
Our statements regarding direct marketing and “do not track” signals.
We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission. About this and about our response to “do not track” signals.
You can contact us or use other options to resolve any complaints.
If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact Ratifys online. You can also reach us by physical mail. If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you have more options. Subscriber may also have the right to contact our Data Protection Officer here. If this does not resolve your complaint, Subscriber may have more options under their laws.
Where we process data based on consent, we will ask for your explicit consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, but that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal. Where we rely on contract, we will ask that you agree to the processing of personal data that is necessary for entering into or performance of your contract with us. We will rely on legitimate interests as a basis for data processing where the processing of your data is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
At Ratifys, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use data related to you. This Cookie Policy applies to any Ratifys product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference. We use cookies and similar technologies such as pixels, local storage and mobile ad IDs (collectively referred to in this policy as “cookies”) to collect and use data as part of our Services, as defined in our Privacy Policy (“Services”) and which includes our sites, communications, mobile applications and off-site Services, such as our ad services and the “Apply with Ratifys” and “Share with Ratifys” plugins or tags. In the spirit of transparency, this policy provides detailed information about how and when we use these technologies.
By continuing to visit or use our Services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes described in this policy.
| Type of technology | Description |
|---|---|
| Cookies |
A cookie is a small file placed onto your device that enables Ratifys features and functionality. Any browser visiting our sites may receive cookies from us or cookies from third parties such as our customers, partners or service providers. We or third parties may also place cookies in your browser when you visit non-Ratifys sites that display ads or that host our plugins or tags. We use two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. A persistent cookie lasts beyond the current session and is used for many purposes, such as recognizing you as an existing user, so it’s easier to return to Ratifys and interact with our Services without signing in again. Since a persistent cookie stays in your browser, it will be read by Ratifys when you return to one of our sites or visit a third party site that uses our Services. Session cookies last only as long as the session (usually the current visit to a website or a browser session). |
| Pixels |
A pixel is a tiny image that may be embedded within web pages and emails, requiring a call (which provides device and visit information) to our servers in order for the pixel to be rendered in those web pages and emails. We use pixels to learn more about your interactions with email content or web content, such as whether you interacted with ads or posts. Pixels can also enable us and third parties to place cookies on your browser. |
| Local storage |
Local storage enables a website or application to store information locally on your device(s). Local storage may be used to improve the Ratifys experience, for example, by enabling features, remembering your preferences and speeding up site functionality. |
| Other similar technologies |
We also use other tracking technologies, such as mobile advertising IDs and tags for similar purposes as described in this Cookie Policy. References to similar technologies in this policy includes pixels, local storage, and other tracking technologies. |
Our cookie tables lists cookies and similar technologies that are used as part of our Services. Please note that the names of cookies and similar technologies may change over time.
Below we describe the purposes for which we use these technologies.
| Purpose | Description |
|---|---|
| Authentication |
We use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Services. If you’re signed into Ratifys, these technologies help us show you the right information and personalize your experience in line with your settings. For example, cookies enable Ratifys to identify you and verify your account. |
| Security |
We use cookies and similar technologies to make your interactions with our Services faster and more secure. For example, we use cookies to enable and support our security features, keep your account safe and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our User Agreement. |
| Preferences, features and services |
We use cookies and similar technologies to enable the functionality of our Services, such as helping you to fill out forms on our Services more easily and providing you with features, insights and customized content in conjunction with our plugins. We also use these technologies to remember information about your browser and your preferences. For example, cookies can tell us which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are. We may also use local storage to speed up site functionality. |
| Customized content |
We use cookies and similar technologies to customize your experience on our Services. For example, we may use cookies to remember previous searches so that when you return to our services, we can offer additional information that relates to your previous search. |
| Plugins on and off Ratifys |
We use cookies and similar technologies to enable Ratifys plugins both on and off the Ratifys sites. For example, our plugins, including the "Apply with Ratifys" button or the "Share" button may be found on Ratifys or third-party sites, such as the sites of our customers and partners. Our plugins use cookies and other technologies to provide analytics and recognize you on Ratifys and third-party sites. If you interact with a plugin (for instance, by clicking "Apply"), the plugin will use cookies to identify you and initiate your request to apply. You can learn more about plugins in our Privacy Policy. |
| Advertising |
Cookies and similar technologies help us show relevant advertising to you more effectively, both on and off our Services and to measure the performance of such ads. We use these technologies to learn whether content has been shown to you or whether someone who was presented with an ad later came back and took an action (e.g., downloaded a white paper or made a purchase) on another site. Similarly, our partners or service providers may use these technologies to determine whether we've shown an ad or a post and how it performed or provide us with information about how you interact with ads. We may also work with our customers and partners to show you an ad on or off Ratifys, such as after you’ve visited a customer’s or partner’s site or application. These technologies help us provide aggregated information to our customers and partners. For further information regarding the use of cookies for advertising purposes, please see Sections 1.4 and 2.4 of the Privacy Policy. As noted in Section 1.4 of our Privacy Policy, we also collect (or rely on others who collect) information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system and browser information) so we can provide our Members with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness. For further information, please see Section 1.4 of the Privacy Policy. |
| Analytics and research |
Cookies and similar technologies help us learn more about how well our Services and plugins perform in different locations. We or our service providers use these technologies to understand, improve, and research products, features and services, including as you navigate through our sites or when you access Ratifys from other sites, applications or devices. We or our service providers, use these technologies to determine and measure the performance of ads or posts on and off Ratifys and to learn whether you have interacted with our websites, content or emails and provide analytics based on those interactions. We also use these technologies to provide aggregated information to our customers and partners as part of our Services. If you are a Ratifys member but logged out of your account on a browser, Ratifys may still continue to log your interaction with our Services on that browser until the expiration of the cookie in order to generate usage analytics for our Services. We may share these analytics in aggregate form with our customers. |
Third parties such as our customers, partners and service providers may use cookies in connection with our Services.
For example, third parties may use cookies in their Ratifys pages, job posts and their advertisements on and off Ratifys for their own marketing purposes. For an illustration, please visit Ratifys’s Help Center.
Third parties may also use cookies in connection with our off-site Services, such as Ratifys ad services. Third parties may use cookies to help us to provide our Services. We may also work with third parties for our own marketing purposes and to enable us to analyze and research our Services.
You have choices on how Ratifys uses cookies and similar technologies. Please note that if you limit the ability of Ratifys to set cookies and similar technologies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it may no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
As described in Section 2.4 of the Privacy Policy, you have choices regarding the personalized ads you may see.
Some mobile device operating systems such as Android provide the ability to control the use of mobile advertising IDs for ads personalization. You can learn how to use these controls by visiting the manufacturer’s website. We do not use iOS mobile advertising IDs for targeted advertising.
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings, which may be adapted to reflect your consent to the use of cookies. Further, most browsers also enable you to review and erase cookies, including Ratifys cookies. To learn more about browser controls, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
DNT is a concept that has been promoted by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites by using browser settings. As such, Ratifys does not generally respond to “do not track” signals.
Ratifys respects the intellectual property rights of others and desires to offer a platform which contains no content that violates those rights. Our User Agreement requires that information posted by Subscriber be accurate, lawful and not in violation of the rights of third parties. To promote these objectives, Ratifys provides a process for submission of complaints concerning content posted by our Subscriber. Our policy and procedures are described and/or referenced in the sections that follow.
Please note that whether or not we disable access to or remove content, Ratifys may make a good faith attempt to forward the written notification, including the complainant’s contact information, to the Member who posted the content and/or take other reasonable steps to notify the Member that Ratifys has received notice of an alleged violation of intellectual property rights or other content violation. It is also our policy, in appropriate circumstances and in our discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of Subscriber, or groups as the case may be, who infringe or repeatedly infringe the rights of others or otherwise post unlawful content.
Please note that any notice or counter-notice you submit must be truthful and must be submitted under penalty of perjury. A false notice or counter-notice may give rise to personal liability. You may therefore want to seek the advice of legal counsel before submitting a notice or a counter-notice.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or any other violation of your rights, please provide the following information in writing to Ratifys's Copyright Agent:
Please note that in order to be effective notice under the THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 ACT NO. 14 OF 1957, your notice must include all of the above information. Claimants who make misrepresentations concerning copyright infringement may be liable for damages incurred as a result of the removal or blocking of that material, court costs and attorneys fees, for more details please refer https://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf
Ratifys's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows:
Ratifys Copyright Department
911, Times Square Arcade, Opp. Rambaug, Nr. Ravija Plaza,
Thaltej-Shilaj Road, Thaltej
Ahmedabad-380059
Direct: +91 79 4899 1546