Terms of Use

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) provides a comprehensive and integrated platform to strategically shape global, regional, national and industry agendas. It helps the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to improve the state of the world, serving as an independent and impartial partner and acting as the officially recognized international institution for public-private cooperation. CII owns, operates and makes available the application and makes it available to the users (individually “User” and collectively “Users”) under the following Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, applying to CII HIve App:

Agreement to the Terms of Use

CII HIve App contains features such as blogs, reports and newsletter services, event, issue and community pages, member areas and other applications that may be available from time to time. Any person who accesses or uses CII HIve App agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use. They stipulate conditions, disclaimers and other provisions, some of which limit the CII’s liability. Any person who does not agree to or comply with these Terms of Use should not access or use CII HIve App.Access to CII HIve App is granted to Users who have current and active engagements with the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Appropriate Use

Any use of CII HIve App by Users that would limit or constrict the availability or quality of CII HIve App features is prohibited. CII reserves the exclusive right to take any actions required to enforce this principle.

Users shall not use CII HIve App to post, submit or otherwise distribute unlawful, defamatory, abusive, obscene or offensive materials. Furthermore, Users shall not use CII HIve App in any way that may violate third-party rights including, but not limited to, copyrights or privacy. Neither shall Users access or attempt to access CII HIve App using interfaces aside from the ones provided by CII HIve App.

Users will provide personal information as part of the registration to access and use the features on CII HIve App. Information provided for registration must be accurate and up-to-date. CII reserves the exclusive right to verify and deny access where data is incomplete, incorrect, inappropriate and/or missing.

Users acknowledge that CII is not responsible nor liable for any harm resulting from: (1) use of CII HIve App; (2) downloading information contained on CII HIve App including, but not limited to, downloads of content posted by subscribers; (3) unauthorized disclosure of images, information or data that results from the upload, download or storage of content posted by Users; (4) the

temporary or permanent inability to access or retrieve information from CII HIve App, including, without limitation, harm caused by viruses, worms, trojan horses, or any similar contamination or destructive programmes.

Disclaimer

CII HIve App is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” with no express or implied warranties of any kind including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement and title. CII disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conducts of any third parties in connection with or related to the manner in which Users use CII HIve App. Users assume total responsibility for their use of CII HIve App and any linked sites where applicable. If this disclaimer is not enforceable under applicable law, it may be modified at CII’s sole discretion to a form that is enforceable.

CII does not take responsibility for any content on CII HIve App that is incomplete, inaccurate or not up-to-date. CII expressly disclaims any and all liability to any person in respect of anything done, or omitted to be done wholly or partially, in reliance upon the contents of CII HIve App.

Furthermore, CII is not liable for any damage or corruption caused by viruses (or similar mechanisms such as worms, lock outs, metering or self-destruct mechanisms) on computers or other terminal equipment in connection with visiting, using and/or downloading data of any kind from CII HIve App. Users are personally responsible for protecting their equipment appropriately from viruses and other risks on the Internet.

CII reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to monitor and/or remove content from CII HIve App, but disclaims the obligation thereto.

CII HIve App Content

With the exception of blogged content, for which all proprietary rights lie with the author of the blog, CII reserves exclusive proprietary rights to all content on CII HIve App including, but not limited to, copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights; this includes all text, graphics, photographs, logos and/or other items that appear on CII HIve App. CII also reserves proprietary rights over the CII HIve App template, including its layout and structure.

CII’s name and logo are registered trademarks of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). CII HIve App Users are not authorized to use CII’s logo.

Publications

The content of any articles published on CII HIve App expresses the opinion solely of the author of the respective content. The content of articles published on CII HIve App by authors other than CII does not necessarily represent CII’s endorsement of the views or content so expressed.

Links to other Websites

Links on CII HIve App may connect Users to external or third-party websites that are not related to CII nor under its control. CII is not responsible for the content of external or third-party websites that may be accessible or displayed through external links on CII HIve App. The presence of these external links does not represent CII’s endorsement of the views or content of these third-party websites. Navigating to external websites through links on CII HIve App is done at the sole risk of the User, and CII expressly disclaims any liability for any content that appears on any external site.

Amendments

CII may amend these Terms of Use at any time. Such amendments will be effective immediately upon notice being provided to the User. Notice may be provided on CII HIve App itself, and after posting of the notice, the User’s continued use of CII HIve App will be deemed as acceptance of the modified Terms of Use.

Waiver and Severability of Terms of Use

Failure of CII to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties` intention as reflected in the provision and the other provisions of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

Applicable Law

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the substantive laws of India, under exclusion of any conflicts of laws principles.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy stipulates the privacy practices for the CII HIve App under the MyCII.in (“CII”) domain and CII HIve App mobile applications.

CII is committed to complying with data protection laws and to the protection and confidentiality of the personal data of CII HIve App Users. CII would like Users to be well informed of the gathering and use of their information through CII HIve App. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before

accessing CII HIve App and prior to entering your personal information. Accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy is a necessary prerequisite to registering to and accessing CII HIve App.

The following points present the essential body of CII’s Privacy Policy:

• general trends in the use of the CII HIve App will be monitored;
• there will be no collection of information concerning Users unless that information is voluntarily disclosed, for example by signing up as a User;
• there will be no selling or renting of information voluntarily disclosed to CII nor sharing of it with any third parties; except with those other registered users of CII HIve App and third parties maintaining and developing CII HIve App;
• Users will only be contacted by CII for purposes related to the work and/or activities of the CII;
• Users signed up for CII HIve App services can modify their information at any time, except for their name, email, Company name, unless that information is incorrect (in which case we give the Users an opportunity to update it).

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the CII HIve App Terms of Use. Any person who registers or uses CII HIve App acknowledges thereby that they have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, as they may be amended from time to time. Any User who uses or accesses CII HIve App agrees and consents to the collection of personal information in the manner outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Use of Information

By registering to CII HIve App, Users voluntarily consent to their personal data being collected by CII and used by third parties that maintain and develop CII HIve App as well as by other CII HIve App users registered on CII HIve App.

CII will ensure that third parties accessing the personal data of Users shall comply with the same data protection requirements as CII and that the personal data will be used exclusively for the purpose set out above.

The User’s personal data will not be used for advertising or market research purposes.

CII will analyse browsing patterns and usage trends of CII HIve App Users with the general information collected.

CII periodically summarizes and analyses these log files to learn how Users use content on CII HIve App. This information is used to improve the content, organization and performance of CII HIve App.

Security

Any information provided to CII by Users of CII HIve App is handled with due care and security, and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, or in any site/area-specific policies, or in ways to which Users have not explicitly consented. CII employs a range of technologies and security measures to protect the information maintained on CII systems from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, CII cannot ensure nor guarantee the security of any information that the User may transmit to CII HIve App. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of CII’s physical, technical or managerial safeguards.

All CII employees who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of all such personal data.

User Rights

The User has the right to information relating to his/her personal data stored by CII. The User is entitled to have any inaccuracy or error in his/her data corrected, or to have his/her data blocked or deleted. The deletion of personal data from CII HIve App will cancel the User’s CII HIve App account.

Retention of Personal Information

CII will retain the User’s personal information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Electronic Mail

When a User sends CII personal identifying information via e-mail (that is, in a message containing a question or a comment, or by filling out a form that e-mails CII this information), CII uses it to respond to User requests. CII may forward the User’s e-mail to other employees of CII (including affiliates s or branches of CII, also such that are located in countries that do not have legislation which provides for adequate Data Protection) who are better able to answer the User’ questions. Information collected via e-mail will be retained at the sole discretion of CII in a directly readable form as long as it is necessary to complete CII’s response.

External Links

CII HIve App may have links to other websites that are not operated or maintained by CII and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Users should be aware that the links on CII HIve App are provided only for User convenience. CII has no control over, makes no promises or warranties of any kind with regard to, and has no responsibility or liability for, the content of any other websites or their privacy policies, their use of cookies, or the way they collect, save, store or use information. Users should review the privacy policy of each website they visit.

Applicable Law and Venue of Jurisdiction

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the substantive laws of India, under the exclusion of any conflicts of laws principles.

Contact

Should you have any questions or concerns about these Terms of Use and / or CII's Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail at helpdesk@mycii.in.