TCS BoardApp Privacy Policy

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT

Tata Consultancy Services Limited ("TCS" or "we") is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data.

This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal data about you during and after your interaction with Board Application Portal ("Board" or the "Application") in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applies to whosoever interacts with the Application.

TCS is a "data controller". This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice.

It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information.


DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

We will comply with applicable data protection laws. This means that the personal data we hold about you must be:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and kept up to date.
  5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  6. Kept securely.

THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (aka anonymous data).

There is also information that is automatically collected by Board Application Portal. This information can include your IP address, domain names and access times. This information is for the operation of the service and to maintain quality of the service.


HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED

We collect personal data about you through your interaction with the Board Application.


HOW WILL WE USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

The use / purpose for which any information collected by the user, may comprise all or any of the following purposes:

Under the GDPR the lawful bases for this processing are performance of the contract (providing the services of Board Application), legitimate interest of TCS in maintaining and optimizing the service and keep record of its usage and legal obligation. Board Application website does not sell, rent or lease its tenant lists to third parties.


DATA SHARING

We do not share your data with third parties, including third-party service providers and other entities in the group except Mobile Number which is shared with third-party for sending OTP via Mobile for authentication purpose. Others are used for our internal purpose only.

Board Application web site may disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) confirm to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Board Application or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Board Application; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Board Application, or the public.


DATA SECURITY

We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information. Details of these measures are available upon request.

We have put in place appropriate technical, organizational and security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.


DATA RETENTION


DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS


DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

TCS has appointed internal Data Protection Officers who can be contacted for any questions or concerns about TCS' privacy policies or practices. Depending on your location, you can refer to:

Data Protection Officer for UK and Ireland   |   DPO.uki@tcs.com
Data Protection Officer for Continental Europe    |   DPO.Europe@tcs.com

DATA PROTECTION SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY

Under GDPR, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection supervisory authority.


CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.