Protean Cloud - Privacy Notice

Version 1.0 - Last Updated 2nd May, 2025.

Thank you for using Protean Cloud.

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy and to help ensure a rewarding experience for all users, we provide this Privacy Notice, which outlines how we treat the information we receive from you. Protean Cloud respects your privacy and recognizes the need to protect your personally identifiable information (i.e., any information by which you can be identified, such as name, address, telephone number, email address) ("Personal Information").

Scope:

Protean Cloud (hereinafter referred to as "we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice, outlines privacy practices regarding the collection, use, and safeguard of your information through the Protean Cloud Web Interfaces (e.g. Websites such as proteancloud.com, proteantech.in; WebApps such as Self-Service Portal, Ticketing Tools, Monitoring Dashboards, Application Programming Interfaces (API), and other related web utilities) to provide cloud services thereupon.

Changes to the Privacy Notice:

We are obligated to protect your information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. This Privacy Notice is subject to modification based on changes in business, legal, and regulatory requirements and will be updated online. We will notify you with appropriate effective date whenever any changes to the Privacy Notice are made. You are encouraged to periodically visit this page to review the Privacy Notice and any changes to it.

Use of Cookies:

Protean Cloud Web Interfaces may employ cookies, which are data files placed on the users’ device, to enhance user experience and personalize content upon subsequent access. Users are hereby advised to retain their prerogative to configure browser settings to manage cookie acceptance. Data collected and analysed via first-party cookies are utilized solely to optimize the performance of web pages and user-interfaces and personalize user interaction within Web Interfaces. Kindly refer Cookies Policy for further reference (https://proteantech.in/cookie-policy).

Information we may collect and process:

You can visit our website www.proteancloud.com on the World Wide Web without declaring who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our Web servers collect the domain names of visitors. We use this information to collect and aggregate information about the visitors to our website; and assist with our systems administration in problem resolution that may be required. We would like to assure you that the Personal Information provided by you to us is usually used by us only to respond to your inquiry.

We may collect the following Personal Information from you if you are transacting through our Cloud Web Interfaces:

Purpose of data collection:

The Cloud Web Interfaces seeks this information either to:

  1. Validate and process your request for the services,
  2. Improve the quality of the Web Interfaces,
  3. Assist you in determining which services best meet your needs; or
  4. Facilitate our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any operational, legal and regulatory requirements.

Data recipients, transfer, and disclosure of Personal Information:

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personal Information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties / strategic partners who assist us in conducting our business or servicing you; and these parties agree to keep this information confidential based on service agreements. We may also release, use, or disclose your Personal Information when we believe such release of information is necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable statutory requirement, to enforce our site policies, to protect our or others' rights, property, or safety as required or permitted by law, or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise.

Your Content:

Protean Cloud Services allow you to store, synchronize, stream, and share documents, text, messages, audio, contacts, photos, music, videos, etc. (the "your Content"). To make that possible, we allow you hosting your Content as well as related information; however, we do not have access to your Content stored in your workload hosted in Protean Cloud Infrastructure.

Linked Web Interfaces:

Please note that applications and/or services that you install or access within your workloads or third-party operators, may also collect, use, and share information about you and your usage. We cannot control how such information is collected, used, shared, or secured by third parties. For information about third-party privacy practices, please consult their respective privacy policies.

Further, these Web Interfaces may contain links to other digital interfaces (e.g. sites, services and/or APIs) from business affiliates and software providers that you would have subscribed to meet your business requirements or workloads deployed in Protean Cloud. We are not responsible for the content, or the privacy practices employed by such digital interfaces subscribed by you. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting other digital interfaces through your workloads and/or Cloud Web Interfaces; which are not governed by this Privacy Notice. We advise you to read their privacy policies before providing your Personal Information to such digital interfaces.

Data security:

We take appropriate steps to protect the information you share with Us. We have implemented technology and security features and strict policy guidelines to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Information from unauthorized access and improper use or disclosure. Wherever applicable, Protean Cloud complies with the Rules, Regulations, and Guidelines issued by regulators as applicable to the company’s various businesses from time to time and also adheres to the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011.

Grievances Redressal:

You may always submit concerns / grievances regarding our Privacy Notice or our privacy practices to the designated Grievance Officer as follows:

Name of Grievance Officer: Mr. Kapil Kapoor
Designation: Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
Email: writetous@proteantech.in
Phone: 022-24994200

Please reference the Privacy Notice in your subject line. We will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns or inquiries within 10 business days of receipt.

Thank you for using Protean Cloud!