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• Information that You Share with Other Users on the Website/Mobile Application: Our website allows viewing and sharing information, including through blogs, ratings, comments, messages, chat, etc. You should consider who you choose to share with and what you share, because people who can see your activity through our website can choose to share it with others on and off our website, including people and businesses outside the audience that you shared with. For example, when you send a message to a specific startup or an enabler, they can download, screenshot, or reshare that content with others across or off our website, in person or through an online medium. Also, when you comment on someone else's content and/or react to their content, your comment and/or reaction will be visible to anyone who can see the other person's content, and that person will be able to change the audience later. We are not responsible for any information or data, personal and/or commercial, shared by you with any other user or third-party on the website or mobile application. Users are advised not to use the website for any financial transaction for third parties and restrict the use to non

By entering Your User Information, you accept that We may retain Your User Information and that it may be held by Us or any Partners that process it on Our behalf. Further, you also accept that your user information shall also be used by the program hosts with regards to the specific challenges, workshops, events, and programs posted on the Startup India Portal. We, along with incubators, accelerators, and mentors, shall be entitled to use your user information for the following purposes:

• Provide and communicate with you about feedback, follow up on programs you’ve applied for, or queries submitted to the team.

• Fulfil your requests regarding the services, including, without limitation, responding to your enquiries and communicating with you about our products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

• Enforce the legal terms (including without limitation our policies and terms of service) that govern your use of our services and/or for the purposes for which you provided the information.

• Provide technical support for the website or in connection with our services and offerings.

• Prevent fraud or potentially illegal activities (including, without limitation, copyright infringement) on or through our website or services.

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• Perform analysis regarding how you use the services or any part thereof, such as market research, including statistical analysis of user behaviour, which we may disclose to third parties in depersonalised, aggregated form.

• In order to enable us to comply with any requirements imposed on us by law.

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• Evaluation of Programs and Challenges hosted on Startup India Portal and provide any support required by you.

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We shall not be responsible for any illicit, immoral, illegal, and/or malicious content exchanged between one or more users, and the knowledge of the same shall give the website/mobile application administrator the right to block and report such a user.

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We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on the Portal Website with any third party (public or private). Generally accepted best practices shall be user to protect any information provided to this website to protect from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We may disclose the user information as follows:

• To service providers or partners that we have engaged to perform business-related functions on our behalf. This may include service providers that:
  (a) conduct research and analytics.
  (b) create content.
  (c) provide customer, technical, or operational support.
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  (e) fulfil orders and user requests. 
  (g) host our services, forums, and online communities.
  (h) administer the website.
  (i) maintain databases.
  (j) otherwise support our services.
• Any answers submitted by you for a specific program or innovation challenge will be shared with the partners who are a part of that specific innovation hunt.
• In response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena, a law enforcement or government agency's request or similar request.
• With third parties in order to investigate, prevent, or take action (in our sole discretion) regarding potentially illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to any person, us, or the Website, or violations of our policies, the law, or our Terms of Use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website.
• We may share the user information with our affiliates or group companies so they can provide, improve, and communicate with you about their own or their marketing partners’ products and services.
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