Who we are

This Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices for the use of the India Hydrogen Alliance (IH2A) website stated above. As a general rule, this website does not collect Personal Information about you when you visit the site. You can generally visit the site without revealing Personal Information, unless you choose to provide such information. Where required by applicable law, your use of this website indicates your consent for us to process your personal information in the manner described below.

IH2A’s collection and use of data

When you engage in activities on this site such as requesting information, making enquiries or otherwise providing us with permission to contact you, you may be required to submit personal information such as your name, company name, address, phone number or email address so that we can respond to your request or inquiry. By filling in the contact form with your data or otherwise providing contact information in connection with a request that we contact you, you authorize www.ih2a.com to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

As noted below in the section addressing cookies, we may also automatically capture non-personally identifiable usage data (e.g., your domain name, the IP address of the web page from which you enter our site, the pages that you visit on our site, the click-through rates, and the amount of time that you spend on our site). Cookies and similar technologies are used by us to improve and enhance your user experience when using our website. We will not directly identify users or their browsing activities, except when a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider's logs.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

IH2A may share your data with third-party service providers. The following activities may be carried out by third-party service providers: hosting and other internet services, data storage and analytics, and other activities in support of the business of IH2A. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. IH2A will not otherwise provide any personally identifiable information to any third parties without your consent except where IH2A reasonably believes that this release of information is necessary: 1) To comply with legal requirements, legal process or regulatory investigations; 2) to establish, exercise, protect and defend the rights or property of IH2A; or 3) to protect the other users of the site or the public.

Transferring your personal data outside of your country of residence

We may transfer the personal data we collect about you to one of more countries outside of your country of residence or outside of the country in which you access this website, including India, in order to perform one of the activities listed above. This could include transfers to service providers who store or otherwise process your data in the United States of America.

How we will keep your information safe

IH2A takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the personal information collected through this website. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions.  However, transmission of information over the internet can never be 100% secure, and you provide information to us at your own risk.

How long we will keep your information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, or to meet any applicable legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Right to withdraw consent.

You have the right to opt-out of communications that IH2A sends you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the e-mails that IH2A sends you.

Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time by exercising your opt-out options. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Use of Cookies

IH2A uses cookies to improve and enhance your user experience when using our website. By continuing to browse or use this IH2A website, you agree that we can store and access cookies as described in this Policy

What are Cookies and other Tracking Technologies?

A cookie is a small text file containing small amounts of information that a website puts on a user’s computer (or mobile device) when you visit a website and is used by the website to send information to your browser and for the browser to return information to the website.

You can find more information about cookies

at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. For a video about cookies, please visit www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies.

How do we use Cookies and other Tracking Technologies?

The information your browser sends to IH2A’s website is used for authentication and identification of your session and allows IH2A to display the correct information on the website. IH2A matches the cookie against your details so it can distinguish you from other users as you browse the site, which helps it to provide you with a good user experience. Most web browsers enable you to erase cookies, block cookies, receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your device or disable cookies. If you wish to withdraw consent to use Cookies at any point you will need to delete cookies using your web browsers settings. If you do so, however, this site may not function correctly.

Logging: IH2A records and stores details of the pages visited so that it can generate usage statistics. Except as otherwise provided in its Privacy Policy, IH2A does not sell or share any information gathered to other companies.

Cookie retention: This website uses cookies which are persistent and non-persistent (session-based). While many of the cookies used on this website only last for the duration of your use of this website (session-based cookies), other cookies are persistent, i.e., stay in one of your browser's subfolders until you delete them manually or your browser deletes them.

What types of Cookies may be used?

There are several different types of cookies. These may include, among others:

Necessary Cookies: Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Preference Cookies: Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Statistics Cookies: Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Marketing Cookies: Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

What cookies does the IH2A web portal use?

A list of all the cookies used on this site by category is detailed below.

Note: This website does not use any cookies which retain personal information about you after your session ends.

The table below provides additional details on the specific cookies used on the IH2A ’s website:

As noted above, IH2A’s web portal uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google") to help analyse how users use the site, for example which pages are most frequently visited. The information generated by a Google Analytics cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

By continuing to use this website you give your consent for IH2A to use cookies as detailed above.

If the way IH2A uses cookies changes significantly (e.g. a new cookie being added with different functionality), IH2A will inform you from the home page. This detail will always be available to you from the navigation links at the bottom of all pages.

What if I don’t want cookies to be used?

By using IH2A’s website you agree that IH2A can place cookies on your device as explained above. If you want to remove existing cookies from your device you can do this using your browser options. If you want to block future cookies from being placed on your device you can change your browser settings to do this. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block the use of all Cookies it may impact certain functionality on the IH2A website or degrade your browsing experience.

Your rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal information, including to review personal information provided to us and to correct any inaccurate personal information. Please contact us using the information set out below if you wish to exercise any right in respect of your personal information.

Hyperlink Policy - Links To External Websites

At some places in this website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. These links have been placed for your convenience. IH2A is not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this website should not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.

How to contact us

The IH2A Secretariat manages this site including the collection and retention of any personal information. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact the IH2A Secretariat at sec@ih2a.com or IH2A Secretariat, 14th Floor, Eros Corporate Tower, Nehru Place, New Delhi – 110019, India.

The IH2A Secretariat function is provided by FTI Consulting India Private Limited. This website is hosted by GoDaddy.com. FTI Consulting and GoDaddy.com each maintain separate privacy policies.

Latest update: May 21, 2021