Privacy Policy

   

Azim Premji Foundation (“Foundation”) along with partners are working in specific regions of the country to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination for Residents of those regions.

The Foundation uses VaxIT  (App) to collect some personal information from a Resident. Foundation is committed to protecting the security of this information and safeguarding the privacy of the Residents. This Privacy Policy sets out the details of the personal information collected, the manner in which it is collected, by whom as well as the purposes for which it is used. This Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time. At time of collecting the personal information, Foundation will inform the Resident and obtain consent to the terms of the Privacy Policy, as revised from time to time.

1.       PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED AND MANNER OF COLLECTION

The following Personal Information is collected from Resident and stored securely on a server operated and managed by the Azim Premji Foundation – (i) name; (ii) mobile number; (iii) year of birth (iv) gender (v) Aadhar No (vi) COWIN ID. The App shall collect these details for the purpose of planning for COVID-19 vaccination and communicating with Residents on vaccination camp details.

2.       USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Personal Information collected from the Resident will be used by the Foundation and its partners for non-commercial purposes only such as:-

a.       for facilitating the registration for COVID-19 vaccination;

b.      to provide notifications to the Resident pertaining to COVID-19 Vaccination camps;

c.       for generating reports for the purpose of the management of COVID-19 Vaccination; and

d.      for facilitating download of vaccination certificate

The Personal information collected will not be used for any purpose other than those mentioned herein

3.       RETENTION

All Personal Information collected from Resident will be retained for as long as Resident’s registration on the App remains in existence and for such period thereafter as is required for the Vaccination intervention to be completed. Nothing set out herein shall apply to the anonymized, aggregated datasets generated by the Personal Information of the Residents or any reports, heat maps or other visualization created using such datasets.

4.       RIGHTS OF THE RESIDENT

Resident has the right to contact Foundation to access profile at any time in order to add, remove or modify any registration information that has been supplied. If Resident no longer wishes to be part of the Vaccination intervention, Resident can contact Foundation and request for the deletion of Personal Information. Foundation will comply with such requests to the extent permitted under applicable laws.

5.       DATA SECURITY

The App is equipped with standard security features to protect the confidentiality and security of your information. Data is encrypted in transit as well as at rest. Personal information provided at the time of registration is encrypted before being uploaded to the cloud where it is stored in a secure encrypted server. To ensure security of Personal Information, Foundation complies with the reasonable security practices and procedures laid down in the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011

6.       DISCLOSURES AND TRANSFER

Resident’s current Vaccination status will be disclosed to medical and administrative personnel in the government in accordance with the terms of this policy that the Resident consented to.

Save as otherwise set out in this Point 6 as well as in Point 2 above with respect to Personal Information provided to persons carrying out medical and administrative interventions necessary in relation to COVID-19, no Personal Information collected by the App will be disclosed or transferred to any third party.

7.       GRIEVANCES

If you have any concerns or questions in relation to this Privacy Policy, you may send them to the mail id­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ vaccineapp@azimpremjifoundation.org