1. General

M/s Karna Stock Broking LLP (“Karna Stock”, “we”, “our” or “us”) recognizes the importance of protecting personal details and information and provides this Privacy Policy with respect to the access and use of karnastock.com and Karna Stock mobile Application (“Sites”) as owned and operated by us and/or our affiliates and payment facilitation services including bill payment services provided by us (“Services”). The term Sites will also include all pages that are sub-domains or are associated or within each Site and all devices, applications, features, technologies, functionalities, and other services that Karna Stock operates or offers through such Sites.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the user of Services may be merchants/sellers/billers, customers/buyers/consumers, or any other persons using Services or accessing Sites (“User”, “you” or “your”). This Privacy Policy will help you understand our policies and procedures regarding the collection, handling, and use of any information, which directly or in combination with other information, is capable of identifying the User (“Personal Information”).

By using our Services through the Sites, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy and consent to the processing of your Personal Information. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy do not, in any manner, use our Services or download, install, and/or use the mobile application.

2. Information Collection

We collect such information about you which is essential to operate our business and to enable us to deliver and improve our Services. We may obtain the following information about you and the device from which you avail Services:

(i) Profiling Information: For providing Services we require certain information for registration such as your name, physical addresses, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers; and certain information about your personal identity such as gender, marital status, age, etc. Further, we also collect and store your usernames, passwords, email addresses, and other security-related information that you use for our Sites in relation to our Services.

(ii) Service Usage and Transactional Information: For enabling you to make payments using our Services, we may, upon your consent, store your financial information such as your bank account or details mentioned on your credit cards or debit cards, or other payment instrument details, etc. that are required for a successful transaction. Further, for certain Services, including our bill payment service, we require your bill payment account information such as your account number, payment history, your account history with us, etc. We also store transaction details such as the amount spent, merchant name, transaction ID, and date and time of transaction, of your e-commerce transactions. Further, we may also store information relating to your income and lifestyle levels.

We should clarify that all information stored by us is in accordance with our PCI DSS Certification.

(iii) Navigational and Log Information: We collect information about your navigation using our Services, for example, the URLs of websites from which you reach our Site, and from which you request downloads, pages visited/ downloaded on our Site, websites or pages of merchants you visit using our Services. We may also collect information such as your domain name, web request, IP address, mobile application version, type of operating system that your computer uses, browser type, browser language, location, date and time of request, the products you buy, the referring site, and the time that you spend on the site.

(iv) Correspondence Information: We collect the content, information about your correspondence, and the destination/origin of communications between you and any other person using our Services, which include email communications, blog, chat room, and discussion board communications, instant message communications, experts forum communications, facsimile mail communications, membership of mailing lists, etc.

(v) Cookies: A cookie is an insignificant portion of data that is sent to the web browser of your device from which the Site is accessed. If your web browser settings permit, cookies can be sent to your web browser for recording information about your online preferences and allowing us to cater to your interests in a better manner. You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do accept a cookie, you hereby agree to our use of information collected by us using that cookie.

(vi) Stored Information: We may collect any data or information either created by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our servers such as usernames, image files, documents, etc., or which may be required to display information to you through our Service.

(vii) One Time Password (“OTP”): OTP is a one-time password which is provided by your issuing bank in order to carry out the second factor authentication of your debit/credit card. If you opt for our ‘one tap’ feature, you understand that we will be able to retrieve your OTP from the message received on your mobile and populate and submit the OTP on the issuer’s page for second-factor authentication of your debit/credit card.

3. Purpose & Use of Information

We understand the importance of your Personal Information and ensure that it is used for the intended purpose. By accepting the terms of use you agree that we may collect and store your Personal Information, in accordance with the applicable law, as long as you subscribe to or use our Services subject to the limitations set out in this Privacy Policy.

(i) We require the profiling information which includes details such as identity details, contact details, usernames, and passwords in order to manage our relationship with you and provide Services to you.

(ii) We collect and store your service usage and transactional information in order to enable you to view certain details of all your transactions which have been made using our Services, to provide you uninterrupted and satisfactory Services, to administer our relationship with you, to comply with any statutory or regulatory requirement, to monitor your use of our Services for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our user rules.

(iii) To improve our Services, we need to constantly update and alter our business and marketing strategies for which we require the navigational and log information to determine and analyse the merchants, markets, technology, operating systems, browsers, devices, locations from which our Services are used most or used least. For example, such information and its analysis will help us focus more on your needs by providing you with a wider range of Services or developing updates for particular operating systems and mobile application versions, etc. Further, the information collected helps us offer you other products, programs, or services that we believe may be of interest to you. In addition, such information collected will help us alert you in case of software compatibility issues.

(iv) We want to serve you better and therefore we require your correspondence information in order to enable us to learn about the information and content of communications by you such that we can deduce your feedback from such communications, analyse, endeavour to improve, ask you for further feedbacks, reply.

(v) The data collected by cookies helps us track, analyse and understand User trends so as to enable us to understand lacuna (such as slow response time on our website page) and improve your interactive experience of using our Services, our web design, features and functionalities.

(vi) We access data or information stored by a third party in case required for providing you uninterrupted and satisfactory Services or in case consented by you.

(vii) To enable you to make quicker transactions and relieve you from the hassle of copying/ keying in the 6-digit OTP, we have developed advance technologies that would automatically retrieve the OTP and the mention the same in the relevant column of the transaction page.

(viii) Combinations of the information collected as mentioned in this Privacy Policy such as a physical address, device information, and email address when coupled with information which is not Personal Information such as speed of typing, the maximum screen area usage, other patterns, and data help us detect and protect Users and ourselves against errors, fraud, or other criminal activity.

We collect and use some of your information in an aggregated form to compile statistical and demographical profiles for our business and marketing activities and to customise our Services to you. We may disclose such information about you, provided that the information is in an aggregated form that is not capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you. It is clarified that the consolidated Personal Information of all Users which has been collected by us, is the property of Karna Stock and we may use it, in whole or in part, in our sole discretion and without any compensation to you, for any legitimate purpose and you hereby confirm that you have no objection to the aforesaid use of your Personal Information.

4. Disclosure of Information

We do not disclose or share your Personal Information with any third party until essential for providing you Services; or for the below purposes in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

(i) Information security is critical to us and we will not share your Personal Information with any other third parties except, and only to the extent necessary, with parties such as our merchants, acquiring banks, credit card processors, etc. for us to deliver payment processing services to you.

(ii) We do not disclose or distribute any of your Personal Information to a third party or use such Personal Information for commercial or marketing purposes unless we receive the express consent of the User. However, Karna Stock may, itself or through third parties, send you e-mails, SMS, such other means to communicate, send reminders for payment, advertise its services, promote new products and activities, or for your invaluable feedback.

(iii) You acknowledge and agree that in the interests of improving personalisation and Service efficiency, we may, under controlled and secure circumstances, share your Personal Information with our affiliates or associates. If required, Karna Stock will:

1. Disclose it in a non-aggregated form which is not capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you; or
2. Share it to deliver the Services desired by you; to maintain, further develop and enhance Services; to ensure the functionality and security of our Services; and to prevent and investigate any fraud and another misuse.

(iv) If, by the usage of some functionalities of our Service, you receive Personal Information about another user (s), you agree to keep the same confidential and only use it in connection with the Services, without disclosing the same to another user or third party.

(v) In order to ensure that all our users comply with the user rules, we may monitor your Personal Information to the extent that this may be required to determine compliance and/or to identify instances of non-compliance.

(vi) We may disclose the Personal Information pursuant to applicable laws, a directive or order of a government entity or statutory authority or any judicial or regulatory authority or to law enforcement agencies in any official investigation including but not limited to cyber incidents, prosecution and punishment of offenses. You agree that Karna Stock has the right to monitor and disclose Personal Information as may be necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request. We may transfer Your Personal Information or other information collected, stored, or processed by Karna Stock to any other entity or organization located in India or outside India only in case it is necessary for providing Services to You in connection with the Application. We will cooperate with the appropriate law enforcement authorities in investigating claims of illegal activity.

(vii) We will only disclose your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If we want to use it for any other purpose, we will obtain your prior written consent.

(viii) If you decline to submit Personal Information to us, then we will unfortunately not be in a position to provide the Services to you.

(ix) If all or some of the business, stock or assets of Karna Stock are acquired or merged with another business entity, we will share all or some of your information with this entity to continue to provide the Service to you. You will receive notice of such an event and the new entity will inform you of any changes to the practices in this Privacy Policy. If the new entity wishes to make additional use of your information, you may decline such use at such time.

(x) Karna Stock does not control the acts of its Users. All Users should be aware that, when they disclose Personal Information such as their name, e-mail address, etc. to third parties, the Personal Information may be collected and used by others to send unsolicited e-mail from other parties, who may or may not be Users. In the event that you encounter any person is improperly collecting or using information about Users, please get in touch with us by emailing at info@karnastock.com

5. Security of Personal Information

(i) We work to protect the security of your Personal information during transmission by using appropriate software, which encrypts the information you input. This encrypted information is stored on secure systems/computers. Further, we ensure that the number of employees involved in the management of the data center who have physical access to these computers is limited. Also, we use advanced security technology to prevent our computers from being accessed by unauthorized persons.

(ii) We have also implemented information security practices and standards and have in place comprehensively documented information security programs and policies containing managerial, technical, operational, and physical security measures that are in compliance with the Indian laws including, so as to protect the Personal Information provided to us from unauthorized access, use, modification, damage, disclosure or impairment. In fact, we have received ISO 27001 certification. Further, we may from time to time use reasonable additional or alternative procedures to ensure the security and confidentiality of your Personal Information through our Sites.

(iii) No data transmission over the Internet is fully secure, so we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you submit to us. Further, we do not guarantee in any way, the security of any Personal Information that you transmit or share on the Site; and you do so at your own risk.

(iv) If any security breach comes to our knowledge, then we may take all steps required to protect the misuse of such Personal Information and may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps.

Any of the information which you provide when you use our Services to an open, public environment or forum including (without limitation) any blog, chat room, community, classifieds or discussion board, (a) will not be considered confidential, (b) will not be considered as Personal Information, and (c) is not subject to protection under this Privacy Policy. Since such public environments are accessible by third parties, it is possible that third parties may collect or use such information for their own purposes. You should accordingly be careful when deciding to share any of your Personal Information in such public environments. Please note that we are not liable to you or any third party for any damages that you or any third party may suffer on account of your disclosure of Personal Information in any public environment.

6. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Karna Stock reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. In case, any changes are made in the Privacy Policy, Karna Stock shall update the same on the website. Users should periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Once posted, those changes are effective immediately, unless stated otherwise. Continued access or use of the Services constitutes your acceptance of the changes and the amended Privacy Policy. However, if you do not agree with the changes, please do not continue to use the Services or submit Personal Information to us.

7. Changes to the Information

(i) If you are a User and would like to view the information we have collected from you or you want to correct your information or details, please send us your request by email on the ‘contact us’ page on karnastock.com

(ii) The User can at any time while availing the services or otherwise, withdraw his/her consent given previously to Karna Stock for collecting, receiving, possessing, storing, dealing or handling Personal Information of the User, by sending us your request by email on the ‘Contact Us’ page on karnastock.com. In such case, Karna Stock will unfortunately not be in a position to provide the Services to you. However, Karna Stock will be able to retain such Personal Information for the time period in accordance with the applicable laws.

8. Contacting Karna Stock

If you have any questions, queries, concerns or feedback about this Privacy Policy or our Privacy related practices, please feel free to contact us at on the ‘Contact’ page on karnastock.com.

In case you have any grievance related to the collecting, receiving, possessing, storing, dealing or handling of Personal Information provided by you, you may contact our Grievance Officer at grievance@karnastock.com

 

Attention Investors

1. Stock Brokers can accept securities as margin from clients only by way of pledge in the depository system w.e.f. September 1, 2020
2. Update your mobile number & email id with your stock broker/depository participant and receive OTP directly from depository on your email id and/or mobile number to create pledge.
3. Pay 20% upfront margin of the transaction value to trade in cash market segment.
4. Investors may please refer to the Exchanges’ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) issue vide circular reference NSE/INSP/45191 dated July 31, 2020 and NSE/INSP/45534 dated August 31, 2020 and BSE Notice no. 20200731-7 dated July 31, 2020 and 20200831-45 dated August 31, 2020 and other guidelines issued from time to time in this regard
5. Check your Securities/MF/Bonds in the consolidated account statement issued by NSDL/CDSL every month.
6. Receive alerts for all debit and other important transactions directly from Exchange/ CDSL/ NSDL on your registered mobile no. /email ID at the end of the day.
7. Prevent unauthorized transactions in your demat/ trading account.
8. KYC is a onetime exercise while dealing in securities markets – once KYC is done through a SEBI registered intermediary (Broker, DP, Mutual Fund etc.), you need not undergo the same process again when you approach another intermediary.
9. Investments in Securities Market & Mutual funds are subject to market risks. Insurance is a subject matter of solicitation. Please read the risk disclosure/ offer document carefully before investing.
10. Investors should be wary of any misleading advertisements which solicit investments in the securities market assuring guaranteed profits. Such advertisements may collect personal data with malafide intention. The investors should take informed decision without being influenced by trading tips. Investors must deal with SEBI registered intermediaries for investments in the securities market.

*NOTE: We don’t have a refund & cancellation policy.