This is the Privacy Policy for usage of SOCH (Strengthening Overall Care for HIV beneficiaries) mobile application.
National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) respects your privacy rights and cares about protecting your information collected on our mobile applications. This application is hosted on NIC MeghRaj Cloud of Government of India, the content is looked and maintained by NACO. These terms and conditions shall be governed by extent regulations. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of India. The information posted on this application could include hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by non-Government/private organizations. The application is providing these links and pointers solely for your information and convenience. When you select a link to an outside website, you are leaving this site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website.

User Account & Personal Information
Using the SOCH mobile app requires a user to be registered in the system. Certain personal information and contact details such as username, password, mobile number, email address is required to log into your account or retrieve forgotten account information and to protect your account from unauthorised access.

Emails & SMS
By giving your email address and mobile number as registration details, you have consented to receiving emails and SMS from SOCH application. NACO SOCH will use your email address and mobile number to send SOCH related information and updates. We reserve the right to send you important program related emails and SMS.

Passwords
You user account is protected by a password. The initial password may be a system generated password. It is recommended that you change it to your personalized password immediately on your first login. You are responsible for the safe keep of your password and for not sharing it with anyone.

Disclosure
Your name and registration details shall remain confidential and will not be available to anybody other than you, authorised website personnel and program implementation and evaluation teams. Information on your usages, frequency of usage, progress on your trainings within the SOCH program will be collected by the system and shall be used for analysis internally by NACO. These data shall not be shared with any other third party except with authorised authorities as per the extent regulations.

Standard browser data collected
For browsing of our application, SOCH will collect regular server logs which include IP (Internet Protocol) address, domain name, browser type, operating system, files you downloaded, pages you visited, date and time stamps of your visit. We use Cookies to ease your navigation on our site.

Security
SOCH uses industry standard Secured Socket Layer (SSL) protocol which provides data encryption, message integrity and server authentication when your data is sent to it.

Changes to Privacy Policy
In the event of any change to our privacy policy, it will be updated here. It is your obligation to visit regularly and make yourself aware of any changes in the Policy and it will be deemed to be notified and read by you on your using this application.

Your Consent
By using our application, you consent to our mobile app privacy policy.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at helpdesk[at]naco[dot]gov[dot]in

National AIDS Control Organisation
Department of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India
6th & 9th Floor, Chanderlok Building
36, Janpath, New Delhi, India
Pin: 110001
Tel: 011-43509999, 011-23731778
Fax: 011-23731746

PUBLISHED DATE: December 10, 2020
PUBLISHED BY: National AIDS Control Organisation
LAST UPDATED ON: December 10, 2020

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This website is designed, developed and maintained by NIC, the content is looked and maintained by National AIDS Control Organization (NACO). These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Indian Laws. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of India. The information posted on this website could include hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by non-Government/private organizations. The website is providing these links and pointers solely for your information and convenience. When you select a link to an outside website, you are leaving this site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website.

The content hosted on this website and associated mobile applications is managed by the following representative:

Dr. Chinmoyee Das
Deputy Director (CST, SI & DNRT)
National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)