Privacy Policy

A Privacy Policy is a legal document that outlines how we, Per Square Foot, collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our website and services. It's designed to ensure that you, our valued users, understand how your data is handled and to provide transparency about our data practices.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 28, 2023.

The highlighted text is aimed to give a plain Summary of our Privacy Policy. Please ensure you read the main text, as the plain English summary is just a summary and doesn’t capture all of the terms.

What does this policy cover?

Welcome to Per Square Foot, the website and services provided by JBFS Engineering Systems Pvt. Ltd. ("JBFS," “Per Square Foot,” “we,” "our," or “us”). Our Privacy Policy explains how Per Square Foot and its affiliates collect, use, disclose, and protect information that applies to our website and custom tools (the "Service"), and your choices about the collection and use of your information. By accessing our website and our Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to the Terms outlined in this Privacy Policy.

This document is published and shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data of Information) Rules, 2011 under Information Technology Act, 2000. These rules set out specific obligations for entities that collect and process personal data, and having a Privacy Policy is a key compliance requirement under these rules.

1. Information we Collect

We collect the following types of information about you:

(a) Information you provide us directly

We may ask for certain information when you register for a Per Square Foot account or correspond with us (such as a username, your first and last names, birthdate, phone number, and e-mail address).

We also collect information about the choices you make while using our Service (such as user activity, designs, options, feedback, search queries). We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of the Service to you, to correspond with you, and to address any issues you raise about the Service.

If you don’t provide your personal information to us, you may not be able to access or use our Service or your experience of using our Service may not be the same.

Summary: We collect info about you that you choose to give us, for example when you register an account, use the Service or otherwise interact with us.

(b) Information we receive from Third Party Applications

We may may receive information about you and your engagement with our advertisements from our ad servers, ad networks and social media platforms. This may include the websites you visited before coming to Per Square Foot so that we can determine advertising effectiveness and pay our referral partners.

Summary: We may receive info about your interaction with our Ads or Social Media posts to understand effectiveness of our Ads and fairly compensate our referral partners.

When you visit the Service, we (and some third-party applications deployed on the Service) will send cookies — small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets Per Square Foot do things like help you log in faster, enhance your navigation through the site, remember your preferences and generally improve the user experience. Cookies also convey information to us about how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on the Service), and allow us to track your usage of the Service over time. They also allow us to measure traffic and usage trends for the Service.

You can control or reset your cookies and similar technologies through your web browser, which will allow you to customize your cookie preferences and to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Service may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Summary: We use cookies on our Service to create a better the user experience, while also allowing us to measure traffic and usage trends on our Service. Cookie data can be controlled from your web browsers.

(d) Transaction Information

If you choose a payment gateway to complete any transaction on the Service then your credit card data may be stored in compliance with industry standards/recommended data security standard for security of financial information such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

Summary: Your credit card data may be stored in compliance with industry standards, to confirm payment receiving to correct user

2. How we use your Information

We use the information we collect about you for the purposes set out below:

Providing you with the Service: We use the information that you directly give us to provide the Service to you. This includes allowing you to log in to Per Square Foot, operating and maintaining the Service, giving you access to your designs and billing you for transactions that you make via the Service. We also use information we collect about you automatically to remember information about you so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site.
For data analytics: We use information about you to help us improve the Service and our users’ experience, including by monitoring aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns.
Customizing the Service for you: We use and combine the information you provide us and information about you that we collect automatically and receive from other sources (including information we receive on and off our Service) and combine it with information about the behavior of other users to make sure that your use of the Service is customized to your needs.
To communicate with you about the Service: We use your contact information to get in touch with you and to send communications about critical elements of the Service.
To promote and drive engagement with the Service: We use information we collect about you to make sure that you get the most relevant offers and promotions based on your use of the Service, and your preferences. You can opt-out of these communications easily.
To improve the Service: We analyze information about your use of the Service to better understand how users are engaging with our Service and measure the effectiveness of the Service so we can make improvements and develop our services for users.
For advertising purposes: We use information about you, including cookies information and other information we (and our third-party partners) collect from you automatically about your use of the Service, to serve, personalize and measure the effectiveness of advertising on the Service. This includes showing you advertising we think you might find interesting as well as displaying advertising to potential new users that have similar interests.
For troubleshooting, error resolution and service improvement: We use information about you, information that we collect or and from within your account, information that you provide to our customer success team, and information about your interactions with the Service to resolve technical issues you experience with the Service, and to ensure that we can repair and improve the Service for all Per Square Foot users.
For matters that we are required to use your information by law: Per Square Foot will use or disclose your information where we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Service users or others.

Summary: We use information about you for different reasons, including to provide, customize and improve the Service.

3. How we keep your information safe

Per Square Foot cares about the security of your information, and uses appropriate safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information collected through the Service against unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction. For this purpose, Per Square Foot adopts internal reviews of the data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where Per Square Foot stores Your Personal Information.
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications from Per Square Foot, at all times.
The user acknowledges that Per Square Foot cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Per Square Foot or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed; and hereby waive and release all JBFS Engineering Systems Pvt. Ltd. entities from any claim of damages under contract or under tort.

Summary: We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any data to prevent unauthorized access, but you acknowledge that the internet or computer networks are not fully secure and that there is no absolute assurance regarding the security of data collected through the Service.

4. Sharing in connection with a Merger, Acquisition or Reorganization

Per Square Foot may also share, or transfer your information to third parties in connection with or contemplation of (including as part of the due diligence process) any merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, bankruptcy or insolvency event involving Per Square Foot or any portion of our assets, services or businesses. Information such as customer names and email addresses, Intellectual Property and other user information related to the Service may be among the items shared, or otherwise transferred in these types of transactions. Should such a share or transfer occur, such Per Square Foot entity will reasonably ensure that the information you have provided and which we have collected is stored and used by the transferee in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any third party to which any of Per Square Foot entity transfers or share as aforesaid will have the right to continue to use the Information that you provide to us or collected by us.

Summary: If we sell our business, any of the info which we’ve acquired about you may be part shared or transferred.

5. Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect our current practice and ensure compliance with applicable laws. When we post changes to this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. If we make any material changes to the way we collect, use, store and/or share your personal information, we will notify you on our website or by sending an email to the email address associated with your Service account. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes.

Summary: We won’t make any major changes to our Privacy Policy without giving notice – but it’s still a good idea to visit this page every now and then.

6. Contact us to discuss Grievances

Should you wish to make a request in respect of your personal information please contact us at info@jbfs.co.in. You also have the right to object to our processing of personal data about you in for marketing purposes and we will stop processing data for that purpose. In some circumstances, we will not be able to comply with your request regarding your personal data. If we are unable to remove any of your information, we will explain why.

Summary: Your privacy is important to us and we are happy to answer any questions you may have.