Privacy Policy

Tax HelpDesk - Vatas TaxHelpdesk Private Limited

Last updated: August 26, 2025

This Privacy Notice for Vatas TaxHelpdesk Private Limited ("we", "us", or "our") describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:

  • Download and use our mobile application (TaxHelpdesk) or any other application of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
  • Use our comprehensive tax and compliance services including ITR filing, GST services, startup support, TDS compliance, and personalized tax planning
  • Engage with us in other related ways, including sales, marketing, or events

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at admin@taxhelpdesk.in.

Summary of Key Points

This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.

What personal information do we process?

When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.

Do we process any sensitive personal information?

Some of the information may be considered 'special' or 'sensitive' in certain jurisdictions. We may process sensitive personal information when necessary with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Do we collect any information from third parties?

We may collect information from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

How do we process your information?

We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

How do we keep your information safe?

We have adequate organisational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

What are your rights?

Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.

Table of Contents

  1. What Information Do We Collect?
  2. How Do We Process Your Information?
  3. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
  4. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
  5. How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?
  6. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
  7. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
  8. Do We Collect Information From Minors?
  9. What Are Your Privacy Rights?
  10. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
  11. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
  12. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
  13. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?

1. What Information Do We Collect?

Personal Information You Disclose to Us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

  • Names
  • Phone numbers
  • Email addresses
  • Mailing addresses
  • Usernames
  • Passwords
  • Contact preferences
  • Contact or authentication data
  • Billing addresses
  • Debit/credit card numbers

Sensitive Information

When necessary, with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, we process the following categories of sensitive information:

  • Financial data

Payment Data

We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you choose to make purchases, such as your payment instrument number, and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is handled and stored by Razorpay. You may find their privacy notice at: https://taxhelpdesk.in/privacy-policy.

Social Media Login Data

We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, X, or other social media account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect certain profile information about you from the social media provider.

Application Data

If you use our application(s), we also may collect the following information if you choose to provide us with access or permission:

  • Geolocation Information: We may request access to track location-based information from your mobile device to provide certain location-based services.
  • Mobile Device Access: We may request access to certain features from your mobile device, including bluetooth, calendar, camera, contacts, microphone, reminders, sensors, SMS messages, social media accounts, storage, and other features.
  • Mobile Device Data: We automatically collect device information such as your mobile device ID, model, manufacturer, operating system, version information, browser type, IP address, and other technical information.
  • Push Notifications: We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or certain features of the application(s).

This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our application(s), for troubleshooting, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Important: All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information Automatically Collected

In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, and other technical information.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. The information we collect includes:

  • Log and Usage Data: Service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access our Services.
  • Device Data: Information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services.
  • Location Data: Information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise.

Google API

Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Information Collected from Other Sources

In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

In order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers, and services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, and from other third parties.

If you interact with us on a social media platform using your social media account (e.g. Facebook or X), we receive personal information about you from such platforms. Any personal information that we collect from your social media account depends on your social media account's privacy settings.

2. How Do We Process Your Information?

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

  • To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts
  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user
  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users
  • To send administrative information to you
  • To fulfil and manage your orders
  • To enable user-to-user communications
  • To request feedback
  • To send you marketing and promotional communications
  • To deliver targeted advertising to you
  • To post testimonials
  • To protect our Services
  • To evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience
  • To identify usage trends
  • To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns
  • To comply with our legal obligations

3. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?

In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents ('third parties') who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information.

The third parties we may share personal information with include:

  • Advertising, Direct Marketing, and Lead Generation: Google AdSense, Facebook Audience Network, Instagram and Meta Business Suite
  • AI Service Providers: OpenAI, Google Cloud AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI and Microsoft Azure AI
  • Allow Users to Connect to Their Third-Party Accounts: Facebook account, Google account, Instagram account, LinkedIn account, Twitter account, Youtube account and WhatsApp
  • Cloud Computing Services: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Communicate and Chat with Users: WhatsApp, Chat Bot and Email
  • Content Optimisation: Google Calendar widget, Google Fonts, Google Site Search, Instagram embed and YouTube video embed
  • Data Backup and Security: Google Drive Backup and Microsoft Onedrive
  • Functionality and Infrastructure Optimisation: Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Storage
  • Invoice and Billing: Razorpay
  • Retargeting Platforms: Facebook Custom Audience, Facebook Remarketing, Google Ads Remarketing and Google Analytics Remarketing
  • Social Media Sharing and Advertising: Facebook social plugins, Google+ social plugins, LinkedIn social plugins and Microsoft Plugins
  • User Account Registration and Authentication: Facebook Login, Google Sign-In, Microsoft and LinkedIn OAuth 2.0
  • Web and Mobile Analytics: Google Ads, Google Analytics and Meta

Other Sharing Situations

We also may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Google Maps Platform APIs: We may share your information with certain Google Maps Platform APIs (e.g. Google Maps API, Places API).
  • Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Notice.
  • Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

4. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.

We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising, including to help manage and display advertisements, to tailor advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders.

Google Analytics

We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyse the use of the Services. The Google Analytics Advertising Features that we may use include: Remarketing with Google Analytics. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

5. How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?

In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.

Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or X logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such a social media platform.

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider.

6. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

7. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organisational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

8. Do We Collect Information From Minors?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to minors.

TaxHelpdesk services are not intended for users under the age of 18 years and adult supervision is recommended.

9. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence.

Withdrawing Your Consent

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided in the section 'HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?' below.

Opting Out of Marketing and Promotional Communications

You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you — for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

  • Log in to your account settings and update your user account.

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at admin@taxhelpdesk.in.

10. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ('DNT') feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognising and implementing DNT signals has been finalised. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.

11. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated 'Revised' date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at admin@taxhelpdesk.in or contact us by post at:

Vatas TaxHelpdesk Private Limited

555

J P Nagar

Jalandhar, Punjab 144001

India

13. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a data subject access request.