Introduction
The Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh endeavours to protect your personal privacy. The Department provides this privacy statement to help you to understand what we may do with any personal information that it obtains from you. By providing your personal information to the department, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Statement and agree that the department may collect, use and disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to this statement, please do not provide your personal details to the department.
What is personal information
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, as defined by applicable Law. It does not include aggregated information that does not allow you to be identified, nor does it include business contact information such as your business address and business phone number.
Collecting personal information
You can decide what personal information you provide to us. The Department only collect personal information that you choose to provide. Wherever possible the department will enable you to select how the department will use this information.
Use of cookies on our websites
In common with many websites, we use "cookies" to help us gather and store information about visitors to our websites. A cookie is a small data file that our server sends to your browser when you visit the site. The use of cookies helps us to assist your use of certain aspects of the site. You can delete cookies at any time or you can set your browser to reject or disable cookies.
We may use information from cookies for the following purposes:
Traffic monitoring, E.g. the IP address from which you access the site, the type of browser and operating system used to access the site, the date and time of your access to the site, the pages you visit, the internet address of the website from which you accessed the site.
Legal purposes
We may collect, use and/or disclose your personal information if permitted by law or required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to detect, protect or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements.
Security
We take security seriously and we take precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the informationdd we collect.
