Privacy Policy
Last revised: June 4, 2025
India Resources Trust (hereinafter referred to as “WRI India”) is a research-driven and an independent trust that operates at the intersection of environmental sustainability, economic opportunity and human well-being.
WRI India employs a data-driven, evidence-based methodology to address complex challenges. To accelerate progress at scale, we also engage with the economic, finance and governance systems that are key to enabling change.
For each of these Services, this Privacy Policy tells you what to expect we’ll do with your personal information when you make contact with us or use one of our services. In particular, this Privacy Policy explains how:
- we use your personal information when you visit our website (the “Site”), communicate with us, or provide us with your personal information in other ways; and
- we respect your personal information privacy rights.
Funder privacy: WRI India and its affiliates do not sell, share, or trade funders’ names or identifying personal information with other entities or send mailings on behalf of other organizations. With your permission, on occasion, we may share information with related organizations in connection with a particular project or campaign you are interested in. For example, if we are co-hosting an event with a partner organization and you sign up to attend that event, we may ask your permission to share your contact details with our partner.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect different kinds of information from you, depending on how you interact with us.
Online collection: We collect personal information from you when you register to receive email communications, apply for jobs, send email inquiries, register for events, or participate in other parts of our Services.
Depending on the Services you interact with, the information collected may vary and may include, for example:
- Automatically collected information: We and our third-party service providers may collect information about you and/or your interaction with our Services using cookies and similar automatic data-collection technology. For example, if you browse our Site, click on links, or enter search terms, we may use that information. We use this type of information and share it with service providers to improve and maintain our Services, collect aggregate site usage reports that do not identify you individually, optimize site users’ experience on the Services, and for marketing purposes. Please use the “Manage Cookie Preferences” link and the List of Cookies below if you wish to learn more and control which cookies and third-party technology are in use on the site. The information we collect includes:
- Identifiers like IP address and device, and browser information.
- The Site and application activity information like clicks, content and page views, search terms, internet service provider, browser version, domain type.
- Anonymous or aggregated information: We may use aggregate or deidentified data that doesn’t identify you for any lawful business purpose.
- Identifiers and contact details you choose to provide, such as your name, organization, email address, and country of residence.
- Emails, messages, posts, and other communications and information you choose to share via email or over social media;
- Payment information;
- Location information: WRI India rarely collects specific location information about you. In some cases, we may ask for information about your location for limited purposes.
- Manage Cookie Preferences (some privacy tools or ad blockers might prevent this tool from running).
Our Use of Your Information
We use the personal information we collect about you for any of the following purposes:
- providing, developing, improving and maintaining our Services;
- handling, processing, and communicating with you about donations and other ways to contribute to WRI India’s mission;
- registering you for a WRI India Service, including on a particular WRI India website;
- providing you with updates, newsletters, data, other research, and/or donation-related communications you have requested;
- responding to your inquiries and requests;
- personalizing your website experience and delivering related ads on third-party sites;
- generating anonymous reports about use of our Services and their features;
- allowing you to take part in Service features, and WRI India campaigns, projects, events, or surveys;
- analyzing the use of our services or technologies; and
- considering you for employment if you have provided personal information pursuant to an application for a job with WRI India.
Outreach and Communications
Where you consent, we use your personal information to provide you with communications about WRI India, including, but not limited to email communications or information about WRI India projects around the world and ways that you can contribute to our efforts.
We send such communications by:
- email;
- phone;
- social media messages; and
- any other medium which becomes relevant from time to time.
Disclosure of Information
Personal information is disclosed to the following parties:
- to employees and independent contractors of WRI India, analytic vendors, payment processing vendors, third party agents and other service providers and suppliers if the disclosure will enable that party to perform a business, professional, or technical support function for WRI India or to perform a service that you have requested;
- to and between entities within the WRI India group;
- where you give us permission to disclose your personal information to third parties selected by us in connection with our projects and campaigns;
- if we are required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or request from a competent court, regulator or other authority;
- where we deem it necessary, in our sole discretion, to protect our legal rights or property or the legal rights or property of an individual who registers with a WRI India service or technology or any third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or
- in connection with a sale, merger, assignment, reorganization, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of our assets or our affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We also may disclose online information about you to third parties, including social media companies like Meta, Google, LinkedIn (Microsoft) and X for outreach and marketing purposes. See the “Manage Cookie Preference” link to adjust your relevant settings.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information about you that we pass to a service provider or other third party will be held securely by that party and only be used for the purposes for which it was provided to them. Except as noted above, information we collect from WRI India Site visitors will not be shared with individuals or other companies unrelated to WRI India, or that do not perform a business, professional or technical function for WRI India.
Security and Quality
WRI India takes reasonable steps to protect the personal information that you provide. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on secured computer servers that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information over the internet, we protect it through the use of appropriate technological and administrative means.
We do our best to maintain the accuracy of any personal information you supply to us. You can help WRI India update and maintain the accuracy of any personal information you supply by notifying WRI India of any changes to your address, title, phone number or e-mail address. In some parts of the WRI India Services, you may do this online by following the instructions on membership profile pages. You may also do this by using the contact information provided below.
Transmission of information on the internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information sent on our Services. Transmission of such information is at your own risk.
Links to External Websites
WRI India’s Services may contain links to other websites belonging to third parties. These websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices within any other website. You should be aware of this when you leave a WRI India area, including our websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of other websites.
Personal Information Access and Deletion
You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. You may also request that we delete the information we hold about you. Reach out on our Contact Us page, or alternatively, please address requests (with a return address where possible) to:
WRI India
LGF, AADI, 2 Balbir Saxena Marg,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
Phone: +91 11 40550776
Changes, Oversight and Questions
WRI India welcomes comments and questions on this Privacy Policy. We are dedicated to protecting your privacy and will make every reasonable effort to keep your information secure. Due to the rapidly evolving changes on the internet, we may update this Privacy Policy. All revisions will be posted to the relevant WRI India website. Regularly viewing this Privacy Policy ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we will share it with third parties. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use the particular WRI India website or WRI India service through which you have provided us with your personal information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
WRI India
LGF, AADI, 2 Balbir Saxena Marg,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
Phone: +91 11 40550776