Legal & FAQ's

Non Disclosure Agreement

This Non-disclosure Agreement (this "Agreement") is made effective as of April 1st 2016 (the "Effective Date"), by and between Glocal Thinkers/Client (the "Owner") and Consultant (the "Recipient"), of Work Package.

The Owner has requested and the Recipient agrees that the Recipient will protect the confidential material and information which may be disclosed between the Owner and the Recipient. Therefore, the parties agree as follows.

I. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
The term "Confidential Information" means any information or material which is proprietary to the Owner, whether or not owned or developed by the Owner, which is not generally known other than by the Owner, and which the Recipient may obtain through any direct or indirect contact with the Owner.

A. "Confidential Information" includes without limitation:

business records and plans
financial statements
customer lists and records
trade secrets
technical information
products
inventions
product design information
pricing structure
discounts
costs
computer programs and listings
source code and/or object code
copyrights and other intellectual property
and other proprietary information.

B. "Confidential Information" does not include:

matters of public knowledge that result from disclosure by the Owner;
information rightfully received by the Recipient from a third party without a duty of confidentiality;
information independently developed by the Recipient;
information disclosed by operation of law;
information disclosed by the Recipient with the prior written consent of the Owner;
and any other information that both parties agree in writing is not confidential.

II. PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
The Recipient understands and acknowledges that the Confidential Information has been developed or obtained by the Owner by the investment of significant time, effort and expense, and that the Confidential Information is a valuable, special and unique asset of the Owner which provides the Owner with a significant competitive advantage, and needs to be protected from improper disclosure. In consideration for the receipt by the Recipient of the Confidential Information, the Recipient agrees as follows:

A. No Disclosure. The Recipient will hold the Confidential Information in confidence and will not disclose the Confidential Information to any person or entity without the prior written consent of the Owner.

B. No Copying/Modifying. The Recipient will not copy or modify any Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the Owner.

C. Unauthorized Use. The Recipient shall promptly advise the Owner if the Recipient becomes aware of any possible unauthorized disclosure or use of the Confidential Information.

D. Application to Employees. The Recipient shall not disclose any Confidential Information to any employees of the Recipient, except those employees who are required to have the Confidential Information in order to perform their job duties in connection with the limited purposes of this Agreement. Each permitted employee to whom Confidential Information is disclosed shall sign a non disclosure agreement substantially the same as this Agreement at the request of the Owner.

III. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION - INJUNCTION.
If it appears that the Recipient has disclosed (or has threatened to disclose) Confidential Information in violation of this Agreement, the Owner shall be entitled to an injunction to restrain the Recipient from disclosing the Confidential Information in whole or in part. The Owner shall not be prohibited by this provision from pursuing other remedies, including a claim for losses and damages.

IV. NON-CIRCUMVENTION.
During the term of this Agreement and for 3 years. thereafter, Recipient will not attempt to do business with, or otherwise solicit any business contacts found or otherwise referred by Owner to Recipient for the purpose of circumventing, the result of which shall be to prevent the Owner from realizing or recognizing a profit, fees, or otherwise, without the specific written approval of the Owner. If such circumvention shall occur the Owner shall be entitled to any commissions due pursuant to this Agreement or relating to such transaction.

V. RETURN OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
Upon the written request of the Owner, the Recipient shall return to the Owner all written materials containing the Confidential Information. The Recipient shall also deliver to the Owner written statements signed by the Recipient certifying that all materials have been returned within five (5) days of receipt of the request.

VI. RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES.
Neither party has an obligation under this Agreement to purchase any service or item from the other party, or commercially offer any products using or incorporating the Confidential Information. This Agreement does not create any agency, partnership, or joint venture.

VII. NO WARRANTY.
The Recipient acknowledges and agrees that the Confidential Information is provided on an "AS IS" basis. THE OWNER MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OWNER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THE PERFORMANCE OR USE OF ANY PORTION OF THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. The Owner does not represent or warrant that any product or business plans disclosed to the Recipient will be marketed or carried out as disclosed, or at all. Any actions taken by the Recipient in response to the disclosure of the Confidential Information shall be solely at the risk of the Recipient.

VIII. LIMITED LICENSE TO USE.
The Recipient shall not acquire any intellectual property rights under this Agreement except the limited right to use as set forth above. The Recipient acknowledges that, as between the Owner and the Recipient, the Confidential Information and all related copyrights and other intellectual property rights, are (and at all times will be) the property of the Owner, even if suggestions, comments, and/or ideas made by the Recipient are incorporated into the Confidential Information or related materials during the period of this Agreement.

IX. INDEMNITY.
Each party agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the other party and its officers, directors, agents, affiliates, distributors, representatives, and employees from any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys fees, costs and expenses resulting from the indemnifying party's material breach of any duty, representation, or warranty under this Agreement.

X. ATTORNEY FEES.
In any legal action between the parties concerning this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys fees and costs.

XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties regarding confidentiality. The obligations of confidentiality shall survive 3 year(s) from the date of disclosure of the Confidential Information. Any amendments must be in writing and signed by both parties. This Agreement shall be construed under the laws of India. This Agreement shall not be assignable by either party. Neither party may delegate its duties under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other party. The confidentiality provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect at all times after the effective date of this Agreement. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining portions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and construed so as to best effectuate the original intent and purpose of this Agreement.

XII. SIGNATORIES.
This Agreement shall be executed by Client and Consultant and delivered in the manner prescribed by law as of the date first written above.

CONTACT US
Glocal Thinkers welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms and Conditions. You can contact us at info@glocalthinkers.com

Effective as of December 1st April, 2016

Privacy Policy

We at Glocal Thinkers and our affiliated companies worldwide ("Glocal Thinkers") respect your privacy and are therefore committed to affording complete protection to the sensitive information relating to any user to our website. In recognition of your need for adequate protection and proper management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that we may receive from this website, Glocal Thinkers has established this Online Privacy Policy. You agree to be legally bound by this Policy, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the Site. We refer to Personal Information to mean any information that may identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, physical address (whether, residential or official), email address or other contact information, that is not publicly available.

Application of the Privacy Policy

This policy covers how Glocal Thinkers treats personal information that may be received and collected.
Links: The website @ http://glocalthinkers.com may be linked to other websites which are developed by people over whom Glocal Thinkers exercises no control. This policy does not apply to the practices of such third party sites. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information. Glocal Thinkers is accordingly not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

What type of Information do we receive?

The types of information we receive are:

Information given by the user: We receive and may at times store any information including Personal Information you enter on our website..
Automatic Information: We may at some time, receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us, e.g. the use of "cookies"..
E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail fromhttp://glocalthinkers.com if your computer supports such capabilities..
Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information..
Glocal Thinkers collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our Site..

Do we collect sensitive personal data?
We do not generally seek to collect Sensitive Personal Information through this Site. If we do seek to collect such information, we will ask you to consent to our proposed uses of the information. By providing us with unsolicited Sensitive Personal Information, you consent to our using such data/information subject to applicable law as described in this Privacy Policy. Sensitive Personal Information refers to the various categories of personal data identified by data privacy laws as requiring special treatment, including in some circumstances the need to obtain explicit consent, and include personal data about personality and private life, racial or ethnic origin, nationality, political opinions, membership of political parties or movements, religious, philosophical or other similar beliefs, membership of a trade union or profession or trade association, physical or mental health, genetic code, addictions, sexual life or criminal record.

Use to which information so received is put
As a general practice, no Personal Information is collected about a visitor to the website, apart from the personal information submitted by the visitor himself/herself. We shall use such Personal Information for the purpose for which you share it with us. However, at times, certain information may be collected from you when you visit the website. Such information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the website, pages viewed etc. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user's session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous. Glocal Thinkers does not intend to transfer, rent, sell, or share any Personal Information that may be submitted by you, without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on behalf of Glocal Thinkers unless such transfer is required in order to comply with requirements of law; to investigate, prevent, to take action regarding illegal activities such as suspected fraud; in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use or in situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person.

Reorganization of Business
Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, Glocal Thinkers decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses in some countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal information you have provided through this Site in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Confidentiality and Security

collected.
We limit access to any Personal Information that may be submitted by you, strictly on a need to know basis, such as to respond to your inquiry or request..
We have physical, electronic, administrative, technical and procedural safeguards that comply with all applicable laws and regulations to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized or inappropriate access, alteration, disclosure and destruction. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you are done using a shared computer.

Transfer of Information
By using the website you accept and consent to the practices and principles described in this Online Privacy Policy, and to Glocal Thinkers's processing (which includes in particular recording, storing, utilizing or processing) of Personal Information for the purposes given above.
In particular, we would like to inform users from the European Union, that such Information may be stored on servers located beyond the European Union and/or transferred on to our subsidiary and affiliated companies in other countries.
By accessing and using this website, you confirm that you were informed regarding the processing of your Personal Information (including your rights related there to) and you give your express consent regarding such processing, and the transfer of such data to other countries.

Links To Other Sites
We provide links to other Web sites for your convenience and information. These sites may have their own privacy statements in place, which we recommend you review if you visit any linked Web sites. We are not responsible for the content of linked sites or any use of the sites or for the privacy practices of those other Web sites.

Third Party Services
Third parties may provide certain services on our behalf. Glocal Thinkers may provide information, including Personal Information that Glocal Thinkers collects on the Web to third-party service providers (who are contractually bound to use Personal Information we share with them only to perform the services we have hired them to provide) to help us deliver programs, products, information, and services. Glocal Thinkers will take all reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on Glocal Thinkers's behalf.

Cookies and other technologies
We may at some time in the future collect anonymous information from visits to our websites to help us provide better customer service. At times we may also seek to place a 'Cookie' (small data file) on your computer's hard drive which allows the server to determine the computer when it visits again, in order to track statistical information about navigation to and throughout certain areas of our website, and to Glocal Thinkers promotions on other websites. The information that is tracked is used only for internal purposes, such as to improve website navigation and to measure the effectiveness of our promotional placements. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and we also measure visitor activity on the website, but in a manner that would keep the information anonymous. Glocal Thinkers may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service. We maintain the highest levels of confidentiality for this information. This anonymous information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. None of this information is reviewed at an individual level.

Phishing attacks
We would like to caution our visitors about phishing attacks, wherein unscrupulous third parties seek to extract sensitive and confidential information from you by posing as a genuine website or by a sending an email misrepresenting it to be from a genuine source. Please be aware that we never seek sensitive or confidential information such as regarding your financial or health record through emails or through our websites. If you receive such a message claiming to be from Glocal Thinkers, please do not reply to it and immediately Contact us.

Anti Spam policy
Glocal Thinkers recognizes the receipt, transmission or distribution of spam emails (unsolicited bulk emails) as a major concern and has taken reasonable measures, to minimize the transmission and effect of spam emails in its computing environment. All emails received by Glocal Thinkers are subject to spam check. With this measure, along with other technical spam reduction measures, Glocal Thinkers hopes to minimize the effect of spam emails. Glocal Thinkers reserves the right to reject and / or report any suspicious spam emails, to the authorities concerned, for necessary action, from time to time.

Compliance with Privacy laws
Glocal Thinkers strives to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy and Personal Information, no matter where that Personal Information is collected, transferred, or retained. Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, Glocal Thinkers intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Online Privacy Policy even if Personal Information is transferred from your country to countries that may not require an "adequate" level of protection for your Personal Information.

Changes to this Policy
Glocal Thinkers plans to take all reasonable efforts to maintain up to date and effective online privacy standards and practices. You may Contact us with any questions or concerns that you may have. Please check this privacy policy periodically to inform yourself of any changes. Although we reserve the right to modify or supplement this privacy policy, most of such changes will be minor. We will provide notice to you on this website of any major changes for at least 30 days following the change

Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can Contact us. We welcome your questions and suggestions about our Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to info@glocalthinkers.com

Terms and Conditions

In using this website you are deemed to have read and agreed to the following terms and conditions:

(1) Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Indian courts in all disputes arising out of such access. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
If any of these terms are deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, but not limited to the exclusions and limitations set out below), then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be severed from these terms and the remaining terms will continue to apply.
Failure by us to enforce any of the provisions set out in these Terms and Conditions and any Agreement, or failure to exercise any option to terminate, shall not be construed as waiver of such provisions and shall not affect the validity of these Terms and Conditions or of any Agreement or any part thereof, or the right thereafter to enforce each and every provision. These Terms and Conditions shall not be amended, modified, varied or supplemented except in writing and signed by us.
(2) Credit
This document was adapted from an SEQ Legal template.

(3) License to use website
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
(a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
(c) show any material from the website in public;
(d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
(e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website;
(f) redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

(4) Acceptable use
You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.
You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

(5) Restricted access
Access to certain areas of our website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.
If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential. We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

(6) User generated content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
Notwithstanding our rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.

(7) Links from this website
We do not monitor or review the content of other party’s websites which are linked to from this website. Opinions expressed or material appearing on such websites is not necessarily shared or endorsed by us and should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or material. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. We will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information.

(8) Limited warranties
We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(9)Limitations and exclusions of liability
Nothing in these terms and conditions will: (a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence; (b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or (d) exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in these terms and conditions: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the terms and conditions or in relation to the subject matter of the terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.
To the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

(10) Indemnity
You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

(11) Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

(12) Variation
We reserve the right to change these conditions from time to time as it sees fit and your continued use of the site will signify your acceptance of any adjustment to these terms. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(13) Assignment
We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

(14) Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(15) Exclusion of third party rights
These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(16) Entire agreement
These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(17) Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Indian law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of India.

(18) Our details
You can contact us by email to info@glocalthinkers.com

SUMMARY OF KEY RULES

CURRENT EMPLOYER (YOUR COMPANY)
Employees (including officers and directors) may not consult about their current employer – regardless of whether the employer is publicly held or privately owned. This prohibition extends to the parent and subsidiaries of an Advisor’s employer.

FORMER EMPLOYERS
Under no circumstances may an Advisor ever disclose confidential information about a former employer or any other information that would violate a confidentiality agreement. Furthermore, if an Advisor was previously employed in the finance or accounting department of a company, he/she may not discuss that company until four months after his/her employment has ended. Clients may instruct us to apply additional customized rules concerning former employees.

CONSULTANTS
A consultant may never disclose confidential information obtained in the course of providing consulting services. Consultants must be certain that any services rendered through Glocal Thinkers do not violate any confidentiality agreements entered into with consulting Clients.

TENDER OFFERS AND IPOS
An employee (including officers and directors) of a public company that is the target or bidder in a tender offer, or a private company that has filed for an initial public offering, is prohibited from consulting on any topic until the tender offer is resolved.

COMPETITORS / COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Advisors may not consult for a Client that is a direct competitor of their employer.

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
Advisors must abide by the particular rules and regulations of the government entity for which they work. In addition to any restrictions imposed by such rules, Advisors may not consult about the Advisor’s agency or a matter currently before the agency or known to be coming before the agency. Clients are prohibited from using Glocal Thinkers’s services to try to lobby or otherwise influence government officials in any manner related to their office or official duties.

FDA ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS
FDA Advisory Committee Members may not consult about any issue that (i) is before their FDA Committee; (ii) reasonably can be expected to come before their committee; or (iii) about which they are in possession of material nonpublic information.

CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS
Generally, an employee may consult about a company that is a customer or supplier of his/her employer (e.g., about its competitive position, products), in the absence of a confidentiality agreement or other obligation of confidentiality towards the customer or supplier. However, an Advisor may not discuss his/her employer and confidential information concerning its relationship with the customer or supplier (e.g., his/her employer’s purchases or sales to the company).

CLINICAL TRIALS
Clinical Investigators (CIs) may never discuss non-public patient experience information or undisclosed clinical trial results. If not under a confidentiality agreement or otherwise restricted, CIs may generally discuss publicly available information about a trial – e.g., hypotheses about the drug mechanism, design of the study (to the extent published), competitor drugs and developments in the marketplace, doctor’s view of clinical demand, etc. Data Safety Monitoring Board and Clinical Trial Steering Committee members may not discuss current clinical trials.

Glocal Thinkers Platform FAQs

Consultant Side:

1. What does Glocal Thinkers do?
Glocal Thinkers is an aggregated consulting platform, which provides a wide array of solutions to its global clientele. 2. What is the background of Glocal Thinkers ?
Glocal Thinkers is set up as a private limited company under the laws of India. The Glocal Thinkers Private Limited was set up in the year 2013.

3. Why work as a Consultant with Glocal Thinkers?
Working as a Consultant with Glocal Thinkers will provide you with a huge amount of flexibility in your work timings. The assignments acquired through Glocal Thinkers will augment your income at the same time provide you exposure to Global clients from countries you might not have worked in the past. The expertise certificates acquired through the Glocal Thinkers platform ratifies your credentials and would help you in professionally establishing yourselves given the prestige associated with it. Our opportunity sharing feature in the platform will also help you earn handsome referral rewards from projects that are not directly related to your area of expertise without any fear of circumvention.

4. What kind of assignments can I expect?
The assignments can be of the following nature:
i. 1 day to 30 days query resolution work in your area of expertise.
ii. Phone consultation with the client, where you will be paid on a per minute basis after the initial subject to certain terms and conditions.
iii. Project work, which could be a query resolution needing more than 30 days of your time or an offline project, wherein you might have to be physically assigned to an onsite location of the client.

5. Do I have to work alone on assignments?
Depending upon the assignment requirement you might be required to work alone or as part of a client solution team comprising of other consultants with clear cut job allocations.

6. How much do I get paid for the work I do?
You will be paid basis a pre-agreed rate, which would be decided upon the complexity of the assignment and the time required to complete the assignment. The rates could be charged per-minute, per- hour or as mutually agreed. In any case the assignment is allocated to you only upon your concurrence and agreement on the rates as per your choice.

7. How frequently will I get assignments from the Glocal Thinkers platform?
The assignment frequency could be once every week or a few times a year depending upon your ability to execute the projects and also demand for your type of expertise by the clients.

8. Do I have to work exclusively with Glocal Thinkers?
Your association with the platform is not exclusive in nature and you may continue working with your clients or other similar platforms as per your choice.

9. Is it necessary for me to have an expertise certificate from the platform to get assignments?
No, it is not necessary for you to have an expertise certificate from the platform to get assignments. However, our clients generally tend to have a greater comfort with consultants that have been assessed and certified by us. Additionally, certificate from Glocal Thinkers Platform is a recognition of your expertise and would further your reputation as a consultant beyond this platform.

10. What is the process of acquiring Glocal Thinkers Expertise Certificate?
Only consultants enrolled on the Glocal Thinkes platform can apply for a certificate from the Consultant’s profile page. The Consultant would be required to submit his details along with the details of two references, which will help the platform in its verification process. A Glocal Thinkers representative will get in touch with the Consultant to arrange a discussion with an industry/functional area stalwart who will act as the assessor for the evaluation process. Upon a successful evaluation, the Consultant is awarded the expertise certificate from the Glocal Thinkers Platform. There could be a nominal charge for the assessment, as part of the certification process.

Client Side:

1. Why choose Glocal Thinkers for business solutions?
As the name suggests we take inspiration from global best practices and act locally through contextual solutions. Our solutions are provided by some of the best functional area and industry experts from across the globe. Our platform is a great source of picking on some of the best brains form across the globe without having to incur any traveling or other overheads in the shortest possible time.

2. How do you compare yourselves in terms of costs to the top consulting firms?
As several of our solutions are provided online, with savings on various cost heads associated with face to face consulting, we could prove extremely cost efficient. More importantly, as there on no restrictions on the minimum size of the project, our flexibility through on demand solutions can prove extremely cost efficient and useful for clients.

3. My concern with online consulting is that it becomes too impersonal and at times not so customized, what is your take on that?
We work through a model, wherein there will be a client relationship manager interacting with you for aligning with your business concern before the right talent is brought forth to provide the solution. Also, as a rule, we approve a solution framework with the client before moving on to provide the solution, which ensures that our solutions are personalized, extremely contextual, and customized at all times.

4. How do we pay for your services?
Glocal Thinkers will raise invoices for its services basis pre-agreed terms. The client has the option to pay online or through transfer directly to our Bank account.

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