Last Updated:
Mehul Balubhai Patel (Fortunate Investments, ARN-126150) is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), the Information Technology Act, 2000, and applicable SEBI and AMFI regulations.
1. Information We Collect
When you use this website, we may collect information you provide directly - such as your name, phone number, email address and message content - when you fill out our contact form. We do not collect financial credentials, bank account details or investment account passwords through this website.
When you become a client, we may also collect and process, with your consent:
- Identity: full name, PAN, date of birth, photograph
- Contact: address, phone number, email address
- Financial: bank account details, investment folios, transaction history
- KYC: as required under AMFI / KRA KYC norms
- Device: IP address and browser type (collected automatically)
2. How We Use Information
Information submitted through the contact form is used solely to respond to your enquiry and, where you have consented, to provide you with mutual fund and insurance distribution services. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
3. Third-Party Platforms
Transactions and portfolio access (E-Wealth Account, Client Desk) are handled on secure third-party partner platforms, which have their own privacy policies governing data collected on those platforms.
4. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the information you share with us. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure.
5. Data Retention - Minimum 8 Years
Transaction and investment data is retained for a minimum of 8 (eight) years from the end of the business relationship, as required under SEBI regulations, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) and AMFI guidelines. Enquiry data from website forms that does not lead to a client relationship is deleted once it is no longer needed to respond to you.
6. Your Rights Under DPDPA 2023
- Right to access a summary of your personal data we process
- Right to correction and completion of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Right to erasure (subject to the regulatory retention requirements above)
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
- Right to nominate another person to exercise your rights
- Right to lodge a grievance with our Data Grievance Officer, and thereafter with the Data Protection Board of India
7. Data Grievance Officer
- Name
- Mehul Balubhai Patel
- contact@fortunateinvestments.co.in
- Phone
- +91 9712935455
- Address
- E-4, Purnima Society, B/H Kakadia Complex, Kotak Bank Lane, Ghod Dod Road, Surat - 395007, Gujarat, India
