PRIVACY POLICY

CGWB website does not automatically capture any specific personal information from you, (like name, phone number or e-mail address), that allows us to identify you individually. If CGWB Website requests you to provide personal information, you will be informed for the particular purposes for which the information is gathered, and adequate security measures will be taken to protect your personal information. We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on the CGWB Website to any third party (public/private). Any information provided to this website will be protected from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We gather certain information about the User, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, domain name, browser type, operating system, the date and time of the visit and the pages visited. We make no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting our site unless an attempt to damage the site has been detected.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

Material featured on this site belongs to Central Ground Water Board, DoWR, RD & GR, Ministry of Jal shakti, Govt of India and the same may be reproduced free of charge in any format or media without requiring specific permission subject to the facts that the materials are being reproduced accurately and not being used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Wherever the materials are being published/issued to others, the source must be prominently acknowledged/declared. However, the permission to reproduce the materials does not extend to those materials on this site which are explicitly identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorization to reproduce such materials shall be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

HYPERLINK POLICY

External Links Present on the Website: At many places in this website, you may find web-links to other websites / portals. These links have been placed for your convenience. CGWB is not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them or on websites reachable through their published web-links. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this website should not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work at all times, and we have no control over availability / non-availability of these linked pages.

Links to CGWB website by other websites/portals: Prior permission is required before hyperlinks are directed from any website/portal to this website. Permission for the same, stating the nature of the content on the pages from where the link has to be given and the exact language-text of the Hyperlink should be obtained by sending a request to tsmsam-cgwb@nic.in.

SECURITY POLICY

Website Security Policy: CGWB has a responsibility to protect from disclosure to unauthorized parties the personally identifiable information (name, address, date of birth, etc.) of its website users.

Notice and Disclosures: CGWB will not sell, trade and disclose the personally identifiable information of its website users to any third parties.

Data Quality and Access: CGWB takes all steps possible to ensure that the data on the website is accurate. If something is found to be inaccurate, every effort will be to correct the same as quickly as possible. The information contained on the CGWB website is subject to change without prior advance notice. While using the CGWB website certain information such as your IP Address and time spent on pages may be collected. This non-personal information is collected in order to monitor any unauthorized use or access to the CGWB site. Anyone caught attempting to harm, steal information from, or otherwise damage the CGWB website will be prosecuted under the relevant law. Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) website has been placed in protected zones with implementation of firewalls and IDS (Intrusion Detection System) and high availability solutions.

Data Security:

• Before launch of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) website, simulated penetration tests have been conducted. Penetration testing has also been conducted two times after the launch of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). Website of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has been audited for known application-level vulnerabilities before the launch and all the known vulnerability has been addressed. Hardening of servers has been done as per the guideline of Cyber Security Division before the launch of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) website.
• Access to web servers hosting the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) is configured behind IDS, IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and with system firewalls and restricted both physically and through the network as far as possible. Logs at different locations are maintained for authorized physical access of Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) servers.
• All the development work is done in a separate development environment and is well tested on the staging server before updating it on the production server. After testing properly on the staging server, the applications are uploaded to the production server using SSH and VPN through a single point. The content contributed by/from remote locations is duly authenticated & is not published on the production server directly. Any content contributed has to go through the moderation process before final publishing to the production server.
• All contents of the web pages are checked for intentional or unintentional malicious content before final upload to web server pages. Audit and log of all activities involving the operating system, access to the system, and access to applications are maintained and archived. All rejected accesses and services are logged and listed in exception reports for further scrutiny. CGWB website is regularly monitored to confirm that the web pages are up and running, that no unauthorized changes have been made and no unauthorized links have been established. All newly released system software patches; bug fixes and upgrades are expediently and regularly reviewed and installed on the web server.
• Drupal CMS is used in Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) website for displaying the information dynamically as per the user requests. The application has been security audited for the known application-level vulnerabilities as per top 10 OWASP and the application security vulnerabilities have been addressed before the launch of the Portal.
• The website will be audited by empanelled agencies periodically. The periodicity shall be one year from the date of issue of certificate or additional changes in the dynamic content carried out whichever is earlier.
• The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) website contents on the NIC Data Centre Servers are uploaded using secured SSH and VPN through a single point. All contents of the web pages are checked for intentional or unintentional malicious content before final upload of the same on the website. Audit and log of all activities referring to the operating system, access to the system and access to applications are maintained and archived. All rejected accesses and services are logged and listed in exception reports for further scrutiny. All newly released system software patches, bug fixes and upgrades are deployed regularly and reviewed. Antivirus has been deployed on the servers and is updated online.

CONTENT ARCHIVAL POLICY

The content components are created with metadata, source, and validity date. The validity of some of the components may not be known at the time of creation. Such content is treated as perpetual and the validity date shall be ten years from the date of creation. The content shall not be displayed on the website after the validity date. Some of the short-lived content components like tenders, recruitment, etc. which will not have any relevance on the website after the event or intended purpose. The content components like documents, reports, what’s new are to be regularly reviewed as per the Content Review Policy. If the content is not relevant, then the content is archived and no longer published on the Website. Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) maintains online archives for a period of one Year to allow for the retrieval of content which has expired.