Department of State Tax Goa | Website Policies

As a general rule, this website does not collect Personal Information about you when you visit the site. You can generally visit the site without revealing Personal Information, unless you yourself choose to provide such information.

This website records your visits and logs the following information for statistical purposes -your server"s address; the name of the top-level domain from which you access the Internet (for example, .gov, .com, .in, etc.); the type of browser you use; the date and time you access the site; the pages you have accessed; and the documents downloaded and the previous Internet address from which you linked directly to the site. We will not identify users or their browsing activities, except when a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider"s logs.

Your email address will only be recorded if you choose to send a message. It will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and will not be added to a mailing list. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and will not be disclosed, without your consent.

If you are asked for any other Personal Information you will be informed how it will be used. If at any time you believe the principles referred to in this privacy statement have not been followed, or have any other comments on these principles, please notify the concerned through the contact us page.

The use of the term "Personal Information" in this privacy statement refers to any information from which your identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained

At many places in this website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. These links have been placed for your convenience. Department of State Tax is not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. 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 all the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.

Links to the Department of State Tax website by other websites/portals

Prior permission is required before hyperlinks are directed from any website/portal to this site. 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 of the Hyperlink should be obtained by sending a request at .

Following this policy, we provide a role based Content Management system. This CMS helps the website team in giving role specific access of administrator panel to different Users. The Web administrator will also be able to manage information specifically meant for internal use, which will be viewable to all members after the successful login. Admin can create the users by assigning him a particular role and Module to which functions of a particular user are limited. These roles are:

Creator: These are the Content creator’s. Their responsibilities are to add/edit/delete respective content on the website and send it to for approval.

Moderator: Their responsibilities are to approve the content coming from the creator’s

Publisher: A publisher could Edit and review the content. He is responsible for publishing the content on the website.

These personnel’s would be appointed by the Web Administrator and would be responsible for overall quality and quantity of information on the Website. The Web Administrator will be responsible for overall supervision to ensure that authentic and updated information are available on the website.

The web Administrator and the assigned Personnel’s will have the responsibility for periodically reviewing the content of the website in respect of their respective domains. A proper workflow would be followed before final updation of content on the website.

Following this policy we provide Archival Management to the Client which would be covering those content areas which needs to be put into Archives. This will help website team in ensuring that the expired content is removed from the main website. There will be an Archival System available on the Website, which will transfer the expired content in archives section as soon as it reaches expiry date. Archived Data will be available in each page along with search option to search data between 2 two given dates.

Website requires security clearance certificate before hosting any website in its data centre. The new website will be audited by Cert-in empanelled auditor and all the vulnerabilities will be fixed. Upon completion, security clearance certificate of cert-in empanelled auditor will be submitted.

Under the Website Monitoring Policy, We monitor periodically to address and fix the quality and compatibility issues around the following parameters:

Functionality: All modules of the website are tested for their Functionality for their smooth working.

Performance: All important pages of the website are tested for the download time.

Broken Links: The website is thoroughly reviewed to rule out the presence of any broken links or errors.

Contingency Management

The presence of the website on the Internet and very importantly the site is fully functional all the times. It is expected of the Government websites to deliver information and services on a 24X7 basis. Hence, all efforts should be made to minimize the downtime of the website as far as possible.

In case of any defacement and data corruption, quick action needs to be taken by authorized personnel for the same.

Contents of this website may not be reproduced partially or fully, without due permission from the . If referred to as a part of another website, the source must be appropriately acknowledged. The contents of this website cannot be used in any misleading or objectionable context.

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