लेटेस्टThis Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which information collected from the users or provided by the users is processed by us, Regional News India Pvt Limited, having its registered office at H-146-147, 3rd Floor, Sector -63, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301. and/or its subsidiary(ies) and/or affiliate(s) (collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), which operates various websites, apps, newsletters, and other services, including but not limited to delivery of information and content, via any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (collectively the “Service(s)”).
This Privacy Policy forms part and parcel of the Terms of Use for the Services. Capitalised terms, which have been used here but are undefined shall have the same meaning as attributed to them in the Terms & Conditions. The Company respects the privacy of the users of the Site / Services and is committed to protecting it in all respects.
We collect and process some or all the following types of information in the course of you using our Services. The type of information we collect will depend on the circumstances and the Service you are using. Generally speaking, the information about the user as collected by the Company is: (a) data supplied by users and (b) data automatically tracked while navigation (c) data collected from any other source (collectively referred to as “Information”).
(i) Registration Data
This Information includes, but is not limited to, basic contact information provided by you on our Website, which may include your name, mobile number, address, e-mail address, data of birth, demographical information, gender, interests, preferences, place of work, position, country. For example, the Company may collect personal Information when you register on the Website, to subscribe to our Services or for requesting further information. It can also include information that we have not requested but which you have volunteered, such as information provided during interactions via comments or other submissions you have made to our online Services, such as online forums, in response to a survey, while requesting certain Services or products, or to enter a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion. When you register using your other accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc. we shall retrieve Information from such account to continue to interact with you and to continue providing the Services.
The Company may use your Information to provide you with information, special offers, and promotions via various means including e-mail. You may instruct Company at any time not to use your personal Information covered by this Privacy Policy to provide you with special offers and promotions. In case you choose to decline to submit personal information on the Website, the Company may not be able to provide certain sites/content/apps/services/features to you. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the same at the time of opening your account. In any case, we will not be liable and or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information.
You may choose to purchase any subscription or paid Service using a credit card, e-wallet or any other electronic payment system. When you chose any subscription or paid Service, we or our payment system provider may collect your purchase, address or billing information, including your credit card number and expiration date, etc. (“Payment Information”). However, when you order using an in-app purchase option, the same are handled by such platform providers. Typically, the Payment information is provided directly by users, via the Website, into the PCI/DSS-compliant payment processing service to which the Company subscribes, and the Company does not, itself, process or store the Payment Information, except as stated herein. The subscriptions or paid Services may be on auto renewal mode unless cancelled. If at any point you do not wish to auto-renew your subscription, you may cancel your subscription before the end of the subscription term.
This Payment Information is used to provide you your requested Services, to manage your account, to communicate with you, and enforce any terms of service or agreement related to the Website. We use any Payment Information we acquire from you only to fulfill your order.
In some circumstances you might provide us with the Information about other individuals, you must ensure that you (1) have their permission to provide their Information to us; and (2) you have made them aware of the terms of this Privacy Policy. By submitting the Information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorised to do so and that you have received authorisation from the person about whom you are providing the Information and that person has explicitly consented to have all Information used, processed, disclosed, and transferred in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When you use our Services, we automatically record Information about your usage of those Services, your interaction with our adverts and our emails as well as information about the device you are using and your internet connection. We do this in the following ways:
The Company and the parties with whom we work (e.g., business partners, advertisers and advertising servers) may place, view, and/or use “cookies”, web server logs, web beacons, or mapping pixel/pixel tag or other electronic tools to collect statistical and other Information about your use of the Website and other websites.
This Information may include information about the IP address of your computer, browser type, language, operating system, your mobile device, geo-location data, the state or country from which you accessed the Company’s Website, the web pages visited, the date and the time of a visit, the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting the Website, the number of links you click within the Website, the functions you use on the Website, the databases you view and the searches you request on the Website, the data you save on or download from the Website and the number of times you view an advertisement. For more information, please see our Cookies Policy, which forms part of this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of the Website. The Company and the parties with whom we work may use the information collected for various reasons, either on behalf of the Company or for the other parties’ own purposes, including research, analysis, to better serve visitors to the Website (such as by providing customised content, or presenting online advertising on the Website or other websites tailored to your interests as described further below), to compile aggregate and anonymous information about usage of the Website and other websites, other statistics, etc. However, if you have deleted and disabled cookies, these uses will not be possible to the extent they are based on cookie information. This is statistical data about our users browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual. However, to assist us with the uses described in this Privacy Policy, information collected about your use of the Website or other websites may be combined with personal or other Information about you from other online or offline sources to track usage of our Services.
We automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, mobile number, etc., when you visit the Website / Service. We automatically receive and log information from your browser, including your computer’s name, your operating system, browser type and version, IP address, CPU speed, and connection speed. We may also collect log information from your device, including your location, IP address, your device’s name, device’s serial number or unique identification number (e.g. UDiD on your iOS device). If you access the Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geo-location data, or other transactional information for that device.
Besides web beacons, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients. We use this information to inter-alia to measure traffic within the Website/Service to improve the Website/Service quality, functionality and interactivity and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.
We may receive Information about you from other sources, add it to our account information and treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Information to the platform provider or other partner, your account information and order information may be passed on to us. We may obtain updated contact information from third parties in order to correct our records and fulfill the Services or to communicate with you and you expressly consent to this.
We use Information held about you for our legitimate business interests for the following purposes:
(i) To provide you Services including associated functionalities whether by us or by our designated representatives and/or business partners to you or to parties designated by you and all matters ancillaries thereto including to carry out obligations from any contracts entered between us. We rely on the performance of our contract with you so as the legal basis for such processing.
(ii) To verify and process payment when you subscribe to, purchase and/or obtain Services from any of our Website. We rely on the performance of our contract with you so as the legal basis for such processing.
(iii) For verification and record of your personal particulars, to authenticate you so that we know it is you and not someone else, which includes comparing it with Information from other sources and using the Information to communicate with you. We rely on the performance of our contract with you so as the legal basis for such processing.
(iv) To conduct market research and statistical analysis of the users of the Website including the number of users, the frequency of use, profile of users and using such analysis for our business plans, the enhancement of our products and services, targeted advertisements, and conveying such Information in broad terms (but not information in relation to specific individuals) to third parties who have or propose to have business dealings with us. We rely on legitimate business interests as the legal basis for such processing and the legitimate interest in analysing the use of the Services and improving the same.
(v) To send you Information, promotions, and updates including marketing and advertising materials in relation to our Services and those of third-party organisations selected by us. We will only do this where we reasonably believe that our Services may be of interest to you, and you consent to be provided with such information. We rely on legitimate business interest as the legal basis to promote our Services to you as the legal basis for this processing.
(vi) To prevent fraud or other potentially illegal activities (including copyright infringement) and to block disruptive users and protect the safety of users of our Services. The legal basis for this process is our legitimate business interests being the proper protection of our business against risks and
(vii) To enforce our terms of Service. The legal basis for this processing being the protection and assertion of our legal rights and the legal rights of others.
In any case, if you would prefer that we do not use your Information to market or promote our products and Services to you, please either (i) tick the relevant box on the form through which we collect your Information (for example, the registration form); (ii) unsubscribe from our electronic communications using the method indicated in the relevant communication; or (iii) contact us at the contact details set out below:
Regional News India Pvt Limited
H-146-147, 3rd Floor, Sector -63, Noida,
Uttar Pradesh 201301. Ph :0120 4040001
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