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This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, storage, usage, processing, and disclosure of personal data that you share with us when you access, use, or interact with our platform.
At Delhi News Daily, we are dedicated to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. To provide you with access to and use of our platform, we need to collect and process certain data about you. This policy explains how we handle your personal data.
By interacting with us, submitting information, or using our platform, you confirm that you have read this policy and consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information as described here.
This Privacy Policy supplements, but does not override, any previous consent you have given us, nor does it affect our legal rights concerning the collection, use, disclosure, or retention of your personal data.
Please note that unless defined otherwise in this policy, capitalized terms will have the same meanings as in our Terms & Conditions. Please read this policy in conjunction with the Terms.
By using the platform, you consent to the processing activities described in this policy.
Please refer to Section 1 for details on how the terms of this policy apply to you.
- Background and Key Information
(a) How this Policy Applies:
This policy applies to all individuals who access or use the platform or end-users of the platform (“you”).
By accessing or using the platform, you consent to the collection, storage, usage, and disclosure of your personal data, as described in and collected by us in accordance with this policy.
(b) Review and Updates:
We regularly review and update our Privacy Policy. We request you to review this policy regularly. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
(c) Third Party Services:
The platform may include links to third party websites, plug-ins, services, and applications (“Third Party Services”). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control or endorse these Third Party Services and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave the platform or access third party links, we encourage you to read the privacy policies of such third party service providers.
- Personal Data That We Collect
(a) We collect different types of personal data about you, including but not limited to:
– Contact Data: such as your mailing address, location, and email addresses.
– Identity and Account Data: such as your name, username, or similar identifiers.
– Marketing and Communications Data: such as your email address, feedback, responses to user surveys, your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and third parties, and your communication preferences.
– Technical Data: such as your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, operating system details, access time, page views, device ID, device type, frequency of visiting and using the platform, website and mobile application activity, clicks, date and time stamps, location data, and other technology on the devices you use to access the platform.
– Usage Data: such as information about how you use the platform, your activity on the platform, user taps and clicks, user interests, time spent on the platform, details about user journey on the mobile application, and page views.
(b) We also collect, use, and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data, derived from your personal data, is not considered personal data under law as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data.
(c) What happens if I refuse to provide my personal data?
Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a contract, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to provide you with the platform). In this case, we may have to cancel or limit your access to the platform.
- How Do We Collect Personal Data?
We use different methods to collect personal data from and about you, including:
(a) Direct Interactions. You provide us with your personal data when you interact with us. This includes when you:
– Create an account with us;
– Subscribe to our newsletters;
– Use our platform or carry out other activities in connection with the platform;
– Enter a promotion, user poll, or online surveys;
– Request marketing communications to be sent to you;
– Report a problem with the platform, give us feedback, or contact us.
(b) Automated technologies or interactions. Each time you visit the platform, we automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns using cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, server logs, and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites or apps that employ our cookies.
(c) Third parties or publicly available sources. We receive personal data about you from various third parties, including:
– Technical data from analytics providers such as advertising networks;
– Our business partners through which you access and use the platform, such as payment providers, social media services, or applications or websites that use our APIs or whose API we use;
– Personal data about you from our affiliate entities.
- How Do We Use Your Personal Data?
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to do so. Most commonly, we will use your personal data where we need to provide you with access to the platform, or where we need to comply with a legal obligation. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
– To verify your identity and create user accounts with us on the platform;
– To provide the platform to you;
– To monitor trends and personalize your experience;
– To improve the functionality of our platform based on the information and feedback we receive from you;
– To improve customer service to effectively respond to your platform requests and support needs;
– To send periodic notifications, information, and updates pertaining to the platform, or to send occasional company news and updates related to us or the platform;
– To market and advertise the platform;
– To comply with legal obligations;
– To administer and protect our business and the platform, including troubleshooting, data analysis, system testing, and performing internal operations;
– To improve our business;
– To perform our obligations that arise out of the arrangement we are about to enter or have entered with you;
– To communicate for business purposes in the course of providing the platform;
– To enforce our Terms;
– To respond to court orders, establish or exercise our legal rights, or defend ourselves against legal claims.
(b) You agree and acknowledge that by using our platform and subscribing to our newsletters and other features of the platform, you authorize us and our affiliates to contact you via email, phone, or otherwise to provide the platform to you and ensure you are aware of all the features of the platform.
(c) You agree and acknowledge that any and all information pertaining to you, whether or not you directly provide it to us (via the platform or otherwise), including personal correspondence such as emails, instructions from you, etc., may be collected, compiled, and shared by us in order to render the platform to you. This may include sharing with social media companies, third-party service providers, storage providers, data analytics providers, consultants, lawyers, and auditors. We may also share this information with other entities in the Delhi News Daily group in connection with the above-mentioned purposes.
(d) You agree and acknowledge that we may share data without your consent when it is required by law or by any court or government agency or authority. Such disclosures are made in good faith and belief that it is necessary to enforce this policy or the Terms, or to comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
- Cookies
(a) Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your device’s hard drive through your web browser (if you permit) that enables the sites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
(b) We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the platform, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements, and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction to offer you a seamless user experience. We may contact third party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
(c) Additionally, you may encounter cookies or other similar devices on certain pages of the platform that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the platform, we may collect such information within a file specific to you.
- Disclosures of Your Personal Data
(a) We may share your personal data with third parties for the purposes set out in Section 4, including:
– Internal third parties, which are other companies within the Delhi News Daily group.
– External third parties such as:
– Trusted third parties like our associate partners and service providers that provide services for us or on our behalf, including hosting and operating our platform, providing marketing assistance, conducting our business, and transmitting content;
– Analytic service providers and advertising networks that conduct web analytics for us to help improve the platform. These analytics providers may use cookies and other technologies to perform their services;
– Other registered users on our platform upon your request or where you explicitly consent to such disclosure, unless otherwise required by law;
– Regulators and other bodies, as required by law or regulation.
(b) We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
- Your Rights in Relation to Your Personal Data
(a) Access and Updating Your Personal Data: When you use our platform, we make best efforts to provide you with the ability to access and correct inaccurate or deficient data, subject to any legal requirements.
(b) Opting-Out of Marketing and Promotional Communications: When we send you marketing and promotional content through email, we make best efforts to provide you with the ability to opt-out of such communications by using the opt-out instructions provided in such emails.
- Transfers of Your Personal Data
(a) We comply with applicable laws regarding the storage and transfers of personal data. As part of your use of the platform, the information and personal data you provide to us may be transferred to and stored in countries other than the one you are based in. This may happen if any of our servers are located in a country other than the one you are based in, or if one of our service providers is located in a different country.
(b) By submitting your information and personal data to us, you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of such information and personal data in the manner described above.
- Data Security
(a) We implement security measures and privacy-protective features on our platform to protect your personal data from unauthorized access and disclosure and follow standards prescribed by applicable law.
(b) Where you have chosen a password that enables you to access certain parts of the platform, you are responsible for keeping this password secret and confidential. We will not be responsible for any unauthorized use of your information, lost, stolen, or compromised passwords, or any activity on your user account due to unauthorized disclosure of your password. If your password has been compromised, you should promptly notify us to enable a password change.
- Data Retention
(a) You agree and acknowledge that your personal data will continue to be stored and retained by us as long as necessary to fulfill our stated purposes and for a reasonable period after the termination of your account on the platform to comply with our legal rights and obligations.
(b) In some circumstances, we may aggregate your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
- Business Transitions
In the event we undergo a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal data may be among the assets transferred.
- User Generated Information
(a) We invite users to submit feedback and suggestions, make service requests, and submit details of grievances on the platform. Such content may be available to visitors to our platform.
(b) We cannot prevent user information from being used in a manner contrary to this policy, applicable laws, or your personal privacy, and we disclaim all liability in this regard. Further, you agree to comply with all applicable laws in relation to the content uploaded or shared on our platform. You understand and acknowledge that you will be solely responsible for any information published by you on our platform that violates applicable laws.
- Updates to This Policy
(a) We may occasionally update this policy. If we make changes, we will upload the revised policy on the platform or share it with you through other means, such as email. By using our platform after such notice, you consent to the updates.
(b) We encourage you to periodically review this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.
- Grievance Officer
If you have any questions about this policy, how we process or handle your personal data, or otherwise, you may reach out to us with your queries, grievances, feedback, and comments at