LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

We may include links to other websites or applications. Such websites or applications are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the application, you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. Hence you should exercise caution, and review the privacy statements applicable to the third-party websites before you visit those sites.

We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third party websites / advertisers / ad-servers without your consent.

INFORMATION USED

The information as supplied by the users helps us to provide you the most user-friendly experience by improving our services. In some cases/provision of certain service(s) or utility(ies), we may require your contact address as well. All required information is service dependent and the COMPANY may use the above said information to, maintain, protect, and improve the Services (including advertising on the Application) and for developing new services. We may also use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent (with an option to subscribe / unsubscribe (where feasible). We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes.

Any personally identifiable information provided by you will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and / or accessible in the public domain like any comments, messages, blogs, scribbles available on social platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc.

In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information on the Application, we may not be able to provide certain services on the Application 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.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your personal information with any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the User in the following circumstances:

a) When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences.

b) We proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that the recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

c) We may present information to our advertisers - to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites or applications – however it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.

INFORMATION SECURITY

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorised access to systems where we store personal data. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. But then one must realise that there is no foolproof security measures and no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database as much as we try.