SahkarNet.com (SN) respects the privacy of it’s users and is committed to protect it in all respects. With a view to offer best experience to it’s users, SN offers a Variety of news, analysis and information. The information about the user as collected by SN is: (a) information supplied by users and (b) information automatically tracked while navigation (Information).
By using SN’s website or its services, you consent to collection, storage, and use of the personal information you provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of the services that we offer.
USER INFORMATION
To avail certain sites / services on our websites, users are required to provide certain information for the registration process that may include but not limited to :- a) your name, b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) City, f) Country, g) PIN code , h) mobile number, and / or your occupation, interests, and the like. The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve our sites and provide you the most user-friendly experience.
All required information is service dependent and SN may use the above said user information to, maintain, protect, and improve its services (including advertising services) and for developing new services.
Such information will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005, any rules made there under or any other law for the time being in force.
For placing an order on SN the information shall be used to service user requests, and the such information shall include user’s name, mailing address, email and phone number. This information shall be gathered on the purchase of or sign up for email notifications.
COOKIES
To improve the responsiveness of the sites for our users, we may use “cookies”, or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a user identification (User ID) to understand the user’s individual interests using the identified computer. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us via website, application or Service though your computer/laptop/netbook or mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device etc.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of the third party vendors on our site which also uses cookies, known as DART cookies. Dart Cookies serve ads to our site visitors based upon their preference or to our website and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the privacy policy of the Google advertisement and content network.
Advertising Partners
In conjunction with this entire privacy policy and in addition to the policy given above and below this paragraph, you should also note that few of advertisers on our website may use cookies and web beacons. Each of our advertising partners has their own privacy policy concerning user data. Third party ad servers or ad networks use technology such as cookies, JavaScript, Web Beacons etc. that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on SahkarNet.com, which are sent directly to users browser. They automatically receive your I address when this occurs. Such technology is used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaign and/ or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. SahkarNet.com has no access or control over these cookies that are used by third parties.
Opting out
If a user opts out using the Ads Settings, the unique DoubleClick cookie ID on the user’s browser is overwritten with the phrase “OPT_OUT”. Because there is no longer a unique cookie ID, the opt-out cookie can’t be associated with a particular browser.
Log File Information
We automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, mobile number, including your IP address, when you visit our site, application or service. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data — such as the pages you view. We automatically receive and log information from your browser, including your IP address, your computer’s name, your operating system, browser type and version, 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), your device operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed etc.
Information from other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, add it to our account information and treat it in accordance with this policy. If you provide information to the platform provider or other partner, whom we provide services, 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 fulfil the Services or to communicate with you
Demographic and purchase information
We may reference other sources of demographic and other information in order to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics, among others, to track the user behavior on our website. Google Analytics specifically has been enable to support display advertising towards helping us gain understanding of our users’ Demographics and Interests. The reports are anonymous and cannot be associated with any individual personally identifiable information that you may have shared with us. If you don’t want Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics browser add-on
LINK TO THIRD PARTY SITES
SN includes links to other websites. Such sites 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 site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.
When we present information to our advertisers — to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website — it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site. When you register with SN, we contact you from time to time about updation of your content to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit you.
INFORMATION SHARING
SN shares the sensitive personal information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the User only 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. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you use SN’s websites, we make good faith efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible, subject to any requirement for such personal information or sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
Legal Compliance and Your Rights:
Information Technology Act, 2002 of India
SahkarNet.com is fully compliant with the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made thereunder. SahkarNet.com is an ‘intermediary and in compliance with Rule 3 (11) of the Information Technology (Intermediary guidelines) Rules, 2011, the details of the Grievance Officer is as follows:
Grievance Officer
SahkarNet.com
E-mail ID: sahkarinet(at)gmail(dot)com
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
While we focus on Indian market only and do not cater to residents of California, as a good corporate citizen we voluntary comply with CCPA.
The California Privacy Policy of SahkarNet.com covers disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and is applicable only to “personal information” which is subject to this law. Under CCPA have the following rights among others:
- Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about the consumer.
- Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
- Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not to sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you have any concern with respect to the above rights or would like to exercise any of your rights under CCPA, please contact us at sahkarinet(at)gmail(dot)com
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to help you know your data protection rights. As a user, you are entitled to the following rights:
- Right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data on payment basis.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is incorrect. Similarly, you have the right to request that we complete any information that you believe is incomplete.
- Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to data portability: You have the tight to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization or directly to you under certain conditions.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights, please get in touch with us at sahkarinet(at)gmail(dot)com and we will respond within one month.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized 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 unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
All information gathered on SN is securely stored within the SN controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our privacy policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Any complaints or concerns with regards to content or to report any abuse of laws or breach of these terms may be taken up with us at sahkarinet(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Dispute Resolution
The courts in Delhi shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of this privacy policy or the use of www.SahkarNet.com