Privacy Policy of Aaj Bikel

1. INFORMATION RECEIVED, COLLECTED AND STORED BY THE COMPANY

A. INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY USERS

Registration data: When you register for the website’s service, Aaj Bikel will ask for details of your basic contact information like name, sex, age, address, pin code, contact number, occupation, interests, email address, etc. In case of registration using social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc, information from such account will be retrieved in order to continue to interact with you and also to continue to provide services.
Subscription or paid service data: If you choose any subscription or paid service as offered by use, we or our payment gateway provider may collect your purchase, address or billing information (credit card number, expiry date, etc). In case of the in-app purchase option, the same is handled by mobile operating system platform providers. The subscriptions or paid services may be auto-renewed unless the service is cancelled. You may cancel your subscription anytime before the end of the subscription date if you do not wish to continue with the auto-renew service.
Voluntary information: Additional information might be collected at other times. But it is not limited to when you provide feedback, comments, change your contact or email preferences, respond to surveys or any kinds of communications with us.

B. INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED/ TRACKED WHILE NAVIGATION

Cookies: In order to improve the responsiveness of the website for our users, ‘cookies’ or similar electronic tools are likely to be used in order to collect information. This would help to provide each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID). The User ID will help to understand the interests of the user by using the identified computer or device. Until and unless the user voluntarily identifies him, we will have no means to know who you are, in spite of assigning a cookie to your computer or device. A cookie can only store the information the user supplies. A cookie is unable to read data off your hard drive or device. Our advertisers can assign their own cookies to your browsers. This happens when you click on the advertisements. This process is not controlled by us. We receive and store certain types of information when you interact with us through the site or the service option using your computer or laptop or netbook or mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device, etc.

Opting out: The unique DoubleClick cookie ID on the user’s browser, is overwritten with the phrase “OPT_OUT” when the user will opt out using the Ads Settings. This happens because there is no longer a unique cookie ID. As a result, the opt-out cookie cannot be associated with a particular browser.

Log File Information: Limited information about your computer’s connection to the internet, mobile number, IP address is automatically collected when you visit our site, application or service, The IP address is the number which allows computers attached to the internet know where it will be able to send you data. We receive and log information from your computer automatically. It also includes your IP address, your computer’s name, operation system, browser type-version, CPU speed, and connection speed. Other log information may also be collected from your device like your location, IP address, device name, device serial number or unique identification number, your device operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed etc.

Clear GIFs: Web Beacons or ‘Clear GIFs’ maybe used in order to track the online usage patterns of our users anonymously, without the user being personally identified. We might also clear the GIFs in HTML-based emails which have been sent to our users in order to track which emails are opened by the recipients. This information is used to deliver our web pages to you upon request, in order to cater to the interests of our users. This is done to measure the traffic within our sites to improve the quality, functionality and interactivity and let the advertisers know the geographic locations from where our users come without personally identifying them.

C. Information from other Sources:

Information about you from other sources maybe received, add it to our account information and treat it in accordance with this policy. Your account and order information will be passed on to us if you provide it to the platform provider or other partners.

Demographic and other information: We may refer to other sources of demographic and other information in order to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics to track user behavior, which helps to support display advertising towards helping us gain the understanding of the users’ demographics and interests. The reports cannot be associated with any individual and they are anonymous. You can opt-out of Google Analytics and customize Google Display Network using the Ads Settings option by Google.

2. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES / AD-SERVERS

The site may include links to other websites or applications, which are governed by their respective privacy policies and are beyond our control. The using of any information that you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the application you are visiting, once you leave our servers. This privacy policy is likely to differ from that of ours. If you are unable to find the privacy policy of these sites, then you should contact the application owners directly. We present information to our advertisers in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages or content within our site. This information helps our advertisers to understand our audience. We serve advertisements when you visit our site by using third-party advertising companies. These companies use information about your visits to this and other websites/application. The information does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number or other personally identifiable information. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third party websites or advertisers or ad-servers without your consent.

3. INFORMATION USE BY THE COMPANY

The information provided to us by the users helps us to improve the services and also provide user-friendly experience to the users in return. In some cases/provision of certain service(s) or utility (ies), we may require your contact address as well. All of the required information is dependent on service and the company might use the user information to maintain, protect and improve the services and also develop new services. The services include advertising and personalization on the site. In order to send commercial or marketing messages about our services, we may use your email address or other personally identifiable information. This information may be used for additional updates and features about third parties products and services with the option to subscribe or unsubscribe. We might use your email address for non-marketing or administrative purposes which includes notifying you of major changes, for customer service purposes, billing, etc.). 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 of choosing to decline to submit personally identifiable information on the site, we may not be able to provide certain services on the site to you. We will notify you of the same at the time of opening your account. 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. When you register with the Sites or Services, we will contact you from time to time about updating of your personal information to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit / interest you.

4. INFORMATION SHARING

The Company can share your information with any third party without taking the prior consent of the user in case of the following circumstances:

When the law or any court or governmental agency or authority requests or it is required to disclose for the verification of identity purpose or for the prevention, detection, investigation including but not limited to cyber incidents. It is also for prosecution and punishment of offences. It must be states that these disclosures are made in good faith and belief. Such disclosers are necessary in order to enforce these terms or for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
In order to conduct its business, the company proposes to share such information within its group companies, officers and its employees, in order to process personal information on its behalf. We ensure that the recipients of such information agree to process such information on the basis of our instructions and in compliance with this policy, any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
In order to help our advertisers and third parties to understand our audience, the company may present information to them. It will also help to confirm the value of advertising on our site. It is in the form of aggregated statistic on traffic to various pages within our site.
Information on your activities on site may be shared with third party social websites by the company in order to populate your social wall which is visible to others. You will also have an option to set your privacy settings which will allow you to determine what you would like to share or not to share with others.
Your information may be shared in order to enforce or protect our rights or any or all of its affiliates, associates, employees, directors or officers or when disclosing information of user(s) is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or our site, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

5. ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We provide you with access to your personal information as and when requested by you when you use the Services or Sites (or any of its sub sites). We shall ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible. This is in subject to any requirement for such personal information or sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. The individual users are asked to be identified and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests. We may also decline to process requests that unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical or for which access is not otherwise required. We perform free service for cases where we provide information access and correction, except in cases where by doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Post deletion of your information by you, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.

6. INFORMATION SECURITY

Appropriate security measures are taken in order to protect against the unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. This implies to the internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures. This includes appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. All information gathered on TIL is securely stored within the Company controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. Despite our effective security measures, no security system is impenetrable and hence we cannot guarantee the security of our database. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Any information you include is available to anyone with the access to internet. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit or use our Sites or Services. These third-party companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address or telephone number or any personally identifiable information) about your visits or use to particular website, mobile application or services, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services which are of interest to you.

7. UPDATES / CHANGES

We may change our policy from time to time in order to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law or others. We reserve the right to change anytime the terms of this police or the terms of use. Changes made will be effective immediately and an update will be given by posting on the sites. Your use of the Sites or Services after such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. We may also make reasonable efforts to inform you through email. You are advised to review this policy periodically on the sites to ensure that you are aware of the latest version.

8. QUESTIONS / GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL

Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints, grievances or concerns in regards to the use, processing and disclosure of your information or the breach of these terms must be immediately informed to the designated Grievance Officers. The complaints or grievance must be informed to the respective Grievance Officers in writing or through email signed (electronic signature) and sent to the following:
Email address: aajbikel2014@gmail.com
Publisher of Aaj Bikel: Kumaresh Halder
Address of Aaj Bikel: Purbapara, Ramnagar road, Bongaon, N24PGS, WB, India,
Phone number: 9635319249

While filing your complaint, we request you to provide the following information:

Identification of the information provided by you.
Please mention clearly whether the information is personal or sensitive-personal information.
Please provide your address, telephone number or e-mail address.
Please provide a statement that you believe with utmost faith that the information has been processed incorrectly or has been disclosed without authorization, as the case maybe.
Please provide a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate, and that the information being complained about belongs to you.
You can also reach us in case you have any questions / suggestions about the Policy using the contact information mentioned above.

The Company may reach out to you to confirm or discuss the details about your complaint and issues raised. The Company shall not be responsible for any communication, if addressed, to any non-designated person in this regard.