Privacy policy for Palankarta LLP.
1. Welcome to Palankarta.com. We have published this Privacy Policy to help you understand the types of information we collect from our users and the ways we use the collected information. Palankarta.com, hereinafter referred to as the “Website”, “Palankarta.com”, “We”, “Us”, and “Our”.
2. This Privacy Policy governs the collection, storage and use of the data received through the Website. The terms “You” and “Your” have been used to represent a user of the Website. Please note that the terms and conditions herein shall apply equally to both the singular and plural form of the terms defined.
3. WE RECOMMEND YOU TO READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE OR ANY OF OUR SERVICES. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICES SHALL SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGES MADE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
4. By using our Website or our services, you agree to be bound by the latest version of this Privacy Policy, updated from time to time. You are requested to keep visiting this Privacy Policy page at regular intervals to keep yourself aware of the provisions of this Privacy Policy and the changes made to it (if any) at any later date.
5. Please note that there is no compulsion, as such, to agree to the terms of this privacy policy if you are not using Palankarta.com; however, in the event, you opt to access or use the Website, either directly or indirectly through a third person, you irrevocably and unconditionally agree to all the terms of this privacy policy and consent to the collection, storage and use of your personal and non-personal information in the manner provided herein.
6. If you are using our website, you will be sharing your personal as well as some non-personal information with us. All this information is collected through our Website that you may visit either directly or indirectly (through ads or hyperlinks which may redirect you to the Website). If you are placing an order for a third person, you represent that you have obtained their consent before doing so. Please note that all direct or indirect users of our Website shall be bound to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and shall expressly consent to the collection, storage and use of their personal and non-personal information as the case may be. This Privacy Policy also covers the information shared by you in physical form.
7. We understand that protecting your privacy is very important to you, and you would like to ensure your personal information remains protected from any unauthorized access and use. In order to meet your privacy-related needs, we have implemented strict data protection policy to keep your information protected from any unauthorized access and use. We have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain how Palankarta.com collects, stores, and uses your personal and non-personal information.
8. If you are using our Website and the Services, you agree that you have read, understood and irrevocably agreed to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and you have given your consent to the collection, storage and use of your personal and the non-personal information. Should you disagree to any of the terms contained herein or become unhappy with any of the subsequent changes, amendments or updates, you may please discontinue using our Website.
9. What information do we collect?
Palankarta.com collects your personal as well as non-personal information when you register on the Palankarta.com site or visit Palankarta.com pages. This information are described herein below to help you understand the types of information collected by Palankarta.com.
- Personal Information: A personal information can be used to identify you as an individual. This information include your name, email address, phone number and address. We may collect the following types of personal information in order to provide you with the use and access to the sonisivision, its services and tools, and for any additional purposes set out in this Privacy Policy:
- Name, and contact information, such as email address, phone number, mobile telephone number, physical address, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information, such as bank account numbers;
- Transactional information based on your activities on the websites (such as accounts, tax figures and any other statements and documents related to our services).
- Personal information you provide to us through correspondence, chats, comments and activities.
- Additional personal information we ask you to submit to authenticate yourself if we believe you are violating site policies (for example, we may ask you to send us an ID to answer additional questions online to help verify your identity);
- Information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including, but not limited to, device ID, device type, location, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information.2. Aggregate Information: Palankarta.com collects non-identifying, general, generic and aggregate information to better design our website and services.
- Non-Personal Information: Palankarta.com may collect non-personal information as you use Palankarta.com. When you use the site, Palankarta.com, third-party service providers (e.g. Google Analytics), and partners may receive and record non-personal information from cookies, server logs, and similar technology from your browser or mobile device, including your IP address.
- We may combine some Non-Personal Information with the Personal Information we collect. Where we do so, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information if the resulting combination may be used to readily identify or locate you in the same manner as Personal Information alone.
- Please note that we do not store your card details or financial information. All the payments are processed by third-party payment gateways which use secured socket layer (SSL) technology to keep your card and financial information protected. Such third party payment gateways, however, store your payment/transaction id to reverse the charges if applicable.
10. How do we store your information?
We use hosting provider Bigrock, therefore your information may be transferred to and stored on servers at various locations. Palankarta.com maintains control of your information. We protect your information using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorization controls.
11. How do we use your Information?
12. When you use Palankarta.com, we may request certain information. Palankarta.com does not share any of your personally identifiable or transactional information with any person or entity, other than as set out in this policy. No other third party receives your personally identifiable information or other transactional data except for approximate location / geo-location information when you use the Local jobs service and those with whom you have transactions and share that information. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website, notify users about updates to our website and for communications, such as customer service. The personal information is mainly used to offer our services on the website. With the help of the information you share; we manage your account as well as your browsing sessions on the website.
- Email Communications: We may send you a welcome email to verify your account and other transactional emails for operational purposes, such as account management, courses or system maintenance. You may only stop those emails by terminating your account. We may also send you promotions, product announcements, surveys, newsletters, developer updates, product evaluations, and event information or other marketing or commercial e-mails. You can opt out of receiving these email communications from Palankarta.com at any time by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe link within each email, updating your e-mail preferences on your Palankarta.com account or emailing us to have your contact information removed from our email list or registration database.
- SMS communications: We may send you SMS messages to your phone number for operational purposes, such as notifying you about the comment on your blog or the courses you have purchased. You can opt out of receiving these SMS messages from Palankarta.com at any time by updating your notifications preferences on your Palankarta.com account or by replying ‘STOP’ to any message we send.
- Marketing: You agree that we may use your personal information to tell you about our services and tools, deliver targeted marketing and promotional offers based on your communication preferences, and customize measure and improve our advertising. You can unsubscribe from emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in the email. However, you may not unsubscribe or out opt of the emails that are triggered due to your activities on the website. One such example is changing your password.
- We do not sell or trade upon the personal information of our users. We may, however, share some non-personal information with our associate companies and advertising partners for the traffic management as well as targeting ads. Our associate companies may further contact you and share the information related to the deals in which you might be interested in.
- Non-Personal Information is mainly used our marketing purposes, including, without limitation, marketing on other websites. For example, we may use the information to control the number of times you have seen an ad, deliver ads tailored to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. You can prevent us from tailoring our ads to you on other websites by deleting your cookies (see below). Please note that Palankarta.com uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer and transaction data exchanged with our site. The information is further used to improve your experience on the website as we use it to do some background calculations. These calculations help us in resolving technical difficulties, adding or removing a functionality, preventing the crashes, or if crashed already, in the restoration of the website.
- We may disclose your personal information to our lawyers, legal team, telesales, and management to carry out our operations smoothly. The lawyer may need to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. As stated above, we can disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
- We may disclose personal information to our related body corporate and third party suppliers and service providers for some of the purposes. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
- We may disclose your personal information upon a business transition, for example, in the case of merger, demerger, amalgamation, or at the sale or transfer of Palankarta.com and/or all or part of its assets including servers to another entity. However, this privacy policy shall equally be applicable to the new entity receiving your information.
13. Cookies
14. We use cookies and beacons on our Platform to collect some non-personal information such as your IP address, web browser type, date and time of your visit, and preferred language etc. Cookies are small text files with id tags transferred via a web browser and thereafter stored on your system’s storage or mobile device. They are created and transferred at the time you visit our Platform or any other website that uses cookies to track user information. They are used to collect the non-personal information such as the date and time of your visit, language selection, and your preferences. There are two types of cookies used by our Platform a) cookies by Palankarta.com, and b) cookies by third-party websites. The third parties include an advertiser, linked websites, or the partner companies that use cookies on their websites.
Types of Cookies used by Palankarta.com
- The session cookies are very important for us to help ensure you use our Platform easily. The session cookies identify you as one user when you browse through different pages of the Platform. If we do not have session cookies, the Platform will recognize you as a new user on each different page you go through. You may also be asked to provide same information again and again in absence of the session cookies. The session cookies are temporary. They are used to track your activities on our Platform and manage our user sessions. They remember the pages you have visited and allowed you an easy navigation. The session cookies are automatically deleted at the time you close your browser. The permanent cookies remain in your system for as long as you do not delete them. However, if they reach their expiry date before you delete them manually, they get removed out of your system or the mobile device automatically. They are also called the persistent cookies because they persist in your system for a longer period of time. We use the permanent cookies to remember your information and settings. They can also store your password if you click on the option “remember password”. The permanent cookies also remember your language selection, preferred theme, bookmarks, menu preferences, or favorites. The permanent cookies make the use of the Platform convenient by allowing an easy login when you visit the Platform in future.
- The cookies can be installed on your device, whether you are registered with us or not. They are created at the time you visit our website. They are generally installed at the time you open our Platform or any third party website that uses cookies. The third party cookies can be installed at the time you click on any ad or visit any linked website. They are installed in your browser’s subfolder.
- We do not use cookies to scan or spy on your personal information contained in your system or mobile device. Any information contained in a cookie is simply the result of your actions. For example, if you fill out a form on the website, the cookies may record it. Please note that the information recorded by our cookies is encrypted and therefore, a third party server cannot read or decode the information contained therein.
- We use cookies to collect the information such as the date and time of your access, your preferences, user id and the browsing details etcetera. The cookies can also store your password if you select the ‘remember password’ option. Since the passwords stored in the cookies are encrypted, no other servers except the server that had created the cookie would be able to read your password. Your user id, system, and browser details are stored at the time you select ‘remember me’ option. We use the cookies on our Platform to manage our user’s sessions, tracking information and remembering the language a user has selected. The cookies help you in saving your time by automatically selecting the preferred language and remembering your system. For example, if you do not allow cookies on your system, you may need to answer the security questions every time you try to sign in to your account. However, if you allow them, you will not be required to answer the security questions again and again. This is because our server will recognize you with the help of the information stored in the cookies installed on your system’s storage or mobile device. Further, we use web beacons to understand the traffic pattern on our website. The web beacons are also known as the pixel tags. The pixel tags can be used to identify whether a user has visited us directly or through a hyperlink/advertisement. This helps in improving our user’s experience on the website.
- You can typically configure your web browser to not to accept the cookies. However, declining the use of cookies may limit your activities on the Platform. For example, you may experience using our communication facility. You may also be required provide certain information every time you use the Platform. For example, you may need to select your preferred language every time you visit us. Your web browser allows you to delete the permanent cookies installed on your storage. To delete the permanent cookies installed on your system or the mobile device, you can select the relevant options available in the settings of your web browser.
- Accessing and updating your Information
You can update your information through your account profile settings. If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you also have an option to request us to update it.
15. Opt-out:
You can opt-out of certain communication you receive from our website. The link to opt-out of the communications is usually provided in the emails. However, please note that opting out of certain information, for example, those related to your account related activities would not be possible.
16. Complaints:
The user may share his queries/concerns related to this Privacy Policy through email.
We resolve the privacy-related queries on a priority basis. Therefore, in order to enable us help you in a better way, we request you share all the details that might be helpful for us in locating the real issues.
17. Applicable laws:
This Privacy Policy shall be governed in accordance with the Indian laws. Any disputes, discrepancy or claim relating to or resulting out of this Privacy Policy shall be dealt in accordance with the Indian laws and the user ascends to accept the jurisdiction of the courts of Ajmer and all courts eligible to here appeal there from.