Privacy Policy
Times Internet Ltd, (TIL) a wholly owned subsidiary of Bennett Coleman &
Co. Limited. Indiatimes located at http://in.indiatimes.com is the mother brand
of TIL and powers / manages the Online Properties (Brand Names) of the 'Times
Group' interalia www.timesofindia.com, www.economictimes.com,
www.navbharattimes.com, www.maharashtratimes.com including various internet
sites and community boards and services, to name a few, (Indiatimes Channels)
hereinafter collectively referred to as TIL.
TIL respects the privacy of it's users and is committed to protect it in all
respects. With a view to offer most enriching and holistic internet experience
to it's users TIL offers a vast repository of Online Sites and variety of
community services. You may read 'About Us' to know more about TIL at
http://info.indiatimes.com/terms/aboutus.html. Most of the Online Community
Services are offered for free but you need a Universal mandatory registration to
surf 'Indiatimes Channels' in detail. The information about the user as
collected by TIL is: (a) information supplied by users and (b) information
automatically tracked while navigation (Information).
By using TIL’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 namely:- a) your name,
b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) PIN code , f) credit card or debit card
details g) medical records and history h) sexual orientation, i) biometric
information, j) password etc., 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. In some sites as in
Indiatimes Contests, dating etc. we require your contact addresses.
All required information is service dependent and TIL 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 or any other law for the time
being in force.
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 (an
example of this is when you ask for our Personalised Horoscope). 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.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's
connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site.
(Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know
where to send you data -- such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does
not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to
you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure
traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from
where our visitors come.
LINK TO
THIRD PARTY SITES
TIL 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 TIL, 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
TIL shares the sensitive
personal information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of
the User in the following limited 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.
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.
b) TIL 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 these 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.
When you use
TIL’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.
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 TIL is securely stored within the TIL 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.
In the event you have any grievance
relating to the processing of
information provided by you, you
may contact our Grievance Officer, at
copyright.infringement@indiatimes.com
; or write at the following address:
Times Internet Limited
4th Floor,
Gurgaon, Haryana 122002
Ph: 0124-4187000
We request you to please provide the following
information in your complaint:-
(a) Identification of the information provided by you
(b) Clear statement as to whether the information is personal information or
sensitive personal information
(c) Your address, telephone number or e-mail address.
(e) A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the information has been
processed incorrectly or disclosed without authorization, as the case may be.
(f) A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is
accurate, and that the information being complained about belongs to you.