We know that your privacy is very important and therefore, take it sincerely. This “Privacy Policy” provides the Company’s detailed policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the Website (our Portal) or our Services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as mentioned in this Privacy Policy.

 

Information We Collect From You

We might collect and process the following data about you:

Information you provide us:

You may provide us information about yourself by filling in forms on the Website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or any other mode. This includes the information you provide when you register to use the Website / portal and subscribe to our Services, submit anything for publication on our Website, participate in discussion boards or any other social media functions on the Website, take part in any competition, survey or promotion and when you report a problem with the Website. The information you provide us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number. You may also choose to give other personal information in order to express yourself beyond the required basic information, like a short biography, your location, your website, or a picture. Your name, e-mail id and other information you select to add to your profile will be available for public viewing on the Website.

 

Information that will be collected about you

With regard to each of your visits to the Website, the following information will automatically be collected:

• The Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address which is used to attach your computer to the Internet, browser type (& its version), your login information, the time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and other platform;
• Information regarding your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) click flow to, through and from the Website (including date and time); material or information which you viewed or searched for; the page response times, any errors in download, length of visits to certain pages, page communication information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page along with any phone number used to call our customer care number.
• If you use your account information with Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus or Gmail or any other social networking or similar site (collectively, “SNS”) to sign in to the Website, an option of which may be given by the Website to you at its sole discretion, we will collect and store your SNS user ID, with other account information and other information freely made available to the Company by the SNS. The Account Information collected includes all the account information provided by you to that website. It is to be noted that the other information we get from the SNS is often dependent on their privacy policies and/or on your settings regarding what information you have permitted to share with services like that of Company’s.

Information we get from other sources

We can get information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we offer. In this case, we will inform you in advance when we collect that data and that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this Website / portal. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for instance, advertising networks, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, analytics providers, payment and delivery services, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may get information about you from such sources. We also collect non-personally identifiable information from the Website visitors to track the total of number of visitors to the Website in collective form and identify the type of Internet web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer®) and operating system (e.g., Windows®) used by the visitor. This information allows us constantly to improve our Website / portal.

Metadata

Metadata is usually technical data associated with the Content you submit, post or share on the Website. Users can add or may have metadata added to their Content including date, geolocation, other relative data or any attribution.

 

Cookies & Use of Them

Our Website uses cookies to discriminate you from other users of our Website / portal. It also helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and allows us to improve the Website for the users.

 

Uses of  Your Information

Different ways of using the information provided by you:

• To carry out our obligations starting from any contracts entered into between you and us and to offer you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
• To improve the security of the Website;
• To personalize content;
• To remember information to help you competently access your account;
• To give you more information about other services we offer that are similar that you are have enquired about already;
• To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you with information about services that we feel may interest you. If you are a registered user, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about services we provide. If you are a new customer and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means with your permission only. If you don’t want us to use your data in this way or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, you can tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data, if available, or write to us at info@tnhindia.com.
• To inform you about changes being made to our Services;
• To make sure that content from the Website is presented in the most useful manner for you and for your computer.
• To send you Service-related notices. We may also use your contact information to send you marketing emails (mailers). If you do not want to receive such mailers, you can opt out by following the instructions in the mailer / message. In order to verify that the e-mail address provided by you belongs to you, we will send a verification e-mail to complete the verification process and finally, make your Account functional.

We will use the information collected about you in order:

• To administer the Website and for internal operations, including the troubleshooting, data analysis, research, testing, statistical and survey purposes;
• To develop the Website to ensure that content is presented in the most valuable manner for you and for your computer;
• To allow you to take part in interactive features of our Services, if any, when you choose to do so;

As part of our hard work to keep the Website safe and secure;

• To determine or understand the effectiveness of advertising we offer you and others, and to deliver significant advertising to you;
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of the Website about services that may interest you or them.

Information we get from other sources

We may combine this information you give us and information we collect about you. We might use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

 

Disclosure of Your Information

In the case of the Content that you upload on the Website personally, you can choose to keep your Content private or public. The “Private Content” won’t be visible to anyone except you and people with whom you share the URL of the private Content so uploaded. Also, Private Content will not be cached and archived on our servers. However, the Public Content on the other hand is easily accessible to everyone, including search engines. Other users can collect, copy, comment on, and share all publicly available Content on the Website. Our portal reserves the right to share all public Content on any SNS or on any other online or offline platform. We will never share any Content which you have marked as private unless your permission. We will never rent or sell your personal information to any of the third parties, except on an anonymized basis, unless expressly provided in these Terms.

Any information you voluntarily reveal for posting to the Website / portal, including your profile page information is accessible to anyone. When you submit or share the Content that you select to make public on the Website / portal, it can be also be further shared by others. We can share your information with selected third parties including:

• Business partners, sub-contractors and suppliers for the performance of any contract we enter into with you.
• Advertising networks and Advertisers that involve the data to select and supply appropriate adverts to you and others

We don’t reveal any information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we can provide them with aggregate information about our users.

We might disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In case, we sell or buy any business / assets, in such case your personal data might be disclosed to the future seller or buyer.
• If the Company or substantially all of its assets are purchased by a third party, in such case personal data held by it of its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a pressure to disclose or share your personal data in order to obey with any legal obligation or in order to impose and other agreements; or to guard the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. It includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Where Do We Store Your Personal Data

Here, the Personal data refers to data, whether true or not, about an individual:

(i) who can be identified from that data; or (ii) from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access. [All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.] After providing you a control panel, it is your duty to make sure that you don’t share the password of it with any other person. Regrettably, the transmission of information via the internet is not absolutely secure. Although, we will do our best to protect your personal data, but cannot guarantee the security of your data while being transmitted to the Website; any transmission shall be at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strong procedures and security features to try to stop not permitted access.

 

How Do We Treat the Browser Information

First, we analyze the login files of our Website / portal to better understand the high volume of traffic to particular areas of our Website. This information helps us to serve your information requirements.

 

Your Rights as Blogger or Visitor

As a blogger or user, you are free to remove or delete Content from your Account at any time. However, there is a strong chance that copies of public Content will be retained for an indefinite period in our systems, including in cached and archived pages of the portal or if, any other user saved that information. Moreover, because of the nature of internet sharing, copies of your Content including the Content that you have removed or deleted from your Account, may also exist elsewhere on the Internet and be retained for a long time.

You can correct, make amendments, add or delete personal information from your Account at any time just by logging-in and visiting your profile page. As mentioned above, you can opt out from unwanted e-mail communications from us by following the instructions in the message / mailer. However, until your Account is deleted you will maintain to receive all system automated e-mails.

As a content contributor, you have the right to ask us for not to process your personal data for any kind of marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to do so or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such kind of purposes. You can use your right to avoid such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can request for the same by mailing us at info@tnhindia.com

The Website / portal may, from time to time, have links to and from the websites of our partner networks, affiliates and advertisers. If you follow a link to any of these websites, then kindly note that these websites have their own privacy policies for particular user and that, we do not accept any liability for these policies. So, check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.