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At VIRAL NEWS POINT, we care about your privacy and want to keep your personal information safe. In this privacy policy, we’ll explain how we gather, use, and handle your personal data when you use our Services. This policy applies to our website, mobile apps, and any other online places we own or control. Our Services include all the stuff we share with you on our platforms.
If you have questions about your privacy on our website or how we use your personal data, feel free to contact us. Just keep in mind that when you click on links on our website, they might take you to other websites with their own privacy rules. So, it’s a good idea to check their privacy policies before giving them any of your personal information. We can’t control what those other websites do.
1. What information about you do we get, and how do we gather it?
1.1 Only when it is required for us to fulfill your request for a service, such as when you contact us or create an account on our website, will we ask you for personal information. Some identifiers will be automatically gathered by us, while others must be supplied by you. The list is being enumerated as follows.
1.1.1. Information collected by us:
When you use our services, we may compile personal data about you by doing things like the following. Some of the kinds of information listed below are directly gathered by us, while others are supplied by you for the accomplishment of certain tasks:
- Accessing our Platforms by means of any web browser or device;
- Enquiring about our products or services;
- Purchasing our subscription packages on the Platforms;
- Registration for our Services on our Platforms;
- Initiating and maintaining correspondence with us.
1.1.2. This information may include the following:
- Identification information such as user name, date of birth, gender, profile picture, qualification;
- Contact information such as email address, and mobile number;
- Payment information (this is securely collected and processed by our payment service provider exclusively);
- A device identifier (cookie or IP address or Device ID or Android Advertiser ID / iDFA ID);
- We may be required to collect other information related to your use of our Platforms and Services, such as the one-time password issued to you upon registration, your marketing preferences, survey responses, and feedback; this information may be collected as we provide our services. We take extra security measures to protect such sensitive personal information, and we will only keep it on file for as long as it’s required to fulfill the objectives for which it was collected.
1.1.3. Information we collect about you from our Platforms
We collect information through cookies and other similar technologies in order to help us distinguish you from other users of our services. This streamlines your online experience by avoiding the need for you to reenter any information. We can assess user data and enhance our systems thanks to it as well. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information on our cookie usage practices.
When you visit our Platforms, we may collect the following information:
- Which pages do you access, and view, and which links do you follow;
- your IP address, serial number, or other special identifying number for your device, as well as your geographical location (country, address, and pin code);
- Information about the computer or device you use to access the platforms, including its model, operating system, browser type and version, software, operator, screen size, CPU speed, and connection speed.
- Any passwords that you use on our Platforms;
- URL and time stamps;
- Information regarding your visits to our platforms and the resources you use, including but not limited to traffic data, place data, weblogs, and other communication details.
1.2. Information we collect about you from other sources.
We may collect information about you from other sources. This may include the following:
- Publicly available information.
- Information you have shared publicly, including on social media.
- When you interact with our sites, apps, groups, accounts, or postings on social media platforms, we also learn information about you.
This list is not all-inclusive, and in some situations, we might need to gather more data to fulfill the requirements of this policy.
1.3. Information we receive about you from other sources
You may occasionally have given permission for information to be provided to us by other websites, services, or third parties.
This may include details we learn about you from using any of the other Platforms we run or the other services we offer; in that case, we would have let you know when we collected the information if we planned to share it internally or combine it with information gathered on this website. Additionally, we will have explained to you why we would combine and share your data.
Additionally, it could contain data from outside sources that we collaborate with to supply our goods and services, such as payment processors, delivery services, technical support providers, and advertising firms. We will always let you know what information we have obtained about you from these third parties as well as how and why we plan to utilize it.
Web beacons may also be used to gather data about how visitors utilize the site. Online beacons are tiny bits of code (also known as pixels) that are included in emails or online pages. Web beacons are not used by us to gather personally identifying data about visitors. In addition to tailoring our website/application or services to our users’ interests, we may use these technical methods to deliver our web pages to you upon request, measure traffic, enhance the quality, functionality, and interactivity, and inform the advertisers of the regions from which our visitors are coming. In order to track whether our receivers have opened or clicked on links in HTML emails we send to subscribers who have chosen to receive emails from us, we may also utilize web beacons in such emails.
- How and why do we use your personal information?
We have made an effort to identify and list the exact use cases of the identifiers as follows since we take your right to privacy seriously.
2.1. Subscription or Paid Service information
When you choose a subscription or paid service, neither we nor the company that serves as our payment gateway provider will gather your personal information, such as your address or billing details like your credit/debit card number and expiration date, without first getting your permission. For efficient processing, any financial information you supply will be handled by the third parties that offer us the functionality for such Services.
2.2. For user-generated content
We provide you the option to publish content (comments, reviews) that other users may read. We shall abide by the law to the degree that it compels us to take down, erase, or alter your personal information.
- How and why do we use your personal information?
3.1. Sharing your information with third parties
We may share your data with selected third parties. For example, we may share your information with:
- business partners to fulfill your requests for services. For instance, if you register for a campaign that runs on our Services but is sponsored or co-sponsored by another business, that sponsor may get your information. The privacy policies of these organizations are not our responsibility.
- To handle payments on our behalf is our payment service provider. Your complete name, address, phone number, email address, and order information will be distributed for this reason. Your payment information will be gathered and processed by our payment provider; we won’t have or have access to your complete credit or debit card information.
- To send emails, instant messaging, social network communications, and SMS messages, use contact management tools.
- In order to provide content, advertising, or functionality or to measure and analyze ad performance on our Services or Platforms, the advertisers and content providers may obtain information about you and/or how you use the Services (such as click stream information, browser type, time and date, information about your interactions with advertisements and other content), including through the use of cookies, beacons, mobile ad identifiers, and similar technologies.
We may also reveal your information to third parties in other extraordinary situations. Here is where, in our opinion, the disclosure is:
- Required by the law, or in order to comply with judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal or regulatory proceedings.
- Necessary to protect the safety of our employees, our property, and the public.
- Necessary for the identification or prevention of crime, including the sharing of information with other businesses or organizations for the reduction of credit risk and the prevention of fraud.
- In the event that this occurs, proportionately as part of a merger, company sale, or asset sale, we will disclose your information to the potential seller or buyer involved.
- Single Sign-on Policy
This Single Sign-on Policy describes the information collected by us when you use, access, or share your personal information when using our services (SSO Login). This Policy shall not apply if you access or use VIRAL NEWS POINT Services outside of the European Union (EU).
This policy applies to information you give us via a third-party website or platform (for instance, when you log in using one of our applications like social networking). Your privacy preferences on the third-party website or platform will not affect how we utilize the data we have directly gathered through our applications. We will gather the information that you have consented to provide if you use the Platforms through a third-party social network, such as your name, user ID/URL, profile image, age, friend list, email address, phone number, birth date, language preference, and/or geolocation. By accepting this privacy statement, you certify that you will not use any method or technology to access our services that conceals your precise location or reports inaccurate information about it, such as a virtual private network (VPN). If you use these methods to access our Platforms and services, we will not be accountable for any processing or collecting of your information.
- How long do we keep your personal information?
Your personal information will only be kept by us for as long as it’s required to fulfill the objectives for which it was obtained. We will keep any information you give us in any situation where we provide you with a service, including when you pay for a subscription on our website, at least as long as we continue to offer that service to you.
We keep your information as long as it takes to fulfill your requests on our platforms and as long as it takes to comply with legislative and legal requirements.
- How do we protect your personal information?
To guarantee that your data is handled securely and in compliance with this policy, we shall take all reasonable measures. We make every effort to guarantee that any data you provide us is securely sent through the internet; always check for the padlock icon in your browser and the “https” prefix in the URL to confirm this.
We save all the data you provide us on secure servers. You are in charge of maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords we have provided you (or that you have selected) in order to access particular areas of our website. We kindly ask you not to divulge your password to anyone.
- What rights do you have in respect of your personal information?
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions regarding the rights described below or if you want to exercise any of your rights.
You have the right to access your personal data
You have the right to inquire about whether we have any of your personal information on file with us. If we do, you have the following rights including the right to a copy of your information:
- Why we have been using your information?
- What categories of information we were using?
- Who we have shared the information with.
- How long do we envisage holding your information?
Before we provide you with a copy of the information we have on you, we will need to confirm your identity in order to ensure the security of your information. If you request more copies of your information, we may impose an administrative fee to cover our costs after the initial copy is supplied to you without charge. To seek access to your data, please get in touch with us.
You have the right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
You have the right to request that we update any information we hold on you that you feel is incorrect, incomplete, or out-of-date. Your personal information can be updated or changed on our website. Alternatively, get in touch with us so we can update our data.
You have the right to be forgotten.
There may be times when it is no longer necessary for us to hold personal information about you. This could be if:
- The information is no longer needed for the original purpose that we collected it for
- You withdraw your consent for us to use the information (and we have no other legal reason to keep using it)
- You object to us using your information and we have no overriding reason to keep using it
- We have used your information unlawfully
- We are subject to a legal requirement to delete your information
You have the right to request that we delete your personal data in these circumstances upon production of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or any other authority that may be notified in this regard (although please be aware that we may need to keep some information on file in order to meet our legal obligations). Please get in touch with us if you think you fall into one of these categories.
You have the right to have your data transmitted in a standard format to you or another person. You have the right to request that we transmit your personal information, also known as data portability, to you or to another service provider in a structured, generally accepted, and machine-readable manner.
If you would like us to do this, please contact us. There is no charge for you to exercise this right.
You have the right to withdraw your consent
Most of the time, we don’t need your permission to use your personal data in the methods described in this policy. You do, however, have the right to revoke your permission at any moment in cases where we do rely on it (for example, when you sign up for our newsletter). To withdraw your permission, utilize the “unsubscribe” options in any of the messages we give you or get in touch with us.
- International Data Transfer
We operate internationally and may disclose your personal information to specific affiliates of VIRAL NEWS POINT or to third parties in other countries for the purposes outlined in this privacy statement, but only if we are confident that the recipient country offers an adequate level of protection and that the disclosure of your information is legal. We will adhere to our legal and regulatory requirements with regard to your information, which include having a legitimate reason for transmitting Personal Information and putting in place the necessary security measures to guarantee the Personal Information is adequately protected. We will also make sure the receiver in that other nation is required to secure your information to a level that is at least as high as what is required by the laws that are in force there. Either a legal protection or the nature of the transfer will serve as our legitimate justification.
Additionally, we follow additional legal requirements under European Union legislation for maintaining proper protections when using or disclosing personal information transferred outside the European Union, including standard contractual provisions recognized by the European Commission.
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
Future updates to our privacy statement will be placed on this page and, if necessary, informed to you by email. Please return often to observe any updates or modifications to our privacy statement.
You can request older versions by getting in touch with us. This version was last updated on September 07, 2023.
- Contact Us
The data protection officer (DPO) appointed by VIRAL NEWS POINT is Mr. Ajay Singh who can be contacted at ajaysingh@viralnewspoint.com.
You can also write to:
Viral News Point
Registered office address-
C-01, 1st Floor, Singapore Township, Pocharam, Telangana – 500088.
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