Privacy
Policy
GNN Prakashan Pvt. Ltd (“we”, “us”,
“our”, “GNN ”,”Company”) values the trust placed in us by data subject (“you”,
“your”, “user”, “subscriber”) and therefore, we follow the highest standards of
privacy guidelines to protect the information shared by you with us.
This Privacy Policy
describes the usage of information provided or collected, disclosed or
transferred of your information by GNN Prakashan Pvt.Ltd (hereinafter referred to as “GNN”) and/ or its
subsidiary (ies) and / or affiliate(s) (collectively
referred to as the “Company”), which operates various websites/ mobile
applications & other services including but not limited to delivery of
information and content via any mobile or internet connected device or
otherwise (collectively the “Services”). We follow this privacy policy in
accordance with applicable law in the places where we operate. In some cases,
we may provide additional data privacy notices specific to certain services or
regions. http://www.globalnewsnetwork.in is
the registered domain and official website of GNN Group, a GNN Group Company
Please keep in mind
that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for
example, via our website or applications like social media login (for e.g. Facebook,
Google+ etc.) the information we collect is through those third-party sites
linked with our websites and applications and is covered by this privacy
policy, and the information the third-party site or platform collects is
subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices. Privacy
choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our
use of the information we have collected directly through our websites or
applications. Please also keep in observance that our websites and applications
may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not
responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be
aware when you leave our websites or applications to read the privacy policies
of other sites they may collect your personal information.
All capitalized terms
that have not been specifically defined herein shall have the same meaning as
provided under the Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy
should be read in conjunction and together with the Terms of Use applicable to
the GNN services you are using.
User
Consent
By using GNN website
and its services (for example, when you visit our website and read news or
browse through various other portions of our websites or register via social
media or via the registration form), you agree to provide consent to our
collection, use and sharing of your personal information as described in this
policy. In some cases, particularly if you reside in a country governed by a
data protection regulation, we may ask you to provide explicit consent to access
our services before proceeding for further operations.
What data is
collected
Collection
and Use of Personal Information
‘Personal
Information’ or ‘PII’ is defined as any information that identifies (whether
directly or indirectly) to a particular individual or natural person, such as
the individual’s name, email address,
mobile number and any other identifier indicating to that particular person.
When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal
information, the resulting information also is treated as personal information.
The Company respects
the privacy of the users of the Services they use and is committed to
reasonably protect it in all respects. The information about the user as
collected by the Company are:
1. Information supplied by users
2. Information automatically tracked while
navigation
3. Inferred information through usage and
log data
4. Information collected from any other
sources (like third party providers or social media platforms)
A. Information
collected at the time of registration
When you register on
the website or applications for the service, we ask that you provide basic
personal information from you to continue to interact with you and to continue
providing you the Services. Information that we collect incudes –
· Name
· Phone Number
· Email Address
· IP address
· Gender
Subscription or paid service data:
When you chose any
subscription or paid service, we or our payment gateway provider may collect
your personal information such as address or billing information, including
your credit/debit card number (last 4 digits) and expiration date etc. The
subscriptions or paid Services may be on auto renewal mode unless cancelled. If
at any point you do not wish to auto-renew your subscription, you may cancel
your subscription before the end of the subscription term or contact us on our
support e-mail.
Information you provide to us
voluntarily:
We may collect
additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you
provide feedback to GNN or you change your content or email preferences,
respond to a survey, or communicate with us.
B. Information
automatically collected while Browsing/navigating
1. Inferred Information through usage and
log data
We may track certain
information about you based upon your behaviour on using GNN services. We use
this information for conducting internal research on our users' demographics,
devices, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our
users.
We may also collect Your Information to track user behaviour and preferences
for internal analytics and research. We may also use your information
i.
To evaluate your interest for various genres of content, services,
offers;
ii. To
perform analytics and conduct customer research, to determine your interest,
for identifying content that generate sales and to analyse traffic patterns.
If you choose to post
messages on social media accounts, message boards, or other message areas or
leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain
this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and
troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
The above information may also be captured by keeping cookies on our websites
by our affiliates for the purposes mentioned above
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other
users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings
on our services, we may collect and store such information.
D. Information we collect
from third parties
Information obtained from other sources
We may receive
information about you from other sources, add it to our account information and
treat it in accordance with this policy. If you provide information to the
platform provider or other partner, whom we provide services, your account
information and order information may be passed on to us. We may obtain updated
contact information from third parties in order to correct our records and
fulfil the Services or to communicate with you.
Demographic and purchase information
We may reference
other sources of demographic and other information in order to provide you with
more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics, among
others, to track the user behaviour on our website. Google Analytics
specifically has been able to support display advertising towards helping us
gain understanding of our users’ Demographics and Interests. The reports are
anonymous and cannot be associated with any individual personally identifiable
information that you may have shared with us.
Links to third party websites
The Application may
include links to other websites or applications. Such websites or applications
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 application, website 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 application's/website
homepage, you should contact the application/website owners directly for more
information.
We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third party
websites / advertisers / ad-servers without your explicit consent
How collected data is
used
Purpose
and Lawfulness of processing
We will only collect
and process personal data about you where we have lawful basis. Lawful basis on
which we would process your personal information includes obtaining explicit
consent from you or processing for "legitimate interests" where
processing is necessary by us to provide you with services (For e.g. processing
your information by our group companies/affiliates).
We use information to
provide, analyse, administer, enhance and personalize our service and marketing
efforts, to process your registration, to provide you services, and to
communicate with you related to below mentioned points. For example, we use
information to:
·
To
help advertisers understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising
on our websites or applications (however it is usually in the form of
aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our application) and
to provide you relevant ads
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Communicate
with you concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications), so
that we can send you news about GNN, details about new features and content
available on the GNN Services, promotional announcements, and surveys, and to
assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests.
·
Notify
you about changes in terms of service or privacy policy
·
Allow
you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services
·
Sharing
with our customer support team to resolve your queries/concerns related to your
rights or services provided to you
Information
use by the company
The Information
supplied by you enables us to improve our services and provide you the most
user-friendly experience(s). In some cases for e.g. provision of certain
service(s) or utility (ies), we may require your
contact information as well. All required information is service dependent and
the Company may use the above said user Information to, maintain, protect, and
improve the Services (including advertising) and for developing new services.
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.
Any
posted/uploaded/conveyed/communication by users on the public sections of the
"application/websites" becomes published content and is not
considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.
In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information on
the application/websites, we may not be able to provide certain services on the
application/websites to you. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of
the same at the time of opening your account. In any case, 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 our
Services, we may contact you from time to time about updating your personal
information to provide you features that we believe may benefit / interest you
How collected data is
shared
Information sharing to third parties
The Company shares
your information with any third parties without obtaining the prior consent of
User in the following limited circumstances:
1. 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 or for complying
with the applicable laws and regulations.
2. The Company may present information which is already
in public domain to our advertisers –
to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on
our websites or Applications – however it is usually in the form of aggregated
statistics on traffic to various pages within our application.
Your
Controls and Choices
For any of the below
request you may send us an e-mail to our support team
User control over
collected data
A. Accessing and Rectifying your personal
information
When you use the
Services (website/application or any of its sub sites), 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. We have provided the user an option
to correct/update his personal information on theirown
by using admin panel of Travel World Online.
B. Data Portability
You may also be
entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us
in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format; wherever feasible.
You may send your request by sending an e-mail to our support team
C. Data Retention and Erasure
We retain your
personal information as long as necessary for us to provide services to you or
you ask us to not retain your data. If you no longer want us to use your
information then you can go to your ‘My Account’ settings and delete your
account and close your GNN account or ask our support team @ support@globalnewsnetwork.in
please note that if you delete your account
1. We may retain some of your personal
information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud
detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend a GNN
account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from
that account to prevent that user from opening a new account in the future.
2. We may retain and use your personal
information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For
example, we may keep some of your information for tax, legal reporting and
auditing obligations.
·
Information
you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) may continue to be
publicly visible on the GNN, even after your account is cancelled. However,
attribution of such information to you will be removed. Additionally, some
copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in our database, but
are disassociated from personal identifiers.
1. 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.
D. Withdrawing Consent and Restriction of
Processing
For withdrawing your
consent at any time during the tenure of your services with us, you may choose
to do so by sending us an e-mail. We shall review your request and may ask you
to verify your identity. Post verification we will withdraw the consent for
which request was made by you and stop any further processing of your personal
information. You may also withdraw your consent for cookies and advertisement
by going to ‘Settings’ and click on consent and withdraw the consent.
E. Complaints
You can write to us
in case of any grievance or compliant at the support e-mail address. If you
have any complaints regarding processing of your personal information you may
contact our data protection officer or our grievance officer at the below
mentioned e-mail address. You have the right to complaint about the data
processing activities carried out by GNN before the competent data protection
authorities.
F. Objection to Processing
Where your personal
information is processed for direct marketing purposes or any contests or
promotions or other services, you may, at any time ask us to cease processing
your data for these direct marketing purposes by sending an e-mail to us
Please be aware that
if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be
able to deliver certain experiences, and services to you, and some of our
services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If
collection of personal information is mandatory, we will make that clear at the
point of collection so that you can make an informed decision whether to
participate. If you have questions about the specific personal information
about you that we process or retain, and your rights regarding that personal
information, please contact us at the below mentioned e-mail address.
Children’s Privacy
GNN is not
intentionally designed for or directed at persons less than 18 years of age. GNN
does not knowingly permit any person who is under 18 years of age to register
with the services or to provide any other personally identifying information.
If GNN becomes aware that any personally identifiable information of persons
less than 18 years of age has been collected on GNN Services without verified
parental consent, then GNN will take the appropriate steps to delete any such
information and notify the parent.
However, we consider
it the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s use of our
services. Nevertheless, it is our policy not to collect and process any
personal information from children below 18 years of age or offer to send any
promotional materials to persons in that category. GNN does not seek or intend
to seek or receive any personal information from children. Should a parent or
guardian have reasons to believe that a minor has provided GNN with personal
information without their prior consent, please contact our customer support
team to ensure that the personal information is removed from the GNN services.
Security and compliance with laws: How we protect
your personal data
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 the Site is securely stored within the GNN 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. If
you know or have reason to believe that your GNN account credentials have been
lost, stolen, altered, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or
suspected unauthorized use of your account, please contact us by contacting our
customer support team.
Changes to privacy
notice
The internet is an
ever evolving medium. We may alter our privacy policy from time to time to
incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law or any other
variant. In any case, we reserve the right to change (at any point of time) the
terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use. Any changes we make will be
effective immediately on notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on
the “Site”. Your use of the Site or services offered through the Site after
such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. We may also make
reasonable efforts to inform you via electronic mail. In any case, you are
advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically on the “Site”) to ensure
that you are aware of the latest version.
Resolving privacy
issues
Support
If you require any
information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or
this privacy policy or grievances with respect to use of your personal
information, please email us at support@globalnewsnetwork.in
Data Controller Office/Complaints
The data controller
for our services is GNN Prakashan Pvt.Ltd.
with the business address of
GNN Prakashan Pvt. Ltd,
x-320, Inderjeet Singh Palace, Delhi Gate
New Delhi - 11003
For any complaint,
queries related to data protection you may contact Mr.
Bhavesh Panwar who can be
contacted at bhavesh@globalnewsnetwork.in.
Redressal Mechanism
Any complaints, abuse
or concerns with regards to the processing of information provided by you or
breach of these terms shall be immediately informed to the designated Grievance
Officer as mentioned below via in writing or through email signed with the
electronic signature to asharma@globalnewsnetwork.in
Anil Sharma Ph: 91-9818079063
We request you to
please provide the following information in your complaint:-
1. Identification of the information
provided by you;
2. Clear statement as to whether the
information is personal information or sensitive personal information;
3. Your address, telephone number or
e-mail address;
4. 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;
5. A statement, under penalty of perjury,
that the information in the notice is accurate, and that the information being
complained about belongs to you;
6. You may also contact us in case you
have any questions / suggestions about the Privacy Policy using the contact
information mentioned above.
GNN shall not be
responsible for any communication, if addressed, to any non-designated person
in this regard.
Cookie Policy
GNN Group (“we”,
“us”, “GNN”) understands that your privacy is important to data subject (“you”,
“your”, “user”, “subscriber”) and we are committed for being transparent about
the technologies we use. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and
other similar technologies may be stored on and accessed from your device when
you use or visit GNN website or application that posts a link to this Policy
(collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with
our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
What are cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
A cookie is a small
text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit
the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such
as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of
time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the
site or browse from one page to another. The other tracking technologies work
similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your
website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our
websites. This allows our websites to recognize your device from those of other
users of the websites. The information provided below about cookies also
applies to these other tracking technologies.
How do our app/website use cookies and other
tracking technologies?
We use cookies to
collect and store information when you access our website and use other GNN
services. We use cookies for various purposes such as:
·
To
provide you GNN Services
·
To
provide non-personalized or personalized advertisements
·
To
identify your location
·
To
identify your browser and device.
·
For
analytics and research,
Measure and analyze the audience for each page in order to subsequently
improve the ergonomics, browsing, or visibility of content;
Measure the
reliability of Website by analyzing the number of
visits to its pages in real time, and offer varied ads that are adapted to
users’ areas of interest;
Cookies may also be
saved by social media tools if you use these functionalities (e.g. Facebook,
Twitter).
Type of Cookies
“First
party Cookies” these are the
cookies that belong to us and which we place on your device or are those set by
a website that is being visited by the user at the time (e.g., cookies placed
by GNN Group).
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Cookie Name |
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“Third-party
cookies” are cookies that another party
places on your device through our site (For e.g. advertising agencies may place
their cookies on our website which will collect tracking information and serve
you with advertisements).
Domain |
Cookie Name |
Expiration |
Description |
third party |
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We use the following types of cookies:
Persistent
Cookies. We use persistent cookies to improve
your experience of using the sites. This includes recording your acceptance of
our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you
visit the site.
Session
Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and
deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies
to help us track internet usage as described above.
You may refuse to
accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser.
However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts
of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse Cookies, our system will check if Cookies can be captured when you
direct your browser to our Sites.
The data collected by
the websites and/or through cookies that may be placed on your computer will
not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned
above. In any event, such information will be kept in our database until we get
explicit consent from you to remove all the stored cookies.
We categorize cookies as follows:
Strictly Necessary/Technical
These Cookies are
necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you may access them as you have
requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created
an account and have logged in/out to access Site content. They also include
Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same
browsing session and secure our Sites.
Analytical/Performance
These Cookies are
used by us or third-party service providers to analyse how the Sites are used
and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what content are
most frequently visited, watch history and from what locations our visitors
come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the
Sites, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for
example, Google Analytics cookies, Comscore cookies.
Functionality
These Cookies let us
operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit
us to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your
user name and remember how you customized the Sites and services, for example
by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are
alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies.
These cookies are
used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They
are also used to deliver targeted advertising or limit the number of times you
see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the
advertising campaigns on GNN Group and other websites. They remember that you
have visited one of our websites and this information is shared with other
parties, including advertisers and our agencies. These cookies may also be
linked to site functionality provided by third-parties such as Google DFP and
Affinity.
Do these cookies collect personal data/identify me?
Most types of these
cookies track consumers via their Device ID or IP address therefore they may
collect personal data.
Based on the type of
cookies used by the relevant third-party, the information these cookies collect
may include personal data but they would not be able to directly identify you
as an individual or have any of your personal information such as Name, E-mail
id or mobile number