Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Times Shopping Guide (“TSG”).TSG recognizes the significance of keeping up the protection of each user who visits our site. We esteem your protection and appreciate your believing in us. We are committed to being straightforward about the information we collect around you, how it is utilized and with whom it is shared.
This Privacy Policy applies once you use/visit our site, mobile or tablet application, or any other online services that link or refer to it. It does not apply to data collected or utilized by TSG.
By using our site, you concur to this Privacy Policy. We unequivocally prescribe you to read this Privacy Policy so simply get it our approach towards the utilize of your individual information.
Information We Collect
We'll only collect your individual data where it is essential for us to supply you with a benefit at your ask, such as after you contact us, enroll an account on our site, profit of membership administrations, or get to the substance on the platform(s). We have talked about the conduct of our collection of data, in this in more prominent detail for your reference:
Information you shared with us:
- Name
- Postal Address
- Profile Image
- Contact Number
- Home/current Town
- Gender
- Address
- City
- State
- Pin code
- Year
- Platform
- Alerts
- Contact Us Time
Enhancing Mobile experience:
Once you lock in with our Mobile application, we're committed to improving your involvement. Here's the information we gather to create it happen:
- Device ID
- Device Location
- Microphone access
- Name
- Contact Number
- Date of Birth
- Citizens/residents
- Gender
- Photograph
- Access to the Camera or Photo Album
Your privacy matters, and we are committed to making your journey with us secure as well as enjoyable.
Voluntarily provided information:
Additional information is collected once you give feedback, modify content, mail, react to surveys, take part in contests, or communicate with us through comments, questions, or e-mail. This may incorporate your name, mail, mobile number, comments, address, and more.
Information Automatically Collected:
We collect data utilizing cookies and other similar technologies to assist recognize you from other users of our platform and streamline your online. After you visit our platform, we may collect the following data:
- Your IP address/ device's serial number or special identification number and general location, counting country, address and pin code;
- A gadget identifier (cookie or IP address or Gadget ID or Android Advertiser ID), or any other identifier;
- Information of the hardware and software that you are utilizing to access the platform such as your computer/device name, your OS, browser type and version, application version, administrator name, screen size, CPU speed, and connection speed;
- Any passwords merely utilized on our platforms, or any other authentication token utilized to log in;
- URL and time stamps;
- Information of your visits to our platform and the assets you access, counting activity information, location data, web logs and other communication information.
- Your activity logs on the Platform(s) - Which pages you access, view and which links you take after;
How Do We Use Your Personal Data?
- To Supply and Oversee the Services You Ask
This incorporates, for case, handling your membership, sending you electronic newsletters, or enabling you to take part within the features given by the services. It too incorporates giving personalized substance and suggestions to you, including by e-mail. Through such features, we are ready to bring you data and substance custom fitted to your person interface and needs. - To Reach You:
We may occasionally contact you with offers and data almost the Services and our affiliates, counting in association together with your accounts, online overviews, lawful takes note, news stories, unused features that you just are entitled to access, and other imperative data. You will select out of accepting commercial e-mail messages from us by taking after the following contained in those e-mail messages. - To Redo Promoting
We may utilize your data to encourage the conveyance of focused advertisements, promotions, and offers to you, on and off the services. - Understand Our Readers and Users
The services conduct inquiries about our users' demographics, interface and behavior based on the data we collect. We do this to better get it and serve our users, and to make strides in our items and services. - To Ensure the Rights of the Services and others
We may use your individual data as we accept it is vital or suitable to ensure, uphold, or protect the legitimate rights, privacy, security, or property of the Services, its representatives or specialists, or other clients and to comply with appropriate law. - Assent
We may utilize your data together with your assent or at your directions.
How We Share Your Information
Below is listed information about entities which we may share information. Our practices vary depending on the information.
- Logging in through social media services
- Business partners
- Affiliates
- Third parties that provide content, advertising, and functionality
- Links to third party Apps
- other parties in connection with a corporate transaction
- Service providers
- other parties when required by Law or as necessary to protect our users and service
Children Privacy (comment needs to be 16 years as per GDPR and 13 as per California consumer protection act):
- You must have attended the age of majority to be able to utilize and access our offered services. If you're a minor in your jurisdiction, your registration and utilize of our services must be under the supervision of a grown-up.
- As a parent or legal guardian, if it's not too much trouble don't permit your minors under your care to submit Individual Data to us. When such Individual Data of a minor is uncovered to us, you assent to the handling of the minor's personal Data and acknowledge and concur to be bound by this Privacy Policy and take obligation for his or her activities.
- In any case, if the Company is informed that the individual information of people under the age of majority has been collected by us, without user or parental assent, we might take all vital steps to erase such information from our servers. As a parent or legal guardian, you're requested to reach out to the Grievance Officer, for redressal of any complaints in connection with the collection of children's information.
Your Rights in Relation to Your Personal Data:
- Access and updating your personal data:
Once you use our Platform, we make our best endeavors to provide you with the capacity to access and adjust wrong or lacking information, subject to any legal requirements.
User Consent
By using TSG's sites and Services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of TSG site. We reserve the right, to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. 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.
Accessing Service through VPN
You should not access or use the Service by means of any mechanism or technology which conceals your actual geo-location or provides incorrect details of your location (for example, use a virtual private network (VPN) to access the Service).
We will not be responsible or liable for any collection, storage or processing of your personal information or data if you use any mechanism or technology to access or use the Service which conceals your actual geo-location. - Opting out of marking and promotional communications:
When we send you marketing and promotional content through e-mail, we do our best to provide you with the capacity to opt-out of such communications by utilizing the opt-out instructions provided in such emails.
Withdrawal of consent
You may withdraw your consent for the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal information in our possession or control by submitting a request on our support e-mail ID gdpr.grievance@timesgroup.com. or by directly contacting our team (see contact us section). We will process your request within a reasonable time from when the request was made, and thereafter not process your personal information as per your request.
Data transfer, storage & processing globally
We operate globally and may transfer your personal information to individual companies of the TSG affiliated companies or third parties in locations around the world for the purposes described in this privacy policy. Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. Additionally, when using or disclosing personal information transferred from the European Union, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, adopt other means under European Union law for ensuring adequate safeguards.
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 TSG 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.
Changes to privacy notice
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. 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.
Retention period
TSG will not retain the Information longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or keep you updated with TSG’s promotions where you have asked us to do so and provide you with the best user experience.
Grievance Redressals:
If you have any issues, or concerns with regards to the use, data, storage, deletion, and disclosure of your data provided to us, you may reach out to our t to our designate Grievance officer who can be contacted at gdpr.grievance@timesgroup.com.
We request you to please provide the following information in your complaint:-
Identification of the information provided by you;
Clear statement as to whether the information is personal information or sensitive personal information;
Your address, telephone number or e-mail address;
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;
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate, and that the information being complained about belongs to you;
You can also write to:
Address:
Noida Office
Plot No-FC 6, Second Floor, Film City, Noida Sector 16A,
Near Laxmi Studio, Noida - 201301