This Website: https://www.datastub.in/(includes its pages, extensions etc., but not limited to) and other as may be launched from time to time (hereinafter referred to as “Website” which shall mean and be used interchangeably having the same meaning). In the Privacy Policy, “we”, “our” and “us” means “the company”; “you” and “your” means any person who accesses and uses this Platform; This Privacy Policy covers this Platform’s treatment of personally identifiable information that the company collects when you are on this platform and afterwards, and when you use this platform’s services. This policy also covers the company’s treatment of any personally identifiable information (“PII”) that users share and/or the PII which the company may fetch/collect from various service providers with whom the company has integrated its systems to provide the necessary services to you.
A. IN BRIEF
Protecting your privacy is at the highest importance for the Company, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy outlines how personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us or that we may fetch/collect from various service providers with whom the company has integrated its systems, will be processed. Please read the following policy to understand the information we collect, how we will use that information and the circumstances where we will share it with third parties. This policy should be read together with our terms & condition. If you use any of our Services, you will be regarded as having read and accepted this Policy. You must not use this platform or our Services if you do not accept this Policy. By mere use of this Website, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy in regards with the current laws of Information Technology Act, 2000 and Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically. Your consent to use the cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website. Further, your consent shall enable our browser extension feature to enable us to store your last visits, conduct data analytics etc.
Data Security and Retention
Your Personal Data is kept secure. Only authorized employees, agents, and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
We (and our third-party service providers) use a variety of industry standard security measures to prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of your Personal Data. The Company will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Website Privacy Statement or until you request its deletion, unless a longer retention period is required by applicable data privacy law.
B. USERS CONSENT TO THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
By using our Platform, you explicitly give us the consent to use the information provided by you, allowing us to keep a track of the preferences or choices of the users, enabling us to provide the users with additional communications, information and promotions and also enabling the Platform to collect feedback, surveys and questionnaires from the users. The Platform will use the user data to provide information to the user about potential and preferable interests related to the types of searches made by the users.
- Cookies and electronic tools: To improve the working and operation of the Platform, certain cookies or electronic tools will be used on the Platform to collect information to make the experience user-friendly. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Website, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the Website features.
- Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Company and our partner entities, affiliates, or analytics or service providers such as Google Ad sense, Google analytics etc. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole.
C. COMPANY WIDE COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
To make sure that the user’s personal data is secure, the Company communicates the privacy guidelines to the employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the Company.
The Company has implemented reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss, and unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure. The Company restricts access to personal information on a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfill their job requirements. The Company only keeps your personal information as long as it is operationally or legally necessary. After that, the company will either destroy or anonymize the information.
If the company receives a request from an individual to access or update personal information that the company maintains on behalf of a customer, the company will direct that individual to the relevant customer. The Company will assist the customers wherever possible in responding to individual access requests.
Where the company relies on your consent as a lawful basis to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, in some cases, withdrawing consent will mean that the company can no longer provide you with certain services or perform certain tasks where the information is required to do so.
D. OPTING OUT
We provide our registered customers with periodic emailers and email/SMS alerts. We also allow users to unsubscribe to email newsletters and from time to time may transmit emails promoting the company or third-party goods or services. The company’s subscribers may opt-out of receiving our promotional emails and terminate their newsletter subscriptions by following the instructions in the emails. Opting out in this manner will not end transmission of service-related emails/SMS, such as email/SMS alerts.
E. HOW INFORMATION IS USED BY THE COMPANY
The information supplied by the users helps the Platform to improve the services provided by it and to provide the most user-friendly experience. The information provided by the user is used to provide the user with personalized content including the services as required.
The information provided by the users also helps the Platform to conduct its internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and service improvement. The information collected for this purpose may include the IP address of the user and mobile device information to help diagnose problems with the services provided by the Platform and to administer the Platform adequately. The Platform makes use of the user information to create aggregate and statistical data for improving the commercial prospects of the Company. When the Platform collects any information that does not identify the user as a specific natural person (“Non-Personal Information”), the Company is permitted to use and disclose this information for any purpose, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Policy, except where the Company is required to do otherwise by applicable law.
By submitting personal information, the user agrees to storing, processing and transferring of personal information by the Company. However, the company is inclined towards the safety of the users and to ensure this, the Company will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the user’s personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
F. PRIVACY OF MINORS
Every user must be of 18 years of age or above to avail the services of the Platform. If any person is under the age of 18 years, his/her use of the Platform must be under the supervision or approval of a parent or guardian or any other adult.
G. UPDATES/AMENDMENTS TO THE POLICY
This Policy is subject to updates from time to time. The revised Policy will be effective immediately for users or otherwise acknowledging the Policy on or after the revision date. However, they can object to the new Policy within thirty (30) days after the revision date. Users are encouraged to periodically review this page for the latest information on the privacy practices of the company.
H. CONTACT US
We will only process the data you submit via the contact form in order to contact you. As long as we have received your contact data, which you provide via the contact form, only for this purpose, we will not use this personal data for any other purposes. Apart from cases in which we are legally obliged to do so, we will not pass on your contact data to third parties in this case. Nine (9) months after sending the reply, we will delete the data you have transmitted via the contact form, unless we are legally obliged to keep it for a longer period of time or we still need your personal data for the implementation or processing of an existing contractual relationship or for verification purposes. In such a case, we will delete the relevant data after the legal retention period has expired or as soon as we no longer require the data for the implementation or processing of an existing contractual relationship or for verification purposes.
Revocation of consent
You have the possibility to revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data for the future at any time within the scope of the legal regulations. We would like to point out that the processing of your personal data, which we have carried out on the basis of your consent until your withdrawal, is not affected by the withdrawal and remains legal.
I. DISCLAIMER
“THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE TERMS AND POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME AS PER THE LAWS OF INDIA, THE CONTINUED USE OF THE PLATFORM WILL SIGNIFY THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE USER OF ANY AMENDMENT TO THESE TERMS AND POLICY. THE USER IS THEREFORE ADVISED TO RE-READ THE POLICY ON A REGULAR BASIS. SHOULD IT BE THAT THE USER DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY OF THE MODIFICATIONS OR AMENDMENTS TO THE TERMS OR POLICY, THE USER MAY TERMINATE HIS/HER/ITS USE OF THIS PLATFORM IMMEDIATELY. THE COMPANY WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION OF THE USERS DUE TO ERRORS IN TRANSMISSION, UNAUTHORIZED THIRD-PARTY ACCESS, OR OTHER CAUSES BEYOND OUR CONTROL. THE ONUS OF PROTECTING THE CLASSIFIED/ PERSONAL INFORMATION DETAILS OF EVERY USER SOLELY DEPENDS ON THEM AND THE COMPANY SHALL TAKE NO LIABILITY IN CASE OF ANY BREACH THEREUPON. THE COMPANY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY REASON OF ANY DISCLOSURE (INADVERTENT OR OTHERWISE) OF ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THE USER’S ACCOUNT OR FOR ANY ERROR, OMISSION OR INACCURACY WITH RESPECT TO ANY INFORMATION SO DISCLOSED AND USED WHETHER OR NOT IN PURSUANCE OF A LEGAL PROCESS OR OTHERWISE. THE USER PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN KEEPING HIS/HER PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE. THE USER SHOULD NOT SHARE HIS/HER USER NAME, PASSWORD, OR OTHER SECURITY INFORMATION RELATED TO THEIR ACCOUNT WITH ANYONE. THE COMPANY GENERALLY FOLLOWS ACCEPTED STANDARDS TO PROTECT THE PERSONAL INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY THE USERS, INCLUDING THE USE OF SERVICES FROM THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS. THEREFORE, WHILE THE COMPANY WILL STRIVE TO USE COMMERCIALLY ACCEPTABLE MEANS TO PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION OF THE USERS, THE COMPANY CANNOT GUARANTEE ITS ABSOLUTE SECURITY AND THEREBY USAGE IN A MANNER THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS POLICY.”
J. LOG FILES
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or site functionality
K. TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES / COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of information sent to you by our website server. We use cookies to enhance our website user experience and to add extra functionalities to our website. If you don’t want us to save your information, you can disable or decline cookies in your browser.
If enabled, we may place cookies on your machine that store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of the pages of this Website. Cookies are small electronic files that collect information when someone visits a website. They can identify the pages that are being viewed and this can assist us in tracking which of our features appeal the most to you and what content you may have viewed on past visits. Some cookies only exist whilst viewers are online, but ‘persistent’ cookies are not session-based and remain on the viewer’s computer. When you visit this site again, ‘persistent’ cookies can enable us to customize our content according to your preferences.
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Company and our partner entities, affiliates, or analytics or service providers such as google Ad sense, google analytics etc. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies for and on our platform in order to personalize our service for you. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to the Website.
L. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 18. In the case we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions. Users below 18 years of age are advised to use this platform/ Services under guardian ship of their parent/s and/or legal guardian.