This privacy policy ("Policy") explains the policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of your information by Meedee and/or its subsidiary(ies) and/or affiliate(s) (collectively referred to as the "Company"), which operates various websites, including sub-sites, platforms, applications, m-web platforms, and other platforms (collectively referred to as "Sites") for the delivery of information, products, offerings, and content via any mobile or internet-connected device or otherwise (collectively the "Services").

This policy forms part and parcel of the Terms of Use and other terms on the site ("Terms of Use"). Capitalized terms that have been used here but are undefined shall have the same meaning as attributed to them in the Terms of Use. This policy is effective from the date and time a user registers with the site and accepts the terms and conditions laid out on the site. Please read this privacy policy and our terms of service carefully before using our services.

Meedee respects the privacy of its users and is committed to protecting it in all respects. With a view to offering the most enriching and holistic internet experience to its users, Meedee offers a vast repository of online sites and a variety of community services. Meedee collects the following information about the user: (a) information supplied by users; and (b) information automatically tracked while navigation (information).

By using meedee  website or its services, you consent to collection, storage, use, transfer, share and distribute the personal information you provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of the services that we offer.

Registration data

We ask for basic contact information when you sign up for the service on the websites, such your name, sex, age, residence, pin code, phone number, occupation, interests, and email address. In order to continue communicating with you and provide the services, we will extract information from your other accounts when you register using them, such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc.

Information about subscription-based or for-profit services

When you choose any subscription or paid service provided as part of our services, we or our payment gateway provider may collect your purchase, address, or billing information, including your credit card number and expiration date, etc. However, when you order using an in-app purchase option on any of the applications of the Company, same are handled by such mobile operating system platform providers. The subscriptions or paid services may be in 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.

Voluntary information

We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, make comments, change your content or email preferences, respond to a survey, or have other communications with us.

Automatic Information Gathering or Tracking During Navigation

Cookies

To improve the responsiveness of the Sites for our Users, we may use "cookies" or similar electronic tools to collect information and assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to better understand the User's individual interests using the identified computer or device. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer or device. The only personal information a cookie can contain is the information you supply.

A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or device. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads, etc.), a process that we do not control. We receive and store certain types of Information whenever you interact with us via Site or Service though your computer/laptop/netbook or mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device etc. 

opting out

The unique DoubleClick cookie ID on the user's browser is overwritten with the words "OPT OUT" if they want to opt out using the Ads Settings. The opt-out cookie can no longer be connected to a specific browser because there is no longer a distinct cookie ID.

Details from a log file

We automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet and your mobile number, including your IP address, when you visit our site, application, or service. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data, such as the pages you view.

We automatically receive and log information from your browser, including your IP address, your computer's name, your operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed. We may also collect log information from your device, including your location, IP address, your device's name, device's serial number or unique identification number (e.g., UDiD on your iOS device), your device's operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed, etc.

Clear GIFs

In order to anonymously follow the online behaviour of our users without directly identifying them, we may deploy "clear GIFs" (web beacons). In order to identify which emails are opened by recipients, we might also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails we send to our users.

We use this information, among other things, to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to customise our sites and services to the interests of our users, to track user traffic within our sites in order to enhance their functionality, quality, and interactivity, and to provide advertisers with information about the regions from which our users originate without identifying any individual users

Other sources of information

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 to whom we provide services, your account information and order information may be passed on to us.

information on demographics and other factors

In order to provide you communications and promotions that are more specifically tailored to you, we might consult different sources of demographic and other information. Among other tools, we utilise Google Analytics to monitor user activity on our websites. We can now offer display advertising through Google Analytics in particular, which gives us more insight into the demographics and preferences of our users.

The reports are anonymous and cannot be connected to any specific, identifying information you may have given us. Using Google's Ads Settings options, you can choose not to use Google Analytics for display advertising and customise Google Display Network ads.

Hyperlinks To Third Party Websites And Ad Servers

The sites 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 you are visiting. That privacy 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 homepage, you should contact the application's owners directly for more information.

We usually present information to our advertisers in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages and content on our sites to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our sites.We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our sites. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or other personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other websites or applications in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Without your permission, we do not provide any personally identifiable information to third-party websites, advertisers, or ad-servers.

Information that the company uses

The information supplied by the users enables us to improve the services and provide you with the most user-friendly experience possible. We may also require your contact address in some cases or for the provision of certain service(s) or utility(ies). All required information is service dependent, and the company may use the aforementioned user information to maintain, protect, and improve services (including advertising and personalization on the sites) as well as develop new services.

We may also use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages about our Services and/or such additional updates and features about third parties products and services with an option to subscribe / unsubscribe (where feasible). We may, however, use your email address for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major changes, for customer service purposes, billing, etc.).

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 information posted, uploaded, conveyed, or otherwise communicated by users on the public sections of the Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Policy.

In the event that you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information on the Sites, we may not be able to provide certain services on the Sites 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 or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for your failure to provide the necessary personal information.

When you register for the sites or services, we will contact you from time to time to update your personal information so that we can provide users with features that we believe will benefit or interest them.

How are the collected data used?

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit or use our sites or services. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or any personally identifiable information) about your visits or use of a particular website, mobile application, or service in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Meedee also allows advertisers and creators to serve ads directly through Times Internet Limited's ad serving technologies.

Sharing of Information

Personal information will be used to allow you to login to your account on the site or to resolve specific service issues, inform you of our new services or features, and communicate with you in relation to your use of the site. Any other information collected will be used for business purposes, which may include the user's viewing or advertising of residential or commercial real estate, rental properties, or use of associated services; analytical purposes; data usage; improving the site or user experience; and providing targeted advertisements to you.

Updating And Gaining Access To Personal

We make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information when you request it when you use the services or sites (or any of its sub-sites).and we 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, subject to any legal or regulatory requirement that such personal information or sensitive personal data or information be corrected or amended.

We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardise the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required.

In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. 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.

Data Information Protection

We take the necessary security precautions to prevent unauthorised access to, as well as data change, disclosure, or destruction. Internal evaluations of our data collection, storage, and processing practices, as well as security measures such as appropriate physical security and encryption, are used to prevent unauthorised access to the systems where we store personal data. All data collected on TIL is safely kept in the organization's managed database. The database is kept on servers protected by a firewall, and access to the servers is highly regulated and password-controlled.

No security system is impenetrable, notwithstanding how effective our security measures are. Both the security of our database and the safety of the information you provide when sending it to us over the Internet are not guaranteed by us. Of course, anyone with Internet access can access whatever information you submit in a posting to a discussion forum.

When you visit or use our sites or services, we employ third-party advertising businesses to show ads. These businesses may use data about your visits to or use of a specific website, mobile application, or service (but not your name, address, email address, phone number, or any other personally identifiable information) to deliver advertisements for products and services that may be of interest to you.

Updates / Modifications

The internet is an ever-evolving medium. We may alter our 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 in time) the terms of this policy or the Terms of Use. Any changes we make will be effective immediately upon notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on the sites.

Your continued use of the sites or services following such notice will be interpreted as 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 policy periodically on the sites to ensure that you are aware of the latest version.

Security

In order to prevent the loss, abuse, and alteration of the information under our control, we take commercially reasonable security precautions. The security of any information submitted with us, however, is not something we can guarantee in full.

Reliability and Privacy of Account Information

Passwords, email addresses, and other account information must always be kept confidential and accurate on behalf of customers. Any personal information that is transmitted to a third party as a result of inaccurate account-related information is not the company's responsibility.

Websites operated by third parties

Links to other websites may be found on our website. When you visit another website, the company is not responsible for any information misused by the owner of that website. Furthermore, websites that use our Meedee site search feature may exist, and the company is not responsible for the information on such websites.