Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY FOR THE WEBSITES OF THE newsrank.in
Thank you for visiting our website of The newsrank. We respect your privacy and consider it an
important element of our business. This policy describes the information that we collect from you when you
download, access or use its website or mobile applications for delivery of information, products, offerings and
content via any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise.

User consent
By using services of the websites of The newsrank (for example, when you register for an account,
communicate with us, on our sites or applications or through social media), you agree and provide consent to our
collection, use and sharing of your personal information as described in this policy.

Usage of our Mobile Applications
This policy shall also apply to our mobile applications. You are urged to update to the most current version of
mobile applications. If you use an older version of these apps and/or access discontinued services, we may not be
responsible or liable for any damages, due to any collection, storage and processing of your personal information

Personal Information Collected
We collect personal information from you only if you provide it voluntarily. The type of personally identifiable
information that may be collected by us includes and is not limited to, name, address, e-mail address and
information about your interests in and use of various services. When you register using your other accounts like
on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc., we shall retrieve Information from such accounts to continue to interact with
you and to continue providing the Services.

For example, you might submit your name and email address to subscribe to our newsletters or to take part in our
discussion forum or to send us your feedback. You might also enter another person’s email address and name and
yours when you use our ‘Mail This Story’ feature. The information you provide is not given or sold to any private
organization(s) or private persons, without explicit consent. We may collect additional information at other times,
including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, comments, change your content or email preferences,
respond to a survey, or any communications with us.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
Our website(s) sometimes contain links to other websites whose privacy policies may be different to ours.
Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted
to, or collected by, these third parties.

We also use a reputable third party to serve the advertisements that you see on our pages. In the course of serving
advertisements, our third-party advertiser may place or recognise a unique “cookie” on your browser and may use
information (not including your name, address, e-mail address) about your visits to this and other websites in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you visit our website(s) just to browse, read pages or download information, but do not register for any of our
services, we gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information cannot and does
not identify you personally.
The kind of information that is gathered automatically include the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape,
Internet Explorer), the type of Operating System you are using (e.g., Windows ’98 or Mac OS) and the domain
name of your Internet Service Provider (e.g., America Online, Satyam Online, Mantra Online, VSNL), the date
and time of your visit and the pages you visit, along with geographical information such as Country, Region or
City, etc. We sometimes use this non-personally identifiable information to improve our website(s) design,
content and primarily to give you a better browsing experience.

Opting out
If a user opts out using the Ads Settings, the unique DoubleClick cookie ID on the user’s browser is overwritten
with the phrase “OPT_OUT”. Because there is no longer a unique cookie ID, the opt-out cookie can’t be
associated with a particular browser.

Log File Information
We automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, 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 operating system, browser type and version,
CPU speed, and connection speed, etc.

Clear GIFs
We may use “clear GIFs” (Web Beacons) to track the online usage patterns of our Users in an anonymous manner,
without personally identifying the User. We may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our Users to
track which emails are opened by recipients. We use this information to inter-alia deliver our web pages to you
upon request, to tailor our Sites or Service to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our Sites to
improve the quality, functionality and interactivity of our Sites and let advertisers know the geographic locations
from where our Users come without personally identifying the Users.

Links to Other Sites
Our website(s) has links to other website(s) in the World Wide Web. The privacy policies of these website(s) is
not under our control. Once you leave our servers, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy
policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. It is advisable to read their privacy policies for further
information.

Data 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 request that we erase your
personal information and close your services account as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account
activity and in accordance with applicable law(s). You can request for deletion of your information by writing to
our designated Grievance Officers, via in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature. Please
note that if you have multiple accounts with Us, then you will have to raise separate requests for each of the
accounts, along with the associated email IDs or phone numbers.

Information 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 to, your account information and order information may be passed on to us.

Demographic and other 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
Sites. Google Analytics specifically has been enabled 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. You can opt-out of
Google Analytics for display advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings
options provided by Google.

In addition, we also use Chartbeat, comScore analytics on our website. These applications use anonymous data
which cannot be associated with individuals personally to understand content performance and map marketing
reach, penetration and benchmarking.

Links to third party sites/ 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 owners directly for more information.

When we present Information to our advertisers — to help them understand our audience and confirm the value
of advertising on our Sites — it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages / content
within 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 or 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.

We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third party websites / advertisers / ad-servers
without your consent.

Information use by the company
The information as supplied by the users enables us to improve the Services and provide you the most user-
friendly experience. In some cases/provision of certain service(s) or utility(ies), we may require your contact
address 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 personalisation on the
Sites) and for developing 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 posted/uploaded/conveyed/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 case 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 and or responsible for the denial of certain services to
you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information.

When you register with the Sites or Services, we contact you from time to time about updating your personal
information to provide the Users such features that we believe may benefit / interest you.

Information Sharing
The Company shares your Information with any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the 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 but not limited to
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 proposes to share such Information to conduct its business and to share such Information within
its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal
information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such Information agree to process such
information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.

3. The Company may present Information to our advertisers and third parties – to help them understand our
audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Sites – however it is usually in the form of aggregated
statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.

4. The Company may share your Information regarding your activities on Sites with third party social websites to
populate your social wall that is visible to other people however you will have an option to set your privacy
settings, where you can decide what you would like to share or not to share with others.