Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how NewsGrid India collects, uses, and protects your information when you use our site and services.
Information We Collect
When you use our online platform, we may collect various types of information.
Information you provide directly to us: This includes information you give us when you register for an account, subscribe to our services, participate in surveys, contact us, or interact with our content. This information may include your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and other details you choose to provide.
Information collected automatically: When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and other usage data. We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect this information.
Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media platforms, advertising partners, or publicly available sources.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes:
To provide and maintain our services, including delivering news content and managing subscriptions.
To process transactions and manage payments for subscription services.
To personalize your experience on our site, such as showing you relevant content or advertising.
To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and send you service-related information, updates, and promotional materials (where you have consented).
To improve our site and services, analyze user behavior, and develop new features.
To conduct research and analytics to understand our audience and market trends.
To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security incidents, and fraudulent activity.
To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and conditions.
Legal Basis for Processing
We process your information based on several legal grounds:
Your consent: Where you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose, such as sending you marketing communications.
Performance of a contract: Where the processing is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, such as providing you with access to a subscription service.
Legitimate interests: Where the processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights and interests. This may include improving our services, preventing fraud, and conducting analytics.
Legal obligation: Where the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your information with third parties in certain circumstances:
Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer support. These third parties are obligated to protect your information.
Advertising Partners: We may share information with advertising partners to display relevant advertisements on our site or other platforms. This may involve using cookies and similar technologies to collect information for targeted advertising. We may also share aggregated or anonymized data that cannot be used to identify you directly.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your consent to do so.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as the applicable legal requirements.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including:
The right to access your personal data.
The right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
The right to erase your personal data.
The right to restrict the processing of your personal data.
The right to object to the processing of your personal data.
The right to data portability (to receive your data in a structured, commonly used format).
The right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use personal information about you, including to serve interest-based advertising. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or our site's cookie consent tool (if available).
Children's Privacy
Our site and services are not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will revise the policy on our site. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
NewsGrid India
405 Infinity Towers, SV Road,
Andheri West,
Mumbai, Maharashtra 40053,
India