This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes the information which T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED ("we" or "us") collects from data subject ("you" or "user") when you use, access, or share your personal information when using T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED services ("SSO Login" or "Credit Points").
This Policy shall not apply if you access or use T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Services outside of the European Union ("EU").
This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use applicable to the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED services you are using.
Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for example, via our applications like social media login) the information we collect through those third-party sites linked with us is covered by this privacy policy, and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our applications. Please also keep in mind that our sites and applications may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or use of Personal Information of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our sites or applications and to read the privacy policies and user terms of other sites that may collect your personal information.
All capitalized terms that have not been specifically defined herein shall have the same meaning as provided under the Terms of Use. What happens to your data collected by us prior to May 25, 2018?
If our systems can identify from the information, we possess that such information belongs to a user from the EU region, then we shall drop you an email informing you about the data we possess and seek your consent to continue storing and processing the information. If you have any query, then you can contact our Data Protection Officer at the email address provided below.
In case you choose to withdraw your consent, we will delete your information, but we may choose to archive and retain some information for legal purposes. Once such information is archived, we will not use it for any purpose and shall disclose it only to comply with any applicable law, court order, or request from governmental authority or law enforcement agencies.
In some cases, our services may have stored some of your information in your device (computer, mobile, tablet). You will have to delete such information from your device manually. If you have accessed T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Services from multiple devices, then you will have to delete the information stored in each of such device manually.
By using the Site, you represent that you have attained the age of ‘majority’ as per the applicable laws of your jurisdiction, and further consent to be access our services and be bound by this Privacy Policy.. 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. In case of any roaming user profile or if you are a traveler visiting various countries around the World and avail services of T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED, then we will consider the country of registration as your primary country and the consents obtained at the time of registration will be valid for your processing of personal information.
You should not access or use the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED services 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 T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Services).
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 Website or T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Services which conceals your actual geo-location.
‘Personal Information/Personally Identifiable Information’ or ‘PII’ is defined as any information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) to a particular individual or a natural person, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address, mobile number and any other identifier indicating to that particular person. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information also is treated as personal information.
A. Information you provide to us
Information collected at the time of Registration
When you register on T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED websites using the SSO Login functionality, we ask that you provide basic personal information from to continue to interact with you and to continue providing you the Services. Information that we collect includes, but is not limited to –
• First/Last Name
• Date of Birth
• Gender
• Mobile number
• Email Address
• Password
• Qualification
• Country
• Address
• Pin code
• Profile Picture Upload
Information collected when you use Social Media Login When the user logs in through Social Media i.e., Twitter and Facebook, we may collect, including but not limited to, the below information from the social media-
• Users Public Profile information
• E-mail Address
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings/comments on the Site, we may collect and store such information.
We do not collect any further information from you, if not specifically mentioned hereinabove.
When you interact with any of the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED websites (such as follow articles, follow other users, follow activities, provide comments etc.) T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED will collect your follow activities and create a T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED profile against those activities for you to refer to them at a later stage and review articles and your activities. T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED doesn’t collect any additional personal information but only tracks your behavior on various T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Websites and the activities that you choose to follow or the users you wish to follow. Any comments, views, shares that are performed by you on the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Websites will be publicly available information.
This policy shall also apply to our Mobile Applications that are available in the country governed by a data protection regulation. These Mobile applications have been updated to make them compliant to the country governed by a data protection regulation and few of the services have been discontinued in certain platforms in the Countries governed by a data protection regulation.
You are urged to update to the most current version of certain apps listed and/or to delete certain apps that we no longer provide access, service or support so that we do not collect, or store information of users located in the country governed by a data protection regulation. If you use an older version of these apps and/or access discontinued services, then we may collect, store and process your information. In such case we would not be responsible or liable for such collection, storage and processing of your information.
We will only collect and process personal information about you where we have lawful purpose to do so.Lawful purpose on which we would process our personal information includes obtaining explicit consent from you for processing your personal information or processing for "lawful purpose" where processing is necessary by us to provide you with services.
We use information to provide, analyze, administer, enhance and personalize our service and marketing efforts, to process your registration, to provide you services, and to communicate with you related to below mentioned points. For example, we use information to:
• Analyze and understand our audience, improve our service (including our user interface experiences), recommendation algorithms and delivery which may require sharing personal information with our group companies and affiliates or third-party service providers.
• To help advertisers understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites or Applications (however it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site) and to provide you relevant ads.
• Notify you about changes in terms of service or privacy policy.
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 on the "Application") and for developing new services. We may also use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages if you have provided explicit consent [. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major changes, for customer service purposes, billing, for notifying you in case of breach incidents, etc.)
You may voluntarily chose at your discretion to subscribe or unsubscribe services of T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED at your own end, T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED would make reasonable efforts not to provide you services that you have unsubscribed for, however in that case you may be left out of certain services provided by T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED.
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 "Application" becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.
In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information on the Application, we may not be able to provide certain services on the Application 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.
The Company shares your information with any third parties without obtaining the prior consent of User in the following limited circumstances:
a) 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 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.
b) The Company proposes 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 Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
When you use the Services (website/application or any of its sub sites), we make good faith efforts to provide you, an access to your personal information that is available in the dashboard of your profile and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient by you may be corrected or amended in the dashboard as feasible as per your own discretion at your own end..
When you use the Services website/application or any of its sub sites), we make good faith efforts to provide you, an access to your personal information that is available in the dashboard of your profile and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient by you may be corrected or amended in the dashboard as feasible as per(your own discretion at your own end.
We retain your personal information as long as necessary for us to provide services to you or you explicitly ask us to not retain your data. If you no longer want us to use your information, then you should delete and close your T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED account. Please note that if you request for the erasure of your personal information;
• We may retain some of your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend a T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from that account to prevent that user from opening a new account in the future.
• We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example, we may keep some of your information for tax, legal reporting and auditing obligations.
• Information you have shared with others (e.g., Comments, Reviews, etc.) may continue to be publicly visible on the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED, even after your account is cancelled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Additionally, some copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
• 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.
You can delete your information by using the delete function/option through your profile settings. Please note that this will perform deletion of all the information stored by the SSO. This means you no longer exist as a user in any of the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED properties. Please note that if you have multiple accounts with us, then you will have to separately delete each of your profile through the settings option available in dashboard.
In event, where your personal information is processed for direct marketing purposes or any contests or promotions or other services, you will have an option at your end to unsubscribe to the aforesaid, at any time by clicking on the link provided in the emails received Please be aware that if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain experiences, and services to you, and some of our services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If collection of personal information is mandatory, we will make that clear at the point of collection so that you can make an informed decision whether to participate. If you have questions about the specific your rights regarding that personal information, please contact us at the below mentioned e-mail address.
We may take 30 days from the date of receipt of request to complete your requests. However, if the nature of the requests are excessive in nature or would require significant effort then may ask for an extension of 60 days by giving a prior notice to you with the reason for the extension. In case you want to invoke any of the above mentioned rights also for other information stored separately by the Sites, you can do so by referring to their Privacy policy.
If you have any complaints regarding processing of your personal information you may contact our Data Protection Officer at the below mentioned e-mail address. You have the right to complaint about the data processing activities carried out by T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED before the competent data protection authorities.
T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED is not intentionally designed for or directed at persons less than 16 years of age. T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED does not knowingly permit any person who is under 16 years of age to register for the services or to provide any other personally identifying information. If T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED becomes aware or is brought to its knowledge that any personally identifiable information of persons less than 16 years of age has been collected on T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED Services then T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED will take the appropriate steps to delete any such information.
It is our policy not to collect and process any personal information from children below 16 years of age or offer to send any promotional materials to persons in that category. T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED does not seek or intend to seek or receive any personal information from children. Data transfer, storage and processing globally
We operate globally and may transfer your personal information to individual companies of the T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED affiliated companies or third parties in locations around the world for the purposes described in this privacy policy. We shall comply with our legal and regulatory obligations in relation to your Personal Information, including having a lawful basis for transferring Personal Information and putting appropriate safeguards in place to ensure an adequate level of protection for the Personal Information. We will also ensure that the recipient in alternate country is obliged to protect your Personal Information at a standard of protection comparable to the protection under applicable laws. Our lawful basis for such transfer will be either on the basis of content or one of the safeguards permissible by laws.
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.
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 T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED 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. If you know or have reason to believe that your T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED account credentials have been lost, stolen, altered, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your account, please contact us by contacting our Data Protection Officer.
We may alter our privacy policy from time to time to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law or any other variant. We reserve the right to amend the terms of this Policy from time to time. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on the Site. We may also make reasonable efforts to inform you via electronic mail. The new terms may be displayed on-screen and you will be required to read and accept them to continue your use of the ServicesContact us
If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances or queries with respect to use of your personal information, please email us at nasser.kabir@aajtak.com.
The data protection officer (DPO) appointed by T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED is Mr. Nasser Kabir who can be contacted at nasser.kabir@aajtak.com.
T.V. TODAY NETWORK LIMITED
F-26, 1st Floor,Connaught Circus,
New Delhi-110001
If you have any queries, grievances, complaints, compliments specifically regarding the collecting, processing, transfer of personal data/information or regarding this policy please do contact our Data Protection Officer.