This Privacy Policy shall be read in conjunction and together with the Terms of Use available on www.articles.legal (‘Website’) and forms an integral part of the user agreement between You and the owner(s) of the Website. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning attributed to them under the Terms of Use.
By accessing and/or using the Website, you signify Your agreement to accept this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the following terms of the Privacy Policy, please do not access and/or use the Website, and do not provide any data or information to the Website.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon being posted/published on the Website herein.
Using the Website and providing your Personal Information and/or Sensitive Personal Data or Information and/or any other information to us is your choice. You understand that any data, information, content, or information that you share, provide, post, submit or upload to the Website and the data about you that we collect on our own or we receive from third party will be processed and stored on Website’s or its third party(ies) servers anywhere in the world for the purposes of providing the Website, its features and content published on the Website available to you. Please do not post, submit, or upload to the Website any data, information, content, or information which would include any Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Data or Information that you do not wish to be stored, processes, used or shared by the Website to provide the services offered on the Website in accordance with the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, any other document referred to on the Website, or in accordance with applicable laws.
The terms “Personal Information” and “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the applicable laws of India.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:
YOUR DATA AND INFORMATION (INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION AND SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA OR INFORMATION) IS PROCESSED, STORED, PROTECTED AND SECURED BY THE WEBSITE BY USING THIRD PARTIES INFRASTRUCTURE, SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGIES. THE WEBSITE DOES NOT ITSELF PROCESS, STORE, PROTECT OR SECURE SUCH DATA AND INFORMATION. THE WEBSITE RELY ON THESE THIRD PARTIES TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAWS AND TECHNICAL STANDARDS TO DEAL WITH SUCH DATA AND INFORMATION. THE WEBSITE DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR ASSURE YOU THAT YOUR DATA AND INFORMATION WILL REMAIN PROCTECTED OR SECURED. THE WEBSITE DOES NOT INTEND TO EARN ANY WRONGFUL GAIN OR CAUSE ANY WRONGFUL LOSS TO YOU WHILE DEALING WITH YOUR DATA AND INFORMATION. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AGAINST THE WEBSTIE AND ITS OWNERS AND THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE DUTY, OBLIGATION OR LIABILTY OF THE WEBSITE AND ITS OWNERS TO YOU FOR ANY MISUSE, LOSS, COMPROMISE OR DAMAGE TO YOUR DATA AND INFORMATION IS TO REASONABLY ASSIST YOU AT YOUR SOLE COST AND EXPENSE AND UNDER THE LIMITATIONS OF APPLICABLE LAWS TO WORK WITH GOVERNMENT AND/OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FOR NECESSARY INVESTIGATIONS.
YOU AGREE THAT THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE SECURITY IN THE ONLINE/ INTERNET SPHERE. THEREFORE, YOU MUST NOT DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION ON THE WEBISTE THAT IS SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA OR INFORMATION THAT COULD CAUSE HARM TO YOU IF COMPROMISED OR LOST. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION OVER THE INTERNET IS NOT COMPLETELY SECURE AND THERE ARE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF THE SAME WHILE IT IS BEING TRANSMITTED TO OUR WEBSITE AND ANY TRANSMISSION IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
We may receive information that you submit to any Third-Party Website You access from links contained within the Website. You should check the privacy policy of such Third-Party Websites to find out how they will use your personal information and sensitive personal data or information. We shall not be responsible or liable for use or misuse of the same by Third-Party Websites.
We may also obtain information about how the Website is used by you and all other individual usage patterns on the Website.
If you access the Website through a social media platform, we may collect your data and information from such platform including user ID or username, any information you have permitted the social media service to share with us, and any information you have made public with the social media service.
We may combine your personal information with information collected from Tracking Technologies and aggregate it with information collected from other users using the Website to attempt to provide you and others with a better experience on the Website. You understand, agree and acknowledge that our collection, storage and processing of your personal information is for a lawful purpose connected with the functioning of the Website. You hereby consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure, transfer, processing of the personal information for the purposes set out herein.
IN ADDITION TO WHATEVER IS STATED ABOVE, WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SET OUT BELOW AND YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO THE SAME TO BE SHARED WITH:
- any third-party service provider to whom disclosure is necessary to enable Us to provide You with the services which You wish to access on or through the Website;
- any person/entity to whom disclosure is necessary in accordance with applicable law;
- any government or statutory authority or court of law or judicial forum to whom disclosure is necessary in accordance with applicable law;
- in circumstances We believe necessary or appropriate to respond to valid claims and legal process, to protect the property and rights of the Website, to protect the safety of the public or any person or User, or to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity;
- any person/entity to whom disclosure is necessary to enable Us to enforce Our rights;
- any entity that acquires the Website and/or its owners including by way of change in ownership control, merger and acquisition or any similar event;
- for system administration and to report aggregated statistical information about browsing patterns and actions which does not identify any individual.
- You also agree to and authorize us to share your data and information including aggregated and/or derived data and information to:
- authors / publishers of the articles (“Contributors”) who pay us to use certain features of our Website including upload / publish their articles / content on the Website and require certain direct, aggregated and/or derived data of the viewers to their content and their profile pages and various actions that viewers take on their or others content and their or others profile pages. At present, we do not intend to share your name and your email address with the authors / publishers. If we decide to share that in future, we will update this Privacy Policy. Contributors can use the data we share with them including any aggregate or derived data to find out or guess your personal information. We are not responsible for how Contributors will use the data and information that we will share with them.
- advertisers and/or advertisement aggregators to display, publish or promote the advertisements, content, products, or services to them and the actions that you take on their advertisements, content, products, or services. We are not responsible for how these advertisers or aggregators will use the data and information that we will share with them.
COOKIES
BY DEFAULT, IF YOUR WEB BROWSER WILL ACCEPT COOKIES, HOWEVER THIS CAN BE ALTERED BY YOU. YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF ENABLING OR DISABLING COOKIES IN YOUR WEB BROWSER. IF YOU DO NOT WANT US TO INSTALL COOKIES, YOU MAY CHANGE THE SETTINGS ON YOUR WEB BROWSER TO DISABLE COOKIES. HOWEVER PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU DISABLE COOKIES, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE ALL OF THE FEATURES OF THE WEBSITE.
The Website and/or third parties may use “Cookies”, and Google Analytics or other similar tracking technologies (collectively, “Tracking Technologies”) to collect information automatically as You browse the Website and the internet.
By visiting the Website whether as a registered user or otherwise, You acknowledge, understand and hereby agree that You are giving us Your consent to track Your activities and Your use of the Website through these Tracking Technologies.
Cookie and IP address information may be stored, process or transferred to the responding data centres that could be located anywhere in the world where applicable data protection laws provide a lesser degree of protection than your home country. In the event of any inconsistency, the Terms of Use including the Privacy Policy of the Website shall prevail to the extent of conflict only.
You can learn more about cookies from www.allaboutcookies.org.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies. You can avoid the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our site by downloading and installing the Browser Plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
In case You have any grievance with respect to the Website, You can send Us an email notification to Our grievance officer at admin@articles.legal.
