Privacy Policy

Medhaj News (hereinafter referred to as “the Website”) is run and operated by Medhaj News Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”). We recognise the importance of maintaining the privacy of every user who visits the Website. This Privacy Policy applies when you use/visit our Website through any device for purposes of accessing our online services (hereinafter referred to as “Services”). Information received, collected and stored by the company

The information about the user in relation to this Website as collected by the Company in relation to this Website is in the following manner:
Data provided by the users
Data collected while navigation
These are hereinafter collectively referred to as “Information”

Data provided by users: Data provided on the Website by users includes personal information which you may volunteer to provide to the Website, in the form of comments or online submissions made on the Website. Please note that if you provide us with Information about other individuals, you represent and warrant that you are authorized by the person about whom the Information is provided and have explicit consent that all such Information used adheres to this Privacy Policy. Data collected while navigation: certain Information is tracked while you navigate the Website, in the following manner:

a.Use of cookies and other electronic tools: cookies are small text files which contain a small amount of Information that is downloaded to your device when you visit a website. When the website is visited again, your device is able to communicate with the website and the latter reads the information that is held in the cookie. The Website may place, view, and/or use cookies, web server logs, web beacons, or mapping pixel/pixel tag or other electronic tools to collect statistical and other Information about your use of the Website and other websites. This may include, but is not restricted to information about the IP address of your computer, browser type, language, operating system, your mobile device, geo-location data, the state or country from which you accessed the Website, the web pages visited, the date and the time of a visit, the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting the Website, the number of links you click within the Website, the functions you use on the Website, the databases you view and the searches you request on the Website, the data you save on or download from the Website and the number of times you view an advertisement. You can choose to accept or decline cookies in your browser settings. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to reject cookies if you prefer. You may find more help about managing cookies in your browser: Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari. This may prevent you from having a complete Website experience by affecting the access to some of the links, services or features. Information collected by cookies and web beacons is not personally identifiable.
b.Use of data for third party purposes: the Website may use the Information collected for the purposes of research and analysis in order to better serve visitors to the Website. The Website may automatically collect information regarding the following – your device’s Internet connection, log information such as device’s name, operating system, browser type and version, IP address, CPU speed, connection speed, location, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, etc. These are not linked to any Information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of this Information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the Website, and gathering demographic information. Please also note that if you provide any information to another platform provider or partner, and the Website receives such information, then it shall be treated in compliance with this Privacy Policy. With the usage of analytical tools to track the user behaviour on our Website, we may obtain information to provide you with more targeted communications or promotions. Such analytical reports are anonymous in nature, and cannot be associated with any personally identifiable Information that you may have shared with us. Additionally, the Website, or its third party advertisers may also place cookies on your device in order to aid the display of advertisements on the Website. This shall include information regarding your visits to the Website, your activity on the Website and other websites, IP address, the number of times you have viewed an advertisements, and other such Information. The collection and use of such Information by the third party service advertisers and third party advertisers is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

Please Note: unless specifically requested, we ask that you do not share with us through the Services or otherwise any sensitive personal information, such as regarding race, ethnicity, national identification numbers, social security numbers, criminal background, political opinions, religion, health, biometrics, genetic characteristics, etc.

Disclosure of Information

Your Information may be used in the following manner:

a.The Company may share information with its employees, agents, and officers for the purposes of processing such information. However, this shall only be done on an anonymous basis.
b.The Company may share with other third parties Information about the users in an anonymous manner in order to help us develop content, services, advertising, etc. This shall include database management, maintenance services, analytics, marketing, data processing, hosting vendors, etc.
c.Please note that in the event that you participate in certain features of the Website, eg: sharing news from the Website, information that you consequently disclose becomes available to the public and other users, and the Company is not to be held responsible for the disclosure of such information and the disclosure thereof is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
d.Our Website may carry embedded content controlled by third parties for the purpose of social sharing, commenting/reviewing, and displaying videos or images. Additionally, if you log into the Services with a social media service, or if you connect a social media account with the Services, we may share your Information with that social media service. The social media service’s use of this shared information will be governed by its respective privacy policy and your social media account settings, and not by this Privacy Policy. However, if you do not wish to have your information shared this way, do not connect your social media service account with the Services that you use on this Website.
e.Our Website uses third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Website. These companies may use Information about your visits of the Website in order to provide advertisements about the goods and services. Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Medhaj News, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that the Company has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
f.The Company may disclose your Information to third parties if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary:iTo comply with the law, court orders, warrants, or any other legal processiiTo protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of the WebsiteiiiTo enforce any terms of Service on the WebsiteivTo investigate any illegal activities, suspected fraud, etc.
g.If the Company sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of assets, or is otherwise involved in a merger or transfer of all or a material part of its business, the Company may transfer your Information to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that transaction.
h.In addition to the purposes as mentioned above, we may share Information about you for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time that your Information is collected.

Security measures for protection of personal information:

a.Personal information of users is kept on secure servers with limited access. The Company uses reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personal Information against loss, theft, unauthorized use or access, disclosure or modification and to ensure the integrity of such personal information.
b.The Company limits access to your personal Information to only those who have a genuine business need to do so. We also have in place appropriate confidentiality measures to make sure that the recipients of such information function in adherence to this Privacy Policy. In addition to this, we have appropriate procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach.
c.However, please note that no security system is foolproof, and there is always a risk that the Information supplied to the Website may be intercepted while being transmitted to the Website over the Internet, and therefore this transmission is at your own risk.

In the event that you have any concerns regarding the obtainment and/or usage of personal Information by the Website and Company and/or have a request for modifications in the obtainment and/or usage thereof, please email, call or write to us at the details mentioned in the “Contact Us” tab on the Website. After we verify your identity, we shall try to comply with your request as soon as possible and in the most reasonable manner possible.

Third Party Privacy Policies The Website may contain links to other websites or applications, which are governed by their respective privacy policies, and are beyond our control. Once users exit our services, which can be identified by checking the URL in the location bar of the browser, the usage of any information provided is governed by the privacy policy of the website or application that the user is visiting. Therefore, we would advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third party servers for more detailed information.

Also, this Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

Children’s Information Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

The Website does not knowingly collect any personal identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If are aged 13 or under, or you think that your child provided this kind of information on our Website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we shall in our best efforts promptly remove such information from our records.

Further, if you are the parent or guardian of a child who is aged under 16, and you become aware that your child has provided us with information without your consent, please get in touch with us on the details in the “Contact Us” tab on the website, and we shall in our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Depending on the service and content, we may also ask any user under the age of 18 to obtain the consent of the parent or guardian.

Modifications to the Privacy Policy The Company may alter the Privacy Policy of this Website to incorporate necessary changes in technology, law, or to incorporate any other relevant factor. Such changes shall reflect on the Website from time to time, which shall be effective upon posting. Your subsequent use of the Website after such changes reflect on the Website shall be deemed as acceptance of such changes. Therefore, you are advised to visit this page in a periodic manner to ensure that you are up to date with the latest version of the Privacy Policy.

Grievance Redressal In case of any complaints or concerns with respect to the processing of information on the Website provided by you as a User, please contact us on the details as mentioned in the “Contact Us” tab on this Website.

[YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF SERVICES ON THIS WEBSITE SHALL MEAN THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY. BY ACCESSING OR USING SERVICES YOU ALSO REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE LEGAL AUTHORITY AS PER APPLICABLE LAW TO ACCEPT THE TERMS ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSON YOU REPRESENT IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES.]
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