Throughout this document, the terms “we”, “us”, “our” and “ours” refer to THE NEWS GATEWAY WEBSITE www.thenewsgateway.com, which is a unit of Paramount Digital News Network (PDNN). The terms “you”, “your” and “yours” refer to YOU (the individual whose personal data we are referring to).
We value your privacy and appreciate your trust in us. We are committed to be transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared. We know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. We recognizes the importance of maintaining the privacy of every user who visits our website. Our Privacy Policy is in line with best practices laid down in the India and THE NEWS GATEWAY is committed to keeping your personal data private. We process any personal data we collect from you in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy forms part and parcel of the Terms and Conditions for the Services. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data. This Privacy Policy applies when you register on our website or use/visit our website on desktop/laptop or mobile/tablet, or any other online service (collectively, the “Services”) that links or refers to it. By registering, visiting and/or using our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. We strongly recommend you to read this Privacy Policy so that you understand our approach towards the use of your personal data. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time as in required.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information directly from user(s), from third-parties and automatically through our website. The personal data that we collect and process (particularly when you comment on any content on website) include contact details, like your name, contact number and email address. Registration on the website or its usage may require that you supply certain personal information such as name, age, sex, contact number, email address and demographic information (area, location, IP address etc). We collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. Your IP address does not identify you personally. We also collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of our website/apps such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our website services. We use this information to tailor our site to the interests of our users and to measure traffic on the website. This information may also be used by our advertisers/third party companies to personalize content, ads etc.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION
- We collect information directly from you when you register with us or during the usage of the service.
- We collect information (whether you are registered or not registered with us) when you browse our sites/apps, open or respond to an email from us (promotional or informational).
- When you post a comment on our website or raise a query/question to us through phone or email.
- We collect information from you when you register with us by linking your social media or third party accounts. By doing this, you are authorizing them to share with us certain information from such accounts, and authorizing us to collect, store, and use this in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- We collect information from you using third party tools, browser cookies and web beacons in order to improve user experience.
- Device Information: We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access the service, such as IP address, geo-location information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language and other information for the purpose of providing customized information on the browser.
- Location Information: Our mobile application and websites may capture your current location if you choose to enable GPS feature in the app or browser.
COOKIE POLICY, PIXELS AND TRACKING
Cookies are small text files which contain a small amount of information that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, or visit partner website which recognizes that cookie, your device is able to communicate with our website and the website can read the information held in that cookie.
We use Cookies to help you efficiently browse our websites and to save you time by not having to re-enter your details/preferences each time you visit. Cookies allow us to provide you with information and show you content relevant to you. We also use Cookies to analyse how our customers interact with our websites so we can improve the customer journey.
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 & Safari. This may prevent you from having 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.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION
- To Provide and Manage the Services You Request: This includes, for example, processing your subscription, sending you electronic newsletters, or enabling you to participate in the features provided by the Services. It also includes providing personalized content and recommendations to you, including by email. Through such features, we are able to bring you information and content tailored to your individual interests and needs.
- To Reach You: We may periodically contact you with offers and information about the Services and our affiliates, including in connection with your accounts, online surveys, legal notices, news stories, new features that you are entitled to access, and other important information. You may opt out of receiving commercial email messages from us by following the instructions contained in those email messages.
- To Customise Advertising: We may use your information to facilitate the delivery of targeted ads, promotions, and offers to you, on behalf of ourselves and advertisers, on and off the Services.
- Understand Our Readers and Users: The Services conduct research on our users’ demographics, interests and behavior based on the information we collect. We do this to better understand and serve our users, and to improve our products and services.
- To Protect the Rights of the Services and others: We may use your personal information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Services, its employees or agents, or other users and to comply with applicable law.
- Consent: We may otherwise use your information with your consent or at your direction.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
The following provides information about entities with which we may share information. Our practices vary depending on the type of information.
- Logging In Through Social Media Services: 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 services’ use of the shared information will be governed by the social media services’ Privacy Policy and your social media account settings. If you do not want your information shared in this way, do not connect your social media service account with your Services.
- Business Partners: We may also share your information with business partners to provide you with services that you request.
- Service Providers: We may share information with vendors providing contractual services to us, such as hosting vendors, advertising service providers, and list managers. We also may share your information, including your payment information, as appropriate to process your payments for the Services or complete a transaction.
- Other Parties: When Required by Law or As Necessary to Protect Our Users and Services: We may share your personal information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Services, our employees or agents or users or to comply with applicable law or legal process, including responding to requests from public and government authorities.
- Affiliates: We may share information within our family of affiliated companies and business associates.
- Third Parties that Provide Content, Advertising, or Functionality: When you use our Services, third parties may collect or receive certain information about you and/or your use of the Services (e.g., hashed data, click stream information, browser type, time and date, information about your interactions with advertisements and other content), including through the use of cookies, beacons, mobile ad identifiers, and similar technologies, in order to provide content, advertising, or functionality or to measure and analyze ad performance, on our Services or other websites or platforms. This information may be combined with information collected across different websites, online services, and other linked or associated devices. These third parties may use your information to improve their own services and consistent with their own privacy policies.
- Other Parties in Connection With a Corporate Transaction: We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization.
- Otherwise With Your Consent or At Your Direction: In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.
- We also may share other information with third parties in a manner that does not identify particular users, including, for example, aggregated data about how users are using our Services.
- Links to Third-Party Sites: Our Services may link to third-party websites and services that are outside our control. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by other websites or other services. You should exercise caution, and review the privacy statements applicable to the third-party websites and services you use.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may access or modify your personal information by signing on to the website. We will not modify the information provided by you. However, you must update your personal information as soon as such changes are necessitated.
Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law(s). However, we will retain the required personal information from closed accounts to comply with law, Avoid/check illegal and/or potentially prohibited activities and to enforce User Agreements; Comply with any court judgment/decree/order/directive/legal & government authority/applicable law; Investigate potential violations or applicable national & international laws; Investigate deliberate damage to the website/services or its legitimate operation; Detect, prevent, or otherwise address security and/or technical issues; safeguard our rights, property and safety and/or its owner, employees and the general public at large; Respond to Claims of third parties; and take such other actions as may be permitted by law.
SHOULD YOU WANT TO OPT OUT
If we possess your contact information, we may want to keep you posted about our products, services and events, through email. Should you prefer not to keep up to date with company related news and latest information on services and receive such marketing materials, please click on the unsubscribe link in the communication that you receive.
Further, a user may withdraw the consent given to the company on the website by communicating the same to us in writing on the email provided in the contact us section of the website. However, such withholding of information or withdrawal of consent may result in us not being able to provide services and facilities.
We will update your preferences as soon as reasonably practical. However, do note, if you opt out of the companies emailing list, as described here, we will not be able to remove your personal information from the databases of affiliates, franchisees or business partners with which we have already shared your personal information, prior to the date of your opt-out request.
COOKIE POLICY
- Our Cookie Policy
This is the cookie policy for www.thenewsgateway.com website, a unit of Paramount Digital News Network (PDNN).
In this cookie policy, we explain what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage them for both our site and other websites you might use.
- What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. If you want to know more about cookies, go to https://allaboutcookies.org
Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts.
- How we use Cookies?
We use cookies to make our website work, or work more efficiently. We also use cookies to track what you’ve done on the site so we can understand what you like and use or don’t like and don’t use to provide a more enjoyable, customised service and experience, as well as to help us develop and deliver better content, products and services tailored to our customers’ interests and needs.
Our cookies don’t hold personal information such as your name. They simply let us find information once you’re logged in or help link your browsing information to you and your personal information when you choose to register for a service, white paper or newsletter.
To do this we sometimes use persistent cookies. We take looking after your personal information seriously – we’re always monitoring and improving how we protect it.
- Controlling your Cookies
If you change your cookie settings in your browser, your experience with us won’t be tracked. For more information on how to control cookies, please visit https://allaboutcookies.org
What Are Caches and Cookies?
Caches and cookies are like little notes your web browser stores when you visit websites so your browser can remember it the next time you visit those websites again. Your browser tends to save these files. Even if they are relatively small, they will accumulate over time. It could cause performance and privacy issues on your browser.
Clear Cache and Cookies on Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome.
Click the menu button ⋮ > More Tools > Clear browsing data.
On the Clear browsing data window, select which time range you want to clear.
Put a check beside Cookies and other site data and Cached images and files, and then click Clear data.
Clear Cache and Cookies on Mozilla Firefox
Open Mozilla Firefox.
Click the menu button ☰, then select Settings.
Select Privacy & Security, scroll to Cookies and Site Data, and then click Clear Data.
Check both Cookies and Site Data and Cached Web Content, and then click Clear.
A confirmation box will appear. Click Clear Now to proceed.
Clear Cache and Cookies on Microsoft Edge
Open Microsoft Edge.
Click the menu button … > Settings.
Under Clear browsing data, click Choose what to clear.
Tick Cookies and save the website and Cached data and files, and then click Clear.
By accessing our Website, you agree that this Cookie Policy will apply whenever you access the Website on any device. Any changes to this Policy will be posted here. We reserve the right to vary this Cookie Policy from time to time and such changes shall become effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such changes.
CHILDREN USING OUR SERVICES
Except where otherwise indicated, we do not knowingly collect or store any personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you are aged 13 or under, we request that you do not provide us with Information relating to you or to others. Please seek the guidance of your parent or guardian before using our Services.
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 contact us as given below. We will delete such information from our records within a reasonable time.
Older Children
Depending on the service, we may also seek to obtain the consent of your parent or guardian if you are under the age of 18.
GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL – REACH OUT TO US
For any grievance to our services or the content of the website, the complainant can submit the grievance to the designated Grievance Officer as per the details mentioned below:
Grievance Officer: Umesh Dewan
Designation: Editor, The News Gateway
Office: Opposite Preet Palace Cinema
Link Road, Ludhiana – 141 002, Punjab
Cell: + 91 9872742129
WhatsApp: +91 7589386921
E-Mail:
editor@thenewsgateway.com
umeshdewan@gmail.com
THE NEWS GATEWAY WEBSITE (www.thenewsgateway.com) shall not be responsible for any communication, if addressed, to any non-designated person in this regard.
We request you to please provide the following information in your complaint:-
- Your name, complete address, telephone number and email address.
- The complaint should be duly signed.
OWNERSHIP & OPERATIONS
The News Gateway (www.thenewsgateway.com) is wholly owned and operated by Paramount Digital News Network (PDNN), a sole proprietorship firm, registered in India.
GOVERNING LAW & JURISDICTION
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India. All relevant rules, regulations, directions, orders and notifications will also apply. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Privacy Policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Ludhiana City.
By choosing to browse this site, you agree to the site’s Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy.
MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion, without prior notice. We may make amendments in this Privacy Policy to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law or any other variant from time to time by posting revisions on this web page. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of our Services, including browsing, submitting content or engaging in advertising, after such revisions will constitute your legal acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. Please ensure that you review this Privacy Policy periodically to remain informed of any changes.
[YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF SERVICES 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.]
