Privacy Policy

We at BK News Today (Company, we, our,
us)respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. In
this privacy policy, we explain how we collect,use and process your personal
information when you access our Services.Unless indicated otherwise, this
privacy policy applies to Company’s website(s) and all of our mobile applications that
have been made available on the Websites or for download (each, an App and
together, Apps)as well as any related websites or other online properties owned
or controlled by Company (together with the Websites and Apps, the Platforms).
Services mean to include all the content, information, and related information
made available to you "as is" from our Platforms.
If you have any questions about your
privacy on our website, or our use of your personal data, please contact us.
Please note that links from our website may take you to external websites which
are not covered by this policy. We recommend that you check their privacy
policies before submitting any personal information to such sites. We will not
be responsible for the content, function or information collection policies of
these external websites.
1. What information do we
collect about you and how do we collect it?
1.1 We will only require you to provide
personal information to us where it is necessary for us to provide you with a
service at your request, such as when you contact us, register an account on
our website. Certain identifiers will be collected by us automatically, and
some identifiers will have to be fed by you directly. We are enumerating the
list as the following.
1.1.1. Information collected by
us:
We may collect personal information about
you whenever you use our services, such as by doing the following, some of the
following categories of information are collected directly by us, and some are
provided by you directly for the performance of certain functions:
• Accessing our Platforms by means of any
web browser or device;
• Enquiring about our products or services;
• Purchasing our subscription packages on
the Platforms;
• Registration for our Services on our
Platforms;
• Initiating and maintaining correspondence
with us.
1.1.2. This information may
include the following:
• Identification information such as user
name, date of birth, gender, profile picture, qualification;
• Contact information such as email
address, mobile number;
• Payment information (this is securely
collected and processed by our payment service provider exclusively);
• A device identifier (cookie or IP address
or Device ID or Android Advertiser ID / iDFA ID);
• Additional information relevant to your
use of our Platforms And Services, such as one time password sent for
registration, your marketing preferences, survey responses and feedback;
We may be liable to collect certain
sensitive personal information, in the process of the delivery of our Services.
We take extra precautions to ensure that such sensitive personal data is kept
secure and confidential, and we will only retain this data for as long as
necessary for the purposes for which we collect it.
1.1.3. Information we collect
about you from our Platforms
We collect information using cookies and
other similar technologies to help distinguish you from other users of our
Platforms. This is used to streamline your online experience by saving you from
re-inputting some information and it also allows us to make improvements to our
Platforms and analyze user statistics. For more information about how and why
we use cookies, please take a look through our Cookie Policy .
When you visit our Platforms,
we may collect the following information:
• Which pages you access, view and which
links you follow;
• Your IP address/ device's serial number
or unique identification number and general location, including country,
address and pin code;
• Details of the hardware and software that
you are using to access the Platforms such as your computer/device name,your
operating system, browser type and version, application version, operator name,
screen size, CPU speed, and connection speed;
• Any passwords that you use on our
Platforms;
• URL and time stamps;
• Details of your visits to our Platforms
and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data,
location data, web logs and other communication data.
1.2. Information we collect
about you from other sources.
We may collect information about you from
other sources. This may include the following:
• Publicly available information.
• Information you have shared publicly,
including on social media.
• We also receive information from you when
you interact with our pages, Apps, groups, accounts or posts on social media
platforms.
This list is not exhaustive, and, in
specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set
out in this policy.
1.3. Information we receive
about you from other sources
Sometimes you will have given your consent
to other websites, services or third parties to provide information to us.
This could include information we receive
about you if you use any of the other Platforms that we operate or the other
services that we provide, in which case we will have informed you when we
collected that data if we intend to share those data internally and combine it
with data collected on this website. We will also have told you for what
purpose we will share and combine your data.
It could also include information from
third parties that we work with to provide our products and services, such as
payment processors, delivery companies, technical support companies and
advertising companies. Whenever we receive information about you from these
third parties, we will let you know what information we have received and how
and why we intend to use it.
We may also use web beacons to compile
statistics about site usage.Web beacons are small pieces of code (also called
pixels) that are embedded on the pages of websites or emails. We do not use web
beacons to collect personal identifiable information about visitors. We may use
these technical methods to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor
our website/Application or Services to suit the interests of our users, to
measure traffic, to improve the quality, functionality and interactivity and to
let the advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.
We may also use web beacons in HTML emails that we send subscribers who have
opted in to receive email from us, to determine whether our recipients have
opened those emails and/or clicked on links in those emails.
2. How and why do we use your
personal information?
We take your right to privacy seriously,
and so we have attempted to identify and enumerate the specific use cases of
the identifiers as below.
2.1. Subscription or Paid
Service information
When you choose any subscription or paid
service, we or our payment gateway provider will not collect your personal
information such as address or billing information, including your credit/debit
card number and expiration date etc. without obtaining your explicit consent
for the same. Any financial information provided by you will be processed by
such third parties who provide the functionalities for such Services to us, for
effective processing.
2.2. For user generated content
We offer you the ability to post content
that other users can read (comments, reviews). If the law requires us to take
down, remove or edit your personal information, we will comply to the extent
that such is necessary.
3. How and why do we use your
personal information?
3.1. Sharing your information with third
parties
We may share your data with selected third
parties. For example, we may share your information with:
• Business partners to provide you with
services that you request. For example, if you sign up for a promotion that
runs on our Services but that is sponsored or co-sponsored by another company,
your information may be shared with that sponsor. We are not responsible for
the privacy practices of these entities.
• Our payment service provider, to process
payments on our behalf. We will share your full name, address, phone number,
email address and details of your order for this purpose. Our payment provider
will collect and process your payment details; we will not store or have access
to your full credit or debit card details.
• Contact management systems, to send
emails, instant messages, social media messages and SMS messages.
• The advertisers, content providers may
receive information about you and/or your use of the Services (e.g. 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 Platforms.
There are certain other exceptional
circumstances in which we may disclose your information to third parties. This
would be where we believe that the disclosure is:
• Required by the law, or in order to
comply with judicial proceedings, court orders or legal or regulatory
proceedings.
• Necessary to protect the safety of our
employees, our property or the public.
• Necessary for the prevention or detection
of crime, including exchanging information with other companies or
organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• Proportionate as part of a merger,
business or asset sale, in the event that this happens we will share your
information with the prospective seller or buyer involved.
4. Single Sign-on Policy
This Single Sign-on Policy describes the
information collected by us when you use, access, or share your personal
information when using our services (SSO Login).This Policy shall not apply if
you access or use B K News Today Services outside of the European Union (EU).
This policy covers the information provided
to us by you on a third-party site or platform (for example, via our applications
like social media login). 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. If you access the Platforms with any third
party social network, we will collect information that you have agreed to make
available, such as your name, user ID/URL, profile picture, age, list of
friends, email address and/or phone number, and/or your birthday, language
selected, and/or geolocation. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you represent
that you shall not access our 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 our
services. We shall not be responsible or liable for any processing or
collection of your information if you use these mechanisms to access our
Platforms and services.
5. How long do we keep your
personal information?
We will only store your personal
information for as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was
collected.Where we provide you with any service, such as where you pay for a
subscription on our website, we will retain any information you provide to us
at least for as long as we continue to provide that service to you.
We retain your information till such period
that is required for the purposes of us meeting your requests on our Platforms,
and in compliance with the applicable laws, statutory requirements.
6. How do we protect your
personal information?
We will take all steps reasonably necessary
to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this
policy. We try to ensure that all information you provide to us is transferred
securely via the website (always check for the padlock symbol in your browser,
and "https" in the URL, to ensure that your connection is secure).
All information you provide to us is stored
on secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a
password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a
password with anyone.
7. What rights do you have in
respect of your personal information?
If you require any further information
about your rights as explained below, or if you would like to exercise any of
your rights, please contact us.
You have the right to access your personal
data
You have the right to ask us to confirm
whether or not we hold any of your personal information. If we do, you have the
right to have a copy of your information and to be informed of the following:
• Why have we been using your information.
• What categories of information we were
using.
• Who we have shared the information with.
• How long we envisage holding your
information.
In order to maintain the security of your
information, we will have to verify your identity before we provide you with a
copy of the information we hold. The first copy of your information that you
request from us will be provided free of charge, if you require further copies,
we may charge an administrative fee to cover our costs. Please contact us to
request access to your data.
You have the right to correct any
inaccurate or incomplete personal data
If you believe that any of the information
we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, you have the right
to require us to rectify that information. You can update or change your
personal information on our website. Alternatively, please contact us so that
we can correct our records. You may require us to delete your personal data
upon production of an applicable order of a competent court of law or any other
authority as may be notified in this regard (although please be aware that we
may be required to retain certain information in order to comply with our legal
obligations).
You have the right to have your data
transferred to you or a third party in a common format. Also known as data
portability, you have the right to require us to transfer your personal information,
in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, either to you or to
another service provider. If you would like us to do this, please contact us.
There is no charge for you exercising this right.
You have the right to withdraw
your consent
In most cases, we do not require your
consent to use your personal information in the ways set out in this policy.
However, where we do rely on your consent (such as where you subscribe to our
newsletter), you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. You can
use the "unsubscribe" links in any of the communications that we send
you or contact us to withdraw your consent.
8. International Data Transfer
We operate globally and may transfer your
personal information to individual companies of the B K News Today affiliated
companies or third parties in locations around the world for the purposes
described in this privacy policy, only upon satisfaction that the country has
an adequate and appropriate level of protection and the transfer of information
is lawful. We shall comply with our legal and regulatory obligations in
relation to your 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 such an alternate country is obliged to protect your
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.
9. Changes to our Privacy
Policy
Any changes we make to our privacy policy
in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to
you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our
privacy policy.
This version was last updated on 03rd June,
2022 and historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.
10. Contact Us
You can also write to:
B K News Today
Registered office address-
B.K. House, Near Reliance Petrol Pump, Nani
Akhol,Deesa, Dist: Banaskantha, Gujarat-385535
Mobile No 0.: +91-98984 57059
Mobile No 1.: (O) 02744 229294
Mobile No 2.: (F) 02744 226364
E-mail ID: info@bknews.com