vedgyaan-logo

Privacy Policy

Effective date: 1 January 2021

We are committed to protecting your privacy. In this Privacy and Cookies Policy for our Sites, and the services, features, content or applications we offer, including our Content (defined below) (collectively with the Sites, the “Services“). We explain who we arewhy and how we collect, store, share and use (together, “process“) personal data (“Personal Information”), as well as your rights and how to contact us.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. By engaging with our Services, you acknowledge you have read and understood this privacy policy.

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

his Privacy Policy covers how we treat:

  • Personal Information gathered when you are using or accessing our Services.
  • Personal Information that our business partners share with us or that we share with our business partners.
  • Personal Information in any Content.

Our Services may, from time to time, contain links to external websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies.

Third Party Services

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to: any third party websites, services and applications and any affiliated brands (“Third Party Services”) that you elect to access through the Service or to individuals that we do not manage or employ. We do not have any responsibility or liability for these policies or any content on Third Party Services and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. We have no control over the availability of any of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any Third Party Services you access. Please refer to Information You Elect to Share for further information.

Personal Information We Collect

We may collect information, including personally identifiable information, directly from you if you choose to provide that information. For example, you may provide us with your name and contact information (such as an email address), date of birth, or other details of that nature, when you sign up for our newsletters or participate in promotions or surveys on the Site. For the newsletter subscriptions we use Mailchimp as the provider, you can check out their privacy policy here

You also may choose to provide personally identifiable information about yourself when you participate in discussions on the Site. Please be aware that information you post in these discussions/comments may be viewed or captured by anyone who visits the Site, therefore you should avoid posting sensitive personal information that you would not want to be available to the public.

You provide us information about yourself, such as your name and email address, when you register with the Service. Also, you may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, poll and surveys, message boards and comments, email messages and newsletters and other interactive areas of our Website (all such information and material, “User Content”). When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, and other information on you and your personal interests. Once you register with YourTango and log on to our services, you are not anonymous to us. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses.

Cookies Information

A cookie does not collect any personal information about you from which your individual identity can be established. This website uses cookies and other tracking tools, placed either by us or our third-party partners and providers. When you visit the Website, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, for example, your IP address (your computer’s location on the Internet) and our cookie information (if installed). We may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies the type of browser you are using and allows the Company to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Website. We use information that is collected for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see (such as banner advertising), facilitate product and content development, improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. The company uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Website. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can set your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Therefore, some features of the Service may not function properly or at all if the ability to accept all cookies is disabled. Other cookies and tracking tools collect information about your browsing habits in order to help us and advertisers make suggestions relevant to you and your interests. They remember the websites you have visited, and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers, to provide you with more personalized advertisements when visiting other websites. This might happen on our own websites or on websites run by separate companies. These tracking tools will collect information on what parts of our websites interest you – in other words, your behavior or browsing history. We also work with outside partners who help us gather this information. These partners help us both on our websites as well as outside websites. You can opt-out of having us collect and share this information by following our opt-out methods below. Please note that the choices you make are browser-specific. So, if you use a different browser, you will need to opt-out again. You can change the settings on your browser to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer or mobile device without your explicit consent. Your browser “help” section will normally provide details on how to manage the cookie settings.

Device and Connection Information:

We collect information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other devices you use to access the Services. This device information includes your connection type and settings when you install, access, update or use our Services. We also collect information through your device about your operating system, browser type, IP address, URLs of referring/exit pages, device identifiers, and crash data. We use your IP address and/or country preference in order to approximate your location to provide you with a better Service experience.  How much of this information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services.  Server and data center Service administrators can disable the collection of this information via the administrator settings or prevent this information from being shared with us by blocking transmission at the local network level.  

Log File Information

Logfile information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you register with or view our Website, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, a number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.

Web Beacons Information

When you use the Service, we may employ clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our users anonymously. No personally identifiable information from your Company account is collected using these clear gifs. In addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients. The information is used to enable more accurate reporting, improve the effectiveness of our marketing, and make us better for our users.

New Technology

As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means and there may be other technologies present which act in a similar way but are protected by confidentiality.

How We Use Your Information?

  1. We may use the information gathered on this website for various purposes, including the purposes listed below. For example, if you were to contact us with a question and provide your email address, we would use the email address you provided to respond to your inquiry. In addition, we use the information we collect from you and through the Site to:
  2. Provide products and services you request (such as when you sign up to receive our email newsletters);Respond to requests, questions, and comments, and provide other types of user support;
  3. Offer you services, or direct you to portions of this Site or other websites, that we believe may interest you;
  4. Carry out, evaluate, and improve our business (which may include developing new features for the Site; analyzing and enhancing the user experience on the Site; assessing the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising; and managing our communications);
  5. Perform data analytics regarding usage of the Site (including market and customer research, trend analysis, financial analysis, and anonymization of personal information);
  6. Guard against, identify, and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims, and other liabilities; and
  7. Comply with applicable legal requirements, law enforcement requests, and our company policies.
  8. We use the information you submit (including any personal information) to operate, maintain and provide to you the features and functionality of the Service, to customize the advertising and content you see (such as banner advertising), facilitate product and content development, improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. By using the Service, you consent to this use and any other use of information identified in this Privacy Policy

“Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service (for instance, in User Content you post on message boards or in comments) becomes available to the public. You should be aware that even if you remove User Content, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your User Content”.

What are your Rights?

You can always opt not to disclose certain information to us, even though it may be needed to take advantage of some of our features (e.g. newsletter sign-ups).

Your rights

  • You have the right, under certain circumstances:
  • to be provided with a copy of your Personal Information held by us;
  • to request the correction or deletion of your Personal Information held by us;
  • to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information, for example);
  • to request that your provided Personal Information be moved to a third party;
  • to object to the further processing of your Personal Information in some circumstances; and
  • to stop receiving those text messages from us, if you signed up to receive such messages.

Your right to unsubscribe to text messages:

If you signed up to receive text messages from us, you may unsubscribe at any time. You may opt-out of text messages by replying STOP.

Your right to withdraw consent:

Where the processing of your personal information by us is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment at any time by contacting us at info@vedgyaan.com. You can also change your marketing preferences at any time as described in Our promotional updates and communications’ section;

Please be aware that recordings made pursuant to an agreement between us and you (whether written, or when you enter an area we have posted Filming Notices around to let you know that filming is occurring), or, generally, any recordings made in public are not based on consent.

Your right to request correction or deletion:

  • If you ask us to correct or delete your information, we’ll generally take steps to correct or delete your information as soon as we can where practicable, depending on the circumstances.
  • In some circumstances, your right to deletion may be limited by applicable law, including where it must be balanced against our legitimate interests (taking into account the right of freedom of expression and information), and this may outweigh your rights. If your request relates to Content, for example, your right to deletion may not apply. However, we will consider each request in context.
  • Depending on the circumstances, we may be entitled to retain, Publish and/or otherwise process Content for as long as is required for the purpose it was collected it for, or for similar, compatible purposes, including producing Content and our journalism. Some information may also remain in archived/backup copies for our records, or as otherwise required by law.
  • If you have a particular concern about your personal information, please contact us to discuss this at info@vedgyaan.com

How to opt-out of data targetting?

If you prefer not to receive interest-based content and ads enabled by Google, you can opt-out by clicking on the “Opt Out” link at either Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/) or Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) (http://optout.aboutads.info/#/).

The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, the Sites may not operate properly if all cookies are switched off. If you want to disable cookies on our Sites, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

  1. Select the Tools menu > Internet Options
  2. Click on the Privacy tab
  3. Select the setting the appropriate setting

Google Chrome

  1. Select Settings > Advanced
  2. Under Privacy and Security > Content settings.
  3. Click Cookies and select the relevant options

Safari

  1. Select Preferences > Privacy
  2. Click on Remove all Website Data

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Choose the Tools menu > Options
  2. Click on the Privacy icon
  3. Select the Cookie menu and select the relevant options

Opera 6.0 and further

  1. Choose Files menu > Preferences
  2. Select Privacy

Where you have not set your permissions, we may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the Sites.

Do our Privacy Policy change?

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute acceptance of those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and law that applied at the time the information was collected.

How to Contact Us?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Website or your dealings with the Website (including your choices regarding cookies), please contact us by email at info@vedgyaan.com

vedgyaan-logo

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By clicking OK, you agree to our Privacy Policy