Privacy Policy For Malhar Communications

Last Updated on August 01, 2019

Malhar Communications. (“Malhar Communications”, "Malhar Communications, Jalgaon" “we” or “our”) cares about your privacy and the security of your information. We want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information, including personal information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in conjunction with your access to our digital products and services. These products and services include real estate development owned and operated by us, our offline contacts, and to any other services that display this notice. This Privacy Policy does not apply to certain of our products and services that display a different privacy policy.

Our Website (www.malhar.org) may contain links to other websites for your convenience and information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, email us at [email protected] or write us at:
111, Megh, Mehrun Lake, Jalgaon
Contact : +91 257 - 2264380

For information on how this Privacy Policy applies to your use of services, please visit the relevant section below.

1. What Personal Information Do We Gather About You?

When you use the our services by, among other actions, ordering a subscription or other product, providing registration details, setting newsletter preferences, browsing our sites, completing a survey, entering a contest or otherwise interacting with our services, we gather personal information. Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. Several different types of personal information can be gathered when you interact with the our services, depending on the type of product or service being used. Collection of personal information is necessary to delivering you the our services or to enhance your customer experience.
If you disclose any personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the our services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
We and our service providers collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:

A) Through the Malhar Communications.
i. Registration: When you register for a our services, we collect personal information, for more information about linking your Facebook or Google Accounts. Registration to an event or conference requires that you complete a form that will include, at a minimum, your name and email address. ii. Billing: To subscribe to our services or enable payment via the payment gateways, we collect and use your name, address, telephone number, email address, credit or debit card information and other billing information.
iii. User-Generated Content and Public Activities (Including Comments and Reader Reviews): We offer you opportunities to engage in public activities on Malhar Communications in and other services. "Public activities" are any actions you take on our services that are designed to be visible to other users, including comments, recommendations, reader reviews, ratings or any other items that you submit. If you choose to engage in public activities, you should be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, collected and used by other users of these services. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in the course of your public activities and we have no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your public activities or submissions (except as required by applicable laws).
iv. Contests, Sweepstakes and Special Offers: Malhar Communications collects personal information, such as your name and email, from you when you participate in sweepstakes, contests or special offers.
v. Reader Surveys, Reader Panels and Market Research: We and our service providers collect personal information from you through voluntary surveys or feedback programs conducted, through our service providers’ platforms, by phone, by mail or during in-person interviews or focus groups. We will ask you for your consent to the processing of information at the point of collection. We also conduct similar research for advertisers. vi. Reader Experience Programs: When you interact with our interactive programs and answer questionnaires, we collect personal information about you. vii. Contact With Our Call Centers. We collect personal information from you in non-digital contexts, including, for example, when you place an order over the phone or contact customer service.

B) From Other Sources.
i. Publicly available databases, including privately-held marketing and data analytics resources. For example, we may receive demographic information (age, sex, household income, job industry and job title) from these sources.
ii. Joint marketing third party, when they share the information with us.
iii. Social-media platforms or other third-party services (such as Kindle, Facebook, Instagram etc). If you choose to link your social-media account or account relating to other third-party services to the our services, you may be asking third parties to send us certain information from those social media accounts or services accounts, and you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use what they send us in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You can disassociate your registration from third-party accounts any time.

2. What Do We Do With The Personal Information We Collect About You?

We collect, use or otherwise process personal information as allowed under applicable law, including where based on one or more of the following: - The consent you provide to us at the point of collection of your personal information;
- The performance of the contract we have with you;
- The compliance of a legal obligation to which we are subject; or
- The legitimate interests of Malhar Communications, a third party or yourself. "Legitimate interest" is a technical term under the regulation. It means that there are good reasons for the processing of your personal information and measures are taken to minimize the impact on your privacy rights and interests. "Legitimate interest" also references our use of your data in ways you would reasonably expect and that have a minimal privacy impact. We have a legitimate interest in collecting and processing personal information, for example: (1) to ensure that our networks and information are secure; (2) to administer and generally conduct business within the Malhar Communications Multimedia Technologies; and (3) to prevent fraud.

A) Provide the Services You Request. We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of the Services and fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as providing the Services’ functionality to you, arranging access to your registered account, providing you with customer service, responding to your inquiries, requests, questions, suggestions, compliments or complaints, completing your transactions, sending you administrative information (such as change of our terms, conditions, or policies) saving your reading list or property search, presenting your crossword-solving statistics, and enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, promotions, surveys, panels or research, and message boards. We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you or comply with a legal obligation.

B) Analysis and Development of New Products and Services. We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of the Services, and their subscribing and purchasing patterns, so we can analyze or predict our users’ preferences for product and services development purposes, to determine our promotional campaign effectiveness so we can adapt our campaign to the needs and interests of our users, and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our subscriber base. We use this information for analytical purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships, to support strategic business decisions and our marketing tactics and to measure and track our brand health. We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, or because we have a legitimate interest in doing so.

C) Customizing Your Experience. We use the information that we have to better understand you and customize certain features of the Services to provide you with an enhanced experience including to show you offerings, promotions or products that may be of interest to you, based on the demographic information, type of device you are using to access the Services, your usage of the Services and your reading history. We will provide personalized services because we have a legitimate interest.

D) Email Newsletters and Other Marketing Activities as well as Facilitating Social Sharing. Malhar Communications Multimedia Technologies will periodically send you email newsletters or promotional emails about services offered. We will use the information we have about you to advertise our services to you on our Services but also on other platforms. If you choose to use social-sharing functionalities, we will use your information to facilitate such action, and such action along with any information you share will be covered by the social-media platform’s privacy policy. We will engage in these activities with your consent or where we have a legitimate interest.

E) Administrative Purposes. We and our service providers use the information we have about you for the following legitimate business purposes:
• For auditing purposes, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and comply with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements;
• For fraud and security monitoring purposes, including, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks; and
• To understand and assess satisfaction with our services or our customer care team.
We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, or because we have a legitimate interest.

F) Allowing You to Participate in Sweepstakes, Contests or Other Promotions. We may offer you the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes, contest or other promotions. Some of these promotions have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your personal information. We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you.

G) Aggregating and/or Anonymising Personal Information. We aggregate and/or anonymize personal information so that it will no longer be considered personally identifying. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.

H) User Generated Content and Public Activities. When you share or recommend links to content on a social-media platform (such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter etc), that action and any information you share will be covered by that platform’s privacy policy. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public.

3. With Whom Do We Share The Personal Information We Gather?

A) Sharing Within. We share your personal information with our affiliates for the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy.

B) Sharing With Service/ Products Providers. We contract with other companies, agents or contractors (“service providers”) to provide services on our behalf. These services are, for example, credit-card, payment and billing processing, fulfillment of orders, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, ad serving, shipping, email distribution, list processing and analytics, research surveys/interviews/focus group management and analysis, or promotions management. In the course of performing these services, our service providers have access to your information including your personal information.

C) Sharing With Other Third Parties. We will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party (except our service providers) to use your email address without your permission. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to restrict our use or sharing of aggregated or de-identified information in any way.

D) Compliance With Legal Process. We may access, preserve and disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Services; (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions); and (5) cooperate with public and government authorities (which may be outside your country of residence).

4. Other Information Collected Using Technology Such As Google Analytics

Other information does not specifically identify you and are collected through technology. It includes tracking information collected by us as well as third parties.
We use various internet technologies to manage, and track the use of, the Services. We use and disclose this information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. Information that we collect using these technologies is combined with personal information about you. If we combine information with personal information, we will treat the combined information as personal information.

A) Device Information. We collect information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access the Services, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses (the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the Internet), geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language and other transactional information.

B) Cookies, Beacons, Local Storage and Other Similar Technologies. We use "cookies," Web beacons, tags and scripts, and other similar technologies including local storage objects such as HTML5. These technologies allow us to manage access to and use of the Services, recognize you and provide personalization, and help us understand how people use the Services. You will not be able to access certain areas of our websites, including Malhar Communications, if your computer does not accept cookies from us. Because there is no accepted standard on how to respond to “do not track” browser-based signals, we do not respond to such signals. For more detailed information about our use of cookies and local storage, and how to manage them for the applicable Service.

C) Analytics, Log Files and Reading History. As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information include IP address , browser type, operating system and other usage information about the use of the Services, including a history of the pages you view.

One of the analytics service providers we use is Google Analytics. To learn more about how Google use data, visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners. For opt-out options specific to Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

5. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We evaluate this privacy policy periodically in light of changing business practices, technology and legal requirements. As a result, it is updated from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use or share your personal information, you will find it on our privacy policy page.