This privacy policy describes how Bharat Samachar Network collects, uses, and protects the personal information you provide when using our online platform and services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant regulations.
We may collect various types of information in connection with your use of our site and services. This may include:
Information you directly provide to us, such as when you subscribe to newsletters, create an account, post comments, participate in polls or surveys, or contact us. This might include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.
Information about how you access and use our service. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on pages, referring URLs, and other diagnostic data.
We may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media platforms or analytics providers, where permitted by law and with your consent where required.
We collect information through various means:
You provide information directly when you interact with features on our site, like commenting, subscribing, or contacting us.
As you navigate our site, we may use automated technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and other tracking methods to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
We may receive information from third parties who provide services to us or from publicly available sources.
We process your personal data only when we have a lawful basis to do so. The legal bases for processing may include:
Where you have given explicit consent for specific processing purposes, such as subscribing to a newsletter. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, such as providing a service you have requested.
Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided these interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, analyzing user behaviour to improve our services or for security purposes.
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
To provide, operate, and maintain our service.
To improve, personalize, and expand our service.
To understand and analyze how you use our service.
To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the service, and for marketing and promotional purposes (where you have consented).
To send you newsletters, breaking news alerts, and other communications you have subscribed to.
To process your comments, inquiries, and requests.
To detect and prevent fraud and other illegal activities.
To comply with legal obligations.
For editorial purposes related to news reporting and content creation.
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
We may share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology, and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, and auditing services. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
In the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
We may share your information with any other third party with your explicit consent.
We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you for various purposes, including analytics, research, and marketing.
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, unless this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
Under GDPR, you have certain rights regarding your personal data:
You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
Where we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or where the alleged infringement occurred, if you believe that our processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection laws.
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We implement a variety of security measures, including technical and organizational safeguards, to maintain the safety of your personal data when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
Our site may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. They are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Our service is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Bharat Samachar Network
12A Kasturba Gandhi Marg,
Connaught Place,
New Delhi, Delhi, 110001
India