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Add today, its
subsidiaries ("theaddtoday.com") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy
provides succinctly the manner your data is collected and used by
theaddtoday.com. You are advised to please read the Privacy Policy
carefully. By accessing the services provided by theaddtoday.com you agree
to the collection and use of your data by theaddtoday.com in the manner
provided in this Privacy Policy.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should
contact theaddtoday.com Support Desk at support@theaddtoday.com.
The Policy does not apply to the procedures and practices followed by
entities that are not managed, owned or controlled by theaddtoday.com or to
the people that are not engaged, employed or managed by theaddtoday.com
We want you to
· feel comfortable using our web sites
· feel secure submitting information to us
· contact us with your questions or concerns about privacy on this site
· know that by using our sites you are consenting to the collection of
certain data
What information is, or may be, collected from you?
We will automatically receive and collect certain anonymous information in
standard usage logs through our Web server, including
computer-identification information obtained from "cookies," sent to your
browser from:
· Web server cookie stored on your hard drive
· An IP address, assigned to the computer which you use
· The domain server through which you access our service
· The type of computer you're using
· The type of web browser you're using
We may collect the following personally identifiable information about you:
· Name including first and last name
· Alternate email address
· Mobile phone number and contact details
· ZIP/Postal code
· Demographic profile (like your age, gender, occupation, education, address
and durables owned);
· Preferences and interests (such as news, sports, travel and so on);
· Financial information (like account or credit card numbers); and
· Opinions of features on our websites.
We may also collect the following information:
· About the pages you visit/access
· The links you click on our site
· The number of times you access the page You can terminate your account at
any time. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our
servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.
Who collects the information?
We will collect anonymous traffic information from you when you visit our
site.
We collect the personally identifiable information from you when you
register with us. During registration you are required to give us your
contact information (such as name, email address, date of birth, gender,
address, pin code, cell number, occupation and interests). Upon registration
users may receive communications from theaddtoday.com (e.g. newsletters,
updates)
We use this information to contact you about the services you are using on
our site and services in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as occupation,
education and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so
we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally
identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide
contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and
financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date, cvv
verification, name on card, billing address etc.).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we
have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact
you.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site,
we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will
automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit
the site. theaddtoday.com does store this information and the information is
used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the
success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at support@theaddtoday.com to request that we
remove this information from our database.
We will collect personally identifiable information about you only as part
of a voluntary registration process, on-line survey, or contest or any
combination thereof.
Our advertisers may collect anonymous traffic information from their own
assigned cookies to your browser.
The Site contains links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices of such Web sites which we do not own, manage or control.
We make chat rooms, forums, and message boards and other services available
to you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these
areas becomes public information. We have no control over its use and you
should exercise caution when disclosing your personal information to anyone.
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware
that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read,
collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send
you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We are the
sole owners of your information collected by us at several different points
on our Website.
How is the information used?
We use your email address to send you:
· Password reminder and registration confirmation
· Special offers
· News letters
· Changes in the service's policy or terms of use
· Event based communications such as order information, renewal notices,
invites, reminders etc.
Note: We send users newsletters and updates upon registration. We send
newsletters and/or promotional emails on behalf of our alliance partners.
We use your personal information to:
· Help us provide personalized features
· Tailor our sites to your interest
· To get in touch with you in the case of password retrieval and policy
changes
· To provide the services requested by you
· To preserve social history as governed by existing law or policy
We use contact information internally to:
· Direct our efforts for product improvement
· Contact you as a survey respondent
· Notify you if you win any contest; and
· Send you promotional materials from our contest sponsors or advertisers
Generally, we use anonymous traffic information to:
· Remind us of who you are in order to deliver to you a better and more
personalized service from both an advertising and an editorial perspective;
· Recognize your access privileges to our Web sites
· Track your entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests to
indicate a player's progress through the promotion and to track entries,
submissions, and status in prize drawings
· Make sure that you don't see the same ad repeatedly
· Help diagnose problems with our server
· Administer our Web sites
· Track your session so that we can understand better how people use our
sites
With whom will your information be shared ?
We will not use your financial information for any purpose other than to
complete a transaction with you. We do not share or rent your email
addresses with third parties except our agents and alliance partners.
Agents
We use the services of our enabling partners such as outside shipping
companies, resellers, business associates to fulfill orders, and credit card
processing companies to process the payment for goods and services ordered
from theaddtoday.com website. These entities do not retain, store, share or
use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Alliance Partners
We will share your information with our Alliance Partners who work with us
or on our behalf to help provide you the services. An alliance partner is a
company or an individual who owns and manages (wholly or part of) online
content on their websites powered by theaddtoday.com
We share email addresses with Agents and Alliance Partners. The Agents and
Alliance Partners use the email address to confirm the deliveries, send
notices and offer services related to the service.
We do not rent, sell or share your personal information and we will not
disclose any of your personally identifiable information to third parties
unless:
· We have your permission
· To provide products or services you've requested
· To help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal
activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of
any person, violations of theaddtoday.com terms of use or to defend against
legal claims;
· Special circumstances such as compliance with subpoenas, court orders,
requests/order from legal authorities or law enforcement agencies requiring
such disclosure.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable and email
address information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure
is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding,
court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
We share your information with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.
The security of your personal information and email address is important to
us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or
social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that
information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about
SSL, follow this link http://www.verisign.com/ssl/index.html
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information and email address submitted to us, both during transmission and
once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method
of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive
to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information
and email address, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email
us at
support@theaddtoday.com
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and
distribution of your information ?
Supplying personally identifiable information is entirely voluntary. You are
not required to register with us in order to use our sites. However, we
offer some services only to visitors who do register.
You may change your interests at any time and may opt-in or opt-out of any
marketing / promotional / newsletters mailings. theaddtoday.com reserves the
right to send you certain service related communication, considered to be a
part of your theaddtoday.com account without offering you the facility to
opt-out. You may update your information and change your account settings at
any time.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional
communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the
instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us
at support@theaddtoday.com, or you may contact or write to us at U r an
angel foundation, D-8, Shiv Marg, Bani Park, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India to
opt-out.
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your email address
used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if
you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional
marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference; follow the
instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us
at support@theaddtoday.com or you may contact or write to us at U r an angel
foundation, D-8, Shiv Marg, Bani Park, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India to opt-out.
Upon request, we will remove/block your personally identifiable information
from our database, thereby canceling your registration. See Contact
information below. However, your information may remain stored in archive on
our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.
If your personally identifiable information or email address change, or if
you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or
deactivate it by yourself or by emailing at support@theaddtoday.com or by
contacting us by postal mail or otherwise at the contact information listed
below.
If we plan to use your personally identifiable information for any
commercial purposes, we will notify you at the time we collect that
information and allow you to opt-out of having your information used for
those purposes.
You can accept or decline the cookies. All sites that are customizable
require that you accept cookies. You also must accept cookies to register as
someone for access to some of our services. For information on how to set
your browser to alert you to cookies, or to reject cookies, go to http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for
record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do link the
information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information
you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session
cookies to make it easier and secured for you to navigate our site. A
session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie
remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove
persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet
browser's "help" file. Reference for cookies can be found at http://www.cookiecentral.com/.
We use session cookies to store the secure session and browsing preferences
of the user. We set a persistent cookie to store your username and interests
so you don't have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable
us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience
on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use
some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Cookies are used in shopping cart to enable enhanced security and ensuring
there is no URL based spamming.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) set cookies while
delivering banners on our site. We have no access to or control over these
cookies.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by theaddtoday.com only and
does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
We do use cookies on point of collection pages of email address but we do
not use them in emails.
theaddtoday.com cookies are not being tied to PII.
What security procedures are in place to protect information from loss
misuse or alteration ?
To protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under
our control, we have in place appropriate physical, electronic and
managerial procedures. For example, our servers are accessible only to
authorized personnel and that your information is shared with respective
personnel on need to know basis to complete the transaction and to provide
the services requested by you.
Although we will endeavor to safeguard the confidentiality of your
personally identifiable information, transmissions made by means of the
Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. By using this site, you agree
that we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to
errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information and email addresses submitted to us, both during transmission
and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we
strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information and email address, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email
us at support@theaddtoday.com
How can you correct inaccuracies in the information?
To correct or update any information you have provided, our sites allow you
to do it online. In the event of loss of access details you can use any of
the following options:
· Send an e-mail to support@theaddtoday.com
Policy Update
We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing
a prominent notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective immediately
upon posting to this site.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to
this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate
so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to
modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by
means of a notice on our homepage.
If we decide to make changes in our email practices, we will post those
changes to this privacy policy, the homepage, and other places we deem
appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it
You can offer your views, suggestions, if any, by submitting the filled in
feedback form online.
Contact Information
You may contact us at:
Add Today
(Hindi & English weekly Newspaper)
36/5, Behiend Julfay Bangal, Industrial Area, Delshad Garden, New
Delhi-110094 ( India)
Email id: support@theaddtoday.com |