Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 23, 2022
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your
information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection
and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The
following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our
Service.
- Business, for the purpose of the ICPA (Indian Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the
Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and
means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is
collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of
consumers' personal information, that does business in the Indian.
- Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or
"Our" in this Agreement) refers to Hindbyte LLC, 1901 E Dyer Rd.
- For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
- Consumer, for the purpose of the ICPA (Indian Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural
person who is a India resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is
in the India for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the
India who is outside the India for a temporary or transitory purpose.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device
by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to: India
- Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers
to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the
processing of Personal Data.
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a
digital tablet.
- Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in
particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a
mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
- Facebook Fan Page is a public profile named Hindbyte Agency specifically created by the
Company on the Facebook social network, accessible from https://www.facebook.com/matteredagency/
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an
identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical,
physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
- For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or
is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
- Sale, for the purpose of the ICPA (Indian Consumer Privacy Act), means selling,
renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating
orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's personal information to another
business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
- Service refers to the Website.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the
Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service,
to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the
Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered
Data Processors.
- Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website
through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the
Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Hindbyte, accessible from https://www.hindbyte.com
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal
entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
- Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User
as you are the individual using the Service.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can
be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address),
browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the
time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically,
including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address
of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device
identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the
Service by or through a mobile device.
Information from Third-Party Social Media Services
The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party
Social Media Services:
If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may
collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such
as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account.
You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social
Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration
or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this
Privacy Policy.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain
information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to
improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. 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 parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser
setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash
Cookies) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash
Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information
on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I change the settings for disabling, or
deleting local shared objects?" available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic
files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the
Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related
website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server
integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your
personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close
Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies here: Cookies by TermsFeed
Generator.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
- Type: Session Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to
enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user
accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use
these Cookies to provide You with those services.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Functionality Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering
your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal
experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
- Tracking and Performance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Third-Parties
- Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the
Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual
visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated
with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or
new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies
Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal
Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as
a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the
purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us
through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of
electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or
informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the
security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods,
services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about
unless You have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- To deliver targeted advertising to You: We may use Your information to develop and display
content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to Your interests and/or
location and to measure its effectiveness.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our
assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which
Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis,
identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and
improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to
monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our
Service, to contact You.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection
with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a
portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will
require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other
subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with
Us.
- With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer
You certain products, services or promotions.
- With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public
areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the
Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity.
Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your
profile.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with
Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this
Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal
obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve
disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a
shorter period of time, except when 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 time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any
other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be
transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement
to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in
accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or
a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal
information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We
will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by
law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the
Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means
to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store,
use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy
Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
- Google Analytics
- Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.
Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other
Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own
advertising network.
- You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the
Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js,
analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
- For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web
page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other
information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications
from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.
Behavioral Remarketing
The Company uses remarketing services to advertise to You after You accessed or visited our Service. We and Our
third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help Us recognize Your Device and understand how
You use our Service so that We can improve our Service to reflect Your interests and serve You advertisements
that are likely to be of more interest to You.
These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our
Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies and to enable Us to:
- Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Service
- Show advertisements for our products and/or services to You on third-party websites or apps
- Measure and analyze the performance of Our advertising campaigns
Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings
that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following
third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving You interest-based
advertising:
You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device such as
Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See Your mobile device Help system for
more information.
We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected
on Our Service with these third-party vendors. This allows Our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You
ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their
cross-device capabilities please refer to the Privacy Policy of each vendor listed below.
The third-party vendors We use are:
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
- Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific
purposes.
- Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of
an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
- Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal
obligation to which the Company is subject.
- Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital
interests or of another natural person.
- Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the
public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
- Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the
legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing,
and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a
requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise
Your rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
- Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information
We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data
directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please
contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
- Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have
any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
- Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a
legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular
situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also
have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
- Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove
Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
- Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You
have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this
right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We
used the information to perform a contract with You.
- Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal
Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific
functionalities of the Service.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please
note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We
will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal
Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data
protection authority in the EEA.
Facebook Fan Page
Data Controller for the Facebook Fan Page
The Company is the Data Controller of Your Personal Data collected while using the Service. As operator of the
Facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/matteredagency/, the Company and the operator of the social
network Facebook are Joint Controllers.
The Company has entered into agreements with Facebook that define the terms for use of the Facebook Fan Page,
among other things. These terms are mostly based on the Facebook Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
Visit the Facebook Privacy Policy https://www.facebook.com/policy.php for more information about how Facebook manages
Personal data or contact Facebook online, or by mail: Facebook, Inc. ATTN, Privacy Operations, 1601 Willow Road,
Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.
Facebook Insights
We use the Facebook Insights function in connection with the operation of the Facebook Fan Page and on the
basis of the GDPR, in order to obtain anonymized statistical data about Our users.
For this purpose, Facebook places a Cookie on the device of the user visiting Our Facebook Fan Page. Each
Cookie contains a unique identifier code and remains active for a period of two years, except when it is deleted
before the end of this period.
Facebook receives, records and processes the information stored in the Cookie, especially when the user visits
the Facebook services, services that are provided by other members of the Facebook Fan Page and services by
other companies that use Facebook services.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook Privacy Policy here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
CCPA Privacy
This privacy notice section for Indian residents supplements the information contained in Our Privacy
Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the Indian.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with,
or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a
list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from India
residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This
does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by Us, but
reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable
category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only
be collected if You provided such personal information directly to Us.
- Category A: Identifiers.
- Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet
Protocol address, email address, account name, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar
identifiers.
- Collected: Yes.
- Category B: Personal information categories listed in the Indian Customer Records statute (Cal.
Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
- Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address,
telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy
number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number,
or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal
information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
- Collected: Yes.
- Category C: Protected classification characteristics under Indian or federal law.
- Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed,
marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity,
gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or
military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
- Collected: No.
- Category D: Commercial information.
- Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.
- Collected: No.
- Category E: Biometric information.
- Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to
extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and
voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise
data.
- Collected: No.
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
- Examples: Interaction with our Service or advertisement.
- Collected: Yes.
- Category G: Geolocation data.
- Examples: Approximate physical location.
- Collected: No.
- Category H: Sensory data.
- Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
- Collected: No.
- Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
- Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
- Collected: No.
- Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20
U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
- Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party
acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification
codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
- Collected: No.
- Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
- Examples: Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends,
predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
- Collected: No.
Under CCPA, personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
- Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, such as:
- Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA) and the India Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
- Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting
Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or Indian Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the
Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from You. For example, from the forms You complete on our Service, preferences You
express or provide through our Service.
- Indirectly from You. For example, from observing Your activity on our Service.
- Automatically from You. For example, through cookies We or our Service Providers set on
Your Device as You navigate through our Service.
- From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of
our Service, third-party vendors to deliver targeted advertising to You, or other third-party vendors that We
use to provide the Service to You.
Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose personal information We collect for "business purposes" or "commercial
purposes" (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
- To operate our Service and provide You with our Service.
- To provide You with support and to respond to Your inquiries, including to investigate and address Your
concerns and monitor and improve our Service.
- To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information. For example, if You share Your contact
information to ask a question about our Service, We will use that personal information to respond to Your
inquiry.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental
regulations.
- As described to You when collecting Your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
- To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity,
including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more
details on how we use this information, please refer to the "Use of Your Personal Data" section.
If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We
collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes We will update this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories
of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
- Category A: Identifiers
- Category B: Personal information categories listed in the Indian Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ.
Code § 1798.80(e))
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all
examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief to
the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been
disclosed.
When We disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that
describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use
it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Sale of Personal Information
As defined in the CCPA, "sell" and "sale" mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing,
disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic
or other means, a consumer's personal information by the business to a third party for valuable
consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal
information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.
Please note that the categories listed below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all
examples of that category of personal information were in fact sold, but reflects our good faith belief to the
best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared
for value in return.
We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:
- Category A: Identifiers
- Category B: Personal information categories listed in the Indian Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ.
Code § 1798.80(e))
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
Share of Personal Information
We may share Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of
third parties:
- Service Providers
- Our affiliates
- Our business partners
- Third party vendors to whom You or Your agents authorize Us to disclose Your personal information in
connection with products or services We provide to You
Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Service, although
certain third party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use
and privacy policies and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet
usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.
We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless We
receive affirmative authorization (the "right to opt-in") from either the Consumer who is between 13
and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to
the sale of personal information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, You
(or Your authorized representative) may submit a request to Us by contacting Us.
If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided Us with personal
information, please contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.
Your Rights under the CCPA
The CCPA provides Indian residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a
resident of India, You have the following rights:
- The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data
are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
- The right to request. Under CCPA, You have the right to request that We disclose
information to You about Our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of personal
information. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will disclose to You:
- The categories of personal information We collected about You
- The categories of sources for the personal information We collected about You
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
- The categories of third parties with whom We share that personal information
- The specific pieces of personal information We collected about You
- If we sold Your personal information or disclosed Your personal information for a business purpose, We will
disclose to You:
- The categories of personal information categories sold
- The categories of personal information categories disclosed
- The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct Us
to not sell Your personal information. To submit an opt-out request please contact Us.
- The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of Your
Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will delete (and
direct Our Service Providers to delete) Your personal information from our records, unless an exception
applies. We may deny Your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Us or Our Service
Providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which We collected the personal information, provide a good or service that You
requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with
You, or otherwise perform our contract with You.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or
prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise
another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the India Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest
that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely
render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if You previously provided informed
consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on Your
relationship with Us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which You
provided it.
- The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated
against for exercising any of Your consumer's rights, including by:
- Denying goods or services to You
- Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits
or imposing penalties
- Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You
- Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or
quality of goods or services
Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights
In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if You are a Indian resident, You can contact
Us:
Only You, or a person registered with the Indian Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your
behalf, may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.
Your request to Us must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows Us to reasonably verify You are the person about whom We
collected personal information or an authorized representative
- Describe Your request with sufficient detail that allows Us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to
it
We cannot respond to Your request or provide You with the required information if We cannot:
- Verify Your identity or authority to make the request
- And confirm that the personal information relates to You
We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your
verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45
days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures We provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request's receipt.
For data portability requests, We will select a format to provide Your personal information that is readily
usable and should allow You to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. Once We receive and confirm a
verifiable consumer request from You, we will stop selling Your personal information. To exercise Your right to
opt-out, please contact Us.
The Service Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology
on the Service that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of
Your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under
CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.
Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that
You use.
Website
You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our
instructions presented on the Service:
The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you
change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, You will need to opt out again.
Mobile Devices
Your mobile device may give You the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps You use in
order to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests:
- "Opt out of Interest-Based Ads" or "Opt out of Ads Personalization" on Android devices
- "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on
Your mobile device.
"Do Not Track" Policy as Required by Indian Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such
websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be
tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child
has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data
from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that
information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires
consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Your Indian Privacy Rights (Indian's Shine the Light law)
Under Indian Civil Code Section 1798 (India's Shine the Light law), Indian residents with an
established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data
with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.
If you'd like to request more information under the Indian Shine the Light law, and if You are a
India resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.
Indian Privacy Rights for Minor Users (Indian Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
Indian Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows Indian residents under the age of 18 who are
registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or
information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if You are a Indian resident, You can contact Us using the contact
information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.
Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information
posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
Links to Other Websites
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.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
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.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective
and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By email: hindbyte@gmail.com
