This privacy policy governs the manner in which Kal Mass Media LLP collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the https://kalmassmedia.com website (“Site”). This privacy policy condition applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Kal Mass Media LLP. The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide a clear and concise explanation of how A Kal Mass Media (“Kal,” “we,” or “us”) gathers, utilizes, and shares information pertaining to you. This privacy policy is applicable to your use of our services, including our websites, mobile applications, and other online products and services that are linked to this policy. It also applies when you contact our customer service team, communicate with us on social media, or interact with us in any other way. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy periodically. If any modifications are made, we will inform you by updating the date at the beginning of this policy. In certain instances, we may also provide you with further notice, such as by including a statement on our website or sending you a notification. We strongly urge you to routinely examine this privacy policy in order to be updated on our information handling procedures and the options that are accessible to you.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://kalmassmedia.com/.
CONTENTS
· Collection of Information
· Use of Information
· Sharing of Information
· Third-Party Embeds
· Transfer of Information to the India and Other Countries
· Your Choices
· Your Privacy Rights
· Additional Disclosures for Individuals in Europe · Sharing of Information: We may share your information with third parties for various purposes, such as providing services, conducting analytics, and marketing. However, we ensure that these third parties adhere to strict privacy standards to protect your data.
· Third-Party Embeds: Our platform may include embedded content or links to third-party websites. We advise reading their privacy policies before interacting with any embedded content because these third-party embeds are subject to them.
· Transfer of Information to the United States and Other Countries: Please note that your information may be transferred and stored in the United States or other countries where our servers are located. These countries may have different data protection laws than your own. However, we take appropriate measures to safeguard your information, regardless of its location.
· Your Choices: You have the option to control how your information is collected, used, and shared. You can manage your preferences through our privacy settings or by contacting our support team.
· Your California Privacy Rights: If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights regarding the collection and use of your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These rights include the right to access, delete, and opt out of the sale of your personal information.
· Additional Disclosures for Individuals in Europe: If you are located in Europe, we comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and provide additional rights regarding the processing of your personal data. These rights include the right to rectify inaccurate data, restrict processing under certain circumstances, and request the erasure of your personal information under certain conditions.
· Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or the handling of your personal information, please feel free to contact us. We are committed to addressing any issues promptly and providing you with the necessary assistance. Your privacy is important to us, and we value your trust in our services.
The collection of information includes the information we collect from you when you interact with our website or app.
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us when you create an account, fill out a form, submit or post content through our services, purchase a membership, communicate with us via third-party platforms, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, display name, username, bio, email address, business information, your content, including your avatar image, photos, posts, responses, and series published by you, and any other information you choose to provide.
In some cases, we may also collect information you provide about others, such as when you purchase a Kal membership as a gift for someone. We will use this information to fulfill your request and will not send communications to your contacts unrelated to your request unless they separately consent to receive communications from us or otherwise engage with us.
We do not collect payment information through our services. We rely on third parties to process payments in connection with our services. Any information you provide to facilitate such a payment is subject to the third-party payment processor’s privacy policy, and we encourage you to review this policy before you provide any information to the payment processor.
Information We Collect Automatically When You Interact with Us
In some instances, we automatically collect certain information, including:
· Activity Information: We collect information about your activity on our services, such as your reading history and when you share links, follow users, highlight posts, and clap for posts.
· Transactional Information: When you purchase a membership, we collect information about the transaction, such as subscription details, purchase price, and the date of the transaction.
· Device and Usage Information: We collect information about how you access our services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, browser type, and app version. We also collect information about your activity on our services, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our services.
· Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our services and your experience, see which areas and features of our services are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that we use on our services and in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage. We also work with third-party analytics providers who use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, and links clicked. This information may be used by Kal and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver content targeted to your interests on our services, and better understand your online activity. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see Your Choices below.
Information We Collect from Other Sources
We obtain information from third-party sources. For example, we may collect information about you from social networks, accounting service providers, and data analytics providers. Additionally, if you create or log into your Kal account through a third-party platform (such as Apple, Facebook, Google, or Twitter), we will have access to certain information from that platform, such as your name, lists of friends or followers, birthday, and profile picture, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such platform.
Information We Derive
We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your location based on your IP address or infer reading preferences based on your reading history.
Use of Information
We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, which includes publishing and distributing user-generated content, personalizing the posts you see, and operating our metered paywall. We also use the information we collect to:
· Create and maintain your Kal account;
· Process transactions and send related information, such as confirmations, receipts, and user experience surveys;
· Send you technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
· Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service.
· Communicate with you about new content, products, services, and features offered by Kal and provide other news and information we think will interest you (see Your Choices below for information about how to opt out of these communications at any time);
· Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services;
· Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and protect the rights and property of Kal and others;
· Debug to identify and repair errors in our services;
· Comply with our legal and financial obligations, and
· Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.
Sharing of Information
We share personal information in the following circumstances, or as otherwise described in this policy:
· We share personal information with other users of the services. For example, if you use our services to publish content, post comments, or send private notes, certain information about you will be visible to others, such as your name, photo, bio, other account information you may provide, and information about your activities on our services (e.g., your followers and who you follow, recent posts, claps, highlights, and responses).
· We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.
· We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example, by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our services that we believe are improper.
· We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Kal, our users, the public, or others.
· We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
· We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
· Personal information is shared between and among Kal and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
· We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.
We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
THIRD-PARTY EMBEDS
Kal does not host some of the content displayed on our services. Users have the ability to post content that is actually hosted by a third party but is embedded in our pages (an “Embed”). When you interact with an embed, it can send information about your interaction to the hosting third party, just as if you were visiting the third party’s site directly. For example, when you load a Kal post page with a YouTube video embedded and watch the video, YouTube receives information about your activity, such as your IP address and how much of the video you watch. Kal does not control what information third parties collect through Embeds or what they do with the information. This privacy policy does not apply to information collected through Embeds. The privacy policy belonging to the third party hosting the Embed applies to any information the Embed collects, and we recommend you review that policy before interacting with the Embed.
TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO INDIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES
Kal is headquartered in India, and we have operations and service providers in the India and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction. For example, we transfer personal data to Amazon Web Services, one of our service providers that processes personal information for us in various data center locations across the globe, including those listed here. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.
YOUR CHOICES
Account Information
You may access, correct, delete, and export your account information at any time by logging into the Services and navigating to the Settings page. Please note that if you choose to delete your account, we may continue to retain certain information about you as required by law or for our legitimate business purposes.
Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services.
Communications Preferences
You may opt out of receiving certain communications from us, such as digests, newsletters, and activity notifications, by following the instructions in those communications or through your account’s Settings page. If you opt out, we may still send you administrative emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
Mobile Push Notifications
With your consent, we may send push notifications to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OR REGISTERING ON THE WEBSITE OR ACCESSING ANY MATERIAL, INFORMATION OR SERVICES THROUGH THE WEBSITE. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE WEBSITE SHALL SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE AND YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE SAME.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IMPLIES THAT YOU AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF USE.
1. General
1.1
Kalmassmedia.com (“Website”) is an Internet based portal owned and operated by Kal Mass Media LLP, a firm incorporated under the laws of India, with its registered office at Patiala,Punjab, India. Use of the Website is offered to You conditioned on acceptance of all the terms, conditions and notices contained in these Terms, along with any amendments made by Kal Mass Media at its sole discretion and posted on the Website, including by way of imposing an additional charge for access to or use of a Service.
1.2
Kal Mass Media shall not be required to notify You, whether as a registered user or not, of any changes made to the Terms of Use. The revised Terms of Use shall be made available on the Website. Your use of the Website and the Services is subject to the most current version of the Terms of Use made available on the Website at the time of such use. You are requested to regularly visit the home page https://kalmassmedia.com to view the most current Terms of Use. You can determine when Kal Mass Media last modified the Terms of Use by referring to the “Last Updated” legend above. It shall be Your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Kal Mass Media may require You to provide Your consent to the updated Terms of Use in a specified manner before prior to any further use of the Website and the Services is provided on the Website. If no such separate consent is sought, Your continued use of the Website, following changes to the Terms of Use, will constitute Your acceptance of those changes.
1.3
By (i) using this Website or any facility or Service provided by this Website in any way; or (ii) merely browsing the Website, You agree that You have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Website’s Privacy Policy available at the homepage, Kalmassmedia.com
1.4
Kal Mass Media LLP agrees to deliver the merchandise ordered by you only at such locations as per the Order Confirmation Form. Kal Mass Media shall not be liable to deliver any merchandise or Services purchased by Users for delivery of goods in locations outside India shall not be entertained. But on Digital products we deliver anywhere.
2.
Services
2.1
The Website is a platform that facilitates the online sale and purchase of branded merchandise and services offered by Kal Mass Media LLP various affiliate/ registered merchants/ vendors/service providers at a discounted price (“Services”). The Services are offered to the Users through various modes which shall include, issue of coupons and vouchers that can be redeemed for various services. The purchase of products and services on the Website shall be governed by the Terms of Offer For Sale (“Terms of Offer For Sale”)
3.
Eligibility to Use
3.1
The Services are not available to minors under the age of eighteen (18) or to any Users suspended or removed from the Kal Mass Media system by Kal Mass Media for any reason whatsoever. If You do not conform to the above qualification, You shall not be permitted to avail of the Services or use the Website. You represent that You are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws as applicable in India. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if You are below the age of eighteen (18) years, You may avail the Services provided by Kal Mass Media through Your legal guardian in accordance with the applicable laws.
3.2
Kal Mass Media reserves the right to refuse access to use the Services offered at the Website to new Users or to terminate access granted to existing Users at any time without according any reasons for doing so.
3.3
You shall not have more than one active Account on the Website. Additionally, You are prohibited from selling, trading, or otherwise transferring Your Account to another party.
4. User Account, Password, and Security
4.1 Kal Mass Media makes the Services available to You through the Website only if You have provided Kal Mass Media certain required User information and created an account (“Account”) through Kal Mass Media ID and password or other log-in ID and password, which can include a facebook, gmail, yahoo ID or any other valid email ID(collectively, the “Account Information”). The Services may also be subject to procedures for use of the Website, Terms of Offer For Sale, uploaded guidelines, rules, additional terms of service, or other disclaimer & notices, if any (“Additional Terms”). If there is any conflict between the Terms of Use and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms shall take precedence in relation to that service.
4.2 The Website requires You to register as a User by creating an Account in order to avail of the Services provided by the Website. You will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the Account Information, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under Your Account. You agree to (a) immediately notify Kal Mass Media of any unauthorized use of Your Account Information or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that You exit from Your Account at the end of each session. Kal Mass Media cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from Your failure to comply with this Section 4.2. You may be held liable for losses incurred by Kal Mass Media or any other user of or visitor to the Website due to authorized or unauthorized use of Your Account as a result of Your failure in keeping Your Account Information secure and confidential.
4.3 The Website also allows restricted access to the Services for unregistered Users.
4.4 You shall ensure that the Account Information provided by You in the Website’s registration form is complete, accurate and up-to-date. Use of another user’s Account Information for availing the Services is expressly prohibited.
4.5 If You provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete), or Kal Mass Media has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Kal Mass Media has the right to suspend or terminate Your Account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Website (or any portion thereof).
5. Pricing Information
5.1 Kal Mass Media strives to provide You with the best prices possible on products and services You buy or avail of from the Website. The pricing details for purchase of products and services from the Website are detailed under the Terms of Offer For Sale.
5.2 You agree to provide correct and accurate credit/ debit card details to the approved payment gateway for availing Services on the Website. You shall not use the credit/ debit card which is not lawfully owned by You, i.e. in any transaction, You must use Your own credit/ debit card. The information provided by You will not be utilized or shared with any third party unless required in relation to fraud verification or by law, regulation or court order. You will be solely responsible for the security and confidentiality of Your credit/ debit card details. Kal Mass Media expressly disclaims all liabilities that may arise as a consequence of any unauthorized use of Your credit/ debit card.
