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Privacy Policy
This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains our policy regarding the collection, use,
disclosure and transfer of your information by Konnect Worldwide Business Media
Pvt. Ltd. and/or its subsidiary(ies) and/or affiliate(s) (collectively referred to as the
"Company"), which operates various websites, including sub-sites (collectively
referred to as “Sites”) for delivery of information, products, offerings and content via
seminars, conferences & events or otherwise (collectively the "Services".
This Privacy Policy is applicable to persons who aces, browse or use the Services
(“User”). For the purpose of this Policy, wherever the context so requires "you" or
"your" shall mean User and the term "we", "us", "our" shall mean Company.
As we update, improve and expand the Services, this Policy may change, so please
refer back to it periodically. By accessing and using the Sites or otherwise using the
Services, you consent to collection, storage, and use of the personal information you
provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of the Services
that we provide.
The Company respects the privacy of the Users of the Services and is committed to
protect it in all respects. The information about the User as collected by the Company
is: (a) information supplied by Users and (b) information automatically tracked while
navigation (c) information collected from any other source (collectively referred to as
“Information”).
1. INFORMATION RECEIVED, COLLECTED AND STORED BY THE COMPANY
A. INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY USERS
Registration data:
When you register on the Sites for the Service, we ask that you to provide basic
contact information such as your name, sex, age, address, pin code, contact number,
occupation, interests and email address etc. When you register using your other
accounts like on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc. we shall retrieve Information from
such account to continue to interact with you and to continue providing the Services.
Voluntary information:
We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to,
when you provide feedback, comments, change your content or email preferences,
respond to a survey, or any communications with us.
B. INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED/ TRACKED WHILE NAVIGATION
Information from other Sources:
We may receive information about you from other sources, add it to our account
information and treat it in accordance with this Policy. If you provide information to
our event platform provider or other partner, whom we provide services, your
account information and order information may be passed on to us.
Demographic and other information:
We may reference other sources of demographic and other information in order to
provide you with more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google
Analytics, among others, to track the user behaviour on our Sites. Google Analytics
specifically has been enabled to support display advertising towards helping us gain
understanding of our users' demographics and interests. The reports are anonymous
and cannot be associated with any individual personally identifiable information that
you may have shared with us. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for display
advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings
options provided by Google.
We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third party websites /
advertisers / ad-servers without your consent.
2. INFORMATION USE BY THE COMPANY
The information as supplied by the users enables us to improve the Services and
provide you the most user-friendly experience. In some cases/provision of certain
service(s) or utility(ies), we may require your contact address as well. All required
Information is service dependent and the Company may use the above said user
Information to, maintain, protect, and improve the Services (including advertising
and personalisation on the Sites) and for developing new services. We may also use
your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial
or marketing messages about our Services and/or such additional updates and
features about our advertisers & sponsors products and services with an option to
subscribe / unsubscribe (where feasible).
Any personally identifiable information provided by you will not be considered as
sensitive if it is freely available and / or accessible in the public domain like any
comments, messages, blogs, scribbles available on social platforms like Facebook,
twitter etc.
Any posted/uploaded/conveyed/communicated by users on the public sections of the
Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable
information subject to this Policy.
When you register with the Sites or Services, we contact you from time to time about
updating of your personal information to provide the Users such features that we
believe may benefit / interest you.
3. INFORMATION SHARING
The Company shares your Information with any third party without obtaining the
prior consent of the User in the following limited circumstances:
a) When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or
authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention,
detection, investigation including but not limited to cyber incidents, or for
prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith
and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms or
for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
b) The Company proposes to share such Information to conduct its business and to
share such Information within its group companies and officers and employees of
such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its
behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such Information agree to process
such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and
any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
c) The Company may present Information to our advertisers and sponsors - to help
them understand our audience and confirm the value of sponsoring our events &
conferences.
d) We may share your Information to enforce or protect our rights or any or all of its
affiliates, associates, employees, directors or officers or when we have reason to
believe that disclosing Information of User(s) is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights
or our Sites, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be
harmed by such activities
4. ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you use the Services or Sites (or any of its sub sites), we make good faith
efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal
information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive
personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or
amended as feasible, subject to any requirement for such personal information or
sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate
business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the
information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such
requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or
systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others,
or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case,
where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of
charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the
way we maintain certain services and/or due to requirements under applicable laws
for retaining or preserving information, after you delete your information, such
information and/or residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted
from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
5. INFORMATION SECURITY
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or
unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal
reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security
measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard
against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. All
information gathered on KWBM is securely stored within the Company controlled
database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the
servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our
security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the
security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not
be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any
information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone
with Internet access.
6. UPDATES / CHANGES
The internet is an ever evolving medium. We may alter our Policy from time to time to
incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law or any other variant. In
any case, we reserve the right to change (at any point of time) the terms of this
Policy. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may
give by posting the new policy on the Sites . Your use of the Sites or Services after
such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. We may also make
reasonable efforts to inform you via electronic mail. In any case, you are advised to
review this Policy periodically on the Sites to ensure that you are aware of the latest
version.
