THIS STATEMENT DISCLOSES THE PRIVACY PRACTICES FOR OUR WEBSITE WWW.TECHNICALTRENDS.IN (“HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “WEBSITE”). THE DOMAIN NAME WWW.TECHNICALTRENDS.COM IS OWNED BY M/S TECHNICAL TRENDS IS A SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP OF SUDARSHAN SUKHANI WHO IS A SEBI REGISTERED RESEARCH ANALYST (SEBI REGISTRATION NO. INH100000726) HAVING ITS REGISTERED PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS AT M-51, M-BLOCK, GREATER KAILASH PART-2, SOUTH DELHI, DELHI, 110048 (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “THE FIRM”).
For the purpose of this privacy policy, wherever the context so requires the term “You” or “User” shall mean any natural or legal person including Online and offline clients and the term “We”, “Us”, “Our” shall mean Technical Trends. By using this website, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this statement. If you do not agree to the terms of this statement, then we would request you to exit this website.
We at Technical Trends respect the privacy of everyone who visits this website and are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the personal information of all visitors to this Website. We only collect your personal information to conduct our business and to enable us to deliver and improve our services, however we and our affiliates may share, sell, transfer, license and convey some or all of your personal information with another business entity to carry out any business activity or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business or for any other reason whatsoever. We will only disclose your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. If you have any query regarding this privacy policy, please contact us.
1. Collection of Information: We provide the facility to edit your Account Information and preferences at any time. Our policy on the collection and use of information and other information (collectively referred to as “Personal Information”) is outlined below:
i. Profiling information which you provide when you subscribe or register for a Service includes your username, nickname, password, email addresses and other security-related information used by you in relation to our services.
ii. Information about your personal identity such as gender, age, etc.
iii. Your financial information such as your banking details and any information relating to your income and lifestyle levels (if requested and provided).
iv. Your contact details such as your physical addresses, postal addresses, telephone, mobile and fax numbers and the like (if requested and provided).
v. Your account history with us including (without limitation) all billing information and communications, payment history, etc (if requested and provided). We maintain this in encrypted form on secure servers.
vi. Information about your navigation using our services, for example the url’s of websites, which you visit and from which you request downloads.
vii. Information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, date and time of request.
viii. Transactional history (other than banking details) about your e-commerce activities (if requested and provided).
ix. Content, information about your correspondents, and the destination/origin of communications between you and any other person using our services, which include email communications, comments, membership of mailing lists, etc.
x. Data either created by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our servers such as image files, documents etc.
xi. Any other information required to conduct our business activities and to enable us to deliver and improve our services.
Any of your information which you provide when you use our services in an unencrypted manner and/or to an open, public environment or forum including (without limitation) any blog, chat room, albums, community, classifieds or discussion board, is not confidential, does not constitute personal information, and is not subject to protection under privacy policy.
Since such public environments are accessible by third parties, it is possible that third parties may collect and collate and use such information for their own purposes. You should accordingly be careful when deciding to share any of your personal information in such public environments. Information, which is disclosed publicly, is also shared with our affiliates, third party service providers, sponsors of competitions, etc. unless expressly stated otherwise. We are not liable to you or any third party for any damages that you or any third party may suffer howsoever arising from your disclosure of personal information in any public environment. You accordingly disclose information in a public environment at your own risk.
You always have the ability to opt out of receiving future mailings and special offers. If you use any of our referral features, we ask for name and e-mail address. We use this information only to send the communication you requested and to monitor the effectiveness of our referral features.
As part of the standard operation of the website, we may collect certain non-personal information from you, including but not limited to your browser type, operating system, IP address and the domain name from which you accessed the website. In addition, we may collect information about your browsing behavior, such as the date and time you visit the website, the areas or pages of the website that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing the website, the number of times you return to the website and other click-stream data. We do not combine this non-personal information with your personal information. We use cookies to collect the non personal information. A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on the hard drive of your computer when you access the website. You are free to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the website or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
2. Information Use: We may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes: (1) to fulfill your requests for products and services; (2) to provide you with targeted offers, website content and advertising on the website; (3) to contact you with information and promotional materials and offers from us as well as from our affiliates, other related companies, educational institutions, marketing partners and other third parties, if you have agreed to receive such communications; (4) to provide the facility to edit your account information and preferences at any time; (5) to address problems with the website, our business or our products and services; and (6) to protect the security or integrity of the website and our business.
3. Information Disclosure: In addition to disclosing your information to our partners, with your consent, as described above, we may disclose the information collected from and about you as follows: (1) to our affiliated companies; (2) to our service providers, who may use it only on our behalf; (3) as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of our website’s terms of use or of our rights or the rights of any third party; (4) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; and (5) as disclosed to you at the point of collection.
4. Right to collect: By accepting the terms you agree that we may collect and store your personal information as long as you subscribe to or use our services subject to the limitations set out in this privacy policy. We use certain of your information in an aggregated form to compile statistical and demographical profiles for our business and marketing activities. We may disclose such information about you, provided that the information is in an aggregated form that is not capable of being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you.
Any personal information which we collect and which we may use in an aggregated format is our property. We may use it, in our sole discretion and without any compensation to you, for any legitimate purpose including (without limitation) the commercial sale thereof to third parties.
You may update your profiling information at any time by using the personalize function. You acknowledge and agree that in the interests of improving personalization and service efficiency, we may, under controlled and secure circumstances, share your Personal Information with our affiliates.
5. General exceptions: If we are required to intercept, disclose, monitor and/or store your personal information:
i. By law
ii. To conduct our business
iii. To secure our systems
iv. To enforce our own rights, we will do so in the manner as prescribed by legislation.
Such interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage may take place without your knowledge. In that case, we will not be liable to you or any third party for any damages howsoever arising from such interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage. In order to ensure that all our users comply with the user rules, we may monitor your personal information to the extent that this may be required to determine compliance and/or to identify instances of non-compliance.
To ensure that the security and integrity of our services are safeguarded, we may monitor your personal information. This monitoring may include (without limitation) the filtering of incoming and outgoing electronic data messages to identify, limit and/or prevent the transmission of spam, viruses and/or unlawful, defamatory, obscene or otherwise undesirable material or content.
We may under certain circumstances procure an element of the services from a third party service provider; for example we may use third party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our website. To the extent that it may be necessary, and solely for the purposes of providing the service to you, you agree that we may disclose to such third party any of your personal information that may be necessary for the procurement of services from the third party. These companies may also use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. More information about this practice and your choices about not having this information used by these companies would be available with the respective third parties.
In addition to the general limitations in the above terms, we will not be liable to you or any other third party for any damages suffered by you or any other third party howsoever arising from the disclosure of your personal information.
6. Security practices for protecting Information: We have taken reasonable physical, electronic, contractual and managerial steps to safeguard and secure your personal information however, cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your account information, including your password, and you are responsible for all use of the website accessed through it. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your information
7. Links to other websites: Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. The privacy policies of these website(s) are not under our control. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites and such websites are not governed by this privacy statement. It is advisable to read their privacy policies for further information. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
8. Changes to this privacy statement: We may change this privacy statement from time to time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the website. Keep checking this page to keep you abreast of any changes to this policy.
9. Contact Us: If you have any question or query about this privacy statement, please contact us by using the Contact Us page.