Lokatantra Privacy

Privacy

 

ABOUT THIS POLICY

 

This is political platform that is non-biased / non-partisan and treats every individual / party on the topic equally. It is not aligned to any particular party or ideology. We understand that by registering on our Portal, Users will provide their information.  We fully respects the privacy of our Registered Users and are  committed to protect it in all respects, we have stipulated this Privacy Policy which will help our Users understand what Information we collect, why we collect, how we intend to use it and how you can update, manage and delete your information. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by our Portal / Mobile Apps. It does not apply to those services that have separate privacy policies. It also does not apply to the procedures and practices followed by entities / other websites that are not managed, owned or controlled by us or to the people that are not engaged, employed or managed by us.

 

By accessing the services provided by our Portal / Mobile Apps, the User agree to the collection and use of his / her data by us in the manner provided in this Privacy Policy.

 

USER’S CONDUCT

 

All information, data, text, views, music, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials (“Content”), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the User from whom such content originated.  It implies that the User and not us, are entirely responsible for all content uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise make available via our service.

 

By using our service, the User may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. We do not control the content posted via our service and as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content. We will NOT be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, transmitted or otherwise made available via our service and such User shall be held liable for any legal proceeding that may arise due to such in-appropriate content posted via our service. 

 

By registering, the User acknowledge that we may or may not pre-screen content, but that we reserve the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or remove any content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, we shall have the right to remove any content that violates the norms or is otherwise objectionable.

 

It is agreed that the User must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content. In this regard, the User acknowledge that he or she may not rely on any content created by us or submitted to us.

 

The User agree to indemnify and hold us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content submitted, posted, transmitted or otherwise made available through our service or his / her use of our service. The Users also expressly understand and agree that neither us nor any of our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, partners shall be liable to him / her for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses.

 

WHAT WE COLLECT & WHY WE COLLECT

 

While registering, besides your personal data like your name, contact details, we also collect your demographic data ie residence details, language preference, age, sex, social status and education details, interest etc.  While registering on our Portal, we also collect information about browser details, device type, operating system, IP address, mobile network including carrier name, application version number.  We collect information about browsing activity while being on our Portal / Mobile App and track your movement with regards to key words / subject the User might have searched for, audio / video content that the User listen / watch or content that the User may share with other Users. We also collect information about your location while accessing our services. All these information we collect with the help of various technologies including but not just limited to use of cookies, pixel tags, local storage, server logs.

 

The Users may change his / her interests at any time and may opt-in or opt-out of any marketing / promotional / newsletters mailings. However, we reserve the right to send certain service related communication, as a part of your registration with us without offering you the facility to opt-out. The User may update his / her information and change the account settings at any time.

 

The data that we collect during the registration process & how these information be used by us depend on how you manage your privacy policy and use our various services that we provide on our Portal. We use the data that collected while contacting the User eg we use the personalized data like name, contact details that we have collected. This may be needed when we notice unauthorized attempt being done by signing in your account and we think that our User should know about such incident, we will more than happy to notify our Users and help guide him / her to stay better protected or we wish to intimate our Users about new upcoming political event and / or interview of a political leader on our Portal or any changes / improvements in our service offerings.

 

Being in business of providing political news and current affairs that affects the life of our netizen - directly or indirectly, we seek to use data so collected for analytics and performance measurements to understand how our contents being viewed.

 

It is mandatory for us to follow the guidelines prescribed by the local / central government authority while providing the digital contents to our Users and it is necessary that we constantly work towards improving safety and reliability of our services. This can be made possible only by detecting, preventing and taking appropriate corrective measures to prevent / minimize frauds, abuse and any derogative remarks that may disturb social rest and sabotage public harmony.     

 

By collecting the usage statistics pertaining to our User’s likes, dislikes and interest, it helps us to understand viewing trends amongst our Users and their interest on a particular event / social trends and thereby help us in improving our contents effectively to his / her likings. Further by studying usage patterns, it also helps us to develop new features / services for our Portal / Mobile Apps. Depending on settings done on your device, we will able to show the personalized ads based on User’s interests. We may share data about ads User interact with to help our advertiser understand the performance of their ad campaigns. 

 

Nevertheless the User may control what information we use to show him / her ads by visiting his / her ad settings.  However neither we show nor do we intend to show the personalized ads based on sensitive categories like race, religion.

 

We shall not share information that personally identifies our Users with any of our advertisers such as name, age, religion, email, contact details. However, we may share non-personally identifiable information either with our partners or with our advertisers or our Publishers to show trends about general use of our services. We may also permit few selected Partners to collect data from our User’s browser or device for measurement of their behavior pattern towards a particular advertisement under consideration.

 

Apart from sharing data for commercial purpose, we reserve the right to disclose our User’s  personally identifiable information if we reasonable believe that such disclosure is necessary to comply any government laws / guidelines or in the event of receiving any specific request from any law enforcing government agencies.

 

In case, we are merged into another business entity or wind up our operation anytime in future, we shall give our User a prior intimation before such personnel information is shared / transferred or a different privacy policy comes into effect.             

 

HOW YOU CAN UPDATE, DELETE IT

 

As a registered User on our Portal, you may delete your information by :

 

?  Deleting your content from specific services

?  Search for and then delete specific terms from your account using “My Activity”

?  Delete your entire account

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

 

We regularly review our Privacy Policy. Depending on the business requirement and / or need of achieving compliance to the various government guidelines, we reserve the right to modify / add / change / incorporate completely new Privacy Policy as and when needed. However, in case of any substantial change in our Privacy Policy, we shall intimate our registered Users well in advance.

 

ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY

 

While registration to our Portal / Mobile Apps is free, it is mandatory to accept our Privacy Policy. If you agree to the above Privacy Policy, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Complete Registration' button below. In case you do not wish to agree to this Privacy Policy, please check the 'I do not agree' checkbox and the registration process shall be terminated.

 

If the User no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, He or she may opt-out of receiving it by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at  to opt-out. Upon request, we will remove/block User personally identifiable information from our database, thereby canceling his / her registration.

 

Though you may delete your information from our Portal anytime you wish to, we shall retain these data for limited period due to compliance to be achieved with regards to legal or legitimate business requirements. Since we make all possible efforts to ensure that our User’s information is not deleted due to malicious or accidental deletion. Hence there shall be some time delay between time you delete your information and when copies are deleted from active & backup systems.