This page contains the terms and conditions that shall govern your use of Kanal Media Private Limited’s digital products not limited to thekanal.in and mobile applications (Kanal here after) offered by Kanal Media Private Limited.

This privacy policy explains Kanal policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of your information by Kanal or any of its affiliate(s) ("Company" "we" "us" or "our"), which operates the website thekanal.in and its mobile applications. This Policy form’s part and parcel of the Terms of Use. Capitalized terms which have been used here but are undefined shall have the same meaning as attributed to them in the Terms of Use. You are requested to read this Policy in conjunction with the Terms of Use.

This privacy policy is an electronic record in the form of electronic contract in terms of Indian information technology act, 2000 and rules made thereunder (as amended from time to time) and does not require any physical signature or seal.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

Please read this privacy policy carefully. You indicate that you understand, agree and consent to this privacy policy. Hence by visiting our platform or by using / availing any of our service or product, you hereby give your unconditional consent or agreement to Kanal as provided under section 43a and section 72a of Indian information technology act, 2000 for collection, use, storage, processing, sharing and transfer and disclosure of your information.

You acknowledge that you have all legal rights and lawful authority to share the information with us and further acknowledge that by collecting, sharing, processing and transferring information provided by you, shall not cause any loss or wrongful gain to you or any other person.

if you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access / use our platform or avail any of our service or product on our platform.

INFORMATION COLLECTED BY COMPANY

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

To avail certain Services on the Website, you will be required to provide certain personal information for the registration process which may include: a) Name b)User name, c) email address, d) phone number (e) date of birth (f) location g) working profession and any other such information as required, like your preferences and setting such as geographical location, time zone and language. The Information as supplied by you enables us to provide the Services and improve the Website Services.

STORAGE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Your Information will mostly be stored in electronic form or in physical form. We may store, collect, use and process Your Information within Republic of India and/or outside India subject to compliance under applicable laws.

PURPOSE OF COLLECTION, STORAGE, PROCESSING OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may use the information collected from and about you for a variety of purposes.
1. Processing and responding to your queries
2. To protect and improve the platform services
3. Sending you communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to you.
4. To inform You about various products and services offered by us.
5. Sending you questions that you may be able to answer if you are a registered user.
6. Enabling and filtering advertisements that are relevant to you
7. providing you with customer support
8. Internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis and research relating to Company’s services
9. To review Platform performance, diagnose technical problems and do data analysis to make Your experience better.
10. To protect the integrity, safety and security of Our Platform
11. To inform You about change in any term and condition of this Privacy Policy or Terms of Use of our services.
12. To allow you to participate in interactive features offered by the Us
13. To support advertisers and other partners measure the effectiveness and distribution of their ads and services.
14. By agreeing to this Policy, the Company and the Partners thereof, if any, will consider you as an interested user and will use the details submitted by you to contact you and give you a customized experience of our services

DISCLOSURE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

The Company reserve all the right to disclose your information or part thereof to third party service providers who may facilitate the services, on our behalf. These service providers have access to your data only to perform the tasks as stipulated by the Company and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. In addition to this, Kanal reserve the right to share your Information with any Government Agency or other authorized law enforcement agencies mandated under law to obtain your Information for the purpose of verification of identity or for prevention, detection, investigation including but not limited to cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences etc.

Policy terms Changes

We reserve all the right to alter our Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law. Your continued use of the Platform gives your unconditional acceptance to such change in terms of Privacy Policy. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on the Site.