last updated : 28-01-2024
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This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the Privacy Policy for access or usages of the Kya NewsPlatform “KYA”.
The term "KYA" used in this document refers to the entire KYA platform of the Company. The term "Platform" used in this document refers to the website (being www.kya.news), mobile apps and / or any other services offered / to be offered by KYA.
We at KYA(“Platform”, “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respect your privacy and are committedto the protection of user (“You”, “Your”, “User”) provided information which personally identifies You (“PersonalInformation”) to KYA.
We want you to understand how we collect, use, and share data about you through our Platform. This Privacy Policy covers our data collection, usage practices and describes your rights to access, use, correct your Personal Information.
Unless we link to a different policy or state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use the Platform including website, mobile application, products or services.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party websites or applications. Please note that you shall visit any third-party sites and apps at your own risk upon conditions laid down in their respective terms of use and privacy policies.
You shouldn’t use the Platform if you don’t agree with this Privacy Policy.We may change, modify, amend, terminate or replace this Privacy Policy at any time at our discretion. If we change, modify, amend or terminate this Privacy Policy, such modifications will become effective immediately upon posting to the Platform.By using the Platform including downloading of the app, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy and any such alteration, amendment, addition or modification from time to time.
The Platform obtains the information you provide when you visit the Platform or download the app or register on the Platform by accessing the website or installing the mobile application or using the products. If you elect to install, launch, access and/or use the App, we will ask you to provide certain information to create your account such as name, telephone number, gender, email, profile picture, and location. You may also include a description about yourself.
In order to provide best user experience and right content for the users, on the Platform, KYA collects certain information that your browser or device sends us whenever you visit the Platform. This information includes IP address, demographic data, cookies, browser details, domain server, device ID, device model & other network and device related data. We also collect data on the specific pages of our Platform that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, default language and user preferences, and other similar usage related statistics. We may assign each user of the Platform unique identifiers to help keep track of future visits to provide more personalised and useful content.
In order to provide customised interactive experience, content and to communicate with user, KYA also collects user provided information like Name, Age, Email Address, Mobile Number, Languages known and your interests. A complete profile helps you get the most from our platform. We may also collect contact information if you choose to allow (such as an address book), which we use for things such as helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes like follow feature.
We collect information about how you use our Platform, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you're using and have last used our Platform, and what posts, media and other content you view on our Platform.
KYA does not collect any sensitive personal information such as financial data, health-related information or any information related to race, caste or religion, unless provided by you voluntarily or required by provisions of any applicable law.
Your personal details like Mobile number or Email ID are used to verify and authentic the user uniquely.
We use the collected Information to analyse trends, to conduct research, to administer the Platform, to learn about each user's operating patterns, provide best of the products and services and movements around the Platform and to gather demographic information and usage behaviour about our user base as a whole.
We may use the individual data and behaviour patterns combined with personal information to provide you with personalized content, marketing promotions, advertisement and better objectives of your use of our Platform.
Third parties provide certain services which we may use to analyse the data and information to personalize, drive insights and help us better your experience or reach out to you with more value-added information and services. However, these third-party companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We may at times provide aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third parties, however this information when disclosed will be in an aggregate form and does not contain any of your Personally Identifiable Information.
KYAwill occasionally send email, notifications or contact you to communicate about our Services, products and benefits, as they are considered an essential part of the Platform you have chosen.
We may use or disclose the Personal Information:
We may add features in the system to enhance user experience, increase reach, deliver certain content interest of the User, post certain information / advertisement to be delivered to the User like Platform usage pattern.We may need access to device storage to save content offline the users are interested in.
During the usage of the Platform, you generally provide (a) the content, media, communications and other information (b) information you provide us when you contact us for help; (c) information you enter into our system when using the Platform, such as interest, participating in competitions and participating in discussions (d) information about the people you follow, accounts, hashtags and groups that you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Platform, such as people you communicate with the most or groups that you are part of. Whenever a user posts anything, their name, profile picture (if added by the user) is visible along with their content/post/comment on the app.
Your profile and the news / posts which you make including images and videos you upload in the profile and news / posts, are publicly accessible and can be shared by you and/or other users of the Platform including outside the Platform to other Apps / Websites etc., which means anyone can see your profile photo, name, and description about yourself if you add that information. Users you follow, Users who follows you, likes, comments and other such data are also publicly accessible.
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your Personal Information is correct and current. If you have filled out a user profile, we will provide an obvious way for you to access and change your profile from our Platform. We adopt reasonable security measures to protect your password from being exposed or disclosed to anyone.
We send cookies (small files containing a string of characters) to your device, thereby uniquely identifying your browser. Cookies are used to track your preferences, help your login faster, and aggregated to determine user trends. This data is used to improve our offerings, such as providing more content in areas of greater interest to a majority of users. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some of our features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve our customized content. Clicking on links may take you to sites outside our domain. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
We are concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your Information. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Information we process and maintain. For example, we limit access to this Information to authorized personnel only who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our Platform. Please be aware that, although we endeavour to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.
Currently, we plan to retain user data while an account is active and for at least 1year from the time account is deactivated. We may alter this practice according to legal and business requirements and there may be an exception for accounts with commercial transactions in past or usage of sponsored features or services. For example, we may lengthen the retention period for some data if needed to comply with law or voluntary codes of conduct. Unless otherwise prohibited, we may shorten the retention period for some types of data if needed to free up storage space.
KYA collects and retains certain information that is required for investigation and prevention of fraud, cheating and other violations of our Terms of Use and applicable laws. This data is used only for the purposes of investigation, prevention and sharing with appropriate authorities, where applicable and stored only for the minimum amount of time needed for the purpose of dealing with such investigation. Please note that the specific data stored for dealing with investigation may not be disclosed to you if such disclosure will compromise our legal rights as well as the mechanism through which we investigate and prevent such issues.
In case you wish to delete registered account for any reasons, anytime, you can write to connect@kya.news from your verified email id. Our team shall delete your account and related data within reasonable time, not exceeding 60 days.
In case you have done any financial transactions to/from the platform, then such data along with your basic details or any data which are required to be kept as per statutory requirements, shall not be deleted.
Subject to above, all your personal details submitted, locations, media, actions etc. shall be deleted permanently from the data under the Platform’s control.
User shall not be able to retrieve the account and related data once its deleted by the Platform in case user decides to re-register on the platform in future.
When you send an email or other communication to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Platform.
As the Company evolves, our privacy policy will need to evolve as well to cover new situations. You are advised to review this Policy regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.
We believe that, every user of our Platform must be in a position to provide an informed consent prior to providing any Information required for the use of the Platform. By registering with us, you are expressly consenting to our collection, processing, storing, disclosing and handling of your information as set forth in this Policy now and as amended by us. Processing, your information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining, sharing, transferring and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in India. If you reside outside India your information will be transferred, processed and stored in accordance with the applicable data protection laws of India.
Our support team shall undertake all reasonable efforts to address your grievances at the earliest possible opportunity.
You may write to us on connect@kya.news, in case of any queries.