Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Environmental Newsnow collects, uses, and protects information in connection with our online platform and services. Environmental Newsnow is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner.

We are Environmental Newsnow, located at 203 Infantry Road, Level 2, Prestige Towers, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560001, India. We are the data controller responsible for processing your personal data collected through our site and services.

Information We Collect

When you use our site or services, we may collect information that relates to you. The types of information we collect depend on how you interact with our online platform. This may include:

• Information you provide directly to us: This includes information you submit when you register for an account, contact us, or interact with specific features on our site. This could include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.
• Information we collect automatically: When you visit or use our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, and other technical information. We may also collect information about your interactions with our online platform, such as the date and time of visits, the time spent on pages, and navigation paths. We collect this information using cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies.
• Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from other sources, such as business partners, publicly available sources, or third-party services, where permitted by applicable law.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our online platform and services.
• To improve, personalize, and expand our site and services.
• To understand and analyze how you use our site and services.
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the online platform, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
• To process your transactions.
• To find and prevent fraud.
• To comply with legal obligations, such as responding to lawful requests from public authorities.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on several legal grounds as required by applicable law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

• Your consent: Where you have given us explicit permission to process your data for a specific purpose.
• Necessity for performing a contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
• Compliance with a legal obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that applies to us.
• Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, provided your fundamental rights and freedoms do not override those interests.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:

• With service providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, and email delivery.
• With business partners: We may share your information with business partners in connection with offering you co-branded services, selling or distributing our services, or engaging in joint marketing activities.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With affiliated companies: We may share your information with our current and future affiliates and subsidiaries.
• To comply with law: We may disclose your information if we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to enforce our agreements, terms of service, or policies; to protect the security or integrity of our online platform; or to protect us, our users or others from harm or illegal activities.
• With your consent: We may share your information with your consent or at your direction.

Data Security

We implement technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have certain rights regarding your personal data. These rights may include:

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• The right to withdraw consent: Where we process your personal data based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
• The right to complain to a supervisory authority: You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our site.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site or services.

Children's Privacy

Our online platform is not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, you may contact us at our physical address:

Environmental Newsnow
203 Infantry Road, Level 2,
Prestige Towers,
Bangalore, Karnataka,
560001, India