At New Gujarat Samachar, we hold your trust in high regard and are committed to upholding rigorous privacy standards to protect your shared information.

This privacy policy outlines how we use information gathered by New Gujarat Samachar, its subsidiaries, and affiliates (collectively, the “Company”). The company manages various websites, mobile apps, and services, delivering information through mobile devices, the internet, and other platforms (collectively, the “Services”). We adhere to this policy in line with relevant laws and may provide additional data privacy notices for specific services or regions.

What does this privacy policy cover?

The objective of the privacy policy is to inform you regarding the processing of your personal information, which is collected during your visit to our services. This policy applies to current and former visitors of the services, users who register on DBCL in connection with use of our services, or whose information DBCL otherwise receives in connection with its services.

Personal Information Collection and Use

New Gujarat Samachar is committed to reasonably protecting personal information. Personal information means any information that identifies a particular person, like the name and address of an individual, contact number, mobile number, email address, and other identifiers that will indicate that particular person.

1. Information you provide to us

   Information Collected at the Time of Registration

   When you register for our services using your web accounts like Google, FB, email login, or any similar services, we retrieve the following information from your account(s) to continue to interact with you and to continue providing you the services. Information that we collect includes –

   • User Name
   • E-mail ID
   • Age
   • Gender
   • Location
   • Profile picture
   • Public profile information

   Information Collected When You Use Our Mobile Application

   When you download our mobile application, we collect the below information, but not limited to

   • Device OS, ID & Model
   • Contacts access
   • Name
   • Contact Number
   • Date of Birth
   • Gender
   • Photograph

2. Information Automatically Collected/Tracked while Navigation

   Information Collected at the Time of Registration

   When you register for our services using your web accounts like Google, FB, email login, or any similar services, we retrieve the following information from your account(s) to continue to interact with you and to continue providing you the services. Information that we collect includes –

   • Cookies

     To enhance service responsiveness, we use cookies and similar electronic tools. These collect data on website and mobile application activity, assigning unique user IDs and helping understand user interests. Some advertisers may also use their own cookies, which we don’t control. You may manage your cookie preferences, but blocking them may affect certain website or app features.

   • Log File Information

     We automatically collect limited data about your device’s internet connection, IP address, browser type, operating system, clickstream patterns, and timestamps when you access our website, app, or services.

   • Clear GIFs

     We may use “clear GIFs” (web beacons) to track the online usage patterns of our users in an anonymous manner, without personally identifying the user. They may also be used in emails to monitor which ones are opened. We also passively collect data using Google Analytics and Google Search Console to understand your website usage.

   • Information Obtained from Other Sources

     We may receive information about you from other online sources, adding it to our system and treating it according to this policy. If you provide information to a platform provider or partner we work with, they may pass your account information (e.g., name, email) to us. We may also obtain updated contact information from third parties for record correction, communication, or sharing with third parties.

   • Third-Party Services

     Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our New Gujarat Samachar digital properties. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third-party websites/advertisers/ad servers without your consent. The New Gujarat Samachar digital properties may include links to other websites or applications. Such websites or applications are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the application you are visiting. Their policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the application’s homepage, you should contact the application owners directly for more information.

Processing of Personal Information

We collect and process personal data based on a lawful basis. This includes obtaining explicit consent or processing for “legitimate interests” required to provide services.

We use various information collection methods to improve user experience and service quality. Personal information is not associated with sensitive categories like race, religion, sexual orientation, or health when displaying tailored ads.

We send alerts, newsletters, and notifications, communicate about services, improve the website and content, conduct research, prevent and detect crimes, and more.

We may share information with customer support to resolve queries and concerns related to your rights or services.

Information Sharing

We restrict access to your personal information to employees who we believe reasonably need to know that information in order to fulfill their jobs to provide, operate, develop, or improve our products or services. New Gujarat Samachar does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with ‘JPL’ under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help New Gujarat Samachar communicate with you about offers from New Gujarat Samachar and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
  We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ‘New Gujarat Samachar terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if ‘New Gujarat Samachar is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ‘New Gujarat Samachar will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• New Gujarat Samachar works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services, please refer to the section “Third party services” of this policy.

Children

To use the Services, you agree that you must have attained the minimum age (described in this paragraph below) or be older.

The minimum age for these purposes shall be 18 years; however, if local laws require that you must be older in order to lawfully provide the services to you, then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age. In all jurisdictions outside the European Union, if you are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must use services under the supervision of your parent, legal guardian, or responsible adult.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

The company employs reasonable measures to ensure the security of the personal information you provide, storing it on secure servers with limited access. Administrative, technical, personnel, and physical safeguards are implemented to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, loss, or theft of personal information and to maintain its integrity.

Access to personal information is limited to those with a genuine business need to access it. Recipients of personal information are required to process it according to our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

In the event of a suspected data security breach, we have established procedures to address it, including notifying you and applicable regulators if required by law. However, while our security measures are effective, no security system is impenetrable. The security of our database cannot be guaranteed, and any information transmitted over the internet is done so at your own risk. Any information you post in discussion areas is publicly accessible.

The website may include links to partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates, each with their own privacy policies and terms of use. We accept no responsibility or liability for these policies and terms of use. Please review them before providing personal information.

Note that even if you cancel your account, certain information may still be viewable in circumstances beyond our control, such as information you have shared with social media or other services. If you suspect that your account security has been compromised, please notify us immediately.

Your Controls and Choices

• Accessing and Rectifying your personal information

  When you use the services on our website/application (or any of its subsites), we make reasonable efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed or corrected before processing such requests. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, requiring disproportionate technical effort, jeopardizing the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. You can make such requests by sending us an e-mail.

• Right to Rectification

  You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete data we hold to be updated. You shall have the right to obtain from New Guj, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate personal information concerning you.

• Data Portability

  You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit to another controller, wherever feasible.

• Data Erasure

  We retain your personal information as long as necessary for us to provide services to you, or you ask us to not retain your data. If you no longer want us to use your information, then you can request that we erase your personal information and close your New Gujarat Samachar Services account.

• Withdrawing Consent and Restriction of Processing

  For withdrawing your consent at any time during the tenure of your services with us, you may choose to do so by sending us an e-mail. We shall review your request and may ask you to verify your identity. Post verification we will withdraw the consent for which the request was made by you and stop any further processing of your personal information.

• Right to Object to the Processing

  Except in very specific cases where provided by law, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you.
  Such right can be exercised at any time when your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes.

• Right to object to being subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.

  You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, except in specific cases provided by law. New Gujarat Samachar shall provide information on action taken on a request pertaining to the rights above without undue delay and, in any event, within one month of receipt of the request.

• Complaints

  If you have any complaints about the processing of your personal information, you may contact our Privacy Officer at contact us newgujaratsamachar@gmail.com.
  You have the right to complain about the data processing activities carried out by New Gujarat Samachar before the competent data protection authority.

Changes in the Policy

New Gujarat Samachar reserves the right to update, change, or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come into effect from the date of such update, change, or modification.

Contact Information

If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances with respect to the use of your personal information, please email us at newgujaratsamachar@gmail.com.

Disclaimer

New Gujarat Samachar shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by reason of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the user’s account and/or information relating to or regarding online transactions using credit cards/debit cards, net banking, UPI, wallets, or any digital payment mechanisms and/or their verification process and particulars, nor for any error, omission, or inaccuracy with respect to any information so disclosed and used, whether or not in pursuance of a legal process or otherwise.

Any other personal information shared by you that is not asked by New Gujarat Samachar during registration, either mandatory or optional, accounts to willful and intentional furnishing, and New Gujarat Samachar will not be liable for a breach of such information.