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> Privacy Policy
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Times Internet Ltd, (TIL) a wholly owned subsidiary of
Bennett Coleman & Co. Limited. Indiatimes located at http://in.indiatimes.com
is the mother brand of TIL and powers / manages the Online Properties
(Brand Names) of the 'Times Group' interalia www.timesofindia.com,
www.economictimes.com, www.navbharattimes.com, www.maharashtratimes.com
including various internet sites and community boards and services,
to name a few, (Indiatimes Channels) hereinafter collectively referred
to as TIL.
TIL respects the privacy of it's users and is committed to protect
it in all respects. |
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With a view to offer most enriching and holistic internet
experience to it's users TIL offers a vast repository of Online Sites
and variety of community services. You may read 'About Us' to know
more about TIL at http://info.indiatimes.com/terms/aboutus.html. Most
of the Online Community Services are offered for free but you need
a Universal mandatory registration to surf 'Indiatimes Channels' in
detail. The information about the user as collected by TIL is: (a)
information supplied by users and (b) information automatically tracked
while navigation (Information).
To avail certain sites / services on our websites, users are required
to provide certain information for the registration process namely:-
a) your name, b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) PIN code etc.,
and / or your occupation, interests, and the like. (All required information
is Service Dependent). The Information as supplied by the users enables
us to improve our sites and provide you the most user-friendly experience.
In some sites as in Indiatimes Contests, dating etc. we require your
contact addresses. |
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To improve the responsiveness of
the sites for our users, we may use "cookies", or similar
electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique,
random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the
user's individual interests using the Identified Computer. Unless
you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example),
we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie
to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain
is information you supply (an example of this is when you ask for
our Personalised Horoscope). A cookie cannot read data off your hard
drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser
(if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your
computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address,
when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers
attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the
web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally.
We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request,
to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic
within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations
from where our visitors come.
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TIL includes links to other websites. Such sites 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
site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't
find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the
site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. |
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When we present information to our advertisers -- to help
them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising
on our website -- it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics
on traffic to various pages within our site. When you register with
TIL, we contact you from time to time about updation of your content
to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit you.
All information gathered on TIL is securely stored within the TIL
controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind
a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly
limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security
system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database,
nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted
while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any
information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available
to anyone with Internet access. |
However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our
privacy policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes.
Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent
with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless
of what the new policy may be. |
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit
our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits
to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information
about this practice and to know your choices about not having this
information used by these companies, click here: (http://www.advertising.com/Privacy.html) |
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questions or clarifications with respect to this Policy can be sent
to TIL at :
privacypolicy@indiatimes.com or by snail mail addressed
to TIL (Privacy Policy) "I World" Tower, DLF City Phase
5 opp DLF Golf Course ,Gurgaon (Hayana) - or by calling our number
at (0124) 5187000. |
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