Privacy Policy

1. Purpose

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process, that is store, use and share, personal information relating to you which we collect when you visit and use our Websites, our applications, widgets, blogs, and other online or digital services that we offer to our users, (“Digital Media”); including any data you may provide through our Website(s) and/or Digital Media when you sign up or to subscribe or participates in a vents, for example.

Kashmiripedia supplies the historical and cultural information, multimedia content about Kashmir and activities available to the public. The site also offers functionalities that enable you to contact Kashmiripedia; request information from us in the form of literature, newsletters, historical events or emails;

Our Websites are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

2. What personal information do we collect, how and why?

The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:

• Information that you provide voluntarily/ Direct Interactions

Kashmiripedia collects historical and cultural information from several ways. We collect information about the notables, writers, scholars, historians, leaders, singers and poets and gathers information from study papers, archives and form archeological departments and information collected from publicly available sources or third parties.

1. Information that you provide: When you register, subscribe, or otherwise interact with our site, you may be asked to provide certain personal information. For example, if you register to access our websites, you will be asked to provide your name, email address and select other information.
2. Information collected through the use of our site: We collect aggregated data about site users by using web analytics services such as Google Analytics. Aggregated data does not enable us to identify individuals, but it does enable us to collect generic information about traffic flow and demographics. This aggregated data is collected automatically when you visit our site through the use of cookies and similar technologies.
3. Information that we collect from publicly available sources or third parties: Kashmiripedia may receive personal information about you through our own research of publicly available sources or from third party sources, as permitted by law, such as online marketing and data analytics databases.
4. To communicate information: We use personal data to keep users informed of our latest content, announcements, campaigns, contests and events.
5. To improve and maintain performance: To provide with the best possible experience, we use personal information to understand to gaining experience through your feedback.
6. To administer contests and prize draws: If Kashmiripedia organizes a contest or prize draw, we will process his, her or their information in order to run the contest or administer the prize draw.
7. Voluntary services: If you apply for a voluntary service via our site, we will process your information in order to facilitate the application process.
8. Information from Social Media.

If you access or log-in to Kashmiripedia through a social media service or connect a Kashmiripedia to a social media service, the information we collect may also include your user name associated with that social media service, any information or content you have permitted the social media service to share with us, such as your profile picture, email address or friends lists, and any information you have made public in connection with that social media service. When you access the Kashmiripedia through social media services or when you connect Kashmiripedia to social media services, you are authorizing Kashmiripedia to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you submit any enquiry to us, or otherwise communicate with us, we will also collect any content that you send to us, including your comments and you are requesting or gathering any information about historical facts of Kashmir, or responses to surveys.

• Information that we collect automatically/Automated Interactions

When you access and interact with the Kashmiripedia, its service providers may collect certain information about those visits. When you visit our Websites and/or use our Digital Media, collects certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.

Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, browser-type, browsing actions and patterns, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with or within our Websites and Digital Media, including the pages accessed and links clicked.

Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who use our Websites and Digital Media, (including who is using them and how, and what content is of interest to them) and which webpages those users have come from. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes (for example, to record and report user profile, behaviour, location, audience, demographic and interest data) and to improve the quality and relevance of our Websites and Digital Media to our visitors. We will also use this information to enable aspects of the Websites and Digital Media to be customized or remember your preferences and to provide you with relevant advertising.

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further at section 5 below under the heading “Cookies and Other Tracking Technology”.

4. Who do we share your personal information with?

We may disclose personal information about you to the following categories of recipients:

• to our group companies, third party services providers and partners who provide data processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Websites and Digital Media), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information. This may include the operators, promoters or prize providers of competitions, or third parties who we use to facilitate the sending of our newsletters.
• to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or those legal rights of a third party, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
• to an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy;
• to any other person with your consent to the disclosure.

5. Cookies and other tracking technology

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. We use ‘cookies’ and similar tracking technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) to collect and use personal information about you, including to serve interest-based advertising. You can find instructions for commonly used browsers here:

• • Google Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Microsoft Edge

Email: To unsubscribe from email communications from Kashmiripedia. Your opt-out applies to the type of communication that you unsubscribe from, and you may continue to receive emails from other services you’ve subscribed to as well as essential transactional communications.

6. How does Kashmiripedia keep my personal information secure?

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. Specific measures we use include, but are not limited to, encrypting your personal information and using password protection.

7. Children’s privacy

We do not anticipate that our Websites or Digital Media will be used by individuals under 16 years of age (each a “Minor”), nor that we will collect and use personal information about Minors. If you are a Minor, please get your parent or your legal guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to us.

If we become aware that a Minor has provided us with personal information without the permission of their parent or legal guardian, we will remove this information from our systems.

8. Use and disclosure

We may use the information we collect from and about you to provide the Kashmiripedia Services and features to you, including:

• To measure and improve those Kashmiripedia Services and features and to add beneficial information about Kashmir.
• To allow you to comment on content, and participate in online seminars, contests, other related events, or rewards programs.
• To provide you with information and to respond to inquiries. We may use the information from and about you to make inferences and predictions about your potential areas of interest. When the information collected from or about you does not identify you as a specific person, we may use that information for any purpose or share it if competent to our community standards.

We use the information we collect from and about you for these additional purposes:

• If you log in with or connect a social media service account with Kashmiripedia, we may share your user name, picture, and likes, as well as your activities and comments with other Kashmiripedia users and with your friends associated with your social media service. By logging in with or connecting your Kashmiripedia account with a social media service, you are authorizing us to share information we collect from and about you with the social media service provider, other users and your friends and you understand that the social media service’s use of the shared information will be governed by the social media service’s privacy policy. If you do not want your personal information shared in this way, please do not connect your social media service account with your Kashmiripedia account and do not participate in social sharing on Kashmiripedia.

9. International data transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

10. How do we keep your personal data secure?

Kashmiripedia uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures designed to safeguard information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. However, no one can guarantee the complete safety of your information.

11. Your legal/data protection rights

You have the following data protection rights:

• If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided at the top of this Privacy Policy.
• Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

12. Third party websites

This Website or our Digital Media may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

If you follow a link from our Digital Media to any third party websites or other digital media, you should be aware that those websites or digital media will not be governed by this Privacy Policy and may have their own privacy policies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for those third party websites and digital media. Please check the policies of any third party websites or digital media before submitting any personal data to them.

Should you follow one of the affiliate links to a third-party website, those websites may have visibility of where you followed the link from, in order to enable referral tracking.

13. Updates to this privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.

When we publish changes to this policy, we will revise the “last updated on” date at the bottom of this policy.

Last updated: June 05, 2021

14. How can you contact us?

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can contact us at:

Email: Infro@kashmiripedia.net / contact@kashmiripedia.com