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Privacy Policy

This privacy notice does not cover the activities Kinal undertakes on behalf of its clients - in which it acts as a service provider.

Scope of This Privacy Notice

This privacy notice covers those activities provided by Kinal Media Private Limited located at JSP IMPERIA, Patrika Nagar, Hi-Tech City (“Kinal”, “we”, “us” or “our”).

It covers use of our website https://kinal.digital/, marketing for our various brands, our contact with members of the public (for example, within our recruitment process) and with those acting in a professional capacity (such as when enquiring about, researching, reporting on, assessing or engaging in business discussions). This Privacy Notice explains in detail the types of personal information we may collect about you when you interact with us on any website where this Privacy Notice appears.

What this Privacy Notice Doesn’t Cover:

Marketing and Advertising Services

This privacy notice does not cover the activities Kinal undertakes on behalf of its clients - in which it acts as a service provider. Should you wish to enquire about the processing we undertake for any of our clients, or wish to assert your rights regarding that processing, please contact our client service team at contact@kinal.digital

Employment

This Privacy Notice does not cover any data processing carried out by Kinal in connection with employment by, or the supply of contracted services to, Kinal or its subsidiaries. Please contact your local Human Resources Office or the Data Protection Office (if no longer in employment with Kinal).

Sources of Information

We collect personal information about you from various sources.

We, and our service providers operating on our behalf, collect Personal Information about you, directly and indirectly, from the following categories of sources:

Personal information directly from you

We collect information when you enter into an agreement, participate in a promotion, contact us, or sign up for our marketing communications and newsletters. We also collect any personal information that you provide, if you post a comment, make a request, or complete a survey.

Personal information from you Devices

We use tracking tools like browser cookies and web beacons to automatically or passively collect information about you. We collect information when you interact with our websites, our apps, our ads, or our emails that we or our vendors send to you.

Personal Information from Social Media Platforms

If you post to one of our pages on a social media site or connect to a social media platform from our website, we may receive information, including information contained in your social media profile. You acknowledge and understand that we can access this information even when you are not actively using the Services. We may also receive information about you if other users of social media give us access to their profiles and you are one of their “connections.”

Personal Information from Other Sources

Other parties may give us personal information about you. These other parties might also include clients, and business and marketing partners that give us information they have collected either directly or indirectly from you. We may also receive Employment-Related Information from a job network or social network if you choose to import your information from those platforms when applying for a job with us.

Types of Information We Process

We collect and use personal information from and about you.

Kinal and the vendors we hire to perform services on our behalf, collect, receive, and develop several categories of personal information about you depending on the nature of your interactions with us.

We Collect Contact Information

For example, we might collect your name, email address; social media account handles, phone number, and mailing address.

We Collect Network Activity Information

If you use our websites or apps, we may collect information about your operating system, the browser you are using and your IP address. We might also collect device identifiers and information about how you use our Wi-Fi network and other services. We might collect information at the site you came from, or the site you visit when you leave us. We may collect page interaction information (such as what areas of the websites you visit and for how long, what search terms you enter, and what content you view and click on), your use of the search function on our website, and methods used to browse away from the page. If you use our mobile apps, we may also look at how often you use the app and where you downloaded it. We may also collect information about your interaction with emails or other electronic messages we send you, such as when you open or click on an email.

We collect Location Information

We may infer a location based on your IP address. We automatically collect your precise GPS location when you access our apps or the mobile version of our websites. We also collect information about your general location, using your zip code or postcode and IP address.

Employment Related Information

When you apply for a job, we collect information you submit as part of your application and resume. This might include your work experience and previous employment, your education, the URL to your personal or professional websites, your workplace skill sets and certifications, whether you need a visa or require sponsorship, and/or salary expectations. If you apply for a job, you may choose to also voluntarily provide any of the following information: ethnicity, gender, disability status, and/or veteran status.

We Collect & Develop Inferences

Using the other pieces of personal information collected about you, we may draw inferences about you, reflecting what we believe to be your preferences, characteristics, predispositions, and attitudes as well as attributes connected to your IP address.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use personal information as described here.

We use the above-referenced categories of personal information for the following purposes:

  • • We use information provided by our clients in order to provide services to our clients.
  • • We use information to provide you with services and fulfil your transactions.
  • We use information for marketing purposes. We might use personal information to provide you with information about special promotions, or offers. We might also use this information to send push notifications on our app and to serve you ads about our products and offers. We might tell you about new features or services. These might be our own offers or products, or third-party offers or products we think you might find interesting. We use Google Display Network Impression Reporting to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site.
  • We use information to respond to your requests or questions. We use information to contact you in response to your feedback or other matters related to our relationship with you (such as about this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use. If your inquiries or feedback relate to your leases, purchases, or an account, we may also use your information to address the matter.
  • We use information to analyze and improve our products and services. We may use your information to make our websites, apps, services, and products better. We might use your information to customize your experience with us and to conduct research and analysis.
  • We use information to comply with our obligations, administer our websites and services, and for internal operations. We use personal information to administer the websites, such as troubleshooting, data analysis, and testing.
  • We use information for security purposes. We may use personal information to protect our company, our customers, and our business partners. We also may use personal information to protect our websites or our services, as well as to detect and investigate activities that may be illegal or prohibited (such as cyber attacks or fraudulent transactions).
  • We use information for hiring purposes We use Contact Information and Employment-Related Information to review your job applications and contact you about employment opportunities. If you choose to voluntarily submit your ethnicity, gender, disability status, and/or veteran status in connection with a job application, we will use that information for statistical tracking purposes (not for hiring decisions), in accordance with applicable law.
  • We use information for verification purposes. We will use certain pieces of personal information to verify your identity if you make requests pursuant to this Privacy Policy. The verification steps and the pieces of personal information that we request may vary depending on the sensitivity and nature of your request.
  • We use information as otherwise disclosed or permitted by law, or as we may notify you. We may use personal information to create identified or aggregated data which does not identify you or any other individual. We may use and disclose this anonymous or aggregated data as we choose.
Opting Out of Interest Based Advertising

Kinal enables users to opt-out from certain uses of information in a digital environment. If you want to opt-out from our solutions from the browser you are currently using.

Please note that if you clear cookies from your browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choice. The mobile operating systems (e.g., Android and iOS) have their own opt-out mechanisms that apply IBA in mobile app environments. To exercise this opt-out, please visit the privacy settings of your Android (or) iOS device and select “limit ad tracking” (Apple iOS) or “opt-out of interest based ads” (Android).

While Kinal does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals, when our systems detect the presence of our opt-out cookie or a mobile o/s opt-out indicator, our solutions will stop engaging in IBA for the opted out browser or device. And if we have linked two or more browsers or devices as described above, our systems will attempt to sever the link for the opted out browser or device.

Email Marketing Preferences

If you wish to update your email marketing preferences, or unsubscribe, you can also do so by choosing unsubscribe option available in the bottom of the emails received.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

Kinal has reasonable security measures in place to help protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Kinal has implemented reasonable, industry-standard security policies, standards and practices designed to protect information from internal and external threats. The degree of protection for each piece of information is based on the risk and consequences associated with having that information compromised. While no security measures will provide for absolute security, all Kinal employees who are responsible for the management of information have the responsibility to adhere to Kinal’s documented security controls, which are developed commensurate with the understood risk.

Our Responsibility for Website Links

This Privacy Notice is limited to the personal data collected by Kinal. We do provide links within this site to other websites, including social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you follow these links, your use of these sites will be governed by their applicable user and privacy notices since their data practices fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. Further, we can have no responsibility for or control over the information collected by any third-party website and we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may provide on such websites.

Children Under 16

This website is not intended for children aged 16 or under. We do not actively seek to collect personal data about children aged 16 or under. If you have any concerns about your child’s privacy in relation to our services, or if you believe that your child under the age of 16 may have entered personal data onto our website, please contact us at contact@kinal.digital We will delete such personal data from our records or seek verifiable parental or legal guardian consent to retain such information within a reasonable time.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which may be downloaded to and stored on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. More general information about cookies is available in our cookies policy page.

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by being able to remember your choices and preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages on our websites are being visited. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website’s reliability and to tailor it to customer needs.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you on your computer, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Site specific cookie information and help in understanding, making choices about and managing cookies can be found within our cookie notice

KINAL’S DATAT PROTECTION TEAM

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, our approach to privacy or you would like to exercise any of the rights mentioned in this Privacy Notice you can contact our Data Protection Team in any of the following ways:

You can contact Kinal’s Data Protection Desk by post at:

Address: Data Protection Desk
Kinal Media Private Limited
JSP IMPERIA Patrika Nagar, Hi-Tech City
Hyderabad - 500081

Or by email at: contact@kinal.digital

Updates to the Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time. When we do, we will update this page. The date of the most recent revision will appear below. You should review this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes that have been made. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use our services and please refrain from sharing your personal information with us.

This policy is effective from August 01st, 2022.

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