December 5, 2024

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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policies

We at Diplomat Today (Magazine, we, our, us) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. In this privacy policy, we explain how we collect, use and process your personal information when you accessour Services. Unless indicated otherwise, this privacy policy applies to Magazine (Subscriber).

If you have any questions about your privacy on our website, or our use of your personal data, please contact us. Please note that links from our website may take you to external websites which are not covered by this policy. We recommend that you check their privacy policies before submitting any personal information to such sites. We will not be responsible for the content, function or information collection policies of these external websites.

1. What information do we collect about you and how do we collect it?

We will only require you to provide personal information to us where it is necessary for us to provide you with a service at your request, such as when you contact us, register an account on our website. Certain identifiers will be collected by us automatically, and some identifiers will have to be fed by you directly.

2. Information collected by us:

We may collect personal information about you whenever you use our services, such as by doing the following, some of the following categories of information are collected directly by us, and some are provided by you directly for the performance of certain functions:

  • Accessing our Platforms by means of any web browser or device;
  • Enquiring about our products or services;
  • Purchasing our subscription packages on the Platforms;
  • Registration for our Services on our Platforms;
  • Initiating and maintaining correspondence with us.

3. This information may include the following:

  • Identification information such as user name, date of birth, gender, profile picture, qualification;
  • Contact information such as email address, mobile number;
  • Payment information (this is securely collected and processed by our payment service provider exclusively);
  • A device identifier (cookie or IP address or Device ID or Android Advertiser ID / iDFA ID);
  • Additional information relevant to your use of our Platform stand Services, such as one time password sent for registration, your marketing preferences,

4. Information we collect about you from other sources.

We may collect information about you from other sources. This may include the following:

  • Publicly available information.
  • Information you have shared publicly, including on social media.
  • We also receive information from you when you interact with our pages, events, groups, accounts or posts on social media platforms.

This list is not exhaustive, and, in specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this policy.

5. How and why do we use your personal information?

We take your right to privacy seriously, and so we have attempted to identify and enumerate the specific use cases of the identifiers as below.

a. Subscription or Paid Service information

When you chose any subscription or paid service, we or our payment gateway provider will not collect your personal information such as address or billing information, including your credit/debit card number and expiration date etc. without obtaining your explicit consent for the same. Any financial information provided by you will be processed by such third parties who provide the functionalities for such Services to us, for effective processing.

b. For user generated content

We offer you the ability to post content that other users can read (comments, reviews). If the law requires us to take down, remove or edit your personal information, we will comply to the extent that such is necessary.

6. How long do we keep your personal information?

We will only store your personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected. Where we provide you with any service, such as where you pay for a subscription on our website, we will retain any information you provide to us at least for as long as we continue to provide that service to you.

7. Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

8. Contact Us

You can also write to: Diplomat Today Office address: 1111, Indra Prakash Building, Connaught Circus, New Delhi-110001.