We value the trust you place in us. That's why we insist upon the highest standards for secure
transactions and User information privacy. Please read the following statement to learn about
our information gathering and dissemination practices. The following Privacy Policy should be
read along with the Sportingindia – Terms of Use for a full understanding of Sportingindia’s
practices as well as the Users responsibilities when interacting with the www.sportingindia.org.
This Privacy Policy is published in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Information
Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder, specifically, The Information Technology
(Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal data or information)
Rules, 2011 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2011.
All terms used in this Privacy Policy will have the same meaning and definition assigned to them
in the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder.
Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware
of any changes, please review this policy periodically.
By visiting this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy
and the Terms of Use of the Website. If you do not agree please do not use or access the
Website.
By mere use of the Website, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and
subject to the Terms of Use.
1. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information and other Information
When you use our Website, we collect and store your personal information, which is provided
by you from time to time. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient,
smooth and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most
likely meet your needs, and to customize our Website to make your experience safer and easier.
More importantly, while doing so we collect personal information from you that we consider
necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal
information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, either by signing up
through our portal or signing in through an associate such as Google or Facebook, you are not
anonymous to us. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are
optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a
particular service or feature on the Website. We may automatically track certain information
about you based upon your behaviour on our Website. We use this information to do internal
research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect
and serve our users. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. This
information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our Website
or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our Website or not), your computer
browser information, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of the Website to help analyze
our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. "Cookies"
are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We offer certain
features that are only available through the use of a "cookie".
We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies
can also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session
cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a
session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits. At this time, all
features of the Website will work even if you disable cookies. However, in the future and in the
event that we add certain new or improvised features and services to the Website, the Website
or some parts of it may not be accessible if cookies are disabled. You may also be required to
re-enter your password more frequently during a session.
Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages of the
Website that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.
If you choose to donate or contribute on or through the Website, we collect information about
your donations patterns and generally your usage behavior.
If you transact with us (through making donations/contributions), we collect some additional
information, such as a billing address, a credit/debit card number, and a credit/debit card
expiration date and/ or other payment instrument details and tracking information from
cheques or money orders.
If you choose to post messages on our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or
leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information
as necessary to resolve disputes, provide User support and troubleshoot problems as permitted
by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third
parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Website, we may collect
such information into a file specific to you.
We collect personally identifiable information (email address, name, phone number, credit
card/debit card / other payment instrument details, etc.) from you when you set up an account
with us. While you can browse some sections of our Website without being a registered member,
certain activities (such as making a donation/contribution) do require registration. We do use
your contact information to send you information such as receipts, certificates, upcoming
events, newsletters, etc. We also provide certain data to the Campaigner to interact with you
and send you information of the type aforementioned as well as to complete certain
transactions and fulfill commitments such as rewards, updates and the like.
2. Use of Demographic / Profile Data / Your Information
We use personal information to provide the services you request. To the extent we use your
personal information to market to you, we will provide you the ability to opt-out of such uses.
We use your personal information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote a
safe service; collect money either by us or through an authorized payment gateway facility;
measure User interests in Fundraisers hosted on our site, inform you about updates; customize
your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce
our terms and conditions; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
In our efforts to continually improve our product and service offerings, we collect and analyze
demographic and profile data about our users' activity on our Website.
We identify and use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer
our Website. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic
information.
The following is information that we will not share with any third parties or disclose to any
person other than as required by law; Sensitive Personal Data or Information of any person
being the password, financial information such as Bank account or credit card or debit card or
other payment instrument details, sexual orientation or any other sensitive personal
information not essential for the continued use of the Website.
We may share personal information with our other corporate and /or associate entities and
affiliates to help detect and prevent identity theft, fraud, and other potentially illegal acts and
cyber security incidents; correlate related or multiple accounts to prevent abuse of our
services; and to facilitate joint or co-branded services that you request where such services are
provided by more than one associated entity. Those entities and affiliates may not market to
you as a result of such sharing unless you explicitly opt-in.
We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that
such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to summons, court orders, or other legal
process. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement offices, third party rights
owners, or others in the good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
enforce our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; respond to claims that an advertisement, posting
or other content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or personal
safety of our users or the general public.
We and our affiliates will share, part with and allow any other business entity to use the
personal information provided by the User to sportingindia in the event we (or our assets) plan
to merge with or be acquired by that business entity, or re-organization, amalgamation,
restructuring of the business. Should such a transaction occur that other business entity (or the
new combined entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal
information.
Our Website links to other websites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. Sportingindia is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites.
Our Website has stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration
of the information under our control. Whenever you change or access your account information,
we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to
strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access. Our web hosts, transaction
affiliates etc, all use industry grade and standardized methods to protect your information from
any misuse.
If any User has sufficient reason to believe their Data as regarded as that which we do not share
with third parties, has been compromised or there has been a breach of security due to a
cybersecurity incident, you may write to us immediately at the contact details mentioned below
so that we may take suitable measures to either rectify such a breach and inform the concerned
authorities of a cybersecurity incident.
To report abuse on the Website, not being a cybersecurity incident, a User may click on the
Report Abuse tab found at the bottom of the page and provide details of the abuse. Upon
receiving such information sportingindia will examine the abuse and take suitable and necessary
steps to remedy it.
If at any time a User wishes to review the information provided to sportingindia at the time of
registering with sportingindia or at any time thereafter, you may do so by signing into your
account and amending the same.
We provide all users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential (promotional,
marketing-related) communications from us on behalf of our Campaigner, and from us in
general, after setting up an account. All Users are also given the option of canceling their User
accounts and bringing to our attention their desire to discontinue the use of our services.
If you want to deactivate your account or remove your contact information from all
sportingindia.org's lists and newsletters, please write to us at info@sportingindia.org.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number and generally other information which may identify you personally) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
By using the Website and/ or by providing your information, you consent to the collection and
use of the information you disclose on the Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy,
including but not limited to Your consent for sharing your information as per this privacy policy.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
we disclose it.
The donors/contributors hereby permit sportingindia.org to share their personal information
such as name, email address, contact information to the respective Campaigner and
beneficiaries of the donations made by the donors via sportingindia.org
