Privacy Policy

Connester is a news portal that gives digital content to its users. We respect your privacy and take it seriously. By using our website or applications, you comply with the terms outlined in this policy. This Privacy Policy covers how we handle personal information collected through our services. It doesn’t apply to 3rd parties we do not own or control or individuals we do not employ.

User Consent

By using the services of the websites of Connester(for example, once you register for an account, and communicate with us, on our sites or applications or through social media), you agree and supply consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your personal information as described during this policy.

Information We Collect

We will only collect your personal information and we must supply you with a service at your request, like once you contact us, register an account on our website, avail of subscription services, or access the content on the Platform(s).

Information Submitted To Us:

You give us information about you whenever you employ our services, like by doing the subsequent, a number of the subsequent categories of data are collected directly by us, and a few are provided by you directly for the performance of certain functions:

Accessing our Platforms using any browser or device;
Registration, subscribing to our Services on our Platforms;
Enquiring about our products or services;
Purchasing our subscription packages on the Platforms;
Initiating and maintaining correspondence with us.

This information may include but not be limited to the following:

Identification information like user name, date of birth, gender, profile picture, qualification, location;
Social media plugin details like – Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Apple ID, or any other– for the aim of identification
Contact information like email address, and mobile number;
Payment information (this is securely collected and processed by our payment service provider exclusively);
Additional information relevant to your use of our Platforms and Services, like just one occasion password sent for registration, your marketing preferences, place of employment and designation, survey responses, and feedback;
Financial information – Investment details, compensation details, salary range, where the relevant Service of the Platform requires such indicators.

We take extra precautions to make sure that such sensitive personal data is kept secure and confidential, and that we will only retain this data for as long as necessary for the needs that we collect it.

Information We Collect Automatically:

When you visit our Platforms, we may collect the following information:

Your activity logs on the Platform(s) – Which pages you access, view, and which links you follow;
Your IP address/ device’s serial number or a unique number and the general location, including country, address, and pin code;
A device identifier (cookie or IP address or Device ID or Android Advertiser ID / iDFA ID), or the other identifier;
Details of the hardware and software that you simply are using to access the Platforms like your computer/device name, your OS, browser type and version, application version, operator name, screen size, CPU speed, and connection speed;
Any passwords that you simply use on our Platforms or the other authentication token will log;
URL and time stamps;
Details of your visits to our Platforms and therefore the resources that you simply access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, and other communication data.

Information We Collect About You From Other Sources.

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

Publicly available information.
Information you’ve got shared publicly, including on social media. We collect your email ID and therefore the relevant public profile information, which can include your name, profile picture, age, gender, and other pertinent information from such social media accounts which is important for verification of your identity.
We also receive information from you once you interact with our pages, Apps, groups, accounts, or posts on social media platforms.

Information We Receive About You From Other Sources

Sometimes you’ll have given your consent to other websites, services, or third parties to supply information to us.
It could include information from third parties that we work with to supply our products and services, like delivery companies, technical support companies, and advertising companies. Whenever we receive information about you from these third parties, we’ll only use it in a fashion that’s already communicated to you, as per this Policy, and for such defined purposes only. We may further collect additional analytics reports, and information from other services, and websites, that work alongside us.
When you choose any subscription or paid service, we or our payment gateway provider may collect and/or process your personal information like address or billing information, including your credit/debit card number and expiration date, etc. as per the terms of this Policy. 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. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies provided by such third parties before providing them together with your information or getting into any transactions with them.

Purpose Of Collection Of Data

We collect information (including Personal Information) to supply the Services and for the needs as outlined below including but not limited to:

To help us identify you once you log into the Platform and once you register an account with us, and, to map a selected profile with a licensed user;
To help facilitate in-app purchases and make subscribed and paid content available to you;
To enhance the standard of services that we offer and improve your experience during browsing;
To personalize your browsing experience on the Platform(s);
To recommend videos, content, and news to users they could have an interest in;
For providing location-based services;
For the performance of a contractual and legal obligation;
To communicate with you;
To provide you with news, special offers, general information, and commercial communications about other products and services alongside marketing information and surveys;
To provide and process service requests initiated by you.
Notification of any changes within the terms of use or privacy policy;
Resolution of any queries associated with your use of Services.
Any other new services developed by us, our affiliates, subsidiaries, and /or third-party partners

Sharing and Use

We may share your information with our trusted partners or third parties who provide us with support services, for meeting the obligations agreed to between you and us.

We may use and/or disclose your information with the Company-controlled businesses, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other entities within the businesses, other third-party business partners, and service providers including but not limited to services providers, advertising networks, technology partners, social networks, and the other third parties:

To assist them to succeed in bent you about their programs or campaigns (including marketing and sales) and to process your query or requests (such as job application) and or provide the services;
To process payments on our behalf. Our payment provider will collect and process your payment details; we’ll not store or have access to your full credit or open-end credit details, except any transactional information for the aim of reconciliation of transactions on our Platform(s).
To send emails, instant messages, social media messages, and SMS messages and/or manage contact management systems.
Serve ads on our Platforms, affiliate websites, and the other digital platforms available on the web. However, the privacy policy of such digital platforms shall apply to the processing of data on such third-party digital platforms.

4 Data Retention

We will only store your personal information for as long as we’d like it for the needs that it has been collected. Retention periods for records also will be supported by the sort of record, the character of the activity, and the merchandise and repair that an equivalent is related to, linked. We retain your information till such period that’s required for the needs of folks meeting your requests on our Platforms, and in compliance with the applicable laws, and statutory requirements

Information Security

We take commercially reasonable technical, physical, and organizational steps to safeguard any information you provide to us and to guard it from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. Where we’ve given you (or where you’ve chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our website, you’re liable for keeping this password confidential.