PRIVACY POLICY
OnlinePublic Inc., doing business as Inditown, (hereinafter also referred to as “Inditown/ Company/ we/ our/ us”) operates www.inditown.com (“Website”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users (hereinafter referred to as “user/ you/ your”) and ensures complete confidentiality and security of personal information that resides with us.
This Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as “Policy”) describes how we and/or our subsidiary (ies) and/or affiliate(s) protect your personal information provided to us on our Website and how we use that information in connection with the service offered through the Website and must be read in conjunction with our Terms of Condition.
We wish to assure you that the Company is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its users and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures in line with the best industry practices to protect the confidentiality of your personal information and its transmission through our website.
You understand and acknowledge that this policy is effective from the date and time a user registers with the site (“Effective Date”) and accept the terms and conditions laid out on the site. We may alter this Privacy Policy as needed for certain services and abide by the applicable laws.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM YOU
Inditown collect personally identifiable information like first name, last name, mobile number, address, and e-mail address. Other information that we may collect includes location details, IP address, logs, metadata and other Personal Data we get from communications done through e-mails.
Inditown may collect information about the location of your device to facilitate your use of certain features of our Services, device ID, and device type, determine the speed at which your device is travelling, and add location-based filters. We may collect information about the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifier, phone number, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and mobile network information. This information includes, but is not limited to demographic data, navigation data, additional contact data and additional data about you from other sources, such as public authorities, to the extent permitted by law.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The Company may utilize Personal Data for the following purposes:
Service Maintenance and Monitoring: To provide and maintain the Service, including the monitoring of Service usage.
Account Management: To manage User registration and facilitate access to various Service functionalities available to registered Users.
Contractual Obligations To develop, fulfill, and execute purchase contracts for products, items, or services acquired by the User, or any other contracts established through the Service.
Communication To contact the User via email, telephone, SMS, or other electronic means regarding updates, informative communications related to Service functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable.
Promotional Offers To provide the User with news, special offers, and general information about goods, services, or events similar to those previously purchased or inquired about, unless the User has opted out of receiving such communications.
Request Management To address and manage User requests directed to the Company.
Business Transfers To evaluate or conduct mergers, divestitures, restructurings, reorganizations, dissolutions, or other asset sales or transfers, whether as a going concern or within bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings, in which Personal Data held by the Company is included among the transferred assets.
Other Purposes The Company may use Personal Data for additional purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, assessing the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving the Service, products, services, marketing, and the overall User experience.
STORING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Inditown retains your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which we process the information as set out in this policy. However, we may retain your Personal Data for a longer period of time where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Inditown we do not share your personal information with our other corporate entities and affiliates. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement offices, third-party rights owners, or others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy or protect the rights, property or personal safety of our users or the general public.
USE OF COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER TRACKERS
We use temporary and permanent cookies, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify users of our services and to enhance user experience and to identify visitors, track website navigation, gather demographic information about visitors and users, understand email campaign effectiveness and for targeted visitor and user engagement by tracking your activities on our websites.
Further, the pages on the website may also include web beacons or pixels, which are electronic files to count users who have visited that page, to track activity over time and across different websites, to determine users’ interactions with emails we send, to identify certain cookies on the computer or other electronic device accessing that page, or to collect other related information, and this information may be associated with your unique browser, device identifier, or Internet Protocol address.
You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent to your computer. However, this may prevent our site or services from working properly. You can also set your browser to delete cookies every time you finish browsing. For more information, you can refer to our cookie policy.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may provide links to third-party websites for your information. If you access those links through our website, you will leave our website. We do not own and control those sites, their content or their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website before submitting your personal information.
WE HEREBY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR, ANY INFORMATION, MATERIALS, OR SERVICES POSTED OR OFFERED AT ANY OF THE THIRD-PARTY SITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE. BY CREATING A LINK TO A THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE, WE DO NOT ENDORSE OR RECOMMEND ANY SERVICES OFFERED OR INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THAT WEBSITE, NOR ARE WE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF SERVICES OFFERED OR ADVERTISED AT THOSE SITES. SUCH A THIRD PARTY MAY HAVE A PRIVACY POLICY DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF OURS AND THE THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE MAY PROVIDE LESS SECURITY THAN THIS SITE.
SAFETY OF YOUR DATA
Inditown have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instruction, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (CalOPPA)
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
- Our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy”, and can easily be found on the home page of our website;
- users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page;
- users are able to change their personal information by emailing us at the contact details mentioned in the “Contact Us” clause.
Our Policy on “Do Not Track” Signals:
We honor Do Not Track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track browser mechanism is in place. Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.
YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS ARE UNDER THE CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT (CPRA).
“Shine the Light” and “Eraser” Laws: Residents of the State of California may request a list of all third parties to which we have disclosed certain information during the preceding year for those third parties' direct marketing purposes.
- Our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy”, and can easily be found on the home page of our website;
- users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page;
- users are able to change their personal information by emailing us at the contact details mentioned in the “Contact Us” clause.
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)/California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA): The CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, provides California residents and/or their authorized agents with specific rights regarding the collection and storage of their personal information.
- Your Right to Know: California residents have the right to request that we disclose the following information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. We may ask you to provide certain information to identify yourself so that we may compare it with our records in order to verify your request. Upon verification, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we have collected about you.
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose is to collect.
- The categories of third parties to whom we have sold or shared your personal information if any, and the categories of personal information that we have shared with each third-party recipient.
- Your Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information: California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information by submitting a request as directed on the homepage of our website or by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that we do not knowingly sell the personal information of any individuals under the age of 18.
- Your Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: California residents have the right to request that we limit our use of any sensitive personal information to those uses which are necessary to perform the Services or for other specifically-enumerated business purposes under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA.
- Your Right to Delete: California residents have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information collected from you and retained by us, subject to certain exceptions. We may ask you to provide certain information to identify yourself so that we may compare it with our records in order to verify your request. Once your request is verified and we have determined that we are required to delete the requested personal information in accordance with the CCPA, we will delete, and direct our third-party service providers to delete, your personal information from their records. Your request to delete personal information that we have collected may be denied if we conclude it is necessary for us to retain such personal information under one or more of the exceptions listed in the CCPA.
- Your Right to Correct: Under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, California residents have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which we are processing such personal information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct such inaccurate personal information about you.
- Non-Discrimination: You will not receive any discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.
- Verifying Your Request: Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. In the case of access and deletion, your request must be verifiable before we can fulfil such a request. Verifying your request will require you to provide sufficient information for us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or a person authorized to act on your behalf. We will only use the personal information that you have provided in a verifiable request in order to verify your request. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority. Please note that we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on a request if such request is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. To exercise these rights, please contact us.
Where we are sharing your personal information with third parties for the purposes of cross-context behavioural advertising or profiling, you may opt-out of such sharing at any time by submitting a request as directed on the homepage of our Website or by contacting us using the information on the “Contact Us” section below.
YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER THE LAWS OF OTHER STATES IN THE USA.
- Nevada
- If you are a resident of Nevada, you have some additional rights:
- We do not sell your covered information, as defined under Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes.
- Virginia
- If you are a resident of Virginia, you have some additional rights:
- If we deny your rights request, you have the right to appeal that decision. We will provide you with the necessary information to submit an appeal at that time.
- You have the right to opt out of targeted advertising.
- You have the right to opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
- Colorado
- If you are a resident of Colorado, you have some additional rights:
- If we deny your rights request, you have the right to appeal that decision. We will provide you with the necessary information to submit an appeal at that time.
- You have the right to opt out of targeted advertising.
- You have the right to opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
- Connecticut
- If you are a resident of Connecticut, you have some additional rights:
- If we deny your rights request, you have the right to appeal that decision. We will provide you with the necessary information to submit an appeal at that time.
- You have the right to opt out of targeted advertising
- You have the right to opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer.
If you live in a state other than that mentioned above you will be entitled to all the rights outlined in the data protection laws specific to your state. If you need any assistance for the same you can contact us, and we will be very happy to guide you.
HOW LONG IS YOUR DATA USED
Inditown will use your personal data for as long as necessary based on why we collected it and what we use it for. This may include our need to satisfy a legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirement.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In general terms, we will retain your personal data for the duration of your involvement/engagement with us and for as long as reasonably necessary afterwards; however, we may maintain different retention periods for different services. There are also certain types of information which are required to be retained for a certain period by law.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Inditown wants to emphasize our commitment to safeguarding the privacy of children under the age of thirteen (13). Inditown does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from them unless we have obtained explicit consent from their parents or legal guardians. If you ever come across a situation where a child has shared their Personal Data with us without the necessary consent from their parent or legal guardian, we kindly request you to inform us. In such cases, we will take immediate steps to ensure the removal of this information from our servers to maintain compliance with COPPA.
MODIFICATIONS TO THE POLICY
Inditown may update this Privacy Policy and information security procedures from time to time. If these privacy and/or information security procedures materially change at any time in the future, we will post the new changes conspicuously on the Website to notify you.
Please note that we may attempt to notify you when changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you are responsible for periodically reviewing any changes which may be made to the Policy. We may, in our sole discretion, modify or revise the Policy at any time, and you agree to be bound by the same.
Your continued use of our website and service/s, following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
CONTACT US
In case you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our practices relating to the website, or your dealings with us, please contact us at contact@inditown.com.
