Privacy Policy

Your Privacy is important to us. This policy governs the manner in which Law Tidings Services LLP (“LTSL”) protects data available on www.lawbeat.in (“Platforms”) including any personal data, confidential or other information provided to LTSL. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), references to Platform will also include usage of our website, services, applications, products and content as may be made available.

We do not sell/trade your personally identifiable information; however, we may share the same with third parties who assist us in conducting our business, operating our Platforms, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. By using the Platforms, you agree, acknowledge, and grant your consent for the collection, use, storage, and transfer of your information in terms of this Privacy Policy. 

What Information Is Collected About You

Information you provide directly:

When you use certain functions provided by the Platform, such as when you register for certain services, access, features or services, we may ask you to provide certain personal data such as name, contact number, postal address, email address. 

We may ask for certain details such as name; date of birth; e-mail address; residential address; contact number etc for registration purposes or for giving feedback, contests, newsletters and placing an order. At any point in time, you can unsubscribe to our newsletters or any other information which you may receive from LTSL or Lawbeat. 

Also, for enhanced security, LTSL does not accept/ store any financial information on its servers. All information entered by the customer is directly received through our payment gateway and are transmitted to their respective bank's servers. All this is done through industry standard encryption protocol known as SSL (Secure Socket Layer). 

Information that is automatically collected when you visit the Site:

When you visit the Site, certain information may be collected automatically, which includes:

a. Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) Address,
b. Your browser type and operating system,
c. Web pages and links, you visit, advertisements you view,
d. Your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs that are installed on your computer,
e. Standard server log information.

Information that we collect from other sources:

We may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you. We also may receive information about you from third-party social networking services when you choose to connect with those services.

How We Use The Information We Collect

General: 

LTSL may use the information collected from you to register you or your device for a service, to provide a service or feature your request, to provide customized content and make recommendations based on your past activities on our Platforms.

Advertisements:

LTSL may use your information to provide you with product and service updates, newsletters and other communications about new developments and changes in law, any judgements passed by Indian Courts by post, email, telephone, whatsapp and/or text message (SMS), if you have provided your prior consent or we are otherwise permitted to do so under applicable law.

Statistics and Research: 

LTSL may use your information to create user group profiles or segment data and to otherwise create anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our services, which we may share with third parties and/or make available to the public.

Publish your reviews, comments and content: 

Where you have uploaded your reviews, comments or content to our Platforms and made them publicly visible, LTSL may link to, publish or publicize these materials elsewhere including in our own advertisements.

To Whom We Disclose Your Personal Data 

a. We may employ third party entities and individuals to facilitate our services (e.g. maintenance, analysis, audit, marketing, and development). These third parties have limited access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated to LTSL, not to disclose or use it for other purposes. 

b. If you choose to use the Platform, you will be asked to confirm acceptance of the third party developer user agreement, if any and LTSL privacy policy.

c. There may be instances when we disclose your information to other parties to comply with the law or respond to compulsory legal process or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our services or to protect the rights, property, or safety of LTSL, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, or customers or to enforce the terms and conditions and other agreements governing the terms of usage of this LTSL.

Cookies 

Some pages of our Platforms may use cookies and other tracking technologies. We and our service providers use cookies for various reasons. We want you to be informed about our use of these cookies, so this section explains what cookies are, what they do, and your choices regarding their use. 
A cookie is software program that may be used, for example, to collect information about the app/Platform activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall personal information previously indicated by you. Most browsers permit you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. We use cookies for various reasons, like making it easy to access our services by remembering you when you return; to provide, analyse, understand and enhance the use of our services; to enforce our terms, prevent fraud; to improve site performance, monitor visitor traffic and actions on our site; and to deliver and tailor our marketing or advertising, and to understand interactions with our emails, marketing, and online ads on third party sites.  
To help you better understand how we use cookies, please see the information below:

Essential cookies    

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide our Platform. For example, we and our service providers may use these cookies to authenticate and identify our members when they use our Platform so we can provide our service to them. They also help us to enforce our Terms, prevent fraud and maintain the security of our service. 

Performance and functionality cookies 

These cookies are not essential, but they help us to personalize and enhance your online experience with LTSL and over the Platforms. For example, they help us to remember your preferences and prevent you from needing to re-enter information you previously provided (for example, during member sign up). We also use these cookies to collect information (such as viewing patterns, click-through and other information) about our visitors' use so that we can enhance and personalize our Site and conduct market research. Deletion of these types of cookies may result in limited functionality of our service.

Advertising cookies 

These cookies use information about your use of this and other websites, your response to ads and emails, and to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and for analytics and optimization purposes. These types of ads are called "interest-based advertising." Many of the advertising cookies associated with our service belong to our service providers. 
In connection with our use of these cookies, some of the websites and apps where we advertise, as well as advertising technology companies that we use to purchase, deliver, optimize, and/or measure our advertisements (collectively “Advertising Partners”), may receive limited information from us as part of our campaign targeting, measurement, and optimization (e.g., steps completed in sign-up and site visit or app open/install information).
Common uses of this type of information are to judge the effectiveness of and optimize ad campaigns, by allowing Advertising Partners to see when someone who saw an ad later purchased goods from our Platform.

Your Privacy Choices

We offer a variety of choices about how we use your information. You can make choices about whether to receive promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the communication. In addition, you can also generally make choices in your settings, or by visiting relevant links. 

Protection Of Information

We shall endeavour to take measures to protect your information from misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration and to achieve this end, LTSL may put into effect reasonable physical and technical measures to safeguard the information we collect in connection with the services. For example, we encrypt your passwords and credit card information when you transmit them to us. However, we will treat any communication or material you transmit to the Website by electronic mail or otherwise that is not personally identifiable information as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Such communications or materials include, without limitation, questions or answers, comments, feedback, and suggestions. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, internet transmission, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure. LTSL seeks to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules framed thereunder to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy.

Links To Other Websites

The Platforms may contain links to other websites and/or applications that we do not own or control. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to these websites/applications. LTSL is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites or applications. Such content is subject to their terms of use and any additional guidelines and privacy information provided in relation to that use on their website. We recommend that you check the policy of each website/application you visit to better understand your rights and obligations especially when you are submitting any type of content on those third party website/applications. Please contact the owner or operator of such website/application if you have any concerns or questions.

Changes To The Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices and service offerings. You are requested and expected to review the Privacy Policy regularly as you have deemed to have accepted any variation if you continue to use the Platform after any such varied terms are posted on the Platforms. 

Queries/ Concerns

Any queries and/or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or practices relating to any of the Platforms should be directed at the contact address given at the website. Should there be any concerns about contravention of this Privacy Policy, LTSL will employ reasonable efforts to address the same.