News Adda ("us", "we", or "News Adda") is a digital news platform committed to providing access to news, reporting, analysis and information to users around the world.

News Adda is the author and publisher of the website "newsadda.techotd.in" ("Website") as well as the services provided by News Adda through the Website.

This privacy policy governs your use of the Website and the services provided through it by News Adda.

We created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to the protection of your privacy and your personal information. Your use of and access to the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Any capitalized term used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning attributed to it in our Terms of Use.

BY USING THE WEBSITE, SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING YOUR INFORMATION YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO THE POLICIES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PRIVACY POLICY. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING, DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO UPDATE THE PRIVACY POLICY ANY TIME AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME, DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR GIVE US ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION. IF YOU USE THE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE (SUCH AS YOUR CHILD) OR AN ENTITY (SUCH AS YOUR EMPLOYER), YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AUTHORISED BY SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO (I) ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY ON SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S OR ENTITY'S BEHALF, AND (II) CONSENT ON BEHALF OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S OR ENTITY'S INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

1. WHY THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

This Privacy Policy is published in compliance with, inter alia:

• Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000;
• Regulation 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the "SPI Rules");
• Rule 3(1) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

This Privacy Policy states the following:

The type of information collected from the Users, including Personal Information (as defined in paragraph 2 below) and Sensitive Personal Data or Information (as defined in paragraph 2 below) relating to an individual; The purpose, means and modes of collection, usage, processing, retention and destruction of such information; and How and to whom News Adda will disclose such information.

2. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Generally some of the Services require us to know who you are so that we can best meet your needs. The Website records the information you provide when you register for the Website or Services or use its features. Depending on how you use the Website, you may provide the following data:

• account details when you register (your first name, last name, username, email address, gender and password, and optionally a profile photo);
• basic profile details (such as your name and email address) that Google or Facebook make available to us, if you choose to sign in with one of those services (where enabled);
• contact details when you use the contact form (your name, email address, phone number and message);
• your email address if you subscribe to our newsletter;
• your name, email address and comment, if you post a comment on an article through our comment form (where comments are enabled). Comments posted through a third-party commenting service, such as Disqus or Facebook Comments, are handled by that service as described in Section 7;
• data regarding your usage of the services;
• other information that you voluntarily choose to provide to us (such as information shared by you with us through emails or the contact form).

The said information collected from you by News Adda may constitute 'personal information' or 'sensitive personal data or information' under the SPI Rules.

"Personal Information" is defined under the SPI Rules to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available to a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.

The SPI Rules further define "Sensitive Personal Data or Information" of a person to mean personal information about that person relating to:

• passwords;
• financial information such as bank accounts, credit and debit card details or other payment instrument details;
• biometric information;
• information received by body corporate under lawful contract or otherwise;
• visitor details as provided at the time of registration or thereafter; and
• call data records.

The Website/ Services may gather certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the IP address of your device, the type of device and operating system used by you, the type of internet browser used, and information about the way you use the Website/services, such as the pages you view, the date and time of your visit and the page that referred you to the Website. This information is recorded in our server logs. When you try to log in, we also record the identifier you entered and your IP address so that we can detect and limit repeated failed login attempts. Third-party services that load on the Website, including advertising providers, may collect similar information directly from your browser, as described in Sections 5, 6 and 7 of this Privacy Policy.

News Adda will be free to use, collect and disclose information that is freely available in the public domain without your consent.

3. PRIVACY STATEMENTS

3.1 ALL USERS NOTE:

This section applies to all users.

3.1.1 Accordingly, a state of every User's utilization of and access to the Services is their acknowledgment of the Terms of Use, which additionally includes acknowledgment of the conditions of this Privacy Policy. Any User that doesn't agree with any provisions of the same has the choice to end the Services provided by News Adda right away.

3.1.2 An indicative list of information that Website may require you to provide to enable your use of the Services is provided in the Clause 2 to this Privacy Policy.

3.1.3 All the information provided to News Adda by a User, including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. You understand that News Adda may use certain information of yours, which has been designated as Personal Information or 'Sensitive Personal Data or Information' under the SPI Rules, (a) for the purpose of providing you the Services, (b) for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, (c) debugging customer support related issues. News Adda also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the End-User for the following purposes:

• Publishing such information on the Website;
• Sending news updates and newsletters to End-Users who have subscribed;
• Contacting End-Users for taking feedback about the Website and Services;
• Analyzing usage patterns for improving the Website and Services;

If you have voluntarily provided your Personal Information to News Adda for any of the purposes stated above, you hereby consent to such collection and use of such information by News Adda. However, News Adda shall not contact you on your telephone number(s) for any purpose including those mentioned in this sub-section 3.1.3, if such telephone number is registered with the Do Not Call registry ("DNC Registry") under the TRAI National Customer Preference Register (NCPR) without your express, clear and un-ambiguous written consent.

3.1.4 Collection, use and disclosure of information which has been designated as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information' under the SPI Rules requires your express assent. By affirming your assent to this Privacy Policy, you provide your assent to such use, collection and disclosure as required under applicable law.

3.1.5 News Adda does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Services and, therefore, News Adda specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Services, and you agree that you waive any claims against News Adda relating to same, and to the extent such waiver may be ineffective, you agree to release any claims against News Adda relating to the same.

3.1.6 You are responsible for keeping the information you send to us correct, such as your contact details given as part of account registration. If your personal information changes, you can correct, delete inaccuracies or alter information by updating your profile on the Website or by contacting us via contactus@newsadda.techotd.in. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete), or News Adda has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, News Adda may, at its sole discretion, discontinue the provision of the Services to you. There may be circumstances where News Adda will not correct, delete or update your Personal Data, including (a) where the Personal Data is opinion data that is kept solely for evaluative purpose; and (b) the Personal Data is in documents related to a prosecution if all proceedings relating to the prosecution have not been completed.

3.1.7 If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, contact us through contactus@newsadda.techotd.in or use the Delete Account option on the Website. We will retain your information for as long as your account with the Services is active and as needed to provide you the Services. We shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force. After a period of time, your data may be anonymous and aggregated, and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our Services effectively, but our use of the anonymous data will be solely for analytic purposes. Please note that your withdrawal of consent or cancellation of account may result in News Adda being unable to provide you with its Services or to terminate any existing relationship News Adda may have with you. See also Section 8 (Data Retention) and Section 9 (Your Rights and Choices).

3.1.8 If you wish to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding the Services, please send us an email at contactus@newsadda.techotd.in.

3.1.9 The Website does not currently offer paid services and does not collect credit card, debit card, bank account or other payment information.

3.1.10 Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when a User or the End-User or anyone visit the Website, News Adda automatically receives the IP address of the device from which anyone visited the Website. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help News Adda improve its Service. The linkage between User's IP address and User's personally identifiable information is not shared with or disclosed to third parties. This does not apply to information that your browser sends directly to third-party services, such as advertising providers, when it loads content from them (see Sections 5, 6 and 7).

3.1.11 The Website uses cookies to improve the user interface and the Website experience, such as to maintain your session, protect forms against forgery and remember your language preference. The browser places cookies on their hard drive to save the record for future, in order to track and check the information. Third-party services used on the Website (for example, translation, embedded video, advertising or analytics services, where enabled) may also set their own cookies. Each user is free to select the browser to avoid cookies, or to alert when cookies are being sent. If in case, you restrict the cookies, the Website may be limited in the use of some of the features. The cookies and similar technologies used on the Website are described in Section 5, and advertising cookies are described in Section 6.

3.1.12 A User may have limited access to the Website without creating an account on the website. In order to have access to all the features and benefits on our Website, a User must first get itself registered on our Website. To create an account, a User is required to provide the following information, which such User recognizes and expressly acknowledges is Personal Information allowing others, including News Adda, to identify the User: first name, last name, username, email address, gender and a password chosen by the User.

3.1.13 This Privacy Policy applies to Services that are owned and operated by News Adda. News Adda does not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within its Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on the User's device, collect data or solicit personal information from the Users, for which News Adda is not responsible or liable. Accordingly, News Adda does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites or applications, nor does News Adda guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such applications / websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by News Adda of the website / application, the website's / application provider, or the information on the application / website. If you decide to visit a third party application / website linked to the Website, you do this entirely at your own risk. News Adda encourages the User to read the privacy policies of that application / website.

3.1.14 The Website may enable User to communicate with other Users or to post information to be accessed by others, whereupon other Users may collect such data. Such Users, including any moderators or administrators, are not authorized News Adda representatives or agents, and their opinions or statements do not necessarily reflect those of News Adda, and they are not authorized to bind News Adda to any contract. News Adda hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any reliance or misuse of such information that is made available by Users or visitors in such a manner.

3.1.15 News Adda does not collect information about the visitors of the Website from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations, save and except for the purposes of registration of the Users (the collection, use, storage and disclosure of which each End User must agree to under the Terms of Use in order for News Adda to effectively render the Services). This does not affect the information that third-party advertising providers and other service providers collect directly from your browser, as described in Sections 5, 6 and 7.

3.1.16 News Adda maintains a strict "No-Spam" policy, which means that News Adda does not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third party without your consent.

3.1.17 News Adda has implemented reasonable security measures to protect the personal data that it has under its control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. However, for any data loss or theft due to unauthorized access to the User's electronic devices through which the User avails the Services, News Adda shall not be held liable for any loss whatsoever incurred by the User.

3.1.18 News Adda implements reasonable security practices and procedures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of News Adda's business.

3.1.19 News Adda takes your right to privacy very seriously and other than as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, will only disclose your Personal Information in the event it is required to do so by law, rule, regulation, law enforcement agency, governmental official, legal authority or similar requirements or when News Adda, in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud, or to enforce or apply the Terms of Use.

3.2 END-USERS NOTE:

This section applies to all End-Users.

3.2.1 As part of the registration process that is available to End-Users on this Website, certain information, including Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information is collected from the End-Users.

3.2.2 All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all End-Users, and all End-Users are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information to News Adda, failing which they are required to leave the Website immediately.

3.2.3 If you have inadvertently submitted any such information to News Adda prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which such information is collected, processed, stored, used or disclosed, then you may access, modify and delete such information by using options provided on the Website. In addition, you can, by sending an email to contactus@newsadda.techotd.in, inquire whether News Adda is in possession of your personal data, and you may also require News Adda to delete and destroy all such information.

3.2.4 End-Users personally identifiable information, which they choose to provide on the Website, is used to help the End-Users describe/identify themselves. Other information that does not personally identify the End-Users as an individual is collected by News Adda from End-Users (such as, patterns of utilization described above). News Adda may also use such information in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and improving the Website and Services.

3.2.5 News Adda will communicate with the End-Users through email and notices posted on the Website. If you provide a phone number (for example, through the contact form), we may use it to respond to your enquiry or, where phone verification is enabled, to send you a one-time verification code, which may be delivered through a third-party SMS service provider. Subscribers to our newsletter can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe option on the Website.

3.2.6 The information that News Adda collects in the registration process is used to provide the Services and to help News Adda improve its Services to meet the needs and preferences of End-Users. News Adda does not currently run surveys or contests through the Website.

3.2.7 All News Adda employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal data or information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every End-Users Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data and Information. News Adda uses reasonable procedures and technologies, in accordance with the applicable laws, to maintain the security of personal data. Any third-party data processor to which News Adda transfers Personal Data shall have to agree to comply with those procedures and policies, or put in place adequate measures on their own.

3.2.8 News Adda may disclose or transfer End-Users personal information where required by law, or in connection with a change in the ownership or organisation of the Website, in which case the information will continue to be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3.2.9 To the extent necessary to provide End-Users with the Services, News Adda may provide their Personal Information to third party contractors who work on behalf of or with News Adda to provide End-Users with such Services, to help News Adda communicate with End-Users or to maintain the Website. Generally these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information; however certain contractors who provide services on the Website, including the providers of online communications services, may use and disclose the personal information collected in connection with the provision of these Services in accordance with their own privacy policies. In such circumstances, you consent to us disclosing your Personal Information to contractors, solely for the intended purposes only.

4. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

4.1 Your Personal Information is maintained by News Adda in electronic form on its equipment, and on the equipment of its employees. Such information may time to time be converted to physical form. News Adda takes reasonable precautions to protect your personal information both online and off-line, and implements reasonable security practices and measures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of News Adda's business.

4.2 No administrator at News Adda will have knowledge of your password, as passwords are stored only in hashed form. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password, your computer and your mobile phone. Be sure to log out from the Website when finished. Website does not undertake any liability for any unauthorized use of your account and password. If you suspect any unauthorized use of your account, you must immediately notify News Adda by sending an email to contactus@newsadda.techotd.in. You shall be liable to indemnify News Adda due to any loss suffered by it due to such unauthorized use of your account and password.

4.3 News Adda makes all User information accessible to its employees, agents or partners and third parties only on a need-to-know basis, and binds only its employees to strict confidentiality obligations.

4.4 News Adda is not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of your Personal Information by our partners and third parties outside the scope of our agreement with such partners and third parties. Further, News Adda shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties or events that are beyond the reasonable control of News Adda including but not limited to, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorized access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality of Internet service or telephone service of the User etc.

5. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

5.1 Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device. Similar technologies, such as your browser's local storage, serve comparable purposes. News Adda uses the following on the Website:

• Session cookie (ci_session): keeps your session active, including your login if you have signed in. It lasts for a limited period of up to about two hours.
• Security cookie (csrf_cookie_name): protects the forms on the Website against cross-site request forgery. It lasts for up to about two hours.
• Login cookies (mycookie_key and mycookie_user): used to keep you signed in on your device between visits. They last for about 24 hours.
• Language cookies (language and googtrans): remember the language you select. The language cookie lasts for up to 30 days; the googtrans cookie is set by the translation tool and lasts for your browsing session.
• Cookie notice cookie (agree-terms): remembers that you have acknowledged the cookie notice, where that notice is displayed. It lasts for 30 days.
• Article view cookie (viewcookie followed by an article number): prevents the same visit to an article from being counted more than once in our view counts. It lasts for 30 minutes.
• Analytics cookies (_ga and _ga_ followed by an identifier), where Google Analytics is enabled: set by Google Analytics to recognise a browser and to group its visits into sessions. See Section 7.1.
• Browser local storage (for example na_wx, tt_lang, tt_stories_seen, sh_liked and sh_name): remembers the location you chose for the weather, air-quality and local price features, your language choice, the web stories you have already viewed, the Shortly stories you have liked and the name you last used to comment, so that you do not need to repeat these choices. It stays on your device until you clear your browser data.

5.2 Third-party services that load content on the Website may also set their own cookies or use similar technologies on your device. These include Google (advertising, analytics where enabled, and the Google Translate tool), commenting and sign-in services such as Disqus, Facebook and Google (where enabled), and embedded content from providers such as YouTube, X (Twitter), Instagram and TradingView. News Adda does not control these cookies, and their use is governed by the privacy and cookie policies of the respective providers. Cookies used for advertising are described in Section 6.

5.3 You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings, and most browsers allow you to block third-party cookies or to be notified when a cookie is set. If you block or delete cookies, parts of the Website, such as login, forms and language preferences, may not work properly. Cookie settings apply to each browser and device separately. Your choices about personalised advertising are described in Section 6.

6. ADVERTISING

6.1 Advertisements on the Website. News Adda may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense and other advertising partners. Advertisements may be shown in different places on the Website, and Google may place them automatically. Advertisements are provided by third parties. News Adda does not control their content, and their appearance on the Website is not an endorsement of the advertiser or of its products or services.

6.2 Cookies and advertising technologies. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this Website or other websites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements to you based on your visit to this Website and/or other sites on the internet. These technologies, together with information such as your IP address, browser and device details and your interactions with advertisements, may be used to:

• serve and display advertisements;
• measure the performance of advertisements and understand how users interact with them;
• limit how often you see the same advertisement;
• detect and prevent fraud, abuse and invalid traffic; and
• personalise advertisements, where this is applicable and permitted.

6.3 Personalised and non-personalised advertising. Whether the advertisements you see are personalised depends on Google's policies, applicable laws and regulations (including any requirement to ask for your consent, for example for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), your region, and your own settings, including your Google Ads Settings. Where personalised advertising is not permitted, or where you have turned it off, you may still see advertisements, but they are non-personalised, which means they are not based on your past browsing behaviour. Nothing in this Privacy Policy replaces any separate consent request that applicable law requires us or our advertising partners to make.

6.4 Your advertising choices. You can learn how Google uses information and manage your advertising preferences using these official resources:

• Google Privacy Policy
• How Google uses cookies and advertising technologies
• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
• Google Ads Settings, where you can manage or turn off personalised advertising
• Digital Advertising Alliance choices, where you can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising

6.5 Third-party advertising providers. Google and other advertising providers act as independent third parties. They collect and process information from your browser according to their own privacy policies, which may differ from this Privacy Policy, and News Adda does not control and is not responsible for those practices. If you click an advertisement, you leave the Website and the advertiser's own privacy policy applies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the advertising providers whose advertisements you see.

6.6 Information you give us. The Website does not pass the information you give us directly, such as your account details, contact form messages or newsletter email address, to Google AdSense or to advertisers.

7. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND EXTERNAL LINKS

7.1 To provide and improve the Website, we use or may use the third-party services listed below. Some of them are used only where they have been enabled for the Website. When you use these features, the provider may receive your IP address, browser and device information and information about your use of the feature, and may set cookies, in line with its own privacy policy:

• Web analytics: the Website allows the site administrator to add an analytics tracking code, such as Google Analytics. Where such a service is enabled, it uses cookies or similar technologies to collect aggregated information about how visitors use the Website, such as pages viewed, device and browser type and approximate location. Where Google Analytics is used, you can opt out with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
• Translation: Google Translate, which translates the Website into the language you select. The text of the page you are viewing is processed by Google for this purpose.
• Comments and sign-in: Disqus or Facebook Comments for article comments, and sign-in with Google or Facebook, in each case only where enabled.
• Embedded content: YouTube videos, posts from X (Twitter) or Instagram embedded in articles, and market data widgets provided by TradingView.
• Weather, air quality and location: Open-Meteo and OpenStreetMap Nominatim, as described in Section 7.2.
• Fonts and code libraries: Google Fonts and public content delivery networks, such as jsDelivr, cdnjs and Bootstrap CDN, which receive your IP address and browser details when your browser loads fonts and scripts from them.
• Email and SMS delivery: email service providers used to deliver messages from the Website, such as newsletter confirmations, account emails and replies to your enquiries, and an SMS service provider if phone verification is enabled.

7.2 Location features. Some pages may ask your browser for permission to use your device's location so that weather, air-quality and local price information can be shown for your area. This is optional. Your browser asks for your permission, you can decline, and the Website then shows information for a default location (New Delhi). If you allow it, your device coordinates are sent from your browser to OpenStreetMap Nominatim (to find the name of your city and state), to Open-Meteo (to get the weather and air quality) and to our own server (to find the nearest air-quality monitoring stations), and the name of your state is sent to our server to show local prices. We use these details only to show you this information and do not add them to your account or profile, but, like other requests to the Website, they may appear in our web server logs. Your chosen location is also saved in your browser's local storage so that you do not need to choose it again.

7.3 External links. The Website contains links to other websites, and articles may quote or embed content from them. Those websites have their own privacy practices, which News Adda does not control, as stated in clause 3.1.13. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

8. DATA RETENTION

8.1 We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or as required by applicable law. We have not set a fixed retention period for each type of data, because how long information is needed depends on why it was collected. In general:

• Account information is kept while your account is active. If you delete your account, your profile, profile photo and login access are removed.
• Newsletter email addresses are kept until you unsubscribe.
• Contact form messages are received by email and are kept for as long as needed to respond to you and to keep a record of the enquiry.
• Comments posted through the Website remain until they are removed. Comments posted through a third-party commenting service are kept according to that service's policies.
• Login-attempt records and server logs are kept for as long as is administratively necessary for security, fraud prevention and troubleshooting.
• Cookies expire as described in Section 5.

8.2 We may keep limited information for longer where this is required by law, or where it is needed to resolve disputes, prevent abuse or enforce our Terms of Use. Information held by third parties, such as advertising providers, is kept according to their own policies.

9. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

9.1 Subject to applicable law, you may ask us to:

• confirm whether we hold personal information about you and give you access to it;
• correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete;
• delete your personal information or your account;
• stop using your information for a purpose you previously agreed to, or withdraw your consent where we rely on it; and
• stop sending you newsletters or other non-essential communications.

9.2 You can make these choices in the following ways:

• update your account details from your profile on the Website, or delete your account (you will need to log in and confirm your password);
• unsubscribe from the newsletter on the unsubscribe page;
• manage cookies through your browser settings (Section 5) and advertising personalisation through the tools listed in Section 6.4;
• for any other request, email us at contactus@newsadda.techotd.in.

9.3 We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we may decline or limit a request where the law allows or requires us to do so, for example where we must keep the information. We will respond within a reasonable time. The rights available to you depend on where you live and the law that applies to you, and nothing in this Privacy Policy limits any right you have under applicable law. Requests about information held by third parties, such as Google, must be made to those parties.

10. CHANGE TO PRIVACY POLICY

News Adda may update this privacy policy at any time at its sole discretion. In the event there are significant modifications in the privacy policy, News Adda will revise the mentioned updated date at the bottom of this page and will share with users on the Website. You are required to check this page persistently. It will help you to stay updated about the latest modifications. If you do not agree with this privacy policy at any time, do not use any of the services or give us any of your information. Your constant use of the services after any modification in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance to those changes.

11. CHILDREN'S AND MINORS' PRIVACY

11.1 News Adda is a general-audience news website. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children without the consent of a parent or guardian where such consent is required by applicable law.

11.2 If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has given personal information to News Adda, for example by creating an account, subscribing to the newsletter or sending a message through the contact form, please contact us at contactus@newsadda.techotd.in. We will take reasonable steps to review the request and to delete the information that we are required or able to delete.

11.3 Content that is prohibited for children such as scandalous, obscene matter or anything which is against the morality and facilitates threats, harassment or bullying are subject to immediate removal from the Website.

12. PRIVACY ENQUIRIES AND CONTACT

12.1 If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise your privacy rights, or have a privacy-related concern or complaint, please contact News Adda at contactus@newsadda.techotd.in or through our Contact page.

12.1A You can also write to us at: Techotd Solution Private Limited, B04, Building A, Office Block A, Sector 64, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201309, India.

12.2 To help us deal with your request, please tell us the email address linked to your account or subscription and what you would like us to do.

13. CONSENT TO THIS POLICY

You acknowledge that this Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms of Use of the Website and the other Services, and you agree that becoming a user of the Website and its Services signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy and consent to News Adda using, collecting, processing and/or disclosing your Personal Information in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Your visit to the Website and use of the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.