Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Diversify India collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This privacy policy applies when you use our websites, contact us, engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. So we encourage you to review this privacy policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us when you create an account, fill out a form, submit comments on our posts, post content through our services, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, display name, username, bio, email address, business information, your content, including your avatar image, photos, posts, responses, and series published by you, and any other information you choose to provide.

We do not collect payment information through our services. We rely on third parties to process payments in connection with our services. Any information you provide to facilitate such a payment is subject to the third-party payment processor’s privacy policy, and we encourage you to review this policy before you provide any information to the payment processor.

Information We Collect Automatically When You Interact with Us

To help with spam detection, we collect visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our services and your experience.

We also work with third-party analytics providers who use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, and links clicked.

This information may be used by Diversify India and others to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver content targeted to your interests on our services, and better understand your online activity.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We collect information from third-party sources. For example, we may collect information about you from social networks, accounting service providers, and data analytics providers.

Additionally, if you create or log into your Diversify India account through a third-party platform (such as Apple, Facebook, Google, or Twitter), we will have access to certain information from that platform, such as your name, lists of friends or followers, birthday, and profile picture, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such platform.

Information We Derive

We may derive information about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may draw conclusions about your location based on your IP address or your reading preferences based on your reading history.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services. We also use the information we collect:

• To personalize your experience
• Create and maintain your Diversify India account.
• To improve customer service
• Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and protect the rights and property of Diversify India and others.
• Comply with our legal and financial obligations.
• Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.

We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example, by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our services that we believe are improper.

We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Diversify India, our users, the public, or others.

We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.

We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our website by another company.

Personal information is shared between and among Diversify India and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.

We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.

We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants you certain rights regarding your personal information. You have the right to (1) request details about the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you; (2) request the deletion of your personal information; and (3) opt out of any sales of your personal information. While we do not sell your personal information as defined under the CCPA, third-party services on our website, such as Google AdSense, Google Analytics, and Cloudflare, may independently collect and process data. (4) You are also protected from discrimination if you choose to exercise your rights. To make a request, you can email us at [email protected]. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), and Switzerland. Under GDPR, you have rights regarding your personal data, including the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict its processing.

While we do not collect personal data directly for advertising purposes, Google AdSense may process your data to display relevant ads. Google’s data practices comply with GDPR and include measures like providing non-personalized ads and allowing you to control how your data is used.

To exercise your data rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We may require you to verify your identity before responding to your request to protect your privacy and security.

THIRD-PARTY EMBEDS

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

For example, when you load Diversify India‘s post page with a YouTube video embed and watch the video, YouTube receives information about your activity, such as your IP address and how much of the video you watch.

Diversify India does not control what information third parties collect through embeds or what they do with the information. This privacy policy does not apply to information collected through embeds. The privacy policy belonging to the third party hosting the embed applies to any information the embed collects, and we recommend you review that policy before interacting with the embed.

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE

Periodically, we will review or mention products and services on this website. If we believe it is a good product or the merchant selling the product or service offers an affiliate program, we have no issue referring others to the product via an affiliate link, which means we may receive a commission or some form of compensation if you buy the product we recommend.

To comply with the FTC affiliate disclosure and maintain Diversify India’s transparent culture, we are informing our readers that we are in affiliate relationships with some companies.

We would never falsely represent a product just to receive an affiliate commission.

YOUR CONSENT

By using our site, you consent to our online privacy policy.