Privacy Policy
Podian Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as "POD- Photographer on demand") values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as "Policy"), we describe the information that we collect about you when you visit our website(hereinafter referred to as "Website") and use the services available on the Mobile Application ("Services"), and how we use and disclose that information.
This Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the POD Terms of Use, which can be accessed at https://www.photographerondemand.in/. Your use of the Website and/or Services and any personal information you provide on the Website or Mobile Application remains subject to the terms of the Policy and POD's Terms of Use.
A. COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Collection Of Personal Information
“Personal information” is defined to include information that whether on its own or in combination with other information may be used to readily identify or contact you such as: name, address, email address, phone number etc.
During the Account registration process and during your usage of POD’s website or Mobile Application, we will collect information such as your name, postal code, telephone, email address and other personal information. You also may provide us with your, mailing address, and demographic information (e.g., gender, age, political preference, education, race or ethnic origin, and other information relevant to user surveys and/or offers). We may also collect personal information that you post in your Offer, Profile, Wants, or Feedback, and any comments or discussions you post in any blog, chat room, or other correspondence site on the Website or mobile application, or any comments you provide during dispute resolution with other users of the Website or mobile application.
POD reserves the right to record the conversations between Photographers and consumers facilitated by POD through the messaging/chat mechanism on the platform or the calls made through the virtual numbers provided to safeguard the privacy of consumers and service professionals. All the chat/messaging logs or call recordings can be used to but not limited to monitor and prohibit abuse, safeguard the rights of consumers and service professionals, resolve disputes.
If we deem it necessary, in our sole and absolute discretion, we may also ask for and collect supplemental information from third parties, such as information to verify any identification details you provide during registration, to the extent permissible by law.
2. Collection Of Personal Information From Social Networking Sites
You may log into our Website through your Facebook account. If you do so, you must enter the email address and password that you use for your Facebook account. We will ask that you grant us permission to access and collect your Facebook basic information (this includes your name, profile picture, gender, networks, user IDs, list of friends, date of birth, email address, and any other information you have set to public on your Facebook account). If you allow us to have access to this information, then we will have access to this information even if you have chosen not to make that information public.
We store the information that we receive from Facebook with other information that we collect from you or receive about you.
Facebook controls the information it collects from you. For information about how Facebook may use and disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult Facebook's privacy policy. We have no control over how any third party site uses or discloses the personal information it collects about you.
3. Collection Of Automatic Information, Use Of Cookies And Other Tracking Devices
We and our third party service providers, which include ad networks, use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our Website and Services, such as your browser type, your ISP or operating system, your domain name, your access time, the URL of the previous website you visited, your page views, your IP address, and the type of device that you use. We also track how frequently you visit our Website and use our Services. We use this information (including the information collected by our third party service providers) for Website analytics (including to determine which portions of our Website are used most frequently, what our users like/do not like), to assist us in determining relevant advertising (both on and off our Website), to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns, and as otherwise described in this policy.
We may obtain your device ID, which is sent to POD's servers and used in fraud prevention efforts.
We and our third party service providers collect information from you by using cookies. A cookie is a small file stored on user's computer hard drive containing information about the user. The cookie helps us analyze web traffic or informs you about your use of a particular website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual, tailoring its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. When you visit the Website, we may send one or more cookies (i.e., a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer that identifies your browser.
Some of these cookies may be connected to third-party companies or websites. The terms of use of such cookies are governed by this Policy and the privacy policy of the relevant third party company or website. For example, Google measures the performance of advertisements by placing cookies on your computer when you click on ads. If you visit the Website when you have such cookies on your computer, we and Google will be able to tell that you saw the ad delivered by Google. The terms of use of these cookies are governed by this Policy and Google's Privacy Policy.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you disable cookies you may be prevented from taking full advantage of the Website because it may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
B. HOW POD USES THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
1. How Personal Information Is Used
We collect your personal information and aggregate information about the use of our Website and Services to better understand your needs and to provide you with a better Website experience. Specifically, we may use your personal information for any of the following reasons:
• To provide our Services to you, including registering you for our Services, verifying your identity and authority to use our Services, and to otherwise enable you to use our Website and our Services;
• For customer support and to respond to your inquiries;
• For internal record-keeping purposes;
• To process billing and payment, including sharing with third party payment gateways in connection with Website and/or POD's products and Services;
• To improve and maintain our Website and our Services (for example, we track information entered through the "Search" function; this helps us determine which areas of our Website users like best and areas that we may want to enhance; we also will use for trouble-shooting purposes, where applicable);
• To periodically send promotional emails to the email address you provide regarding new products from POD, special offers from POD or other information about POD that we think you may find interesting;
• To contact you via email, telephone, facsimile or mail, or, where requested, by text message, to deliver certain services or information you have requested;
• For POD's market research purposes, including, but not limited to, the customization of the Website according to your interests;
• We may use your demographic information (i.e., age, postal code, residential and commercial addresses, and other various data) to more effectively facilitate the promotion of goods and services to appropriate target audiences and for other research and analytical purposes;
• To resolve disputes, to protect ourselves and other users of our Website and Services, and to enforce our Terms of Use;
• We also may compare personal information collected through the Website and Services to verify its accuracy with personal information collected from third parties; and
• We may combine aggregate data with the personal information we collect about you.
• From time to time, POD may use personal information for new and unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change regarding information previously collected, POD shall make reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent of any such uses as may be required by law.
C. DISCLOSURE
We may share the information that we collect about you, including your personal information, as follows:
1. Information Disclosed To Protect Us And Others
We may disclose your information including Personal Information if:
(i) POD reasonably believes that disclosure is necessary in order to comply with a legal process (such as a court order, search warrant, etc.) or other legal requirement of any governmental authority,
(ii) disclosure would potentially mitigate our liability in an actual or potential lawsuit,
(iii) reasonably necessary to enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use etc.
(iv) disclosure is intended to help investigate or prevent unauthorized transactions or other illegal activities, or
(v) necessary or appropriate to protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of any person or entity.
2. Information Disclosed To Third Party Service Providers And Business Partners
We may contract with various third parties for the provision and maintenance of the Website, Services and our business operations, and POD may need to share your personal information and data generated by cookies and aggregate information (collectively, "information") with these vendors and service agencies. For example, we may provide your information to a credit card processing company to process your payment. The vendors and service agencies will not receive any right to use your personal information beyond what is necessary to perform its obligations to provide the Services to you. If you complete a survey, we also may share your information with the survey provider; if we offer a survey in conjunction with another entity, we also will disclose the results to that entity.
3. Information Disclosed To Law Enforcement Or Government Officials
We will disclose your information, including, without limitation, your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, user ID history, quoting and listing history, and fraud complaints, to law enforcement or other government officials if we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or otherwise in cooperation with an investigation of a governmental authority.
4. In The Event Of A Change Of Control Or Bankruptcy
In the event that POD undergoes a change in control, including, without limitation, a merger or sale of all or substantially all of POD's assets to which this Website relates or other corporate reorganization in which POD participates, and is thus merged with or acquired by a third party entity (a "Successor"), POD hereby reserves the right to transfer the information we have collected from the users of the Website and/or Services to such Successor.
In addition, in the event of POD's bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application or laws or equitable
principles affecting creditors' rights generally, POD may not be able to control how your information is transferred, used, or treated and reserves the right to transfer the information we have collected from the users of the Website and/or Services to non- affiliated third parties in such event.
D. LINKS TO EXTERNAL WEBSITES
The Website may contain links to other websites or resources over which POD does not have any control. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by POD of those external websites. You acknowledge that POD is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that POD is not responsible for the content of such external websites. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such external websites and such sites are not governed by this Policy. Your use of any external website is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy located on the linked to external website.
E. UPDATING, DELETING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
You can review, correct and delete your personal information by logging into the Website and navigating to your preferences page in "Edit Profile." You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Typically, we will not manually alter your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. Nonetheless, upon your request we will close your Account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible based on your Account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain information from closed Accounts in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations of any Registered User, enforce our Terms of Use, and take any other actions otherwise permitted by law that we deem necessary in our sole and absolute discretion. You should understand, however, that once you publicly post a Request, Offer, Want, Feedback, or any other information onto the Website, you may not be able to change or remove it. Once we have deleted or removed your Account, you agree that POD shall not be responsible for any personal information that was not included within your deleted and/or removed Account that remains on the Website.
F. THIRD-PARTY AD NETWORKS
We participate in third party ad networks that may display advertisements on other websites based on your visits to our Site as well as other websites. This enables us and these third parties to target advertisements by displaying ads for products and services in which you might be interested. Third party ad network providers, advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. These third party cookies and other technologies are governed by each third party's specific privacy policy, and not by POD’s Policy. We may provide these third-party advertisers with information about your usage of our Site and our services, as well as
aggregate or non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our Site and users of our service.
G. ACCOUNT PROTECTION
Your password is the key to your Account. When creating your password you should use unique numbers, letters, special characters, and combinations thereof. In addition, DO NOT disclose your password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, you are solely responsible for all actions taken via your Account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Thus, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you must immediately notify POD to change your password.
H. USER GENERATED CONTENT
We invite you to post content on our Website, including your comments, feedback, pictures, and any other information that you would like to be available on our Website. If you post content to our Website, all of the information that you post will be available to all visitors to our Website. If you post your own content on our Website or Services, your posting may become public and POD cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.
I. PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
This policy is current as of the effective date set forth above. POD may, in its sole and absolute discretion, change this policy from time to time by updating this document. POD will post its updated policy on the website on this page. POD encourages you to review this policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this website and/or continued provision of personal information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current policy.
G. USER DATA SAFETY
POD app collects user's name, phone no, email and other essential information to book a photographer on the platform. and voluntarily get user's current location to give personalized experience to the user.
We do not disclose or sell data to any third party