Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy updated on 23-8-23

Background

This page informs you of the policies of the website www.theroadstory.in regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Road Story. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By visiting our website, you are doing so at your own free will. By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect and Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

Security of your Information

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but we would like to inform you that that no method of transfer on the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We will put our best efforts to use commercially acceptable methods for the protection of your Personal Information but we cannot guarantee its complete security.

How we use your information

Your information can be used by us to:

• Operate and Maintain our website

• Improvise, personalize, and expand our website

• Understand and analyze how you use our website

• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners,

• Find and prevent fraud

Sharing of Information

We share information about you as

• With your consent or at your direction, including with third parties who participate in a marketing campaign, seminar, webinars, marketplace product offering or other joint product, service or event, and/or with distributors and resellers of Information products and services or with sellers of products and services complementary to Information products and services, for their sales and marketing purposes.

• With vendors, consultants and other service providers to perform services for us, including payment processors, data enrichments service providers and analytics service providers.

• If required by applicable law, regulation or legal process, including in connection with lawful requests by law enforcement, national security, or other public authorities;

• To protect the rights, property and safety of the information of others;

• With enterprise customers on whose behalf you use our Services, e.g., as an employee;

• In connection with the merger or sale of all or a portion of our business to another company

Copyrights

Unless mentioned on the website or blog, all content(blogs and images) is owned by The Road Story and we are the legal copyright holder of the content. No one has the right to use, reprint or republish the content without our written and prior consent.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Log Files

The Road Story follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and version, Internet Service Provider (ISP), the pages of our website that you visit, date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, The Road Story uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Road Story, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that The Road Story has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

The Road Story’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Children's Information

We are adding protection for children while using the internet. We advise parents to check their child’s online activity. The Road Story does not on purpose or knowledge collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 years. In case you come to know of any information provided by your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately. We can then try to remove such information.

Applicability of Laws

The Website and its policies will be governed by the Laws of India. With your usage of the website you hereby agree that any dispute will be in the jurisdiction of courts of Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 15th Aug 2023 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. Any notification regarding the changes will be updated on this page. You are hereby advised to check our Privacy Policy regularly for the updates.

Letters to The Road Story

We might disclose (make public), if required any letter, message, email or communication received to us from the reader but we will not provide the mentioned communication to any 3rd party other than required by any Government or Judicial Authority in India.

Queries and Questions

If you have any further questions or any query regarding our Privacy Policy then you can choose to email us at hello@theroadstory.in