C Pi Media Services Pvt. Ltd. Privacy Policy

Transparency

What data do we collect from you and when do we do so?

To enable you to enjoy certain features of our Services, we collect certain types of information, including personally identifiable information. For example, we collect information when you:

Sign up to receive email newsletters

When we send newsletters to subscribers, we may allow advertisers or partners to include messages in those newsletters or send dedicated newsletters on behalf of those advertisers or partners. To unsubscribe from a particular newsletter, click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of that email newsletter.

Register

When you register to use forums or other Services, we ask you to provide certain information, including your email address, office address, designation, state, zip code, phone, and country.

Member Information

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. goal in collecting Member Information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services and to offer you opportunities to obtain other products and services from us and our partners. Because we derive revenue from advertising, collecting information is essential to keeping our services available to users.

We collect Member Information when you provide it to us through the following:

• When you register on one of our sites.
• Subscribe to an e-mail newsletter.
• Register for one of our events or access certain Content through surveys, as well as when you register to receive a demonstration or “test-drive” software products.

Several of our services on our Sites may require registration as a condition of use. Once you register with one of the C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. Sites, you are no longer anonymous to us. To the extent that we combine any Clickstream Data or Supplementary Information with the information provided by you, it will be considered to be part of your Member Information.

Clickstream Data

When you access a site, a small file called a “cookie” is placed on your hard drive. If you register as a Member, C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. will use cookies to authenticate your identity when you visit the Sites, collect the data generated in connection with your clickstream activity on the Sites, and to personalize your user experience on the Sites, including by serving and managing ads based on your activity on the Sites.

In all cases, C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. uses cookies to track the Clickstream Data of Members on the Sites and to obtain non-personally identifiable information from Users, such as the number of visits to the Sites that a certain user has made, the movement of the User through the Sites, and the searches that the user conducts on the Sites.

Please note that C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. does not collect Clickstream Data on any websites other than the Sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. features and services may not be available to you if your cookies are disabled. We use electronic images known as “clear GIFs” (sometimes called “transparent GIFs”, “Web bugs”, “pixel tags” or “beacons”) that allow us to track general user traffic patterns. C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. also automatically receives and records information from our servers and your browser, including your IP address, the time, and information about the page you access.

To learn more about how third parties may collect and use information online, and how you can exercise opt-out choices regarding that information email us at sales@creativepimedia.com.

How does C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. collect Personal Information?

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. collects Personal Information online through websites and other online resources. C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. also offers online resources in collaboration with other online service providers, from which it may receive personal information about Users of such resources. These online collaborations are governed by agreements that require Personal Information to be protected appropriately.

Trust

Why does C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. collect, use, and share Personal Information?

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. collects Personal Information so that it can provide its users with valuable and useful content and services, and offer you opportunities to obtain other high-quality products and services from our partners. C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. analyses Personal Information collected online to identify and offer additional services and promotions that we believe you might find interesting.

Use and Disclosure of Information We Collect

Member Information

Certain C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. Sponsors receive or are granted access to reports that may include your Member Information and, in some instances, information about your areas of interest derived from your Clickstream Data. If you do not want this information shared, you can exercise opt-out choices regarding that information, by emailing us at sales@creativepimedia.com.

Except as outlined in this Privacy Policy, C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. will not disclose any personally identifiable Member Information to any third parties unless we are required to do so by law, regulation, or court order.

Clickstream Data

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. uses Cookies to collect Clickstream Data on the Sites. C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. uses Cookies to link User activity to their Member Information. Linking User activity to Member Information allows our system to confirm a user’s identity on the Sites and to save and recognize Member log-in information so that Members do not have to log in each time they visit the Sites or access content.

We use Clickstream data for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to:

• Help us recognize your computer as a previous visitor and save and remember any preference that may have been set while you were visiting one of our Websites or a Co-Branded Site.
• Track, accumulate, and report information on our sites and content usage to our partners and customers so that they can measure the effectiveness of advertisements and content viewed on the Websites.
• Help us customize the content and advertisements you are shown while visiting our Websites and potentially other websites online.
• Determine which features Users like best to help us improve our Content and Sites, personalize your user experience, and measure overall Site effectiveness.
• Share non-personally identifying information about your areas of interest to third parties to allow targeted advertising elsewhere on the internet using Tracking Technologies, and Disclose aggregated information as detailed below.

Co-Branded Websites

Member Information collected when you register or log in on a Co-Branded Site, and Clickstream Data collected when on the Co-Branded Site, are generally available both to C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. and that partner. However, each partner’s use of that Member Information is governed by that partner’s privacy policy and may be used for follow-up by telephone, email, or other common methods. You should contact these partners directly if you have any questions about their use of this information.

Event Registration Information

When you register to attend a vendor-sponsored C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. in-person event (including Conferences, Custom Media events, and Editorial events), your contact information is used to confirm registrations and send product information and promotional material from C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. and the event sponsors. This information may also be used to compile broad demographic information.

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. may disclose Member Information provided during the event registration process by vendors sponsoring the event. The sponsoring vendor’s use of your Event Registration Information is governed by the vendor’s privacy policy.

Your Privacy Control

You can also control, ask, and delete your data by contacting us. To know more about how you can control, ask and delete data email us at sales@creativepimedia.com

Data Storage

We store the data for only three years from the date it is collected.

Keeping your information secure is our utmost priority

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. has implemented reasonable security measures to protect information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Our security systems include authenticated access to internal databases, audits of procedures, and regular reviews of overall Web security.

Information we collect using technology

Device Information

We may collect information about the browser, computer, mobile phone, smartphone or another device you use to access the Services to measure the effectiveness of those Services.

Cookies and Similar Technology

As further explained below, we may use cookies, pixel trackers, server logs, and other Internet technology for purposes such as measuring the effectiveness of the Services, emails we send you, and any advertising campaigns, as well as to target meaningful content and ads (including through emails).

Sometimes, we may facilitate the use by third-party platforms of these anonymous cookies, or similar technology, to help those third parties better target ads to you based on other websites you may have visited.

IP Addresses

We log Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or the location of your computer on the Internet. We use this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to our Services (websites and mobile applications), and may also use it to infer your location.

Geo-location Data

For certain mobile applications we offer, we may (or may enable a third party, including an advertiser to) request your geolocation information in order to provide you with ads, offers, search or other functionality. If you agree to such collection, we (or the third party) may maintain information regarding your precise geo-location including overtime and may use it to help enable that functionality. In addition, we may (or may enable a third party, such as an advertiser to) capture geo-location information (such as based on IP address data) when you access our services and may use that geo-location information to target ads or offers to you.

Analytics

We may use third parties to provide us information, reports and analysis about the usage and browsing patterns of users of the Services. These reports contain aggregated or anonymous data only and do not identify individual users to Creativepimedia.com.

Log Files

We may also automatically log certain information about your use of the Services. This information includes a reading history of the pages you view and a record of the sites from which you clicked on a link to visit ours.

Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies

Like many websites, and web and mobile services, we may use (or work with third-party partners who use) a variety of technologies to learn more about how people interact with our Services. This section provides more information about some of those technologies and how they work.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that websites and other online services use to store information about users on the users’ own computers. Cookies can be used to store sign-in credentials so that you don’t have to enter them each time you return to a website, or to store other information to make web viewing more customized or efficient upon future visits. Cookies also may store a unique identifier tied to your computer so that web services and advertising networks can recognize you across visits to different websites. You can configure your Internet browser to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse all or certain cookies completely.

We (or our partners) may use or support cookies for purposes including the following:

• To collect information about your browsing activities in order to deliver customized or relevant services, advertising or content to you (including regarding our own products and content), when you browse our Website or other websites or open the emails we send you.
• To relate the information collected by cookies to information we obtain from you directly or from commercially available sources.
• To work with third parties that serve advertisements (through our Services or across the Internet) or provide other services to us, such as providing users the ability to comment on content, allowing users to share content, or tracking website usage statistics. We do not control these third-party technologies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of the third parties using such technologies.

Other Local Storage

We (or our partners) may use other kinds of local storage, such as Local Shared Objects (also referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, in connection with the Services. These technologies are similar to the cookies discussed above in that they are stored on your computer and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences. However, these objects are stored in different parts of your computer from ordinary browser cookies. Your browser may allow you to disable its HTML5 local storage or delete information contained in its HTML5 local storage.

Web Beacons

We (or our partners) may use technologies called web beacons that communicate information from your Internet browser to a web server. Web beacons can be embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, and can allow a web server to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the web beacon, the IP address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the web beacon was viewed. These web beacons may be used for a variety of purposes, including to analyze the use of the services and in conjunction with cookies to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.

How We May Use and Share the Information We Collect?

Providing the Services You Request

We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of the Services, fulfil your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, contests, and message boards. We reserve the right to disclose your opt-out information to third parties so they can suppress your name from future solicitations, in accordance with applicable laws.

Statistical Analysis

We use the information, including analytics and statistical information, to analyze the use of the services so that we may improve them. We also use this information to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our user base.

Customizing Your Experience

We use the information that we collect to allow advertising to be targeted to the users for whom such advertising is most pertinent. We may also use this information to customize certain features of the Services to provide you with an enhanced experienced based on information such as the type of device you are using to access the Services, your activities on the services, or your location or geo-location.

Our Parent Company

C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. is a wholly-owned operating company. We share information we collect with our affiliates (entities that are under common ownership or control) to better understand our users (their demographics, what they do on our Websites, what Website features they like, how they use them, etc.), to serve ads on other IAC websites, and to improve the content and answers delivered on the services and on affiliate services.

Communication with Guides, Experts and other Contributors to the Services

The Services feature content provided by people who are independent contractors and not employees of about, including content provided by contributors including those we call “Experts” or “Guides.” If you contact an Expert or Guide (or another contributor) directly by email through the Services (including via a Creativepimedia.com) or otherwise then that communication is independent of the Services, and thus not subject to this Privacy Policy. Although C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. contractually requires its Expert and Guide contributors to maintain information from C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. users in confidence, C PI MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. cannot and does not guarantee that they will do so, and is not responsible for what our contributors may say, or how they may use the information you have freely provided to them.

Other Privacy Considerations

We may transfer your information to a third party if we or any of our affiliates are involved in a transfer or all or part of our business or assets (e.g., a sale, merger, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization) or are taking steps in anticipation of such a transaction (e.g., participating in due diligence).

Do Not Track Browser Disclosure

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We are committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on our websites for third-party purposes. However, we do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals, as the internet industry is currently still working toward defining exactly what DNT means, what it means to comply with DNT and a common approach to responding to DNT.

Information from Children Under 18

We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 18. If we determine that a user is under 18, we will delete all personally identifiable information collected from that user.

Compliances and Regulation

We respect boundaries of countries, continent and unions. Regardless form where we are operating from we always follow privacy regulations of laws of your country.

California Privacy Rights

Under the California “Shine The Light” law, California residents may opt-out of the disclosure of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes (as those concepts are defined in that law) However, we do not currently engage in the type of sharing covered by that law.

LGPD Compliance

We are LGPD compliance and we strictly follow the LGPD regulations and law for the maximum protection of Brazil user’s data.

We respect the nine fundamental rights that data subjects have, which include:

• The right to confirmation of the existence of the processing;
• The right to access the data;
• The right to correct incomplete, inaccurate or out-of-date data;
• The right to anonymize, block, or delete unnecessary or excessive data or data that is not being processed in compliance with the LGPD;
• The right to the portability of data to another service or product provider, by means of an express request;
• The right to delete personal data processed with the consent of the data subject;
• The right to information about public and private entities with which the controller has shared data;
• The right to information about the possibility of denying consent and the consequences of such denial; and
• The right to revoke consent.

Legal basis for processing data: We process data as per Article 7 in the LGPD with the consent of the data subject; and to fulfill the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, except when the data subject’s fundamental rights and liberties, which require personal data protection, prevail.

GDPR Compliance

We are GDPR compliance and we strictly follow the GDPR regulations and law for the maximum protection of EU user’s data.

Compliance with Legal Process (Applicable to LGPD & GDPR)

We may disclose personal information:

• If we believe such sharing is appropriate to comply with the law or with legal process;
• To protect and defend our rights, services or property;
• To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Services; or
• To protect the safety or property of our users or any member of the public.