WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL CONSUMER INFORMATION.
Protecting consumer privacy is very important to us. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd values the faith and trust our customers place in us. That’s why we strive to maintain the best industry standards for safe and secure transactions and security of buyer information privacy. This Online Privacy Statement reflects our policies covering personal information collected from visitors of our websites. We may change or update our privacy policy at any time without prior notice. To make sure you are aware of any update or changes; please review our policy time to time. By accessing the services offered by Pharosmedia.com, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information by us in the manner provided in our Privacy Policy.
We believe that information used responsibly benefits consumers and the economy, whether it is information we house on behalf of consumers conducting transactions or information we collect on behalf of our business clients.
Pharosmedia.com gathers personally identifiable information (email address, name, phone number, etc.) from you when you create an account with Pharosmedia.com. Although you can visit, browse or read few sections of our site without being a registered user, certain actions (such as placing an order, writing a review, looking for the details etc) do require registration / membership. Pharosmedia.com does use your contact information (such as email id, etc) to send you offers and / or discount coupon code based on your earlier orders and your interests.
Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd limits access to personal information to those employees of Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd and its affiliates who need it to fulfill their business responsibilities.
Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd may disclose consumer information to companies affiliated with Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd and to companies or other parties not affiliated with Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd (subject to consumers’ opt-out rights)
These recipients include:
- Financial institutions, such as banks, credit card companies and brokerage houses;
- Companies that process transactions or provide other services for us;
- Government agencies; and
- In addition, under India law Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd is permitted to disclose customer information to certain recipients, like credit reporting.
To improve our product and service offerings on pharosmedia.com, we accumulate and evaluate demographic and profile information about our members’ activity on Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd recognize and use members’ IP address to help diagnose troubles with Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd server, and to manage Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd. Your IP address may also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd will occasionally request you to complete optional online surveys. These questions or surveys may ask you for contact information and demographic information (like name, email id, address, postal code, zip code, age, or income level, area of interest). Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd utilizes this information to customize your experience at Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd, providing you with content that we believe you might be interested in and to present content according to your preferences.
A “cookie” is a little piece of information stored by a Web server on a Web browser so it can be later recognize back from the same browser. Cookies are helpful for enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given visitors / members. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd places both temporary and permanent cookies in your devices’ (such as computer, laptop, mobile, tablet, etc) hard drive. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd cookies do not contain any of your personally identifiable information.
Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd may share your personal information with its other entities, divisions and affiliates to prevent and detect identity theft, fraud and other potentially unlawful acts; compare related or multiple accounts to avoid ill-treatment of our services; and to facilitate shared or co-branded services that you request where such services are provided by more than one business entity. These organizations and affiliates may not market to you as a result of such sharing unless you clearly opt-in. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd may reveal your personal data if required to do so by law or in reasonable belief that such revelation is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd may disclose your personal data to law enforcement offices, third party rights owners, or others in the good faith / belief that such disclosure is reasonably essential to: enforce our Terms and condition or Privacy Policy; respond to claims that an promotion, advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or personal safety of our, members, users or the general public. Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd and its affiliates will share some or all of your personal data with another business entity should we (or our assets) plan to merge with, or be acquired by that business entity. Should such a contract occur that other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd is linked to other related websites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. pharosmedia.com is not responsible / answerable for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites.
Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd uses outsourced third party advertising agencies to serve ads when you visit Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd. These agencies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits / browsing to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about products and services of interest to you.
If you have any questions or indeed comments about our Online Privacy Statement, or for some reason believe we have not adhered to our statement, please contact us.