Updated 30th September, 2023.
Fast India Media (includes “us,” “we,” or “our”) is a portfolio of brands and digital platforms that help people with guides, news, and information to stay ahead. Some examples of Fast India Media brands are Fast India Press, Basictell, Anometa, Infocipate, and WideBinary.
This privacy statement provides information about the personal information we collect, the use of information, disclosure, and the ways we protect that information. Fast India Media is committed to protecting user information while providing the best user experience.
We review and update the privacy policy from time to time, so we encourage you to check it periodically.
Types of Information We Collect
We may automatically receive some information about you when you visit our website or browse our services through a browser, computer, or mobile device. The information may include browser data, mobile device information, operating system, IP address, ISP data, Geographical Location, Referring Sites & others.
If you choose to use any third party service or application that is associated with our products and services, such as Social Media, WordPress, & Other “Third Party Websites”, – we may receive personal information including but not limited to Name, Username, Email, Interests, Photo, & other Contact Information.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your information to analyse trends, administer our website/brands, enable your access to use services on our websites, send you information about our products, send you invoice statements, collect payments, and send marketing-related information. If you are not interested in any of our services, you can unsubscribe from them.
We use your information in order to:
- Understand your requirements
- Understand how users engage with our websites and services
- Improve our services and products
- Fulfill your needs
- Operate our business
- Provide a better user experience
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To send you updates about our latest offers and services
- To identify you
- To communicate with you
How We Share Your Information
We may disclose your personal information in the following situations. Our practices vary depending on the type of information.
Affiliates and Acquisitions – We may disclose your information to our affiliated companies and business associates. If another company plans to acquire our company, brands, or assets, we may also share your personal information with them using appropriate safeguards.
Our Business Partners – When we collect information on behalf of our business partners, we may disclose that information with those partners.
Service Providers – We may disclose your information with service providers providing services to us, such as hosting providers, advertising service providers, service providers that help us to administer our website, and payment processors.
Advertising – We may disclose certain information to Advertising Platforms like hashed data, clickstream information, browser information, information about your interactions with advertisements and other content. This information may be combined with other linked or associated devices. These third parties may use your information to show relevant advertisements to you and improve their services.
Aggregated and Anonymous Information – We may share your other information with third parties in a manner that does not identify you or another individual person, including aggregated data about how users are using our services and anonymous information with any third party.
Public – Some of our Services may allow users to post comments or reviews in a public forum. If you agree to submit information on our Services, that information may be publicly available.
Cookies Policy
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 that 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.
Suppose 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 1 day.
How We Ensure the Safety of Your Information
We follow best practices to secure all your information. We use a secured (https) protocol for communication and transferring data on our site. We also keep our system up to date with security updates and monitor our system for any vulnerabilities and attacks. We also encrypt user data wherever possible.
Even if we are following the best security practices, we cannot guarantee the full security of your information. However, we will always try to inform the authorities about any data breaches. We will do everything possible to avoid any data breaches and inform the authorities if we find any vulnerabilities.
If you are using any of our services, then we strongly advise you to keep your account information (username, password) secret.
Reach Out To Us
For questions about accessibility or to submit a complaint related to our services or content, reach out to us at [email protected].