Privacy Policy
Spectrum Arts & Media respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you use our online platform, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Information We Collect
We may collect and process various types of personal data about you, which includes:
- Identity Data: such as first name, last name, and similar identifiers.
- Contact Data: such as physical address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Technical Data: such as internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our site.
- Usage Data: information about how you use our online platform, products, and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
How We Collect Information
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
- Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you apply for our services, create an account on our site, subscribe to our service or publications, request marketing to be sent to you, give us feedback, or contact us.
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our online platform, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
- Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
Legal Basis for Processing
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
- Where you have given your explicit consent.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our online platform and services.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our online platform and services.
- Understand and analyze how you use our online platform.
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
- Make recommendations about content that may be of interest to you.
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the online platform, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
- Send you emails or other communications related to your use of our service.
- Find and prevent fraud.
- Comply with legal obligations and regulations.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal data with third parties for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. This includes:
- Service providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts.
- Legal requirements: We may disclose your information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our service.
- Business transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights include:
- The right to be informed: You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent, and easily understandable information about how we use your data and your rights.
- The right of access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.
International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. If we transfer your personal data outside of your jurisdiction, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the relevant regulatory bodies.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by relevant regulatory bodies which give personal data the same protection it has in your jurisdiction.
Links to Other Sites
Our online platform 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.
Changes to This Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. We will let you know via a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this privacy policy. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, your data, or wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us:
Spectrum Arts & Media
7th Floor
The Capital, BKC Road,
Bandra Kurla Complex,
Mumbai, Maharashtra,
400051
India