The following Privacy Policy Content is applicable to "TNP News Android and IOS Mobile Apps" along with tnpnews.in official website.
These Terms and Conditions ("T&C’s" or "Terms & Conditions" ) govern your access to and use of this website/(s)("website" or "site" ) operated by Business Broadcast News Limited. This statement discloses the privacy practices for the website of Business Broadcast News Limited, located at Parijaat House, 1076 DR E Moses Road, Worli Naka, Mumbai - 400018, Maharashtra, INDIA.
As we update, improve and expand the Services, this policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically. By accessing the Company website or Application or otherwise using the Services, you consent to collection, storage, and use of the personal information you provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of the services that we offer.
The Company respects the privacy of the users of the Services and is committed to reasonably protect it in all respects.
Any use of the website/(s) owned and managed by Business Broadcast News Limited shall be construed as your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and if you do not accept the Privacy Policy enumerated herein below, please do not proceed further to use/access the site.
Our app utilizes your approximate and precise location data to enhance your news-reading experience. This data enables us to provide you with news articles, updates, and information that are geographically relevant to your current location within the country. It’s important to emphasize that we do not permanently store your location data on our servers. Instead, we process your location ephemerally and exclusively for the purpose of delivering local news content.
Localized News Content:
We use your location data to curate and display news articles and updates that are of particular relevance to the area in which you are located.
We do not retain your location data for any longer than is necessary to fulfill these specific purposes, and we do not share your location data with third parties, except as required by applicable laws or with your explicit consent.
If you have any questions or concerns about the collection and usage of your location data for localized news content or wish to contact us regarding your privacy rights, please feel free to reach out to us at:
TNP News,
115 B Hind Saurashtra Indl Estate,
Marol Metro Station, Andheri East,
Mumbai - 400059
Call: +91 9818841730, +91 9818821470
Email: info@tnpnews.in
By using our app, you consent to the ephemeral processing (Processing data “ephemerally” means accessing and using data while it is only stored in memory, and is retained for no longer than necessary to service the specific request in real-time.) of your location data as described in this policy. If you prefer not to provide your location data, you can manage your app permissions through your device settings.
Registration data:
When you register on the website, Application, contest and for the Service, we ask that you provide basic contact Information such as your name, gender, age, address, pin code, contact number, occupation, interests and email address etc. When you register using your other accounts like on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc. we shall retrieve Information from such account only with your permission to continue to interact with you and to continue providing the Services and not share that any further to any party external to users who can benefit from it directly or indirectly.
Integrated Service Provider and Linked Networks:
You can elect to sign in or sign up to the TNP News Network Platform through a linked network (i.e. Facebook or Twitter). If you elect to sign up through or connect a Linked Network, we receive certain profile and account information about you from the Linked Network. The specific information provided to us by Linked Networks is determined by these third parties and may vary by network. You should consult their respective privacy policies for information about their practices. You may disconnect from the Linked Network by "Signing Out" option present in the Application/Website/Product through the easily accessible Login area, the position of which may vary with products.
Voluntary information:
We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, change your content or email preferences, respond to a survey, participate in contests or auditions or communicate with us. If you apply to take part in a programme on politics, for example, we might ask you about your political opinions. We do not share your personal private data with anyone.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
a) To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
b) To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
c) To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
d) To send periodic emails
e) To measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.
The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Any personally identifiable information provided by you will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and / or accessible in the public domain like any comments, messages, blogs, scribbles available on social platforms like facebook, twitter etc. Any posted/uploaded/conveyed/communicated by users on the public sections of the "Application" becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.
In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information on the Application, we may not be able to provide certain services on the Application to you. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the same at the time of opening your account. In any case, we will not be liable and or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information. When you register with the Application or Services, we contact you from time to time about updation of your personal information to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit / interest you.
a) When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms or for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
b) The Company proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
c) The Company may present information to our advertisers - to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites or Applications – however it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.
d) The Company may share your information regarding your activities on websites or Applications with third party social websites to populate your social wall that is visible to other people however you will have an option to set your privacy settings, where you can decide what you would like to share or not to share with others.
e) Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit or use our website, mobile application or services. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits or use to particular website, mobile application or services, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
When you use the Services Site (or any of its sub sites), we make good faith efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible, subject to any requirement for such personal information or sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
By using our site, you consent to our websites privacy policy.
The internet is an ever evolving medium. We may alter our privacy policy from time to time to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law or any other variant. In any case, we reserve the right to change (at any point of time) the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on the "Application". Your use of the Application or Services after such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. We may also make reasonable efforts to inform you via electronic mail. In any case, you are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically on the "Application") to ensure that you are aware of the latest version.
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us at:
However, before making a complaint viewers are encouraged to go through the Code of Ethics & Broadcasting Standards, News Broadcasting Standards (Disputes Redressal) Regulations and Guide to the Complaints Process. These details are available on the website of TNP News www.tnpnews.in
