PRIVACY POLICY

We value the trust you place in us and recognize the importance of secure access and information privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is an electronic record in terms of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as may be amended, modified, re-enacted, consolidated or replaced from time to time) and Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 and other rules there under pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as applicable and amended from time to time. This Privacy Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature and is a legally binding document between the User and the Company.

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) for this website i.e. https://crowninternational.net/ (“Website”) is intended to provide Users (as defined below) of the Website with a clear and complete information about the data and Information that the Company (as defined below) receives and collates in connection with the Content (as defined below) and/or services and the way that data and Information (as defined below) is stored and used.

This Privacy Policy applies to the services and/or information available under the domain of Website which is owned, hosted and maintained by crown international and its affiliates (“the Company” or “We” or “Us” or “Ourselves”) and having its registered office at "PURUSHARTH", 2nd Floor, Bhaktinagar Station Rd 2, Rajkot, Gujarat 360002. All the content provided on the Website is general content for informational purpose only (“Content”). We are committed towards protecting the privacy and Information (as defined below) of the users who access the Website (“User” or “Users” or “You” or “Your”). This Privacy Policy outlines the usage policies and practices that apply to the Website and also sets forth what all Information and/or database the Website gathers (categorized as mandatory or optional) and how We receive, collect, use, hold, share and protect such Information collected from the Users of the Website.

1. Acceptance of terms of the Privacy Policy by the Users

 when You visit, access and use Our Website. The defined terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Terms of Use. By using this Website, You signify Your acceptance of the Privacy Policy and expressly consent to Our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of Your Information as described in this Privacy Policy. If You do not agree to this Privacy Policy and/or to Our processing of Your data/Information in the manner outlined in this Privacy Policy, please do not use this Website or submit any information to Us. Company has the right to amend the Privacy Policy without any prior notice to You. To make sure You are aware of such changes, please read this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy indicates Your confirmed acceptance to this Privacy Policy.

BY ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

2. Scope of the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy refers and applies only to the Website. Its main aim is to inform the Users of the way their personal data is collated, processed and used, providing relevant information to the User, as well as fixing the accessing conditions and the use of the Website. The data collected is used only to enhance the operation of the Website, allowing You to use all the listed features and allowing us to respond to Your requests/queries in an efficient manner.

3. Information collected by the Website

3.1. Personally identifiable information

The information collected from You by the Company may constitute ‘Personal Information’ or ‘sensitive personal data or information’ as defined under the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (“SPI Rules”). Personally Identifiable Information mean any information that may be used to uniquely identify an individual, including but not limited to the following:

• i. Information about Your personal identity inter alia as name, age, sex.
• ii. Your contact details such as Your address, postal code, telephone or mobile number and facsimile;

The aforementioned shall collectively be referred to as “Personal Information”. Personal Information will also include any personally identifiable information provided by You in any form during any interaction or communication with Us or any other users of Our Website.

When You use Our Website, We collect and store Your Personal Information in order to record, support and facilitate Your participation in the activities You select, track Your preferences, to provide You with a customized browsing experience, to notify You of any updated information and new activities and other related functions offered by the Website, keep You informed about latest content available on the Website, special offers, and other facilities, products and services of the Website, to assist You with customer service or technical support issues, to follow up with You after Your visit. For the aforesaid purpose, We only collect such Personal Information that We consider relevant to understand You or Your interests.

Personal Information may also get collected and shared with third-parties if there is content from the Website that You specifically and knowingly upload, share or transmit to an email recipient, online community, Website, or to the public, e.g. uploaded photos, posted reviews or comments, or information about You or anything posted by You that You choose to share with others through features which may be provided on Our Website. Such uploaded, shared or transmitted content will also be subject to the privacy policy of the email, online community, Website, social media or other platforms to which You upload, share or transmit the content.

3.2. Information we collect during access and use of Our Website:

Apart from any Personal Information provided by You, We may also collect certain non-personal and/or technical information through third-party sources, platforms (such as social networking websites, databases, online marketing firms, and ad targeting firms) and other channels.

3.3. Information we collect from other sources

We may access information about You from third-party sources and platforms (such as social networking websites, databases, online marketing firms, and ad targeting firms), including:

• i. if You access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook, Gmail or Twitter etc.) through the Website, we may collect, personal contact information and/or any personal data that is part of Your profile on such third-party social network and that You allow that third party social network to share with Us (e.g. name, email address, gender, birthday, city, profile picture, user ID, friend list). You can learn more about the data that We may obtain about You by visiting the website of the relevant third-party social network.
• ii. demographic data, such as age range, gender, and interests;
• iii. advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times You viewed a particular ad; and
• iv. unique identifiers, including mobile device/computer/laptop identification numbers, that can identify the physical location of such devices at the point of access in accordance with applicable law.

Please note that the Website may combine the information that We collect with information We obtain from third party sources.

In addition to the above, We may collect information about how You use Our Website such as the date and time You visit the Website, the sections or pages of the Website that You visit, the amount of time You spend viewing the Website, the number of times You return to the Website, visits to Website outside Our network, and other click-stream data. Some of this data may be shared with partners who referred You to Our Website and who will use the data to optimize who else they refer to Our Website. Sometimes this data can be shared with partners who help Us deliver ads to You on Websites not controlled by Us.

The aforementioned information herein collected by Us under Clause 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are collectively referred to as “Information”.

4. How will Information be used

We use the Information to understand Your needs and accordingly facilitate Our services and route You through the relevant information that meets Your need. We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any Personal Information of Our Users. We may provide the Information to Our affiliates and service providers under contract (such as customer care, data analytics) to support the operation of the Website and Our services. To the extent We use Your Personal Information to market to You, We will provide You the ability to opt-out of such uses.

We may also use the Information to provide contents and services that are targeted to Your interests. By accepting the Privacy Policy, You expressly agree to receive this communications/information.

4.1. Technical and functional management

We use technical data such as Your IP address to help diagnose problems and resolve issues related to functionality of the Website.

4.2. Improvement of Website

We aggregate and analyze the Information that We collect and may use the same to monitor and analyze use of the Website, to increase Our Website's functionality, and to better tailor Our Content and design to suit Our Users/visitors needs so as to provide them with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Website.

4.3 Request Fulfillment & to improve customer service

We may also use the Information that We collect to fulfill Your requests for products, services, and information, which helps Us respond to Your customer service requests and support needs, more efficiently. For example, We may also use Information in the aggregate to understand how Our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on Our Website.

Further, We use the Information to resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; measure consumer interest in the services/Content provided by Us, inform You about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize Your experience; detect and protect Us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce the Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy, and in general to improve the Users experience.

4.4. Email Communications w.r.t Marketing and Newsletters etc.

We may use the Information that We collect to send You e-mail communications, such as editorial updates, information about changes to the Website, newsletters, marketing and promotional messages about Our own or Our marketing partners' products and services that may be of interest to You. It may also be used to respond to Your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. If You signed up for one of Our email newsletters, We will also send You the newsletters that You requested. If You decide to opt-in to Our mailing list, You will receive emails that may include Company’s news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, We include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact Us via Our Website.

4.5. Advertising

In order to provide Our Users/visitors with free access to Our content, We display advertisements on the Website, many of which are targeted based on information about You. For example, using Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other sources, We may use demographic data or information about Your online activities or interests to display targeted advertising that may be relevant to Your preferences. Through this process, advertisers reach Website visitors who are most interested in their products and You see advertising for products or services in which You may be interested.

Third-party advertisers and advertising platforms may also serve targeted ads on the Website. For more information, please see the section on third party websites of this Privacy Policy. Please remember that the information practices of third-party advertisers or websites collecting data on Our Website are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

4.6 Enforcement

We may use the Information that We collect to prevent illegal activities, to enforce the Privacy Policy, and to otherwise protect Our rights and the rights of Our Users.

In addition to the uses identified above, We may use the Information that We collect for any other purposes disclosed to You at the time We collect Your Information.

5. Disclosure of Information to Others

5.1. Legal Requests and/or Compliance with Applicable Laws

We co-operate with law enforcement and regulatory inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect You and the community. Therefore, in response to a verified request by any statutory authority including but not limited to law enforcement agency or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, We may (and You authorize Us to) disclose, as per the applicable laws, some of Your Personal Information as is reasonably necessary to respond /comply with the statutory mandate including but not limited to court orders, or other legal process. We may access, use, transfer or disclose Your Personal Information to third parties such as government or law enforcement authorities or private parties, if it is legally and statutorily required to do so under any of the following conditions:

• i.To satisfy any applicable law, rule, regulation, governmental requests or legal process.
• ii.To protect and/or defend and/or enforce Our Privacy Policy for online services or other policies applicable to any online services in case of potential violations.
• iii.To secure Our systems.
• iv.To respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other Content violates the rights of a third party.
• v.To protect the rights, property or personal safety of the Users and the public in general for any reason.
• vi.To detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
• vii.To prevent or stop activity We may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.

In case of any illegal, ethical or legally actionable activity, We may use IP address or other device identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such Information to third parties, all in Our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to You. However, We shall not sell, share or rent the Personal Information to any third party or use any users e-mail id for sending any unsolicited mails.

5.2. Other Corporate Entities

We share much of Our data, including Information about You, with Our affiliates, subsidiaries, and joint ventures that are committed to serving Your online requests and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to Your Personal Information, they remain bound by the existing Privacy Policy. As We continue to develop Our business, We might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, Users’ Information generally is one of the transferred business assets but shall remain subject to the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy.

5.3. With Users’ explicit consent

We do not sell or rent Users’ Personal Information to third parties for their marketing purposes, but with Your explicit consent, We may disclose Your Personal Information (i) to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes; (iii) to send You promotions, notifications, or other services. However, the Users have the right to opt-out of receiving marketing communications about the Company/Website.

6. Protection and Security Information collected by the Website

We take Our security responsibilities very seriously and take all reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect Your Information once We have received them. We use Website security measures consistent with current best practices to protect Our Website, email and mailing lists. These measures include technical, procedural, monitoring and tracking steps intended to safeguard data from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction.

We also have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in India to protect Personal Information about You and, accordingly, We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of Your Personal Information, username, information and data stored on Our Website in compliance with the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, to ensure the protection and preservation of Your privacy. In addition to the above, We, on best endeavor basis, try to limit access to Personal Information of Our users to only such users who We believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to You. However, no data transmissions over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. Consequently, We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Information You transmit to Us and You understand that any Information that You share is done at Your own risk.

7. Retention of Information

Unless specified otherwise in this Privacy Policy, We may retain Your Information as permitted or required by applicable law. In some cases, Your Information may be retained for the purpose of legal and regulatory compliances, resolving disputes, enforcing Our agreements and Privacy Policy or for any other reason which may be deemed necessary.

8. Disclaimer

This Privacy Policy is to be read with the Disclaimer, Terms of Use which together establish the use and limitations of liability governing the use of the Website.

9. Indemnification

You agree and undertake to indemnify and hold harmless Us, from and against any and all suit, dispute, actions, losses, damages, costs and expenses, if any, of whatsoever nature, arising out of or in any way connected with this Privacy Policy, Information and/or Your use or access of Website.

You expressly understand that under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall We be liable to You or any other person or entity for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including, but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, resulting from circumstances, including but not limited to: (i) unauthorized access to or alteration of Information; (ii) any unauthorized access to or use of Our secure servers and/or any and all Information stored therein.

You represent that You have accessed the Website and have provided Information on Your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws including, but not limited to, any applicable local laws. This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of India and the courts at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

10. Changes in this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. Although We will post/display details of all changes made to the Privacy Policy on the Website or send Users an email, however, the same can be changed without prior confirmation to You. We encourage You to visit the Website from time to time to make sure You are aware of any changes and/or latest information on Our privacy policies and practices. We shall not be liable for any damages You may suffer as a result of failure to provide You notice of any changes to this Privacy Policy as set forth herein.

11. Contact Us

In case You have any queries pertaining to the Privacy Policy or our use of Your Personal Information, You can direct any questions or complaints to Us by contacting the designated grievance officer through e-mail at crown..int@hotmail.com We will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints or disputes regarding the use or disclosure of Your Personal Information as soon as possible. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 30 (thirty) days from date of receipt of the complaint. Occasionally it may take Us longer than the same if Your request is particularly complex or You have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify You and keep You updated.