PRIVACY
POLICY

This Privacy Policy explains how Green Stories collects and utilizes your personal information through your use of our websites or any of our applications, including any data you may provide when you sign up for our email blasts, register an account with us or you upload any personal information to us when you use any of our on-line features.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them. This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, users of the website are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

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What Personal Data Do We Collect?
Some information collection is required to receive Green Stories email blasts. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
1. Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and gender.
2. Contact Data includes email address and delivery address.
3. Technical Data includes your login data, 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 this website.
4. Profile Data includes your username and password, book subscriptions, your genre preferences, feedback and survey responses.
5. Usage Data includes information about how you use our app, our website, products and services.
6. Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving communications from us.
7. Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose.

 

Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website or app feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance
with this privacy policy.

 

How Do We Collect Personal Data?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

1. Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, and email or otherwise.
2. Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our websites, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. We may also receive this type of information from service providers, in particular those in your country or region. Please see the section on cookies below
for further details.
3. Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties such as those who link from their site(s) or services to us; from our vendors and promotional partners and others.

 

How May We Use Your Personal Data?
Green Stories we will use your personal data in the following circumstances, but not limited to:
a. Where we need to perform the services or delivery the features offered to you on the Site or other platforms you may use to receive our features and services.
b. 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
c. Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
d. Surveys.
e. Promotional offers.
f. Signups for future Green Stories information or offerings, and
g. We may reveal general statistical information about our site, such as number of visitors, pages viewed, etc., but we will never reference visitors’ names or specific addresses.
h. Keeping records of services and features that are requested by you and/or delivered and/or received by you and our users,
i. to study how customers use our products/services,
j. to develop them and grow our business and inform our marketing and
development strategies.
k. to operate our business, and deliver information, products and services to our users that they will want or have requested.
l. to provide administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or restructuring.

You always have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us using the contact details below.

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Changes to Our Purposes for Collecting Your Information
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or
permitted by law. You always have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us using the contact details below.

 

Third-Party Communication of Your Personal Information
Green Stories does not sell or rent your personal information to any organization. Green Stories websites contain links to other websites. Green Stories is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Please visit the privacy policies of these third party sites in order to understand their privacy and data collection practices.

 

Our Practices Regarding Collection and Use of Your Personal Data
1. Promotional offers from us: We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you and form our Marketing practices. You will receive communications
from us if you have requested information from us or subscribed to services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving those communications.
2. Opting out: you can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any message sent to you or by contacting us at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of other transactions you make on the website.
3. Cookies are small text files that we place in visitors’ computer browsers to store their preferences. Our cookies themselves do not contain any personal information. Our cookies may reference the personal information you provided during registration. We reference the information you provided via an encrypted identifier. Where we link these unique identifiers with your personal information, we will treat the unique identifiers as personal information as long as they are linked. We use both session ID
cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please
note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

4. Registration and Passwords: When you register with Green Stories, we use the registration information you provided to contact you if you lose your password or contact you about updates and changes.

 

Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out above. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the applicable laws and regulation. 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.
1. International transfers. Some of our external third parties are based outside India, so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside India. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of India, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it.
2. 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. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
3. Data retention. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can
achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
4. Your legal rights in connection with your personal data: Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
a. To request a summary of personal data which is being processed by us and the processing activities undertaken by us with respect to such personal data;
b. To request for the identities of all entities and Data Processors with whom your personal data has been shared by us, along with a description of the personal data so shared
c. To request for any other information related to the personal data and its
processing, as may be prescribed.
d. To request for correction, completion, updating and erasure of your personal data for the processing of which you have previously given consent.

e. To nominate any other individual, who shall, in the event of your death or
incapacity to exercise your rights in accordance with the provisions of the
applicable law and the rules made thereunder.

 

Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us on our email.