Privacy Policy

The following agreement enunciates and elucidates the mandate and restrictions of use (“Agreement”) applicable to your use of MeitYStartupHub.in (“Web Site”), which is a platform to promote startups globally. It is an agreement between you, as the user of the web site, and MeitY Startup Hub (MSH).

The expressions “you,” “your,” or “User(s)” refer to any person who accesses or uses the website for any purpose.

By subscribing to or interacting with other User(s) on or entering into negotiations in respect of any transactions or using the website in any manner for any purpose, you undertake and agree that you have fully read, understood, and accepted the Agreement.

If you do not agree to or do not wish to be bound by the guidelines and precepts of the agreement, you may not access or otherwise use the website in any manner or for any purposes thereof.

Please go through the below mentioned directives carefully. By agreeing to the concerned provisions, acceptance and acknowledgment of the same are implied.

Cookie & Usage Data

We may collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Log Files

We follow a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement, and gathering demographic information.

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, we indefinitely save the entries filled up in the Email, Name, and Comment fields. We don’t store the IP Address of the commentator on our website database. We use this email address to inform the user about further replies to that comment if they indicate their consent before submitting the comment form.

If you don’t want to get notified about any reply to your comment, then you can untick the “Email me when someone replies to my comment” option while commenting. If you have already subscribed to this option, you will also have the link in the email to unsubscribe.

When you leave a comment on our site, we will collect the data you enter into the comments form and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use Plausible, which is privacy-friendly analytics. All the site measurements are carried out absolutely anonymously. Cookies are not used, and no personal data is collected. There are no persistent identifiers. There is no cross-site or cross-device tracking, either.

Session Cookies & Comment Cookies: The session cookies track a registered user’s session. It has nothing to do with the public users who don’t have an account associated with our website. The comment cookies remember a commenter’s details.
Cloudflare Cookie for Bot Detection: Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for these bot solutions to function properly. This cookie expires after 30 minutes of continuous inactivity by the end user.
Advertising cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visits to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

How do I control my cookies?

You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete all cookies, and many websites will not work properly, or you will lose some functionality. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website for these reasons.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter your browser’s settings to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally, you can see what cookies you’ve got and delete them individually, block third-party cookies or cookies from particular sites, accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Visit the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu on your browser to change settings, and check the following links for more browser-specific information.

We have also set out links below to Google AdSense, which sets cookies on our websites and, therefore, on your computer, with instructions on how to opt out of their cookies.

Google AdSense: https://adssettings.google.com/

Third-Party Privacy Policies

Our website’s privacy policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about opting out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, Tweets, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where do we send your data?

Visitor comments may be checked through the Gravatar service.

Use of Data

We use the collected data for various purposes, including:

To provide and maintain the website.
To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the website experience.
To monitor the usage of the website.
To detect, prevent and address technical issues.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation.
To protect and defend the rights or property of our website.
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website.
To protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public.
To protect against legal liability.

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our website operates on a secure Linux server, which is updated regularly with any operating system updates or security patches that need applying. We also have HIPAA, NIST, and PCI-DSS compliant HTTPS (SSL) setup to greatly improve the website’s security. Further, we use Cloudflare CDN and WAF to make things more secure.

Service Providers

Your personal information is held on servers hosted by us or our Internet service provider. While the security of your information is important to us, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is completely and 100% secure.

Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, MSH cannot guarantee its absolute security and cannot accept any liability or onus of responsibility where the security of your personal information stands compromised or towards the quantum of compromise thereon.

Links To Other Sites

Links to third-party sites are provided on the website as an act of convenience for the user(s). The user(s) acknowledge and agree that MSH does not have any control over the content of such websites or any information, resources, or materials provided therein. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorsement on our part of the views so expressed.

MSH may allow users access to websites of third parties through hyperlinks (in the form of a word link or otherwise). MSH advises its user(s) to read the terms and conditions of use and/or privacy policies applicable in respect of such third-party websites prior to using or accessing them.

Users acknowledge and agree that MSH has no control over any content offered on third-party websites, does not monitor such websites, and shall in no manner be deemed to be liable or responsible to any person for such third-party sites or any content, products, or services made available thereto.

Termination

Content and some of the features on the website are made available to users free of charge. However, MSH reserves the right to terminate access to certain areas or features of the website (to registered user(s)) at any time without assigning any reason and with or without notice to such user(s).

MSH also reserves the universal right to deny access to particular User(s) to any or all of its services or content without any prior notice or explanation in order to protect the interests of MSH and/or other User(s) of the Website. MSH further reserves the right to limit, deny, or create different access to the website and its features with respect to different user(s), to change any or all of the features of the website, or to introduce new features without any prior notice to the user(s).

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions. If you disagree with this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Changes To This Privacy 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. 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, please get in touch with us:

By email: Contact@BigShotMedia.in
Effective Date: July 28, 2024