Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Privacy and Cookie Policy applies to your use of any products, services, content, features, technologies, or functions, and all related websites, portals, web applications, mobile applications, mobile sites or other online platforms or applications offered to you by PostInto (collectively PostInto, “we”, “our”, “us”, “Site”, “Website”, “Web App”, “Mobile App”, “Portal”, “Service” or “Platform”).
Further, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data in line with the General Data Protection Regulation – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”). This Policy will inform you as to how we will look after your personal data when you interact with us, including visiting our Site(s) and using our services/platroms. It also tells you about your rights in relation to your personal data. We recommend that you read this Policy in full to ensure you are fully informed regarding our privacy practices. If you have any questions about this Policy or our data collection, use, and disclosure practices, please contact us through email at [email protected].
What is PostInto?
PostInto is a set of internet based services provided through "Websites", "Portals", "Web Apps" ( Apps is short form for Applications ), "Mobile/Smartphone Apps" and other electronic devices, for buying & selling products and services, posting and sharing digital content - blogs, slideshows, profiles, reels, stories, articles, promos, ads, images, videos, audios, documents, stickers, animations and more, completely for free as well as using paid premium subscriptions that may be added in future.
PostInto is owned, developed and operated by "Passion Pro Media" - a multi-media business registered in India. It is the data controller for it's own as well as User-Provided internet based online digital content and personal data collected through PostInto.
What data does PostInto collect?
PostInto respects and protects privacy of users' private personal data and browsing activities data on it's services/platforms.
Unlike other popular internet based social media, services, apps or platforms, PostInto DOES NOT employ and allow any Tracking Pixels, Scripts or other similar technologies for tracking user activities on the Internet. PostInto DOES NOT collect, share, sell or rent users' internet activities data to any third party, including Advertisers, in ways different from what is disclosed in this Policy.
The Ads/Sponsored content displayed on PostInto are not based on users' internet activities tracking data, rather they are based on broad and general categories, sub-categories, topics, sub-topics and tags that are included in the content publicly posted only on PostInto, without identifying and disclosing users' private personal and internet activities data.
The information we collect are meant for creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles and other services offered by PostInto and includes “personal data”, which is any information about an identifiable individual, as further set forth in this Policy. We are the sole owner of the information collected for registered users of PostInto.
PostInto collects the following data provided directly by you by using PostInto or allow third party service providers listed below to provide to PostInto:
- Personal identification information (Name, gender, date of birth, email address, phone number, postal address, profile/avatar picture etc.) when you Sign-up and Sign-in to PostInto.
- Personal physical attributes, Biodata, social media handles and links to personal and other external websites etc.
- Media files like images, audio, video, html/pdf and other documents (collectively, "Online Digital Content") you share, link, embed, upload or publish through PostInto.
When you use PostInto, we may collect information about your engagement with and utilization of our Services, such as processor and memory usage, storage capacity, navigation of our Services, and system-level metrics.
How does PostInto collect your data?
You directly provide PostInto most of the data PostInto collects. PostInto collects and processes your data when you:
- Sign-up/Sign-in to PostInto directly using your email and phone number for any of our services.
- Voluntarily complete a customer survey, provide feedback or review on any of our message boards, forums, contact form, via email or other relevant methods.
- Use or view PostInto websites/web apps/service/platforms via your browser’s cookies.
How does PostInto use your data?
PostInto collects and process your data so that we can:
- Publish & display them on PostInto.
- Manage your account, profile and other content on PostInto.
- Provide your publicly published data to other registered/unregistered users and site visitors and service providers seeking your public data from published posts.
- Send you Emails/chat messages/notifications regarding promotional offers on our own or third party services we think you might be interested in and opt for the same using account settings.
- Operate, maintain and improve the performance and utilization of our Services/Platforms, develop new features, protect the security and safety of our Services and our users and provide support. We also use this data to develop aggregate analysis and business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of our business internally, without sharing with any third party.
If you agree, we will share your data with our partner organizations/websites/web and mobile apps/services/platforms, list of which will be updated here as and when our partners join/leave us, so that they may offer you their products and services.
[ List of third party or partner organizations/websites/web and mobile apps/services/platforms will be updated here ]
You are required to read, understand and accept the respective Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of these third party
services before using them.
Currently we do not have any agreements with any third party service providers for data sharing.
How does PostInto store your data?
We securely store and process your data on secured cloud servers hosting our websites/web apps/services, not confined to any specific geographical regions and may change from time to time as deemed necessary for maintainaing optimum service quality and to comply with local laws regarding data storage.
We will delete your data from our hosting/data processing servers when you delete your content or account through PostInto.
How to delete your account data?
You may at any time delete your account data stored on PostInto servers by using the "Delete Account" feature under "My Account" section/page.
Marketing
We may send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might be interested in, as well as those of third parties and our partner organizations/websites/apps/services, list of which will be updated on this page as and when our partners join/leave us.
You have the right at any time to stop PostInto from sending you such marketing and promotional emails/message/notifications, by disabling the relevant options in your account's "Settings" section.
What are your data protection rights?
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every registered user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – You have the right to request us for copies of your personal data that you have provided.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is 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.
- Most of the above mentioned rights can be exercised by yourself through relevant PostInto pages and sections. You may contact us through the "Contact" page or send email to [email protected], for assistance, if you face any technical problems related to using PostInto for exercising your rights.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
HTTP cookies, web cookies or internet cookies, are built specifically for web browsers to track, personalize and save information about each user's session. A “session” is the word used to define the amount of time you spend on a site. Cookies are created to identify you when you visit a new website. The web server — which stores the website's data — sends a short stream of identifying information to your web browser in the form of cookies.
Web Beacons (small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites) and auditing software to track page views and entry and exit points to and from Webites.
Where are the cookies stored?
Your web browser will store them locally to remember the “name-value pair” that identifies you. When you return to the website in the future, your web browser returns that cookie data to the website's server, triggering the recall of your data from your previous sessions. When the session ends, session cookies are automatically deleted.
You may choose to configure your web browser to refuse cookies, but in that case you may not be able to sign-up or sign-in into your account on PostInto.
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, PostInto uses:
Essential cookies - These cookies are essential to provide you with the Website and any services available and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas only accessible when you Sign-in to PostInto. Without these cookies, services and features requiring authentication and authorization cannot be delivered. We use essential cookies for authentication, authorization and security purpose only when you sign-in to PostInto. Only first-party cookies are used for the purpose and no third party cookies are allowed. Because these cookies are essential for signing-in to PostInto, you may not be able to block them. However, you can refuse or delete the cookies by clearing your browser data.
Functionality - PostInto DOES NOT use such cokkies for storing user preferences. All user preferences are stored on the server database user account records.
Advertising - PostInto DOES NOT use cookies for serving Advertisements. Ads are served based on categories, sub-categories, tags and topics of content you publish and interract with on PostInto. In order to prevent collection and tracking of user's browsing data, we disallow serving of Ads from third party Ads Banks/services.
How does PostInto use cookies?
We use cookies on PostInto, when you visit and use our Websites/Web Apps, in order to provide you the best online experience. We use only secured HTTP only cookies that are not readable by any software scripts on the browsers. So third parties cannot access and read the data stored in them.
Through the use of cookie technology or otherwise, we may collect information about your computer/device and software used for browsing PostInto to authenticate & authorize you to use features that are accessible only to authenticated and authorized users, as well as provide you with optimal service quality based on your device, browser and network connectivity. This information may include, but is not limited to, internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, type of computer/device, operating system, date/time stamp (as well as pages viewed and how long you spend on a page), clickstream data, landing page, and referring URLs, other information about your use of and actions, including use of features, functionality and frequency of visits to PostInto (all of the foregoing collectively referred to as “Traffic Data”). Traffic Data is anonymized and does not personally identify you. We also use Traffic Data to assist us to design, arrange and improve our Services/Platforms. All the traffic data is only used internally by PostInto for purposes mentioned in this document and are not shared/sold/rented to any third party.
We may also use web beacons, cookies, customized links and/or similar technologies to determine whether electronic newsletters or other emails sent by us to those who have requested them from us have been opened and which links are clicked. Any data collected will only be used in an aggregate and anonymized form solely by PostInto and are not shared/sold/rented to any third party.
PostInto DOES NOT allow any third party cookies to be set on our Websites/Web Apps.
PostInto uses essential and persistent cookies solely for Authentication, Authorization and Keeping you signed in until you Sign-out of PostInto or expiration of such cookies.
PostInto DOES NOT use cookies to track it's users' browsing activities or history external to PostInto.
PostInto DOES NOT use cookies for serving Advertisements using users' browsing activities or history.
Presently, PostInto DOES NOT use cookies for general un-authenticated site visitors who do not sign-in to PostInto.
How to manage cookies
Most of the popular and common browsers have options for disabling cookies, which may prevent your browser from accepting new cookies or enable selective use of cookies. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, please refer to respective browser's help information on how to remove cookies from your browser.
Please note that, if you choose not to accept cookies, some features and the personalization of PostInto that are protected by authentication, authorization and session cookies, may no longer work for you. You may not be able to Sign-in to PostInto, because PostInto uses session cookies to maintain your Sign-in and Session information. You will however continue to receive advertisements, but they will not be tailored to your specific interests as we DO NOT use tracking data for displaying Advertisements.
Privacy policies of other websites
PostInto may contain links to other websites/apps/services. Our privacy policy applies only to PostInto. If you click on a link to third party website/service, you should read their respective privacy policies and terms of service before using them.
How to contact PostInto?
If you have any queries about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us through the "Contact" page or
Email us at: [email protected]
Changes to our privacy policy
PostInto keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page - https://postinto.com/privacy