Privacy Policy
At ProductRaters, we prioritize your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how we handle your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your data when you use our service. It also explains your privacy rights and how we safeguard your information.
We collect and use your personal data to enhance your experience and improve our service. By using our service, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy, reflecting our commitment to protecting your privacy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
In this Privacy Policy, certain words have specific meanings. These definitions apply whether the words are singular or plural.
Definitions
For this Privacy Policy, the following terms mean:
- Account: A unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
- Affiliate: An entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where "control" means owning 50% or more of the shares or other voting securities.
- Company: Refers to ProductRaters (also referred to as "We", "Us", or "Our").
- Cookies: Small files placed on your device by a website to store details of your browsing history.
- Country: Refers to Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
- Device: Any device that can access the service, such as a computer, cellphone, or tablet.
- Personal Data: Any information related to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Website, app, or any other offerings provided by ProductRaters.
- Service Provider: Any person or company that processes data on behalf of the company, such as those we employ to facilitate or analyze the service.
- Third-party Social Media Service: Any social media platform through which you can log in or create an account to use our service.
- Usage Data: Data collected automatically when using the service, such as the duration of a page visit.
- Website: Refers to ProductRaters, accessible from productraters.com.com.
- You: The individual using the service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which the individual is using the service.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- First Name and Last Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
- Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Information from Third-Party Social Media Services
The Company may allow You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:
If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account.
You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
- Type: Session Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Functionality Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Us
- Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Data Sharing and Selling
We do not share or sell your personal data to third parties unless we have your explicit consent or are required by law to do so.
We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
Ensuring the security of your personal data is paramount to us at ProductRaters. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your information.
All sensitive information you provide is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We use a range of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
While we strive to protect your personal information, please note that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
In the event of a data breach, we will notify you as soon as possible, in accordance with applicable laws.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personal data for any other purpose.
User Rights
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data that we collect and process.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this policy. Please note that we may require additional information from you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update or change our privacy policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the updated policy on this page. We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes.
Your continued use of our website after any changes will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the updated privacy policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy or data practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights regarding your personal data, you can contact us.
Last Updated: 27th May, 2024
