This Data Protection Policy covers the following topics
This policy is provided for your information and doesn’t limit or exclude your rights under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”).
Data is recorded information whether stored electronically, on a computer, or in certain paper-based filing systems.
Data processors include any person who processes personal data on behalf of a data controller. Employees of data controllers are excluded from this definition but it could include suppliers which handle personal data on behalf of Viacom India.
Personal data means any data relating to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Personal data can be factual (such as a name, address or date of birth) or it can be an opinion (such as a performance appraisal). It can even include a simple e-mail address. It is important that the information has the data subject as its focus and affects the individual’s privacy in some way.
Processing is any activity that involves use of data. It includes obtaining, recording or holding the data, or carrying out any operation or set of operations on the data including organisation, amending, retrieving, using, disclosing, erasing or destroying it. Processing also includes transferring personal data to third parties.
We collect personal data about you when you use our website and/or IT portal and/or mobile application and/or other channels and throughout other interactions, communications and services you have with us. We will collect your personal data in accordance with the PDPA.
Personal data which we may collect include but are not limited to:
We may receive information about you from third parties if you use any websites or social media platforms operated by third parties (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc.) and, if such functionality is available, you have chosen to link your profile on our website and/or IT portal and/or mobile application with your profile on those other websites or social media platforms.
The personal data that we collect from you may be used by us for a number of purposes connected with our business such as:
(collectively, the “Purposes”)
In order to conduct our business operations more smoothly, we may also be disclosing the personal data you provide to us to our third party service providers, agents and/or affiliates or related corporations, and/or other third parties, who may be situated in or outside of India, for one or more of the above-stated Purposes.
There may be times when we need to disclose your personal information to third parties. If we do this, we will only disclose your information to:
When using our products or services abroad, your personal data may be transferred outside India to that country. Our websites and systems and those of our group entities are based on servers often located outside of India. Please note that the data protection and other laws of countries outside India may differ.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up-to-date and stored in a secure environment protected from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
We will notify you if we determine that personally identifiable information about you held by us has been subject to unauthorised access or disclosure, such as an information security breach. Where required to do so, we will provide your information to relevant authorities as part of any mandatory data or privacy breach reporting regime.
We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored “personal data” (as defined in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
You have the right to access personal data we hold about you if we hold that personal data in a way that it can be readily retrieved, subject to some exceptions provided at law.
Please quote your name and email address. We would be grateful if you could also provide brief details of what information you want a copy (this helps us to more readily locate your data).
In some cases, there may be a charge associated with providing copies of your personal data to you. If so, we will advise you of this prior to sending your personal data to you. Additional rights may also apply under applicable laws.
We will not be able to provide you personal data if we do not know or don’t have reasonable grounds to believe it is personal data about you or if disclosing the personal data would involve the unwarranted disclosure of the affairs of another individual.
You can request correction or amendment of the information held by us at any time and as often as necessary by sending us an e-mail to contacting us and specifying the information that you require changed. If it is reasonable in the circumstances for us to do so, we will make the requested change or correction, otherwise we’ll take reasonable steps to mark that information as having been subject to a change or correction request.
Some of our services are password-protected so that only you have access to your personal information. You should not reveal your password to other people and you should change it regularly. Viacom India Private Limited will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. Also, if you are using the internet, remember to sign out of your Viacom India Private Limited account and close your browser window when you have finished. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
You have the right to request Viacom India to erase your personal data.
Removal of personal data means the deleting of user identifiable data. Viacom India retains the right to anonymised transactional data for financial/audit purposes.
If you would like to be removed from all marketing communications but retain your user profile, please use either of the following options:
Your personal data may be transferred to other countries for processing, support, storage and other necessary activities and by using our Services. You consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different personal data protection rules than in your country. For example, we may make available personal information to our related companies in Australia, Japan, US and UK in order to provide Services to you. If we transfer your information outside of India in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy continues to be protected in a manner which is consistent with India privacy law.
We may use cookies and other interactive techniques tracking technologies (which are small data files transferred to your device for tracking a record-keeping purposes) such as web beacons in connection with your use of our website to collect non-personal data about how you interact with our website, and web-related products and services, to:
We also collect IP addresses. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. We collect and manage IP addresses as part of the service of providing internet session management and for security purposes.
We may use a persistent cookie to record details such as a unique user identity and general registration details on your PC. This helps us recognise you on subsequent visits to this website so that you don’t have to re-enter your registration details each time you visit us and allows us to carry out the activities mentioned above.
It may be possible to disable cookies through your device or browser settings. The method for disabling cookies may vary by device and browser, but can usually be found in preferences or security settings.
We reserve the right to change this Data Protection Policy from time to time and we will tell you about a change in the policy by posting an updated policy on our website. By continuing to access or use our website after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised privacy policy. Any change we make applies from the date we post it on the website.