Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 22/02/2025

In this Privacy Policy, 'us,' 'we,' or 'our' means “TechNadu.” We are committed to respecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, store and disclose your Personal Information.

By providing Personal Information to us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other arrangements that apply between us. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing changes to it on our Website. We encourage you to check our Website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

Personal Information includes information or an opinion about an individual that is reasonably identifiable. For example, this may include your name, age, gender, postcode and contact details. It may also include financial information, including your credit card information and bank details.

1. Definitions

1.1 In this Privacy Policy, the following capitalised terms have the following meanings:

• Applicable Laws shall include but not limit to the DPDP, EU GDPR, UK GDPR or any other law that may be applicable to you and your Personal Information.
• Automatic Data means the same as described in clause 2.3.
• Content means the same as described in the Terms of Use.
• DPDP means the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
• Data Protection Laws shall include but not limit to the DPDP, the GDPR and the UK GDPR or any other law that may be applica.
• GDPR means the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and national laws implementing or supplementing it.
• Non-personal Information means information that does not relate to a person and/or cannot be used to identify a person.
• Personal Data/Information means any information which can be used to identify an individual, and described in detail in clause 2.
• Terms of Use mean our terms of use available here.
• UK GDPR means the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation.
• User, you or your means any person using or registering on the Website whatsoever.
• Website means our website https://www.technadu.com/ or any landing page, app, platform and any other User interface offered by us, including, without limitation, surveys, correspondence and/or marketing activities under the name “TechNadu”.

2. What Personal Information do we collect?

2.1 We may collect Personal Information about you when you use the Website or interact with us in any way.

2.2 Information you provide to us: We collect all information that Users voluntarily provide to us while using the Website or interacting with us by any other means including, without limitation, surveys, correspondence and/or marketing activities. This includes information provided:

• (a) during navigating through the Website;
• (b) during correspondence via newsletters, pop-ups, push notifications, enquiries, support services or phone calls, or customer surveys;
• (c) during submitting a comment under the Content; or
• (d) uploaded onto the Website through contact form or in any way.

The Personal Information we may collect includes without limitation:

• (a) basic information such as your first and last name;
• (b) contact information including email address and phone number;
• (c) demographic information such as postal code, age, and gender;
• (d) geographic location;
• (e) login credentials for third-party websites;
• (f) other information obtained by your use of the Website; and
• (g) any other information that enables Users to be personally identified.

2.3 Information we automatically collect: We also automatically collect certain technical data that is sent to us from the computer, mobile device and/or browser through which you access the Website (Automatic Data). Automatic Data, includes without limitation, a unique identifier associated with your access device and/or browser (including, for example, your Internet Protocol (IP) address), characteristics about your access device and/or browser, statistics on your activities on the Website, details of the Content we have supplied to you or that you have enquired about, including any additional information necessary to deliver those Content and respond to your enquiries, or information about how you came to the Website. We collect Automatic Data based on your consent which was granted to us by you when you accepted this Privacy Policy.

2.4 Information we obtain from others: We may also collect or receive Personal Information from third party sources, such as other Users, suppliers, third-party websites or services where you are redirected, social media or other third-party integrations.

2.5 Sensitive Information: We do not collect any sensitive information including without limitation, information about (a) your health; (b) religious beliefs; (c) political beliefs; (d) racial and ethnic origin; (e) membership of a professional or trade association; and (f) your sexual orientation from you.

2.6 Non-Personal Information: When you interact with the Website, we may collect Non-Personal Information. The limitations and requirements of this Privacy Policy on our collection, use, disclosure, transfer and storage/retention of Personal Information do not apply to Non-Personal Information. When you submit Personal Information to us, we may associate other Non-Personal Information (including Non-Personal Information we collect from third parties) with your Personal Information. At such instance, we will treat any such combined data as your Personal Information until such time as it can no longer be associated with you or used to identify you.

3. Why do we collect, use and disclose Personal Information?

3.1 We may collect, hold, use and disclose your Personal Information for the following purposes:

• (a) To verify your contact details;
• (b) to enable you to access and use our Website and any third-party website linked with our Website;
• (c) to operate, protect, improve and optimise our Website, business and our Users’ experience, such as to perform analytics and conduct research;
• (d) to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you;
• (e) to send you marketing and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information sent by, or on behalf of, our business partners that we think you may find interesting;
• (f) to administer rewards, surveys, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or our business partners; and
• (g) to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our Users, and enforce our agreements with third parties.

3.2 We may also disclose your Personal Information to a trusted third party who also holds other information about you. This third party may combine that information in order to enable it and us to develop anonymised consumer insights so that we can better understand your preferences and interests, personalise your experience and enhance the products that you receive.

3.3 The information we collect is not distributed, sold or leased to third parties for commercial purposes, except to supply Products you have requested or for other purposes when we have your permission or when we are obliged to do so.

4. Do we use your Personal Information for direct marketing?

4.1 We and/or our carefully selected business partners may send you direct marketing communications and information about our Website including without limitation newsletters, brochures, and advertisements. This may take the form of emails, SMS, mail or other forms of communication, in accordance with the Applicable Laws. You may opt-out of receiving marketing materials from us by contacting us through the details provided in contact us below, or by using the opt-out facilities provided (e.g., an unsubscribe link).

5. To whom do we disclose your Personal Information?

5.1 We may disclose Personal Information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy to:

• (a) our employees;
• (b) our agents;
• (c) our related bodies corporate;
• (d) any third-party website or service that provide services to you on our behalf or provide us with technical support such as:
  • (i) Our newsletter provider MailChimp;
  • (ii) Our hosting and data storage provider Liquidweb;
  • (iii) Our information logistics providers (e.g., Google Analytics);
  • (iv) Our comment interface provider OpenWeb;
  • (v) Our push notification provider OneSignal;
  • (vi) Our CDN and security provider Cloudflare; and
  • (vii) Our pop-ups provider Optinmonster.

• (e) professional advisers, dealers and agents;
• (f) payment systems operators (e.g., merchants receiving card payments);
• (g) our existing or potential agents, business partners or partners;
• (h) our sponsors or promoters of any competition that we conduct via our Website;
• (i) anyone to whom our assets or businesses (or any part of them) are transferred;
• (j) specific third-parties authorised by you to receive information held by us; and/or
• (k) other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

5.2 The third parties will access your Personal Information as a part of their partnership with us and only if they agree to assure an adequate level of protection to your Personal Information that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Except as specified in this Privacy Policy, we shall not share your Personal Information with any party, unless we are legally bound to do so.

5.3 The comments that you submit under the Content shall be visible to other Users of the Website. You shall be diligent and not share any Personal Information through the comments.

6. Security

6.1 We may hold your Personal Information in either electronic or hard copy form. We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information from misuse, interference and loss, as well as unauthorised access, modification or disclosure and we use a number of physical, administrative, personnel and technical measures to protect your Personal Information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information.

7. Social media accounts

7.1 We operate accounts on different social media platforms. If you visit one of our social media accounts we can usually only see information stored in your public profile on the social media platform, when you are logged in to your profile, while visiting our social media account; although we may process data that you provide to us when you contact us (for example: if you create a post, or send us a private message via Facebook).

7.2 If you visit one of our social media accounts, the operator of the social media platform also processes your data, regardless of whether you yourself have a profile on the platform. The social media platform also provides us with anonymous usage statistics, which we use to improve User experience. We do not have access to the usage data that the operator of the social network collects to create these statistics.

8 Processing and transfer of your Personal Information

8.1 Your information, including Personal Information, is processed at our 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 from those from your jurisdiction. For example, some of the data servers used by us and our third-party service providers are located in United States of America, Canada, Asia and any other countries where we have a presence or engage third parties.

8.2 Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

8.3 We 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 Information will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and Personal Information.

9. Retention

9.1 Ordinarily, we will retain your Personal Information as long as it is required for providing you with our services i.e. for as long as it is required to be retained for providing services to you. However, we may sometimes retain Personal Information for an additional period as is permitted or required under applicable laws. Even if we delete your Personal Information it may persist on backup or archival media for an additional period of time for legal, tax or regulatory reasons or for legitimate and lawful business purposes.

10. Children’s privacy

10.1 As per the Terms of Use of the Website, the Website cannot be accessed and used by Users below the age of eighteen (18) years. If they chose to do so then parental/guardian consent and guidance is mandatory. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information of a minor, however, if unknowingly, we have collected the Personal Information of a minor in contravention with the Applicable Law then the parent/guardian may contact us and we will take immediate measures to delete any such information, completely to the extent that it is possible and required under the Applicable Law.

11 Exclusions

11.1 Links: Our Website may contain links to websites, plug-ins, and applications operated by third parties. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or any content on, those linked websites, and have no control over or rights in those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ substantially from our Privacy Policy, so we encourage individuals to read them before using those websites.

11.2 Personal Information Provided to Others: This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information that you provide to another User or visitor through the Website or through any other means, or information posted by you to any public areas of the Website.

12. Limits of our Policy

12.1 This privacy policy covers you only if:

• (a) you are a visitor/user/customer to our Website; or
• (b) we have received your Personal Information in connection with our surveys, correspondence and/or marketing activities or by other means.

12.2 We are the controller of your Personal Data to the extent that the above applies to you.

13. Accessing, correcting or deleting your Personal Information

13.1 You can access the Personal Information we hold about you by contacting us on the details provided below. We shall provide you with access to your Personal Information as permitted under the Applicable Law. We may also need to verify your identity when you request your Personal Information.

13.2 If you think that any Personal Information, we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us on the details provided below and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.

13.3 You have the right to request the deletion or removal of your Personal Information from the Website at any time. Please contact us and we will take commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that it is deleted/removed in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Laws.

13.4 We will consider and respond to all requests in accordance with all applicable Data Protection Laws.

14. GDPR Privacy

14.1 To the extent that the EU GDPR or UK GDPR applies to us and your Personal Information, the relevant clause applies.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information under GDPR

14.2 We may process Personal Information under the following conditions:

• (a) Consent: You have given your consent for processing Personal Information for one or more specific purposes.
• (b) Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Information is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
• (c) Legal obligations: Processing Personal Information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• (d) Vital interests: Processing Personal Information is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
• (e) Public interests: Processing Personal Information is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.
• (f) Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Information is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us.

14.3 In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Information is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

14.4 We undertake to respect the confidentiality of your Personal Information and to guarantee you can exercise your rights.

14.5 You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are within the EU or the UK, to:

• (a) Request access to your Personal Information. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Information directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you.
• (b) Request correction of the Personal Information that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• (c) Object to processing of your Personal Information. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your Personal Information on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes.
• (d) Request erasure of your Personal Information. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal Information when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
• (e) Request the transfer of your Personal Information. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• (f) Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your Personal Information. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the Website.

Exercising of your GDPR Data Protection Rights

14.6 You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

14.7 You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA or the UK.

15. Do other regions have specific privacy rights?

15.1 You may have additional rights based on the country or the jurisdiction that you reside in. Please contact us on the details provided below to exercise your rights based on the applicability of the Applicable laws on you and your Personal Information.

16. Making a complaint

16.1 If you think we have breached the Applicable Laws, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your Personal Information, you can contact us on the details provided below. Please include your name, email address and/or telephone number and clearly describe your complaint. We will acknowledge your complaint and respond to your complaint within a reasonable period of time. If you think that we have failed to resolve the complaint satisfactorily, we will provide you with information about the further steps you can take.

17. Contact Us

17.1 For further information about our Privacy Policy or practices, or to access or correct your Personal Information, or make a complaint, please contact us using the details set out below:

17.2 Email: [email protected]

17.3 Mailing address: Leaprove Media LLP, 33 Kongu Nagar, Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu 641607, India