Privacy Policy

STJ Global Entertainment and Media Private Limited (“we”, “us”, “the website” or “IIFA”) values the privacy of our visitors and are committed to protecting the personal information collected through our website. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your data in compliance with the applicable laws, including the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 ("SPDI Rules") and other relevant regulations.

USER CONSENT

By using www.iifa.com (“Website”) (for example, when you peruse the website, register for an account, purchase a product/service, enter a contest or promotions, communicate with us, on our sites or applications), you agree to provide consent to our collection, use and sharing of your personal information as described in this policy. In some cases, particularly if you reside in a country governed by a data protection regulation, we may ask you to provide explicit consent to access our services before proceeding for further operations.

ACCESSING IIFA’S WEBSITE THROUGH VPN

You should not access or use the Website by means of any mechanism or technology that conceals your actual geo-location or provides incorrect details of your location [for example, use a virtual private network (VPN) to access the Website].

We will not be responsible or liable for any collection, storage or processing of your personal information or data if you use any mechanism or technology to access or use Website or Services which conceals your actual geo-location.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND IT’S USE

‘Personal Information’ is defined as any information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual or natural person, such as the individual’s name, address, email address, and mobile number indicating to that particular person or is identifiable. IIFA and its service partners use your personally identifiable information to operate the sites and services and to inform you of new features, services, and products from IIFA and its affiliates. IIFA does not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide it.

A. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

To use certain features on the website and for the Services (such as registrations for any contests, event registrations and website campaigns, surveys, quizzes, polls), you may provide basic contact Information through forms available on the website (“registration”), including but not limited to:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email Address
  • Phone number
  • City
  • Gender

B. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY

We collect information about you and your use of our service, your interactions with us and our service partners, as well as information regarding your computer or other devices used to access our service (such as mobile devices, tablets and other viewing devices). This information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Activities on the website such as type of pages viewed, time spent on pages, search queries etc.
  • Advertising identifiers, such as those found on the websites in the form of GAID or Cookie ID on browsers;
  • Information collected via the use of cookies and other technologies.

C. INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH THIRD PARTIES

If you link, connect or login with a third-party service i.e. Google, Facebook, and Twitter they may send us information such as your registration and profile information from the service.

PURPOSES AND LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING

The Website will only collect and process personal information about you where we have lawful basis. Lawful basis on which we would process your personal information includes obtaining explicit consent from you for processing your personal information or processing for “legitimate interests” where processing is necessary by us to provide you with our services.

We use information to provide, analyse, administer, enhance and personalize our service and marketing efforts, to process your registration, and to communicate with you related to the cases mentioned below. For example, we use information to:

  • The main uses of your personal information are to verify your identity; to help provide our services and to administer those services
  • Communicate with you concerning our services (for example by email, push notifications text messaging, and online messaging channels), so that we communicate news regarding the website to you, details about the employment opportunities and updates regarding the alumni network
  • Determine your requirements and provide personalized suggestions, tips and promotional content for various topics all of which we think will be of interest to you;
  • To help advertisers understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites or applications, and to provide you relevant ads;
  • Allow you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services
  • Prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, including fraud;
  • Analyze and understand our audience, improve our service (including our user interface experiences);
  • Notify you about changes in Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.

We provide personalisation by using data you submit to us in terms of cookies, IP addresses, web beacons or similar technologies in relation to the devices you use. By doing so, we can provide you with contents and/or advertising that we believe is more relevant to your interests. Please provide explicit consent for the same when we collect your data.

INFORMATION USED BY IIFA

The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve the Services and provide you with the most user-friendly experience.

Any personally identifiable information provided by you will not be considered sensitive if it is freely available and/or accessible in the public domain like any comments, messages, blogs, scribbles available on social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X (twitter) etc. Any posted/uploaded/conveyed/communicated by users on the public sections of the website or the Application becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy notice. In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. In any case, we will not be liable and or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information. When you register on the website, we contact you from time to time about updating your personal information to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit / interest you.

DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

IIFA does not sell or share your personal information with third parties or non-affiliated entities, except as necessary to provide the products or services authorized by you. However, we may share information with the following:

  • Affiliates/subsidiaries or our group companies
  • Our Analytics partners
  • Our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;
  • Other telecommunication and information Services providers;
  • By disclosing individual records such as IP addresses as may be required by law; or
  • Government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law. We will ensure that these people only use such information to perform the above functions, and that they have adequate procedures in place to deal with your data securely. Some of these people may be based outside India.
  • We share your information with trusted partners who work with or on behalf of IIFA under strict confidentiality agreements. These partners may use your personal information to assist IIFA.com in communicating promotional offers or updates from IIFA.com and its marketing affiliates. These partners are prohibited from independently sharing this information, and IIFA is not liable for any unauthorized sharing by these partners.

CHANGES TO YOUR INFORMATION

  • You may review, correct, update, or change Your Personal Information on the Platform by emailing Us at contact@iifa.com.
  • You may also request Us to delete Your Personal Information, and We will comply with such requests within a reasonable time, unless We are required to keep certain information for legal purposes.
  • Should You choose to delete Your Personal Information, or modify it in a way that is not verifiable by Us, or leads to such Personal Information being incorrect, We will be unable to provide You with access to Our Platform, and such a deletion or modification may be regarded as the user seeking to discontinue access to Our Platform.
  • We reserve the right to verify and authenticate Your identity and Your Personal Information in order to ensure accurate delivery of services through the Platform.
  • Access to, or correction, updating or deletion of Your Personal Information may be denied or limited by Us if it would violate another person’s rights and/or is not otherwise permitted by applicable law.

DATA TRANSFER, STORAGE & PROCESSING GLOBALLY

We operate globally and may transfer your personal information to companies affiliated with IIFA or third parties in locations around the world for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The website is not intentionally designed for or directed at persons less than 18 years of age. IIFA does not knowingly permit any person who is under 18 years of age to register with the services or to provide any other personally identifying information. If IIFA becomes aware that any personally identifiable information of persons less than 18 years of age has been collected on the website without verified parental consent, then IIFA will take the appropriate steps to delete any such information and notify the parent.

However, we consider it the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s use of our services. Nevertheless, it is our policy not to collect and process any personal information from children below 18 years of age or offer to send any promotional materials to persons in that category. IIFA does not seek or intend to seek or receive any personal information from children. Should a parent or guardian have reasons to believe that a minor has provided IIFA with personal information without their prior consent, please contact our customer support team to ensure that the personal information is removed from the website.

SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS

We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. Some of the safeguards we may use to protect your information are firewalls and data encryption, and information access controls. If you know or have reason to believe that your account credentials have been lost, stolen, altered, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your account, please contact us by contacting our customer support team.

CHANGE IN POLICY

This Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary changes in technology, ensure compliance with applicable laws, or any other reason ("Updated Terms"). The Updated Terms shall be effective immediately and shall supersede these the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will not be under an obligation to notify you of any changes to this privacy policy except if the changes made to the policy significantly affect your rights or as may be required by law. You shall be solely responsible for reviewing the Privacy Policy from time to time for any modifications. By continuing to use Website after the updated Terms have been published, you affirm your agreement to the updated terms.

GRIEVANCES AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances with respect to use of your personal information, please email us at contact@iifa.com.