Apnades is an online daily largely used by members of Knanaya Community round the world. The community is an ethinic group and is otherwise called Southist among Syrian Christians in the State of Kerala. The community is close knitted though its members spread across the globe. The news daily acts as the official mouth piece of the Diocese and plays a vital role in disseminating the news and views among its members.
Apart from articles and stories the paper includes news updates, matrimonial, classifieds, obituary and others. So the management maintains a privacy policy giving due respect to its users. The data entrusted to the management are confidential. So the process of collection of personal information, maintenance, usage and transfer of such information are subjected to the prevailing laws and regulations of the land.
Privacy is an essential facet of dignity of human being. It should not be violated, infringed, lost or surrendered only because an individual is in a public place. The dangers to privacy in an age of information can originate not only from the state but from non State actors as well. Apnades has taken into account such factors, while it sets out its privacy policy.
Apnades collects personal information of individuals for the purpose of matrimonial, classifieds and obituary of the members in the community. The daily maintains online and offline records while the information is collected. While the data is collected it is only used for the purpose specified at the time of collection. Ownership of the data must at all times vest in the individual whose data is collected. The individual has the right of access to the data collected and the discretion to opt out. The daily never acts as an intermediary for any other agencies. It also does not share the data which it has collected with any other agencies except under the following circumstance.
- To comply with the requirements of enforcement agencies of the state
- To defend any legal claims, rights and proprietary interest of the entity
- Any possible merger and collaboration with other entities within or outside the Archeparchy
- To enforce any claims and protect the intellectual property rights and assets of the entity
Whenever the site of Apnades is accessed the servers record the information about the respective computer or browser. Thus the IP address of the computer is automatically registered with the server of the daily and this is considered as a Personal Information of the user/subscriber. The server of Apnades has effective and updated tracking technologies which could record anonymous unique identifier of any computer / browser. If the website is accessed by the user through a third party connection , log in or web site, the public user ID of that person will be automatically collected and stored in the servers of Apnades. The daily takes reasonable and required effort to prevent and detect fraud , manipulation and also to comply with law and legal process while using the website. It also adopt all strategic measures to safe guard the information collected directly or as part of the process, in its possession, against lost, theft, unauthorized use, disclosure and modification.
The website of Apna Des is largely subscribed by members and non members of Knanaya Community. The data protection rights may not be the same for all nations. Though you reside in India or abroad, your personal information is collected and stored into the servers of Apnades only upon your knowledge and consent. The servers/service providers monitor the traffic in the website and may notice and record activities which seems unusual or suspicious. Apna Des may initiate legal proceedings if violation of privacy by any of the user is noticed.
The website may also collect non personal information as well. This is the first type of information the website collects immediately a user access the site. Though the non personal information is collected, it does not reveal the identity of the user. The Non-Personal Information which is being collected may include technical information automatically transmitted by the user’s device (for example, type of browser, the type of the user’s device and technical information pertaining to the user’s device, language preferences, time stamps, clicks and visited pages, search logs, the operating system, utilized internet service provider and other similar information. The non personal information collected by the website may be shared with the trusted Service Providers of the daily. This is done only to the extent required to fulfill the purposes of providing the services.
The information which is collected either personal or non personal is for the legitimate interest for the operation of the website. The terms of the privacy policy of the website may be amended at any time in the future. Such changes shall be effective upon publication of the amended terms in this Privacy Policy.