Privacy Page of SB Web Technology and It’s Brand Websites.

• Effective Date: 1st June 2020
• Updated Date: 20th May 2020

This privacy policy is penned to showcase the data protection practices at S.B. Web Technology Pvt. Ltd, Nepal. Through it,  the company seeks to reflect its commitment towards protecting the privacy of the users of our websites and digital properties.

Privacy Policy Sections & Components

Read below to briefly get an overview of the privacy policy. Contact us if any confusion persists.

We request you to read this privacy policy thoroughly. If you have any questions, doubts, or queries about any parts, sections, or aspects of this privacy policy, please feel free to email our Data & Privacy Protection Department.

Email of the department:  (subject line: “Privacy Policy Consent”) privacy@sbwebtechnology.com

Below, you can see not only how we collect your personal information but also how we use the information collected. Here are its sections:

1. DEFINITIONS
2. INTRODUCTION: SCOPE, FUNCTION, COVERAGE, AND APPLICABILITY
3. HOW DO WE COLLECT, RETAIN, AND PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
4. HOW DO WE USE AND SHARE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED?
5. ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS DO WE USE OR PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
6. STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 
7. ONLINE ANALYTICS AND DELIVERY OF ADVERTISING AND OTHER CONTENT
8. CAUTION TO BE TAKEN FROM YOUR BEHALF (COOKIE AND CONSENT MANAGEMENT)
9. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES RELATED TO PERSONAL INFORMATION AND MARKETING EMAILS
10. HOW WE HANDLE RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
11. THIRD PARTY ON OUR WEBSITES
12. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR PARENTS
13. DISPUTES AND RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS: THIRD PARTIES RIGHT IS NOT APPLICABLE
14. INFORMATION TRANSFER TO NEPAL
15. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
16. CONTACT US
17. APPENDIX:
    •  CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE
    • TYPE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED AND WHY DETAILED EXPLANATION
    • LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PERSONAL DATA OR INFORMATION COLLECTION, EXPLAINED

1. DEFINITIONS

Learn how we describe the generic words of this privacy policy.

Thank you for visiting our website and digital properties. We understand that reading this privacy policy can be a hefty task. To make your reading comfortable, we have tried to write this privacy policy in an organized yet simpler way. Still, there can be confusion over how some of the generic words used in this privacy policy shall be defined.

Hence, we want to emphasize that such words should be understood as mentioned below:

“We,” “Us,” "Our", or “SB Web Technology”: Refers to the entity, S.B. Web Technology, Pvt. Ltd., collectively.

“Our websites,” “Our digital properties,” “Our digital brands”: Refers to all of the properties of SB Web Technology, including its brand websites (Marrieddivorce, HollywoodMask, Liverampup, Wikinetworth, Biographyhost) and all used functionalities under our control.

“Devices” or “Device”:  Refers to the devices used by the users while using our services, websites, and so on.

“Third party” or "Third parties": Refers to a third party service connected to our websites for efficient and enhanced management/operation of our business and other legitimate purposes.

“Users,” or “User,”: Collectively refers to; i) any users/audience on our website ii) our current, former or prospective digital clients or customers. Any statement about the (‘Users”) in this privacy policy and all the included supplementary notices will include all of the entities stated here until mentioned otherwise in any part of this privacy policy or included supplementary notices.

“Personal Data” or “Personal information”: According to Personal Data Protection Commission, Nepal, “Personal data refers to data, whether true or not, about a user who can be identified from that data; or from that data and other information to which the organisation has or is likely to have access. Personal data in Nepal is protected under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA).”

“Services,” or “Service”: Refers to the overall output provided by us in the form of:

1. Contents for our digital properties and brand websites.
2. Marketing/product/service placement strategies (related to what we think may interest you) such as newsletters, surveys, promotional emails, information from us or our third party affiliates (on our services and/or through our services), in accordance with the applicable law.
3. Overall experience provided by our websites through interactive features, and so on.

“Registered Account/s,” or “Account”: Refers to i)  the accounts of the users who have signed up or subscribed with us ii) the accounts of the freelancers and employees who have or had contractual business relationships with us.

“Cookies” or "Cookie": Refers to the use of cookies, other tracking technologies such as web beacon and HTML5, and non-cookie technologies, and online analytics tools in our services.

2. INTRODUCTION: SCOPE, FUNCTION, COVERAGE, AND APPLICABILITY

Read why this privacy policy is important for us and you.

SB Web Technology is the data controller for its brand websites and digital properties.

The privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) illustrates how SB Web Technology respects users’ confidentiality and privacy. We are committed to ensuring our data protection practices remain transparent and trustworthy.

SB Web Technology and its digital properties, mobile apps, and any interactive features or installed software or code, (each a site), abide by this privacy policy under the supervision of SB Web Technology as the data controller, and unless otherwise stated, as the data processor.

Our websites and services may be accessed internationally; that’s why we have made our privacy policy adhere to international standards and privacy regulations. But still, you are requested to use our website and services after reading our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions — because we as the data controller and processor may retain, store, process, access, and use the collected personal information or data in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different or less protective than jurisdictions in your home country.

If you as a user do not agree to any parts or sections of this privacy policy, you are expected to discontinue our services.

In addition, when you visit any of our websites for the first time, we will ask if you agree to our privacy policy, and us collecting your personal information or data automatically from you via cookies to not only consider your privacy interest but also to give you the best website experience for the purpose of:

• Personalizing content and adverts.
• Analyzing our traffic using Google Analytics and other third parties.

When you are using our websites, you recognize that you have gone through our privacy policy.

SB Web Technology will take responsibility for your personal information or data collected by its brand websites and digital properties as the data controller and processor. Hence, it expects that you comprehend this privacy policy applies in any circumstances or ways you use our websites or services through any devices, including a computer, tablets, mobile, other web browsers, and internet-connected devices, and so on.

Moreover, we may coordinate with third party services in order to ethically maximize productivity and efficiency of our business operation and management. While doing so, we will take responsibility for the information we collect with the help of such third party sources or features (For example: for logging information via social networking sites or for using subscription services provided by a third party source). 

Thus, before taking any of our services or reading our content, it is your responsibility to read our privacy policy and the privacy policy of any of the third party sources that have collaborated with us in our websites or platforms (a complete list of third party processes is listed and updated in our privacy policy).    

Furthermore, this privacy policy doesn’t apply to the information you provide to us offline. However, you should only engage in such offline activities and scenarios with us and our third party sources (for matters concerning us), understanding that we may use any information you provide to us offline to ethically enhance our business operations and management. 

Similarly, we will keep you updated in case our privacy policy changes. 

3. HOW DO WE COLLECT, RETAIN, AND PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Read in detail about the usage of your personal information by us.

We take responsibility to collect, process, and retain any users personal data or information legally; since our sole purpose of handling such information is to:

• Run our day-to-day business operations and management ethically, effectively, and efficiently. 
• Provide our services to users, customers, or audience on-time.
• Improve our services and day-to-day business management/operation processes.
• Monitor your employment status, payments, and tasks.
• Collaborate with third parties for business operation purposes (such as logging through social media, utilizing subscription facilities via third party sources, or giving permission to third party ad agency, program, or services (such as Google AdSense) to run ads.
• Run analytics and related services on our websites to analyze how you use our services and websites.

More so, we may collect, retain, or process personal information or data about you based on our interactions with you on our digital properties. For example: “if you post materials on our forums or blogs, we may collect or retain such information including your username, password, and email.” Doing so, you will be expected to understand that your username/pseudonym may be seen by others.

Collection of your personal information and its types:

Conclusively, here are two ways we and our third party service providers may collect information from you.

a. Information You May Provide To Us

• Contact or account registration information: broadly refers to contact information registered accounts have provided (via signing up or subscribing to us). Such information may be an email address, name, username & password, phone number, postal address, wireless device address, other related information, and so on.”
• Customer service information: this refers to the overall information we gain from your queries about our practices and business operations/services. Source of such information can be:
  • Your emails, letters, and direct phone calls to us about our practices and business operations/services.
  • Your suggestions, messages, or queries to us about our practices and business operations/services via surveys, online forms, or comment posts. 
  • Your interaction with our customer care processes, including memo, voice recording, and summaries of such interactions.
  • Communication about our business/operation and services via other channels not listed here; but should be a part of any SB Web Technology business/service processes.
• Demographic, statistical, and interest information: refers to information that describes users who have collaborated with us or have willingly interacted with our services. Such information may include gender, date of birth, age, lifestyle information, interests, and other related information.
• Transactional and financial information: refers to information that is needed to ensure required financial processes on our services with your consent. Such information may be debit/credit card numbers and related information.
• User-generated content: Refers to information such as comments, photos, videos, audios, feedback, and similar information you provide on our services.
• User-interest activities: Information related to activities such as survey, contest, research, and sweepstake.
• Third party communication: Information associated with communication with event vendors, third party partners, business affiliates, advertising partners, and likewise as per our business interest or upon your request.
• Contact information about others: Refers to the information you provide about others while interacting on our services to use our send-a-friend functionality. When you use such functionalities, you are usually trying to send won gifts to your known friends or refer our programs to others on the basis of likability.
• Social media information: Refers to information such as your friend's list, photo, or any user-generated content of your social media account that you used to connect with our services. (Subject to legitimate use by us).
• Other information: Refers to any other information you provide directly to us.

For the detailed list and explanation Click Here.

b. Information We Collect Automatically 

• Device information and identifiers: Refers to information such as browser type, IP address, device type, unique device, and advertising identifiers and similar.
• Network usage data: Internet network connection and device activity data during and after the usage of our services
• Geolocation information: Refers to information such as city, state, or area code associated with your IP address. Also, it refers to related information derived through wifi triangulation or via geolocation functionalities from your devices.  

For the detailed list and explanation Click Here.

Likewise, we expect you to read this privacy policy thoroughly to understand how we collect and process your personal information. As a responsible user, we believe that you will be able to analyze our use of your personal information to enhance our services. 

We mostly collect your personal information on the basis of your interaction with us and the specific services you use. Once personal information is collected (from both online and offline sources, permitted by the law), it can be combined or used separately as per the need demanded by our services. Any personal data we process and collect shall be governed by permitted law and applicable jurisdictions accordingly. 

Any personal data we have defined in this privacy policy can be defined and classified as “personal data” as defined by the Nepal Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2012.

Purpose of personal information and data collection by us :

We collect personal information ethically for our legitimate interests such as:

• Communication:
  • Business-interest communication.
  • To communicate with you via several communication channels (email, phones, feedback forms, etc) regarding services that best match or interest you. 
  • To notify if you win any of our promotional events, contests, or sweepstakes. 
  • To keep you updated about change in our services and policies.
  • To give you information about your registered accounts on our sites (includes your contact or account registration information).
  • To deliver you information about transactional updates/operations you conduct on or via our services (Includes e-commerce and financial transaction).
• Customer service communication:
  • To communicate with the users regarding their queries, questions, and messages related to our business operation/services.
  • To give you the best customer service experience possible. 
  • To recognize and reply to your queries and concerns stated in your user-generated content if needed.
• Service and business operation:
  • To provide the best services to our audience, visitors, and users. 
  • To ensure we have a healthy relationship with the users while we are operating our businesses/services. 
  • To maintain and service the accounts of registered accounts/users for business/service operation purposes that may include monetary transaction and payment processing (for subscription & donations) as well. 
  • To send communications that you have requested on your behalf. (For example, you may request to connect your account or profile with family members and friends or may request to refer to our services, or other activities (such as promotions, events organized within). 
  • To monitor and administer your entries in our features, contests, surveys, promotions, and other related activities.
  • To enable community features and related services like posting your content on them, including the testimonials you provide. 
  • Analyze your personal data and activities (including geolocation) so that we can have an understanding of your preferences and how you use our services. Then, we may research and create reports (for our use) about how we can best provide you our services that match your preferences and interests. 
  • To comprehend and analyze technical and non-technical issues you report.
  • To collaborate with third party services (e.g. for signup & registration) to give you public activities facilities such as discussion forums or comment sections.          
  • To monitor and audit the interactions of the users and subscribers on our services for our business interest purposes such as to measure the effectiveness of our advertising strategy and policies so that ad impression, placement, and frequency can be monitored and modified.    
  • To improve our services so that users and registered accounts could get maximum benefits from our services.
  • To make our services better engaging in processes such as research, analysis, categorization, and report generation for the purpose of understanding the way users and registered accounts use our services.  
  • To use, edit and audit information (for legitimate business interests purposes including editorial) provided by the users and subscribers (by any means) while interacting with our services and other activities attached to our services such as third-party advertising.
  • To enhance the process you created as user-generated content.  
  • To enable users (as per their interest) to communicate with event vendors, third party partners, business affiliates, advertising partners, and likewise. (Includes message and calls to such parties).
  • To review a variety of services and products based on our editorial and journalistic standards. Doing so, we may receive legitimate affiliate revenue.
  • To run diverse kinds of service enhancing features such as sweepstakes, contests, and likewise.
• Legal purpose:
  • To best represent our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and business operation so that we can properly operate our services and secure them.
  • To comply with appropriate and applicable laws, procedures and regulations, government requests, or a legal investigation, if and only if our good faith opinion is required or permitted by law. 
  • To protect our services, users, audience, registered accounts. 
  • To protect our legitimate interests or the interest of the third party services that have collaborated with us. 
  • To run monitoring and preventive measures against fraud (e.g. verifying your identity, we can protect your account and status against any unknown threat against you).  
• Personalization:
  • To customize the ads and content on our services based on your personal data or information, activities, interests, and online searches.
  • To create categories/audience segments based on your interests, and to ensure targeted advertising and marketing on our services.
  • To create a profile about you and the audience segments for advertising, marketing, and analytics purposes. Such profiles may be updated adding or combining data or information we obtain from the third parties.
  • To send you personalized surveys, newsletters, and information about the products and services offered by us, our affiliates, our business relationships, our partners, and other organizations with which we have collaborated.
  • To engage in cross-device tracking by processing information such as unique mobile device identifier, IP address and related information so that we can identify the same unique user across multiple devices or browsers for the purpose of saving your preferences, analyzing your usage of our services and to prevent fraudulent activities. 
  • To personalize the experience of employees, freelancers, and consultants for training and career opportunities purposes. Any information collected or any process to be launched for this purpose will be consented by such associated parties and follow all the required or distinct jurisdictions of different places. 
  • To personalize the experience of the users.
  • To reach a logical conclusion about your interests and preferences for any or all of the above-mentioned processes.
  • To enhance the process you created as user-generated content.  
• Security and data protection:
  • To secure our services and the registered accounts of the users associated with us (processes that involve verifying your identity). 
  • To secure the accounts of employees, freelancers, and consultants for business/service operation purposes that may include financial transactions as well. 
  • To act best against spam and malware activities.
  • To monitor, detect, and prevent fraudulent activities against your registered account/s. While doing so, we may ask you to verify your identity.
  • To improve and monitor the enforceability of our security measures and take adequate measures to maintain optimum security.  
• Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data:
  We may aggregate or anonymize and/or delete or de-identify your information (will be decided as per the concerned jurisdiction and accepted standards) for two purposes: i) for our legitimate business interests ii) upon your request.
  The major function of such purposes is to ensure that the personal information of our users and registered accounts could no longer be associated with their respective accounts or profiles on our database — as per the need of either our business interests or the interests of the concerned party.
  Furthermore, we have the right to use the aggregated/de-identified information for each and any purpose permitted under the law, including but not limited to marketing, research, and business collaboration purposes (that may also include disclosure of information to third-parties, including sponsors, promotional partners, and advertisers in our sole discretion). 
• Our and Third-party Marketing/Advertising purposes
  Responsible third parties help us in marketing and advertising such as:
  • To send you personalized surveys, newsletters, and information about the products and services offered by us, our affiliates, our business relationships, our partners, and other organizations with which we have collaborated.
  • To enable personalized third party advertising to customize and run contests provided by our third-party affiliates and partners on our services by our sole discretion, as per our advertising standards.  
  • To create profiles and inferences about you and the audience segments for advertising, marketing and analytics purposes on our services (including mobile apps), and on associated third-party services or platforms. Such profiles may be updated adding or combining data or information we obtain from third parties.
  • In the pool of content, we create ourselves, to enable the third party supported or funded contents, as permitted relevant by-laws and jurisdictions.

4. HOW DO WE USE AND SHARE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED?

Learn in detail how we and our third party partners collaborate to use and process your information for better service dynamics.

SB Web technology will have the right to use your personal information after you agree to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.  In basic terms, your use of our websites and services may count as your authorization given to us to use your personal information (subject to applicable jurisdictions). 

Here are the appropriate reasons why we chose to use and share information collected. 

• To improve our digital brands and services
• For analytics and report purpose
• To promote our brand and business
• Reader surveys
• Editorial use
• To anonymize information
• To enable cross-device tracking
• Administration and legal reasons
• Sales/transfer of business or assets
• To enable the use of third parties for business purposes
• To use the information you disclose publicly for our legitimate business interest. 

Likewise, here we list the entities and processes that may guide or define how we share personal information collected as per legitimate reasons.

Third party processes, partners, providers, and individuals:

• Service providers:
  • To utilize third party services and vendors that could enhance the experience of our services. (Example: managing our subscription processes and email lists, analytics providers, processing payment, or any other handling of our administration and operational processes.)
  • We will try our best to ensure that such third party service providers will abide by appropriate legal jurisdictions and ethical standards if they wish to engage with us.
• Other individuals, third parties, services, and partners at your request:
  • Upon your request, we may send your personal data to the associated third parties and individuals. (Example:  To use send-a-friend functionality, our rights to share your account information to third party services, if you wish to interact with co-branded services and products, or any other third party services is needed to fulfill and process your request such as to verify/process contest prize fulfillment.)
• Co-branding (products and services) provided of third party services and partners:
  • We are proud of our independent editorial that dictates how we create content as per our stout journalistic standards. We don’t promote third party brands, services, or products to directly earn monetary gain. That’s what makes our content free of biases and trustworthy. 
  • Still, we may generate a small amount of indirect revenue (affiliate revenue) just to enhance the content experience of our user.
  • For the same purpose of enhancing our brands and contents, some of our services may also partner with third party services, realtors, vendors, and businesses when needed. (Example: To provide online shopping opportunities, subscription services, quiz, registration for our services and events, and other opportunities via third party services and entities.) 
  • Also, to work together with third parties on co-branding and cross-promotional basis. 
  • When you interact with any of our co-branding initiatives, we may share the information we have collected to our co-branding partner or the associated third-party, including all the associated sponsors or advertisers (subject to disclosure). 
  • Likewise, some of our collaboration with our co-branding partners may need access to account information from you so that you can access the desired product or services (that can be even presented on the third party platform). During such a process, the information we collect directly can be shared with the associated third parties of co-branding partners with the only purpose of delivering the co-branded purpose or services that you request. (Example: if you claim a prize you won in our co-branded contests, we will use third-party collaboration to handle the verification of your identity and transference of the prize.)
  • Moreover, such third party services and co-branded partners may use your information in accordance with their privacy policy. Therefore, you are requested to participate in any of such co-branded activities on our services after reading the privacy policy of all the associated parties.  
• Marketing services by third parties:
  • We are an entity that values the privacy of all the users using our services. That's why we will not share any of your information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. 
  • However, we may use third party marketing services or offerings if they improve our services or may fulfill the interest of our audience segments. Any of such collaboration with marketing entities shall be passed through our independent editorial purpose.
  • If and only if we think any of the offerings of a third party service or marketer may interest your content experience, we will share your information with the party. 
  • Such third party entities may be publishers, other marketers, participatory databases, co-branding partners, retailers, and non-profit organizations. These entities may get access to information about you, or the market segment you may fall under according to us. However, we will never share any of your information without your consent. Only the licensed or consented information from you will be shared.    
• Advertising and ad network services by third parties:
  • We are open about the use of third party advertising technologies (such as third party cookies) so that our services can gain relevant content and advertising. 
  • We also expect our third party advertisers and all the relevant technologies/functionalities to follow the required laws and jurisdictions so that they can also support our desire to support the creation of relevant content and advertising ethically. 
  • Such third parties services/processes may be ad servers, certain analytics providers, data exchanges, advertising networks, and other relevant services. 
  • View the list of all of the third party providers in the section below that is titled “List of Third Parties” The list will be updated from time to time ASAP.
• Legal purposes to disclose information to third parties:
  • If demanded by law, we may be obliged to retain, access, and disclose your personal information to third parties (such as law enforcement agencies) that we have collected about you.
  • Likewise, we may also retain, access, and disclose your personal information if it is necessary to:
    • Comply with a regulatory investigation or legal process.
    • Enforce our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, and any other agreements or contracts with you.
    • Give a response on our behalf if any users or stakeholders claim that any of our content has violated their rights. 
    • Strengthen our data security measures via the help of third party services for spam/malware prevention, data theft & fraud prevention, and other related purposes. 
    • Protect the rights, data, assets, and all the properties of  SB Web Technology, its affiliates, and partners.
    • Protect all the stakeholders associated with the services of SB Web Technology.
    • Any of such activities in this section will be done in a good faith belief that legitimate interests of any involved stakeholders will be considered.
• Social network services by third parties:
  • We may use services from social media platforms for login and commenting purposes on our services.
  • If you choose to use such social media platforms to interact with our services, the terms of use, including privacy policy, of such platforms will be applicable.
  • Remember that when you agree to interact with such social media platforms to use our services, we may receive information from them in accordance with their privacy policy, terms of use, and your preferred settings .
• Promotion and contests sponsored by third parties:
  • On our services, you may from time to time see events like contests or sweepstakes sponsored by us or third parties.
  • The information you provide while intending to participate in such events may be shared with the associated third party for their use in their discretion. Such third parties may use your information for any legitimate purposes, including direct marketing.
  • In some cases, we may have an agreement with a sponsor regarding the sharing of personal information. If and only if we have an agreement in place that allows us to protect the data, we will respect your consent regarding whether you will want to share your personal information with such third parties. However, if we lack such an agreement, then you are directed not to enter any sweepstakes or contests that don’t give you the option to choose whether to disclose your information or not.
• Our business affiliates:
  • SB Web Technology is a family of brands and companies whose only purpose of existence is to deliver relevant products and services to you. 
  • Thus, we may share the collected data with all of our digital brands to:
    • Enable the same level of service and content quality.
    • Enhance administrative and operational purposes.
• Sales or transfer of our business assets:
  • We may share all of our company data, including your certain information when we are involved in legitimate corporate transactions as allowed by the law. 
  • Such transactions may be mergers, acquisitions, sale of some of our assets, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, sale of all, or a portion of our brands/companies, and reorganization.
• Information you disclose publicly:
  • Any information that can be defined as user-generated content, including the photographs, written materials, user profiles, video, comments, or any other contents you have provided shall not be covered by this privacy policy.
  • SB Web Technology will not take responsibility for how any of such user-generated content may be used or misused. 
  • Thus, you are required to post and review user-generated content on our services at your discretion.
• In the case of paid and unpaid commercial contents:
  • Any contents commercially produced by us will adhere to our editorial standards created by our independent editorial departments. 
  • Authors, content creators, and writers will share their identification information (including their social media account) to share their authoritativeness and professional status. 
  • Content creators may use third party services such as social media sites and public databases to create relevant content. 
  • We and our policies will disallow any infringements related to copyright of original contents, including plagiarism.
  • In the case of such contents that can be defined as opinion, gossip, and related content styles & structure, the author will take responsibility for the created thoughts and creativity.
  • Despite our best efforts to create errors free content, there may be issues in the contents published on our services that could have not been discovered by our editorial policy (including issues that could arise from unintended human errors such as typos or from a misunderstanding from the primary source of information) about a topic or third party subject (such as famous people), 
  • Therefore, we will always disclose the type of contents a user may read on a page and the information of the author likewise. Similarly, we assure you that we will remove any contents that are not accurate or according to your reports and queries if they are justified.  

5. ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS DO WE USE OR PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

Learn about our legal obligations and responsibility regarding the use of your personal information.

SB Web Technology will take into account the guidelines mentioned in the jurisdiction in which it wants to function. Thus, users from different jurisdictions are requested to analyze this privacy policy in accordance with the distinct laws of their own country.

In general, we collect your personal information either for fulfilling our legitimate interests or when you consent. Likewise, we may contact you or ask you to provide personal information for some special purposes. When we do so, we will follow the legal requirements & jurisdictions. For example: when you want to subscribe to us, we will advise you if the disclosure of personal information is mandatory or not and what happens after you disclose.

In case you are a user from the European Economic Area (EEA), the context in which we collect the information and the type of information itself will determine on what legal basis we will collect your information. Presently, we collect information from you:

• To implement our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions when you are on our services. When you agree with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, it will be understood that we have a contract with you.
• To protect our legitimate interests (taking into account your rights and legitimate interests, but without overriding ours.) Such legitimate interests of ours may be the personalization of our services or to involve in marketing among others).
• After we have consent from you. 

If you have any questions regarding the legal basis for collecting, retaining, or processing your information, or if you want to exercise any specific privacy rights provided by EU, please connect with us (by email to our data privacy department) with the details given on the “Contact Us”.

6. STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Read why the security of your information is important for us.

We have put in appropriate measures to secure the information we collect from you. The precautions and counteraction taken may range from administrative, operational, technical, physical, organizational, and security measures. 

Our purpose to secure your information is:

• To prevent unlawful disclosure and use of your information 
• To prevent unauthorized disclosure and access to your information.
• To maintain confidentiality on behalf of user's data i.e. freelance data, email, login data, passwords, earnings, payments, task histories, and others.
• To prevent accidental loss of your data
• To prevent unlawful and/or unauthorized alteration of your information.
• To take appropriate action against any violations related to the points mentioned above.

Despite giving our best efforts to protect your data, we are also aware of the fact that no system can be 100% secure. Likewise, any transference of information through, to, or on our services via the internet cannot be completely secure. Therefore, using our services, you are agreeing to assume all the risks associated with your use.  

Only when both you (using our services at your own risk adopting needed security and precautionary measures) and we (protecting your data with various measures) try our best efforts to protect your data, a maximum level of security can be attained. 

On your behalf, these are the measures you should take to protect your data as per your need:

• Always keep your login credentials and your login device secure from unauthorized use. We will not take responsibility for any form of data loss or action that occurs from your account on our services due to any activities that happened or happen from your account. 
• Always try to manage your privacy preference on our services, or on any websites, you reached through our services.
• If you are using any third party platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and others to interact or use certain functionalities on our services, you should be aware of the privacy policy and terms of use of such third party platforms. More so, you can manage privacy preferences and settings as per your need on these platforms as well.
• You can also set the privacy preference settings and third party cookie setting as per your need on the browser you're using. For example: On Google Chrome, you can go to settings and then to privacy settings. 
• On your mobile's operating system setting, you can set cookie ad settings as per your preference.
• Sometimes, you may interact with (through message or direct call features) the event vendors through our services. In such scenarios, giving up your personal information is at your own risk. If you want to attain maximum security, you should be highly cautious of disclosing your personal information to a third party you reach or get connected with through the use of our services.  For security purposes, we will advise you not to share any confidential personal information (social security numbers, email id, and passwords, other passwords, payment card information, or any other sensitive information)  to anyone or any entities unless you are sure about their authority and intention. You should first check the terms of use and privacy policy of any platforms, websites, or entities that want to connect with you. 

7. ONLINE ANALYTICS AND DELIVERY OF ADVERTISING AND OTHER CONTENT

Learn briefly how you see advertisements based on your activities and our legitimate interests.

Except for the contents and ads, we may present you directly on our services, we may also serve you ads and other content through third party advertising and marketing services. Similarly, you can reach other websites and platforms through our services and those entities may also serve you advertising and other contents. 

Factors that may determine the type of advertisement you will see on our services and other third party websites:

• Content-type and content category of the page you are visiting
• Demographic data derived from your information
• You searches
• Inferences created about you, your search pattern, and your interests
• User-generated content from you
• Other information we collect from you
• The time you spend not only on our services but also on other websites, and online services across the web. 
• Your current activity or your activity over time not only on our services but also on other websites, and online services across the web. 
• All of the factors mentioned here can be tailored to your interests. Such type of advertising is also known as targeted advertising.
• Our permission to third parties (such as ad services by Google) to serve tailored ads on our services and also on other sites and applications that have collaborated with such third parties. 
• Our permission to third parties (such as Google ad networks ) to access their own cookies and other related tracking technologies on your desktop, mobile devices, or any other devices you choose to access our services.  
• Our permission to third party services or other third parties (such as ad networks) to use de-identified information (a de-identified form of your personal information) to serve relevant ads to you on our services, other websites, and mobile platforms. To do so, de-identified information is matched to cookies, mobile ad identifiers, related technologies, and other proprietary IDs. 

Means of data collection for ad delivery by us and others

• First party cookies data we have collected from you.
• Third party cookies and other tracking technologies placed by third parties on our services. These third party entities are there on our services to either advertise their products or services or the products or services of others. We allow those third party advertising networks that follow the relevant jurisdiction and laws. 
• Third party cookies and other tracking technologies placed by third parties on your mobile phone, computer, and other devices (with your consent).
• First party cookies and tracking technologies placed by us on your mobile phone, computer, and other devices with your consent.

If you want to know more about advertising (especially browser-based tailored advertising), analytics or cookies (cookies based features and advertising) on our services and manage your consents likewise, please visit our Cookie Consent Notice.

8. CAUTION TO BE TAKEN FROM YOUR BEHALF (COOKIE AND CONSENT MANAGEMENT)

Adhering to Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) self-regulatory guidelines and principles regarding online-based advertising and all the required jurisdictions regarding online data uses, we are transparent about the use of cookies, other tracking technologies such as web beacon and non-cookie technologies (collectively known as “Cookies, Other Tracking Technology and Online Analytics” or “Cookies”) on our services. Similarly, we request any users to use our services understanding that we may allow other companies to do the same on the grounds of fulfilling our legitimate business interests. 

To explore more about our use of such technologies & cookies, and your rights related to the use of your cookies, please visit our Cookie Consent Notice.

9. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES RELATED TO PERSONAL INFORMATION AND MARKETING EMAILS

Your special right and choices listed here, if any applies to the jurisdiction you are living. If you are from California, you may have some special rights and choices. 

SB Web Technology respects your right to privacy and all the requirements set forth by the applicable laws and jurisdictions. 

Here is the list of actions you can take to manage your personal information and control how our marketing initiative interacts with you.

a. Clicking the “unsubscribe” link on any of our promotional emails:

It will stop us from sending promotional emails to you but won't stop us from sending information about a transaction initiated by you or about non-commercial and non-marketing matters such as any change in the privacy policy. 

b. Managing Privacy Information for California Residents:

According to California Consumer Protection Act, 2018 (CCPA), the residents of California have the right to know in detail what personal information about them is being collected by us and for what purpose we use such information. Especially, we have to:

• Disclose the categories of your personal information we collect from you and the categories of sources of such personal information. 
• Disclose you the categories of the sources of personal information we collect from you and any of our commercial or business purpose behind the collection of your personal information.
• Delete certain personal information about you upon your request. 
• Disclose you the categories of the third parties associated with us.
• Disclose information about any financial incentive we offer to you if any.  

Therefore, as a California resident, you can request us to take specific actions about your personal information. Still, you shall collaborate on our services understanding that certain information can be exempted from your requests under California law. Such information is usually critical for us and is used by us to provide important services to you. 

Important notice regarding requests verification and agent submission:

When you make a request to us, we will first take appropriate measures to verify your identity. Such measures may include verifying your identity, name, email, address, and likewise information, and/or forwarding your verification email if necessary.

Furthermore, if you want to assign an agent or third party to send certain requests to us on your behalf, you must give the agent your written permission that must be signed. In such a scenario when your chosen agent makes a request, we shall also verify your identity before running further process.

Generally, one can make us request about three types of information processes. They are:

• Requesting all the personal information we have about you as permitted by California law. 
• Requesting information about how we collect, share, and use your personal information. 
• Requesting to delete the personal information we have about you as permitted by California law.
• Requesting to opt-out of the sale of your personal information

Thus, if you want to know more about your privacy rights or in case if you want to make a request to us exercising your legal rights under California law, please follow our opt-out policy.

If you are our employee or job candidate from any jurisdictions, California, or any, you can consult our "Human Resource Privacy Notice (California Employee Privacy Notice)" subsection under our section 17 Appendix.

c. Exercising your right to opt-out of the sale of personal information:

We are transparent about the sale of your certain personal information for purposes associated with providing you with offers, promotions, events, and opportunities that may interest you.

Legally, under CCPA. “sale” is defined to mean “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.”

In the context, our legitimate purpose of providing you with tailored advertising and giving you offers/opportunities (as per your interest) via sharing your information to third parties may also be deemed as the “sale” of personal information as per CCPA. Thus, for the reason to opt-out from SB Web Technology use of your personal information, we request you to:

• Apply several measures listed in our Cookie Consent Notice.
• Applying to your jurisdictions, manage your permission regarding personal information visiting the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” page. There, you can also make certain privacy requests for informational and preferences purposes.

Concludingly, we respect California’s initiative to provide privacy options to its residents. We also support CCPA’s principle of preventing discrimination against its residents for applying for their access, deletion, and opt-out rights associated with specific personal information. Adhering to CCPA and related California jurisdiction, we also clarify that we do not knowingly sell personal information of the minors under 16 years of age without proper authorization legally required by the law. 

If you are our employee or job candidate from any jurisdictions, California, or any, you can consult our "Human Resource Privacy Notice (California Employee Privacy Notice)" subsection under our section 17 Appendix.

You can see here what categories of information we share and collect. 

d. California “Shine the Light” Disclosure:

If you are a resident of California, the law gives you the right to opt-out from your certain categories of personal information being shared with the third parties in certain circumstances.

Therefore, if you like to opt-out from such provisions, please do so visiting point c of “Exercising your right to opt-out of the sale of personal information” subsection of our privacy policy given above.

Further, if you are from California, you can get a copy of this notice if you send a request to the email address, privacy@sbwebtechnology.com.

When you send such a request, you are required to notify us that you want an “SB Web Technology California Privacy Notice” and wait for at least 30 days for the appropriate response from us. 

You can see here what categories of information we share and collect. 

e. The Right To Privacy and Right To Freedom OF Expression & Information:

Based upon your jurisdictions, you will likely have protection related to both freedom of expression and rights to privacy as permitted by the law. This kind of protection also may apply to a range of entities including us. 

Given the stated context above, we may in certain circumstances use your personal information for journalistic purposes, or similar literary/artistic purposes. In such cases, our or the contributor's right to freedom of expression may prevail upon your right to protection of your certain personal information. Likewise, our legitimate interests and rights may prevail under such circumstances.

If you are from the United Kingdom, you can contact the official authority, The Information Commissioner, to know more about your right related to our use of personal information or any such matter including your complaints

If you are from Europe, you can know more about your privacy rights or you can file a complaint against us in relation to handling your request or inappropriately handling your personal information to a supervision body such as European Data Protection Board. To do so, visit the official European Union website, here.

f. Privacy Information & Notice for Nevada residents:

If you are from Nevada, you may have certain protection related to the use of your certain personal information by us. As per Nevada law, we are required to respect your opt-out request in relation to the “sale” of your “covered information” if you have purchased goods and services from us. Such information includes email, name, and others.

Therefore, we notify you that you can request our opt-out form. Remember, we may take additional verification steps to accurately determine the authenticity of your request. 

Please, feel free to email our data protection department to privacy@sbwebtechnology.com, if you have any queries. 

We want to emphasize that we don’t use your personal information for illegitimate purposes. We may share personal information with third parties either for our operation or legitimate business interest purpose that enables us to give continuous service to you. Likewise, you may also come into contact with such third parties on our website that want to provide or market products or services to you as per their own marketing or advertising strategies or in relation to ours. 

g. Privacy Notice for International Users:

As per your local jurisdictions, you may have some exclusive rights in relation to us using and handling your personal information. Such exclusive rights are usually related to access or deletion of your personal information. 

In the list below, you can find a certain type of requests you can make to us as permitted by the local law: 

• Request access to certain information we have about you 
• Opt-out from using or sharing your information for direct marketing purposes
• Delete certain information we have about you
• Update outdated or incorrect information about you
• Change your consent or revoke it regarding the processing of your information
• Others as defined by the specified law

If you want to know more about your legal rights or would like to exercise any, please feel free to email at privacy@sbwebtechnology.com, or contact us from the information given in the Contact Us section below. 

10. HOW WE HANDLE RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

SB Web Technology only holds your personal information as long as it is necessary to process them. The length of time required to process your information depends upon the purpose for which we collect it and the scenarios in which we need to comply with all the required laws and jurisdictions.

11. THIRD PARTY ON OUR WEBSITES

From our services or website, you may interact with a third party or related services & websites that we have no control over. While we try to negotiate good privacy terms with any third party services before allowing them on our websites, your self-initiated interaction with any such third party services is at your own risk. Please, read the privacy policy of any such parties as they are applicable for your use of their services.   

12. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR PARENTS

Our services are solely focused on the general audience, and not made for the use by children or minors, especially those who are under the age of 13 or 16 in the EU. 

13. DISPUTES AND RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS: THIRD PARTIES RIGHT IS NOT APPLICABLE

Any privacy disputes arising from your use of our services or our processing, retaining, sharing, or use of your personal information will be subject to our Terms and Conditions, all the applicable laws of Nepal, and likewise.

14. INFORMATION TRANSFER TO NEPAL

Our services are managed from Nepal and are dedicated to the western audience located in western countries like the United States. Similarly, we have a provision that gives opportunities to international contributors, freelancers, or employees to contribute to our services.

Therefore, if you are located outside Nepal,  we request you to take into consideration that information you provided to us will be transferred to and processed from Nepal, where laws and jurisdictions regarding the use and processing of your personal information may not be as strict as your home country.

15. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may sometimes change this privacy policy with or without notice. Any change will apply effectively after we update and post the changes to our privacy policy.

16. CONTACT US

Data Privacy Department for queries related to the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Data Privacy Officer
S.B. Web Technology Pvt. Ltd.
TNT Building, Tinkune, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No. 8749
Phone: +977 01 4112284
privacy@sbwebtechnology.com

SB Web Human Resource Department: For queries related to the rights of employees under certain jurisdictions.
hr@sbwebtechnology.com

 

17. APPENDIX

California Privacy Notice

As per the California Privacy Policy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), we are aware of the specific rights and jurisdictions regarding the use of personal information of the residents of California. 

This notice is created to function as a supplementary part of the SB Web Technology’s privacy policy. It mainly applies to those residents of California who can be defined as the users of our services, including app users, other customers, and event attendees. But for the former employees, current employees, business contractors, service providers, and other affiliates of SB Web Technology, this notice doesn’t apply. 

As per the California Privacy Policy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), we are aware of the specific rights (such as information and deletion rights) and jurisdictions regarding the use of personal information of the residents of California. However, it is completely voluntary for us to delete the collected information upon request from those who are living in jurisdictions that don’t have such requirements. 

Further, if you are business affiliates of SB Web Technology, we have already agreed upon terms enabled by our mutual interests whilst following all the necessary jurisdictions.

Below are the tables and detailed explanations that will help you understand what type of personal information we may collect from the overall audience, including the residents of California and why we collect them, including the legal basis of collecting the information. Further details about the use of your personal information can be found here. In the same context, we also request you to understand that our businesses have no intention to sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age without gaining opt-in consent.

Purpose of personal data or information collection & use (how we use personal data collected? A detailed explanation can be found in the Privacy Policy here.	Types of personal data or information collected, See tables below to know whom we may disclose such information and legal basis of collecting such information	Sources of the personal data or information collected	Ways or means of the personal data or information collected (how we collect?)
Personalization of your experience. Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Contact or account registration information as audience or visitors (for subscription and commenting on our articles/services).	You Other users who may recommend you, via their profiles (to share with you our websites, its contents, or about the events they are participating via our websites or services).  Consumer data resellers Conference and other events. Our affiliates.	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information provided by users from your circle (referrals via email, social media, or via any other third party service we have taken.) Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Customer service communication  Service and business operation Security and protection of data    Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes Data retention purposes (Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data)	Customer service information about our business operation/services via email, phone call, and others.	You  Business affiliates Users	Information you provide to us. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services
Personalization of your experience. Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Demographic, statistical, and interest information, including gender, age, interests, and others.	You Other users who may recommend you, via their profiles (to share with you our websites, its contents, or about the events they are participating via our websites or services).  Consumer data resellers Conference and other events  Our affiliates Social media networks and related platforms, but as per your privacy preferences there.	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third-party services and cookies on our services Information provided by users from your circle (referrals via email, social media, or via any other third party service we have taken). Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data	Transactional and financial information, including bank accounts, credit/debit card number, shipping address, verification number, expiry information, and other information related to your purchases and transactions on our services.	You Third-party payment platforms/processors who gather and process information on our behalf. Such platforms must also have an independent relationship with you unless specified by us. Third-party suppliers and sellers connected to our services through our editorial content that is made to give value to the audience.	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your financial and required personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Personalization of your experience. Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	User-generated content including photo, comments on articles, audio-video, and any information you disclose while interacting or using our services. (also includes contents such as your disclosed info on forums, your review for vendor products, your testimonials on our services, your feedback to us, and others)	You Other users who may recommend you, via their profiles (to share with you our websites, its contents, or about the events they are participating via our websites or services).	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Communication with event vendors, third party partners, business affiliates, advertising partners, and likewise. (Includes message and calls to such parties)	You  The event vendors or third parties with which you communicate	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Personalization of your experience Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Device information and identifiers, including the browser used, IP address, operating system, device type, and other identifiers such as advertising identifiers, app identifiers, and likewise.	You Tracking and cookies technologies Analytics service providers Advertising partners	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Information related to activities such as survey, contest, research, and sweepstake, including all those information, such as contact and user-generated information, needed to enable your participation and verification of your winnings (if you win).	You Analytics services Surveys and sweepstake partners Researchers and analytics	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Personalization of your experience. Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Geolocation information that can be derived from GPS-based process on your mobile devices (subject to the setting prevalent on your mobile). It also includes information such as zip, state, and city codes that can be derived from wifi triangulation or can be linked to your  IP address.	You Our affiliates Advertising partners Marketers Analytics providers	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Personalization of your experience. Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Internet network connection and device activity data during and after the usage of our services, including domain name, landing pages, browsing activity, ads & pages viewed, upload or downloads, search terms, error logs, forms you fill or partially fill, the website you visit thereafter, or any other user activity and data processes identified by our web servers, including your use of email and likewise.  (Find more how we collect and use this type of information on Cookie Consent Notice)	You Cookies and other tracking technologies Our affiliates Advertising partners Marketers Analytics providers	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Personalization of your experience. Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Social media information that can be defined as the permission you grant us to access your personal information (friends list,  email address, photo, and related information) associated with the social media account with which you choose to interact with our services for any purposes. For example: interacting on our pages or platforms on social media or third-party platforms such as Twitter, Linkedin, and likewise also counts as social media information.	You Such social media networks and other third-party services, as per your privacy preferences on any of such services	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Personalization of your experience. Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Other information that you provide to us in order to use services.	You	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent.
Personalization of your experience. Business interest communication Customer service communication Our service and business operation purposes.  Legal purposes Security and data protection purposes. Aggregating or anonymizing and/or deleting or de-identifying your personal information or data Our and Third-party Marketing/ Advertising purposes	Contact information about others. Includes any information such as personal identifiers you provide about others while using our send-to-your friend services (usually while sending a gift). When you engage with the functionality, we may use your email as well for communication purposes (i.e. to communicate with your friend.)	You Your friends and referrals	Information you provide to us upon using our services. Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services. Information you provide to a third party source with your consent; giving rights to such third party services to process your personal information.   All of such information must be provided by you with your consent. When you use send-to-your friend functionality on our services, you will use third party services such as email or likewise to complete the desired action. Therefore, such action will be subject to each user's privacy preference on such third party services.

 

Personal Information Categories	Information Type	Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the collected information
Contact or account registration information	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Customer service information about our business operation/services	Information you provide to us	Service providers Our affiliates Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Demographic, statistical, and interest information.	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Transactional and financial information	Information you provide to us	Service providers Our affiliates Third party for sales and transfer of business or assets Third parties for legal purposes
User-generated content	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Communication with event vendors, third party partners, business affiliates, advertising partners, and likewise.	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Employment or education information when you register for networking insight services or for events. Information may include education history, business contacts, career experience, and likewise.	Information You Provide to Us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Demographic, statistical, and interest information.	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Contact information about others, including name and mailing address. We may collect and access such information in your request to send a benefit or a gift to a friend on or via our Services.	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Inferences data or information we may perceive and organize about you related to your preferences and activities on our services. We may also receive such data from other parties.	Information you provide to us	Service providers Our affiliates Online advertising networks, advertising partners and advertisers. Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Other information	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Information related to activities such as  survey, contest, research, and sweepstake	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Advertisers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Device information and identifiers	Information we collect automatically from you	Service providers Our affiliates Online advertising networks, advertising partners, and advertisers. Social media networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Information related to activities such as  survey, contest, research, and sweepstake	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Promotions and contests providers Co-brands Partners that help us provide co-branded products or services Marketers Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Geolocation information	Information we collect automatically from you	Service providers Our affiliates Online advertising networks, advertising partners, and advertisers. Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Internet network connection and device activity data during and after the usage of our Services	Information we collect automatically from you	Service providers Our affiliates Online advertising networks, advertising partners, and advertisers. Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes
Social media information	Information you provide to us	Service providers Other person, individuals, entities and service providers upon your request Our affiliates Social Media Networks Entities for sales and transfer of business or assets Entities for legal purposes

Legal basis for the personal data or information collection explained:

Types of personal data or information collected	Legal basis for the personal data or information collection
Contact or account registration information as audience or visitors	To provide and maintain services to the audience, users, or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests.
Contact or account registration information as employees, freelancers, and consultants.	To maintain services to the audience, users, or visitors. To effectively maintain the contractual business relationship with employees, freelancers, or consultants.   To fulfill our legitimate business interests.
Customer service information  about our business operation/services	To provide services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests.  To effectively maintain business and feedback-based relationship with all the stakeholders and users.
Demographic, statistical and interest information.	To provide and maintain services to the audience, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests.
Transactional and financial information	To maintain services to the audience, users, or visitors. To effectively maintain contractual business relationships with employees, freelancers or consultants.   To fulfill our legitimate business interests.
User-generated content	To provide services to the audience, users, or visitors. To effectively maintain business and feedback-based relationships with all the stakeholders and users.
Communication with event vendors, third party partners, business affiliates, advertising partners, and likewise.	To provide services to the audience, users or visitors. To effectively maintain business and feedback-based relationships with all the stakeholders and users. To review a variety of services and products based on our editorial and journalistic standards. Doing so, we can receive legitimate affiliate revenue. In the pool of content we create ourselves, to enable the third party supported or funded contents, as permitted relevant laws and jurisdictions. To run diverse kinds of service enhancing features such as sweepstakes, contests, and likewise.
Device information and identifiers	To provide and maintain services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests. To prevent fraudulent activities on our servers. To personalize the experience of the users.
Information related to activities such as  survey, contest, research, and sweepstake	To provide and maintain services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests.
Geolocation information	To provide and maintain services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests. To prevent fraudulent activities on our servers. To personalize the experience of the users.
Internet network connection and device activity data during and after the usage of our services	To provide and maintain services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests. To prevent fraudulent activities on our servers. To personalize the experience of the users.
Social media information	To provide and maintain services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests. To prevent fraudulent activities on our servers. To personalize the experience of the users.
Other information	To provide and maintain services to audiences, users or visitors. To fulfill our legitimate business interests. To prevent fraudulent activities on our servers. To personalize the experience of the users.

SB Web Technology Human Resource  Privacy Notice (California Employee Privacy Notice )

This notice will be updated when necessary or at default in the designated time — that is once every twelve months. We understand it is important to update the notice to encompass changes in business and legal requirements and obligations. This notice is created to supplement the Privacy Policy of SB Web Technology.

Since California Consumer Protection Act 2018 (CCPA) has taken a step to protect the privacy of employees who are residents of California through the means of only consented use of their information, we have decided to take these measures as golden standards for all of our employees. However, it is completely voluntary for us to provide CCPA-like rights to those who are living in jurisdictions that don’t have such requirements. 

Pursuant to the CCPA, SB Web Technology (“SB Web Technology,” “we,” "our," or “us”) is required to provide its employees who are residents of California a notice regarding the use of their personal information. According to the act, such notice should be given to the associated party before or at the point of collection of such personal information and the notice should also disclose why each personal information is being collected by us. 

This notice is thus aimed to provide employees who are California residents all the information about their rights regarding the use of their personal information under CCPA. Such employees are also requested to visit this notice from time to time to get notified about any legitimate change set forth by business or legal requirements.

Definitions:

Personal Information:

As defined by CCPA, it is information that SB Web Technology has collected about you during your employment for reasons that are related to your employment with us. The act defines personal information as any information ‘that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” While the definition uses words such as consumers or households, it also covers employees who are residents of California.

“You," “Employees” or “Employee”: 

• Means a natural person, identified or identifiable
• Who is employed with us on any basis (full-time, part-time or temporary)
• Who is in a contractual business relationship with us (as a consultant, service provider or contractor or advisors or counselors.
• Any visitors, guests who interact on our services (or with us) to collaborate or work with us (job applicants)

“Processing,” “Processed,” or “Process”: 

As defined by CCPA, “Processing” or related terms means “any operation or set of operations that are performed on personal data.” These operations can be through both automated or not automated means and generally, include activities such as storage, collection, organization, recording, structuring, analysis, adaptation, alteration, use, consultation, retrieval, disclosure by transmission, combination, generalization, restriction, dissemination, destruction or erasure of personal information. 

How and Why We Collect Personal Information About You

SB Web Technologies may possess different categories of information we may possess about employees. However, it will never collect additional categories of personal information from you, nor it will use any collected information for additional reasons or purposes other than mentioned in this notice. 

Types of personal data or information collected	Sources of the personal data or information collected	Ways or means of the personal data or information collected (how we collect?)
Identifiers such as “real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier IP address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.” In such a context, an unique personal identifier means “a persistent identifier that can be used to identify” an employee, or any device that the employee used or uses overtime to get access to our services in relation to their employment.  These identifiers also cover IP address, beacons, cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies in addition to user alias, telephone numbers or other forms of probabilistic data and identifiers.	You Other users who may recommend you, via their profiles (to share with you our websites, its contents, or about the events they are participating via our websites or services) Consumer data resellers Conference and other events Human resources and marketing agencies that have gained your consent to use such information Our affiliates	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information provided by users from your circle (referrals via email, social media, or via any other third party service we have taken) Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent
Information that falls under protected classifications under California and Federal law, including race, color, sex (includes childbirth, pregnancy, and related medical condition), gender expression, and sexual orientation. Also includes national origin, religion, religious practices and attires, marital status, political acitivites and affilitiation, medical conditions (such as cancer or cancer history), genetic information, military or veteran status, disability, age, and request for leave in cases of family care, serious health condition, pregnancy, disability, and other critical conditions, and all other protected information likewise	You Consumer data resellers Conference and other events Human resources and marketing agencies that have gained your consent to use such information Our affiliates	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent While we may collect or get access to some of the protected information, we take it as our responsibility to adapt strict policy against discrimination against an employee based on such information
Internet or other networks electronic information that includes search history, browsing history, consumer interaction with advertisements, applications, links, and features on our websites and services, geolocation, and time data in relation to the usage of our websites, applications, services, features of the use of our physical location.	You Consumer data resellers Conference and other events Human resources and marketing agencies that have gained your consent to use such information Our affiliates	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent While we may collect or get access to some of the protected information, we take it as our responsibility to adapt strict policy against discrimination against an employee based on such information
Professional and employee related information, including but not limited to job related data such as resume, job interview, test and application processes, contractor/supervisor contracts, employee contracts, biometric, photo, performance review, information related to payment of compensation, and other information in forms of text, video and photo-generated during the time of employment or, at SB Web Technology premises.	You Consumer data resellers Conference and other events. Human resources and marketing agencies that have gained your consent to use such information Our affiliates	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent While we may collect or get access to some of the protected information, we take it as our responsibility to adapt strict policy against discrimination against an employee based on such information
Education information including education record, employees' background mark sheets, transcripts and other education-related documents.	You Consumer data resellers Conference and other events. Human resources and marketing agencies that have gained your consent to use such information Our affiliates	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent While we may collect or get access to some of the protected information, we take it as our responsibility to adapt strict policy against discrimination against an employee based on such information
Inferences information that may or could be organized, collaborated, and used to create a profile regarding an employee from data collected about employee’s preferences, behavior, characteristics, aptitudes, predispositions, ability, intelligence, and likewise.	You Consumer data resellers Conference and other events. Human resources and marketing agencies that have gained your consent to use such information Our affiliates	Information you provide to us Upon your first visit, we will always ask you to read our privacy policy and grant us permission to use third party services and cookies on our services Information you provide to a third party source agreeing that such information could be resold for marketing purposes. All of such information must be provided by you with your consent While we may collect or get access to some of the protected information, we take it as our responsibility to adapt strict policy against discrimination against an employee based on such information

 

Purpose of personal data or information collection & use (How we use the employee's personal data collected?)

• To hire and recruit employees, including all the necessary processes such as background checks and expert analysis.
• To monitor benefits such as retirement, medical, and others via all the necessary processes, including storing and processing information related to eligibility, insurance, and accident verification and management, absence and leave monitoring, and to give information and statements about the process via online and other means. 
• To distribute salary payroll and distribute for expenses, including payroll management, bonus, and stock option management, payment of expenses, and other expenses related payments.
• To organize and implement performance reviews, including but not limited to generating information regarding career performance, performance appraisals, skills monitoring, staff-restructuring, promotions, job moves, and career counseling.
• To administer work-related specific licenses, including the use of licensed software during an employee employment period.
• To ensure our disciplinary actions, compliance strategy, examination, and training meet standards required by applicable jurisdictions.
• To maintain and alter your contact and job responsibilities information (with notice) for the use within the brands controlled by SB Web Technology.
• To administer someone's eligibility to work in the US and abroad. 
• To take effective and needed actions during business or personal emergencies. That means we need to maintain your contact information and similar information about your dependents. 
• To assign and monitor international assignments that may include processes such as working with relocation services, obtaining the immigration document of the associated employee, adhering to health and tax document requirements of the host country, and likewise.
• To create a safe working environment that may include our actions related to our code of conduct, internal policy, and terms and conditions.
• To create a favorable working environment that may include our initiations regarding surveys, training, and organization culture analysis.
• To maintain the security and functionality of SB Web Technology’s online and physical assets. Related processes include but not limited to operation, maintenance and management of our hardware and software assets, and monitoring of computer/system uses and email.
• To carry out health-care-related activities for the betterment of our employees. Related processes may include analyzing the suitability of an employee for particular a task, conducting employment and pre-employment related medical checkup and screenings, ensuring our sickness policy functions properly, providing needed health services, and likewise.
• To comply with all the necessary jurisdictions, laws, and requirements, including legal obligations to reporting financial, management, safety-related, and other information. 

Added on: 25-Nov-2024 (As per Ezoic)

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