(Translation and voice conversion link available at the bottom)
This website is maintained by Ujvala Consultants Pvt Ltd, 37, Ujvala, 20th Main, BSK First Stage, Bangalore 560050.
The Compliance executive and Grievance redressal executive for the website is Na.Vijayashankar and can be reached through the e-mail naavi@ naavi.org with the subject line “Grievance-Naavi.org” and leave a comment on one of the web pages to which the grievance may refer to. On request an online dispute resolution discussion may be provided with the use of the services from odrglobal.in/ddmap.in
The Grievance redressal shall be in the form of negotiation by the Grievance redressal officer. Data principals not satisfied with the grievance redressal offered by the website may make a complaint to the Data Protection Board under DPDPA 2023.
The privacy policy is last revised on 30th January 2024.
The objective of Naavi.org is dissemination of knowledge related to Cyber Law and Data Protection Law and the main contribution is from Vijayashankar who is more popularly known as Naavi. Unless specified, all views expressed on the website are personal views of Naavi.
Any visitor to the website is deemed to interact with the website for the purpose of receiving knowledge.
Naavi.org does not collect any personally identifiable information from its visitors. Hence no cookies are set for this purpose. The hosting company may collect non personal information for technical and statistical requirements for improving the user experience during browsing. other than the automated statistics that is collected by the server as a part of its logging requirements. Those who register themselves on the website to receive the feeds do so as per the information requirements that may be required by wordpress. When comments are posted on the website certain information may be voluntarily provided by the visitor and displayed against the comment as required by the relevant word press agent.
The content published on the website is subject to intellectual property rights of the publisher, the information is publicly made available and may be re-distributed on as is where is basis at the discretion of the visitor subject to credit being acknowledged and a information is sent to naavi.
The website hosts site search facility both by Google and Bing and users are requested to check with the policies of those companies when their services are to be used.
Naavi.org is a content site which has been in existence since 1998 and contains many articles from that generation. The current version of the site on Word press started from 12.12.12. During part of the time Google Ad service might have been tested and may be present on some of the old pages. At present no third party ads are being served on Naavi.org.
In the earlier content the site might be displaying ads of some third-party advertising companies such as Google to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. It is possible that some of the advertisers who use the site for advertising may place cookies or otherwise follow Privacy policies of their own.
Viewers are requested to inform us if they spot such advertisements so that it can be removed.
Naavi.org exercises such control as is reasonably possible in such cases.
We however declare our commitment to the protection of Privacy of the visitors and abide by the general principles of Privacy regarding non collection of information other than what is necessary and reasonable security in the use of the data collected if any.
Naavi.org is a public website available on the Internet. Hence visitors irrespective of their age or nationality or residence may be able to view the content. Since the site does not collect any personally identifiable information, the issue of collection of personal information of a minor or a non Indian does not arise. For the same reason, the need for “Nomination” registration also does not arise.
Naavi.org uses the services of ccavenue.com/Payu.com for receiving online payments if required in cases such as E Books offered through the website and in respect of visitors using this service, the privacy policy of ccavenue.com/Payu.com would be applicable.
The site provides for RSS feeds and membership on word press system for receiving alerts on new posts. Any personal identifiers provided for such purpose are subject to the policies related to the service provided by word press system or by the feed distribution system.
It is declared that Naavi.org follows the principles of Privacy protection under DPDPA 2023 (and or other laws of India as applicable) and where there is a conflict with any other international law or guideline, the provisions of DPDPA 2023 read along with Information Technology Act 2000 shall prevail.
In particular, Naavi.org does not subject itself to the administrative jurisdiction of GDPR and any data subject who intends to be protected by GDPR and not DPDPA 2023 shall not use any of the services of this site or its networked sites. All activities of individuals on this website shall be deemed as activities within the jurisdiction of India and hence only Indian laws shall be applicable for these activities.
Any claims made under statutes or regulations other than the Indian laws regarding privacy protection or otherwise are unacceptable and may be deemed as maliciously intended.
Since no personally identifiable information of any individual is collected by the website the obligations related to DPDPA 2023 are minimal. The statistical information collected by the site hosting team donot have identity of any individuals. The IP address or device ID collected does not carry the identity of any individual. The locational tag is related to a country and hence does not contain any individual identity.
In the event any visitor has any observations and come across collection of identifiable personal information of individuals by any third party, kindly bring it to our knowledge for correction. We appreciate your efforts to keep this site compliant.
This privacy policy has been provided in English. On request it would be made available in 22 scheduled languages recognized in the Indian Constitution. Request may be sent to naavi@ naavi.org. For immediate use free translation service provided by Google can be used here: https://translate.google.co.in/
“Consent Managers” registered in India under DPDPA 2023 may contact naavi@ naavi.org and register their services.
Continuing use of the website is deemed to be consent provided to this privacy notice. The IP address collected during the visit is considered the Meta data that confirms the deemed consent. Since the consent is specific to the website visit, the meta data collected is discarded within a reasonable time after the visit.
Disclosure about Agencies collecting information through this website :
The website www.naavi.org is hosted under the facilities provided by Square Brothers Info Pvt Ltd based in Chennai (www.squarebrothers.com) which is considered a joint data fiduciary for whatever information is collected as a part of the hosting process.
It is hereby notified that as a part of compliance of DPDPA 2023, any other agency associated with this website and collecting any personal information from the visitors of this website shall disclose the same to Ujvala Consultants Pvt Ltd for better transparency. Any consequences of such non declaration shall be considered as indemnified.
P.S: In case any visitor wants to have the Privacy policy in other scheduled languages as per DPDPA, a request may be made to the DPO. Alternatively the user may use either the mobile app Bhashini or visit https://anuvaad.bhashini.gov.in/ This service provides an Indian Government supported translation service. It may have word limitation and you may have to go para by para for the translation.
