Privacy Policy
At Novelty Ads, our most important asset is you.
We are committed to maintaining the privacy, integrity and security of any information that our readers provide to us. This Privacy Policy explains how the personal information that you provide us through our website www.noveltyads.com is protencted and used in connection with the services we provide.
Here, “Personal Information” refers to the information that helps us identify you. It may include your business, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, and credit card information.
At Novelty Ads, we regularly re-evaluate this Policy to ensure that there is no identity theft or piracy of your personal information.
Your Privacy Will Not Be Available For Sale.
We do not and will not ever sell or rent out your Personal Information to anyone, for any reason. If we decide to use or disclose your personal information it will only be in the following cases: (1) for research (to analyze our site usage and to improve our services); (2) to deliver to you any administrative notices; (3) to help you with your requests regarding our services; (4) for project planning, troubleshooting problems, protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity; (5) for providing data to third party contractors which provide services to us and are bound by this Policy; (6) to enforce our Terms of Service; and (7) as otherwise mentioned in this policy.
We Limit the Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
Unlike some areas of the website that you can use without entering any personal information, other parts of the website require you to register or provide us with your personal data in order to completely avail services. This information might include your name, company name, contact number, email address, password (Registeration Information) and in some cases, your credit card information. To benefit from our services in the utmost way, at some places, you will be required to provide additional information regarding you or your company (eg: media offerings, needs, or interests).
As time passes by, we may request you to provide other personal information for additional benefits. In such cases, you will be given the authority to either provide us with the desired information or decline our request.
Even if we disclose your data, it will be anonymous and will only be disclosed in non-personally identifiable manners to: (1) Advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes(such as the number of users who clicked on a particular Novelty Ads offer) and (2) Organizations approved by us for conducting research into general use of the website.
Such information DOES NOT identify you individually. Access to your Registration Information, Account Information and any other Personal Information is strictly restricted and is used only in accordance with specific internal procedures. The individuals that have access to our databases have been selected in accordance with our security policies and are bound by certain confidentiality obligations. They may face termination and criminal prosecution if they fail to meet these obligations. At times, we may also use third party vendors or service providers to help us provide the services to you, such as sending email messages on our behalf. Our contracts with these third parties outline the rules for appropriate use and handling of your data, while maintaining confidentiality.
Use of and Changes to Your Information
You may update your Registration Information anytime via our website.
We do not review your Personal Information for accuracy so updating it is solely your responsibility.
We Use Your Online Session Information Only to Improve Your Experience
When you visit the website, we may collect technical and navigational information such as computer your browser type, IP addresses, pages visited, and average time spent on our site. This information may be used for purposes like analysis of data so that we can improve our web design and functionality.
We may also set and access cookies stored on your computer to track/store preferential information about you. “Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted/stored on the web browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be used in ways like limiting the number of times you see a particular offer or to help classify offers that serve you better.
Most browsers allow you to stop cookies from being stored. If you chose to do this, you will be unable to avail the full services we provide through our website.
We or a third party may also make use of web bacons to analyze site usage.
Third Parties Offering Other Products or Services Will Not Be Given Your Personal Information without Your Permission
There are several links (services) offered by third parties on our website.If you allowthem to access your personal information, Novelty Ads will not be responsible in any way. You are encouraged to read the privacy policy created by the third party itself. On our site, we may present links that enable us to keep track of whether these external links have been followed and whether any action has been taken on a third party website or not. This is only to improve the quality of our site’s performace.
We May Disclose Your Information to Protect Our Rights or If Required by Law
If required, we reserve the right of disclosing your data in a few cases: (1) To enforce our rights against you or in connection with a breach by you of this Policy or the Terms of Service; (2) To prevent prohibited/ illegal activities; or (3) When required by any applicable rule or legal process.
Your Data May Be Transferred upon Change of Control but Only in Accordance with This Privacy Policy
Your personal information may be transferred to a third party if we encounter a sale, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or any other change of control. If we sell, merge or transfer any part of our business, part of the sale may also include your Personal Information. If this happens, you will be asked if you wish to stop receiving any promotional information after the change of control.
You Can Delete Your Data
Your data is yours and you have the authority to remove it whenever you want. When you request us to delete your account, your data will be permanently deleted from our servers and no further access to your account will be possible after that. Your account credentials will be deleted. However, your data MAY still remain on our backup servers or on our production server (mainly the aggregate data derived from your Account Information).
Email Communications from Us
We may provide users with ocassional email alerts (including promotional material from third parties) and allow them to subscribe to email newsletters.
Users have the ability to opt out of receiving our promotional and newsletter emails by following the instructions given in the emails. However, opting out in this manner will not end transmission of Service-related emails.
Blogs and Other Forums on the Website
If you use a bulletin board, blog, chat room, or post a product or service available for sale on our Site, be aware that the information you provide can be read, collected or used by other users and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We will not be responsible for the personal information you choose to post on these forums. We will never ask for your credit card information in such a venue and anyone requesting such information in such venue musts be immediately reported to [email protected].
Surveys, Contests/Giveaways
At times, we may offer you to participate in surveys, contests/ giveaways and other promotions. Any information submitted in connection with such activities will be treated in accordance with this Policy, except if seperatly mentioned along those offers.
Your Data Is Secure
Our website uses a combination of firewall barriers, encryption techniques and authentication procedures to maintain the security of your online sessions and to ensure that your accounts are protected from any unauthorized access.
When you register for the services, we require a password from you for your privacy and security. We transmit information such as your Registration Information or account credentials securely.
Our servers are in a secure facility and access to it requires multiple levels of authentication. The system is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
No employee of our company is allowed to put any sensitive content on any insecure machine (i.e. nothing can be taken from the database of Novelty Adsand placed on an unsecure laptop).
Communications on Our Website Are Secrely Encrypted
All communications that occur between your computer and the site, after you submit your Login ID and Password are encrypted. This prevents eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery.
Only You Are Responsible for Maintaining the Confidentiality of Your Login ID and Password
We recommend you to change your password periodically because only you are responsible for maintaining your security details. Your password must be 4 characters in length. You must not provide these credentials to any third party and if you believe that your information has been stolen or leaked, you must change your password via the site and contact us immediately at [email protected]. We do not take responsibility if someone else accesses your account through Registration Information they he/she has obtained from you or through a violation of this Policy or the Novelty Ads Terms of Service.
If you have a security related concern, please contact us at [email protected]. We will try our best to provide you with a rapid solution to any problem that you face.
We Post Updates on Our Website Whenever If There Is a Change In Our Privacy Policy
We update this Policy whenever needed. The date last revised appears at the top of the Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns or feedback regarding this Policy, send an email to [email protected] or mail us directly at: Novelty Ads, Office 40, Kohinoor One Plaza, Faisalabad.