Privacy Policy for Kala Media Innovations
Kala Media Innovations ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your information when you use our site and services, including art curation, digital art creation, online art education, virtual art exhibitions, and artist promotion. This policy applies to all users of our online platform.
Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information:
- Information You Provide Directly: This includes information you provide when you register for an account, purchase services, participate in online art education courses, submit artwork for exhibitions, or contact us with inquiries. This information may include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, payment information (processed securely by third-party payment processors), and any other information you choose to provide.
- Information Collected Automatically: When you access or use our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits. We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect this information.
- User Content: If you submit or upload content to our site, such as artwork, comments, or forum posts, this content will be stored and may be visible to other users, depending on the settings of our online platform.
How We Use Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
- To Provide and Improve Our Services: We use your information to operate our site, provide the services you request, personalize your experience, and improve our platform.
- To Communicate with You: We may use your information to send you important notices, updates about our services, marketing communications (where permitted by law), and respond to your inquiries. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications at any time.
- To Process Payments: We use your payment information to process transactions and prevent fraud.
- To Display User Content: User-generated content may be displayed on our site, depending on the settings and functionality of our online platform.
- To Ensure Security: We use your information to protect our site and services from unauthorized access, misuse, and other security threats.
- For Legal Compliance: We may use your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your information with the following categories of recipients:
- Service Providers: We share information with third-party service providers who assist us with various aspects of our business, such as payment processing, website hosting, email marketing, and data analytics. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and only use it for the purposes we specify.
- Other Users: User-generated content and profile information may be visible to other users of our site.
- Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information to law enforcement agencies, government officials, or other third parties if we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect our rights or property, or prevent fraud or illegal activity.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include encryption, firewalls, and secure server infrastructure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as necessary to provide you with our services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:
- Access: Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction: Request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
- Deletion: Request that we delete your personal information.
- Restriction of Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- Data Portability: Request to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
- Object: Object to the processing of your personal information.
- Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information (where processing is based on consent).
To exercise these rights, please contact us at the address provided below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of your own. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. We will take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your information is protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.
Children's Privacy
Our site is not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at the address provided below, and we will take steps to delete the information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on our site. Your continued use of our site after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Kala Media Innovations
45 Nehru Street,
2nd Floor,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
zip: 600001
country: India