The Assam Tribune Pvt. Ltd. (ATPL)publishes the well known newspapers like The Assam Tribune, Dainik Asam and Asam Bani. The user agrees that by entering this website either directly or from any third party website, the user shall be automatically be governed by this privacy policy of ATPL. This privacy policy is applicable to all of ATPL’s current and future “Online Publications”. By choosing to browse this site, you agree to the site's Privacy Policy.

The Assam Tribune Pvt. Ltd. respects the privacy of its users and is committed to protect it in all respects.

With a view to offer an enriching and holistic Internet experience to its users, ATPL offers a vast repository of Online Sites and variety of community services. You may read 'About Us' to know more about ATPL. Most of the Online Community Services are offered for free but you may need registration to surf the content stored in archives and the paid sections

Among the information that you may be required to provide is: a) your name, b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) PIN code etc., your occupation, interests, and the like. The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve our sites and provide you a more user-friendly experience.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you visit our website(s) just to browse, read pages or download information, but do not register for any of our services, we gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information cannot and does not identify you personally.

Our web servers automatically collect the said limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our sites. The IP address, however, does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come. If and When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website -- it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.

All information gathered on our websites are securely stored within the database controlled by us. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; and access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.

However, the Internet is an ever-evolving medium. We reserve our right to modify, update and alter the Privacy Policy at any time. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be. The material changes if any will be notified time and again and you are requested to visit the Privacy Policy Section to know about the changes.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. 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.

We will not reveal your personal identity in connection with the disclosure of such interest to any third party. However, we reserve our right to disclose the information about the users including personal information when legally called upon to do so at the request of the Government and authorities conducting an investigation or to protect against misuse of unauthorized use of our websites.

Links to Other Sites

Our website has links to other website(s) in the World Wide Web. The privacy policies of these website(s) is not under our control. Once you leave our servers, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. Such sites are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our servers, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. You are requested to go through the Privacy Policy of those websites before using the same. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. Social media and other platforms may track and save user's request to share a web page respectively through user's social media platform and other accounts. Users revealing personal information on such third party websites is not under our direct control and hence ATPL shall not be liable for any loss of privacy resulting from revealing personal information in such websites. ATPL shall not be liable to the type of information thus being broadcasted to the user from the third party.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on the user's computer's hard drive. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving cookies from the "Online Publications" on the user's computer's hard drive the user should take necessary steps within the user's web browsers security settings to block all cookies from the "Online Publications".

Traffic log cookies may be used to identify which pages are being seen/ used to analyse data about web page traffic. ATPL may use this information for statistical analysis purposes. Overall, cookies are made to provide the user with a better website, by enabling ATPL to monitor which pages the user finds useful and which the user does not.

ATPL may change this policy from time to time by updating this page without intimation and shall be applicable to you. User should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of the applicable privacy policy

The Courts in Guwahati, Assam in India shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to the exclusion of other courts and applicable law shall be Indian Law.

If you have any comments or questions with regard to our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at the following e-mail address:

atdigital(at)assamtribune.com