1. Why Are These Policies Important?
It is important to Gambling.in (“us”, “website”, “we”), the owner of the website, that your (“you”, “the user”) information is handled with care. Our website was created to provide information on gaming sites and the gaming industry.
We advise that you regularly review our policy as we may alter it from time to time to reflect any changes to the way our website operates. If the way we collect, use, or handle your information changes, we will ensure to update our privacy policy to reflect this.
By using our website and services you are accepting all the terms and provisions and are agreeing to be bound by this privacy policy. The privacy policy is an integral part of our Terms of Service which are incorporated by reference into this privacy policy. Should you have any questions regarding the privacy policy or have any problems you would like to raise, please contact us at [email protected].
2. Minors
It is very important to us that the users of our website are adults of legal gambling age. We operate in the gambling industry and the content and third-party links are not intended for minors. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are of the correct legal age before using and visiting our website.
3. What Information is Collected?
We will only collect your personal information, such as your name and email address, if you provide it to us on a voluntary basis via our contact and feedback form.
When you interact with our website, we may obtain non-personal information which comprises of usage and technical data such as your anonymised IP address, the language you use, when you access our website and for how long. We may also gather non-personal information about your preferences – what sections you spend the most time on and in what ways you use them.
4. How Do We Collect Data?
When you visit our website, we collect information in the following ways:
a) When you reach out to us via our contact and feedback form.
b) Information about our users is automatically collected from our website. This information is collected using different technologies such as cookies.
c) Third party analytics providers can provide us non-personal information.
5. Cookie Policy
Your experience is very important to us and to ensure you receive the best service possible our website uses cookies and other technologies. Having these cookies will enable us to understand your individual needs and preferences which will enable us to personalise your experience. The cookies will enable us to provide you a smooth and enjoyable service which focus on data you are interested in.
Privacy is paramount to us, and we have therefore selected these cookies carefully to protect our user’s privacy at all times.
Cookies are a small text file placed on your computer by this website when you visit certain parts of the website and/or when you use certain features of the website. Our website uses the following cookies:
Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are needed for the website to work properly and as expected. If you disable these cookies there is a risk that the website might not work properly, decreasing your enjoyment of our website and its services. These cookies are stored temporarily when you browse the website and are automatically deleted once the browser is closed.
Performance Cookies
These cookies are used to gather information about how our user interact, use and navigate through our website. Enabling this cookie will assist us to make our website more accessible and unique to what our users are looking for. This usually involves third party analytics companies such as Adobe Analytics who will assist us to track and analyse your interaction with our website.
Functionality Cookie
These store user-specific preferences which will enable us to optimise the website experience for all of our users. This cookie will further enable us to personalise our content for you and ensure only relevant data is presented to you.
These cookies will only be used with your consent. You can disable these cookies via your settings, however this could affect your experience of the website. By continuing to access and use our website, you accept the use of these cookies as set out in the privacy policy.
6. Using Your Information
We collect your information to ensure Gambling.in can build a better service and website. It is important that our website is working as intended and we therefore use the information collected from you to implement this. The information you provide is important and it further assists us to:
- Ensure all the security measures in place are strengthened;
- Identify any complications and find resolution to these problems;
- Identify the most relevant content and ensure it reflects our user’s interests;
- Enhance functionality of our website; and
- Identity areas to make our website better and more engaging.
7. Security
We take the security of your information seriously and to ensure the information we gather is safe, we use the most-up-to-date technologies currently used in the industry. We take reasonable care to preserve the safety of collected information, as well as to prevent unauthorised breached to our website.
We will do our best to protect your data, however, we cannot guarantee protection against unlawful access to your non-personal information as transmitting information over the internet is not always secure regardless of the strict security policies we have in place.
8. Transfers
Gaming.in operate on a global basis which means your information can be transferred to other countries. You should be aware that the information will travel among and between regions with varying data protection laws. Some countries might have fewer comprehensive laws and have less strict data management laws than others. As such, we will take reasonable and necessary measures to protect your information and treat it with consistent care while it is in our possession.
9. Sharing Information
There may be occasions where your information has to be shared with external parties. These instances are:
By law
The information may have to be shared with a regulatory body or court if this is required by law. Gambling.in has a duty to follow the law, comply with governmental requests and to protect itself from any legal action and therefore your information may be further shared in other legal circumstances, including and not limited to:
- Ensuing Gambling.in’s intellectual property rights, including this website and its content, are enforced and protected.
- To ensure actions are taken against suspected fraud, illegal activity, wrongdoing or security breaches.
- Preventing harm to our website, users and other related third-parties.
- To exercise and successfully contest against potential legal claims.
- Ensuring our policies are followed and enforced.
Service Providers and Other
We may collaborate with and grant third-party service providers and trusted business partners access to information as they will carry out specific data analysis functions for us. This service will help increase the website performance and your experience.
There may be times where we will need to share your information with professionals such as auditors, business advisors, affiliates and subsidiaries as part of our day-to-day activities when operating the website.
Information-sharing and processing by other entities, when done on our behalf, will be carried out strictly following procedures set out in our privacy policy.
Corporate Transactions
We operate on a global basis and there might be a point of time where we may become involved in any major corporate transaction such as selling part of the business, transfer the business or merge part of the business and this would require us to share your details with prospective third parties involved.
10. Third Party Involvement – Links to Services
Our privacy policy only applies to our website and to content displayed on Gambling.in. There may be occasions where users might follow and see third-party website links, plug-ins, and applications.
However, such third-party websites are independent entities, and we have no control over their content or website. It is advised that before you share your information with and use other websites, you ensure you have fully read and understood their privacy policy.
If you decide to click any link displayed on our website, you bear all the risk in respect of the privacy information that you decide to share with such third party. We do not accept any liability relating to the privacy policies of other third parties arising from your submission of data to them.
11. Retention
Any personal information you have shared with us via our contact and feedback form will be stored by Gambling.in only if you grant us permission to do so. Our users have control as to the ways in which we gather, and store information related to them and can restrict this at any time.
Any non-personal information will only be stored as long as it is required or permitted by law. This information will only be stored for a period necessary to provide you with our services and to execute legal contracts and policies.