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The KNS Group respects your privacy and seeks to protect your personal data. The following information describes how we gather and use data. The amount of information the KNS Group holds on you and how it uses it depends on your relationship with the KNS Group and on what KNS service you use, so some of the sections below may not be relevant to you.
What KNS uses your personal information for
The KNS Group collects and uses any information to administer, support, improve and obtain feedback on our services and to detect and prevent faults, breaches of our network security, the law or our contract terms. We will also use all this information to assess what KNS Group products and services may be of interest to individuals and to personalize our service and marketing.
If you are registered to use a service KNS may contact you to obtain feedback on that service and any improvements we could make to it.
Personal Information KNS collects
The KNS Group collects and updates information about users of its services, suppliers, account and IT managers and other individuals it deals with in its day-to-day business.
Information you/others give us:
This information includes all the contact details, registration and support problems, details around participation in events and certain relevant details of your interests and preferences. Information may also be obtained on you as a result of authentication or identity checks.
Information we collect via our services:
If you are a registered subscriber of our services the KNS Group also gathers information about the use of our services, such as generic types of data accessed, times and volume of use of the services and Traffic Data. Traffic Data includes logs, details of networks, data and systems accessed, details of the sender and recipients of messages sent over our services, times and location of log on or access, duration of sessions, click-stream and similar usage or system data. Traffic Data may sometimes be traceable to/related to not just companies but named individuals. Before you register with the KNS Group, however, you can browse KNS Group web sites anonymously.
Storage methods and duration
The KNS Group may store the information in its databases, such as its day to day NEWS content and source information Customer for reference. The information may be retained and used by the KNS Group for a reasonable period, reflecting our need to answer queries or resolve problems, provide improved and new services and any data retention requirements of the law. This means we may retain information after an individual ceases to use KNS Group services or after the individual has ceased interacting with us.
Passing information to third parties
Except where the law permits or unless you specifically agree, the KNS Group does not sell or rent anyone’s personal data to others outside the KNS Group.
In some instances, we may pass information to third parties involved in the relevant KNS service (such as to source exchanges or third party information and software providers) who wish to manage and check the distribution of their relevant information.
Advertising on our web sites
Where advertising is served on to our web site there are various easy and palpable ways to approach such marketing.
International usage of information
Though KNS services and the KNS Group are national, personal data may be made available internationally, including in countries which do not have data protection laws, or laws which provide as much protection as in the country of origin. We seek to require those to whom we transfer your data to protect it and your privacy. This way KNS works to protect personal data transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws or whose laws are less strict.
In its capacity as a news agency, KNS gathers and stores what could be classified as personal data. This is used for news reporting, opinion polls and related research.
Users agree to comply with the rules and the Code of Conduct in order to maintain the quality of the user experience. KNS will take complaints about other users conduct and privacy seriously and you can raise such complaints at any time via the Contact Us.
For further details about anything pertaining to KNS group, its policies or claims as such…
You have a right to ask us at any time not to contact you by way of direct marketing. You can do this by contacting contact@knskashmir.com.
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