We respect the privacy of each user of the "Sites", whether its your first time, or if you’ve visited our Site previously. This Privacy Statement gives you specific information about how we protect your privacy, how we treat information we collect on the "Sites" and how we use aggregated information.
This Privacy Policy is a part of and incorporated within, and is to be read along with, the Terms of Use.
Note : Considering the fact this Privacy Policy is a part of Terms of Use, hence all the terms are to be referred as described under Terms of Use.
We respects your privacy and is obliged to protect and manage any personal information you share with us through "Sites". We are also committed to take all reasonable care and security precautions to safeguard your personal data and prevent its loss and misuse and we hold the privacy of every user and member in high esteem.
By using the "Sites", you agree and consent to the collection, use and sharing of your information collected by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Tax Ninja may collect, use and disclose your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you are requested not to provide any personal information to us.
You can visit/surf the Site without providing any Personal Information. However, if you choose to avail of certain services on the Site, you shall be required to provide certain information to access to such services/web pages:
(a) If you post a Query at ASK - Tax Ninja, we may receive information about you such as your name, email address, IP address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, standard web log information and such other information as may be required for your interaction with the services.
(b) If you contact us directly, we may receive information about you such as your name, email address, IP address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, standard web log information and such other information as may be required for your interaction with the services.
(c) If you report us a post, we may receive information about you such as your name, email address, IP address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, standard web log information and such other information as may be required for your interaction with the services.
(d) If you become Member of the "Sites", we may receive information about you such as your name, your username, email address, IP address, password, profile picture, standard web log information and such other information as may be required for your interaction with the services.
(e) If you author an comment at Tax Ninja, which are hosted by Disqus*(Authorised Comments Service Provider).
(f) If you wish to avail Tax Ninja's Notification facility, which is provided by OneSignal*(Authorised Notifications Service Provider).
(g) If you wish to publish your article as guest author, we may receive information about you such as your name, email address, IP address, your blog, about author, standard web log information and such other information as may be required for your interaction with the services.
* The said information provided by you will be discretionary in nature, and you agree that Tax Ninja has no control over the Service provider's policy and you have read their policy and have agreed to consent to the same:
(i) Click here to access Disqus's Privacy Policy.
(ii) Click here to access OneSignal's Privacy Policy.
You also acknowledge that the standards followed by Disqus and OneSignal are not within the control of Tax Ninja and are liable to change from time to time.
The above services may also require you to prove that you are not a robot which is provided by reCAPTCHA powered by Google, the privacy policy of which can be accessed here.
It may be important to note that Member's/Guest Author's name, profile picture, description and any other information that you choose to add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing to other users of the Website. Also, the "Sites" enables the members to upload, publish or display blogs, queries or its answer, articles, posts, texts, photographs, videos, links, and files collectively referred as "Content". You acknowledge and agree that, as part of using the Website, Content may be viewed by the general public.
Log Files
Tax Ninja also collects other basic information by your use of our services, known as log files, which may be the result of the analytics software or otherwise. The information inside the log files may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and a number of clicks. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Tax Ninja uses ‘cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
We may also deploy Autosave Cookies. You may lose your form data when you accidently close tabs, or navigate to a different web page. Autosave prevents this by persisting all text inputs locally until the form is submitted. Whenever the page is refreshed, all text fields are automatically restored, thereby saving your tremendous amount of effort of filling all the fields.
Note: Autosave doesn't save sensitive information like passwords.
When you log in at the Account, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers respective websites.
Tax Ninja collects and treats the sensitive information in terms of Information Technology Act, 2000 read with the rules thereunder, as under:
Password: The account may require members' to create a password for accessing Tax Ninja services, which is confidential and sensitive information, collected and retained within Tax Ninja's database. But the said sensitive information is just used by you as a Tax Ninja member for gaining access to the services and is not used or otherwise can be accessed by Tax Ninja or its affiliates / partners in any way.
Tax Ninja uses the personal information (other than sensitive information) for fulfilling your needs and requests for products and services, improving user experience, sending transactional emails or notifications you have opted for, Content, other commercial /non–commercial features on the website. etc.
We may transfer any information we store and use between any of the countries in which we operate in order to assist us in providing our services.
Tax Ninja does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with any third parties, except when we have specifically obtained your consent at the time of collection of the information online or otherwise offline, and / or to provide products or services you’ve requested, or under the following circumstances:
(i) We provide the information, other than sensitive information to trusted members who work on our behalf or with us under confidentiality agreements for the purpose of creating / modifying / maintaining the site. However, these members do not have any independent right to share / use this information for any other purpose, except for that specifically authorised by us.
(ii) Tax Ninja's administrator may be required to login to the member's account for troubleshooting, as a result can get access to the data, but which purely can only be for administration and troubleshooting purposes.
(iii) Tax Ninja believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of use, or as otherwise required by law;
(iv) Tax Ninja and/or it's operator and members responds to court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims including intellectual property rights;
(v) Tax Ninja transfers information about you if our site is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you before information about you are transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy;
(vi) Tax Ninja is under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Operator, our members, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Personal information, especially sensitive information about users that is maintained on Tax Ninja's systems is protected using industry standard security measures. We maintain a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information.
You should be aware that Tax Ninja has no control over the security of other sites on the Internet you might visit, interact with, or from which you buy products or services which may be linked from here. You should keep your user name, password or other access information safe and confidential to protect against unauthorized access to your account information and services.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Tax Ninja reserves the right to send you certain communications relating to our services or sponsored advertisements, administrative messages and updates, that are considered part of your account or as opted for, with an option for you to stop receiving them.
In case you wish to unsubscribe from email notifications, you may do so by contacting us via the email ([email protected]) or contact form.
Tax Ninja's Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites and additionally our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You are also encouraged to exercise caution and review the privacy policies applicable to such websites before accessing them.
Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
(i) You may correct, amend, add or delete personal information from your Account at any time by logging in and visiting your profile page.
(ii) You are free to remove or delete Account at any point in time. If you choose to delete your Account information, then your Account will be removed from public visibility on the Website, and it may not be restored by us, however your Content shall be available on the "Sites" and/or any other platform where it has been shared, linked or referred. Also, your complete information shall be maintained with Tax Ninja in subject to our data retention policy.
This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. That is, due to technical constraints and the fact that we backup our systems at regular intervals, personal information may continue to reside in our systems after deletion for some limited time.
Tax Ninja holding sensitive/ personal data or information of providers of information, shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under the Terms of Use or any other law for the time being in force or unless ordered to the contrary by any order of court of law. The information collected shall be used for the purpose for which it has been collected.
The logs and user data would be retained as a backup in our server for at least 01 (One) Year from the date of its creation. And otherwise also, we may retain such information in our systems but for a limited period, which may help not only in complying with the laws of the land but also to make sure that we maintain enough backup of user accounts, which may either be required to be restored to the server in unforeseen circumstances or to make available the information to the enforcement agencies, in case of any specific requests received in accordance with the law of the land.
For users that register on "Sites" (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their member profile. All members can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username and/or email).
We reserve the right to update, modify, or change any part of this policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. In case you continue to access any of our services after that time you will be deemed to have accepted any change.
In no event Tax Ninja will be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of the use or performance or inability to use the "Sites", subject to Limitation of liability (part of Terms of Use).
If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to it, you may do so via the email ([email protected]) or contact form.
If you come across any abuse or violation of the Privacy Policy, please report via the email ([email protected]) or contact form.
This document was last updated on January 06, 2023
