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Privacy Policy Of Users

Our website address is: https://www.solarforindia.com

Last Updated Date Page Manually – 25-04-2024

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with – We never share your personal data with anyone.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service and will also be checked with Manual.

Your contact information – Contact through [email protected]

Do your plugins track any data?

We do not track any user data via our plugins. But if our plugin depends on any third party service, they might track user data. This can happen in following two ways:

1. Embedded Widgets

Some of our plugins have features to integrate embedded widgets as is, from third party services (like Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Twitter Tweet official buttons). You can include relevant text in the privacy policy of your website as mentioned below.

2. Third-party APIs/Connections

Our plugins send request to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by web browser may include IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.  To make your users aware of this,  you can include relevant snippets in your website’s privacy policy.

Where is the data collected by your plugins stored?

We do not store any data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither we share that data with any third party. Our plugins run absolutely on your website and store the data in the database of your website.


GDPR Privacy Policy Snippets

1. Introduction

Welcome to Solarforindia.com (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data when you visit our Website. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy rights.

2. Information We Collect

We collect and process various types of personal data about you when you visit our Website, including:

  • Personal information such as your name, email address, and contact details when you sign up for our newsletter or contact us through the Website.
  • Information about your device and browsing behavior collected through cookies and similar technologies.
  • Any other information you choose to provide to us voluntarily.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:

  • To provide and improve our services to you.
  • To communicate with you, including responding to your inquiries and sending you newsletters or promotional materials if you have consented to receive them.
  • To analyze and understand how users interact with our Website and to personalize your experience.
  • To comply with legal obligations or to protect our rights and interests.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:

  • Your consent, where you have provided it.
  • The necessity of processing for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
  • Compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
  • Our legitimate interests, such as improving our services and marketing our products, provided that such interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

5. Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal data with third parties under the following circumstances:

  • With service providers who assist us in operating the Website and providing our services.
  • With our affiliates or partners for marketing purposes if you have consented to such sharing.
  • When required by law or in response to legal process.

6. International Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to, and processed in, countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK, where data protection laws may be different from those in your jurisdiction. In such cases, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data.

7. Your Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal data under the GDPR, including the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You may also have the right to object to or restrict certain types of processing. To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

8. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Website.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or our data practices, you may contact us at [email protected] .


Super Socializer – Social Login

If you are using social login feature of our Super Socializer plugin:

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

Heateor Login

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Facebook Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

Facebook Comments

We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Disqus Comments

We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

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