Privacy Policy

Who we are

Privacy policy for https://nineapp.io. and the mobile app (iOS and Android)

Authored by Webmaster, nineapp.io

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Nine does not collect any personal information about you unless you provide that information voluntarily by sending an e-mail, or completing online registration/application form, wherever applicable. These may include contact information (such as name and e-mail address), unique identifiers (unique name and password) and demographic information (such as pin/zip code or age), though are not limited to these items of information.

Any information that is not specified as publicly visible to the registered users of Nine will be private. Only the admins of Nine will have access to this information.

Your personal information specified as private will not be disclosed to any person or organization outside this forum excepting with {Sathya Sai} without your explicit permission, excepting in a form which is not personally identifiable. However, we may collect or disclose personal information without consent if the collection or disclosure is:

  1. necessary to perform the statutory duties
  2. made pursuant to a court order or by law
  3. for the purpose of validating the identity of the user
  4. of information to be used solely for statistical purposes that is in a form that cannot be used to identify any particular person.

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.

Notifications

Members can receive notifications every time there is an update in the groups in which they are members and/or a friend of his posts any material on the site. Member can chose to opt out of these notifications by choosing appropriate settings.

External Links

This site may contain links to other sites; this website is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Information Collected Automatically When You Visit this Website

When visiting this website, we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

  • Your IP Address
  • File you requested for
  • The time at which it was requested
  • The document that referred you to the page
  • The response code sent by the server
  • User agent of the browser that you were using
  • Last Login date
  • Date of registering the profile (Collected only on registration)
  • Cookies (Explained in detail below)

All information that is collected automatically is used to improve our content, to investigate possible problems and in general to help us understand how you are interacting with our Web site. This information is collected for statistical analysis and to determine what information is of most and least interest to our users. The information is not collected for commercial purposes and Nine does not sell or otherwise distribute the information collected for commercial purposes.

Contact

Please contact admin@saistudents.org for any query.

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.

Google Analytics

The Portal uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.)

Who we share your data with

We share some part of your data with Applozic which is a third party service relied on by us to implement chat functionality.

We do not sell your email or other personal data.

Personal Information

Your personal information specified as private will not be disclosed to any person or organization outside this forum excepting with SSSIHL and its affiliates without your explicit permission, excepting in a form which is not personally identifiable. However, we may collect or disclose personal information without consent if the collection or disclosure is:

  1. necessary to perform the statutory duties
  2. made pursuant to a court order or by law
  3. for the purpose of validating the identity of the user
  4. of information to be used solely for statistical purposes that is in a form that cannot be used to identify any particular person.

Public Forums

Nine enables group chats and comments on blogs, updates, photographs and think boards available to you. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Further, such information shall become the property of Nine, and may not be deleted from its database even though you have deleted the same from the site. Further, Nine has right to store all such information eternally even beyond the length of your membership.

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.

Your contact information

(see ‘what personal data we collect’ above)

Additional information

How we protect your data

The portal uses ssl to communicate between your web browser and server.

Nine uses a VPS server located in US and also third party service provided by Applozic ( for implementation of chat ) which uses AWS for storing and retrieving data.)

Complaint follow-up

Nine provides a facility to members to notify the moderators in case they find any content posted by another user or the conduct of a user, as objectionable. To address such concerns, the administrators may have to collect information pertaining to such specific complaints and in case of repeated complaints, maintain a record of such transgressions for further action as per administration policy. Such information will be collected and used only to address such specific complaints and the information collected will not be shared with the user who complained.

In other cases, where a moderator finds the content objectionable (even without any other member objecting), such information may be collected to maintain records of such instances.

The information so collected may include, but will not be limited to

  • identity details of user
  • IP address, location of log in
  • time, duration
  • content