Privacy Policy

CurryTrail is dedicated to maintaining your privacy privacy and the protection of your personal information. This privacy policy details what information we collect on CurryTail(Website) and how that information is used. It also includes your opt-out options. By using this Website, you are consenting to the practices and collection of information detailed in this privacy policy.

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at jyothi@currytrail.in.

Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

CurryTrail follows the following principles in order to protect your privacy:

we do not collect more information than is necessary;
we do not use your data for purposes other than those specified;
we do not keep your data if it is no longer needed.

CurryTrail may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated 13/09/2018

what we collect

We may collect the following information:

Information you choose to submit to the website. This includes information such as your name and email address. For example, if you choose to leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, enroll in a course or submit a contact form, you will voluntarily submit information to the Website. Most of the Website can be accessed without any form of registration, but some services may require you to provide personal data. If you choose to withhold personal data requested by us in these cases, it may not be possible for you to perform certain interactions or for us to respond to your query.
Information we collect from others. We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you have an account with Gravatar and choose to leave a comment on the Website, your profile picture will appear (your eMail address will never be publicly visible).
Automatically-Collected Information. We automatically collect certain usage information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, information about your mobile device, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links, pages viewed, the dates/times when you accessed the Website and other such information. We may further collect demographic information, such as your postcode, preferences and interests.
Cookies. We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use cookies on the website to track visitor behavior. If you prefer not to allow the use of cookies, you can change the configuration of your browser to warn you when you receive a cookie or automatically reject them.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

COOKIES MAY ALSO BE USED BY THIRD PARTIES, SUCH AS:

Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to understand how the website is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is anonymous.

Facebook – Cookies and pixels are used to understand and deliver ads and make them more relevant to you. We may use a cookie to learn whether someone who saw an ad on Facebook later visited our website or signed up for our newsletter. Opt out of Facebook remarketing here.

Affiliate Marketing Sites – The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

what we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

We may use it to operate and maintain the Website;
We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests;
We may use personal information to improve our products and services;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
We may use your information to provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

third-party use of personal information

When you give your explicit consent, we may share your information with third parties.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address.

www.currytrail.in uses Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using Google’s Ad Settings page. Users can completely block Google Analytics tracking using Google’s Analytics Opt-out browser add-on.

Convert Kit – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Convert Kit’s privacy policy for further information

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

AdThrive Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with AdThrive, LLC (“AdThrive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. AdThrive uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrive, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

Advertising.

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at jyothi@currytrail.in and contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

third party advertising

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include:
Mediavine

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.currytrail.in send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

RETARGETING ADS

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.currytrail.in privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

CurryTrail website (www.currytrail.in) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.in, and other Amazon stores worldwide. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. Your individual behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

OPTING OUT

If CurryTrail chooses to send out newsletter updates in the future and we have your email address on file, you may receive a copy of our newsletter. However, at the bottom of every newsletter will be an easy way to opt-out. The editors of our site hate SPAM as much as you and have no intention of filling up e-mail boxes with unwanted messages. You may also notify us at jyothi@currytrail.in to be removed from our mailing list.

Request access to information that we have about you
Correct any information that we have about you
Delete information that we have about you

For inquiries or for any additional questions about CurryTrail collection and storage of data, please contact us at jyothi@currytrail.in

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

sensitive personal information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us at jyothi@currytrail.in