Privacy Policy

This privacy notice is valid for all the users like vendors, sellers, Promoters or buyers (Collectively called users) on http://www.ancientindia.co mobile or computer website. Here, we will explain how we process users data on http://www.ancientindia.co. At http://www.ancientindia.co, we believe that our users' privacy is of utmost importance to us, and we know that privacy data is any data that identifies our users.

1. Who Manages Personal Data

Users' personal data is managed by MEDIEVAL INDIA TRADING PRIVATE LIMITED (called Brand Name here as ANCIENT INDIA BY MEDIVAL'S).

2. Point Of Contact

Feel Free to write to us at care@ancientindia.co with the subject line Privacy Policy.

3. User Rights

3.1 Users' Rights

Users have the sole right to information, modification, deletion or restriction of processing data, or to portability. If we process any data based on your consent, we provide features to revoke it at any time.

3.2 Rights to Object to Processing of Data Based on Legitimate Interests

Article 21(1) EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) gives you the right to object at any time for reasons arising out of your particular situation against the processing of personal data relating to you when your data is processed under Article 6(1)(e) or Article 6 (1)(f) GDPR. This also applies to profiling. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can establish compelling and legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing aids the enforcing, exercising, or defending of legal claims.

3.3 Rights to Object to Direct Marketing

If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, Article 21(2) GDPR gives you the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with direct marketing. If you object to processing for the purpose of direct marketing, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

3.4 Right to Complain to a Supervisory Authority

You also have the right to complain to a relevant data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

4. The Processing of Personal Data When Using the Services

We process your personal data using the legitimate interests legal basis, except in specific circumstances where you provide consent, or where the processing is necessary for a contract that you have with us, or where you have asked us to take specific steps prior to entering into a contract. We apply appropriate safeguards to protect your privacy and process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Getting best and heavy discount goods or services.
• More customized results in product search.
• Providing, securing, maintaining, and improving our Services for our users.
• Developing new products and features related to product search.
• Understanding how users use our Services so that we can improve performance and provide better services to our users.
• Direct marketing to users of our services about our Services or related services.
• Advertising conducted by us and third parties on our Services and on the websites of third parties.
• User research that improves users’ experience of our Services and improves our Services.
• Assisting you with making product purchases.
• Complying with legal obligations and resolving disputes.

4.1 Types of Data Processed

When you use our Services, we process the following types of personal data:

• Personal Identifying Information such as your name, addresses, telephone numbers, or email addresses.
• Personal details such as age, sex, date of birth.
• Electronic identification data such as IP addresses, cookies, connection moments, device IDs, mobile advertising identifiers, date and time of the purchase, time, request contents (concrete page), access status/HTTP status code, amount of data transferred, website receiving the request, browser software and version, operating system and its interface, and language.
• Data that your browser or device makes available.
• Electronic localization data such as GPS data and locational data.
• Financial identification data such as credit or debit card numbers.
• Data about your interaction with our services, including the details inputted by you when you conduct a search using our Services.
• Security details such as passwords related to our Services.

5. Contact by Email or Contact Form

When you contact us by e-mail or through a contact form, we will store the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and telephone number) so we can answer your questions. Insofar as we use our contact form to request entries that are not required for contacting you, we have always marked these as optional. This information serves to substantiate your inquiry and improve the handling of your request. Your message may be linked to various actions taken by you on the http://www.ancientindia.co website. Information collected will be solely used to provide you with support relating to your purchase and better understand your feedback. A statement of this information is expressly provided on a voluntary basis and with your consent, as per Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. As far as this concerns information about communication channels (such as your e-mail address or telephone number), you also agree that we may also, where appropriate, contact you via this communication channel to answer your request. You may of course revoke this consent for the future at any time.

We delete the data that arises in this context after saving is no longer required, or limit processing if there are statutory retention requirements.

6. Newsletter

6.1 General Information

With your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, you can subscribe to our newsletter which will inform you about offers on our Services and from third parties. To sign up for our newsletter, we use the “double opt-in” method. This means that after you have signed up, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address specified, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your sign-up within 24 hours, your information will be locked and automatically deleted after one month.

In addition, we save the IP addresses you used and the times of sign-up and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to verify your sign-up and, if necessary, to inform you about possible misuse of your personal data.

The only requirement for sending the newsletter is your email address. Providing additional data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we will save your e-mail address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

You may revoke your consent to receiving the newsletter at any time by clicking the link provided in each newsletter e-mail or by contacting our data protection officer.

6.2 Newsletter Tracking

We use web beacons, tracking pixels, and other technologies to track and analyze your interactions with the newsletter. This data is allocated to your e-mail address and a pseudonymized ID. We use this data to generate a user profile to personalize the newsletter for you. Your user profile will be based on the interactions you have with the newsletter, our Services, and third-party websites and apps.

You can object to this at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided in each e-mail or by contacting our data protection officer.

Newsletter tracking is not possible if you've deactivated image viewing by default in your e-mail application. In this case, the newsletter will not be displayed in full, and you won’t be able to use all the features. If you manually choose to display images, tracking will occur.

7. Other Privacy Features

7.1 http://www.ancientindia.co User Account

You can create a http://www.ancientindia.co user account. If you create a http://www.ancientindia.co user account you will receive personal, password-protected access and can view and manage the data you have stored in your account. http://www.ancientindia.co user account creation is voluntary but may be required to fully use the functionality of all of our Services.

If you create a http://www.ancientindia.co user account, we will send you our newsletter and other direct marketing. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter or delete your http://www.ancientindia.co user account at any time. You can manage, modify and delete all information in your http://www.ancientindia.co user account. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(a), (b), and (f) GDPR.

7.2 Vendors, Promoters & Sellers

If you use Vendors or Promoters & Sellers http://www.ancientindia.co account you will receive a personal, password-protected account and you can view and manage the data that is stored in that account. Vendors who have a http://www.ancientindia.co Vendors account may be contacted by telephone and be informed about new or additional features of the tool. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(b), and (f) GDPR.

8. Use of social plug-ins

This website uses the provider’s social plug-ins.

These plug-ins collect data from you and transmit it to the respective vendor’s server. We have taken technical measures to ensure the protection of your privacy, which guarantee that your data cannot be collected by the vendors of the respective plug-ins without your consent. These will initially be deactivated when you visit a site connected to the plug-ins. The plug-ins will not be activated until you click on the respective symbol, and by doing so, you give your consent to have your data transmitted to the respective vendor. The legal basis for plug-in use is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Once activated, the plug-ins also collect personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, and send it to the respective social plug-in's network. Activated social plug-ins also set a cookie with a unique identifier when you visit the respective website. This allows the social plug-in's network to generate profiles of your user behavior. This occurs even if you are not a member of the social plug-in's network. If you are a member of the social plug-in's network and you are logged into the website during your visit, your data and information about your visit to the website can be linked with your profile on the social plug-in's network. We do not have any influence over the exact extent to which your data is processed by the social plug-in network. For more information about the extent, nature, and purpose of data processing and about the rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please see the data protection notices for the respective social network vendor. These can be found at the following addresses:

1. • Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
2. • Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
3. • Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA.
4. • Instagram, Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.
5. • XING SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg.
6. • YouTube LLC 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
7. • LinkedIn Corporation 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.

9. Use of cookies

Cookies will be stored on your device during the use of our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you use, and through which the place where the cookie is set accrues certain information. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and efficient overall. We also use cookies to be able to identify you in subsequent visits. This website uses the following types of cookies, whose extent and function are explained in the following:

9.1 Transient

These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes session cookies in particular. These save a “session ID” with which different requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your device to be recognized again when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

9.2 Persistent cookies

These cookies are automatically deleted after a set duration that can vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies in your browser security settings at any time.

9.3 Flash cookies

Flash cookies used are not collected through your browser, but through your Flash plug-in. In addition, we use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your terminal. These objects save the necessary data independent of the browser you use and have no automatic expiration date. If you do not want Flash cookies processed, you must install a suitable add-on, such as "Privacy Badger” for Mozilla Firefox (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) or Adobe Flash Killer Cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by setting your browser to private mode. We also recommend that you manually delete your cookies and browser history on a regular basis.

9.4 Preventing cookies

You can configure your browser and App settings as you wish and, for example, decline to accept third-party or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all of the website’s functions in this case.

9.5 Legal bases and storage period

The legal bases for possible processing of personally identifiable information and its storage period vary and are described in the following sections.

10. Analysis

We use various services to analyse user interactions with our Services such as how many users visit our Services, which information is requested the most, and how users interact with our Services. The data that we collect includes referrer websites, which subpages on the our Services are accessed and how often, and the length of time for which a page is viewed. This helps us to improves users’ experience of our Services and improve our Services. Pseudonymized data is used. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

10.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). This use covers the Universal Analytics operating mode. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions, and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze a user’s activities across devices. Google Analytics uses cookies that allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie through your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated in advance within the member states of the European Union or other contracting states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be conflated with other Google data. Google will use this information in this website operator’s order to evaluate your use of the website so that reports about website activity can be compiled and other services connected to website and internet use can be rendered for the website operator. Our legitimate interest in data processing is also for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is article 6, par. 1 f of the GDPR. The data sent by us and connected to cookies, user information (such as user ID), and promotional IDs are deleted after 14 months after the last use of our services. Data whose storage period has expired is automatically deleted once a month. More information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en You can prevent cookies from being stored through the relevant setting in your browser software; however, please note that if you do so, not all functions of the website may be able to be used to their full extent. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. To prevent Universal Analytics collection across various devices, you must perform the opt-out on all systems in use. Set the opt-out cookie by clicking here: Deactivate Google Analytics.

10.2 Google Tag Manager

For transparency reasons, we would like to mention that we use Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager does not itself collect any personally identifiable information. Tag Manager makes it easier for us to incorporate and manage our tags. Tags are small elements of code that serve to measure traffic and user behavior, record the effects of online advertising and social channels, establish remarketing and focus on target groups, and test and optimize websites, among other things. If you have deactivated, this will be taken into account by Google Tag Manager. For more information about Google Tag Manager, see: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/

11. Data transmission

When we use service providers who process data outside the EU/EEA, we use appropriate safeguards such as standard data protection clauses adopted by the EU, an EU adequacy decision or the US Privacy Shield to transfer and process your personal data outside of the EU.

12. Data security

We have taken extensive technical and operational security precautions to protect your data from being accidentally or intentionally manipulated, lost, destroyed, or accessed by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are reviewed regularly and updated in keeping with technological advances

Last Updated On: August 2024