We, The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as “TPML”) are the publishers of Deccan Herald and Prajavani newspapers and related publications. We own and manage the internet websites https://www.deccanherald.com, www.prajavani.net, https://printersmysore.com.These are our terms and conditions for use of the network, which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web via https://www.deccanherald.com, www.prajavani.net, https://printersmysore.com, mobile phone and RSS feeds. In these terms and conditions, when we say the “Website” we mean the digital information networks, the mobile website, mobile application, operated by or on behalf of the parent company, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “TPML”), regardless of how you access the network, as well as any TPML apps whether you access those via the Website or a third party site. However when you access the Website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you have accessed the Website from the United States or any other country which are signatories to the WIPO and other international treaties/conventions on Intellectual Property, you also agree to be bound by terms and conditions contained herein.

1. Use of material appearing on the Website

All contents of this website, including the software, design, logos, trademarks, text, graphics, and any other tools or applications are owned by or licensed to us and are protected by copyright under the Intellectual Property laws of India and under the various other international conventions/treaties to which India is a signatory. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of personal use, private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under copyright legislation, you may not reproduce, transmit, adapt, distribute, sell, modify or publish or otherwise use any of the material on this website without our prior written consent.

Your use of the Website is for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You acknowledge that, as between TPML and you, except for user content and advertisements (as discussed below), TPML is the sole owner of all content on the Website, including, without limitation, all applicable copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, and other intellectual property rights thereto, as well as text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video and other material appearing on the Website (hereinafter collectively referred to as “TPML Content”). The Website and the TPML Content are protected by the copyright laws and other intellectual property laws of India, United Kingdom, the United States of America and are protected globally by applicable international copyright treaties/conventions.

You may download and print extracts from the TPML Content for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided you maintain and abide by any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice or restriction in any material that you download or print. You may not use any TPML Content for any other purpose without our prior written approval and permission. Except as expressly authorised by TPML and in the terms of “Copyright Policy” hereunder, you are not allowed to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on the Website or do/abstain from doing any of the acts/omissions mentioned under the “Copyright Policy”.

Copyright Policy

This copyright policy sets out how users are permitted to use our content and also explains the types of use that require the purchase/grant of additional licences. This policy forms part of our terms and conditions. We reserve the right to change our copyright policy from time to time by publishing an updated policy on our Website, which shall become effective and replace any previous policy with effect from publication. This copyright policy was published on 17.12.2018.

Applicability of Indian Copyright Act, 1957

Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to control the use of copyright protected works. Section 2 of the Indian Copyright Act 1957 protects all the material published on our Website and other digital/wireless platforms. The TPML Content and the Website is protected by Indian Copyright Act 1957 and should only be used as set out in the “Fair Use of TPML Content” section below. Use that is made without our permission may therefore infringe our copyright which can result in personal and corporate liability. Where we state below that something is not allowed or permitted, then to do so is a breach of our terms and conditions: that is, it is a breach of contract, and also violate copyright law.

Fair Use of TPML Content

You may do the following:

• View our content for your personal use on any device that is compatible with the Website (this might be your PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other mobile device) and store our content on that device for your personal use.
• Print single copies of articles on paper for your personal use.
• Share links to articles by using any sharing tools we make available.

Republishing or redistributing of TPML Content

Except as set out above, you may not copy TPML Content from the Website or any third-party source of TPML Content such as news aggregators and you may not republish or redistribute full text articles, for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including websites, newsletters or intranets or any other digital platforms. We recognise that users of the Internet want to share information with others. We therefore permit limited republishing and redistribution of TPML Content as set out below provided that this does not create a Substitute for TPML’s own products or services. We define “Substitute” as a product or service that reduces the need for users or other third parties to pay for TPML Content directly or indirectly, or which creates revenue from the TPML Content to the disservice of TPML’s own ability to generate revenues from that content.

Subject to what is mentioned above, the following is permitted:

• Only publish the feed for access via a web-based browser.
• Do not use or publish the feed as part of a paid for service or for other commercial gain.
• Publish the feed as it is made available on the Website, so that you only include the headline and teaser content and ensure that the headline links back to the full text article on the Website.
• Attribute the feed to the TPML as “© Deccan Herald [year]” or “© Prajavani [year]” as applicable.
• Do not archive the feed or any of its content.
• Comply with our guidelines on usage of TPML logos.

Copying or summarizing of TPML Content

As referred to above you may not republish or redistribute full text articles (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).

You may however republish or redistribute” Summaries” of TPML Content if you comply with the conditions set out below. “Summaries” can be either an “extract” or an “abstract”. By “extract” we mean 20 words copied verbatim from TPML Content which are inserted into a longer original work. By “abstract” we mean a 20-word non-verbatim summary of the news or facts reported in the TPML Content which does not form part of a longer work and does not misrepresent the original TPML Content.

Conditions to comply with in order to produce summaries:

• You source the Website as the author of any article from which you have derived a summary by way of an attribution such as “[journalist name] at the Deccan Herald/Prajavani reported that”, with a hypertext link from the word “Deccan Herald” or “Prajavani” to the original story published on the Website.
• In the case of abstracts, you make clear that the abstract has been produced by you by stating “this abstract from the Deccan Herald/Praja Vani was produced by [name]”, with a hypertext link from the word “Deccan Herald” or “Prajavani” to the original story published on the Website.
• You ensure that your summaries do not in whole or in part form a Substitute for TPML’s own products and services (see above for how we define Substitute). The more summaries you create the greater the risk of substitution. No individual or organisation may create, republish or redistribute more than five summaries in aggregate each day
• You do not use or create summaries that promote or endorse any product or service. and
• If TPML notifies you that it believes you are creating, republishing or redistributing summaries outside of these parameters, you shall immediately cease doing so and your rights to create summaries shall be regarded as having been withdrawn, unless/until TPML reaches an agreement with you regarding your use of the Website articles/TPML Content.Please note that these rights do not extend to content, data or other material published by TPML that we licence from third parties (including stock exchange or other index providers) which you may not republish or redistribute.

Linking to TPML Content

If you would like to link to the Website, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to the Website is mandated to:

• Not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the DH/PV logo
• Link to the homepage of the Website, and, provided that you comply with this copyright policy, may also link to other pages of the Website
• Not be a Substitute (as defined above).
• Not in any way imply that TPML is endorsing it or its products or services.
• Not misrepresent its relationship with TPML or present false information about TPML
• Not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations and
• Not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.

Specific Prohibitions on use of TPML Content:

• You cannot do anything other than make use of the content as set out above, unless you buy the appropriate licence to do so from TPML. You cannot do the following:
• Copy, publish or redistribute full text articles, photographs, graphics, tables or images in any way (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
• Create derivative works from our content, unless you are creating summaries as described above.
• Photocopy or scan copies of articles.
• Remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of TPML Content.
• Use spidering technology or other datamining technologies to search and link to the Website.
• Create a database in electronic or structured manual from by systematically and/or regularly downloading, caching, printing and storing all or any TPML Content (by spidering or otherwise).
• Frame, harvest or scrape TPML Content or otherwise access TPML Content for similar purposes.

If you wish to use our content other than as permitted by these terms and conditions and for all other inquiries about distribution or reproduction of the materials please contact us at [email protected]. Any content to be used in any other way than the aforementioned terms shall be done so only with the prior written permission from TPML.

2. Disclaimer of liability

To the extent permitted in law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the TPML Content. Nothing in the TPML Content is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the TPML Content or any part of it. We reserve the right to modify/alter/restrict the TPML Content or access to the TPML Content solely at our discretion. You can access other sites via links from the Website provided by us. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

3. Third party advertising on the Website

You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on the Website. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

If you want to advertise on the Website, please email our advertising sales team at [email protected] .

Any queries regarding copyright and your content should be directed in the first instance to [email protected] .

4. Links to other Websites

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any other website that is linked to this website. It is your responsibility to investigate the privacy policies of those other sites. This website may contain links to other websites which are not under our control or which are not maintained by us. The links to any such third party websites are provided for your convenience and information only. If you access these websites you do so at your own risk. We are not responsible for the content of those websites and will not be liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use or your reliance on any such content. The fact that a website is linked to this website does not imply any endorsement or sponsorship by us of that website or that we are affiliated in any way with the third party operating that third party website.

Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.

Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.

5. Information provided to us

You may at your discretion provide information to us through our contact information provided in order to receive further information about us or our services enumerated on this website. If you do so, you agree that any such information becomes our property and may be used by us or others, reproduced, published, transmitted, displayed modified or distributed at our discretion, subject to our obligations under our Privacy Policy. All information received by us from your use of the website will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please read our Privacy Policy for details of how we may process your personal data.

6. Changes to these terms and conditions of use

Please note that we may change these terms and conditions from time to time at our sole discretion and we reserve the right to do so without your consent. Any revised terms and conditions will be applicable at the time of accessing the Website/posting on it. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the Website after you have accessed it.

7. Governing law & jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by Indian laws and the parties accessing the Website agree/submit/concede to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Indian Courts in Bengaluru City.

8. No waiver

Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these terms of service shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or rights of TPML.

Contributions towards Deccan Herald digital journalism

The ultimate owner of all the Deccan Herald properties is The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited and all the contributions reach the account held by The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited. Contributions from readers is to support the cause of good journalism that we at Deccan Herald strive to deliver day in day out. Please note that your support to the Deccan Herald’s journalism does not constitute a charitable donation and no exemption can be claimed under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act,1961 of India or elsewhere.

We, The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited (TPML) are the publishers of Deccan Herald and Prajavani newspapers and related publications. We own and manage the internet websites https://www.deccanherald.com, www.prajavani.net, https://printersmysore.com (hereinafter referred to as ‘sites/s’ and/or ‘website/s’) , Deccan Herald Mobile App, Prajavani Mobile App (hereinafter referred to as ‘Mobile Apps’) . as part of our publishing group.

We are committed to the protection of personal privacy and have adopted a policy to protect information about individuals. Any or all information that you may provide to us shall be kept strictly confidential unless the same is required to be disclosed or acted upon during legal proceedings, as and when the need arises.

Users are invited to submit comments, questions, ideas, reviews or any other information concerning TPML publications and the website's and/or Mobile App contents, provided they understand that such comments will be subject to moderation & TPML reserves the right to remove or edit such content. All such submissions should not be illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory or infringing on privacy or on intellectual property rights of others.

What type of data we collect

Personal information: Depending on your actions on our site and/or Mobile Apps, we collect different information of you when you register (signup) on our site and/or Mobile Apps, place an order or subscribe to our newsletter. While signing up with us, you may need to place your name, gender, mobile number, date of birth, and email. Address, and billing address (if intended to make a purchase/ if you wish to contribute to us for the cause of good journalism).

Non-personal information: We also collect some non-personally identifiable data, such as demographic information regarding, e.g. user IP addresses, browser types and other anonymous statistical data regarding the use of our website and/or Mobile Apps.

Who has the access to your data

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etcetera (subject to laws and regulations). If you have been through the ways we collect data from, Only our administrators have access to your data. No third party can access to your data from us. However, you can review and delete your data whenever you want.

What purposes your data are used for

The data is used for providing personalized news feed in the Mobile Apps based on the content preference and reading habits of the user.

How long do we retain your information

When you register for an account, we process and keep your personal data we have about you for as long as you don’t delete the account/unsubscribe yourself (subject to laws and regulations).

What we don’t do with your personal data

We do not and will never share, disclose, sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personal data to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.

How we process these data

The collected data are processed in several ways. We use your personally identifiable information (name, email address, etc.) to identify you in order to contact, send newsletter, and provide products & supports. The non-personal data may be used to improve the service.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on our site and/or Mobile Apps, or have comments, you can see your personal data on the account management page. You can also place a request to erase your data. This does not include data we are required to keep for security, administrative or legal purposes.

Third party links on our site and/or Mobile Apps

We may talk about third party products and services on our website and/or Mobile Apps. Third party sites have their own privacy policies. So, therefore, we have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If in any case a breach of data such as loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, personal data transmission, storage or otherwise processed happens, we will notify you immediately after we become aware of.

How you can review, update, get a copy or delete your data

You can review and update your information at any time by going to your account management page. If you want to delete or get a copy of your data on our site and/or Mobile Apps, send a mail to [email protected] . We will do that with immediate effect.

What if we make changes to our Privacy Policy

We may bring necessary modifications to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any change made or any new point added to the Privacy Policy described above will be published here on this page. The major changes will also be informed through newsletter.

What is My News?

My News feature provides personalized news feeds based on user’s content preferences and reading habits. We take the content category and geography preference from the user and provide a personalized news feed. We use a news personalization engine to understand user reading habits and continuously improve the personalized news feed. We never share this data with any third party.

Cookie Policy for The Printers Mysore Ltd.

What Are Cookies

When you use this website and/or Mobile Apps, you agree to accept our cookie policy. As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site and/or Mobile Apps uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's and/or Mobile App’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site and/or Mobile Apps. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site and/or Mobile Apps. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site and/or Mobile Apps offer a newsletter/email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

To provide you with a great experience on this site and/or Mobile Apps, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site and/or Mobile Apps run when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

To provide readers like you with a great experience on this site and/or Mobile Apps and right recommendations, we will track your journey from story to story and we keep track of the same.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site and/or Mobile Apps.

This site and/or Mobile Apps use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and/or Mobile Apps and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and/or Mobile Apps and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertisements uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site and/or Mobile Apps.

If you have any concerns or questions, please use contact details as found in this website. Thank you for taking the time to read our Policy and Disclaimer.

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