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PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 5th June 2023

Our Commitment
Network18 Media & Investments Limited("we", "us" , "moneycontrol.com" "moneycontrol" which expressions, unless repugnant to the context thereof, shall include its subsidiaries) is strongly committed to the data subject's ("you", "your", "subscriber", "user") right to privacy and to keeping your personal and financial information secure. To earn your trust and confidence in our commitment, we are fully disclosing our privacy practices. We encourage you to read our privacy policy to understand what types of personally identifiable information we collect and how we use this information. The reference to moneycontrol.com shall also include its applications.

This privacy policy describes the usage of information provided or collected on the sites and applications where this privacy policy is posted. We follow this privacy policy in accordance with applicable law in the regions where we operate. In some cases, we may provide additional data privacy notices specific to certain services or regions. Those terms are to be read in combination with this policy.

Please keep in mind that when you provide information to us on a third-party site or platform (for example, via our applications like social media login) the information we collect is through those third-party sites linked with our applications and is covered by this privacy policy, and the information the third-party site or platform collects is subject to the third-party site or platform's privacy practices. Privacy choices you have made on the third-party site or platform will not apply to our use of the information we have collected directly through our sites or applications. Please also keep in observance that our sites and applications may contain links to other sites not owned or controlled by us and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our sites or applications and to read the privacy policies of other sites that may collect your personal information.

All capitalized terms that have not been specifically defined herein shall have the same meaning as provided under the Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction and together with the Terms of Use applicable to the service (website, application or other service) you are using.

User Consent
By using moneycontrol's service (for example, when you register for an account, purchase a service, enter a contest or promotion, communicate with us, on our sites or applications), you agree to our collection, use and sharing of your personal information as described in this policy. In some cases, particularly if you reside in a country governed by a data protection regulation, we may ask you to provide explicit consent to access our services before proceeding for further operations. In case of any roaming user profile or if you are a traveller visiting various countries around the world and avail moneycontrol's services, then we will consider the country of registration as your primary country and the consents obtained at the time of registration will be valid for your processing of personal information. The privacy terms applicable as per the law of that country at the time of registration will be applicable to you.

Accessing Website and Moneycontrol Services through VPN
You should not access or use the Website or MoneycontrolServices by means of any mechanism or technology which conceals your actual geo-location or provides incorrect details of your location (for example, use a virtual private network (VPN) to access the Services).

We will not be responsible or liable for any collection, storage or processing of your personal information or data if you use any mechanism or technology to access or use Website or Services which conceals your actual geo-location.

Collection of Personal Information and it's use
'Personal Information' or 'PII' is defined as any information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual or natural person, such as the individual's name, postal address, email address, and mobile number indicating to that particular person or is identifiable. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information can also be treated as personal information.

Moneycontrol only collects the necessary personally identifiable information in order to respond to your requests for our customized products and services.

Moneycontrol does not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide it. moneycontrol and its service partners use your personally identifiable information to operate the sites and services and to inform you of new features, services, and products from moneycontrol and its affiliates.

  • I. Information you provide to us
    We may ask for and collect the following personal information about you when you use the moneycontrol.com and without this information we may not be able to provide you with all the requested services;

    a. Registration Data
    To use certain features on the website, Application and for the Services (such as event registrations and website campaigns), you may provide basic contact Information, including but not limited to:
    • First Name
    • Last Name
    • Email Address
    b. User profile details
    We may further collect and record the following personal information under the "My Profile" section, which helps us provide customized feeds and maintain a user profile, including but not limited to:
    • Name
    • Gender
    • Email ID
    • Date of birth
    • Country
    • City
    • Occupation
    • Industry
    • Annual Income
    • Mobile Number
    c. User portfolio details
    In addition to the above mentioned information, the user may also create a "Portfolio" by providing the financial details regarding the following:
    • Stocks
    • Mutual Funds
    • ULIPs
    • Bullion
    • Fixed income
    • Loans
    • Property
    • Asset details
    • Investment transaction details
    Financial information thus collected is essential in provision of services such as:
    • Providing recommendations and daily alerts to the user
    • Customization of content on the website for enhanced user experience
    d. Mobile device permissions
    When accessing our application on mobile devices/ tablets/ TVs or any other device having access of the said application, we may request and gain access to the following:
    • Accounts - Used for managing multiple user accounts within the app and for Login purposes
    • Contacts - Used for accessing users Contact in order to share articles through the app
    • Phone - To read phone state and enable user notifications on user's device. IMEI is being collected to uniquely identify every user only
    • Camera - In order for the user to upload images and profile image of the User. Let's user use Camera inside of moneycontrol
    • Microphone - To enable voice command related actions
    • Storage - To access files folders from inside the App
    • SMS - To send and receive verification messages

    Permissions to these settings may be essential in adequate running of the application. Permissions can be managed through the respective user devices using the "settings" option.

  • II. Information you provide to us voluntarily
    If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the moneycontrol.com, we may collect and store such information.

    We may collect additional information at other times, when you provide feedback(s), modify your content or email preferences, respond to surveys, or communicate with us. This information may include your name, e-mail id, mobile number, location, etc

  • III. Information we collect automatically
    We collect information about you and your use of our service, your interactions with us and our advertising, as well as information regarding your computer or other devices used to access our service(such as mobile devices, tablets and other viewing devices). This information includes, but is not limited to:

    • Activities on moneycontrol.com such as type of pages viewed, time spent on pages, search queries etc.
    • Your interactions with our email, customer care and messaging platform.
    • Geo-location information through IP addresses;
    • Device information like device id, device model etc. and other unique identifiers
    • Advertising identifiers, such as those found on mobile devices & tablets, devices that include identifiers(for example the Identifiers for Advertisers (IDFA) on iOS devices and GAID on Android devices);
    • Information collected via the use of cookies and other technologies* ;

    *Note: To improve the responsiveness of the "Application" for our users, we may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification ("User ID") to understand the user's individual interests using the identified computer. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we would not know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information which a cookie can hold is the information you supply. A cookie cannot read data from your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser(s) (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us via website(s), Application(s) or Services through your computer/laptop/notebook/ mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device or any other electronic device capable of connecting to internet. For more details you can refer to our Cookie Policy

  • IV. Inferred Information through usage and log data
    We may track certain information about you based upon your behaviour on the moneycontrol.com. We use this information for conducting internal research on our users' demographics, devices, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users. This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis.

    We may also collect Your Information to track user behaviour and preferences for internal analytics and research. We may also use your information:
    (i) To evaluate Your interest for investment options, services, offers, subscriptions;
    (ii) To perform analytics and conduct customer research, to determine your interest, for identifying content that generate sales and to analyse traffic patterns.

    • a. Interactive features
      moneycontrol.com has many features that provide for users/members to disclose their identities and communicate with other users/members. Your use of such features and disclosure of any personal details (e.g. e-mail address) by you through these features are at your sole risk and moneycontrol.com accepts no responsibility for the same. However, if your privacy has been intruded as a result of participating in such features, you could notify us by e-mail at dpo@nw18.com.
      If you choose to post messages on social media accounts, message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law. We may also retain such information on an aggregated basis to formulate market trends and market sentiments. We do not, however, associate any of your personal information with these comments or posts while performing such analysis.

    • b. User Experience and Support
      We identify and use Your IP address to help diagnose any problems with our server, and to administer our application. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information to customize your experience on the moneycontrol.com.
      We will occasionally ask you to complete optional online surveys. These surveys may ask you for contact information and demographic information (like zip code, age, etc.). We use this data to tailor your experience on the moneycontrol.com, providing you with content that we think you might be interested in and to display content according to your preferences.

  • V. Information we collect through third parties

    • a. Social Media Login
      When you register using your other accounts like on Facebook, Gmail etc. we shall retrieve Information from such accounts to continue to interact with you and to continue providing the Services. We collect the following information from the respective social media platforms, including but not limited to:
      • Facebook - Public information, Name, Email id, friend list
      • Google - First name, Last name, Email id
    • b. Transactional or Billing Information
      Based on Your purchase of a subscription package, our payment gateway partner may collect information with respect to your credit/debit card details or other bank account details along with your billing address. This information is stored by our payment gateway partner. For instance, the Services will be using third party payment gateway partners to process and facilitate the payment of your subscription fee to the Services for providing you access to the subscription. Please note that moneycontrol.com does not directly collect any financial information such as credit card or debit card or net banking details from you. Such payment gateway partners are not controlled by us. When you visit such payment gateways you do so at your own risk. These payment gateways may have their own privacy policies in place, which we recommend you review if you visit any such payment gateways. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for such payment gateways, the content of such payment gateways and their privacy practices, nor do we endorse them. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by such payment gateways prior to providing them with information about you or entering into any transactions with them.

    • c. Financial Information
      For provision of services and subscriptions, you may be required to present additional financial or sensitive personal information to our partners, on their respective websites (e.g. PAN card details for mutual funds). You understand, agree and acknowledge that moneycontrol.com does not process any information provided on partner/vendor websites. Your Personal Information, Sensitive Personal Data or Information and financial information will be dealt by these partners in accordance with their respective privacy policies and other terms and conditions and moneycontrol.com shall not be liable, accountable or responsible for Your Personal Information, Sensitive Personal Data and Financial Information which you provide to these payment gateways. Moneycontrol.com may however receive a copy of such information (e.g. PAN numbers, transaction IDs and details) provided by you to third parties (vendors, partners) solely for the purpose of reconciliation and validation of transaction, or for the purpose of resolution of complaints such as a transaction failure, processing of refunds, only as permissible by the local law. Moneycontrol.com will not process any information without consents, as applicable by the local laws.

    • d. Auto renewal Subscription
      When you chose any subscription or paid service, we or our payment gateway provider may collect your purchase, address or billing information, including your credit card number and expiration date etc. However, when you order using an in-app purchase option, same are handled by such platform providers. The subscriptions or paid Services may be on auto renewal mode unless cancelled. If at any point you do not wish to auto-renew your subscription, you may cancel your subscription before the end of the subscription term. We do not capture/store any personal payment information with us.

    • e. Information from other Sources
      We may receive information about you from other sources, add it to our account information and treat it in accordance with this policy. If you provide information to the platform provider or other partner, whom we provide services, your account information and order information may be passed on to us. We may obtain updated contact information from third parties in order to correct our records and fulfil the Services or to communicate with you. Demographic and purchase information: We may reference other sources of demographic and other information in order to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions, based on the consents provided by you.

II. Purposes and Lawfulness of processing
Moneycontrol.com will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful basis. Lawful basis on which we would process your personal information includes obtaining explicit consent from you for processing your personal information or processing for "legitimate interests" where processing is necessary by us to provide you with customer support or process your data for providing premium services (For e.g. processing of your information by our payment gateway service providers).

We use information to provide, analyse, administer, enhance and personalize our service and marketing efforts, to process your registration, your orders, payments, and to communicate with you related to the cases mentioned below. For example, we use information to:

  • determine your portfolio requirements and provide personalized suggestions, tips and predictions on market trends, alerts on the market changes and statistics of indices, all of which we think will be of interest to you;
  • prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, including fraud;
  • analyze and understand our audience, improve our service (including our user interface experiences) and optimize content selection, recommendation algorithms and delivery;
  • communicate with you concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications text messaging, and online messaging channels), so that we communicate news regarding moneycontrol.com to you, details about new features and content available on the moneycontrol.com, and special offers, promotional announcements, contests and consumer surveys, and to assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests.
  • Notify you about changes in terms of service.
  • Providing resolution when you raise a request through our customer support or any other channels
  • Allow you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services.
  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing, chargeback and collection.

We may use your information to provide you with personalised experience when you visit/use one of our sites/apps, and for insight and marketing purposes.

We provide personalisation by using data you submit to us in terms of cookies, IP addresses, web beacons or similar technologies in relation to the devices you use. By doing so, we can provide you with contents and/or advertising that we believe is more relevant to your interests. Please provide explicit consent for the same when we collect your data and/or adjust your user preferences in your account profile concerning your choices/preferences provided.

You can click on http://www.youronlinechoices.eu to know more about online privacy and the measures you can take to protect your privacy on the Internet

III. Information used by the company
The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve the Services and provide you the most user-friendly experience. In some cases/provision of certain service(s) or utility (ies), we may require your contact address as well. All required information is service dependent and the Company may use the above said user Information to, maintain, protect, and improve the Services (including advertising on the "Application") and for developing new services. We may also use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages with your consent, as applicable by local laws [with an option to subscribe / unsubscribe (where feasible)]. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major changes, for customer service purposes, billing, etc.)

Any personally identifiable information provided by you will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and / or accessible in the public domain like any comments, messages, blogs, scribbles available on social platforms like Facebook, twitter etc. Any posted/uploaded/conveyed/communicated by users on the public sections of the website or the Application becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. In case you choose to decline to submit personally identifiable information, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. In any case, we will not be liable and or responsible for the denial of certain services to you for lack of you providing the necessary personal information. When you register with the Application or Services, we contact you from time to time about updating your personal information to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit / interest you.

IV. Disclosure to third parties

  • a. General Disclosure
    At times moneycontrol.com may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with the moneycontrol.com to provide service, or that help the moneycontrol.com market to customers. For example, when you purchase and activate subscription, you authorize moneycontrol.com to exchange the information you provide during the activation process to carry out a service. If you have approved the service, your account will be governed by moneycontrol.com's privacy policy. Personal information will only be shared by moneycontrol.com to provide or improve our service and marketing aspects; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.
    moneycontrol.com may also carefully select other companies to send you information about their products or services which are related to the site's service but are not necessary to its operation (an "Extended Service"). If moneycontrol.com intends to use personally identifiable information for an Extended Service, the moneycontrol.com site will provide you with the ability and requisite instructions to decline this service.
    You may also stop the delivery of informational or promotional mail from moneycontrol.com by following the instructions on the mail.

  • b. Advertising
    When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites or Applications -- it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages / content within our websites or Applications. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our websites or Applications. These companies may use information (including your name, address, email address or telephone number or any other personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other websites or application, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to third party websites / advertisers / ad-servers without your consent.

  • c. Service Providers
    Moneycontrol.com may include links to various third-party websites that may collect Your Personal Information. Use of Your information collected by such third-party platform will be governed by the privacy policy in such third-party platform. Such websites or applications are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. 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 application, and 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 application's homepage, you should contact the application owners directly for more information.
    We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners - like publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, we share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services. We also allow specific partners to collect information from your browser or device for marketing/promotions and measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar technologies.

  • d. Promotional Offers
    We'll share or disclose your personal information outside of moneycontrol.com when we have your consent. For example, providing SMS and E-mail related services such as marketing newsletters, promotions and offers.

  • e. Business Transfers
    We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we may use service providers to help us with customer support.
    In the event Network18 Media & Investments Limited is merged with or acquired by another company or in case of re-organization or re-structuring of business, we and our affiliates may share your personal information, wholly or in part, with another business entity

  • f. Legal
    Moneycontrol.com may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:
    • conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the site or its owners;
    • protect and defend the rights or property of the site-owners, the site or the users of moneycontrol.com;
    • Act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of moneycontrol.com, the site, its owners, or the public.

V. Your Controls and Choices

  • Managing Your Information
    When you use the Services from moneycontrol (websites or any of its sub sites), we make good efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible, subject to any requirement for such personal information or sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes.
    We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
    To exercise rights applicable to you as a data subject, you must write to us at and raise a request for the specified right. Kindly ensure you use appropriate subjects to mention the right (e.g. Data Access Request, Data Portability Request, Data Deletion Request) while raising all such requests, this would help us process your requests in a faster and more efficient manner.
    We provide you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use and sharing of your personal information. In accordance with applicable law, your controls and choices may include:

  • a. Data Access and Portability
    The EU - General Data Protection Regulation) entitles you, as the data subject, to request copies of your personal information held by us. You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible)

  • b. Rectification of Inaccurate or Incomplete Information
    You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information concerning you (this is the information which you cannot update yourself within your moneycontrol account) by sending us an e-mail.
    You can access and update some of your personal information through your account settings. If you have chosen to connect your moneycontrol.com profile to a third-party application, like Facebook or Google, you can change your settings and remove permission for the app by changing your account settings. You are responsible for keeping your personal information up-to-date. Moneycontrol.com may send you periodic reminders via e-mail to maintain the accuracy of your personal information.

  • c. Data Retention and Erasure
    We retain your personal information as long as necessary for the legitimate interests specified in this policy and for us to comply with our legal obligations. If you no longer want us to use your information then you can request that we erase your personal information and close your moneycontrol.com account.
    Please note that if your request for the erasure of your personal information;
    • We may retain some of your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend a moneycontrol.com account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from that account to prevent that user from opening a new account in the future.
    • We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example, we may keep some of your information for tax, legal reporting and auditing obligations.
    • Information you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) may continue to be publicly visible on moneycontrol.com, even after your account is cancelled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Additionally, some copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
    • Because we maintain copies of personal information to protect from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be removed from our backup systems for a limited period of time.
    (Note: If you have multiple accounts with moneycontrol, you will need to raise separate requests for each of those accounts, using the associated email IDs)

  • d. Withdrawing Consent and Restriction of Processing
    For withdrawing your consent at any time during the tenure of your services with us, you may choose to do so by sending us an e-mail. We shall review your request and may ask you to verify your identity. Post verification we will withdraw the consent for which request was made by you and stop any further processing of your personal information

  • e. Objection to Processing
    Where your personal information is processed for direct marketing purposes, you may, at any time ask us to cease processing your data for these direct marketing purposes by sending an e-mail to us.
    Please be aware that if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain experiences, products, and services to you, and some of our services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If collection of personal information is mandatory, we will make that clear at the point of collection so that you can make an informed decision whether to participate. If you have questions about the specific personal information about you that we process or retain, and your rights regarding that personal information, please contact our customer support team.

  • f. Opting out of Sale of Information
    You are entitled to opt-out from transferring your data by Network18 Media & Investments Limited to those third parties who use your data for their own purposes. You can do so by clicking on the opt-out option available at the bottom of the home page of this website or you can write an email to DPO@nw18.com and confirm this choice

  • g. Appointing an Authorized Agent
    You are entitled to appoint an Authorized Agent to raise a request on your behalf provided the authorized agent is able to submit us with your consent for the respective request. The Authorized Agent shall reach out to us using the Contact Information provided below

  • h. Non-Discrimination
    You have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment by Network18 Media & Investments Limited for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

VI. If you fail to provide consent
It is our duty to inform you that moneycontrol.com is an ad-serving platform. Advertisements form the core of our business, therefore permissions to use and process your personal information to provide advertisements is essential for us to provide services to You. Use of personal information for ad-serving is a binding criterion and we will not be able to provide you with Our services if you fail to authorise us to use your personal information for the purpose of ad-serving and the activities related to it.

VII. Children's Privacy
Moneycontrol.com is not intentionally designed for or directed at persons less than 16 years of age. Network18 Media & Investments Limited does not knowingly permit any person who is under 16 years of age to register with the services or to provide any other personally identifying information. If Network18 Media & Investments Limited becomes aware that any personally identifiable information of persons less than 16 years of age has been collected on the moneycontrol.com without verified parental consent, then Network18 Media & Investments Limited will take the appropriate steps to delete any such information and notify the parent.
However, we consider it the responsibility of parents to monitor their children's use of our services. Nevertheless, it is our policy not to collect and process any personal information from children below 16 years of age or offer to send any promotional materials to persons in that category. Network18 Media & Investments Limited does not seek or intend to seek or receive any personal information from children. Should a parent or guardian have reasons to believe that a minor has provided Network18 Media & Investments Limited with personal information without their prior consent, please contact our customer support team to ensure that the personal information is removed from moneycontrol.com

VIII. Data transfer, storage & processing globally
We operate globally and may transfer your personal information to individual companies of Network18 Media & Investments Limited affiliated companies or third parties in locations around the world for the purposes described in this privacy policy. Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. Additionally, when using or disclosing personal information transferred from the European Union, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, adopt other means under European Union law for ensuring adequate safeguards.

IX. Security and compliance with laws
We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. Some of the safeguards we may use to protect your information are firewalls and data encryption, and information access controls. If you know or have reason to believe that your moneycontrol.com account credentials have been lost, stolen, altered, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your account, please contact us by contacting our customer support team.

X. Change in Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to ensure compliance with applicable laws ("Updated Terms"). The Updated Terms shall be effective immediately and shall supersede the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of any changes to this privacy policy if the changes made to the policy significantly affects your rights or as may be required by law. You shall be solely responsible for reviewing the Privacy Policy from time to time for any modifications. By continuing to use moneycontrol.com after the updated Terms have been published, you affirm your agreement to the updated terms.

XI. Contact information

  • a. Support
    If you require any information or clarification regarding the use of your personal information or this privacy policy or grievances with respect to use of your personal information, please email us at dpo@nw18.com

  • b. Data Controller Officer
    The data controller for the moneycontrol.com is Network18 Media & Investments Limited with the business address of:
    First Floor, Empire Complex,
    414 Senapati Bapat Marg,
    Lower Parel, Mumbai-400013
    Maharashtra, India
    Ph: +91 22 4001 9000
    The data protection officer (DPO) appointed by Network18 Media & Investments Limited is Mr.. Apurv Narula, who can be contacted at DPO@nw18.com

  • c. Complaints
    You can write to our data protection officer in case of any grievance or compliant. You have the right to complaint about the data processing activities carried out by moneycontrol.com before the competent data protection authorities.
    If you have any queries, complaints regarding the collecting, processing, transfer of personal data/information or regarding this policy please do contact our Data Protection Officer.

Network18 Media & Investments Limited, having its registered office at First Floor, Empire Complex, 414, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400013, India (“we”, “us”, “our”, “Moneycontrol”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to all products and/or services offered by us to all individuals (“you”, “your”, “user”).

This Policy explains how we collect, receive, store, disclose, share, and use your personal data for the purpose of your participation and consumption of our products and/or services offered by us through our website and/or software application (collectively, “Platform”) or during any interaction with us, and how you can exercise your privacy rights

Before using our Platform or availing any of our products and/or services, you are advised to carefully read this Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, please do not access this Platform. By visiting and/or using our Platform, you are consenting to process your personal data in the manner as set forth in this Policy.

1. DATA PRIVACY DISCLAIMER

The scope of this policy is limited to the product and/or services provided by us within the territory of India and applies to users who request for these products and/or services within the Indian territory.

2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

When you interact with us, we collect different types of information from you based on the type of interaction.

“Personal Data” means any data about an individual who is identifiable by or in relation to such data.

“Processing”, “Processed”, “Process” in relation to personal data, means a wholly or partly automated operation or set of operations performed on digital personal data, and includes operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, retrieval, use, alignment, or combination, indexing, sharing, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, restriction, erasure, or destruction.

We endeavor to collect only such personal data that is reasonably necessary to perform our services for you. When you interact with our Platform or otherwise with us, we may collect the following personal data from you directly:

  • 1. General Data - your first name, last name, email, mobile number, address, country, state, gender, age or date of birth, application history and installation data;
  • 2. Government Identification Data - data that enables us to identify you, e.g. your Aadhaar card and PAN card;
  • 3. Technical and Network Activity Data - data about your device and your usage of our Platform, including your IP address, device ID, user ID, hardware model and version, mobile network information, operating system and other online identifiers, type of browser, browsing history, search history, access time, pages viewed, URLs clicked on, forms submitted, and physical location;
  • 4. Authentication - data required for authentication, such as username, OTP, Captcha and password;
  • 5. Financial Data - your bank details, including account name, account number, IFSC code and credit card (last 4- digit number);
  • 6. Employment Data - data about education qualification, occupation, designation, company name, resume.
  • 7. SMS Data - We collect, transmit and store SMS data from your phone to verify and analyse your financial position, to determine your cash flow, credits, income, and spending pattern. Please note that such data is limited to details of the transactions contained in the SMS. Personal SMS data or sensitive information such as OTP, personal SMSs, account details, etc is filtered out and not stored.

You can choose not to give us personal data when we ask you for it. If you decide not to give us your personal data, it may restrict our relationship with you.

3. HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Information you directly provide to us:

You may choose to provide us with the data, which is essential for us to deliver the products and/or services you request. Without this data, we may not be able to provide you with all the requested products and/or services;

  • Use our Platform;
  • When you register on our Platform;
  • Share or use your social media profile to contact us;
  • Engage with one of our sales representatives;
  • For Subscription to our services or updates;
  • Get in touch for support or to provide feedback/queries;
  • To provide you business, market news and the latest updates;
  • Ask questions or seek clarification regarding our products or services;
  • Apply for job opportunities on our Platform.

Information you provide to us voluntarily:

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Platform, we may collect and store such data.

We may collect additional data at other times, when you provide feedback(s), modify your content or email preferences, respond to surveys, or communicate with us. This data may include your name, e-mail id, mobile number, etc.

Information we collect automatically:

We collect data about you, your interactions with us, as well as data regarding your computer or other devices used to access our Platform. This source may include, but is not limited to:

  • Activities on the Platform such as type of pages viewed, time spent on pages, search queries etc.;
  • Your interactions with our email, customer care and contact us Platform;
  • Geo-location data through IP addresses;
  • Device information like device id, device model etc. and other unique identifiers;
  • Data collected via the use of cookies.

Information we collect from other sources:

We may collect or receive data about you from third-party sources and process this data in accordance with this policy. The sources may include, but is not limited to:

  • Publicly accessible sources;
  • Marketing & Advertising vendors;
  • Analytics Providers;
  • Event management agencies;
  • Social media Platforms.

If you connect your social media account to our Platform, you will share certain personal data from your social media account with us. This may include your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other data you make accessible to us.

4. LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will collect personal data by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge of the individual concerned. We only collect and process personal data about you where we have a lawful basis. Lawful basis on which we would process data from you includes:

  • Obtaining explicit consent from you,
  • Processing for legitimate uses where processing is necessary in order to provide you with our products and/or services, such as:
    • (i) To enforce our terms and conditions;
      (ii) To ensure compliance with our legal obligations and to also comply with our obligations towards public authorities;
      (iii) To enforce any legal right or claim;
      (iv) For responding to a medical emergency involving a threat to your health or life or that of any other individual;
      (v) For taking measures to ensure safety of, or provide assistance or services to any individual any disaster, or any breakdown of public order;
      (vi) For legal and compliance reasons, such as the prevention, detection, or investigation of a crime, loss prevention or prevention of fraud;
      (vii) As otherwise described to you at the time of collection of your personal data.
      (viii) To improve services, refine credit risk evaluation, optimize platform performance, and support research and data analysis in collaboration with IT service providers.

5. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We use your personal data for the purposes we have described below in this privacy notice, or for purposes which are reasonably compatible to the ones described.

To manage our relationship with you.

We will use your personal data to:

  • Verify your identity; to help provide our products and/or services and to administer those products and/or services
  • To register you on our Platform and/or for the events, seminars, etc.
  • Provision for you to subscribe the premium features of our Platform
  • Communicate with you concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications text messaging, and online messaging channels), so that we communicate news regarding the Platform to you, details about new features and content available on our Platform
  • To provide multiple cashback rewards & offers to you for our products and/or services
  • For marketing (where you have agreed to this) and for market research purposes, including internal demographic studies, to provide, optimize and personalize our products and/or services and data (where you have agreed to this) about our products and/or services
  • Provide online or offline products and/or services such as contests and employment opportunities
  • Identify you and authenticate your access rights access to our Platform
  • Invite you to provide feedback or surveys or attend events
  • To enhance personalized services and improve credit risk assessments
  • To send you communication, including through WhatsApp business messages, in relation to your use of the Platform and/or Services
  • To respond to your queries and provide you with data when you request it or when we believe our products and/or services may be of interest to you. If we intend to share electronic marketing with you, we will ask for your consent where required and you can opt out at any time
  • Perform analytics, market research and segmentation to understand your preferences, improve our products and/or services and our communications to you.
  • To make platform and its content available and to further optimize & develop it.

To manage and improve our processes and our business operations.

We will use your personal data to:

  • Manage our network and information systems security
  • Manage our workforce effectively
  • Perform data analyses, auditing and research to help us deliver and improve our digital Platform, content and products and/or services
  • Monitor and analyse trends, usage and activities in connection with our products and/or services to understand which parts of our products and/or services are of the most interest and to improve them accordingly

To achieve other purposes.

We shall also use your personal data for legal and regulatory purposes, such as:

  • For our internal and external audit requirements and for information security purposes;
  • To gain insights and feedback on our products and/or services in order to correct or improve them, by analysing data from external sources such as Google, Facebook and Twitter (and others).

6. HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL DATA WHEN YOU VISIT OUR OFFICES?

When you visit our offices, we process your personal data in accordance with this privacy statement and some specific information regarding the use of visitor data and the potential use of CCTV in our offices is provided in the reception area.

7. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures in relation to the data and personal data that is processed by us. We take reasonable measures to protect all personal data from unauthorized processing or accidental disclosure, alteration, misuse, destruction or loss or unauthorized access and modification that compromises the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of such data.

While we endeavor to always protect our Platform, operations and data against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure, due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that any data, during transmission or while stored on our systems, will be safe and secure from intrusion by others.

8. YOUR RIGHTS IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We respect your right to access and control your personal data, and we will respond to requests to exercise your rights under applicable laws and, where applicable, will correct, update, or erase your personal data.

You have the following rights:

  • Right to access data : At any point, you can contact us for a summary of your personal data we hold about you, the processing activities undertaken with respect to such personal data, the identities of all those persons with whom your personal data has been shared by us along with the description of the personal data so shared, and any other data related to your personal data and its processing.
  • Right to request correction: If your personal data is incomplete, inaccurate, misleading, or out of date, you can inform us about the same and your personal data will be corrected, completed, or updated.
  • Right to request erasure: If you believe that we should discontinue the use of your personal data, you have the option to request the deletion of your personal data, unless retention is necessary for compliance with any law for the time being in force.
  • Right of grievance redressal In case of any grievance, you can also raise a request to alter your consent choices at dpo@nw18.com.
  • Right to nominate In the event of death or incapacity to exercise these rights, you can nominate any other individual to exercise such rights.
  • Right to withdraw your consent You can withdraw your consent easily by emailing us on dpo@nw18.com. The withdrawal of consent previously granted for the processing of personal data does not affect the lawfulness of the processing until the withdrawal. However, opting out will result in cessation of the respective services.

For exercising any of your rights, you can contact us using dpo@nw18.com. We will need you to furnish proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights. We may not be able to process any requests made in the event you fail to establish your identity, or if we are unable to authenticate your identity.

9. SHARING/DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

As far as this is necessary for the purposes set out above, we will share your personal data with the following recipients who either have a need to know and who will process it for us based on our instructions and for no other purpose:

General Disclosure:

We may disclose your personal data will include:

  • Our related companies;
  • We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Platform;
  • All our employees and contractors are required to follow our data protection and security policies when handling personal data;
  • We’ll share or disclose your personal data outside of the Platform when we have your consent. For example, providing SMS and E-mail related services such as marketing newsletters, promotions and offers;
  • We may share personal data with third-party IT service providers, including Finbox to support our technology services and facilitate research or data analytics.
  • Your personal data might also have to be shared in the event of a merger, sale, restructure, acquisition, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

External service providers:

Occasionally, to provide our products and/or services, it is necessary to collaborate with external service providers. We may use these service providers to assist us with some features or functions of our Platform. These external service providers shall process your personal data on our behalf subject to appropriate safeguards only insofar as it is necessary for them to provide their products and/or services to us. Our prior authorization is required before they are permitted to transfer responsibility for processing personal data to a third party.

Business Transfers:

We provide personal data to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

In the event if we merge with or acquired by another company or in case of re-organization or re-structuring of business, we and our affiliates may share your personal data, wholly or in part, with another business entity.

Courts and public authorities:

We will share personal data when required for the following purposes:

  • To comply with legal obligations and respond to requests from government agencies, including law enforcement agencies and other public authorities;
  • To prevent or detect or investigate offences or cyber incidents or for the prosecution or punishment of offences;
  • To raise or defend against legal claims;
  • To protect our users, systems, and products and/or services.

We only share your personal data with recipients that have an adequate level of data protection by implementing appropriate technical and organizational security measures, or we take measures to ensure that all recipients provide an adequate level of data protection as prescribed by applicable law. We do not sell your personal data to anyone.

10. PERSONAL DATA TRANSFER, STORAGE AND PROCESSING GLOBALLY

We operate globally and may transfer your personal data to our affiliates or third parties in territories outside India for the purposes described in this Policy in accordance with applicable data protection laws, provided that no such restriction is notified by the Government/ appropriate authority.

11. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will retain your personal data which we have collected for as long as we reasonably consider it necessary for achieving the abovementioned purposes and as is permissible under applicable law. This is determined on a case-to-case basis.

We will delete your personal data whenever you request us to do so. However, we may archive and/or retain your personal data for as long as there are statutory retention obligations or potential legal claims are not, yet time barred.

12. SAFEGUARDING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from minors. Our products and/or services are not designed for any person who is under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly permit such persons to register for products and/ or services or share data through any of the web forms without verifiable consent from minors’ parents or lawful guardians. Further, we do not undertake tracking or behavioral monitoring of children or targeted advertising directed at children.

If we learn that we have collected personal data from a minor without verified parental consent, we will erase such personal data.

If you believe that a child under 18 years may have provided us their personal data, please contact us on dpo@nw18.com.

13. CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions or comments regarding this Policy or want to exercise any of your rights or express your grievances regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us using the contact details given below:

Network18 Media & Investments Limited

Apurv Narula
dpo@nw18.com.

If you are not satisfied with the resolution provided you may log your complaint with the Data Protection Board of India following the procedure prescribed by them.

14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this Policy at our sole discretion at any time. Any material changes to this Policy will be posted on this page. We encourage you to review this Policy regularly for such changes. The updated Privacy Policy will take effect as soon as it has been updated.

This Policy was last updated as of 24th December 2024.

Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are representing themselves as affiliates of Moneycontrol and soliciting funds on the false promise of assured returns on their investments. We wish to reiterate that Moneycontrol does not solicit funds from investors and neither does it promise any assured returns. In case you are approached by anyone making such claims, please write to us at grievanceofficer@nw18.com or call on 02268882347