Privacy Policy

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you visit sparkstudios .in or hr@sparkstudios.in (the “Spark Studios Sites”), Spark Studios collects personally identifiable information that you have provided, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address and telephone number. In addition, Spark Studios may collect anonymous demographic information not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. Information collected at one of the Spark Studios sites may be shared with other Spark Studios Sites.

Spark Studios takes precautions to segregate any sensitive data you may provide on Spark Studios Sites and services that reference your race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or political affiliations. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Spark Studios Chats, Spark Studios Communities, or other public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others. Spark Studios does not, however, read any of your private online communications.

There also is information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Spark Studios and may be shared with other Spark Studios Sites. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Spark Studios for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Spark Studios Sites.

Spark Studios encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Spark Studios so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Spark Studios is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Spark Studios sites.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Spark Studios sites and their service partners use your information to operate the Spark Studios sites and to provide and improve the services we offer. Spark Studios sites also use your information to inform you of other products or services available from Spark Studios and its affiliates, deliver relevant content, monitor and evaluate the use of our websites and applications and analyze traffic on our sites and on the sites of third parties.

Spark Studios does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties Spark Studios may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique, personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Spark Studios may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Spark Studios, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Spark Studios keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Spark Studios in order to determine what websites and services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Spark Studios to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Spark Studios sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Spark Studios or one of the Spark Studios sites; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Spark Studios or the Spark Studios sites; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Spark Studios, its websites, or the public.

USE OF COOKIES

Many of the Spark Studios Sites use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are pieces of information that a website places on your computer when you visit the website. We use cookies to collect information about your navigation of the Spark Studios Sites and ease such navigation. For example, if you personalize Spark Studios pages, or register with Spark Studios sites, a cookie helps Spark Studios recall your specific information on subsequent visits. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Spark Studios sites you visit.

USE OF WEB BEACONS

Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites. Spark Studios sites may contain web beacons that allow Spark Studios to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Spark Studios may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or Spark Studios Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. Web beacons may involve the transmission of information directly to us, to another party on our behalf or to another party in accordance with its privacy policy.

USE OF THIRD PARTY AD NETWORKS

The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on Spark Studios Sites are displayed by Spark Studios. In addition, Spark Studios also allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on Spark Studios Sites. To do this, ad networks place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. Spark Studios does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks. Spark Studios may maintain relationships with a number of the third-party ad networks. If you want to prevent one of these third-party companies from sending and reading cookies on your computer, you will need to visit each ad network’s Web site individually and request that you be removed from its system.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Spark Studios secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Spark Studios secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites through the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypted protection.

WHEN THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

This Privacy Policy applies to all of the Spark Studios Sites and the services offered by the Spark Studios Sites. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed in advertisements, work portfolios or blog postings on the Spark Studios Sites. Further, our Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies that use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

Spark Studios occasionally will update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. When Spark Studios posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word “updated” next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of Spark Studios. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how Spark Studios will use your personally identifiable information, Spark Studios will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. Spark Studios encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Spark Studios is protecting your information.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Spark Studios welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Spark Studios has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Spark Studios by telephone, e-mail, or postal mail.