Privacy Policy for Kala Sampada Interviews

Kala Sampada Interviews ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit our site, use our services, or interact with us, in accordance with applicable laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

• **Personal Information:** This includes information you provide to us directly, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, professional background, artistic interests, and any other information you choose to share when you:
  • Register for workshops or online art education programs.
  • Submit artwork for consideration in curated art exhibitions.
  • Contact us with inquiries or requests.
  • Subscribe to our newsletter.
  • Create an account on our online platform.
  • Participate in surveys or contests.
• **Usage Data:** We automatically collect information about your interaction with our site, including:
  • IP address.
  • Browser type and operating system.
  • Referring website.
  • Pages you visit on our site.
  • Time spent on those pages.
  • Links you click.
  • Other diagnostic data.
• **Cookies and Similar Technologies:** We use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activity on our site. This helps us to improve your experience, personalize content, and analyze site traffic. You can control cookies through your browser settings.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• **To Provide and Improve Our Services:** To operate, maintain, and improve our site and services, including artist interviews, workshops, curated art exhibitions, and online art education programs.
• **To Personalize Your Experience:** To personalize content and recommendations based on your interests and preferences.
• **To Communicate With You:** To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, send you newsletters and promotional materials (where you have consented to receive them), and update you about our services.
• **To Process Transactions:** To process payments for workshops, online courses, and other services.
• **To Organize Events:** To manage registration and participation in workshops, curated art exhibitions, and other events.
• **To Protect Our Rights and Interests:** To detect, prevent, and address fraud, security breaches, or other illegal activity; to enforce our terms of service; and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our users or others.
• **To Comply with Legal Obligations:** To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
• **For Research and Development:** To conduct research and analysis to improve our services and develop new offerings.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information with the following categories of recipients:

• **Service Providers:** We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us with website hosting, payment processing, email marketing, data analytics, and other services. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and only use it for the purposes we specify.
• **Business Partners:** With your consent, we may share your information with business partners to offer you products or services that may be of interest to you.
• **Legal Authorities:** We may disclose your information to legal authorities if required by law or legal process, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our users or others.
• **With Your Consent:** We may share your information with other third parties with your consent.
• **Affiliates:** We may share information with companies that are affiliated with us.
• **Public Forums:** If you participate in public forums on our site, such as comment sections or online discussions, any information you disclose will be publicly available.

4. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include:

• Using encryption to protect sensitive data transmitted online.
• Storing your information on secure servers.
• Limiting access to your information to authorized personnel only.
• Implementing regular security audits and vulnerability assessments.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

6. Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• **Right to Access:** You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• **Right to Rectification:** You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
• **Right to Erasure:** You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, under certain circumstances.
• **Right to Restriction of Processing:** You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain circumstances.
• **Right to Data Portability:** You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller.
• **Right to Object:** You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, under certain circumstances.
• **Right to Withdraw Consent:** If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• **Right to Complain:** You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority if you believe that we have violated your rights.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the address provided below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

7. Children's Privacy

Our site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

8. Links to Other Websites

Our site may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any websites you visit.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on our site and update the date at the beginning of this policy. Your continued use of our site after the posting of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Kala Sampada Interviews 7/2 Chandni Chowk, 2nd Floor, Delhi, Delhi, 110006 India Phone: +91-11-45678900