Privacy Policy 🔐

At SelfieCompetition.in, accessible from https://selfiecompetition.in, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors and participants. This comprehensive Privacy Policy document contains detailed types of information that is collected and recorded by SelfieCompetition.in and how we utilize, protect, and process it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at our support desk. This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in SelfieCompetition.in. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

1. Consent

By using our website, registering for a user account, or participating in our selfie contest, you hereby explicitly consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. If you do not agree with any part of this policy, we respectfully request that you discontinue the use of our services immediately.

2. Information We Collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

• Account Registration: When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as your full name and email address.
• Media Uploads: When you participate in the contest, we collect the photographic image (selfie) you upload.
• Prize Distribution: If you win the contest, we will request payment details securely (such as a UPI ID, Google Pay number, or Paytm number) solely for the purpose of transferring your ₹500 cash prize.
• Direct Contact: If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website and server infrastructure.
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website to offer a better user experience.
• Understand and analyze how you use our website to create new features and categories.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website (such as declaring contest winners).
• Send you essential emails regarding password resets or account security.
• Find and prevent fraud: We actively use IP addresses and device fingerprints to prevent automated bot voting, click farms, and proxy abuse to ensure a fair competition for all participants.

4. Special Policy: Photo Security & Deletion

5. Log Files

SelfieCompetition.in follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

6. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, SelfieCompetition.in uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

7. Google DoubleClick DART Cookie & AdSense

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.selfiecompetition.in and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners include Google AdSense. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data.

8. Third Party Privacy Policies

SelfieCompetition.in's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

9. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
• Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
• Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

10. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

11. Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

SelfieCompetition.in does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.