Privacy Policy

To enhance, personalize, and support your experience on the Site, among other things, we use aggregated information to develop content targeted to user interests and to generally improve the Site’s user experience. As detailed below, your user information may also be used by Corporate India to tailor content and ads, provide social media features (e.g., features that allow you to share content directly to your preferred social media platform), track your preferences, analyze traffic, and provide similar services and content. Corporate India is committed to your privacy and will not share any user information with any third party without your consent. If you have any requests, comments, or questions about this Privacy Statement or your user information, please contact us in the manner provided below.

1. What this Privacy Statement Covers :

This Privacy Statement applies only to user information collected by us or shared with us in relation to our Site. While you may encounter links on the Site to other websites, such as those relating to our third-party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to the activities of Corporate India’s third-party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners that may collect your user information while you access or use such third party’s services in connection with your use of our Site. The privacy and information practices of those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Statement.

To request removal of your user information from our blog or community forum, please contact us as provided below. In some cases, for legal retention purposes or technical limitations, we may not be able to remove user information voluntarily disclosed by you in such forums, in which case, we will notify you.

2. Gathering of Information :

Section Overview: We collect user information when you use the Site. Sometimes you may submit it to us yourself, other times it may be collected automatically. You can manage and change your preferences as outlined below.

Voluntary Submission: Corporate India may collect user information (including personal information) that is voluntarily provided by you or with your permission. For example, we may ask you for user information, such as your email address, when you register to become a member of the Site. You may also provide user information to Corporate India in other contexts, including, for example, on your member profile page and public profile.

In the event you order something from the Site or one of our website, or if you sign-up for a paid subscription, we may request additional user information, such as your address, telephone number and credit card information, in order to complete the order. You may also provide us with other information at the same time, such as your choice of subscription term or type of subscription. If you choose to sign up for a paid subscription via your social media profile, we may also receive some limited information about you from that social media provider. Where you sign-up for paid subscriptions as a gift option (e.g., on behalf of a friend or colleague, the gift recipient), you may provide us with this information on behalf of the gift recipient.

You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services, such as paid subscription content. If you wish to provide user information to us about a third party, such your friend or colleague, in connection with a referral, gift subscription, recommendation, nomination.

3. Information that We Collect Automatically :

When you visit our Site, we may collect certain user information automatically from your device.

Cookies: A cookie is a small data file that is written to your computer's hard drive by your web browser. A cookie file can contain and/or automatically collect user information, such as a user identification code or IP address, that a website will use to track the pages and number of times you have visited. The data read from these cookies may be linked to your user information, so our use of these cookies may allow us to better understand how you use our Site, or to serve you with personalized advertising.

Log Files: The Site’s web and ad servers log information about a user's IP address, browser type and the current URL the user is requesting. This information is always provided by a user's browser and automatically logged by most websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used for our business purpose of internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Site.

4. Information that We Obtain from Third Party Sources:

From time to time, we may collect personal information about you from third party sources (including data append services such as public or social graph data, or social media websites if you have chosen to log in or connect your social media with our Site) which we will use for our business or commercial purposes (for example, in order to better serve you with content or promotions). However, we will only use this information where these third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us.

When you sign into our Site or purchase a paid subscription on our Site using a social media log-in, you give permission to that social media company to share certain information with us. For example, if you sign in or purchase a subscription using Facebook or LinkedIn, you give permission to Facebook or LinkedIn (as applicable) to share with us your email address and certain other information contained in your profile on that social media platform.

We will use this information to form a profile for your account, or to enable you to purchase a paid subscription. If you later remove the Site from your Facebook or LinkedIn settings, Google settings, or Apple ID, we will no longer have access to this information. However, this will not affect our ability to use the information that we already received.

5. To Target Content and Advertising :

Corporate India may use your user information for advertising purposes in order to promote our Site or our other products or services. To develop and provide content and advertising to you that is targeted to your interests, we use the analytics collected by the systems described above to determine which areas of our Site you prefer based upon the frequency of your visits and engagement with those areas. We may make reasonable assumptions based on your browser provided data to target relevant content and advertising to you on our site and elsewhere where we may be acting as a 3rd party.

6. Aggregate Information with Advertisers :

Corporate India derives the majority of its revenue on the Site from advertising, and sharing information is essential to keeping our services affordable to users. In order to attract and retain advertisers, we use the aggregated, information that we gather to describe our services to partners and to assist our advertisers and sponsors to better understand our audience.

7. In the Event of Sale or Bankruptcy :

The ownership of the Site may change at some point in the future. Should that occur, we want this site to be able to maintain a relationship with you. In the event of an (actual or potential) sale, merger, public offering, bankruptcy, acquisition of any part of our business, or other change in control of Corporate India, your user information may be shared with the person or business that owns or controls (or potentially will own or control) this Site, provided that we inform the buyer (or prospective buyer) that it must use your user information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Statement.

8.As Required By Law :

Corporate India may disclose your user information to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary: (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation (such as to comply with a subpoena or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law), (ii) to protect your safety or the safety of others, (iii) to investigate fraud or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on Forbes, or (iv) to protect and defend the rights or property of Forbes. In this case, we may notify you if applicable law requires.

9. Data Retention :

We will retain your user information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Site, unless you have revoked your consent or requested to delete certain user information; and we may retain certain user information for specific legitimate interests where we have an ongoing business need (for example, relating to core Site functionalities (such as fraud-prevention and account recovery), or to comply with applicable tax, legal or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to use your user information, we will delete it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in back-up archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

10. Security :

Section Overview: We care about the protection of your user information and use appropriate technical and organizational security measures (including industry standard safeguards) to do so. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing of your user information. Of course, it’s important to keep in mind that no data transmission on the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Your user information is stored on Forbes servers located in the United States. We use industry standard physical, electronic, and organizational safeguards to protect your user information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. If you are concerned that your privacy may have been breached, please contact us as provided below.

11. Privacy of Children :

Section Overview: The Site is intended for people who are at least 16 years of age.

If you are less than 16 years old, please do not send any user information to us--including information such as your name, address, or email address. We do not knowingly collect (nor do we wish to collect) any user information from children under the age of 16. If we learn we have collected any user information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information from our database and terminate the corresponding account, if any. We encourage you to discuss the Site with your parent or guardian.

12. Law Enforcement Requests :

Section Overview: Our position when it comes to responding to law enforcement requests for the disclosure of personal information.

13. How Will I Know if the Privacy Statement Is Changed? :

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. This Privacy Statement describes our data handling practices for the 12 months prior to the date on which it was last updated. When we update our Privacy Statement, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

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