• This policy covers how Prothom-Alo.com treats personal information that Prothom-Alo.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Prothom-Alo.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
   
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Prothom-Alo.com does not own or control, or to people that Prothom-Alo.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

• Prothom-Alo.com collects personal information when you register with Prothom-Alo.com, when you use Prothom-Alo.com products or services, when you visit Prothom-Alo.com pages or the pages of certain Prothom-Alo.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweeps takes. Prothom-Alo.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
   
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with Prothom-Alo.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Prothom-Alo.com cookie information, and the page you request.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

• When a child under age 13 attempts to register with Prothom-Alo.com, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a Prothom-Alo.com Family Account to obtain parental permission.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• Prothom-Alo.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
   
  • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Prothom-Alo.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Prothom-Alo.com communicate with you about offers from Prothom-Alo.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
     
  • We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing Prothom-Alo.com to collect and use their child's information without consenting to Prothom-Alo.com sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes.
     
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Prothom-Alo.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
     
  • We transfer information about you if Prothom-Alo.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Prothom-Alo.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
     
  • Prothom-Alo.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
     
  • Prothom-Alo.com advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

Cookies

• Prothom-Alo.com may set and access Prothom-Alo.com cookies on your computer.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Prothom-Alo.com's cookies.
   
• Prothom-Alo.com uses web beacons to access Prothom-Alo.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Prothom-Alo.com products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

• You can edit your Prothom-Alo.com Account Information at any time.
   
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Prothom-Alo.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Prothom-Alo.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your Prothom-Alo.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
   
• You can delete your Prothom-Alo.com account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Children

• Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their child's Prothom-Alo.com account using tools offered by Prothom-Alo.com Family Accounts.
   
• If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child's information, parents enrolled in Prothom-Alo.com Family Accounts can delete their child's account by signing into that child's account and then visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
   
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• Prothom-Alo.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Prothom-Alo.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

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Prothom-Alo.com
CA Bhaban,
100 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue,
Karwan Bazar,
Dhaka-1215.
Bangladesh

Effective Date: Monday, October 16, 2005