PRIVACY POLICY

The BangladeshMonitor is committed to protecting your personal information when you are usingthe website of The Bangladesh Monitor or an application developed by TheBangladesh Monitor. This Privacy Policy relates to use of any personal informationthat it collects from visitors/readers via following, among other, services:

(i)The Bangladesh Monitor website that links to this privacy and cookies policy,
(ii)Social media or official The Bangladesh Monitor content on other websites,
(iii)Mobile device and/or applications (“Apps”)

In all the aboveservices, the Privacy Policy shall apply only when the application, website orcontents therein are generated by The Bangladesh Monitor.

The BangladeshMonitor collects or receives information about its users for many purposes; forinstance, to provide services designed to serve the user, to monitor andimprove the services offerings, for marketing or targeting advertisement etc.Such information may include your name, address, phone number, email address,age, social network account etc. (“the Information”).

There may beother privacy policies that apply to certain services provided bywww.bangladeshmonitor.com or bangladeshmonitor.com.bd or bangladeshmonitor.netor bangladeshmonitor.net.bd. Visitors are requested to read these whileregistering or subscribing to these services on these sites. It is TheBangladesh Monitor’s endeavour to protect the information received from itsvisitors/readers. The Bangladesh Monitor respects privacy of its visitors/readersand makes use its best effort to ensure that the information collected is usedfor the limited purpose for which it was received.

How The Bangladesh Monitor collects the information:

The BangladeshMonitor collects information on a user upon the user’s access to the BangladeshMonitor website –

(i)By registering to the site or application,
(ii)Subscribing to the newsletter,
(iii)Responding to a survey or participating in a competition,
(iv)Logging in to a site or page, etc.

Disclosure of Information Collected

The BangladeshMonitor does not sell, trade or otherwise provide personally identifiableinformation to any other parties except for those that assist The BangladeshMonitor in operating its website, conducting the business and serving theusers. It may share visitors/readers personal information internally tounderstand user base, promote the number of users and increase user engagement.

In the eventthat The Bangladesh Monitor desires to use personal information in a differentway than that described above it shall seek consent of the individual. TheBangladesh Monitor may release personally identifiable information if it isrequired to comply with the laws of The Republic of Bangladesh.

Notwithstandinganything contained in this Privacy Policy, The Bangladesh Monitor may discloseor share information collected including personal information to serviceproviders, affiliate companies, consultants or advisors or Partners that it hasengaged to perform business-related functions on its behalf. The BangladeshMonitor may also share the information in response to legal process, or protectits interest in any forum. The information may be used for investigating orpreventing potentially illegal activities, or situations involving potentialthreats to any person, us, or the services, or violations of our policies, thelaw or our Terms of Use as well as to verify or enforce compliance with thepolicies governing our Services. The information may as well be shared to offermarket products or services to the visitors/readers. However, in all theseevents or any other event when a personal information is shared or disclosed,The Bangladesh Monitor shall use its best endeavours to control the share or disclosureand shall only share to such extent as it is required to meet the purpose.

Data Retention

We shall holdvisitors/readers personal information if your account exists with TheBangladesh Monitor. Notwithstanding, The Bangladesh Monitor may retain data fora further period as per its own internal data retention policy.Visitor’s/reader’s personal information shall be deleted upon expiry of yourThe Bangladesh Monitor account. Please note that there may be events when theerasing/deleting of information may take more time than usual, and TheBangladesh Monitor shall not hold any responsibility in such events.

Theadvertisements included in the Bangladesh Monitor website and mobile apps, areby third-party companies & ad networks through independent ad tags, whichmay collect information about users for which The Bangladesh Monitor shall bearno responsibility that may arise as a result of collecting and/or sharing theinformation’s with any other party.

The BangladeshMonitor shall not accept any liability that may arise as a result of anycontent of any advertisement that may appear on the Bangladesh Monitor website.

Third Party Advertisements and links

At thediscretion of The Bangladesh Monitor, the website or application may display orallow advertisements of third party services or products. These third-partysites may have separate and independent privacy policies. The BangladeshMonitor accepts no responsibility or liability for the content of advertisingmaterial, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracytherein.

The BangladeshMonitor does not hold any responsibility for information leakage due to thevisitor/reader accessing to a separate link, application or website, whetherthrough a link in the website or contents of The Bangladesh Monitor.

Use of Cookies

The BangladeshMonitor does not collect any user data based on cookies, neither does it storeany sort of user information that may be personal to the user

If a third partyassociated with the Bangladesh Monitor website collects user cookies upon yourvisit to the Bangladesh Monitor website, The Bangladesh Monitor does notcontrol the use of these cookies therefore you should check the relevantthird-party website.

Demographic and purchase information:

We may referenceother sources of demographic and other information to provide you with moretargeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics, among others,to track the user behaviour on our website. You can opt-out of Google Analyticsfor Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the AdsSettings options provided by Google.

Communication by the Bangladesh Monitor

From time totime, The Bangladesh Monitor may contact its users via e-mail, phone or SMS forinvitation for participation in campaigns/competitions organized by TheBangladesh Monitor, feedback, survey etc., based on the information it hadreceived from the users.

Accessing the website from outside Bangladesh

All personalinformation submitted by users outside Bangladesh will be processed inaccordance with these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Governing Law

The laws thatgovern Privacy Policy of The Bangladesh Monitor and its relationship with theuser is the laws of The Republic of Bangladesh and any dispute regarding theuse, retention, disclosure, leakage or dissemination of the information or datecan only be raised before the courts of Bangladesh which shall have exclusivejurisdiction on this matter. The entire Privacy Policy shall apply to all whoenters the website, receives service or uses application from The BangladeshMonitor regardless of their nationality, location, residence or place of business.

Modification of Privacy Policy

The BangladeshMonitor reserves the right to amend, modify, alter, or omit any terms in thePrivacy Policy at any time but the changed policy shall be immediately uploadedor updated in the website. By continuing to use our services after any changesare made, you accept those changes and will be bound by them. We encourage youto periodically check back and review this policy so that visitors/readers willalways know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we shareit.