Privacy policy

Privacy policy

This Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding electronic contract between M3DB Private Limited, an Indian private limited company with its registered office at M3DB Pvt. Ltd., Suite 36B, 14/29, A Square Building, Edathala P O, Kuzhivelipady, Kangrappady, Ernakulam, Kerala - 683561, and our reader/subscriber. Readers/Subscribers are directed to carefully read M3DBCafe’ Terms and Conditions as well as Privacy Policy. If any of our reader/subscriber does not agree with it, they must terminate the use of our services.

M3DBCafe is a Malayalam Music and Movie news media platform in the Malayalam language. Its primary operations include collecting and disseminating news, in-depth analysis, photographs, videos, and other forms of digital content related to Malayalam Music and Movies. Readers can access M3DBCafe’s content using different digital devices with internet connectivity. The content will be distributed through the website www.M3DBCafe.com, its social media platforms, YouTube channels, podcast apps, other mobile apps, and newsletters.

All the content delivered through the website and mobile app is produced or gathered by M3DBCafe’s editorial team, adhering to a stipulated editorial policy of the organization. If the user chooses to consume any of our content, he/she will be bound by the below-mentioned terms and conditions of the website. M3DBCafe may terminate or restrict your use of our website or mobile app if any user or subscriber violate these website terms of use or are engaged in illegal or fraudulent use of the service.

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of M3DBCafe.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on M3DBCafe, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that M3DBCafe has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

M3DBCafe'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.

Online Privacy Policy Only

Our Privacy Policy created at GDPRPrivacyPolicy.net 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 M3DBCafe. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We are a Data Controller of your information. M3DBCafe legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

  • M3DBCafe needs to perform a contract with you.
  • You have given M3DBCAFE permission to do so
  • Processing your personal information is in M3DBCAFE legitimate interests
  • M3DBCAFE needs to comply with the law

M3DBCAFE will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information, we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right of restriction.
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to withdraw consent

Log Files

M3DBCAFE 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.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, M3DBCafe 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.

For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies".

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

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 m3db.com 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

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.

M3DBCafe 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.

Content

All the content of this portal shall be published only after careful evaluation by the editorial team to ensure accuracy, authenticity, and factuality. However, M3DBCafe bears no responsibility for news items sourced from third-party points. All legislations about the content will be under the jurisdiction of the Courts of Kerala.

Copyright

All content – text/ video/ audio, trademarks –, copyright, patents, logos, domain names and other related intellectual property rights or other features of our brand belong to M3DBCAFE Pvt. Ltd. or its designated licensors. User may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish in any other form, display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, enter into a database, transmit or in any way exploit any part of our site.

User Content

The users can interact with the team and submit, post and/or upload content such as comments and pictures. In posting such content, user confirms to the company that he/she is the owner or have consent from the owner to post the content and that the content complies with our content guidelines and does not defame any person, company or business or violate the privacy rights, copyright and other intellectual property rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. The user may acknowledge that M3DBCafe shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, techniques, know-how contained in any Content posted/uploaded by the user, for any purpose including but not limited to publicity, promotion, advertising, developing/marketing products or use such information without compensation or any other obligations to anyone.

Personal Information

For identifying the consumer base and improving news dissemination, we collect and process some or all of the following type of information in the course of you using our services. It includes (a) data supplied by users and (b) data automatically tracked while navigation (c) data collected from social media networks (d) data collected by any other sources.

Advertisements

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt-out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Termination of Service

M3DBCafe reserves the right to terminate access to the website for any reason and to take any other actions that the M3DBCafe, in its sole discretion, believes to be in the interest of the company and some or all of its users and customers.

Legal Consent

By using the website, you are notifying that you agree to this privacy policy.

All disputes regarding the users’ privacy may redirect to the Grievance Officer at grievance@m3dbcafe.com