Privacy Policy
BLISSCLUB – PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy agreement was last updated: 10.03.2023.
BlissClub Fitness Private Limited ("Company") values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy ("Policy"), we describe the information that we collect about you when you visit the Company’s platform (“BlissClub”) and use the services available on BlissClub, and how we use and disclose that information.
If you have any questions or comments about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at hi@myblissclub.in. This Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the BlissClub Terms of Use, which can be accessed at https://blissclub.com/policies/terms-of-service. Your use of BlissClub and any personal information you provide on BlissClub remains subject to the terms of the Policy and BlissClub Terms of Use.
In terms of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, any grievance or complaint may be intimated to Ms. Nisi Ann Mary, Grievance Officer, who may be reached at 145 Urban Vault, 5th Main Rd, Sector 6, HSR Layout Bangalore – 560 102 or by email at “grievanceofficer@myblissclub.in”. The complaint shall be redressed within a period of 15 (fifteen) days.
A. Collection of Your Personal Information
- COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal information” is defined to include information that whether on its own or in combination with other information may be used to readily identify or contact you such as: name, email address, phone number etc. or information which is required to initiate a refund/ exchange of the products offered by BlissClub (“BlissClub Products”) such as purchase information, payment details, shipping address etc.
At the time of creating the Account, user data such as name, email ID, etc., shall be collected and the user grants requisite permission for the same. Such information gathered shall be utilized to ensure greater customer satisfaction and help a customer satiate its needs. The type of personal information that we collect from you varies based on your particular interaction with the Company.
We may also collect personal information that you post in your Submitted Content such as profile, feedback, and any comments or discussions you post in any blog, forum, or other correspondence site on BlissClub. The Company reserves the right to record the conversations through the messaging/chat mechanism on the platform. All the chat/messaging logs can be used for but not limited to monitor and prohibit abuse, safeguard the rights of the users, resolve disputes etc.
- COLLECTION OF AUTOMATIC INFORMATION, USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING DEVICES
We and our third-party service providers, which include ad networks, use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of BlissClub, such as your browser type, your ISP or operating system, your domain name, your access time, the URL of the previous website you visited, your page views, your IP address, and the type of device that you use. We also track how frequently you visit BlissClub. We use this information (including the information collected by our third-party service providers) for website analytics (including to determine which portions of BlissClub are used most frequently, what our users like/do not like), to assist us in determining relevant advertising (both on and off our BlissClub), to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns, and as otherwise described in this policy. Currently, we do not honour browser requests not to be tracked.
We may obtain your device ID, which is sent to the Company’s servers and used in fraud prevention efforts.
Cookies: We and our third-party service providers collect information from you by using cookies. A cookie is a small file stored on user's computer hard drive containing information about the user. The cookie helps us analyse web traffic or informs you about your use of a particular website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual, tailoring its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. When you visit BlissClub, we may send one or more cookies (i.e., a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer that identifies your browser.
Some of these cookies may be connected to third-party companies or websites. The terms of use of such cookies are governed by this Policy and the privacy policy of the relevant third-party company or website. For example, Google measures the performance of advertisements by placing cookies on your computer when you click on ads. If you visit BlissClub when you have such cookies on your computer, we and Google will be able to tell that you saw the ad delivered by Google. The terms of use of these cookies are governed by this Policy and Google's Privacy Policy.
Disabling Cookies: You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you disable cookies, you may be prevented from taking full advantage of BlissClub because it may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies: Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer's hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with BlissClub to, among other things, track the activities of BlissClub visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about BlissClub usage. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our Visitors, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded
B. How the Company Uses the Information We Collect
- HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED
We collect your personal information; and aggregate information about the use of BlissClub to better understand your needs and to provide you with a better BlissClub experience. Specifically, we may use your personal information for any of the following reasons:
- To provide our services to you, including registering you for our services, verifying your identity and authority to use our services, and to otherwise enable you to use BlissClub;
- For customer support and to respond to your inquiries;
- For internal record-keeping purposes;
- For shipping and delivery of the BlissClub Products and to initiate return/ exchange and refunds;
- To process billing and payment, including sharing with third party payment gateways in connection with BlissClub;
- To improve and maintain BlissClub (for example, we track information entered through the "Search" function; this helps us determine which areas of BlissClub users like best and areas that we may want to enhance; we also will use for trouble-shooting purposes, where applicable);
- To periodically send promotional emails to the email address you provide regarding new products on BlissClub, special offers on BlissClub or other information about BlissClub that we think you may find interesting;
- To contact you via email, telephone, facsimile or mail, or, where requested, by text message, to deliver certain services or information you have requested;
- For the Company's market research purposes, including, but not limited to, the customization of BlissClub according to your interests;
- We may use your demographic information (i.e., age, and other various data) to more effectively facilitate the promotion of goods and services to appropriate target audiences and for other research and analytical purposes;
- To resolve disputes, to protect ourselves and other users of BlissClub, and to enforce our Terms of Use;
- We also may compare personal information collected through BlissClub to verify its accuracy with personal information collected from third parties; and
- We may combine aggregate data with the personal information we collect about you.
From time to time, the Company may use personal information for new and unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change regarding information previously collected, the Company shall make reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent of any such uses as may be required by law.
It is further clarified that your registration on BlissClub shall be deemed to be your consent to be contacted for the purposes mentioned above, (i) on the mobile number shared by you even if you are registered with the National Customer Preference Register (NCPR) and have opted out of receiving promotional calls and messages and (ii) by way of SMS or email notifications or messages in any other electronic form
C. Electronic Newsletters, Invitations, Polls and Surveys
At our sole discretion, the Company may offer any of the following free services on BlissClub, which you may select to use or receive at your option. Certain of the following services may require you to provide additional personal information as detailed below:
- ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS
We may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. We will gather the email addresses of users who sign up on BlissClub for the newsletter mailing list. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by opting out of receiving newsletters during the registration process, by following the link provided in each newsletter that points users to a subscription management page where the user can unsubscribe from receiving newsletters or by changing their preferences in their profile settings page.
- "SHARE"
BlissClub users can voluntarily choose to electronically forward a link, page, or document to someone else by clicking "send." To do so, the user must provide his or her email address, as well as the email address of the recipient. The user's email address is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
- POLLING
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues, services, and/or BlissClub. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. We may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
- SURVEYS
We may conduct user surveys from time to time to better target our product and services to our BlissClub users via email and/ or whatsapp. We will not share individual responses from these surveys with any third party. By submitting your review via this survey you agree that Blissclub reserves the right to use this review that you submit via the survey on our Website and/ or Application along with your first name to identify the review with. We will share aggregate data with third party service providers, partners, and other third parties. We also may post aggregate data containing survey responses on BlissClub; that data may be viewed and downloaded by other users of BlissClub
D. Security
We employ procedural and technological security measures, which are reasonably designed to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. The Company may use encryption, passwords, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. No security measures, however, are 100% complete. Therefore, we do not promise and cannot guarantee, and thus you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will not be collected and used by others. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. The Company is not responsible for the unauthorized use of your information or for any lost, stolen, compromised passwords, or for any activity on your Account via unauthorized password activity.
Your password is the key to your Account. When creating your password you should use unique numbers, letters, special characters, and combinations thereof. In addition, DO NOT disclose your password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, you are solely responsible for all actions taken via your Account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Thus, IF YOUR PASSWORD HAS BEEN COMPROMISED FOR ANY REASON, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE COMPANY TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD
E. Disclosure
We may share the information that we collect about you, including your personal information, as follows:
- INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO PROTECT US AND OTHERS
We may disclose your information including Personal Information if: (i) the Company reasonably believes that disclosure is necessary in order to comply with a legal process (such as a court order, search warrant, etc.) or other legal requirement of any governmental authority, (ii) disclosure would potentially mitigate our liability in an actual or potential lawsuit, (iii) reasonably necessary to enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use etc. (iv) disclosure is intended to help investigate or prevent unauthorized transactions or other illegal activities, or (v) necessary or appropriate to protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of any person or entity.
- INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS
We may contract with various third parties for the provision and maintenance of BlissClub and our business operations, and the Company may need to share your personal information and data generated by cookies and aggregate information (collectively, "information") with these vendors and service agencies. For example, we may provide your information to a credit card processing company to process your payment. The third parties will not receive any right to use your personal information beyond what is necessary to perform its obligations to provide the services to you. If you complete a survey, we also may share your information with the survey provider; if we offer a survey in conjunction with another entity, we also will disclose the results to that entity.
- DISCLOSURE TO OTHER USERS OF BLISSCLUB
The publicly available information that you post (other than your payment information) is available to other users of BlissClub. Comments that users post to BlissClub also will be available to other visitors to BlissClub (see our discussion of User Generated Content below). In addition, we will post the results (in aggregate form) of surveys to BlissClub.
- INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS UNDER APPLICABLE LAW
We will disclose your information, including, without limitation, your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, user ID history, quoting and listing history, and complaints, to law enforcement or other government officials if we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or otherwise in cooperation with an investigation of a governmental authority.
- IN THE EVENT OF A CHANGE OF CONTROL OR BANKRUPTCY
In the event that the Company undergoes a change in control, including, without limitation, a merger or sale of all or substantially all of the Company's assets to which BlissClub relates or other corporate reorganization in which the Company participates, and is thus merged with or acquired by a third-party entity (a "Successor"), the Company hereby reserves the right to transfer the information we have collected from the users of BlissClub to such Successor.
In addition, in the event of the Company's bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application or laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, the Company may not be able to control how your information is transferred, used, or treated and reserves the right to transfer the information we have collected from the users of BlissClub to non-affiliated third parties in such event.
F. Links to External Websites
BlissClub may contain links to other websites or resources over which the Company does not have any control. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by the Company of those external websites. You acknowledge that the Company is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that the Company is not responsible for the content of such external websites. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such external websites and such sites are not governed by this Policy. Your use of any external website is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy located on the linked to external website
G. Updating, Deleting and Correcting Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
You can review, correct and delete your personal information by logging into BlissClub. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Typically, we will not manually alter your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. Nonetheless, upon your request we will close your Account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible based on your Account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain information from closed Accounts in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations of any Registered User, enforce our Terms of Use, and take any other actions otherwise permitted by law that we deem necessary in our sole and absolute discretion. You should understand, however, that once you publicly post any Submitted Content etc., or any other information onto BlissClub, you may not be able to change or remove it. Once we have deleted or removed your Account, you agree that the Company shall not be responsible for any personal information that was not included within your deleted and/or removed Account that remains on BlissClub
H. What Choices Do I Have Regarding Use of My Personal Information?
We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your Account or any services you have requested or received from us.
I. User Generated Content
We invite you to post content on BlissClub, including your comments, feedback, pictures, and any other information that you would like to be available on BlissClub. If you post content to BlissClub, all of the information that you post will be available to all visitors to BlissClub, unless the same has been done anonymously in accordance with BlissClub features. If you post your own content on BlissClub, your posting may become public and the Company cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.
J. Privacy Policy Updates
THIS POLICY IS CURRENT AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE SET FORTH ABOVE. THE COMPANY MAY, IN ITS SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, CHANGE THIS POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME BY UPDATING THIS DOCUMENT. THE COMPANY WILL POST ITS UPDATED POLICY ON BLISSCLUB ON THIS PAGE. THE COMPANY ENCOURAGES YOU TO REVIEW THIS POLICY REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF BLISSCLUB AND/OR CONTINUED PROVISION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THE THEN-CURRENT POLICY.