Pakistan Property Consultant 360 (PPC 360).
This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains the policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of your information by Pakistan Property Consultants (PPC 360)and/or its subsidiary(ies) and/or affiliate(s) (collectively referred to as the “Company”), which operates various websites, including sub-sites, platforms, applications, m-web platforms and other platforms (collectively referred to as “Sites”) for delivery of information, products, offerings and content via any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise (collectively the “Services”).
This Policy forms part and parcel of the Terms of Use and other terms on the Site (“Terms of Use”). Capitalized terms that have been used here but are undefined shall have the same meaning as attributed to them in the Terms of Use. This policy is effective from the date and time a user registers with the Site and accepts the terms and conditions laid out in the Site. Please read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use carefully before using our Services.
PPC 360 respects the privacy of its users and is committed to protecting it in all respects. To offer its users the most enriching and holistic internet experience, PPC 360 provides a vast repository of Online Sites and various community services. The information about the user as collected by PPC 360 is (a) information supplied by users and (b) information automatically tracked while navigating (Information).
By using the PPC 360 website or its services, you consent to the collection, storage, use, transfer, share, and distribution of the personal information you provide (including any changes thereto as provided by you) for any of our services.
1. Information Received, Collected, And Stored by The Company
A. Information Supplied By Users
Registration/Contact data
When you register or make contact on the Sites for the Service, we ask you to provide basic contact information such as your name, sex, age, address, pin code, contact number, occupation, interests, email address, etc. When you register using your other accounts like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter (X), Gmail, etc., we shall retrieve Information from such accounts to continue interacting with you and providing the Services.
Subscription or paid service data
When you choose any subscription or paid service provided as part of our Services, we or our payment gateway provider may collect your purchase, address, or billing information, including your credit card number and expiration date. However, when you order using an in-app purchase option on any of the Company’s applications, such mobile operating system platform providers handle the same. The subscriptions or paid Services may be on auto renewal mode unless canceled. If at any point you do not wish to auto-renew your subscription, you may cancel your subscription before the end of the subscription term.
Voluntary information
We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to when you provide feedback or comments, change your content or email preferences, respond to a survey, or any communications with us.
2. Information Automatically Collected/ Tracked While Navigation
Cookies
To improve the responsiveness of the Sites for our Users, we may use “cookies” or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the User’s interests using the identified computer or device. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer or device. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or device. Our advertisers may also assign their cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads, etc.), a process we do not control. We receive and store certain types of Information whenever you interact with us via Site or Service through your computer/laptop/netbook or mobile/tablet/pad/handheld device, etc.
Opting out
If a User opts out using the Ads Settings, the unique DoubleClick cookie ID on the User’s browser is overwritten with the phrase “OPT_OUT.” Because there is no longer a unique cookie ID, the opt-out cookie can’t be associated with a particular browser.
Log File Information
When you visit our site, application, or service, we automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet and mobile number, including your IP address. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data — such as the pages you view. We automatically receive and log information from your browser, including your IP address, computer’s name, operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed. We may also collect log information from your device, including your location, IP address, your device’s name, device’s serial number or unique identification number (e.g., UDiD on your iOS device), your device operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed, etc.
Clear GIFs
We may use “clear GIFs” (Web Beacons) to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously, without personally identifying the User. We may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our Users to track which emails recipients open. We use this information to inter-alia deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our Sites or Services to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our Sites to improve the quality, functionality, and interactivity of our Sites and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our Users come without personally identifying the Users.
3. Information from other sources
We may receive information about you from other sources, add it to our account information, and treat it per this Policy. If you provide information to the platform provider or other partner with whom we provide services, your account information and order information may be passed on to us.
Demographic and other information
We may reference other sources of demographic and other information to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics, among others, to track the user behavior on our Sites. Google Analytics has explicitly been enabled to support display advertising to help us gain an understanding of our users’ demographics and interests. The reports are anonymous and cannot be associated with any personally identifiable information you may have shared with us. You can opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings options Google provides.
Links to third-party sites/ad-servers
The Sites may include links to other websites or applications. Such websites or applications are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide is governed by the operator’s privacy policy of the application you are visiting. That privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the application’s homepage, you should contact the application owners directly for more information.
When we present Information to our advertisers — to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Sites — it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages/content within our Sites. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Sites. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or other personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other websites or applications to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
We do not provide personally identifiable information to third party websites/advertisers/ad-servers without your consent.
Information used by company
The information supplied by the users enables us to improve the Services and provide you with the most user-friendly experience. In some cases/provision of specific service(s) or utility (ies), we may also require your contact address. All the necessary Information is service-dependent, and the Company may use the above-mentioned user Information to maintain, protect, and improve the Services (including advertising and personalization on the Sites) and develop new services. We may also use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages about our Services and/or additional updates and features about third-party products and services with an option to subscribe / unsubscribe (where feasible). We may, however, use your email address for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of significant changes for customer service purposes, billing, etc.).
Any personally identifiable information you provide will not be considered sensitive if it is freely available and / or accessible in the public domain, like any comments, messages, blogs, or scribbles available on social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), LinkedIn and TikTok, etc.
Any posted/uploaded/conveyed/communicated by users on the public sections of the Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Policy.
If you decline to submit personally identifiable information on the Sites, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will try to notify you of the same when opening your account. In any case, we will not be liable and/or responsible for denying certain services to you because you did not provide the necessary personal information.
When you register with the Sites or Services, we contact you from time to time about updating your personal information to provide the Users with such features that we believe may benefit/interest you.
4. How collected data is used?
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Sites or Services. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone number, or any personally identifiable information) about your visits or use of a particular website, mobile application, or services to advertise goods and services of interest to you. PPC 360 also allows advertisers and creators to serve advertisements directly, using Times Internet Limited’s ad-serving technologies.
5. Information Sharing
- Personal information will allow you to log in to your account on the Site or to resolve specific service issues, inform you of our new services or features, and communicate with you about your use of the Site. Any other information collected will be used for business purposes, and this may include the User’s viewing or advertising of residential or commercial real estate, rental properties, or use of associated services; analytical purposes, data usage; improving the Site or user experience; and providing targeted advertisements to you.
The Company shares your Information with any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the User in the following limited circumstances.
1. The Company proposes to share such Information to conduct its business and to share such Information with its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies to process personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such Information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
2. The Company proposes to share such Information to conduct its business and to share such Information with its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies to process personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such Information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
3. The Company may present Information to our advertisers and third parties – to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Sites – however, it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.
4. The Company may share your Information regarding your activities on Sites with third-party social websites to populate your social wall that is visible to other people; however, you will have the option to set your privacy settings, where you can decide what you would like to share or not to share with others.
5. We may share your Information to enforce or protect our rights or any or all of its affiliates, associates, employees, directors, or officers or when we have reason to believe that disclosing Information of User(s) is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or our Sites, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when such activities could harm anyone else.
6. Your E-mail address is available to other organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting.
7. Customers with registered telephone and WhatsApp numbers coming on our site may receive telephone or text message contact from us with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events.
6. Accessing and Updating Personal Information
When you use the Services or Sites (or any of its sub-sites), we make reasonable faith efforts to provide you, as and when requested by you, with access to your personal information and shall further ensure that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information found to be inaccurate or deficient shall be corrected or amended as feasible, subject to any requirement for such personal information or sensitive personal data or information to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.
7. Information Security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage, processing practices, and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. All information gathered on TIL is securely stored within the Company controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Sites or Services. These companies may use information (excluding your name, address, email address, telephone or WhatsApp number, or any personally identifiable information) about your visits or use of a particular website, mobile application, or services to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
8. Updates / Changes
The internet is an ever-evolving medium. We may alter our Policy occasionally to incorporate necessary changes in technology, applicable law, or any other variant. In any case, we reserve the right to change (at any point in time) the terms of this Policy or the Terms of Use. Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give by posting the new policy on the Sites—your use of the Sites or Services after such information will be deemed acceptance of such changes. We may also make reasonable efforts to inform you via electronic mail. In any case, you are advised to review this Policy periodically on the Sites to ensure you know the latest version.
9. Miscellaneous
Security
We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, we cannot guarantee the protection of any information you share via this website.
Accuracy and Confidentiality of Account Information
Customers are responsible for maintaining the secrecy and accuracy of passwords, email addresses, and other account information. The company is not responsible for any personal data transmitted to a third party due to incorrect account-related information.
Third-Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. Navigating to another website does not make the Company liable for the misuse of any information by any website controller to which we may link. Also, there shall be websites that use our ppc360.pk or pakistanpropertyconsultant360.com search function, and the Company is not liable for content on such websites.
10. Questions / Grievance Redressal
Redressal Mechanism: Any complaints, abuse, or concerns regarding the use, processing, and disclosure of Information provided by you or breach of these terms should immediately be informed to the designated Grievance Officers. The list of respective grievance officers is being provided in Terms of Use in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature to either [email protected] or [email protected] or Mr. Inam Ullah Khan Marwat “Grievance Officer.”
This Privacy Policy is subject to changes. Please periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.