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Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. The use of our Website assumes that you have read, you understand, and agree with our privacy policy.

For the purpose of this privacy policy, ''you'' and ''your'' refers to any visitor of stories.sunstone.in, and ''user'' refers to a non-registered visitor of stories.sunstone.in. ''We'' and ''us'' refers to the staff of stories.sunstone.in. ''Outside parties'' refers to individuals and organizations not owned or operated by stories.sunstone.in.

Sharing
Your personally identifiable information is not retained, shared, stored or used by our third-party service providers, except in cases where the user has voluntarily signed up for their services. These third-party service providers are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Responsibility of Use
stories.sunstone.in is not responsible for user information collected by outside parties while visiting stories.sunstone.in. This includes information you voluntarily disclose through the use of forums, chats, and e-mail, and information obtained through the use of links on our website.

Offsite Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that stories.sunstone.in is not responsible for the privacy practices of the sites to which we are linked. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of websites they visit.

Third-party Advertising and Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user''s computer by the user''s web browser while the user is browsing. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.

We use Google and Pinterest tools and web analytics services like Google Analytics. They may save cookies on your browser with the purpose of analyzing website performance and enhancing user experience. They are not linked to any personally identifiable information. We may use other types of local storage that function like cookies. Your browser may allow you to disable its local storage, disable cookies, delete the contents of its local storage or delete cookies.

Third party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. For serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize cookies on your browser. We have no access to or control over the cookies used by our third-party advertisers. To opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising, you may visit those websites.

Rights Pertaining to CCPA

The CCPA provides California residents with certain rights about their personal information. Given here is the description of these rights and how to exercise them.


Right to Request Access

You have the right to request for access to your personal information collected by us. We are obligated to give you the access within 45 days of your request. The information you can request access to, includes:

  • Categories of personal information collected about you.
  • Categories of sources of personal information collected.
  • Purpose of collecting personal information.
  • Categories of third parties (if any) that we shared your personal information with.

Right to Request Deletion

You have the right to request for deletion of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. After a deletion request is received, we will delete your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may have to deny your request for deletion if the information is necessary for us to:

  • Complete a transaction, take actions in context of our business or perform our contract with you.
  • Detect security incidents, or protect against a malicious or illegal activity.
  • Debug to identify errors that hamper a desired functionality.
  • Exercise any right that is provided for, by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
  • Use in research in the public interest that adheres to ethics and privacy laws, and for which you had earlier provided consent.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Make internal, lawful use of the information related to the context in which you provided it.

Processing of Your Requests for Information Access or Deletion

  • Your request should provide sufficient information that allows us to verify your identity.
  • Your request should provide sufficient details that allow us to understand and respond to it.
  • Your requests for access or deletion of information will be processed within 45 days of receipt. If we may take more than 45 days, you will be informed in writing.
  • We will not be able to process your request if we cannot verify your identity and confirm that the personal information is related to you.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless allowed by the CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you services.
  • Charge you different prices.
  • Give you a different quality of services.
  • Suggest that a different price or quality of service may apply to you.

Notification of Policy Changes

Should our privacy policy change, a notification will be posted on stories.sunstone.in.

Terms of Service

The terms of service constitute an agreement between you ("You") and stories.sunstone.in. The following are the terms and conditions for use of stories.sunstone.in services, (each feature individually and collectively referred to as the ''Service''). Please read the TOS carefully.

The Service is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein.

1. MEMBER PRIVACY
For information about member privacy at stories.sunstone.in, please read our Privacy Policy.

2. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES
We do not warrant any products, services, or content.
stories.sunstone.in does not sell any products or services, and so, does not warrant any products or services. It also does not warrant its content.
The content from or through stories.sunstone.in is provided ''as-is'', and all warranties, express or implied, are disclaimed (including but not limited to the disclaimer of any implied warranties or merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.) The information and electronic files provided by stories.sunstone.in may contain errors, omissions, bugs, viruses, or other limitations. stories.sunstone.in assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors, omissions, bugs, viruses, or other limitations on its website.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless stories.sunstone.in and its affiliates, licensors, content and service providers, participating publishers, authors, dealers, and suppliers harmless from any liability, loss, claim and expense, including attorney''s fees and expenses, related to the use of its website.
We assume no liability for hyperlinks.
stories.sunstone.in does not assume any liability for the products, services, or content of other websites linked to its website.
No links at stories.sunstone.in are endorsements of any products, services, or content on other websites. Visitors to stories.sunstone.in agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless stories.sunstone.in and its affiliates, licensors, content and service providers, participating publishers, authors, dealers, and suppliers harmless from any liability, loss, claim and expense, including attorney''s fees and expenses, related to the links on its website.
You agree that stories.sunstone.in shall not be responsible or liable for any unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, any material or data sent or received or not sent or received, or any transactions entered into through the Service.
You agree that stories.sunstone.in is not responsible or liable for any threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive, or illegal content or conduct of any other party or any infringement of another''s rights, including intellectual property rights.
IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SERVICE.

3. TERMINATION
stories.sunstone.in may terminate any user''s access to any part or all of the Service and any related services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, for any reason whatsoever.

4. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS TO CONTENT
You acknowledge that content, including but not limited to text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics, or other material contained in either sponsor advertisements or electronically distributed, commercially produced information presented to you by the Service, by stories.sunstone.in, or stories.sunstone.in''s content and technology providers, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, or other proprietary rights and laws. You may make a copy of this content for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you keep all copyright and other proprietary notices intact. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute in any way content available through the Service and its associated websites, including code and software.

5. MODIFICATIONS TO TERMS OF SERVICE, MEMBER POLICIES
stories.sunstone.in reserves the right to change the TOS or policies regarding the use of the Service at any time, and to notify you by posting an updated version of the TOS on this website. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the TOS. Continued use of the Service after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.

6. GENERAL
Any dispute that may arise between you and stories.sunstone.in shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in India, except to the extent that you may have violated or threatened to violate the intellectual property rights of stories.sunstone.in. In such cases, stories.sunstone.in may seek injunctive relief or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court.
In all other cases, you and stories.sunstone.in shall submit disputes to arbitration under the rules of the arbitration law. The arbitrator''s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The use of the Service is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and stories.sunstone.in as a result of this agreement or use of the Service. stories.sunstone.in''s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal processes, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of stories.sunstone.in''s right to comply with governmental, court, and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Service or information provided to or gathered by stories.sunstone.in with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and stories.sunstone.in with respect to the Service (excluding the use of any software which may be subject to an end-user license agreement), and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral, or written, between the user and stories.sunstone.in with respect to the Service. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

ANY RIGHTS NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTED HEREIN ARE RESERVED.

Trademarks

stories.sunstone.in and related logos and icons are claimed as trademarks or trade dress of stories.sunstone.in These trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service other than those offered or provided by stories.sunstone.in, in any manner that we believe is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that we believe disparages or discredits stories.sunstone.in. All trademarks not owned by stories.sunstone.in that appear on this website are the sole property of their respective owners.

Disclaimer

We do not warrant any products, services, or content
stories.sunstone.in does not sell or warrant any products, services, or content.
The content from or through stories.sunstone.in is for general information purpose only. We do not warrant its completeness, reliability or accuracy. We are not liable or responsible for any errors or other limitations in the website.
Visitors to stories.sunstone.in agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless stories.sunstone.in and its affiliates, licensors, content and service providers, participating publishers, authors, dealers and suppliers from any liability, loss, claim and expense (including attorney''s fees and expenses) related to the use of its website.

We assume no liability for hyperlinks
stories.sunstone.in does not assume any liability for the products, services or content of other websites linked to its website.
No links at stories.sunstone.in are endorsements of any products or services. Visitors to stories.sunstone.in agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless stories.sunstone.in and its affiliates, licensors, content and service providers, participating publishers, authors, dealers, and suppliers from any liability, loss, claim and expense (including attorney''s fees and expenses) related to the links of its website.

We agree to be bound by the laws applicable in India
stories.sunstone.in and its visitors, by visiting its website, agree that the law of India, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern any dispute that might arise between stories.sunstone.in and its visitors.
Any dispute that may arise between stories.sunstone.in and its visitors shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in India, except to the extent that visitors may have violated or threatened to violate the intellectual property rights of stories.sunstone.in. In such cases, stories.sunstone.in may seek injunctive relief or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court.
In all other cases, stories.sunstone.in and its visitors shall submit their disputes for arbitration under the rules of arbitration law. The arbitrator''s award shall be binding, and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.