Privacy Policy
Last Updated: [June 2025]
Introduction
Welcome to maslaes.com (“we”,
“us”, or “our”). We are committed to
protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect,
use, share, and protect your personal information when you use our
website maslaes.com (the “Site”). It
is designed to comply with Indian data privacy laws, including the
Information Technology Act, 2000, and the rules framed thereunder, as
well as any applicable regulations under the Personal Data Protection
Bill, 2023. We also follow applicable requirements of major technology
and advertising platforms (Google, Meta/Facebook, Amazon,
Microsoft/Bing, TikTok, etc.) regarding data use for analytics and
marketing. Please read this Policy carefully to understand our
practices.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal information from
you (directly or via automated means) when you use our Site:
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Identifiers: e.g. name, username, email address,
account ID, or similar identifiers you provide.
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Contact Information: e.g. email address, telephone
number, or mailing address (if you choose to provide them).
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Device and Internet Activity: e.g. IP address,
device identifiers, cookie IDs, browser type, operating system,
browsing history, and usage information about how you interact with
our Site.
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Geolocation Data: general location inferred from
your IP address or device settings (we do not collect precise GPS
coordinates unless you explicitly allow it).
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Commercial Information: e.g. records of products or
services purchased, obtained, or considered, if applicable, and
other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
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Preferences and Other Information: any preferences,
feedback, or other personal information you provide through our Site
(such as through forms or profile settings).
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Sensitive Personal Information: We do not actively
collect sensitive personal data (such as financial account info,
precise health or biometric data, etc.) unless necessary for a
specific purpose. If we ever need to collect sensitive information,
we will do so only with your consent or as otherwise permitted by
law, and we will limit the use and disclosure of that information as
required (you also have the right to limit our use of such sensitive
data under certain laws).
Note: We do not knowingly collect personal information from
children under the age of 18. Our Site is not intended for users under
18, and if you are under 18, please do not provide any information. If
we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 18,
we will delete it as required by applicable laws.
How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:
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Providing and Improving the Service: To operate the
Site and provide you with the features and services you request. We
also use data to understand how users interact with our Site, to
debug and improve the functionality and performance of our services.
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Communication: To respond to your inquiries,
provide customer support, send administrative or account-related
messages (e.g. password resets, updates to terms or policies), and
send you information about features or offerings if you have
subscribed to such communications.
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Personalization: To remember your settings and
preferences, personalize your experience on our Site, and present
content tailored to your interests.
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Analytics and Development: To analyze usage of our
Site (including through the use of third-party analytics tools) so
we can understand trends and user needs, and to develop new
features, products or services, or improve existing ones.
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Marketing and Advertising: To provide you with
marketing communications (where permitted by law) and to serve you
advertisements on our Site or on third-party platforms (such as
Google, Facebook/Meta, Bing, TikTok) that are tailored to your
interests. We may use and share information with advertising
partners to deliver personalized ads, as described in the “Cookies
and Tracking Technologies” section below.
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Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect our Site,
investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions, unauthorized
access, hacking, malware, or other illegal activities, and to ensure
the physical and digital security of our operations.
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Legal Compliance: To comply with our legal and
regulatory obligations, such as responding to valid legal process
(subpoenas, court orders), enforcing our Terms of Service, or
protecting our rights (or the rights of others) and safety.
How We Share Your Information
We value your privacy and do not sell your personal information to
third parties for money. However, we may share or disclose your
information in the following situations (in accordance with applicable
privacy laws):
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Service Providers: We share personal information
with trusted third-party service providers or contractors who
perform services on our behalf, such as hosting our website, data
analytics, customer support, email delivery, or other technical
operations. These service providers are contractually obligated to
use your information only for the purposes of providing services to
us and to protect your information with appropriate security
measures.
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Advertising and Analytics Partners: We use
third-party analytics and advertising partners (including, for
example, Google Analytics, Google Ads/AdSense, Meta (Facebook)
Pixel, Microsoft Advertising/Bing Ads, Amazon Ads, TikTok Pixel, and
others) to understand how our Site is used and to assist in our
marketing efforts. These partners may collect information via
cookies and similar technologies on our Site in order to provide
aggregated analytics or to serve you targeted advertisements on our
behalf on other platforms. For instance, Google may use cookies to
serve ads based on your prior visits to maslaes.com, and its use of
advertising cookies enables itself and its partners to serve ads to
you based on your visits to this Site and other sites on the
Internet. Similarly, we may use the Facebook Pixel which allows
Facebook to collect or receive information from our Site and other
internet locations to provide measurement services and target ads.
As required by Facebook’s terms, we hereby notify you that third
parties (including Facebook) may use cookies, web beacons, and
similar storage technologies to collect or receive information from
our Site and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to
provide measurement services and target ads. These third-party
companies will have access to certain information about you (such as
device identifiers, browsing activity, and usage data) under their
own privacy policies. We do not permit these third parties to
collect sensitive personal data from our Site, and we contractually
require them to comply with privacy laws when handling any personal
information obtained from us.
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Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger,
acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy,
receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to
another provider, your information may be transferred to a successor
or affiliate as part of that transaction.
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Legal and Safety Disclosures: We may disclose
personal information if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a
legal obligation or respond to lawful requests or legal process,
(ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) act in urgent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or
the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
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With Your Consent: We may share your personal
information for other purposes not listed here if you have asked us
to do so or have given explicit consent.
Note on “Sale” of Personal Information: We do not exchange
your personal data for money. However, the definition of “sale” under
some laws includes sharing personal information with third parties for
targeted advertising or other valuable consideration. In the context
of digital advertising on our Site, some data sharing (for example,
with advertising partners to serve personalized ads) could be
considered a “sale” or “sharing” under those laws. We only engage in
such data sharing as permitted by law and as described above, and you
have the right to opt out of these practices as described in the next
section.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We and our partners use cookies, beacons, pixels, and similar tracking
technologies (“cookies”) on our Site to provide,
personalize, analyze, and improve our services, as well as to deliver
relevant advertisements. When you visit maslaes.com, we or our
third-party providers may set cookies on your browser that capture
information about your activity.
Types of cookies we use include:
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Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the Site
to function properly (e.g., to remember your login or preferences).
You cannot opt out of these as the Site won’t work properly without
them.
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Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand
how visitors use our Site. For example, we use Google Analytics to
collect information about usage of our Site. Google Analytics may
collect information such as your IP address, browser type, pages
visited, time spent on pages, and referring URLs. Google uses this
data to provide us with reports and analysis. We use this
information to analyze trends and improve the Site. Google may also
use the data it collects to improve its own services. (For more
details on how Google collects and processes data when you use sites
like ours, see Google’s “How Google uses data from sites or apps
that use our services” in Google’s Privacy & Terms.) If you
wish, you can opt out of Google Analytics by using the Google
Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provided by Google.
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Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to
deliver advertisements relevant to you. They work by uniquely
identifying your browser and device. Our advertising partners (such
as Google, Facebook/Meta, Bing, Amazon, TikTok, and others) may set
advertising cookies to track your browsing activity on our Site and
other websites, so that they can show you ads that are more likely
to interest you. For example, Google’s advertising cookies allow it
and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site
and other sites on the Internet. These cookies might also be used to
limit the number of times you see an ad and to measure the
effectiveness of advertising campaigns. We do not serve personalized
ads to users where it is not permitted by law (for instance, we do
not target or personalize ads based on sensitive personal data or to
children under 16).
Your choices: On your first visit to our Site (and
periodically thereafter), you may be presented with a cookie consent
banner or tool to manage your cookie preferences. You can choose to
accept or reject certain cookies (except strictly necessary cookies).
You can also control cookies through your browser settings — for
example, you can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to
delete them. However, please note that if you block or delete cookies,
some features of our Site may not function correctly. For more
information about cookies and how to manage them, you can visit
AllAboutCookies.org.
Global Privacy Control (GPC): We honor “Do Not Sell
or Share” signals, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, as
required by applicable law. If your browser or device is configured to
send a GPC signal, our Site will recognize it as an opt-out request
for the sale or sharing of your personal information. See the
Your Privacy Rights section below for more
on how to exercise your opt-out rights.
Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on your residence, you may have certain rights regarding
your personal information. maslaes.com is committed to honoring the
rights of consumers as provided by law in India and any applicable
regulations. These rights may include:
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Right to Know/Access: You have the right to know
what personal information we have collected about you, and to
request access to that information. This includes the right to
request that we disclose the categories of personal information we
have collected, the categories of sources of that information, the
business or commercial purposes for collecting it, the categories of
third parties with whom we share it, and specific pieces of personal
information we hold about you. Upon verification of your identity,
we will provide the required information as mandated by law.
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Right to Delete: You have the right to request
deletion of the personal information we have collected from you.
Upon receiving and verifying a valid deletion request, we will
delete your personal information from our records (and direct our
service providers to do the same), unless retaining the information
is necessary for us or our service providers to complete a
transaction you requested, detect security incidents, comply with a
legal obligation, or other limited exceptions allowed by law.
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Right to Correct: You have the right to request
that we correct inaccuracies in your personal information. If any
personal data we maintain about you is inaccurate or outdated, you
may request a correction, and upon verification we will correct it
as required.
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Right to Data Portability: You have the right to
obtain a copy of the personal information you provided to us, in a
portable and (to the extent technically feasible) readily usable
format, so that you can transmit it to another entity. In many
cases, this right is included as part of your right of access.
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Right to Opt-Out of “Sale” or Sharing of Personal
Information:
You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal
information or the sharing of your personal information for targeted
advertising purposes. This means if we engage in data exchanges that
are considered “sales” or “sharing” under the law, you can tell us
to stop. To exercise this right, you can use the “Do Not Sell or
Share My Personal Information” link on our Site (if available) or
contact us as provided below. We also honor browser-based opt-out
signals like the Global Privacy Control (GPC) as an opt-out of
sales/sharing.
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Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising: You have
the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for
purposes of targeted advertising. We will honor requests from you to
opt out of online tracking for advertising purposes. This opt-out
can be accomplished by using the same methods as the “Do Not Sell or
Share” above.
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Right to Opt-Out of Profiling: You have the right
to opt out of any “profiling” in furtherance of decisions that
produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. We do
not engage in automated decision-making or profiling that produces
legal or similarly significant effects on consumers. In other words,
we do not use your personal data to make solely automated decisions
about you that could seriously affect you – such as decisions about
financial services, housing, insurance, or employment eligibility –
without human involvement.
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Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information:
If we collect any information that is considered “sensitive personal
information” under applicable laws, you have the right to request
that we limit the use or disclosure of that sensitive information to
the purposes authorized by law. We will honor such requests.
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Right to Non-Discrimination/No Retaliation: We will
not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy
rights. This means, for example, we will not deny you goods or
services, charge you a different price, or provide a different level
of quality of service just because you exercised your rights under a
privacy law.
How to Exercise Your Rights: To exercise any of the
applicable rights described above, please contact us by using the
information in the “Contact Us” section of this Policy below. Please
specify which right you are seeking to exercise and provide us with
enough information to verify your identity (for example, by providing
identifying details we may already have, like your email address or
account info). We will respond to your request within the timeframe
required by law.
Authorized Agents: You may designate an authorized
agent to make a privacy rights request on your behalf. If you choose
to use an authorized agent, we will take steps to verify the agent’s
authority and also verify your identity directly, unless the agent has
a legally sufficient power of attorney. Please have the authorized
agent contact us with proof of their authorization and your identity.
Global Privacy Control: As noted above, we treat
browser or device signals such as the Global Privacy Control as valid
opt-out requests for the sale or sharing of personal data. You do not
need to make a separate request to opt out of sale/sharing if you have
GPC enabled on your browser; the signal will be processed
automatically by our Site.
No Automated Decision-Making
maslaes.com does not use personal information for automated
decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly
significant effects on consumers. In other words, we do not make any
purely algorithmic decisions about you that would substantially affect
your rights or interests without human review. All important decisions
involving your personal information are subject to human intervention.
If this practice changes in the future, we will update this Privacy
Policy to reflect that and to explain your rights regarding such
processing.
Data Security
We implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect
the personal information we collect from unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include
technical, administrative, and physical safeguards that are designed
to protect the integrity and security of data. For example, we use
encryption and secure protocols to transmit sensitive data where
appropriate, maintain firewalls and access controls on our systems,
and limit access to personal data to employees and contractors on a
need-to-know basis. However, please be aware that no method of
transmitting or storing data is completely secure, and while we strive
to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
You should also take steps to protect your information by, for
instance, keeping your account credentials private and logging out of
the Site after your sessions.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to
fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, or to satisfy legal,
accounting, or reporting requirements. In determining retention
periods, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data,
the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the
purposes of processing, and whether we can achieve those purposes
through other means. We also consider applicable legal requirements
(for example, certain laws may require us to keep transactional
records for a certain time). Under Indian law, we are required to
state that we do not keep your data longer than is reasonably
necessary and proportionate to the purpose for which it was collected.
When personal information is no longer needed, we will either delete
it or anonymize it (so that it can no longer be associated with you),
unless we are required by law to keep it for a longer period.
International Data Transfers
maslaes.com is based in the United States. If you are accessing our
Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your
information will be transferred to and processed in the United States
and possibly other countries. These countries may have data protection
laws that are different from those in your country of residence (and,
in some cases, may not be as protective). We have taken appropriate
safeguards to require that your personal information will remain
protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This includes
implementing standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for data transfers
where required and, where applicable, relying on recognized transfer
mechanisms to legally transfer data across borders. We also comply
with other cross-border data transfer requirements as needed. By using
our Site or providing us with information, you acknowledge the
transfer of your personal data to the United States or other
jurisdictions as described in this Policy.
Third-Party Links and Services
Our Site may contain links to websites, content, or services that are
hosted or provided by third parties (for example, links to our pages
on services like LinkedIn, Facebook, X (Twitter), or other external
websites). If you click on those links or otherwise engage with
third-party services, you will be interacting with the third party,
not maslaes.com. This Privacy Policy only applies to maslaes.com and
our own Site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy
practices of third-party websites to which our Site links, and we
encourage you to read the privacy policies of those third-party
websites before providing any information to them or through them.
Inclusion of a link to a third-party site or service is for your
convenience and does not imply that we endorse or have reviewed the
third party’s policies or practices.
Platform-Specific Disclosures
Additional notices for certain platforms or data practices:
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Google Services: If our Site integrates with Google
services (such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, or YouTube embeds),
note that Google may collect information as described in their
Google Privacy & Terms for partner sites. We adhere to Google’s policies for data protection. For example,
Google Analytics data is used only for analytics and is not shared
with other Google services unless we have enabled such features. We
also utilize Google’s
ads data protection terms
as applicable, and Google has announced that as of July 1, 2023, it
operates as a separate business (not a service provider) for certain
ad processing, which means certain data transfers for personalized
advertising might be considered a “sale” under applicable laws
unless restricted. We have configured our use of Google advertising
services to comply with state privacy laws (including offering
opt-outs and honoring restricted data processing modes when
applicable).
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Facebook (Meta) Services: If we use Facebook
technologies such as the Facebook Pixel, Custom Audiences, or
Facebook Login, please be aware that Meta Platforms, Inc. may
collect certain information from our Site (as described above under
Advertising Cookies). Facebook’s use of that information is governed
by the
Facebook Data Policy. We do not provide Facebook with sensitive personal data via these
tools. Facebook requires us to ensure that we have a lawful basis
for the data collection and that we disclose how users can opt out
of the collection and use of information for ad targeting (see
“Cookies and Tracking Technologies” and “Your Privacy Rights”
sections above for those opt-out options).
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Amazon and Other Advertising Partners: If we
participate in Amazon’s advertising programs or other ad networks,
those partners may use cookies or similar tools on our Site to track
performance of ads and user interactions. We comply with any
platform-specific requirements, such as disclosing our use of
Amazon’s pixels or scripts if present. Users can opt out of
personalized ads from many of these providers via the
DAA’s opt-out page or
the
NAI’s opt-out tool, as well as through the settings provided by those platforms (for
example, Amazon’s Advertising Preferences).
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Microsoft/Bing Services: If we utilize Microsoft
Advertising (Bing Ads) or Microsoft clarity analytics, Microsoft may
collect certain data through our Site via cookies or similar
tracking. Such data is subject to Microsoft’s
Privacy Statement. You can opt out of Microsoft’s personalized ads by visiting their
opt-out page.
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TikTok Pixel: If we use the TikTok Pixel on our
Site for advertising or analytics, TikTok Technology Ltd. may
collect information (such as pages viewed, clicks, and identifiers)
as you use our Site. This information may be used to show you our
ads on TikTok or to measure ad effectiveness. See TikTok’s
Privacy Policy
for details on how they handle collected data. You can control
personalized ads on TikTok through your TikTok app settings and via
TikTok’s privacy settings.
We are committed to complying with the policies and requirements of
all third-party platforms we use, especially regarding the handling of
personal data for analytics and advertising. If you have any specific
questions about our use of a particular platform or service, you can
contact us for more information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes
in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or for other
operational reasons. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last
Updated” date at the top of this Policy. If changes are material, we
will provide a more prominent notice (such as by posting a notice on
our Site or emailing you, if appropriate). We encourage you to review
this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are
protecting your information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this
Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at
Contact information is available in the website footer. You may reach out via email or postal mail (or other offered
methods) once we provide a dedicated contact address. Please include
your name and contact information, and describe the nature of your
inquiry or request. We will do our best to respond promptly.
Data Controller Details
Contact information is available in the website footer. If operating
as a data controller, provide the name and contact details of the data
protection officer; otherwise, include the primary contact for
privacy-related inquiries.
Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
consent, performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations,
protection of vital interests, public task, and legitimate interests.
Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age
of 18. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a
child without parental consent, we will take steps to delete such
information.
Grievance Redressal Mechanism
If you have any grievances regarding our privacy practices, you can
contact us at the email address provided in the website footer. We
will address your concerns within a reasonable timeframe.