Who we are

We are Refinería, a proprietorship. This document outlines our Privacy Policy.

Introduction: Privacy Policy

The terms “We” / “Us” / “Our”/”Company” individually and collectively refer to Philip Pathiyathe Eapen (with trade name Refinería). The terms “You” /”Your” / “Yourself” refer to the users.

This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the IT Act, 2000. The rules made thereunder and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents / records in various statutes as amended by the IT Act, 2000. It does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature.

This Policy is a legally binding document between you and Philip Pathiyathe Eapen (both terms defined below). The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the same (directly or indirectly in electronic form, by clicking on the I accept tab or by use of the website or by other means) and will govern the relationship between you and Philip Pathiyathe Eapen for your use of the website (“Website” defined below).

We published this document in accordance with the rules (reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data of information) under Information Technology Act, 2000; the statute requires publishing of Privacy Policy for collection, use, storage and transfer of sensitive personal data or information.

By providing us your information or by making use of the facilities provided by the website, you hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of any or all of Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information by us as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such collection, use, storage and transfer of your information shall not cause any loss or wrongful gain to you or any other person.

Privacy of User Information

To use certain services on our website, we may require users to provide certain information for the registration process. a) Your name; b) email address; c) sex; d) age; e) PIN code; f) credit card or debit card details; g) medical records and history; h) sexual orientation; i) bio-metric information; j) password etc., and / or your occupation, interests, and the like. The Information users supply enables us to improve our sites and provide a user-friendly experience.

All required information is dependent on the kind of service. We may use user information to maintain, protect, and improve services (including advertising services), and for developing new services. Such information will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force.

Privacy and 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 individual interests using the Identified Computer. 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. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply (an example of this is when you ask for our Personalized Horoscope). A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control.

Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data — such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.

Privacy & Data Sharing

We share the sensitive personal information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the user in the following limited circumstances:

• When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offenses. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
• We proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing 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 Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Data Lifecycle

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Data Rights

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.