Privacy Policy
Last Updated: July 17, 2025
Welcome to TAG – Telugu Anime Guild (referred to as “TAG,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, participate in our events, or use our services.
By accessing or using our Website and services, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not access or use our Website.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the Website (such as posting messages in our online forums, entering contests, or making purchases), or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Website, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
Personal Identifiers: Name, email address, postal address, phone number, date of birth.
Account Information: Username, password, profile picture.
Payment Information: If you make purchases or donations, we collect payment details (e.g., credit card numbers, billing address). Please note that we use third-party payment processors, and we do not directly store your full payment card details on our servers.
Demographic Information: Age, gender, interests (e.g., favorite anime genres, characters).
User-Generated Content: Comments, forum posts, messages, photos, videos, and other content you submit to the Website.
Event Participation Data: Information related to your registration for and participation in events, tournaments, or contests.
Information Automatically Collected
When you visit, use, or navigate the Website, we may automatically collect certain information. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Website, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
To Facilitate Account Creation and Logon Process: If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (e.g., Google or Facebook), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process.
To Post Testimonials: We post testimonials on our Website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and the content of the testimonial.
To Request Feedback: We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Website.
To Enable User-to-User Communications: We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with your consent.
To Manage User Accounts: We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
To Send You Marketing and Promotional Communications: We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
To Deliver Targeted Advertising to You: We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
To Administer Prize Draws and Competitions: We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in competitions.
To Respond to User Inquiries/Offer Support to Users: We use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
To Send You Administrative Information: We may use your personal information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
To Protect Our Services: We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
To Enforce Our Terms, Conditions, and Policies: For business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
To Deliver Services to the User: We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
To Respond to Legal Requests and Prevent Harm: If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
For Other Business Purposes: We may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Website, products, marketing, and your experience.
3. Sharing Your Information
We may share your information in the following situations:
With Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Website, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Website over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
With Other Users: When you share personal information (for example, by posting comments, contributions, or other content to the Website) or otherwise interact with public areas of the Website, such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Website in perpetuity.
With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
4. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
5. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
In some regions (like the European Economic Area, UK, and India), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to:
Request access to your personal information.
Request correction of your personal information.
Request erasure of your personal information.
Object to processing of your personal information.
Request restriction of processing your personal information.
Request data portability of your personal information.
Withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal information.
Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
By email: teluguanimeguildofficial@gmail.com
By visiting this page on our website:www.teluguanimeguild.in/contact