Privacy Policy

Last updated: 21 November, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our website and services (the “Service”), and informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you. By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1. Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation
Words whose initial letter is capitalised have meanings defined below. These definitions apply whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts thereof.

  • Website refers to The Paperweight accessible from https://thepaperweight.in/.

  • Company (also referred to as “we”, “us”, or “our”) refers to The Paperweight, operated by The Paperweight, Mumbai, India.

  • Country is India.

  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, cellphone, tablet.

  • Personal Data means any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  • Service means the Website and the services provided through it, including the paper-weight registration/evaluation service.

  • Usage Data means data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself.

2. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected
Personal Data: While using our Service, we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, Postal/ZIP code, City

  • Any other information you provide when registering for the service

Usage Data: This is collected automatically when using the Service. It may include your device’s IP address, browser type and version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (beacons, tags, scripts) to track activity on our Service and to store certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of the Service.
We use both Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary/Essential Cookies: to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable use of some features.

  • Functionality Cookies: to remember your choices (e.g., login details, language preference) and provide a more personalised experience.

3. Use of Your Personal Data

We may use your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring the usage of our Service.

  • To manage your Account: to manage your registration as a user of the Service.

  • To contact you by email, telephone, SMS or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates or informative communications related to the Service.

  • To process payments, registrations and evaluations associated with the paper-weight service.

  • For business transfers: to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, in which personal data held by us about users is among the assets transferred.

  • For other purposes: such as data analysis, identification of usage trends, improvement of our Service, products, marketing and your experience.

4. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: we may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service and to assist us in contacting you.

  • For business transfers: in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or part of our business.

  • With Affiliates: we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy.

  • With other users: when you interact with other users in public areas of the Service, your information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

  • With your consent: we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

  • When required by law: we may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

5. Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Usage Data may be retained for internal analysis purposes and may be retained for longer periods where required for security or other reasons.

6. Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be processed at our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that your personal data may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place.

7. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to us. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, but please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from someone under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Service 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.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: contact@thepaperweight.in

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