PRIVACY POLICY

We, Nirdesa Networks Pvt. Ltd also known as Pocket52.com is a private limited company incorporated under the laws of India, having its registered office at 4th floor, No.1685, 27th Main Rd, 1st Sector, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102 India, where such expression shall, unless repugnant to the context thereof, be deemed to include its respective legal heirs, representatives, administrators, permitted successors and assigns, the creator of this Privacy Policy ensure our steady commitment to Your privacy with regard to the protection of your invaluable information. This privacy policy contains information about the HTML5 platform / Windows/ MAC /iOS/ Android app called Pocket52.com. In order to provide you with our uninterrupted use of services, we may collect and, in some circumstances, disclose information about you. To ensure better protection of your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our information collection and disclosure policies, and the choices you make about the way your information is collected and used.

We provide the service of HTML5 platform / Windows/ MAC /iOS/ Android app called Pocket52 and Pocket52 Lite.

ANY CAPITALIZED WORDS USED HENCEFORTH SHALL HAVE THE MEANING ACCORDED TO THEM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. FURTHER, ALL HEADING USED HEREIN ARE ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ARRANGING THE VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT IN ANY MANNER. NEITHER THE USER NOR THE CREATERS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY MAY USE THE HEADING TO INTERPRET THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED WITHIN IT IN ANY MANNER.

1. 1. DEFINITIONS:

(a) “We”, “Our”, and “Us” shall mean and refer to the creators of this privacy policy
(b) “You”, “Your”, “Yourself” and “User” shall mean and refer to natural and legal individuals who use the Application.
(c) “Application” shall mean and refer to Pocket52.com as created by Nirdesa Networks Pvt. Ltd.
(d) “Personal Information” shall mean and refer to any personally identifiable information that We may collect from You.
(e) “Third Parties” refer to any application, website, company or individual apart from the User and the creator of the Application.

1. 1. OVERVIEW:

We are committed to respecting Your online privacy. We further recognize Your need for appropriate protection and management of any Personal Information You share with us. In order to use the services of this Application, You are required to register Yourself by providing the following information which inter alia includes:
(a) Name;
(b) User name;
(c) Password;
(d) Email Id;
(e) Mobile number.
(f) Pan number
(g) Proof of address
(h) Bank details

1. 1. INFORMATION COLLECTED:
   2. COOKIES:

We use data collection device known as “cookies” at certain stages of use of Our Application. “Cookies” are small files situated on Your mobile/ computer/ device’s hard disk that assists Us in providing customised services. A cookie helps us analyse your preferences by, for example, recording the number of times you have used the Application, and helps us in tailoring our services to suit your interests. Further, there are certain features of the Application that are available only through the use of a “cookie”. These “cookies” may be used whether You register on the Application or not. However, a “cookie” does not give Us access to your device.

You may choose to disable the “cookie” feature on Your device. But this may prevent full utilization of the services provided by the Application.

1. 1. EXTERNAL LINKS ON THE APPLICATION:

The Application may include advertisements hyperlinks to other websites, applications, content or resources. We have no control over such external links present in the Application, which are provided by persons or companies other than Us.

You acknowledge and agree that We are not responsible for any collection or disclosure of your Personal Information by any external sites, applications, companies or persons, nor do we endorse any advertising, products or other material on or available from such external application, websites or resources.

You further acknowledge and agree that We are not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by You as a result of the collection and/or disclosure of Your personal information by external applications, sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by You on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from such applications, websites or resources. This external application, websites and resource providers may have their own privacy policies governing the collection, storage, retention and disclosure of Your Personal Information that You may be subject to. We recommend that You enter the external application or website and review their privacy policy.

We allow third parties/individuals to display advertisements when you use the Application.

1. 1. OUR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION:

The information provided by You at the time of registration shall be used to contact You when necessary. Further, Your personal data and Sensitive Personal Information may be collected and stored by Us for internal record.

We use Your tracking information such as IP addresses to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.

We may release your Personal Information to a third-party in order comply with a Court Order or other similar legal procedure, or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law; prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss; or investigate or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of Our Policy. We may disclose Personal Information to parties in compliance with our Copyright Policy as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.

In case We are acquired by or merged with another company, We shall transfer information disclosed by You and information about You to the company we are acquired by or merged with. In the event of a merger or acquisition, We shall notify You by email/by putting a prominent notice on the Application before Your Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

1. 1. CONFIDENTIALITY:

You further acknowledge that this Application may contain information which is designated confidential by Us and that you shall not disclose such information without our prior written consent.

Your information is regarded as confidential and therefore shall not be divulged to any third party, unless if legally required to do so to the appropriate authorities, or if necessary to ensure Users may fully avail of the services of the Application.

We shall not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party or use your e-mail address for unsolicited mail. Any communication by Us to You shall be undertaken in accordance with Our Privacy Policy.

1. 1. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES:

Due to the existing regulatory environment, We cannot ensure that all of your Personal Information shall never be disclosed in ways other than those described in this Privacy Policy. For example, but without limiting and foregoing to, We may be forced to disclose Your Personal Information to the government, law enforcement agencies or other Third Parties. Under certain circumstances, Third Parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmission or private communications, or abuse or misuse Your Personal Information that they may collect from our Application. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications would always remain private.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any Personal Information about You and/or disclosed by you to Third Parties.

8.1 External Service Providers: There may be a number of services offered by external service providers that help You use our Application. If You choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information to the external service providers, and/ or grant them permission to collect information about You, then their use of Your information is governed by their privacy policy.
8.2 Other Corporate Entities : We share much of our data, including Your Personal Information, with Our parent and/ or subsidiaries that are committed to serving Your needs through use of Our Application and related services, throughout the world. Such data shall be shared for the sole purpose of enhancing Your experience of using the Application. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they shall treat it at least as protective as they treat information they obtain from their other members. It is possible that We and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that we would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service. You shall receive notice of such event (to the extent it occurs).
We may also disclose Your Personal Information, such as but not limited to your credit or debit card number to our online payment gateway.
8.3 Law and Order: We cooperate with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can, and You so authorise Us, disclose Your Personal Information to law enforcement and other government officials as We, in Our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose Us/ Us or You to any legal liability.

Any information that you make publically available on the site may be potentially viewed by any party, and by posting such material it is deemed that you consent to share such information with such parties.

1. 1. ACCESSING, REVIEWING AND CHANGING YOUR PROFILE:

Following registration, You can review and change the information You submitted at the stage of registration, except Your display name/ user name. An option for facilitating such change shall be present on the home screen of the application and such change can be facilitated by emailing us at support@pocket52.com. If You change any information, We may keep track of Your old information.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at support@pocket52.com. We shall promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

To remove Your profile so that others cannot view it, contact our customer support at support@pocket52.com

We shall retain in Our files information You have requested to remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce Our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from Our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored ‘back up’ systems. Therefore, You should not expect that all of Your personally identifiable information shall be completely removed from our databases in response to Your requests.

1. 1. CONTROL OF YOUR PASSWORD: (OPTIONAL)

When You register on the Application, You shall be asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password. It is important that You protect it against unauthorised access of Your account and information by choosing Your password carefully, keeping Your password and device secure by signing out after using Our services and exercising caution in disclosing Your password if needed.

You agree not to use the account, username, email address or password of another User at any time. Further, if You choose to disclose Your password to any Third Party, You are solely responsible for all actions taken with Your account information and password, including fees. If You lose control of Your password, You may lose substantial control over Your Personal Information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on Your behalf. Therefore, in the event of loss of Your password, You should immediately change Your password. Further, You agree to notify Us immediately at support@pocket52.com. if You suspect any consistent unauthorized use of Your account or access to Your password even after changing it.

1. 1. SECURITY:

We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorised access by members inside and outside Nirdesa Networks Pvt. Ltd. and other companies and third parties. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to Us and information that we have accessed. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. You therefore agree that any security breaches beyond the control of Our standard security procedures are at Your sole risk and discretion.

1. 1. INDEMNITY:

You agree and undertake to indemnify us against in any suit or dispute by any Third Party arising out of disclosure of Personal Information by You to Third Parties either through Our Application or otherwise and Your use and access of websites, applications and resources of Third Parties. We assume no liability for any actions of Third Parties with regard to Your Personal Information, which You may have disclosed to such Third Parties.

1. 1. PAYMENT POLICY:

Definitions:

User: Person or business paying for a service via pocket52.com

User Account: shall mean a bank account or credit/ prepaid/ cash card account of the Buyer with the Issuing Institution.

Card Network/Card Brand: Networks that power credit card transactions. These include Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

The User will bear and be responsible and liable for the payment of all relevant taxes in relation to the Payments made under this Agreement.

User receive the amount (minus our charges) and net of taxes in their bank account within T+3 business days where T is defined as the date of intimation of the completion of the transaction.

Pocket52 Lite doesn’t not offer any real money deposits and is totally free to play. It does not require any SMS permissions.

When a user deposits any amount, 8% of it will be locked (not withdrawable, user will have to play on tables, and generate rake equivalent to locked amount to unlock entire amount. For one rupee of rake generated one rupee will be unlocked.

1. 1. TDS

Section 194B of Income Tax Act states the following, “The person responsible for paying to any person any income by way of winnings from lottery or crossword puzzle or card game and other game of any sort in an amount exceeding ten thousand rupees shall at the time of payment thereof, deduct income tax thereon at the rates in force”.

On any net winnings, Tax would be deducted at source (“TDS”) at the rate specified as per the Indian Income Tax Act 1961 (as amended to date) or as per any other law in force at the time being. The winner will receive the prize money only after the above-mentioned deduction.

TDS is applicable at the time of payment, which is when a Player’s ‘Winnings’ are calculated. According to the Indian Tax laws, TDS on winnings from card games is on a gross basis, so players cannot deduct their losses and expenses to determine taxable income.

Thus, any net winnings are subject to TDS of 30% (exclusive of surcharge and cess) and payment to the player will be after deduction of such taxes.

The User hereby agrees and acknowledges that the winnings from Games, tournaments or through any other services as provided by the Website shall be allowed to be withdrawn only after deduction of applicable TDS. The User also agrees to furnish a scanned copy of his/her PAN (Permanent Account Number) duly issued to him / her by the Income Tax Department, Government of India, to deduct TDS as per the rules and regulations of the government of India. The User also agrees and acknowledges that deduction of TDS by the Website does not absolve the User from his or her overall liability to pay all applicable tax on his/her winnings from all games / tournaments played on the Website during the course of the year. The User expressly acknowledges that it remains his/her liability to calculate the total tax due to the relevant tax authorities at the end of the year and to pay any balance tax over and above any TDS that would have been paid on the User’s behalf. A Game of cards for a user ends once he/she withdraws chips from the User Balance and TDS, if applicable as per the regulations, will be deducted on the winnings at that time.

Click here to check the TDS policy details.

1. 1. PROTECTION:

The services are intended to be used by only a person of 18 years and above. If Pocket52.com notices non complaining with any of their policies by any user, it has all the authority to delete the account of any such user. All balances in such account will be null and void with immediate effect and it will be at the sole discretion of Pocket52.com

1. 1. SEVERABILITY:

Each paragraph of this privacy policy shall be and remain separate from and independent of and severable from all and any other paragraphs herein except where otherwise expressly indicated or indicated by the context of the agreement. The decision or declaration that one or more of the paragraphs are null and void shall have no effect on the remaining paragraphs of this privacy policy.

1. 1. AMENDMENT:

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Hence we shall post any privacy policy changes on the homepage of the Application/ notify you on your registered email with us.

1. 1. DISCLAIMER:

We cannot ensure that all of Your private communications and other personal information (including sensitive information like credit card information and bank account number) shall never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although We are committed to protecting Your privacy, We do not promise, and You should not expect, that Your personal information shall always remain private. As a User of the Application, You understand and agree that You assume all responsibility and risk for Your use of the Application, the internet generally, and the documents You post or access and for Your conduct on and off the Application.

For any query, request or concern please contact below :

Pocket52 Support
Email: support@pocket52.com