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বেলগাছিয়া সাধারণ দুর্গোৎসব: হারিয়ে যাচ্ছে মানুষে মানুষে বন্ধন, সেই ভাবনা থেকেই এ বছরের থিম ‘বুনন গাঁথা’। এক ফুট বাই এক ফুট থেকে ছ’ফুট বাই তিন ফুট মাপের অসংখ্য খাটিয়া এবং বিশেষ ধরনের সরু বাঁশ ব্যবহার করা হচ্ছে মণ্ডপসজ্জায়। খাটিয়া এবং বাঁশের বুননে সাজবে মণ্ডপের ভিতর ও বাহির। প্রায় দু’হাজার বাঁশ দিয়ে মূল গেট হবে। ৩০ ফুট উচ্চতার খাটিয়ার ইনস্টলেশন থাকবে। প্রতিমায় থাকবে দড়ির বুননের কাজ। ঝাড়বাতি তৈরি হবে ছোট ছোট খাটিয়া দিয়ে। প্রতিমা যেখানে থাকবে তার উপরে বাঁশের বুননের কাজ থাকবে।
লালাবাগান যুবকবৃন্দ নবাঙ্কুর সঙ্ঘ: ‘অনাহারের আহার’ এ বছরের ভাবনা। খাবারের অপচয় বন্ধ করতে সচেতনতার বার্তা থাকবে মণ্ডপে। অ্যালুমিনিয়াম এবং স্টিলের বাসন দিয়ে মণ্ডপের ভিতরে এবং বাইরের সাজ হবে। মণ্ডপে ঢোকার আগে ফোন দিয়ে তৈরি হবে দশ ফুটের মানুষ। প্রতিমা সাবেক। দুর্গার গলায় থাকবে লক্ষ্মী, গণেশ, কার্তিক, সরস্বতী।
হাতিবাগান নবীন পল্লি: ৮৬তম বর্ষের থিমের নাম ‘লাইফলাইন’। বর্তমানে কর্মব্যস্ত জীবনে নিজেদের দিকে খেয়াল রাখতে পারি না আমরা, ফলে শরীরে বাসা বাঁধে নানা রোগ। যোগাসন, ভাল খাদ্যাভ্যাস এবং শারীরচর্চার মাধ্যমে কী ভাবে নিজেকে ভাল রাখা যায়, শিল্পী সুবল পাল সেটাই ফুটিয়ে তুলছেন আমাদের এ বারের মণ্ডপে। থিমের সঙ্গে সামঞ্জস্য রেখে থাকবে প্রতিমা। আমাদের পুজোয় একাধিক চিকিৎসকদের যুক্ত করানোর ভাবনা থেকে শুরু করে ত্রিমাত্রিক ম্যাপিং— মণ্ডপে চমকের অভাব নেই!
কাশী বোস লেন: ৮২তম বছরের ভাবনা ‘অস্তিত্ব’। জলসঙ্কটের পরিণাম কী হতে চলেছে, তারই খানিক বর্ণনা থাকবে মণ্ডপে। প্রথমেই সরু ইট দিয়ে তৈরি হবে হরপ্পা-মহেঞ্জোদারো সভ্যতার মতো কোনও ধ্বংসস্তূপ। তার পরে থাকবে শুকিয়ে যাওয়া একটি জলাশয়। যেখানে ডুবুরি ভেসে বেড়াবে হাওয়ায়। জলের নীচের সব উদ্ভিদ ও প্রাণী পরিণত হবে জীবাশ্মে। তৃতীয় অর্থাৎ শেষ ধাপে থাকবে গঙ্গার ঘাট। নৌকায় থাকবে প্রতিমা। প্রতিমার সাজে শামুক, গুগলি, শালুক জাতীয় জলের নীচের হরেক রকম ফুল। আলোর খেলায় বয়ে যাবে গঙ্গা। ঘাটের সিঁড়ি থেকে সে সবই দেখতে পারবেন দর্শকেরা।
কুমোরটুলি সর্বজনীন: পুজোর এ বার ৬০ বছর। থিম, ‘মাকে বলো’। ইচ্ছাপূরণের নানা উপাদান দিয়ে সাজবে মণ্ডপ। ফাইবার গ্লাস, ছোবড়া, প্যারিস প্রভৃতি দিয়ে তৈরি একটি বড় গাছ থাকবে ভিতরে। যার ডালপালা আর পাতা ছড়িয়ে থাকবে মণ্ডপে। ফুচকাওয়ালার বেতের স্ট্যান্ড দিয়ে সাজসজ্জা হবে। ব্যবহার হবে সুতোর কোণ। প্রতিমা সাবেক।
কুমোরটুলি পার্ক: অন্য গ্রহের প্রাণীরা দেখবে কলকাতার দুর্গাপুজো। তাই মণ্ডপের ভিতরে থাকবে অসংখ্য ভিন্ গ্রহের জীব। যারা নড়াচড়া করে বিভিন্ন কাজকর্ম করবে। বাইরে থেকে দেখতে পৃথিবীর মতো, ভিতরে ঢুকলেই অন্য গ্রহ। সেখানে থাকবে ইউএফও। বাইরে থাকছে স্পেস সেন্টার, রকেট-লঞ্চার। পৃথিবীর উপগ্রহ চাঁদ। ঘোড়ামুখী সিংহে আসীন সাবেক প্রতিমা দেখতে ভিন্ গ্রহের প্রাণীদের সঙ্গে মেতে উঠবেন ছোট থেকে বড় সকলেই। এমনই বিশ্বাস পুজোর কর্তাদের।
আহিরীটোলা যুবকবৃন্দ: মাত্রাতিরিক্ত পরিবেশ দূষণকে মাথায় রেখে এ বছরের ভাবনা ‘ধূসর ধরণী’। মণ্ডপের ভিতরে বাঁশ দিয়ে তৈরি একটি গাছ থাকছে। লোহা দিয়ে তৈরি হবে তার পাতা। দূষণের কারণে গাছ তার সবুজ হারাচ্ছে, সেটা বোঝাতেই এমন ভাবনা। প্রচুর প্লাস্টিকের ব্যবহার থাকবে মণ্ডপের ভিতরে। প্লাস্টিকে রুদ্ধ থাকবে জলাশয়। সাধারণ বেশে আটপৌরে প্রতিমা সপরিবার নৌকায় থাকবে। মণ্ডপ জুড়ে থাকা ধূসরতাকে ফুটিয়ে তুলবে হলুদ আলোর খেলা।
পাথুরিয়াঘাটা পাঁচের পল্লি: এ বছর পুজো ৪০ বছরে পা দিল। আমাদের থিম ‘পরিবর্তনের আলোর ফাঁকে, ভুলতে কি পারি অতীতটাকে?’ বর্তমান এবং অতীত, দুই প্রজন্মের মানুষেরই মন ছুঁয়ে যাবে, এমন সব বিষয় বা ভাবনার উপরে আলোকপাত করাই এই থিমের উদ্দেশ্য। কার্ডবোর্ড, রং-তুলো, মাটির পুতুল, প্লাস্টার অব প্যারিস দিয়ে তৈরি ভাস্কর্য, পেন্টিংয়ের মাধ্যমেই মণ্ডপের এক অংশে বর্তমান প্রজন্মের এবং অপর অংশে অতীত প্রজন্মের ভাল লাগা, ভালবাসার জায়গাগুলিকে তুলে ধরা হচ্ছে। সঙ্গে সাবেকি ধাঁচের প্রতিমা।
পটলডাঙা শ্রীশ্রী শারদীয়া মহাপূজা: ১০৭তম বর্ষের পুজোয় সাবেকিয়ানার উপরেই ভরসা রেখেছি আমরা। কৃষ্ণনগরের রাজু দত্তের তৈরি ডাকের সাজে সাজবেন মা দুর্গা। মণ্ডপ তৈরি হচ্ছে বনেদি বাড়ির ঠাকুরদালানের আদলে। পুজোর অন্যতম বৈশিষ্ট্য, চার দিন গঙ্গাজলে এবং মাটির উনুনে তৈরি হয় মায়ের ভোগ। সপ্তমী-অষ্টমীতে বালকভোজনের মতো পুজোর পুরনো ঐতিহ্য লালন করে চলেছি আমরা।
কানাই ধর অধিবাসী বৃন্দ: যেখানে আর্থিক বৈষম্য নেই, সামাজিক ভেদাভেদ নেই, হিংসা নেই— দর্শকদের এমনই রূপকথার জগতে ৬৯তম বছরে পৌঁছে দেবে কানাই ধর অধিবাসীবৃন্দ। সানপ্যাক, থার্মোকল এবং প্লাস্টার অব প্যারিসে সেজে উঠছে গোটা মণ্ডপ। এক ফালি চাঁদে আসীন সপরিবার দেবী। প্লাস্টার অব প্যারিসে তৈরি পরি থাকবে মণ্ডপে। পুজোকর্তাদের আশ্বাস, আলোর খেলায় তৈরি হবে স্বপ্নের পরিবেশ।
ওয়েলিংটন নাগরিক কল্যাণ সমিতি: ৩০তম বর্ষে আমাদের পুজোর থিম ‘মিলনে মহান’। ভারতবর্ষে বৈচিত্র্যের মধ্যে ঐক্যের মধ্যে মিলন-ভাবনাকেই ফুটিয়ে তোলা হবে এ বারের পুজোমণ্ডপে। বাচ্চাদের কাজললতা, বাসন মাজার লোহার জালের মতো ক্ষুদ্র ও অতি তুচ্ছ জিনিস দিয়ে সাজানো হবে মণ্ডপ। শিল্পী নব পালের তৈরি প্রতিমা সাবেকি ধাঁচের।
গৌরীবেড়িয়া সর্বজনীন: এ বছরের থিম ‘ভিনদেশি তারা’। উচ্চশিক্ষা দিয়ে সন্তানকে প্রতিষ্ঠিত করার স্বপ্ন দেখেন বাবা-মায়েরা। এক দিন সেই স্বপ্ন বাস্তবায়িত হয়ে একাকিত্বে ঠেলে দেয় দু’পক্ষকেই। জীবনের ইঁদুর দৌড়ে শামিল হয়ে পিছন ফেরার ফুরসতটুকু হারিয়ে ফেলেন সন্তানেরা। শৈশব আর প্রিয়জনের জন্য টান থাকলেও মাঝে পর্বত হয়ে থাকে প্রতিষ্ঠার আকাঙ্ক্ষা। মণ্ডপের ভিতরে ফেলে আসা বাড়ি, স্কুল, বাঁশঝাড় সে সবই থাকবে। ঠাকুরদালানে মায়ের অধিষ্ঠান। মন্ডপের বাইরে অনেকগুলি সিঁড়ির ধাপ পেরিয়ে ঝাঁ-চকচকে কর্পোরেট দুনিয়া। তার ছাদটা ঢেকে যাবে অসংখ্য কাগজের প্লেনে। সিঁড়ির ধাপে থাকবে হামাগুড়ি দেওয়া একাধিক গোপাল।
ভবানীপুর ৭৫ পল্লি: ৫৫তম বছরে আমাদের থিম ‘নগরদোলা’। যে রাস্তায় আমাদের মণ্ডপ তৈরি হয়, তার মধ্যেই রয়েছে অনেকের বাড়ি, সদর দরজা। বাসিন্দাদের জীবনের সেই অঙ্গ-সহ মণ্ডপের পরিকল্পনা হয়েছে। পাড়ার সবাইকে নিয়েই সর্বজনীন পুজো, তাই সংলগ্ন মসজিদের নমাজও রয়েছে থিমে। এই মণ্ডপ সকলের মিলিত হওয়ার জায়গা। মণ্ডপসজ্জায় ব্যবহার হচ্ছে রোজকার জীবনের বহু জিনিস, যা দেখা যায় সকলের বাড়িতেই। থিম-নির্ভর মাটির প্রতিমার সাজসজ্জায় থাকবে লোহার অলঙ্কার।
ভবানীপুর স্বাধীন সঙ্ঘ: আমাদের পুজোর থিম ‘আমি’। আমাদের দেশে নারী মহাশক্তি রূপে পূজিত, অথচ নারী নির্যাতনের ঘটনা ঘটছে প্রতিনিয়ত। তবে মেয়েরাও প্রতিবাদে এগিয়ে আসছেন। কারও উপরে ভরসা না করে নিজেকেই ভরসা জোগাচ্ছেন তাঁরা— যেন তাঁরাই দুর্গা, তাঁরাই শক্তি। মণ্ডপসজ্জায় দড়ি, পাটের মতো পরিবেশবান্ধব উপকরণ দিয়ে তুলে ধরা হচ্ছে এই বিষয়টি। এই বছর ৭১ বছরে পা দিল আমাদের পুজো।
গোলমাঠ সর্বজনীন: ৯২তম বছরে আমাদের মণ্ডপে উঠে আসছে এক টুকরো পাহাড় এবং চা বাগান। শিলিগুড়ি থেকে সজীব চায়ের গাছ আনা হচ্ছে এর জন্য। মণ্ডপসজ্জার কাজে লাগানোর সময়েও জীবিত থাকবে সেগুলি। পরে সেগুলি ফের শিলিগুড়ি পাঠিয়ে দেওয়ার পরিকল্পনা রয়েছে। চা বাগানের শ্রমিকদের নাচ-গানও তুলে আনা হচ্ছে মন্দিরে। মণ্ডপে হচ্ছে ৫০ ফুট উঁচু পাহাড়ের পরিবেশ। বাগানের ভিতরে একটি মন্দিরে থাকবে মায়ের মূর্তি। প্রতিমা তৈরি হচ্ছে থিমের ছোঁয়া রেখে।
বকুলবাগান সর্বজনীন: আমাদের পুজোর এ বার ৯২তম বছর। পুজোর অন্যতম অঙ্গ চালচিত্রকে থিম বেছেছি। তবে চালচিত্রের চিরাচরিত বিষয় থেকে সরে এসে মণ্ডপে ফুটিয়ে তুলব বর্তমান সমাজের নানা ছবি। যেমন, আমাদের সমাজে নারী দিবস উদ্যাপনের পাশাপাশিই চলে নারী নির্যাতন। এই বিষয়ে সচেতনতা বাড়াবে আমাদের থিম। কালীঘাটের পটচিত্রের অনুকরণে আঁকা কাঠের চালচিত্রে সাজবে মণ্ডপ। একচালা সাবেক ঠাকুরের সাজে থাকছে সোনালি গয়না ও বেনারসী শাড়ি।
গল্ফ গ্রিন শারদোৎসব কমিটি: এ বছর আমাদের থিম ‘কনজারভেশন অ্যান্ড রেস্টরেশন’। এ দেশের বিপুল শিল্প-সংস্কৃতির ভাণ্ডারের কিছু অংশ তুলে আনছি আমরা। বিভিন্ন ভারতীয় মন্দিরের ভাস্কর্য, ফ্রেস্কো, অজন্তার গুহাচিত্র, পুথির পেন্টিং, বাংলার সেন ও পাল যুগের শিল্প নিদর্শনের মতো উল্লেখযোগ্য কাজ আমরা বেছেছি। এক সময়ে ভারতীয় সংস্কৃতি ছাপ ফেলেছিল জাভা, বোর্নিয়ো, শ্রীলঙ্কার মতো দেশেও। সেখানকার শিল্পে ভারতীয় শিল্পের যে প্রভাব দেখা যায়, প্রতিমা তৈরি হচ্ছে সেই আদলে। ষোলো হাতের মাতৃমূর্তির কাছে পৃথিবীর সব অশুভ শক্তি নিতান্তই ছোট মনে হবে। বৃদ্ধাশ্রমের আবাসিক, ফুটপাতবাসীদের ভোগ খাওয়ানো, পোশাক বিতরণের কর্মসূচি থাকছে।
৭৪ পল্লি সর্বজনীন: বাংলার অন্যতম প্রাচীন বাদ্যযন্ত্র ঢোল। চর্যাপদেও এর উল্লেখ আছে। পদাবলী কীর্তনে ঢোলের মাধ্যমে মানুষের সঙ্গে ঈশ্বরের ভাব সম্মিলন ঘটে। ঢোল যেন সচেতন আর অবচেতনের মিলন ঘটায়। ঢোলের মাঝের অংশটি ফাঁকা। তৈরি হওয়া যে কোনও শব্দতরঙ্গ, শব্দব্রহ্ম রূপে ঈশ্বরের সঙ্গে সংযোগ স্থাপন করে ভাব সম্মিলন ঘটায়। ৬৪তম বছরে তাই ৭৪ পল্লির নিবেদন ‘বাংলার ঢোলের ক্রিয়েটিভ স্পেসে আদি শক্তি মায়ের আবির্ভাব’। মণ্ডপ তৈরি হবে অর্ধাকার ঢোলকের আদলে। প্রতিমা ও আলোকসজ্জাও হবে থিমের সঙ্গে মিল রেখে।
খিদিরপুর নবরাগ: সুবর্ণজয়ন্তী বর্ষে আমাদের পুজোর থিমে জড়িয়ে থাকছে পুজোরই নানা উপকরণ। থিম পুজোর ভিড়ে অনেক ক্ষেত্রেই আজ হারিয়ে যাচ্ছে সাবেকিয়ানা। পাশাপাশি পুজোর উপকরণগুলির যে বিশেষত্ব, তা নিয়েও কেউ মাথা ঘামান না। অথচ প্রতিটি উপকরণের সঙ্গে জড়িয়ে ঐতিহ্য। তাই মণ্ডপ জুড়ে কোষাকুষি, হোমের কাঠ, হোমকুণ্ড, কড়ি, কুলো-সহ পুজোর নানা উপকরণ থাকবে। বিষয়ের সঙ্গে সঙ্গতি রেখে পুজোর শিরোনাম ‘ষোড়শোপচার’। এরই মধ্যে সাবেক প্রতিমার অধিষ্ঠান।
খিদিরপুর বিজয়ী সঙ্ঘ: আমরা থিম পুজোর প্রতিযোগিতায় নেই। বরং ভক্তি ও নিষ্ঠার সঙ্গে মা দুর্গার আরাধনায় মনোনিবেশ করি। এলাকার বহু মানুষ প্রত্যক্ষ ও পরোক্ষ ভাবে জড়িয়ে থাকেন পুজোর সঙ্গে। এ বার আমাদের ৭৩ বছর। মণ্ডপ ও প্রতিমা সাবেক। নজর কাড়বে চন্দননগরের আদলে করা আলোকসজ্জা।
হরিদেবপুর ৪১ পল্লি: আমাদের পুজো ৬২-তে পড়ল। দর্শকদের জন্য বিভিন্ন ধরনের চমক থাকবে। এ বার থিম ‘আগুন্তুক’। সংবাদমাধ্যমের কাজকর্মের উপরে ভিত্তি করে এমন ভাবনা। সংবাদমাধ্যমের কাজ খবর পরিবেশন। নতুন কোনও ঘটনার সঙ্গে পরিচিতি ঘটানো। যা নতুন, তা-ই খবর। আমাদের মনের আনাচ-কানাচেও সেই খবরের বেশে নতুন কিছু ঘুরে বেড়ায়। কী সেই খবর, কী সেই নতুন—জানতে আসতেই হবে আমাদের মণ্ডপে। মণ্ডপসজ্জার সঙ্গে সামঞ্জস্য রেখে তৈরি হবে প্রতিমা। চমক থাকবে আলোকসজ্জাতেও।
বড়িশা সর্বজনীন: ৭১তম বছরে আমাদের নিবেদন কৃষি নির্ভরতা। পশ্চিমবঙ্গ নদীমাতৃক রাজ্য। গ্রামের বড় অংশের মানুষের প্রধান জীবিকা কৃষি। তাকে শস্যশ্যামলা করেছে নদী। এক সময়ে প্রবাদও ছিল নদীমাতৃক বাংলাদেশ। বরাবর সেই কাজে অগ্রণী থেকেছেন বাংলার কৃষকেরা। বছরের পর বছর তাঁরা এই রাজ্যকে পালন করছেন। কৃষকদের সম্মানে আমাদের এ বারের পুজোর শিরোনাম ‘পালক’। মণ্ডপের সঙ্গে সাযুজ্য রেখেই প্রতিমা ও আলোকসজ্জা করা হবে।
বড়িশা তরুণ তীর্থ: জীবনের দৈনন্দিন নানা টানাপড়েনে মানুষ ভুলে যায় নিজের আনন্দ, অনুভূতি। তাঁর মনের ভিতরের রং ফিকে হয়ে যায়। উৎসবের দিনগুলিতে মানুষ চেষ্টা করে নিজের মনে সেই রং ফিরে পেতে। ফলে এ বার আমাদের ভাবনা ‘রাঙিয়ে দিয়ে রঙে রঙে, মা এসেছে তুলির টানে’। বিষয়কে মণ্ডপে রূপদান করতে ব্যবহার করা হবে রং করার হরেক সরঞ্জাম। তুলি, প্যালেট, আঁকার বোর্ড, বিভিন্ন ধরনের রঙের ব্যবহার করা হবে মণ্ডপে। প্রবেশ দরজার কাছে থাকবে ময়ূরের বাহারি রঙের পেখম। বহু রঙের প্রতিফলন ঘটবে আমাদের মণ্ডপে। এ বার আমাদের পুজো ৩৫ বছরে পা দেবে। প্রতিমা ও আলোকসজ্জা থাকবে মণ্ডপের সঙ্গে সাযুজ্য রেখেও।
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Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the site (including but not limited to text, audio, video or graphical images), trademarks and logos appearing on this site are the property of ABP Pvt. Ltd. Limited, its parent, affiliates and associates and are protected under applicable Indian laws. You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of ABP PVT. LTD.; or remove, conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other mark or source identifier included on the Site / Service, including without limitation, the size, color, location or style of all proprietary marks. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Limited Permission to Copy
ABP Pvt. Ltd. grants you permission to only access and make personal use of the Site and You agree not to, directly or indirectly download or modify / alter / change / amend / vary / transform / revise / translate / copy / publish / distribute or otherwise disseminate any content on ABP Pvt.Ltd.'s Site / Service, or any portion of it; or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Site / Service either directly or indirectly, except with the express consent of ABP Pvt. Ltd.
However, you may print or download extracts from these pages for your personal / individual, non-commercial use only. You must not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal / individual use.
ABP Pvt. Ltd. forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting, leasing, or otherwise transferring rights to the Site / Service; displaying the name, logo, trademark or other identifier of another person in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Service on the Site, or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site.
No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission.
Individual Registration, Access and Exchange of Information
For certain services such as email, personal web pages, contests and shopping, registration by the visitor is required. To register for these services you have to open an account by completing the registration process (i.e. by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form). You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account and shall be responsible for the security of the connection and / or network that you are using. By registering, you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms which shall be posted at an appropriate location of the Site. Each registration is for a single individual user only.
To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User Name and Password, as chosen by you during your registration. Therefore, we do not permit any of the following:-
• Any other person sharing your account and Password;
• Any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with www.anandabazar.com as users of the Site; or
• Access through a single account and Password being made available to multiple users on a network.
If ABP Pvt. Ltd. reasonably believes that an account and Password is being used / misused in any manner, ABP Pvt. Ltd. shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.
Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify ABP Pvt. Ltd. immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. ABP Pvt. Ltd. will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by ABP PVT. LTD. or another party due to someone else using your account or password.
No unlawful or prohibited use
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any ABP PVT. LTD.'s server, or the network(s) connected to any ABP PVT. LTD.'s server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or to any of the Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Services.
Material Posted/transmitted at www.anandabazar.com by the user and /or any third party:
All information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly or privately transmitted / posted, is the sole responsibility of the person from where such content is originated (the Originator). By Posting any material which contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use, including, by way of limitation, the distribution, public display and reproduction of such Images.
You represent that you have valid rights and title in any and all Content/Images that you submit on the Site, that you have not infringed on any IPR belonging to any party and further that you will indemnify ABP PVT. LTD or its affiliates for all claims arising out of any content that you post on the Site.
ABP PVT. LTD. accepts no responsibility for the said Content / Images. However, you understand that all Content / Images posted by you becomes the property of ABP PVT. LTD. and you agree to grant/assign to ABP PVT. LTD. and its affiliates, a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable and sub-licenseable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content / Images (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed throughout the world".
Limitations of Liabilities
Any transactions relating to sale/purchase of goods or services not directly offered by ABP PVT. LTD. are to be settled inter-se between the parties to such transaction and all warranties express or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining thereto, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement are disclaimed by ABP PVT. LTD.
ABP PVT. LTD. merely endeavors to provide a platform where you and other party may interact, exchange information or carry out sale/purchase transactions on such terms and in the manner mutually agreed between you and the other party. ABP PVT. LTD. does not have any involvement in the actual transactions between the buyers and sellers in any way. It is only you, who is entirely responsible for all the activities, arising out of the transactions of sale/purchase of goods or services offered by any other party and not ABP PVT. LTD. ABP PVT. LTD. will not be liable for any loss that you may incur, while selling or purchasing goods /services of the third party.
Under No circumstances will ABP PVT. LTD. be held responsible or liable, in any way, for any content which in Legal opinion is derogatory, threatening, defamatory, obscene or offensive or offends public sensibilities or morals and shall also not assume liability for any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted or uploaded on the Site, or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights. You specifically agree that ABP PVT. LTD. is not responsible for any content sent using and/or included in ABP PVT. LTD.'s site/service by any third party.
Individual Registration and Access
Certain Services offered by the Company through www.anandazar.com platform, such as email, personal web pages, contests and shopping, require prior registration by the User. To gain access to such Services, You will be required to create an account by completing the registration process. As part of such registration process, You will be required to provide Us with current, complete and accurate information pertaining to such details as prompted by the applicable registration form. You will also be required to choose a unique password and a user name, which shall be entered by You every time You wish to gain access to the said Services. You shall not be entitled to gain, and shall not facilitate, access to www.anandabazar.com platform through a single account and password, by multiple users on a network. You agree and understand that We do not permit any part of www.anandabazar.com platform being cached in proxy servers. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password and account.
If the Company reasonably believes that Your account and/or Password is being/ has been misused in any manner, the Company shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.
You shall not share your account information and password with others or use anyone else’s account. You are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under Your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. In such an event, we shall do our best to help you recover your account; however, we cannot guarantee that your account will be restored or the content contained therein will be recovered. We will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of unauthorized use of your password or account. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by the Company or another party due to someone else using your account or password.
International Users
You agree and understand that the Services are controlled and operated by the Company from its offices in India. You agree that: (i) the Services shall be deemed solely based in India; and (ii) the use of the Services do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over the Company, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than India. You agree that the laws of India, excluding India’s choice of law rules, will apply to this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and all other policies and guidelines provided by the Company and to the provision of Services by the Company.
Access to www.anandabazar.com platform and/ or the Services from jurisdictions other than India where the same are illegal is prohibited. The Company reserves the right to block access to www.anandabazar.com platform and/ or the Services by such prohibited access by international users. If you access www.anandabazar.com platform and/ or the Services from a location outside India, you waive any right available under laws of jurisdictions outside of India.
Individual Registration and Access
Certain Services offered by the Company through www.anandazar.com platform, such as email, personal web pages, contests and shopping, require prior registration by the User. To gain access to such Services, You will be required to create an account by completing the registration process. As part of such registration process, You will be required to provide Us with current, complete and accurate information pertaining to such details as prompted by the applicable registration form. You will also be required to choose a unique password and a user name, which shall be entered by You every time You wish to gain access to the said Services. You shall not be entitled to gain, and shall not facilitate, access to www.anandabazar.com platform through a single account and password, by multiple users on a network. You agree and understand that We do not permit any part of www.anandabazar.com platform being cached in proxy servers. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password and account.
If the Company reasonably believes that Your account and/or Password is being/ has been misused in any manner, the Company shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.
You shall not share your account information and password with others or use anyone else’s account. You are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under Your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. In such an event, we shall do our best to help you recover your account; however, we cannot guarantee that your account will be restored or the content contained therein will be recovered. We will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of unauthorized use of your password or account. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by the Company or another party due to someone else using your account or password.
International Users
You agree and understand that the Services are controlled and operated by the Company from its offices in India. You agree that: (i) the Services shall be deemed solely based in India; and (ii) the use of the Services do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over the Company, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than India. You agree that the laws of India, excluding India’s choice of law rules, will apply to this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and all other policies and guidelines provided by the Company and to the provision of Services by the Company.
Access to www.anandabazar.com platform and/ or the Services from jurisdictions other than India where the same are illegal is prohibited. The Company reserves the right to block access to www.anandabazar.com platform and/ or the Services by such prohibited access by international users. If you access www.anandabazar.com platform and/ or the Services from a location outside India, you waive any right available under laws of jurisdictions outside of India.
Termination of Account
ABP PVT. LTD. reserves its right to refuse service, restrict, suspend, terminate your account; (Terminate this Agreement; Terminate or suspend your access to the ABP Web Sites; Refuse, move or remove for any reason any Content / Image that you submit on or through the Services; Refuse, move, or remove any Content / Image that is available on or through the Services; Deactivate or delete your accounts and all related information and files in your account; Establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services) at any time and, remove or edit contents or cancel orders (entered by you) in its sole discretion with or without cause, and with or without any prior notice for any violation of the Terms of Use. Upon such termination or suspension, your right to use the ABP PVT. Ltd.'s Web Sites will immediately cease.
You can terminate Your account at any time by writing to service@anandabazar.com but your information may remain stored in archive on Our servers even after the deletion or the termination of Your account.
User Conduct and Obligations
You hereby agree and assure ABP PVT. Ltd. that the Site/Services shall be used for lawful purposes only and that you will not violate laws, regulations, ordinances or other such requirements of any applicable Central, State or local government or any other international laws. You further concur that you will not, through Site/Service:
• post, distribute, or otherwise make available or transmit any software or other computer files that contain a virus trojan horses, time bombs, bots, botnets, malicious content, content theft, data manipulation, threats or any other harmful programs or elements or component;
• delete from the Site any legal notices, disclaimers, or proprietary notices such as copyright or trademark symbols, or modify any logos that you do not own or have express permission to modify;
• not use the Site / Service in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair and not to undertake any action which is harmful or potentially harmful to any ABP PVT. LTD.'s server, or the network(s), computer systems / resource connected to any ABP PVT. LTD. server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site/Service;
• obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Site/Service;
• engage in any activity that causes / may harm minors; or
• perform any activity which is likely to cause such harm;
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, ABP PVT. LTD.'s official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• take any action which encourages or consists of any threat of harm of any kind to any person or property;
• carry out any "denial of service" (DoS, DDoS) or any other harmful attacks on application or internet service or;
• make any inappropriate, illegal or otherwise prohibited communication to any Newsgroup, Mailing List, Chat Facility, or other Internet Forum;
• use the Site/Service for illegal purposes;
• disrupt, place unreasonable burdens or excessive loads on, interfere with or attempt to make or attempt any unauthorized access to any ABP PVT. LTD website or the website of any ABP PVT.LTD.'s customer;
• transmit through the Site, any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, libelous, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio, etc;
• collect or attempt to collect personally identifiable information of any person or entity without their express written consent and you shall maintain records of any such written consent throughout the terms of this agreement and for a period of 2 years thereafter;
• engage in antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts, including "flaming," "spamming," "flooding," "trolling," and "griefing" as those terms are commonly understood and used on the Internet
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Site.
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," duplicative messages or any other form of solicitation.
• encumber or suffer to exist any lien or security interest on the subject matter of this Agreement; or
• make any representation or warranty on behalf of ABP PVT. LTD.
You agree not to post, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available any data, text, message, computer file, or other material that infringes and/or violates any right of a third party or any domestic or international law, rule, or regulation, including but not limited to:
• infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software;
• Right of privacy (specifically, you must not distribute another person's personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity;
• Any confidentiality obligation.
Unless otherwise permitted, you will: (i) display the Service on your Site in the exact form received by you, and not modify or edit any of the foregoing without ABP PVT. Ltd.'s prior written consent; (ii) ensure that the fundamental meaning of the Service is not changed or distorted; (iii) comply with all applicable laws and all limitations and restrictions (if any) placed by ABP PVT. Ltd. on the use, display or distribution of any Service and (iv) not archive any of the Service for access by users at any future date after the Service has been removed from your Web site. You acknowledge that the service must link and redirect to the appropriate ABP PVT. Ltd.'s Web page when a user clicks on the Service (e.g. a headline). You shall not display the Service in such a manner that does not allow for successful linking and redirection to, and delivery of, ABP PVT. Ltd.'s Web page, nor may you frame any ABP PVT. Ltd.'s Web page.
No Controlling Spam Policy or Unsolicited E-mails
You will not use any communication tool or other means available on the Site to transmit, directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk communications (including emails and instant messages). You may not harvest information about users of ABP PVT. LTD. for the purpose of sending or to facilitate the sending of unsolicited bulk communications. We may terminate your access or use of the Site immediately, with or without any notice, and take any other legal action if you, or anyone using your access details to the Site, violates these terms. We may adopt any technical remedy (including any filtering technology or other measures) to prevent unsolicited bulk communications from entering, or remaining within our computer or communication networks. Such filtering technology or other measures may block, either temporarily or permanently, some e-mail sent to you through the ABP PVT. Ltd.'s Web Sites.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability
limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, title and non-infringement are disclaimed and excluded.
ABP PVT. Ltd. and its parent, affiliates and associates shall not be liable, at any time for any, direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business projects, damage to your computer system or damages for loss of profits, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the ABP PVT. Ltd.'s sites/services, with the delay or inability to use the ABP PVT. Ltd.'s sites/services or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the ABP PVT. LTD. sites/services, or otherwise arising out of the use of the ABP PVT. LTD. sites/services) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use the Site, or any of its contents, or from any act or omissions a result of using the Site or any such contents or for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of information contained on the site. No representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever are made by ABP PVT. LTD. as to the (a) accuracy, adequacy, reliability, completeness, suitability or applicability of the information to a particular situation; (b) that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (c) the quality of any products, services, content, information, or other material purchased or obtained from the website will meet your expectations or requirements; or (d) any errors in the website will be corrected.
Links to Other Sites
All the contents of this Site are only for general information or use. They do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. Any specific advice or replies to queries in any part of the Site is/are the personal opinion of such experts/consultants/persons and are not subscribed to by this Site. The information from or through this site is provided on "AS IS" basis, and all warranties and conditions, expressed or implied of any kind, regarding any matter pertaining to any goods, service or channel, including without Certain links on the Site lead to resources located on servers maintained by third parties, these sites of third party(s) may contain ABP PVT. LTD.'s-logo, please understand that it is independent from ABP PVT. LTD., over whom ABP PVT. LTD. has no control or connection, business or otherwise as these sites are external to ABP PVT. LTD. You agree and understand that by visiting such sites you are beyond the ABP PVT. LTD.'s website. ABP PVT. LTD., therefore neither endorses nor offers any judgement or warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability for the authenticity, availability, suitability, reliability, accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained, of any of the goods/services/or for any damage, loss or harm, direct or consequential or any violation of local or international laws that may be incurred by your visit and/or transaction/s on these site(s), as the same is provided on "as is" without warranty of any kind. ABP PVT. LTD. gives no warranty and makes no representation whether expressed or implied, that the information contained in this site is error free. ABP PVT. LTD. shall not be responsible nor liable for any consequential damages arising on account of your relying on the contents of the advertisement. Before relying on the material, users should independently verify its relevance for their purposes, and should obtain any appropriate professional advice.
Material Submitted by Users
Certain elements of the Site will contain material submitted by users. ABP PVT. LTD. accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy, conformity to applicable laws of such material. You will indemnify and hold harmless ABP PVT. LTD. against all third party claims, demands and actions brought against ABP PVT. LTD. which arises from or relates to the material submitted by you.
Advertising Material
Part of the Site contains advertising information or promotion material or other material submitted to ABP PVT. LTD. by third parties. Responsibility for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on Site complies with applicable International and National law is exclusively on the party providing the information/material. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers other than ABP PVT. LTD. found on or through the Website, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between You and such advertiser. ABP PVT. LTD. will not be responsible or liable for any claim, error, omission, inaccuracy in advertising material or any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such non-ABP PVT. LTD. advertisers on the Website. ABP PVT. LTD. reserves the right to omit, suspend or change the position of any advertising material submitted for insertion. Acceptance of advertisements on the Site will be subject to these terms and conditions.
Data Protection
ABP PVT. LTD. may send information and offer products and services to you from time to time. For further details relating to our policy relating to such offer please refer to our privacy statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ABP PVT. LTD. reserves the right to disclose any information in response to / that it is required to be shared, disclosed or make made available to any governmental, administrative, regulatory or judicial authority under any law or regulation applicable to ABP PVT. LTD.
Further, ABP PVT. LTD. can (and you authorize ABP PVT. LTD. to) disclose your name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to Intellectual Property rights owners, 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.
Relationship
None of the provisions of the User Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and ABP PVT. LTD. and you shall have no authority to bind ABP PVT. LTD. in any manner, whatsoever.
Force Majeure
ABP PVT. LTD. shall have no liability to you for any interruption or delay, to access the Site irrespective of the cause.
Indian Law
The Agreement shall be governed by the Laws of India. The Courts of law at Kolkata, West Bengal, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under this agreement.
Entire Agreement
These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter.
Right to remove inappropriate messages
We reserve the right to remove any messages we deem to be inappropriate, i.e, racist, sexist or threatening. Messages using inappropriate language will also be removed. We do not wish to be censors, but our forums must remain civilized and respect the rights of others.
Limited time to bring your claim
You and ABP PVT. LTD. agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the ABP PVT. LTD.'s web sites, only, must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues otherwise, such cause of action will be permanently barred.
Acceptance of Terms & Conditions
By using ABP PVT. LTD.'s sites and services, you signify your acceptance of this Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any term described in this Term & Conditions, your only remedy is to discontinue use of ABP PVT. LTD. sites. We reserve the right, to modify this Terns & Conditions at any time.
General Terms
Rights and obligations under the Terms which by their nature should survive will remain in full effect after termination or expiration of the Terms.
Any express waiver or failure to exercise promptly any right under the Terms will not create a continuing waiver or any expectation of non-enforcement.
If any provision of the Terms is held invalid by any law or regulation of any government, or by any court or arbitrator, the parties agree that such provision will be replaced with a new provision that accomplishes the original business purpose, and the other provisions of the Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Notice of Copyright Infringement
ABP PVT. LTD. is not liable for any infringement of copyright arising out of materials posted on or transmitted through the site, or items advertised on the site, by end users or any other third parties. Our policy is to comply with all Intellectual Property Laws and to act expeditiously upon receiving any notice of claimed infringement. If you believe that your work has been reproduced on this website in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide a notice of copyright infringement containing all of the following information:
(a)A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner for the purposes of the complaint.
(b)Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
(c)Identification of the material on our website that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.
(d)The address, telephone number or e-mail address of the complaining party.
(e)A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
(f)A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice of copyright infringement is accurate, and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed.
All notices of copyright infringement should be sent to:
ABP Pvt. Ltd.
www.anandabazar.com
ABP Pvt. Ltd. 6, Prafulla Sarkar St. Kolkata-700001, West Bengal, India
+913322345374
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?
The information gathered when you interact with ABP falls into two categories: 1) Personal information, which includes personal information you supply when you subscribe, order, complete a survey, register for one of our sites, enter a contest or provide your email address and 2) Non-personal information collected through technology, which includes tracking information collected by us as well as third parties.
Personal Information That You Give Us or Ask a Third Party to Share with Us
Registration Information
Registration for ABP may require that you supply certain personal information, including a unique email address and demographic information (ZIP code, age, sex, household income, job industry and job title) to register.
You may register or enhance your profile by linking your Facebook or Google accounts on ABP. By doing this, you are asking them to send us certain information from those social media accounts, and you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use what they send us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Social media registration features may collect your IP address, the page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. You can disassociate your ABP registration from third-party accounts any time.
Kindly note that ABP shall not responsible for any information collected by the third party from you.
User Generated Content and Public Activities (Including Comments and Reader Reviews)
We offer you opportunities to engage in public activities on ABP.com and other ABP Services. "Public activities" are any actions you take on ABP that are designed to be visible to other users, including comments, recommendations, reader reviews, ratings or any other items that you submit. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public and may be used by ABP for online and offline promotional or commercial uses in any and all media. If you choose to engage in public activities, you should be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, collected and used by other users of these areas. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in the course of your public activities and we have no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your public activities or submissions. For more information, see Terms of Service.
Public activities may be included in our RSS feeds, APIs and other distribution formats. As a result, your public activities may appear on other websites, blogs, or feeds. Keep in mind that we are not responsible for any personal information you choose to make public via your public activities, and you agree that such sharing will be deemed to have been done by you, not ABP including but not limited to sharing of information in your connected social media accounts.
When you share or recommend links to content on a third-party platform (such as Facebook, Google+ and Twitter), that action and any information you share will be covered by their privacy policy.
Contests, Sweepstakes and Special Offers
ABP collects personal information from you when you participate in sweepstakes, contests or special offers. If this information is also being collected by a third party other than ABP, we will notify you at the same time. If you do not want any personal information shared, you should not participate in the sweepstakes, contest or special offer.
Reader Surveys, Reader Panels and Market Research
ABP may collect personal information from you in connection with voluntary surveys conducted via ABP. Data may be collected through ABP, on the phone or through the mail. The information you provide may be shared, but only in the aggregate, with advertisers and partners unless we notify you otherwise at the time of collection.
Members of our Reader Panels agree to participate in surveys, polls or discussions about their readership of ABP, their household/personal characteristics and their purchase behavior.
Conferences and Live Events
We often receive information about attendees to our live events from sign-in and registration lists. We may share this information with event or promotion sponsors, in which case we will notify you when we collect the information.
Non-Personal Information Collected Using Technology
Information Collected by Us Using Technology
We use various internet technologies to manage ABP and track use of the Services. Non-personal information that we collect using these technologies may be combined with other information about you.
Device Information. We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access ABP, such as IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language and other transactional information.
Cookies, Beacons, Local Storage and Other Similar Technologies. We use "cookies," web beacons, tags and scripts, and other similar technologies including local storage objects such as HTML5. These technologies allow us to manage access to and use of the Services, recognize you and provide personalization, and help us understand how people use ABP. You will not be able to access certain areas of our websites, including ABP, if your computer does not accept cookies from us. We do not respond to browser-based "do not track" signals. For more detailed information about our use of cookies and local storage, and how to manage them, see Frequently Asked Questions About Cookies.
We may transmit non-personally identifiable website usage information to third parties in order to show you advertising for ABP when you visit other sites. For more information about our third-party ad server, or to learn your choices about not having this non-personal information used to target ads to you, please click here.
Local Storage Objects
We may use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 or Flash to collect and store information.
Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. To manage Flash LSOs please click here:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/
documentation/en/flashplayer/
help/settings_manager07.html
Analytics, Log Files and Reading History
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses (the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet), browser type, operating system and other usage information about the use of ABP, including a history of the pages you view.
We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, including customized Recommendations, advertising and currency display, to improve marketing, and to track access and use of ABP across the devices that you use to access ABP.
We have hired third parties to provide us information, reports and analysis about the usage, browsing patterns of our users. They may independently record the type of device and operating system you are using, general location information, as well as events that occur within our apps, such as how often you use our apps.
Location Information. Some of our mobile applications can deliver content based on your current location if you choose to enable that feature of the app. If you enable the location-based feature, your current location will be stored locally on your device, which will then be used by the app. If you elect to have a location-based search saved to your history, we will store that information on our servers. If you do not enable the location-based service, or if an app does not have that feature, the app will not transmit to us, and we will not collect or store, location information.
The ads in our apps are not targeted to you based on your current GPS location, but they may be targeted to you based on your ZIP code or device's IP address.
Third Parties
Some of the services and advertisements included in ABP, including on ABP and within our mobile apps, are delivered or served by third-party companies, which may collect information about your use of ABP.
These companies may place or recognize cookies, web beacons or other technology to track certain non-personal information about our website users. For example, in the course of serving certain advertisements, an advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser in order to collect certain information about your use of ABP. For another example, an advertiser or ad server may also be able to collect your device's unique identifier in the course of serving an ad. In many cases, this information could be used to show you ads on other websites based on your interests.
We do not have access to, nor control over, these third parties' use of cookies or other tracking technologies or how they may be used.
Please click here to see a list of third parties that may be using cookies to serve advertising on our websites or in our apps. For example, we use Google to serve advertisements onto ABP, which use the Google Doubleclick cookie, and in some cases, a unique device identifier, to show you ads based on your visit to ABP and other sites on the internet. You may opt out of the use of the Google Doubleclick cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
You have choices about the collection of information by third parties on our website:
1) If you would like more about your option not to accept advertiser cookies, please click here.
2) If you would like to opt-out of having interest-based ad targeting, click here.
Your access to our websites should not be affected if you do not accept cookies served by third parties.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?
Provide the Services You Request
We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of ABP and fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, contests and message boards.
Statistical Analysis
We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of ABP, and their subscribing and purchasing patterns, for product development purposes and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our subscriber base. We use this information for analysis purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships.
Customizing Your Experience
We use the information that we collect to allow advertising to be targeted to the users for whom such advertising is most pertinent. We also use this information to customize certain features of ABP to provide you with an enhanced experienced based on the type of device you are using to access ABP, and in certain cases, provide you with requested services.
Relevant Advertising
We may use demographic and preference information to allow advertising on ABP Service to be targeted to the users for whom they are most pertinent. This means users see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and the effectiveness of the ads. We disclose information to third parties only in aggregate or de-identified form.
Email Newsletters
ABP will periodically send you email newsletters or promotional email about services offered by ABP and its advertisers. For details about ABP email, please see below:
WHAT IS OUR EMAIL POLICY?
We will not send you marketing messages if you have unsubscribed. You can choose not to receive messages in the future by following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each email. We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address for commercial purposes without your permission. However, we will only share your email id with our registered partners in conformance with law. If you feel you have received an email from us in error, please contact newsletter.feedback@abpdigital.in
Email Newsletters. Anandabazar offers several email newsletters. If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter.
Survey Email. We may invite you to participate in user surveys asking for feedback on anandabazar.com and existing or prospective products and services, as well as information to better understand our users. User surveys greatly help us to improve our Services, and any information we obtain in such surveys will not be shared with third parties, except in aggregate form.
Emails from You. If you send us an email, we will use your email address to respond directly to your questions or comments.
Email This Article Feature. Addresses you provide in the "Email" share feature may be saved for your convenience for future articles you may wish to email; but they are not used for any other purpose, and will not be shared with any third parties.
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT WE GATHER?
Within ABP
If you have registered to use ABP, we will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address without your permission.
In the future, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, we may include your information among the transferred assets.
Third Parties
Not with-standing, anything contained herein above, we may share the information provided by you with third parties (in any manner whatsoever) and such consent for sharing information with third parties maybe expressed and / or implied as may be applicable and / or indicated. For abundant caution, it is provided that your participation in our website in any form and / or manner whatsoever is an implied consent from your end to be bound by our privacy policy and a further implied consent of allowing us to share your information with third parties.
If you are a print subscriber, we may exchange or rent your name and mailing address (but not your email address) and certain other information, such as when you first subscribed to ABP with other reputable companies that offer marketing information or products through direct mail. If you prefer that we do not share this information, you may opt-out by emailing us at support@abpdigital.in, reach out to us here. Or write to us at: ABP Pvt. Ltd. 6, Prafulla Sarkar St. Kolkata-700001, West Bengal, India.
Please include your account number and phone number in the body of your email or letter, and include "Opt-out" in the subject line.
We may share information about attendees to our live events with sponsors or other third parties. If so, we will notify you when you provide us the information.
Service Providers
We contract with other companies to provide services on our behalf, including credit-card and billing processing, ad serving, shipping, email distribution, list processing and analytics or promotions management. We provide these companies only with the information they need to perform their services. These service providers are restricted from using personal information in any way other than to provide services for ABP, and they may not share, resell or use the data for their own direct marketing purposes.
We reserve the right to disclose your opt-out information to third parties so they can suppress your name from future solicitations, in accordance with applicable laws. We may occasionally release personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena.
HOW DO I CHANGE OR UPDATE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Manage Your ABP Account in the My Account Area. You may review and update your ABP membership or account information and access your transaction history in the My Account area. We will respond to inquiries regarding deletion of data within a reasonable timeframe.
Data Retention. We will retain your information for at least as long as your account is active, as needed to provide you services or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. As a matter of course, we will delete personally identifiable information associated with accounts that have been inactive for at least 15 years.
HOW DO I OPT-OUT?
If, at any time, you prefer not to receive email marketing information from us, simply follow the unsubscribe options at the bottom of each email.
If you experience difficulty with the unsubscribe process, feel free to contact us at support@abpdigital.in and provide your email address along with the name of the newsletter from which you would like to unsubscribe.
Mail or Telephone Promotions
If, at any time, you prefer not to receive mail or telephone solicitations originated by ABP Home Delivery Department, or if you prefer that we do not share this information with third parties for marketing purposes, please email us at support@abpdigital.in or write to us at ABP Pvt. Ltd. 6, Prafulla Sarkar St. Kolkata-700001, West Bengal, India. Please include your account number and phone number in the body of your email or letter, and put "Opt-out" in the subject line.
It is further provided that if you wish ABP to delete your data provided by you to ABP you are requested to send an email to support@abpdigital.in by expressly stating that the data provided by you be deleted. However ABP can only delete the data you provided to ABP and this deletion shall in no manner deem to be deletion of your data that you may have provided to your linked third party social media accounts.
Use of Third Party Personal Information
If you choose to use "email this article" or give a Gift subscription, we require the recipient's name and email address. We will automatically send them a one-time email about the service. ABP does not store this information.
IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED?
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative controls to protect the information. Please note that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
OTHER INFORMATION
Compliance With Legal Process
We may access, preserve and disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of ABP; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).
Changes to This Policy
We evaluate this privacy policy periodically in light of changing business practices, technology and legal requirements. As a result, it is updated from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use or share your personal information, you will be notified via email and/or prominent notice.