Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 17/04/2026
We respect your privacy. Tamil Cinema 360 (tamilcinema360.in) is an entertainment news portal which focuses on the Kollywood film industry. This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, storage and protection of your personal data as you visit our web site. Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) and the Information Technology Act, 2000, govern this policy, which applies to all visitors and users in India and around the world.
1. Who We Are
Tamil Cinema 360 is an online entertainment news portal which can be accessed through tamilcinema360.in and is located in Tamil Nadu, India. We report on news, reviews, trailers, celebrity interviews, box office news and film gossip pertaining to the Tamil Kollywood film industry.
In the context of the DPDPA, 2023, we are the Data Fiduciary – the party that specifies the purposes and the methods according to which your personal data is handled.
2. Data We Collect
We retain personal information that is just as much as we need to give you a good and personalised news experience. Our data categories can be:
Data You Provide
Your name, email and any other data that you provide on the comment forms, newsletter subscriptions or contact details.
Automatically Collected Data
IP address, type of browser, operating system, referring URLs, visited pages, time spent on pages, and devices.
Cookie Data
Your device retains preferences, session identifiers and analytics markers via cookies and other tracking technologies.
Third-Party Data
Information obtained through analytics partners (e.g., Google Analytics), advertising networks, depending on your interactions with our content.
3. How We Use Your Data
We handle your personal information:
– To show and provide entertainment news content, such as film news of Kollywood, celebrity news, and box office news.
– To run and enhance the technical functionality of our site.
– To e-mail newsletters or content digests that you subscribe to.
– In order to enable you to leave comments and interact with our material.
– To show appropriate advertisements using our advertising partners.
– To study the user behaviour and enhance the editorial and user experience.
– To meet the legal requirements of the Indian law.
– To answer the questions, comments or messages you send to us.
We do not issue automated decisions based on your personal information which have a major impact on you, or profile you to better your content experience on our platform.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
We use your personal data under the following legal grounds under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023:
Consent: In cases where you have willingly given information (e.g. by entering your email on the newsletter subscriptions page or leaving a comment) we depend on your informed and explicit consent. You may take back this consent at any time.
Legitimate Use: We analyze some information in order to meet the law, legal rights enforcement, emergency response, or because of other functions that you have voluntarily triggered.
Contractual Necessity: It is a necessary provision of data needed to render a service you have ordered (e.g. email newsletters).
The IT Act 2000 and the IT (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and SPDI) Rules, 2011 also will be applicable to the degree to which they are still in force at the period of the implementation of the DPDPA.
5. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Our cookies and other related technologies are used to ensure our website works properly and to learn how it is utilised. Complete information is in our separate Cookie Policy. In summary, we use:
Essential Cookies: The cookies are necessary and cannot be disabled by the website.
Analytics Cookies: Tracks visitor behaviour in aggregate and assists us in improving our content, which is used by tools like Google Analytics.
Advertising Cookies: these are shown by advertising networks to display the appropriate advertisement based on what you are doing. These can follow you around the sites.
Preference Cookies: To save your preferences, including language or display preferences.
The management of your preferences concerning cookies can be achieved either using your browser preferences or our cookie consent form at any moment. You will not be denied access to our content because you do not give consent to non-essential cookies.
6. Third-Party Sharing
Your personal data is not sold by us. We might only share your information with third parties who are trusted in the following situations:
Analytics Providers: Google Analytics (aggregated, anonymised usage data)
Advertising Networks: Google AdSense and other such partners who advertise on our site. To display customised advertisements, these networks can use cookies to be served with information about your previous visits to our site and other websites.
Email Service Providers: To send newsletters or transactional emails (e.g., comment notifications) on our behalf.
Legal Authorities: Court order or other legal government request under the Information Technology Act, 2000 or any other Indian law which may be applicable.
Business Transfers: In the event Tamil Cinema 360 is sold, acquired, or merged, your data might be transferred during this event.
Any third parties we share data with must maintain the right level of security and may only access your data according to the intended use.
7. Your Data Principal Rights.
You, as a Data Principal, under the DPDPA, 2023, have the following rights to your personal data:
Right to Access
You can demand the overview of your personal information that we handle and processing activities related to it.
Right to Correction
You can ask us to correct or complete any personal information that we have about you that is not accurate or complete.
Right to Erasure
You can also demand the removal of your personal data when it is not needed anymore to the purpose of its collection, up to the legal requirements.
Right to Withdraw Consent.
At any point, you can revoke consent to process data. Processing that has already been done on the ground of prior consent is not subject to withdrawal.
Right to Redressal of Grievances.
You can complain to us and, in case we are unable to handle it, go to the Data Protection Board of India.
Right to Nominate
You can appoint a third party to act on your data rights in case of your death or incapacity.
In order to exercise any of these rights, please mail us at [email protected]. Our reply will be within a reasonable time and in compliance with the law.
8. Data Retention
We hold your personal information as long as we need it to achieve the purposes which led to its collection or as stipulated by the relevant Indian law. Specifically:
The newsletter subscriber information is stored until a time when you unsubscribe.
The data of comments will be stored as long as the corresponding content is still up on our site.
The usual retention of server logs and analytics information is 12-26 months.
Information that must be in line with legal requirements may be stored more than is necessary by law.
On the expiry of the retention period, we safely destroy or anonymise your personal data.
9. Children’s Privacy
Tamil Cinema 360 is a general entertainment news site aimed at targeting the audience between 13 and 18 years old. According to the DPDPA, 2023, we do not willingly gather any personal data without confirmed parental or guardian consent of children under the age of 18.
We have no behavioural surveillance, no targeted advertising, or other processing that harms the well-being of minors. In case we realize that we have accidentally gathered personal information on a child without relevant consent, we will destroy the information as soon as possible.
In case you feel that we have gathered information about a child without due consent, then please call us up at once at [email protected].
10. Data Security
We have reasonable technical and organisational controls in place to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your personal data. These measures include:
Data between your browser and our servers is encrypted with SSL/TLS.
Controlled and secure server infrastructure.
Review of our data handling practices and data processors regularly.
Restricting access to personal data to authorised staff only.
We will inform the Data Protection Board of India and concerned users as mandated by the DPDPA, 2023, in case of a personal data breach that is likely to cause a risk to your rights and interests.
Though we exercise every possible care, no data transmission system on the internet can be assured to be completely secure. Our web site is in this respect used at your own risk.
11. Cross-Border Data Transfers
Our third-party service providers such as analytics and advertising platforms are also based in other countries besides India. The DPDPA, 2023, permits the transfer of personal data to the countries that are not limited by the Government of India. In case of such transfers, we make sure that the recipient offers a similar degree of protection to your data.
You can also get in touch with us to get additional information regarding the protection that is being offered to any cross-border data transfers that applies to your personal data.