Privacy Policy

A. Information Collected

We collect two types of information from visitors to the Sites: (1) personal information; and (2) non-personal information. "Personal information" is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you, your household, or device, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, or company name. "Non-personal information" is information that does NOT identify you or your household personally.

(1) Active Collection

We collect and store personal information from you directly, at the time you supply information to us via the Sites, in each case always insofar as permitted and only in accordance with applicable data protection laws. The information we actively collect from you may include:

• Email address, first and last name, mailing address and billing information if you subscribe to the Sites.
• Email address if you contact us with a question or seek more information about us through the Sites.
• Name and email address if you enter or otherwise communicate in a chat room, blog or other public area on the Sites or on one of Modern Digital World's social networking pages.
• Email address and name if you sign up to receive a newsletter from one of the Sites or if you otherwise request information from the Sites.
• Demographic information, which may include your gender, age, zip code and interests, which you voluntarily provide to us on the Sites.
• Social media information, political affiliations, and interests, to get a better idea of how to serve you (where consent is required under applicable law).
• Location information if you choose to allow us to track your location through the Sites or if your personal information indicates a certain geographic location.

(2) Passive Collection

We may collect information passively while you are visiting or interacting with the Sites. The information we passively collect from you may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data. We use this information to deliver our webpages to you upon request, to tailor our Sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our Sites.
• Cookies and other similar technologies. One way that we collect information passively is through cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies. For more information, please see Section K below.

For your reference, we have provided a chart of the categories of personal information we may have collected about you in the past 12 months:

B. Use of Information Collected Via the Sites

(1) Personal Information

We use your personal information that is collected on these Sites for the purposes set forth above. We primarily use information for the following purposes:

• To alert you to updated information about Modern Digital World, or other third parties, or, with your prior consent, to forward promotional materials.
• To try to ensure the Sites are relevant to your needs.
• To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
• To notify you about a material change to this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, if necessary.
• To manage your subscriptions to the Sites, allow you access to limited-entry areas of the Sites, verify your access to your subscription accounts, and handle other customer support inquiries.
• To generate web analytics and compile user information for marketing purposes, advertising, conducting marketing analysis, providing you with recommendations for products or services based on your profile, and promotional material planning and distribution.
• To contact you in response to proposals or inquiries that you submit on the Sites.
• To use as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection of personal information.

(2) Non-Personal Information

Non-personal information is used similarly as described above and in other ways as permitted by applicable laws, including combining non-personal information with personal information.

C. Legal Bases for Processing

We process personal information in accordance with applicable law and with transparency and fairness. Our processing activities are conducted:

• With your consent;
• In order to establish and fulfill our contractual obligations to you — for example to provide the services and products you buy from us or to provide you information, products, and technical support that you request from us;
• For the legitimate purpose of operating our business, including to improve and develop our services, for fraud prevention purposes, and to improve user experience;
• To comply with our legal obligations, including to meet our obligations in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, investigative, and disciplinary purposes; and
• As otherwise in compliance with the law.

D. Sharing and Disclosure of Information

(1) Personal Information

We may share or disclose your personal information to the following parties and in the following instances, in each case always only in accordance with applicable data protection laws:

• To vendors, affiliates, and other third parties to process your request for a subscription, including credit card processing and payment services.
• To vendors, affiliates, strategic partners, agents, third party marketers or other unaffiliated parties for advertising and marketing purposes, including generating web analytics and conducting marketing analysis.
• To unaffiliated third-party service providers, agents or independent contractors who help us maintain our Sites and provide other administrative services to us.
• To unaffiliated third-party service providers, agents or independent contractors to fulfill a request made by you.
• To government authorities or law enforcement officials as required by law or for administrative purposes.
• To our advisers, any prospective purchaser's advisers, and the new owner of the business as part of any corporate reorganization process including mergers, acquisitions, and sales of assets.
• To verify your information against potential fraud, we may verify with third parties the information collected from these Sites.

(2) Non-Personal Information

We may share non-personal information collected on the Sites in the manner disclosed above and in other ways as permitted by law, including sharing aggregate usage and volume statistical information with third parties.

E. Collection and Use of Information from Children

The Sites are not intended for use by persons under the age of 13, or under the age of 18 for EEA visitors. Modern Digital World does not knowingly collect information from visitors under the age of 13, or 18 in the EEA. In the event that we learn that a person under these ages has provided Modern Digital World with personal information, we will promptly delete such personal information from our systems.

F. International Transfer of Information

If you choose to provide Modern Digital World with personal information, and with your prior consent or otherwise in accordance with applicable law, Modern Digital World may transfer that information to its affiliates and subsidiaries or to other third parties, across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.

With knowledge of these risks, you understand that:

• Your personal information may be used for the uses identified above in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection law; and
• Your personal information may be transferred internationally as indicated above.

For further information on or to request a copy of the aforementioned safeguards, please email nasrul[at]dgtalworld.com.

G. Your Rights and Choices

Please contact Modern Digital World at the methods provided below if you have questions about your personal information or if you would like to otherwise make a change to such information or would like to opt out of marketing.

Additionally, residents of the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland have the right to:

• Obtain confirmation as to whether or not your personal information exists and to be informed of its content and source, verify its accuracy and request its completion, update, or amendment;
• Request the deletion, anonymization or restriction of the processing of your personal information;
• Object to the processing, in all cases, of your personal information for legitimate reasons;
• Withdraw consent at any time if we have asked for your consent to process your personal information;
• Receive an electronic copy of your personal information;
• Lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection supervisory authority.

These rights might be limited in some situations — for example, where we can demonstrate that we have a legal requirement to process your data.

H. Opt-Out of Communications

We communicate with users who subscribe to our services on a regular basis via email. Generally, users cannot opt-out of transactional communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional. However, we provide you the opportunity to exercise an opt-out choice with respect to promotional communications by contacting us at nasrul[at]dgtalworld.com, or by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link within the text of any email.

I. Forums, Chat Rooms and Other Public Posting Areas

Please note that any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public posting area is available to anyone with Internet access. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN SUCH AREAS.

J. Third Party Websites

This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on the Sites. The Sites may contain links to other websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites.

K. Cookies and Ads

We use, and may allow certain third parties (including advertisers, third party ad networks, and other ad companies) to use, cookies and other similar technologies to provide our services, serve advertisements on the Sites, and to improve the performance of Modern Digital World's advertising across the Internet.

• Cookies and Web Beacons — We may use certain kinds of technology such as cookies and web beacons or work with third party web analytic service providers to collect information about how you use the Sites. Among other things, the use of cookies enables us to improve our services by seeing which areas and features are most popular, to personalize and improve your experience, to record your preferences, and to allow you to visit our Sites without re-entering your username and/or password. A cookie is a small amount of data which is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive or your mobile device. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY DOES NOT COVER THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION BY SUCH THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND ADVERTISING COMPANIES.

L. Assignment

In the unlikely event of a direct or indirect reorganization process including, but not limited to, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, bankruptcies, and sales of all or a part of our assets, Modern Digital World may disclose your personal information and non-personal information following completion of such transaction and/or during the assessment process pending transfer. If transferred in such a case, the purchaser will abide by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

M. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. When we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on the Sites.

N. Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the information you provide us. We may use third party products and services to secure or store your information. Please understand that no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information that you transfer to Modern Digital World is done at your own risk.

We use firewalls to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. If we learn of a security systems breach we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps.

The personal information record created through your registration with our Sites can only be accessed with the unique password associated with that record. You are responsible for all acts or omissions that occur on your account while your password is being used. Please let us know immediately if you believe your password has been compromised.

O. Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the products and services you have requested. Afterwards, we may retain data for an appropriate period to protect ourselves from legal claims, to administer our business, or to the extent permitted by applicable law. We will delete your personal information when you withdraw your consent, if there is no other legal ground for further processing, or when we are obligated to delete it in accordance with an obligation under applicable law.

P. Disputes and Agreement to Arbitrate

Where permitted under applicable law, by using the Sites, you and Modern Digital World agree that, if there is any controversy, claim, action, or dispute arising out of or related to your use of the Sites or the breach, enforcement, interpretation, or validity of these Terms of Use or any part of them ("Dispute"), both parties shall first try in good faith to settle such Dispute by providing written notice to the other party describing the facts and circumstances of the Dispute and allowing the receiving party thirty (30) days in which to respond to or settle the Dispute.

Both you and Modern Digital World agree that this dispute resolution procedure is a condition precedent that must be satisfied before initiating any litigation or filing any claim against the other party.

All disputes arising out of or in connection with this Privacy Policy or the use of any Modern Digital World LLC App shall be exclusively submitted to the jurisdiction of the local courts in the Sultanate of Oman.

Q. Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may be entitled to the below rights:

• The right to know. You may request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as the categories of sources from which such information is collected, the purpose for collecting such information, and the sale or disclosure for business purposes of your personal information to third parties.
• The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. We do not sell your personal information at this time, we do not share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and we do not sell the personal information of children under 16 years old.
• The right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.
• The right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights mentioned above.

S. How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals

The "Do Not Track" ("DNT") privacy preference is an option that may be made in some web browsers allowing you to opt-out of tracking by websites and online services. At this time, global standard DNT technology is not yet finalized and not all browsers support DNT. We do not sell data in the traditional sense of a "sale" nor do we utilize third party advertising vendors who may use information collected through our Sites to track users. We do recognize the Global Privacy Control.

T. Data Controller and Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact the data controller at: