Privacy Policy

Last Revision: November 1, 2025

The Madras Gymkhana Club (MGC) recognises the importance of maintaining your privacy. We
value your privacy and appreciate your trust in us. This Privacy Policy sets out how MGC uses
and protects any information that you give MGC when you use this https://mgcbridge.in MGC is
committed to ensure that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain
information by which you can be identified when using the https://mgcbridge.in site, then you can
be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy as it describes how we
treat user information we collect from you, the policies and procedures on the collection, use,
disclosure and protection of your information when you use our MGC Site.

This Privacy Policy applies to current and former visitors to our site and to our members. By
visiting the https://mgcbridge.in site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. MGC may change this
policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to
ensure that you are happy with any changes.

The website/content/services are made available by MGC established under laws of India,
having its Registered office at The Island, No. 1, Anna Salai, Chennai-600002, Tamilnadu, India.

DEFINITIONS
The terms “MGC”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the THE MADRAS GYKHANA CLUB. The terms
“you” and “your” refer to the user of the https://mgcbridge.in site. The term “Group” means, with
respect to any person, any entity that is controlled by such person, or any entity that controls
such person, or any entity that is under common control with such person, whether directly or
indirectly.

The term “Services” refers to any services offered by MGC whether on the mgcbridge website or
otherwise.

The term “Policy” refers to this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Policy before using the https://mgcbridge.in website or submitting any personal
information to MGC. This Policy is a part of and incorporated within, and is to be read along with,
the Terms of Use.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
In order to provide our services, we may collect the following types of information. This would
depend on the type of services sought by you.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
We might collect your Name, Email address, Phone, master point number and other information
necessary to provide the service requested.

PAYMENT AND BILLING INFORMATION:
We might collect your billing name, billing address and payment method when you buy a
service. We NEVER collect your credit card number or credit card expiry date or other details
pertaining to your credit card on the mgcbridge website. Credit card information will be obtained
and processed by our online payment partner.

INFORMATION YOU POST
We collect information you post in a public space on our mgcbridge website or on a third-party
social media site belonging to MGC. When you send emails or other communications to us, we
may retain those communications in order to process your enquiries or respond to your requests
and improve our services.

USAGE AND PREFERENCE INFORMATION
We collect transaction details related to your use of our Services, and information about your
activity on the Services, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), the type of Services
you requested or provided, comments, domain names, search results selected, number of clicks,
information and pages viewed and searched for, the order of those pages, length of your visit to
our Services, the date and time you used the Services, amount charged, details regarding
application of promotional code, methods used to browse away from the page and any phone
number used to call our customer service number and other related transaction details.

OTHER INFORMATION
If you use https://mgcbridge.in, we may collect information about your IP address and the
browser you’re using. We might look at what site you came from, duration of time spent on our
website, pages accessed or what site you visit when you leave us. We might also collect the
type of mobile device you are using, or the version of the operating system your computer or
device is running.

WAYS OF COLLECTING INFORMATION:
We collect information directly from you:

  • We collect information directly from you when you register on https://mgcbridge.in. We
    also collect information if you post a comment on https://mgcbridge.in or ask us a
    question through phone or email or any other source of communication.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

  •  We use information to contact you:
  • We might use the information you provide to contact you for confirmation of a service
    request on mgcbridge website or for other promotional purposes.
  • We use information to abide by the contracts:
  • We might use the information you provide to carry out our obligations arising from any
    contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the relevant
    information and services.
  • We use information to respond to your requests or questions:
  • We might use your information to confirm your registration and/or for rendering services
    we offer.
  •  We use information to improve our products and services:
  • We might use your information to customize your experience with us. This could include
    displaying content based upon your preferences. We might also use your information to
    understand our users (what they do on our Services, what features they like, how they
    use them, etc.), improve the content and features of our Services (such as by
    personalizing content to your interests), process and complete your transactions, make
    special offers, provide customer support, process and respond to your queries and to
    generate and review reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user base
    and Service usage patterns. If you are a partner, we may use the information to track the
    progress of your service to our customers.
  • We use information to look at site trends and customer interests:
  •  We may use your information to make our website and products better. We may use your
    information to provide you with information about services we consider similar to those
    that you are already using, or have enquired about, or may interest you. If you are a
    registered user, we will contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS or telephone or
    messaging platforms) with information about these services.
  • We use information for security purposes:
  •  We may use information to protect our Club, our employees, our partners, our
    customers, or our mgcbridge website.
  • We use information to send you transactional communications:
  • We might send you emails or SMS about your account or purchase of our services.
  • We use information as otherwise permitted by law:
  • We may combine the information that we receive from third parties with the information
    you give to us and information we collect about you for the purposes set out above.
    Further, we may make anonymous and/or de-identify information collected from you
    through the Services or via other means, including via the use of third-party web analytic
    tools. As a result, our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information
    is not restricted by this Policy, and it may be used and disclosed to others without
    limitation.
  •  We analyse the log files of our mgcbridge website that may contain Internet Protocol (IP)
    addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring, app
    crashes, page viewed and exit websites and applications, operating system, date/time
    stamp, and clickstream data. This helps us to administer the website, to learn about user
    behavior on the site, to improve our product and services, and to gather demographic
    information about our user base as a whole.
  •  SHARING/DISCLOSURE/DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD
    PARTIES:
  • We will share information with third parties who perform services on our behalf:
  •  We may share your information with our vendors, and other service providers or
    business partners, such as payment processing companies, to support our business. For
    example, your information may be shared with outside vendors to send you emails and
    messages or push notifications to your devices in relation to our Services, to help us
    analyze and improve the use of our Services, to process and collect payments.
  •  We will share information with Advertisers and advertising networks:
  •  We will share information with our business partners:
  •  This includes a third party who provides us various services. Our partners use the
    information we give them as described in their privacy policies.
  •  While you place a request to order through the mgcbridge website, your information is
    provided to us and to the vendors with whom you may choose to order. In order to
    facilitate processing your request, we provide your information to vendors in a similar
    manner as if you had made an order directly with the vendors.
  •  We will share information with Other Users:
  •  If you are a partner, we may share your name, phone number and/or profile picture (if
    applicable) with other users to provide them the Services.
  • We may share information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or to
    protect ourselves. We may also share it if a government agency or investigatory body or
    other companies assisting us, requests so.
  •  Obligated under the applicable laws or in good faith to respond to court orders and
    processes; or detecting and preventing against actual or potential occurrence of identity
    theft, fraud, abuse of Services and other illegal acts.
  •  Under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to enforce our Terms of
    Use and other agreements, policies or to protect the rights, property, or safety of MGC,
    our customers, or others, or in the event of a claim or dispute relating to your use of our
    Services. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations
    for the purposes of fraud detection and credit risk reduction.
  • We may share your information for reasons not described in this policy:
  • We may share your information other than as described in this Policy if we notify you and
    you consent to the sharing. We will tell you before we do this.

YOUR CONSENT
By using the https://mgcbridge.in site and the Services provided therein, you agree and consent
to the collection, transfer, use, storage, disclosure and sharing of your information as described
and collected by us in accordance with this Policy. If you do not agree with the Policy, please do
not use or access the https://mgcbridge.in site.

COOKIES
Our https://mgcbridge.in site and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, pixel
tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs, “flash cookies” and similar files or technologies to collect
and store information with respect to your use of the Services and third-party websites.
Cookies are small files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, apps, online
media and advertisements. We use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:

  •  Authenticating users;
  • Remembering user preferences and settings;
  •  Determining the popularity of content;
  •  Analysing site and trends, and generally understanding the online behaviours and
    interests of people who interact with our services.

    A pixel tag (also called a web beacon or clear GIF) is a tiny graphic with a unique identifier,
    embedded invisibly on a webpage (or an online ad or email), and is used to count or track things
    like activity on a webpage or clicks, as well as to access cookies stored on users’ computers.

We use pixel tags to measure the popularity of our various pages, features and services. We
also may include web beacons in e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether the
message has been opened and for other analytics.

To modify your cookie settings, please visit your browser’s settings. By using our Services with
your browser settings to accept cookies, you are consenting to our use of cookies in the manner
described in this section.

DATA SECURITY
We have in place appropriate technical and security measures to secure the information
collected by us.

All information is saved and stored on external servers, which are secured with passwords and
pins to ensure no unauthorised person has access to it.

  •  The MGC shall take steps to help protect rights of privacy and information to prevent
    loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of such
    information, in compliance with the applicable laws.
  •  The MGC does not itself store payment information and works with third party service
    providers. As a result, the MGC does not have direct control/responsibility for payment
    information. Hence, MGC cannot guarantee that transmissions of payment information or
    personal information will always be secure or that unauthorized third parties will never be
    able to defeat the security measures taken by MGC or MGC’s third-party service
    providers.
  • The MGC assumes no liability or responsibility for disclosure of information due to any
    reason, including but not limited to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party
    access, or other causes beyond its control.
  •  Please be aware that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely
    secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee
    the security of your data transmitted through the MGC website. Once we have received
    your information, we will use strict physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to try
    to prevent unauthorised access. You are advised not to send your full credit/debit card
    details through unencrypted electronic platforms.

THIRD PARTY SITES:
The mgcbridge website may contain links to other websites. If you click on one of the links to
third party websites, you may be taken to websites we do not control. Any personal information
about you collected whilst visiting such websites is not governed by this Policy. MGC shall not

be responsible for and has no control over the practices and content of any website accessed
using the links contained on the mgcbridge website. Read the privacy policy of other websites
carefully as this policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those websites. We are not
responsible for these third party sites.
This Policy shall also not apply to any information you may disclose to any of our service
providers/service personnel which we do not require you to disclose to us or any of our service
providers under this Policy.


GRIEVANCES:
In the event you have any grievances relating to the Privacy Policy, please inform within 24
hours of the occurrence of the instance from which the grievance has arisen, by writing an email
to MGC@gmail.com.


CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
The MGC reserves the unconditional right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this
Privacy Policy at any time, without specifically notifying you of such changes. Any changes or
updates will be effective immediately. Your continued use of our services after we publish
changes to this policy shall signify your consent to such changes and agreement to be legally
bound to the same.


JURISDICTION
If you choose to use the mgcbridge website and access the services provided by MGC, any
dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy and MGC’s terms of use. In addition to the
foregoing, any disputes arising under this Policy shall be governed by the laws of India.
Further, please note that the mgcbridge website stores your data with third party servers,. This
third party server has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the
information, details of which are available at https://www.newfold.com/privacy-center
In the event you have questions or concerns about the security measures adopted, you can
contact their data protection/ privacy team/ legal team or designated grievance officer at these
organisations, whose contact details are available in its privacy policy.
If you have any queries relating to the processing or usage of information provided by you in
connection with this Policy or other privacy concerns, you can email us at MGC@gmail.com.

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