What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Shine.com (HT Media Limited) does with your data
Shine profiles you with scoring and ranking tools that feed job matching and ad relevance, lets Google personalise ads across its network from your usage, and shares your data with employers, recruiters, HT Group entities and credit information companies.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Shine.com (HT Media Limited)’s own policy says “we may share Personal Data with Employers/Recruiters”
Our summary shares your personal data with employers and recruiters.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Shine.com (HT Media Limited)’s own policy says “we use profiling and automated tools (including scoring, ranking and heuristics) to support search/match, suggested jobs, recruiter dashboards, fraud signals and ad/communication relevance”
Our summary profiles you with scoring and ranking tools that feed job matching and ad relevance.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
Shine.com (HT Media Limited)’s own policy says “We use Google Analytics to track and report traffic and usage; Google may use collected data to contextualise and personalise ads across its network.”
Our summary Google may use the data collected through its analytics to personalise ads across its own network.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Shine.com (HT Media Limited)’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Keeps your records long-term
- Processes your face or other biometrics
- Trains AI models on your content
Shine.com is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Shine.com (HT Media Limited) do with my personal data?
According to Shine.com (HT Media Limited)'s own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-13, it discloses 3 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps.
Can I withdraw my consent from Shine.com (HT Media Limited)?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Shine.com (HT Media Limited) track me for advertising?
Yes — Shine.com (HT Media Limited)'s published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Shine.com (HT Media Limited) declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-13. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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representative. The DPDP Act 2023 commences in stages up to May 2027, so a request
made today asks for voluntary compliance and records the date you asked.
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