If Users are invited to submit personal information in any form, this submission is assumed purely voluntary. We may disclose the Users’ personally identifiable information to our affiliates worldwide that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy, but only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy applies only to this Website to the exclusion of any third party websites. The Website may provide links to other sites which it believes may be of interest to the users of the Website. We do not guarantee the privacy standards of those sites to which it links or be responsible for the contents of sites other than this one, and this Privacy policy is not intended to be applicable to any linked, third party site.

We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

• Information you provide – As a Registered User, we ask you for Registration Data (such as your name, company name, phone nos., email address, postal address, PAN, Bank details, account password, etc.) which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of providing such information. You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case the Website may not be able to provide any or all services to you.
• Cookies – When you visit the Website, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people use the Website, we also uses cookies in for advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web.
• Log information – When you access the Website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a Website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. Also, in order to protect you from fraud, phishing, and other misconduct, we may collect information about your interaction with our servers. Any such information we collect will only be used to detect and prevent fraud or other misconduct.
• User communications – When you send email or other communications to the Website, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
• Affiliated sites – We may offer some of our services in connection with other websites. If necessary, the information that you provide us might be shared with such websites in order to facilitate the objectives of the Website. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and you are required to read their privacy policies and shall be bound by the terms of use of such websites. We shall not be liable for any policies and practices of such websites.
• Links – The Website may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.

We only process personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing our services to Users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
• Developing new services.

Information sharing

Personal data may occasionally be transferred to third parties who act for or on our behalf, or in connection with the business of the Website, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected, as mentioned herein. Where such disclosure of personal data to a third party occurs, we shall endeavour to ensure that the processing is performed in accordance with the purposes and within the limits under which the data were originally collected.

We only share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of the Website in the following limited circumstances:

• We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.
• We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of the Website, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
• In the event that the business of this Website and the customer data connected with it is merged, sold, assigned or transferred, in which case we would require the buyer, assignee or transferee to treat personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use the Website, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask Users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).