Privacy Policy

To avail certain services on our website, users are required to provide certain information for the registration process — namely your name, email address, sex, age, PIN code, and/or your occupation, interests and the like. The information supplied by users enables us to improve our site and provide the most user-friendly experience.

All required information is service dependent. We may use the above user information to maintain, protect and improve our services, and to develop new services.

Such information will not be considered sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain, or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force.

To improve the responsiveness of the site for our users, we may use cookies or similar electronic tools to collect information, assigning each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user’s individual interests. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself — through registration, for example — we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive.

Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the internet know where to send you data, such as the web pages you view; it does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor the site to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within the site.

This policy discloses the privacy practices for our own website only. Our site provides links to other websites that are beyond our control. We shall in no way be responsible for your use of such sites.

We share sensitive personal information with third parties only after obtaining the prior consent of the user, except in the following limited circumstances:

• When it is requested or required by law, or by any court or governmental agency or authority, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection or investigation of offences including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment. Such disclosures are made in good faith and in the belief that they are reasonably necessary for enforcing these terms and for complying with applicable laws and regulations.
• Where we share such information within our group companies, and with the officers and employees of those companies, for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We ensure that recipients of such information agree to process it based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

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

All information gathered on our website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and strictly limited. However, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.

The internet is an ever-evolving medium. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.