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This policy tells you about how we use and protect your personal information.
Contents
Scope
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal
information for our services on the hotgurgaon.com websites. It applies generally
to the hotgurgaon.com.com website and other related websites where this policy appears
in the footer of the page. Some hotgurgaon.com-branded websites or websites we operate
may be governed by separate privacy policies. The policy that applies on any of
our domains or subdomains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each
website.
Our subsidiaries’ and joint ventures’ privacy practices
are similar to those described in this Privacy Policy. Subject to the requirements
of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout
the global hotgurgaon.com trading community. By accepting the Privacy Policy and
the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage,
use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise
effective on July 9, 2007.
Collection
You can browse our sites without telling us who you are
or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal
information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal
information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our
servers located in the United States.
We may collect and store the following personal information:
- email address,
physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial
information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
- transactional
information based on your activities on the sites (such as buying item
and content you generate or that relates to your account);
- shipping,
billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;
- community
discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence
sent to us;
- other information
from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including
computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from
the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
- information
from other companies, such as demographic and traffic data; and
- other supplemental
information from third parties (for example, if you incur a debt to hotgurgaon.com,
we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about
you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law; or if the information you provide
cannot be verified, we may ask you to send us additional information, such as your
driver license, credit card statement, or a recent utility bill or other information
confirming your address, or to answer additional questions online to help verify
your information).
Marketing
We don't sell or rent your personal information to third
parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine
your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to
improve and personalize our services, content and advertising. If you don't wish
to receive marketing communications from us or participate in our ad-customization
programs, simply indicate your preference once you sign-on in My hotgurgaon.com
(or similar account status page) or by following the directions provided in an email
or from a link on the advertisement.
Use
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information
is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You
agree that we may use your personal information to:
- provide
the services and customer support you request;
- resolve
disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
- prevent
potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement;
- customize,
measure and improve our services, content and advertising;
- tell you
about targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your
communication preferences; and
- compare
information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information to respond to legal
requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content
violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety.
We may also share your personal information with:
- Members
of our corporate family to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and
provide joint content and services (for example, registration, transactions and
customer support). Our corporate affiliates will send marketing communications only
to users who request these services.
- Service
providers under contract who help with our business operations (such as fraud investigations,
bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs and co-branded credit cards).
- Other third
parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information (or about whom you
are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service).
- Law enforcement
or other governmental officials, in response to a verified request relating to a
criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity. In such events, we will disclose
information relevant to the investigation, such as name, city, state, zip code,
telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints,
and bidding and listing history.
- hotGurgoan
VeRO Program participants under confidentiality agreement, as we in our sole discretion
believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual
property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, we will
disclose name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email
address and company name.
- Other business
entities, should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity. (Should
such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this
privacy policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information
will be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.)
Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your
privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not
otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government
officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially
similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure
of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss
or to report suspected illegal activity.
Activity Associated with User IDs
Your User ID is displayed throughout hotgurgaon.com and
is therefore available to the public. All of your activity on our sites is traceable
to your User ID. Other people can see your bids, items that you have purchased in
the past, items for sale, storefronts, feedback, ratings and associated comments,
and so on. Notices are sent to other community members regarding suspicious activity
and policy violations on our sites and refer to User IDs and specific items. Therefore,
if you associate your name with your User ID, the people to whom you have revealed
your name will be able to personally identify your hotgurgaon.com activities.
Using Information from hotgurgaon.com
hotgurgaon.com enables you to share personal and financial
information to complete transactions. We encourage you to disclose your privacy
practices and respect the privacy of other users. We cannot guarantee the privacy
or security of your information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy
and security policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction
and choosing to share your information. To help protect your privacy, we allow only
limited access to other users' contact, shipping and financial information to facilitate
your transactions. When users are involved in a transaction, they may have access
to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information.
In all cases, you must give other users a chance to remove themselves from your
database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them.
You agree to use user information only for:
- hotgurgoan.com
transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages;
- using services
offered through hotgurgaon.com (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud
complaints), or
- other purposes
that a user expressly chooses.
Cookies
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive)
on certain of our pages to help analyze our web page flow; customize our services,
content and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and
safety. A few important things you should know about cookies are that:
- We offer
certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
- We use cookies
to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
- Most cookies
are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard
drive at the end of a session.
- You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may
interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.
- You may
encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we do not
control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may
be a cookie placed by that web page.)
No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing
We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set
your hotgurgaon.com notification preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer.
You are not licensed to add other hotgurgaon.com users, even a user who has purchased
an item from you, to your mailing list (email or physical mail) without their express
consent. To report hotgurgaon.com-related spam or spoof emails to hotgurgaon.com,
please forward the email . You may not use our
communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our
User Agreement. We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to check
for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited
content, but we do not permanently store messages sent through these tools. If you
send an email to an email address that is not registered in our community (via Refer-a-Friend
or other tools), we do not permanently store that email or use that email address
for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.
Account Protection
Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers,
letters and special characters, and do not disclose your hotgurgaon.com password
to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others,
remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account.
If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your
personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your
behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should
immediately notify hotgurgaon.com and change your password.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
You can see, review and change most of your personal information
by signing on to hotgurgaon.com. Generally, we will not manually modify your personal
information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. You must
promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Once you
make a public posting, you may not be able to change or remove it. Upon your request,
we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon
as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable
law. We do retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with law,
prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist
with any investigations and take other actions
otherwise permitted by law.
Security
Your information is stored on our servers located in the
United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use lots of
tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect your personal
information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, as you probably
know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that
they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information
or private communications will always remain private.
Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy
Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect
from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are bidders,
buyers or sellers on our sites or other sites throughout the internet, different
rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them.
hotgurgaon.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are
subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage
you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting
the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days
after they are initially posted on the Site. In addition, we will notify you through
the hotgurgaon.com Message Center. If your questions are not answered online, you
may write to us at: hotgurgaon.com
Disclaimer
The content posted by users on this website belongs to
a private person, www.hotgurgaon.com is not responsible for the content posted
by the users.
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