MaaMahila.org
This document is an electronic record in terms of
Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and the
provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by
the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a
computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures to make
the terms of this policy binding.
At maamahila.org data protection is a matter of
trust and your privacy is very important to us. We use your personal
information only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. Please read this
privacy policy to learn more about our information gathering and dissemination
practices.
The privacy practices of this statement apply to
our services available under the domain and sub-domains of maamahila.org (the
"Site") and apply generally to our parent, affiliates, subsidiaries
or joint venture websites. By visiting the Site you agree to be bound by the
terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains how the Site gathers
personal information, classified as mandatory or optional as part of the normal
operation of our services; and uses, discloses and protects such information
through the Site. This detailed privacy policy enables you to take informed
decisions in dealings with us. Our parent, subsidiaries and joint ventures
operate under similar privacy practices subject to the requirements of
applicable law.
By registering with maamahila.org, you acknowledge
your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy, expressly consent to our
use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy
Policy and that any personal information provided by you through maamahila.org is
provided under a lawful contract. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and
subject to the terms of the User Agreement. Note: Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without
notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy
periodically.
Your Privacy
At maamahila.org,
we are extremely proud of our commitment to protect your privacy. We value your
trust in us. We work hard to earn your confidence so that you can
enthusiastically use our services and recommend your friends and family to
participate in dealing with us. Please read the following policy to understand
how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our Site.
Maamahila.org Privacy Assurance
Maamahila.org promises that we will not sell or
rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your explicit consent. From time to time we may reveal general
statistical information about our Web site and visitors, such as number of
visitors, number and type of goods and services purchased, etc. Your trust and
confidence is our highest priority.
Information that maamahila.org collects
When you use our Site, we collect and store your
personal information. We gather your personal information in order to record,
support and facilitate your participation in the activities you select, track
your preferences, to provide you with a customized Site experience, to notify
you of any updated information and new activities and other related functions
offered by maamahila.org, keep you informed about latest content available on
the Site, special offers, and other products and services of Maa Mahila, to
assist you with customer service or technical support issues, to follow up with
you after your visit, to otherwise support your relationship with Maa Mahila or
to prevent fraud and unlawful use. For the aforesaid purpose, we only collect
such personal information that we consider relevant to understand you or your
interests.
In general, you can visit the
Site without having to provide your personal information during which time you
remain anonymous and at no time can we identify you unless you have an account
on the Site and log on with your user name and password. Once you provide your
personal information, you are no more anonymous to us. To fully use our Site,
you will need to register using our online registration form, where you may be
required to provide us with your name, date of birth, contact number, email id,
user id, password, residence / place of business information, billing
information, shipping information, bank account details and other personal
information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site. Further the fields
are marked as mandatory or optional. You always have the option to not provide
information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the Site.
You may provide us with your maamahila.org registered user ID. We may
automatically track certain information about you based upon your behavior on
our Site. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track
a user’s movement and gather broad demographic information, to better
understand, protect and serve our users. This information is compiled and
analyzed on an aggregated basis. This information may include the URL that you
just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go
to (whether this URL is on our site or not), your computer browser information,
and your IP address.
We use data collection devices
such as "cookies" on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our
web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.
"Cookies" are small files which identify your computer to our server
as a unique user when you visit certain pages on the Site and they are stored
by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. We offer certain
features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". We
also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a
session. Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your
interests. 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 in that
case you may not be able to use full functionality of the Site. We only use
cookies for your convenience in using the Site and not for obtaining or using
any other information about you. We do not control the use of cookies by third
parties.
If you choose to buy or sell on
the Site, we collect information about your buying and selling behavior.
If you are a seller, we also
collect some additional information, such as a billing address, banking
information other payment instrument details and tracking information from
cheques or money orders.
If you choose to post messages on
our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback for
other users, we retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes,
provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or
letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your
activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file
specific to you.
If you register for the Site on another web site or use a
web site providing a service for MaaMahila or a web site that helps facilitates
your activity on the Site, that web site may provide personal information about
you and your transactions back to us.
Device Information
Device
attributes: information such as the operating system, hardware and software
versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser
type, app and file names and types, and plugins.
Device operations:
information about operations and behaviours performed on the device, such as
whether a window is foregrounded or backgrounded, or mouse movements (which can
help distinguish humans from bots).
Identifiers: unique identifiers, device IDs and other identifiers,
such as from games, apps or accounts that you use.
Device signals: Bluetooth signals, information about nearby Wi-Fi
access points.
Data from device settings: information that you allow us to receive
through device settings that you turn on, such as access to your GPS location,
camera or photos.
Network and connections: information such as the name of your
mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, IP address,
connection speed.
Our use of your information
We use your personal information to facilitate the
services you request. We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any
personally-identifying information of our Users. We may provide your collected
information to our affiliates and service providers under contract (such as
customer care, data analytics) to support the operation of the Website and our
services. To the extent we use your personal information to market to you, we
will provide you the ability to opt-out of such uses. We use your personal
information to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe
trading; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in the services provided
by us, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and
updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud
and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement, and in general to
improve the user experience and make it comparable to other e-commerce
websites; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. In our
efforts to continually improve our product and service offerings, we collect
and analyze demographic, profile and usage data about our users' activity on
our Site.
We use your personal information
to improve our platform, improve the Site's content and product offerings,
prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and tailor it to meet your
needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized
experience while using the Site. We may also use your personal information to
display contents and services that are targeted to your interests. By accepting
the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this
information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage
you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications in your profile under
My Account or by clicking unsubscribe any email communication. You may make
changes to your profile at any time.
Our Disclosure of your
information
Your personal information is an important part of
our business and we are not in the business of selling it to others. Maa Mahila
shares your personal information only to categories of persons that are either
subject to this Privacy Policy or follow practices at least as protective as
those described in this Privacy Policy as more particularly described below:
Advertisements
A. Where a user enters information on any form of
an advertiser, the information is simultaneously collected by maamahila.org and
the advertiser. The information is used by maamahila.org in accordance with the
terms of this privacy policy and is used by the advertiser as per the
advertiser’s prevalent privacy policies. Since we do not control the privacy
practices of these advertisers, you should evaluate their practices before
deciding to provide the said information.
B. maa mahila may also use
personally identifiable information in an aggregated form and disclose to
advertisers and other third parties for other marketing and promotional
purposes.
Classifieds Listings
When a user lists a classified advertisement, and
the advertisement receives an expression of interest by the interested user,
the interested user will be provided the contact information of the user
listing the advertisement as provided in the user's registration form.
Items and Services offered on the Site by
third parties
There are certain items and services for which third parties request
for information to perform services on our behalf. (example: an image/picture
for a customized mug/t-shirt). The information provided by the user for such
purposes is simultaneously collected by MaaMahila.org and the respective third
party. This information is utilized by the third party in accordance with its
privacy policy and the terms of the offer. Because we do not control the
privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their practices
before deciding to use their services.
Internal Service Providers
We may employ third parties services to facilitate
or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service
operations that we provide to you on the Site (e.g., search technology,
discussion boards, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded
credit cards) and therefore we may provide some of your personal information to
these internal service providers. These internal service providers' are subject
to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that
prohibit their use of your personal information for any other purpose except to
facilitate the specific outsourced service. In the event of your direct involvement
with the internal service provider, any additional information disclosed by you
to them shall be subject to internal service provider’s own applicable privacy
policy and maamahila.org shall not be responsible for the same.
Other Corporate Entities
We share much of our data, including personal information about you,
with our parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and joint ventures that are
committed to serving your online trading needs and related services, throughout
the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your personal
information, they remain bound by the existing Privacy Policy. As we continue
to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries or business
units. In such transactions, customer’s personal information generally is one
of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in
any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
Legal Requests
We cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory inquiries, as well as
other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights,
fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the community from bad actors.
Therefore, in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other
government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal
activity, we may (and you authorize us to) disclose some of your personal
information as is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders,
or other legal process. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement
offices, third party rights owners, or others in the good faith belief that
such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms or Privacy
Policy; respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content
violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or
personal safety of our users or the general public.
Your use of other users' information
In order to facilitate interaction among all maamahila.org members
(buyers, sellers, services providers such as payment gateways and 3PLs, our
Site allows you to access other users' contact information. Further, as a
seller you will be sent via email the maamahila.org registered user ID email
address and other information, and as a winning buyer you will be sent via
email the maamahila.org registered user ID, email address and other information
of the seller. By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with
respect to other user's personally identifiable information that you obtain
through the Site or through a maamahila.org-related communication or MaaMahila-facilitated
transaction, maamahila.org hereby grants to you a license to use such
information only for:
(a). MaaMahila related
communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, (b). using
co-branded services offered through ShopClues.com (e.g. insurance, shipping and
fraud complaints), and (c). any other purpose that such user expressly opts
into after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s).
In all cases, you must give users
an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review
what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no
circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally
identifiable information about another user to any third party without our consent
and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure.
Maamahila.org and our users do
not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not
licensed to add a Maamahila.org user-even a user who has purchased an item from
you-to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent
after adequate disclosure.
What about children's privacy?
Use of Maamahila.org is available only to persons who can form a
legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. If you are under
the age of 18, you cannot buy or sell any items on the Site. If you wish to
purchase or sell an item on the Site such purchase or sale may be made by your
legal guardian or parents who have registered as users of the Site.
Access or change your personally
identifiable information
To protect your privacy and security, we will verify your identity
before granting access or making changes to your personally identifying
information. If you have registered your profile on Maamahila.org, your
registered user ID and Password are required in order to access your profile
information.
Security
When you place orders or access your account information, we offer the
use of a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all
information you put in before it is sent to us. Once your information is in our
possession we adhere to strict security guidelines in compliance with the
(Indian) Information Technology Act, 2000, protecting it against unauthorized
access.
Your Consent
By using the Site and/ or by providing your information, you
acknowledge our use of your personal information in the manner as set out in
this Privacy Policy. Any changes to our privacy policy will be communicated
through our Web site at least 10 days in advance of implementation. Name and
address of the entity collecting and retaining your information shall be the
contracting entity stated in the Maamahila.org User Agreement.
Grievance Officer:
In
accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made there under, the
name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are published on the Site in
User Agreement.