Our Privacy Policy

This policy explains how we may collect, use and aggregate personal information about you on indus-valley.com, any mobile or internet connected device or otherwise ("Website"). We respect your personal privacy and are committed to protecting it.

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information.

The following outlines our privacy policy

  • Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected
  • We will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
  • We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
  • We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
  • Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
  • We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
  • We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained. For each visitor to the Website, our servers automatically collect information about which pages are visited and the IP address or domain name of visitors. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Website. Your IP address is not linked to personally identifiable information but is used to gather broad demographic information. This information helps us tailor and improve your experience on the Web Site.

Information we collect

  • General: Portions of our Website require visitors to provide personally identifiable information that may include your name, age, address, e-mail address and facts about your consumer-buying habits.
  • Surveys: We conduct periodic online surveys. For example, visitors to Website may see a pop-up window asking them to voluntarily participate in a user survey.
  • Website usage: We automatically collect IP addresses and Website usage information from you when you visit our Website. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our websites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page, the length of their visits, their browser type and their operating systems.

How we use information that is collected

We may use information collected from visitors in the following ways:

  1. To improve existing features or develop new features, products and services by analyzing how site features are being used.
  2. To award prizes in contests or promotions. Participation in some contests or promotions may require visitors to agree to be contacted by us.
  3. To provide advertisers or other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns. Personally identifiable information is kept private and not distributed to third parties.
  4. To send e-mail notifications about new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you. These contacts are on an opt-in basis only, based on the preferences you have specified with us.

Cookies

We may place a "cookie"; on the browser of your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common in the Internet industry, and many major web sites use them to provide useful features to their customers. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, but may be used to tell when your computer has contacted the Website. We use the information for editorial purposes and for other purposes such as delivery of features and advertisements, so that we can customize delivery of information specific to your interests without compromising privacy. For example, cookies may be used to ensure that you will not see the same ads too often in a single session. We also may use cookies to save your passwords so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit portions of our site.

Registration

The Website may require voluntary registration in order to utilize specific features. These forms require you to give us personally identifiable information, which may include contact information (like your name and e-mail address) and unique identifiers. If you so signify beforehand, we may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners. Unique identifiers are collected only for use as account numbers in our record system. We do not disclose any unique identifiers to any third parties.

The information collected from these registration forms is used to improve existing features or develop new features, products and services by analyzing how site features are being used. Such information may be shared with third parties on an aggregate basis.

Demographic and Profile Data

We also may collect demographic and profile data from you as part of the registration process (i.e., your ZIP code, sex, income level, interest in certain topics). We may use this data to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content we think you might be interested in, displaying the content according to your preferences and informing you of upcoming events on our site. We also share certain demographic and profile data with advertisers and business partners on an aggregated basis.

We will disclose account information only in special cases, such as (i) to comply with valid legal requirements, such as a law, regulation, search warrant or court order; or (ii) when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who, intentionally or unintentionally, may be causing injury or harm to our users or other persons or violating the Terms of Service of the Website.

Links

The Website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites, including any sites that may indicate a special relationship or partnership with us (such as co-branded pages and "powered by" relationships) or the sites of our advertisers that you go to by clicking on a banner ad on the Website. We do not disclose unique identifiers to those responsible for the linked sites. The linked sites, however, may collect personal information from you when you link to their site. This collecting of information is not subject to our control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the sites you visit by linking from our Website.

Advertisements

We display advertisements on our Website. These ads may contain cookies. We do not have access to this information, nor do we control its use. We do not provide any personally identifiable data regarding users to our advertisers.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

E-Mail Notices

We may send notices via e-mail to registered users who post and/or bookmark reviews and comments. These e-mails include but are not limited to confirmations that an item has been posted, notices that the item has received a reply, and notices that the listing has been deleted by an administrator. These e-mails are a necessary feature for the Website. If you do not want to receive such e-mail notices, please do not post any items on the Website.

Your Role in Protecting Your Privacy

If you share a computer terminal with others, you may want to consider establishing an anonymous e-mail account. In this way, e-mails that you receive from us, such as password reminders, will be seen only by you. If you access the Website through an e-mail account maintained by your employer, please note that it is possible that your employer may monitor your e-mail communications.

Notification of Changes

This Privacy Statement may be revised over time as new features are added to the Website or as Internet security and privacy standards evolve. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We do, however, recommend that you read this Privacy Statement each time you use Website, in case you missed our notice of changes to the Privacy Statement.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using Website and Services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of Website or Services. We reserve the right, to modify this Privacy Statement at any time.