Users of this web site, being the urdunet.com web site or any other
web site amongst its network of web sites (collectively the "UrduNet
Network Web sites") should read the contents hereof forming the
Privacy Statement through which the urdunet.com Websites are attempting
to define the privacy parameters and use of certain personal information
collected from its users online, while such users are accessing and
making use of, the various Services available to them on the urdunet.com
Websites, such information being your name, home or business address,
gender, year of birth, occupation, telephone or fax phone numbers and
e-mail address which you agree, in consideration for access to and use
of the Services provided on the urdunet.com Websites, to provide
as current, complete, and accurate registration information (the
"Registration Data") as prompted to do by the Site, and to
maintain and update this Registration Data as required to keep it
current, complete and accurate. All Registration Data will be utilized
by urdunet.com Websites or any of them only in accordance with the
discretion exercised by you, the user, at the time of providing the
Registration Data.
Please be advised that your access and use, of each urdunet.com
Website is subject to this Privacy Statement, unless specific Privacy
Statements are contained within each urdunet.com Website. If any
of the statements, terms, conditions and notices contained in this
Privacy Statement conflict with those stated or contained within any
other particular urdunet.com Website, then the Privacy Statement
contained on such urdunet.com Website shall control the access and use
of that specific urdunet.com Website.
All capitalized terms used in this Privacy Statement and not
specifically defined have the same meaning as given to them in the
urdunet.com Websites General Terms of Use. You can go to Terms to cross
reference the General Terms of Use that apply to the urdunet.com
Websites.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to make Modifications to
this Privacy Statement, at any time, and will make sincere efforts to
inform you of such Modifications. Please help us by checking this
Privacy Statement periodically for such Modifications. Your continued
access to the urdunet.com Websites following the posting of
Modifications will mean you accept those Modifications.
By your accessing the urdunet.com Websites you agree to respect the
privacy of other users on the urdunet.com Websites and maintain the same
information given to or accessed by you or in any other manner available
to you, as private and confidential unless otherwise agreed.
1. Registration Data
The Registration Data and such other Personal Information as defined
herein below that you may provide us, at your discretion, helps us to
create the urdunet.com Websites experience, one which is reasonably
suited to your requirements. Furthermore, once you have registered with
the urdunet.com Websites you will be provided a urdunet.com ID to enable
you to avail of such Services that you may choose. Personal Information
for the purpose of this Privacy Statement shall mean such information as
shall be provided by you at your discretion, when required or asked for
by the urdunet.com Websites other than the Registration Data. In
general, addresses (the Internet address of a computer) are logged to
track a user's session while the user remains anonymous. We analyze this
data for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of our
urdunet.com Websites users are visiting and how long they spend there.
In general, we do not link your IP addresses to anything personally
identifiable to you.
2. Cookies
One of the other ways that urdunet.com Websites may collect personal
information is through the use of cookies which we use for several
things such as for estimating the number of users that a particular area
within the urdunet.com Website attracts, to access your Registration
Data once we get to know of your identity and your area of visit or in
the case of any shopping sites, to assist the vendors on the website to
better understand their audience, their shopping patterns and the kind
of pages visited by the users to such vendors' web store. Some of the
other usage's of cookies are to track your status in any event such as a
contest hosted by the urdunet.com Websites or by any of their partners
or sponsors.
For your better understanding let us explain what a cookie is. A
cookie is a small data file that certain web sites write to your hard
drive when you visit them. A cookie is a commonly used tool, and is
generally used across the industry to provide useful features for their
customers. A cookie file can contain information such as user ID that
the particular urdunet.com Website uses to track the pages you have
visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard
disk or read cookie files created by other sites. As part of our efforts
to offer and provide customized and personalized services, urdunet.com
Websites use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you.
Almost all sites on urdunet.com Websites where you are prompted to
log-in or that are customized require that you accept cookies.
You may exercise your discretion as regards cookies at any time by
modifying your browser preferences. By so doing you have the choice of
accepting or rejecting cookies (rejection of all cookies will disable
you to use those urdunet.com Websites' Services where registration is
required for participation), or of being notified when one is set.
Third party sponsors, alliance partners of urdunet.com Websites or
advertisers may have cookies developed and controlled by them on the
urdunet.com Websites. We do not have access to these cookies or any
information that they may contain.
3. Our Alliance/Business Partners and Sponsors
You do understand and appreciate that in order to provide the
Services, many of which are free the support of our sponsors and
advertisers is indeed critical and invaluable to the urdunet.com
Websites We try and put our efforts in providing only such
advertisements and content as may be of potential use and particular
interest to you. We may conduct this targeting of specific audiences
through banner advertisements and/or e-mail, based on the profiles and
parameters in respect of the target audience as may be desired by the
advertiser. We make our best efforts to disallow the advertisers direct
access to your individual account information. urdunet.com Websites may
undertake research on your personal profile, areas of interests, and behavior
based on the Registration Data and Personal Information provided by you,
and analyze the research on an aggregated basis, which the urdunet.com
Websites may share with their advertisers and/ or alliance/business
partners.
By accessing the urdunet.com Websites or any of them, you agree and
grant the urdunet.com Websites the right to disclose the aggregate
Registration Data and Personal Information to third parties in
connection with marketing the urdunet.com Websites and Services and that
the urdunet.com Websites may themselves choose to use your individual
Registration Data and Personal Information to provide targeting of
advertisements and other offers of the Services through banner
advertisements, e-mails or otherwise.
4. Disclosure by the urdunet.com Websites
The urdunet.com Websites will not, in the normal course, disclose
your Registration Data or Personal Information, save and except
(i)
With your permission, as exercised by your discretion; or
(ii) When required under law to do so; or
(iii) When such disclosure is in our opinion, necessary to maintain
the operations and servicing of the urdunet.com Websites and systems or
improve our Services.
(iv) When such disclosure is in our opinion necessary, to protect and
defend the rights and property of the urdunet.com Websites; or
(v) When such disclosure is in our opinion necessary, to act in an
emergency to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
(vi) When such disclosure is in our opinion necessary, to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the
General Terms of Use of the urdunet.com Websites.
5. Optional Use of Information
Some of the other ways in which we may use your information, if
necessary, is for enabling transactions to take place on the urdunet.com
Websites that you choose to avail of in a manner due and commercially
viable to both yourself and the vendor/merchant whose store/website you
may visit and where any third party interaction is required, such as
your credit card number and contact information. Please be advised that
the urdunet.com Websites have no responsibility or take no liability for
the policies regarding privacy and data collection that the
vendors/merchants or third parties may have, which are independent of
this Privacy Statement.
Further, we may share your Personal Information with our various
alliance/business partners or sponsors. Certain data collected during a
urdunet.com Website promotion may be shared with a alliance/business
partners or sponsors, in accordance with the discretion exercised by you
at the time of registration or when you chose to participate in such
promotion. You should be aware that at any time where you are given the
opportunity to seek information from alliance/business partners or
sponsors, you by the act of so requesting, for such information from our
alliance/business partners or sponsors give the urdunet.com Websites
permission to transfer your personal information to such
alliance/business partners or sponsor so they can service you
accordingly. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared with our
various alliance/business partners, sponsors, or third parties that you
may interact with, you can choose not to use a particular service or not
to participate in certain promotions or contests.
As stated earlier and as agreed and granted by you the urdunet.com
Webmaster may disclose aggregated user statistics to prospective
partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful
purposes.
6. Links
Please be advised that this Privacy Statement does not cover the
information practices of those web sites linked to urdunet.com Websites.
urdunet.com Websites are not responsible for the content or the
privacy policies of web sites to which its sites are linked in any
manner or means. Such links to third party web sites on urdunet.com
Websites are provided solely as a convenience to you And these may
collect personally identifiable information about you urdunet.com
Websites has not reviewed all of such third party sites and does not
endorse or make any representations or commitments about or on them, or
on any information, software or other products or materials or
advertisements found there, or any results/benefits that may be obtained
from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites
linked to urdunet.com Websites, you do so entirely on your own
responsibility. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information
practices of those web sites linked to urdunet.com Websites. Further,
urdunet.com Websites do not control the availability of such third party
web sites. Any concerns regarding any such service or resource or third
party web site, or any link thereto, should be directed to the
particular service or resource.
7. Health and Financial Information
It is important to us to keep private any personal financial and
health-related information connected with users. Knowing that you use
certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more
relevant content and advertisements. But we do not make this available
to any third parties without your permission. Any user statistics that
we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding
financial products or health related service usage on urdunet.com
Websites are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any
personally identifiable information about any individual user.
Please note that secure socket encryption is utilized for the
transmission of credit card numbers when asked for in respect of a
transaction.
8. Security
Please remember that protection of your privacy begins with you and
you have the sole responsibility therefore. At the bare minimum, in
order to avoid others from accessing your personal information and
correspondence, you should adhere to the following:
a) do not reveal your password to anyone;
b) sign out of your urdunet.com Websites account when you are done;
c) close your browser window when you are done.
Please read the General Terms of Use pertaining to your undertakings
with regard to use of the Services on or through the urdunet.com
Websites.
Further, please keep in mind that information that has been
voluntarily disclosed on a forum that is accessible to public can be
accessed and utilized by others and on account of such access you may
receive unsolicited messages from such parties who access such
information. Also, please be advised that you should not reveal your
password if you should receive any unsolicited email or phone call
requiring you to so reveal your password as it is not the practice of
urdunet.com Websites to require users to reveal their passwords in such
an unsolicited manner.
Whenever urdunet.com Websites handle personal information as
described above urdunet.com Websites use their best efforts, to ensure
that such personal information is handled in accordance with the
relevant General Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement.
You understand and acknowledge that transmission of data over the
Internet cannot always be completely secure. urdunet.com Websites use
their best efforts to protect your personal information but cannot and
do not warrant the security of any information, and you must do so at
your own risk. The urdunet.com Websites assume no liability for
disclosure of data due to, errors in transmission or unauthorized third
parties.
We remind you that this Privacy Statement is subject to Modifications
at any time and we will make sincere efforts to inform you of such
Modifications. Please help us by checking this Privacy Statement
periodically for such Modifications. Your continued access to the
urdunet.com Websites following the posting of Modifications will mean
you accept those Modifications.
Important Note: All disputes subject to Delhi Jurisdiction in India
only