IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd. {hereinafter
referred to as "IIL"} is committed to safeguarding its
users' privacy. We request all our users to read the following 'privacy
policy' to understand how their personal & business information
will be treated, as they make full use of our services to their
benefit. This policy is applicable only to the entire network of
marketplaces operated by IIL and not by any other company.
Collection of Information
IIL collects information from its users when they register to gain
access to our services or at other specific instances when they
are requested to provide us with their personal & business information.
During registration, we ask the users for their name, email address,
business information and other personal details. Once a user registers,
he/she is no longer anonymous to IndiaMART and it is deemed that
the user has given IIL the right to publish the desired business
& personal details throughout its marketplaces, including but
not limited to, business directory, trade leads, catalogs etc.
When you are on our network and are asked for personal information,
you are sharing the information with IIL alone, unless it is specifically
stated otherwise. Promotions that run on our network may be sponsored
by companies other than IIL or may be co-sponsored by IIL and another
company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared
with the sponsor. However, you can decide not to participate in
the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.
We also gather usage statistics such as pages viewed, number of
unique visitors, browser software, screen resolution etc. for analysis
that helps us provide you improved user experience and services.
Use of Personal & Business Information
IndiaMART's primary goal in collecting personal or public information
is to provide the user with a customized experience on our network
of sites. This includes personalized services, interactive communication
and other services, most of which are completely free and remaining
are paid. Business information is used to display the user's business
listing or product offerings across our network to fetch maximum
business opportunities for the user.
In order to provide free services, IIL displays advertisements based
upon the site usage statistics and visitor trends. IIL uses user's
personal & business information to serve targeted advertisements
through its websites, newsletters and customized mailers. In addition
to it, once the user's personal and business information is displayed
on our network, the user may start receiving business enquiries
through email, phone or normal mail, from various buyers and sellers
that might or might not be of their interest. IIL does not exercise
any control over its users for sending business enquiries to the
listed members.
Sharing of Information
As a general rule, IIL will not disclose or share any of the user's
personally identifiable information except when IIL has the user's
permission or under special circumstances, such as when IIL believes
in good faith that the law requires it or as permitted in terms
of this policy.
IIL does not display user email addresses on marketplace to avoid
extraction by email extractors.
IIL may also disclose account information in special cases when
IIL has reasons to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may
be violating IIL's Terms of Services or may be causing injury to
or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) IIL's
rights or property, other IIL network website users, or if IIL deems
it necessary to maintain, service, and improve its products and
services. Personal information collected may be transferred and
shared in the event of a sale.
Distribution of Information
IIL may, from time to time, send its users emails regarding its
products and services. IIL constantly tries and improves the marketplace
tools for better efficiency, more relevancy, innovative business
matchmaking and better personal preferences. IIL has many match
making tools on the marketplace to be used by its users for making
relevant business contacts with each other. IIL may allow direct
mails using its own scripts (without disclosing the email address)
with respect/pertaining to the products and services of third parties
that it feels may be of interest to the user or if the user has
shown interest in your company for business requirement by way of
our paid buyers-sellers contact services. All users shall be able
to control the information sharing through their administration
panel available at
http://my.indiamart.com/.
Only IIL, its registered members or its agents working under confidentiality
agreements will send these direct mailers. Relevancy of the contacts
made between users would depend upon the information sought &
given by various users.
Updation of Information
A user may edit his/her account information and profile by logging
onto our website and/or by sending a request to useradmin@indiamart.com.
The requested changes may take upto 30 days to appear online because
of verification process and server cache policies.
A user account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will
result in the user not being able to access any members-only area
of the network. Residual information will remain within our archive
records.
Protection of information
As with all information, IIL do not sell any data in bulk to third
party that can be misused for telemarketing or bulk mailing or any
other wrong purposes. In addition, IIL does not sell any user's
personal information or business information until and unless it
is permitted by the user. Any user statistics that we may provide
to prospective advertisers or partners regarding product or service
usage on IIL network is provided in an aggregate form only and does
not include any personally identifiable information about any individual
user. Users may log in to
http://my.indiamart.com/
to check current status of their contact sharing permissions.
We request our users to sign out of their IIL account and close
their browser window when they have finished their work. This is
to ensure that others cannot access their personal or business information
and correspondence, if the user shares the computer with someone
else or is using a computer in a public place.
IIL takes necessary steps, within its limits of commercial viability
and necessity, to ensure that the user's information is treated
securely.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. As a result, while IIL strives to protect the
user's personal & business information, it cannot ensure the
security of any information transmitted to IIL and you do so at
your own risk. Once IIL receives your transmission, it makes best
efforts to ensure its security in its systems. Please keep in mind
that whenever you post personal & business information online,
that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties.
