ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
(Last updated 20th July, 2008)
This Privacy Policy explains how we, "SFI" (secretsforindians.com) collect the personal information from you (the Customer) online and it is safeguarded and used.
PROVISION OF THIS POLICY
This Privacy Policy is designed and implemented to protect the information received from you (our Subscriber or Customer), and to respond to any of your queries.
This Privacy Policy also provides that SFI will use appropriate contractual means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal information which is sent for processing by third parties on SFI’s behalf.
CONSENT
By using the website of SFI (www.secretsforindians.com), you hereby consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you are requested not to use the SFI's website.
SFI may update or revise this Privacy Policy as and when the need arises. When it is updated or revised, SFI will mention the “last updated” date that appears at the top of this Privacy Policy.
If there are any new uses or proposed disclosures of information collected from you, SFI will seek your prior consent, by email.
In case, in the future, it is necessary for SFI to deviate from this privacy policy and if that will affect you or the information collected from you, SFI will notify you by email about the changes in this policy.
However, SFI will not inform and obtain your consent, if it becomes necessary for SFI to disclose the information due to reason(s) such as in compliance with the request of a law enforcement authority or a court order, in connection with an investigation of a breach of an agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened or the collection of a debt.
If you decide to withdraw your consent for collection, use and disclosure of the information, you may do so by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link that appears at the bottom of the emails sent by SFI or by sending an email to RajeswerNaidu @ SecretsForIndians . com
Even if you unsubscribe, the guarantee given by SFI will be honoured as promised at the time of sale of the product.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
SFI collects, certain “personal information” including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, geographical region and referring web site addresses).
USAGE OF INFORMATION
Such information is usually collected to any or all of the reasons mentioned below:
- To develop and provide SFI’s web site, products and services for you
- To understand your needs regarding SFI’s services
- To fulfill your requests for products, services or information
- To communicate with you and site visitors, when necessary, and to inform you of upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from SFI, its affiliates and third parties
- To allow customers to access limited-entry areas of SFI web site
- To personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from SFI and third parties
- To maintain accountS and payment records
- To comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request
- To respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern your use of the SFI site or any SFI product or service;
- To protect the services, products or rights of SFI, including but not limited to the security or integrity of the SFI site
- To identify and resolve technical problems concerning SFI’s site, products and services and
- For the purpose of SFI's business analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
If SFI hires other companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal information they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as appropriate in the course of their work for us.
When you visit the SFI web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the SFI site previously. SFI uses cookies to allow SFI to determine which products and services you have already purchased so that SFI does not provide redundant information to you, and, if you are an SFI affiliate, to track SFI sales made to customers referred by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the SFI web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the SFI site.
LIMITATIONS TO COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
SFI limits its collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. SFI does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of eighteen.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INFORMATION
SFI does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else, other than:
to someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of the known reasons;
to SFI’s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on SFI’s behalf for any of the known reasons;
to someone as necessary, if SFI has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with SFI’s rights or property, other users of SFI’s web site, products or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; and
to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.
In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that SFI or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in India, the United States, or in any other country in which SFI or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our database), SFI will keep your personal information in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to prove SFI’s compliance with any applicable law.
ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION
SFI will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such information. Customers are responsible for informing SFI about changes to their personal information. You can do this by calling +91-832-6481677 or sending an email to RajeswerNaidu @ SecretsForIndians . com. SFI will use new or updated personal information it receives from customers to update its own records.
SECURITY AND ANTI-SPAM POLICY
SFI will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal information.
If you believe that you have received spam from or through SFI web site, please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to RajeswerNaidu @ SecretsForIndians . com. Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation. SFI does not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.
SFI supports the efforts of various organizations working to responsibly eliminate spam activities. However, if an individual has opted-in to receive email from SFI, and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against SFI, we will cooperate fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the internet community.
ACCESS TO THE CUSTOMERS
SFI will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal information in your file, if you so request by calling +91-832-6481677, emailing to rajeswernaidu@secretsforindians.com, or writing to:
secretsforindians.com
C/o Rajeswer Naidu
G-7 Ground Floor,
A-7 Kurtarkar Classic II,
Aquem, Margao, Goa-403601
If SFI is not able to provide access to some aspect of a customer’s personal information, it will provide reasons for denying access such as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial information or that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual.
Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information be amended as appropriate, by contacting SFI or the Privacy Officer as described above. SFI will promptly correct such personal information.