Thank you for accessing the web site ("Site") of TheIndiamarket.com, Inc. ("TheIndiamarket.com,"
that's us). We respect your privacy and want to protect your personal
information. To learn more, please read this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and (under certain conditions)
disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy also explains the steps
we have taken to secure your personal information. Finally, this Privacy Policy
explains your options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your
personal information. By visiting our Site, you accept the practices described
in this Policy.
This privacy policy applies only to this Site. This privacy policy does not
necessarily apply to our offline collection of your personal information. Please
see below for details.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any
non-TheIndiamarket.com web site to which this Site links or that links to this Site.
Information Collection and Use
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Information Collection.
We collect information from you in several different ways on this Site. One goal
in collecting personal information from you is to provide an efficient,
meaningful, and customized experience. For example, we can use your personal
information to:
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help make this Site easier for you to use by not having to enter information
more than once.
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help you quickly find information, products, and services.
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help us create content on this Site that is most relevant to you.
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alert you to new information, products, and services that we offer.
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Registration and Ordering. Before using certain parts of this Site or ordering
products, you must complete an online registration form. During registration,
you will be prompted to provide to us certain personal information, including
but not limited to your name, shipping and billing address(es),
phone number, email address, and credit card number. If you have elected to use
the Bill Me Later® payment method, you will have to provide the last four (4)
digits of your social security number and your birth date. We use this
information solely to facilitate the Bill Me Later® transaction and will not
store or keep this information in our files. In addition, we may also ask you
for your country of residence and/or your organization's country of operation,
so we can comply with applicable laws and regulations, and for your gender.
These kinds of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfill
your orders, to communicate with you about your order and our site, and for
internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your
order, we use the personal information tocontact you.
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Email Addresses. Several locations of the Site permit you to enter your email
address for purposes including but not limited to: to register for a free shoe giveaway; to request
us to notify you when we receive a new brand, new product style, or product
size; to sign up for our email newsletter and special offers; or to sign up for
the TheIndiamarket.com Shoe
Digest. Your participation in a contest is completely voluntary, so you have
a choice whether to participate and disclose information to us. We use this
information to notify contest winners and to award prizes. We may post on our
Site the names and cities of contest winners.
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Cookies and Other Technology. Like many sites, this Site employs cookies and web
beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or "action tags") to speed your
navigation of the Site, recognize you and your access privileges, and track your
Site usage.
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Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your
Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Internet browsers are
initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from
web sites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you will not
be able to access or use portions of this Site. We have to use cookies to enable
you to select products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase
those products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity and
purchase. THIS SITE'S COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFITRATE A USER'S HARD DRIVE TO
GATHER A USER'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Our cookies are not "spyware."
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Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web
page on this Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any
electronic image on this Site, such as an ad banner, can function as a web
beacon.
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We may use third-party advertising companies to help us tailor site content to
users or to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and web
beacons to measure advertising effectiveness (such as which web pages are
visited or what products are purchased and in what amount). Any information that
these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any
personal information collected by us.
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As an example, Facebook collects certain information via cookies and web beacons
to determine which web pages are visited or what products are purchased. Please
note that any information collected by Facebook via cookies and web beacons is
not linked to any customer's personal information collected by us.
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Log Files. As is true of most web sites, the Site server automatically
recognizes the Internet URL from which you access this Site. We may also log
your Internet protocol ("IP") address, Internet service provider, and date/time
stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and
system troubleshooting purposes. (An IP address may indicate the location of
your computer on the Internet.)
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Age. We respect children's privacy. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect
personal information from children under age 13. Elsewhere on this Site, you
have represented and warranted that you are either 18 years of age or using the
Site with the supervision of a parent or guardian. If you are under the age of
13, please do not submit any personal information to us, and rely on a parent or
guardian to assist you.
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Product Reviews. You may choose to submit a product review. If you post a
review, we will ask for your email address and geographic location. If you
submit a review, your geographic location will be visible to other users (your
email address will be kept private). Also, any personally identifiable
information that you submit as part of the review can be read or used by other
visitors to the Site. We are not responsible for any personally identifiable
information that you choose to submit as part of your review. We believe you can
post a helpful review without disclosing any personal information.
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Bizrate Reviews. Bizrate.com is an independent company that permits shoppers to rate
their experiences in visiting and shopping at online stores such as TheIndiamarket.com.
After placing an order at TheIndiamarket.com, you may receive the opportunity to provide
feedback on your experience. This choice is optional and will not affect your
order or service from TheIndiamarket.com, whether or not you choose to provide feedback.
Your feedback is collected by Bizrate.com, not TheIndiamarket.com, and is governed by
their privacy policy, available at http://shop.bizrate.com/content/privacy.html
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Information Use and Disclosure.
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Internal Use. We use your personal information to process your order and provide
you with customer service. We may internally use your personal information to
improve our Site's content and layout, to improve our outreach and for our own
marketing efforts (including marketing our services and products to you), and to
determine general marketplace information about visitors to this Site.
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Communications with You: We will use your personal information to communicate
with you about our site and your orders and deliveries. Also, we may send you a
confirmation email when you register with us. We may send you a
service-related announcement on the rare occasions when it is necessary (for
example, if we must temporarily suspend our service for maintenance.) Also, you
may submit your email address for reasons such as to register for a free shoe giveaway; to request
us to notify you when we receive a new brand, new product style, or product
size; to sign up for our email newsletter and special offers; or to sign up for
the TheIndiamarket.com Shoe
Digest. If you submit your email address, we use it to deliver the
information to you. We always permit you to unsubscribe or opt out of future
emails (see the opt out section, below, for more details). Because we have to
communicate with you about orders that you choose to place, you cannot opt out
of receiving emails related to your orders.
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External Use. We want to provide you with excellent service and to offer you a
great selection - we primarily sell merchandise, not information. We do not
sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal
information or financial information to anyone, except that:
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As do most catalog and Internet retailers, we sometimes use others to perform
specific functions on our behalf. When we disclose information to these service
providers, we disclose information to help them to perform their service. For
example, in order to deliver products to you, we must share some information. We partner with third parties (such as the U.S.
Postal Service, United Parcel Service, and Federal Express) to ship products, to
ensure delivery, and so that we can obtain feedback, improve the quality of our
service, and measure and improve the quality of the service of the third party.
In the example of shippers, we provide them some personally identifiable
information such as your name, shipping address, email, and phone number.
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Similarly, to help you buy products and provide customer service to you, we must
provide your credit card number to financial-services corporations such as
credit-card processors and issuers. When we submit your credit card number for
authorization, we use state-of-the-art data encryption to protect your
information. (More on this below in Data Security.)
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In the event you have elected to use the Bill Me Later® payment method, to help
you buy products and provide customer service to you, we must provide the last
four (4) digits of your social security number and your birth date to the
financial-services corporations processing your transaction. When you submit
this information to us for approval and authorization, we use state-of-the-art
data encryption to protect your information.
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We may be required to disclose such information in response to requests from
law-enforcement officials conducting investigations; subpoenas; a court order;
or if we are otherwise required to disclose such information by law. We also
will release personal information where disclosure is necessary to protect our
legal rights, enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect
ourselves or others. For example, we may share information to reduce the risk of
fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use our Site for illegal reasons or to
commit fraud.
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We will not sell (or trade or rent) personally identifiable information to other
companies as part of our regular course of business. However, it's possible that
we might acquire or merge with or be acquired by another company or that we
might dispose of some or all of our assets. If that happens, your personal
information may be disclosed to another company, but that disclosure will be
subject to the Privacy Policy in effect.
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We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a
particular web page, or the size of an order placed on a certain date) with
third parties such as advertising partners. This information does not directly
personally identify you or any user.
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(vii) We publicly disclose the name, city, and state of the weekly winner of the
Free Shoe Giveaway.
Data Security
This Site incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to
safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, including Secure
Sockets Layer ("SSL") for all financial transactions through this Site. We use
SSL encryption to protect your personal information online, and we also take
several steps to protect your personal information in our facilities. Access to
your personal information is restricted.
Only employees who need access to your personal information to perform a
specific job are granted access to your personal information. Finally, we rely
on third-party service providers for the physical security of some of our
computer hardware. We believe that their security procedures are adequate. For
example, when you visit our Site, you access servers that are kept in a secure
physical environment, behind a locked cage and an electronic firewall. While we
use industry-standard precautions to safeguard your personal information, we
cannot guarantee complete security. 100% complete security does not presently
exist anywhere online or offline.
OPT OUT/CORRECTIONS
Upon your request, we will (a) correct or update your personal information; (b)
stop sending emails to your email address; and/or (c) disable your account to prevent any future purchases
through that account.
You can make these requests at the customer information section of this Site http://www.TheIndiamarket.com/cs.zhtml,
or by telephoning, or emailing your request to TheIndiamarket.com's Customer Support
department 1-877-927-9382 or cs@TheIndiamarket.com.
Please do not email your credit-card number or other sensitive information.
Offline COllection, Use & Disclosure of Information
As you might expect from TheIndiamarket.com, the majority of information that we collect
is obtained through our Site, and this Privacy Policy applies only to that
online collection of personal information. We also collect information offline,
where we also try to protect the privacy of you personal information. One
example involves someone calling us to place an order or to ask questions. When
someone calls, we will ask only for the personal information we need in order to
place the order or to answer the question. When we need to store information
(such as order information), we will enter it into our database through SSL
encryption. (See the Data Security section above for more information). Another
example involves faxes. If you fax something to us, we will act upon the fax and
then either store it a locked repository or we will shred the fax if there is no
need to retain the information. There are other ways we could learn of personal
information offline (for example, we suppose someone could send us a letter
including some return address information), and this Policy doesn't discuss or
try to predict all of those methods or uses. As we mentioned, we primarily sell
merchandise, not information, and we will try to treat offline collection, uses,
and disclosures consistently with our relevant online practices.
Update to this Policy
If we change or update this Privacy Policy, we will post changes and updates on
this Site so that you will always be aware of what information we collect, use
and disclose. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time
so you will know if the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated.