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:
- help make this Site easier for you to
use by not having to enter information more than once.
- help you quickly find information, products,
and services.
- help us create content on this Site that
is most relevant to you.
- alert you to new information, products,
and services that we offer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.