Infovedics Software Private Limited and its subsidiaries ("Foodistan.com") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy provides succinctly the manner your data is collected and used by Foodistan.com. You are advised to please read the Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing the services provided by Foodistan.com you agree to the collection and use of your data by Foodistan.com in the manner provided in this Privacy Policy.
The Policy does not apply to the
procedures and practices followed by entities that are not managed,
owned or controlled by Foodistan.com or to the people that are not
engaged, employed or managed by Foodistan.com
We want you
to
· feel comfortable using our web sites
· feel secure submitting information to us
· contact us with your questions or concerns about privacy on this site
· know that by using our sites you are consenting to the collection of certain data
WHAT INFORMATION IS, OR MAY BE,
COLLECTED FROM YOU?
We will automatically receive and
collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through
our Web server, including computer-identification information
obtained from "cookies," sent to your browser from:
· web server cookie stored on your hard drive
· an IP address, assigned to the computer which you use
· the domain server through which you access our service
· the type of computer you're using
· the type of web browser you're using
We may collect the following personally identifiable information about you:
· name including first and last name
· alternate email address
· mobile phone number and contact details
· ZIP/Postal code
· demographic profile (like your age, gender, occupation, education, address and durables owned);
· preferences and interests (such as news, sports, travel and so on);
· financial information (like account or credit card numbers); and
· opinions of features on our websites.
We may also collect the following information:
· about the pages you visit/access
· the links you click on our site
· the number of times you access the page You can terminate your account at any time. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.
WHO COLLECTS THE INFORMATION?
We will collect anonymous traffic information from you when
you visit our site.
We collect the personally identifiable
information from you when you register with us. During registration
you are required to give us your contact information (such as name,
email address, date of birth, gender, address, pin code, cell number,
occupation and interests). Upon registration users may receive
communications from Foodistan.com (e.g. newsletters, updates)
We
use this information to contact you about the services you are using
on our site and services in which you have expressed interest.
You
have the option to provide demographic information (such as
occupation, education and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit
this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience
on our site.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we
request certain personally identifiable information from you on our
order form. You must provide contact information (such as name,
email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as
credit card number, expiration date, CVV verification, Name on card,
billing address etc.).
We use this information for billing
purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an
order, we will use this information to contact you.
If you
choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site,
we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will
automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her
to visit the site. Foodistan.com does store this information and the
information is used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time
email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your
friend may contact us at mail@foodistan.com to request that we
remove this information from our database.
We will collect
personally identifiable information about you only as part of a
voluntary registration process, on-line survey, or contest or any
combination thereof.
Our advertisers may collect anonymous
traffic information from their own assigned cookies to your browser.
The Site contains links to other Web sites. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices of such Web sites which we do
not own, manage or control.
We make forums, articles, news,
restaurant search and message boards and other services available to
you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in
these areas becomes public information. We have no control over its
use and you should exercise caution when disclosing your personal
information to anyone.
If you use a bulletin board on this
site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable
information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other
users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited
messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable
information you choose to submit in these forums.
We are the sole
owners of your information collected by us at several different
points on our Website.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION USED?
We use your email address to send you:
· Password reminder and registration confirmation
· Special offers
· News letters
· Changes in the service's policy or terms of use
· Event based communications such as order information, renewal notices, invites, reminders etc.
Note: We may send users newsletters and
updates upon registration. We may send newsletters and/or promotional
emails on behalf of our alliance partners.
We use your
personal information to:
· help us provide personalized features
· tailor our sites to your interest
· to get in touch with you in the case of password retrieval and policy changes
· to provide the services requested by you
· to preserve social history as governed by existing law or policy
We use contact information internally to:
· direct our efforts for product improvement
· contact you as a survey respondent
· notify you if you win any contest; and
· send you promotional materials from our contest sponsors or advertisers
Generally, we use anonymous traffic information to:
· remind us of who you are in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service from both an advertising and an editorial perspective;
· recognize your access privileges to our Web sites
· track your entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests to indicate a player's progress through the promotion and to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings
· make sure that you don't see the same ad repeatedly
· help diagnose problems with our server
· administer our Web sites
· track your session so that we can understand better how people use our sites
WITH WHOM WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE
SHARED?
We will not use your financial information for
any purpose other than to complete a transaction with you.
We do
not share or rent your email addresses with third parties except our
agents and alliance partners.
Agents
We use the
services of our enabling partners such as outside shipping companies,
resellers, business associates to fulfill orders, and credit card
processing companies to process the payment for goods and services
ordered from Foodistan.com website. These entities do not retain,
store, share or use personally identifiable information for any other
purposes.
Alliance Partners
We will share your
information with our Alliance Partners who work with us or on our
behalf to help provide you the services. An alliance partner is a
company or an individual who owns and manages (wholly or part of)
online content on their websites powered by foodistan.com.
We
share email addresses email addresses with Agents and Alliance
Partners. The Agents and Alliance Partners use the email address to
confirm the deliveries, send notices and offer services related to
the service.
We do not rent, sell or share your personal
information and we will not disclose any of your personally
identifiable information to third parties unless:
· we have your permission
· to provide products or services you've requested
· to help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of any person, violations of Foodistan.com terms of use or to defend against legal claims;
· special circumstances such as compliance with subpoenas, court orders, requests/order from legal authorities or law enforcement agencies requiring such disclosure.
We reserve the right to disclose your
personally identifiable and email address information as required by
law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or
legal process served on our Web site.
We share your
information with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.
The
security of your personal information and email address is important
to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card
number and/or social security number) on our registration or order
forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer
technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link
http://www.verisign.com/ssl/index.html
We follow
generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information and email address submitted to us, both during
transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over
the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure,
however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information and email address, we
cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any
questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at
mail@foodistan.com
WHAT CHOICES ARE AVAILABLE
TO YOU REGARDING COLLECTION, USE AND DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR
INFORMATION?
Supplying personally identifiable
information is entirely voluntary. You are not required to register
with us in order to use our sites. However, we offer some services
only to visitors who do register.
You may change your
interests at any time and may opt-in or opt-out of any marketing /
promotional / newsletters mailings. Foodistan.com reserves the right
to send you certain service related communication, considered to be a
part of your foodistan account without offering you the facility to
opt-out. You may update your information and change your account
settings at any time.
If you no longer wish to receive our
newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of
receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or communication or by emailing us at
mail@foodistan.com.
We provide you the opportunity to
'opt-out' of having your email address used for certain purposes,
when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a
product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing
material from us, you can indicate your preference, follow the
instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by
emailing us at mail@foodistan.com.
Upon request, we
will remove/block your personally identifiable information from our
database, thereby canceling your registration. See Contact
information below. However, your information may remain stored in
archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of
your account.
If your personally identifiable information or
email address change, or if you no longer desire our service, you may
correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our
member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at
mail@foodistan.com.
If we plan to use your personally
identifiable information for any commercial purposes, we will notify
you at the time we collect that information and allow you to opt-out
of having your information used for those purposes.
You can
accept or decline the cookies. All sites that are customizable
require that you accept cookies. You also must accept cookies to
register as someone for access to some of our services. For
information on how to set your browser to alert you to cookies, or to
reject cookies, go to http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file
that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We
use cookies on this site. We do link the information we store in
cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while
on our site.]
We use both session ID cookies and persistent
cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier and secured for you
to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you
browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an
extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by
following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help"
file. Reference for cookies can be found at
http://www.cookiecentral.com/.
We use session cookies
to store the secure session and browsing preferences of the user. We
set a persistent cookie to store your username and interests so you
don't have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable
us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the
experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still
use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as
contests or surveys, will be limited. Cookies are used in shopping
cart to enable enhanced security and ensuring there is no URL based
spamming.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers)
set cookies while delivering banners on our site. We have no access
to or control over these cookies.
This privacy statement
covers the use of cookies by Foodistan.com only and does not
cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
We do use
cookies on point of collection pages of email address but we do not
use them in emails.
Foodistan.com cookies are not being tied
to PII.
WHAT SECURITY PROCEDURES ARE IN PLACE TO PROTECT
INFORMATION FROM LOSS, MISUSE OR ALTERATION?
To protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control, we have in place appropriate physical, electronic and
managerial procedures. For example, our servers are accessible only
to authorized personnel and that your information is shared with
respective personnel on need to know basis to complete the
transaction and to provide the services requested by you.
Although
we will endeavor to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally
identifiable information, transmissions made by means of the Internet
cannot be made absolutely secure. By using this site, you agree that
we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to
errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.
We
follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information and email addresses submitted to us, both during
transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over
the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure,
however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information and email address, we
cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any
questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at
mail@foodistan.com
HOW CAN YOU CORRECT INACCURACIES
IN THE INFORMATION?
To correct or update any information
you have provided, our sites allow you to do it online. In the event
of loss of access details you can use any of the following options:
· Send an e-mail to mail@foodistan.com
POLICY UPDATES
We
reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by
placing a prominent notice on our site. Such changes shall be
effective immediately upon posting to this site.
If we decide
to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this
privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate
so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it,
and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the
right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review
it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will
notify you here, or by means of a notice on our homepage.
If
we decide to make changes in our email practices, we will post those
changes to this privacy policy, the homepage, and other places we
deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it. If we decide to change our email practices, we will post
those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other
places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it.
You are can offer your views, suggestions, if
any, by submitting the filled in feedback form online.
CONTACT INFORMATION
You can contact us at:
Email
id: mail@foodistan.com