Privacy Notice
We’re updating our User Privacy Notice to reflect changes we’ve made to
strengthen your privacy rights. This is part of our ongoing commitment to be
transparent about how we use your data and keep it safe. We have included
changes to address the new standards introduced by the European data protection
law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, retention
and protection of your personal information. It applies to any place on the
website where this Privacy Policy appears in the footer, and to any
application, service, or tool (collectively "Services") where this
Privacy Policy is referenced, regardless of how you access or use them,
including through mobile devices.
By using our Services and/or registering for an account with us, you are
accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy and you are consenting to our
collection, use, disclosure, retention and protection of your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not provide the
information we require, we may not be able to provide all of our Services to
you.
1. Personal information" is information that can be associated
with a specific person and could be used to identify that specific person
whether from that data or from that data and other information that Inc.
has or is likely to have access to. We do not consider personal information to
include information that has been made anonymous or aggregated so that it can
no longer be used to identify a specific person, whether in combination with
other information or otherwise.
We collect, process and retain personal information
from you and any devices (including mobile devices) you may use when you: use
our Services, register for an account with us, update or add information to
your account, or when you otherwise correspond with us regarding our Services.
The personal information we collect includes the
following:
- Personal information you give us when you use our Services or
register for an account with us
- Identifying information such as your name, addresses, telephone
numbers or email addresses when you register for an account with us
- Information you provide during a transaction, or other
transaction-based content that you generate or that is connected to your
account as a result of a transaction you are involved in
- Other content that you generate, or that is connected to your
account
- Financial information (such as credit card or bank account numbers)
in connection with a transaction
- Postage, billing and other information used to purchase an item, as
well as, where postal services are provided, information required to clear
customs and relevant postage information (such as tracking numbers and
tracking updates)
- Computer and connection information such as statistics on your page
views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, your IP
address, your browsing history and your web log information
2. Personal information we collect using cookies, web
beacons, and similar technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers and
similar technologies to collect information about the pages you view, the links
you click and other actions you take on our Services, within our advertising or
e-mail content. For more information about our use of these technologies and
how to control them, see our Cookies and Technologies section.
Personal information from other sources
We may supplement the
information we collect with information from third parties and add it to your
account information. For example, we may collect and use demographic
information that is publicly available or additional contact information.
We may allow you to
share information with social media sites
If you give us personal information about someone else, you must do so only
with their explicit and prior consent. You have to inform them how we collect,
use, disclose and retain their personal information according to our Privacy
Notice.
3. Use and Retention
We use the personal information we collect to:
provide and improve our Services, to provide you with a personalized experience
on our sites (especially, by offering you services and items that you may
like), to contact you about your account and our Services, to provide you
customer service, to provide you with personalized advertising and marketing,
and to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal
activities. We may use and retain your personal information as follows:
Provide, improve and personalize our Services
- Provide access to and use of our Services.
- Offer you site content that includes items and services that you
may like.
- Keep track of your basket, your Watch List and your collections
- Give you access to your purchase history, internal messages and
other features
- Customize, measure and improve our Services
- Provide other services requested by you as described when we
collect the information
- We may use geo-location information to provide you with location
based services (such as advertising, search results and other personalized
content)
Contact you to provide you customer service
Contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with
your account, to resolve a dispute or to provide you customer service
Personalize our advertising and marketing
communications
Personalize, measure and improve our advertising based on your advertising
customization preferences
Contact you, either via email in order to: offer
you coupons, discounts and special promotions and inform you about our
Services. We will use the contact information you have provided to contact you
by email, SMS text and/or telephone if you have consented to such contact.
Deliver targeted marketing, service updates and
promotional offers based on your communication preferences.
You have a choice about how we use your personal
information to communicate with you, to send you marketing information, how we
provide you with customized and relevant advertising, and whether you want to
stay signed into your account.
Newsletters
If you do not wish to receive marketing
communications from us, you can unsubscribe from the link in the email you
received, change your Preferences within your account or tell us your
communication preferences within the direct communication from us.
Advertising
If you do not wish to received personalized
advertising, you can opt out by following the directions provided within the
applicable advertisement. The effect will be to stop personalized advertising,
but it will still allow the collection of information for certain purposes such
as usage, research, analytics and internal online services operation purposes.
We do not allow third parties to track or collect your personal information on
our sites for their own advertising purposes.
Your account
When you sign in to your account on our Services,
we may give you the option to stay signed in to your account for a certain
period of time. If you are using a public or shared computer, we encourage you
not to choose to stay signed in. You or any other user of the computer/browser
you signed in on will be able to view and access most parts of your account and
take certain specific actions during this signed in period without any further
authorization. T
If you attempt to change your password or update
any other account information or attempt other account activity beyond those
listed above, you will be asked to enter your password.
You can typically end your signed in session by
either signing out and/or clearing your cookies. If you are using a public or shared
computer you should sign out and/or clear your cookies when you are done using
our Services in order to protect your account and your personal information.
4. Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information to other
members of our company or to third parties. We minimize the amount of personal
information we disclose to what is directly relevant and necessary to
accomplish the specified purpose. As stated above, we do not disclose your
personal information to third parties for their marketing and advertising
purposes.
We may disclose your personal information to the
following parties and for the following purposes:
- provide joint content and services (such as registration,
transactions and customer support)
- provide you personalized advertising
- will use your personal information to send you marketing
communications only if you have consented to receive such communications
from them
Service Providers and financial institution
partners
Third party service providers who help us to provide our Services, payment
processing services, assist us in providing customized advertising, to assist
us with the prevention, detection, mitigation and investigation of potentially
illegal acts, violations of our User Agreement, fraud and/or security breaches
and other business operations
Other aakasha users as authorized by you or your
use of our Services.
Data disclosure to PayPal Inc. and its corporate
family
- to facilitate the processing of payment cards when you pay within
our Services with a payment card and we use PayPal to process your payment
- to facilitate shipping and related services for purchases you made
using PayPal
Security
We protect your information using technical and
administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse,
unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use
are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres
and information access authorization controls. If you believe your account has
been abused, please contact us at [email protected]
Your choice and
our use of cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies
Questions or Complaints
If you have a question or a complaint about this
Privacy Notice, our global privacy standards or our information handling
practices, you can reach us at [email protected]
This page was last updated on 19 May 2018.
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