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Privacy Statement
The following privacy statement discloses the privacy practices of LoveFromIndia.com.
About Us and the Information We Collect
LoveFromIndia.com is an online matchmaking service designed to provide an easy way for our members to meet each other on the
Web. To accomplish this, our members create their own unique profiles and our matching technology provides them matches
based on their pre-selected criteria. In order to do this, we must ask for certain personal information. None of the
information we gather can be used by the public (visitors, other members, or anyone not employed by LoveFromIndia.com or the
financial institutions used to process membership charges) to identify specific individuals.
We are a membership-based service. We collect credit card, address,
or bank information only from those who choose to join. All visitors to
our site may browse the site, search the ads and view any articles or features our site has to offer without entering any personal information.
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Information Collected/Tracked
We gather two types of information: information users
submit to us and information not directly submitted by users.
Information submitted to us
There are two types of user-submitted information we collect: Public and Private. We define Public information as
personal information that may be displayed on the site, such as gender, age and height, but cannot be linked to a
particular user. Private information is defined as any information that allows others to contact a user other than
through LoveFromIndia.com or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site.
Public:
To accomplish our goal of bringing compatible people together, we must gather personal information, which may
or may not include: customer-specified username, gender, age, ethnic background, appearance, religion, income
range, occupation, preference/lifestyle information and general geographic location. Much of this information is
optional, and meant to be seen by members and visitors to the site but cannot be used to identify a specific member by
name, address, etc.
Private:
This information is gathered from members and guests who apply for the various services our site offers. This
information includes, but is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, birthdate, credit card number or
checking account information for payment, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and telephone number.
Surveys & Contests:
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not
to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information (such as zip code, and age).
Information not Directly Submitted by Users
Aggregate: This is information we collect that is not personally
identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is
gathered for all users to the site.
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Use of Information Obtained
Information users submit to LoveFromIndia.com
Public: Public information supplied by the user is intended to be viewed by visitors to the site. This information is
used by visitors for searching and matching purposes. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific member
by name, address, etc.
Private:
We primarily use Email addresses submitted by members to verify enrollment. At no point email addresses of users are disclosed. We may also use a user's
email address to send news regarding our site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by unsubscribing.
Email addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer service
issues. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. All other private
information submitted by the user is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to protect
members of LoveFromIndia.com. All private information can be updated or deleted by the user at any time.
Surveys & Contests:
Contact and other information collected for contests will be used to notify the winners and award
prizes. Survey information collected will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of
this site.
Information that users do not submit to us
Aggregate: We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related
information in the general administration of our website.
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Sharing of Gathered/Tracked Information
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Except where you are expressly informed otherwise or as described immediately below, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information except to the financial institution that processes your credit card or check transaction unless required by law or for the protection of your membership.
If you register with LoveFromIndia.com through one of our co-branded versions, your registration and profile information may be shared with the co-branding partner solely for the purpose of fulfilling the services provided by the co-branded site and any related promotional offers. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of the co-branded partner for questions about their use of your personally identifiable information and how you can modify or delete it.
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Links
This site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that LoveFromIndia.com is not responsible for the privacy practices
of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of
each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to
information collected by this Web site.
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Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie
is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser,
the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a
password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they may still use our
site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas on our site. We occasionally use
cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site or for
advertising tracking purposes. In addition, cookies may be used on our site to allow enhanced capabilities such as
chat. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user!
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to
or control over these cookies.
We also use a third-party advertising company, IndiAds.com, to serve ads externally to the site on the behalf of LoveFromIndia.com and our partners.
IndiAds.com employs technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of these ads. This is primarily accomplished through the use of technology devices,
commonly referred to as a cookie and an action tag. IndiAds.com uses their own cookie, similar to our cookie, to measure advertising effectiveness but we
do not have access to it. An action tag, also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file, is used by IndiAds.com to set or read their own cookie.
Any information that IndiAds.com collects via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. IndiAds.com may use information about your visits to this
and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Unless otherwise notified, they do not use names,
addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers, and do not link online actions to an identifiable person.
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Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
LoveFromIndia.com gives users several options for modifying or removing their information from our database please visit the
My Account page or contact us.
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Changes in Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our Homepage so our users are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the
time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use
their information in this different manner, and we will then use information in accordance with the privacy policy under
which the information was collected.
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Security
LoveFromIndia.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the
website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order process asks users to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), that
information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.]
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect
user information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is
restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example a billing
clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us.
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Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site,
please contact us.
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