Your privacy is very important to us. Please read this privacy policy to learn more
about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information.
The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the
domain and subdomains of www.insuringindia. By visiting this website you agree to
be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the accept all of
the terms and conditions in, and linked to, this privacy policy and the linked User
Agreement. If you do not agree please do not use or access our Site.
This Privacy Policy describes the information, as part of the normal operation of
our services, we collect from you and what may happen to that information. We have
prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible
about our practices so that you can make informed decisions.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you expressly consent to
our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy
Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the
User Agreement and is effective from 15th
November 2010. By using the website and/or registering yourself at InsuringIndia.com
you are authorizing us & our associate companies and partners to contact you via
email or phone call and offer you their services for the product you have opted
for, providing product knowledge, offer promotional schemes running on the website
& by the associated third parties. This policy will not apply to the practices of
companies that InsuringIndia does not own or control or to people that InsuringIndia
does not employ or manage.
1. YOUR PRIVACY - OUR COMMITMENT
At InsuringIndia, we are extremely proud of our commitment to protect your privacy.
We value your trust in us. We will work hard to earn your confidence so that you
can enthusiastically use our services and recommend us to friends and family. Please
read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated
as you make full use of our Site.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you use our Site, we collect and store your personal information from you.
Our primary goal in doing so is to provide a safe, efficient, smooth and customized
experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet
your needs, and to customize our Site to make your experience safer and easier.
Importantly, we only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary
for achieving this purpose. Once you give us your personal information, you are
not anonymous to us. To fully use our Site, you will need to register using our
online registration form, where you may be required to provide us with your contact
and identity information, residence / place of business information, billing information,
date of birth, and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout
the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields
are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing
not to use a particular service or feature on the Site.
By using the InsuringIndia.com website and/or registering yourself at InsuringIndia.com
you authorise us & our associate partners to contact you via email or phone call.
The primary purpose of this is to offer you their services for the product you have
opted for and also to impart product knowledge.
Irrespective of the fact that you have registered yourself under DND or DNC service,
by using our website you still authorise us to contact you directly from InsuringIndia.com
and/or our associate partners for the above mentioned purposes.
This policy also covers our treatment of any personally identifiable information
that InsuringIndia’s business partners share with InsuringIndia.com. Also during
registration, you may be requested to register your mobile phone and email id, or
other device to receive text messages, notifications, and other services to your
wireless device. By registration you authorise us to send you sms/email alerts to
you for your login details and any other service requirements or some advertising
messages/emails from us.
3. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
We may also use your information to deliver information to you that, in some cases,
are targeted to your interests, such as new services and promotions. The following
are examples of some categories of persons to whom we would share your information
with from time-to-time.
Advertisement - Where a user enters information on any form of an advertiser, the
information is simultaneously collected by InsuringIndia and the advertiser. The
information is used by InsuringIndia in accordance with the terms of this privacy
policy and is used by the advertiser as per the advertisers prevalent privacy policies.
Because we do not control the privacy practices of these advertisers, you should
evaluate their practices before deciding to provide the said information.
Third Party Advertising - We may use third-party advertising companies and/or ad
agencies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information
(not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your
visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site
and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. InsuringIndia
may also aggregate (gather up data across all user accounts) personally identifiable
information and disclose such information to advertisers and other third parties
for other marketing and promotional purposes.
InsuringIndia.com will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information
to anyone other than as specifically noted herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
InsuringIndia may sell and/or transfer your personally identifiable information
to an affiliate and to any successor-in-interest as a result of a sale of any part
of InsuringIndia’s business or upon the merger, reorganization or consolidation
of InsuringIndia with another entity on a basis that InsuringIndia is not the surviving
entity.
For the purposes of this privacy policy, "affiliate" means any person directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, that controls, is controlled by
or is under common control with InsuringIndia. The term "control," as used in the
immediately preceding sentence, shall mean with respect to any person, the possession,
directly or indirectly, of the power, through the exercise of voting rights, contractual
rights or otherwise, to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies
of the controlled person. As used in this Privacy Policy, the term "person" includes
any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust,
unincorporated association or any other entity.
4. LEGAL
We cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory inquiries, as well as other third
parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other
rights, to help protect you and the community. Therefore, in response to a verified
request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal
investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorise us to) disclose
your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, UserID history, and other
listing history. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, street
address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to
Intellectual Property right's owners under confidentiality agreement, as we in our
sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation
of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.
We strictly follow the norms of non disclosure agreement. It is our endeavor to
ensure that the websites linked to us are safe and secure. However we have no control
over 3rd party websites.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your personal
information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy
Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to
disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications,
or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the
Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy,
we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or
private communications will always remain private.
5. OTHER SITES
There might be affiliates or other sites linked to our web site. Personal information
that you provide to those sites are not our property. The affiliated sites may have
different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
These sites may place their cookies or other files on your computer, collect data
or solicit personal information.
6. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
InsuringIndia may amend this policy from time to time, at our discretion. If we
make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will
notify you by posting the changes here on these Privacy Policy pages.
7. COOKIES
We may automatically track certain information about you based upon your behavior
on our site. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics,
interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve our users. This
information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. This information may
include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not),
which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), your computer
browser information, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of the Site to
help analyze our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust
and safety. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in
providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available through
the use of a "cookie". We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less
frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information that is
targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they
are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case
you may not be able to use certain features on the Site and you may be required
to reenter your password more frequently during a session.
Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages
of the Site that are placed by third parties. For example, if you view a web page
created by a user, there may be a "cookie" placed within that web page. We do not
control the use of cookies by third parties. If you send us personal correspondence,
such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence
about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into
a file specific to you.
8. OUT USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use
your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other information
we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes;
troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading; collect fees owed; measure consumer
interest in the services provided by us, inform you about online and offline offers,
products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us
against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and
as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. At times, we may look across
multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may
examine your personal information to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases.
We may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for
accuracy.
You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing
and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve the Site's content and product
offerings, and customize the Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve
the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth,
efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Site. You agree that we
may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you
that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements,
administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use
of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree
to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications,
we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications in your profile.
You may make changes to your profile at any time.
9. THIRD PARTIES
We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate
or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations
that we provide to you on the Site (e.g., search technology, discussion boards,
bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards) and therefore
we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service
providers. These internal service providers' are subject to confidentiality agreements
with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information
we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced
Site related operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission
to them for additional uses. In some instances, the internal service provider may
collect information directly from you (such as for Site surveys or for a co-branded
credit card). In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal
service provider, and all additional information you provide them and their additional
uses will be strictly up to you. If you provide additional information to an internal
service provider directly, then their use of your personal information is governed
by their applicable privacy policy.
10. OTHER CORPORATE ENTITIES.
We share much of our data, including personal information about you, with our parent,
affiliates, subsidiaries, and joint ventures that are committed to serving your
online trading needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that
these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively
as they treat information they obtain from their other users. Our parent, affiliates,
subsidiaries, and joint ventures follow privacy practices no less protective of
all users than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by
applicable law. InsuringIndia its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, its joint ventures,
or any combination of such, will share some or all of your personal information
with another business entity should we plan to, merge with, or be acquired by that
business entity. Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined
entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
11. Under 18
Children are not eligible to use our Site and we ask that minors (under the age
of 18) do not submit any personal information to us.
12. SECURITY
When you place orders or access your account information, we offer the use of a
secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you put
in before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all of the customer data we collect is
protected against unauthorized access. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain
data accuracy, and ensure correct use of information, we will employ reasonable
and current Internet security methods and technologies.
13. YOUR CONSENT
By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of the information you
disclose on the Site by InsuringIndia. If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
14. Copyright & Disclaimer
The news reports on InsuringIndia have been compiled from public news sources accessible
to InsuringIndia. While InsuringIndia has taken all due care in preparing the reports,
it accepts no responsibility or liability for the veracity, authenticity, reliability
and accuracy of the information. Further, InsuringIndia is not responsible nor liable
for any consequential damages arising in lieu of relying on the contents of the
news reports
15. DISCLAIMER
Visitors to this website/portal and every third party is hereby informed that the
owners of this website/portal, viz., Great Indian Marketing & Consulting Services
Pvt Ltd., are not the agents or intermediaries of the insurers, whose products are
dealt with in this website/portal. They are also not the sub-agents or sub-intermediaries
of the agents and intermediaries of the respective insurers. Though endeavor is
made to make correct policy/product comparisons, quotes, features, etc., based on
the information provided by the insurers or its agents or intermediaries, it is
made abundantly clear that Great Indian Marketing & Consulting Services Pvt Ltd.,
its directors, shareholders, officers and employees and InsuringIndia.com are in
no way responsible to or liable for any one for his/her investment decision, and
every prospect/ investor/policyholder shall be solely responsible for the consequences
of his/her decision.
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