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1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Protecting your
privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy has been accordingly
developed to protect your personal information and keeping it confidential. We
have built our systems and processes to protect your privacy on systems and the
website www.maharashtrawatchco.com which are directly
controlled by us. However, we are not liable for any unauthorized or unlawful
disclosures of your personal and confidential information made by third parties
who are not subject to our control, for example other websites that have links
to www.maharashtrawatchco.com. You should take note that the information and privacy
practices of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to
which we provide hyperlinks, may be different from ours. Our privacy policy is
subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any
changes, please review this policy periodically.
Your information
(collectively referred to as "Personal Information") is categorized
as follows:
(a) Profiling
Information: Information
which you provide when you register as a user, which may include some or all of
the following: Information about your personal identity such as gender, marital
status, age, preferences, likes and dislikes etc.; Your contact details such as
your physical addresses, postal addresses, telephone numbers and the like.
(b) Payment and
Account Information: Your account
history with us including (without limitation) all billing information and
communications, payment history etc. We however do not hold any account
details, credit card numbers or other confidential banking information. All
Credit card and Debit card payments are processed through secure and trusted
payment gateways managed by leading Indian banks.
(c) Service Usage: Information about your navigation
through our website, pages that you visit and products that you view.
(d) Log
information: Information such as
your web request, devices used, IP address, browser type, browser language,
date and time of request.
(e) Transactional
Information: Transactional
history (other than banking details) about your e-commerce activities.
(f) Correspondence
Information: Content,
information about your correspondence, and the destination/origin of
communications between you and any other person using our Services, which
include email communications, blog, and discussion board communications,
experts forum communications, membership of newsletters etc.
(g) User IDs: Your usernames, passwords, email
addresses and other security-related information used by you in relation to our
Services.
(h) Stored
Information: Data either
created by you or by a third party and which you wish to store on our servers
such as image files, documents etc.
We only collect your
Personal Information to conduct our business and to enable us to deliver and
improve our Services. We do not for any reason whatsoever; sell your Personal
Information to any third party or otherwise trade on it.
We will only disclose
your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If we want to
use it for any other purpose, we will obtain your prior written consent. If you
decline to submit personal information to us, then we will unfortunately not be
in a position to provide the Services to you. Any of your information which you
provide when you use certain Services and are to an open, public environment or
forum including (without limitation) any blog, community or discussion board,
is not confidential, does not constitute Personal Information, and is not
subject to protection under Privacy Policy. Since such public environments are
accessible by third parties, it is possible that third parties may collect and
collate and use such information for their own purposes. You should accordingly
be careful when deciding to share any of your Personal Information in such
public environments. Information, which is disclosed publicly, is also shared
with our affiliates, third party service providers, sponsors of competitions etc.
unless expressly stated otherwise. We are not liable to you or any third party
for any damages that you or any third party may suffer howsoever arising from
your disclosure of Personal Information in any public environment. You
accordingly disclose information in a public environment at your own risk.
2.
RIGHT TO COLLECT
By accepting the Terms of Service you agree that we may collect
and store your Personal Information as long as you use our Services subject to
the limitations set out in this Privacy Policy.
2.1 We
collect your Profiling Information and Payment and Account Information for the
following reasons:
(a) We
need your identity details, contact details, and account history to manage our
relationship with you and provide Services to you. We may use this information
for suggesting products and promotional offers and schemes.
(b) We
use certain parts of your information in an aggregated form to compile
statistical and demographical profiles for our business and marketing
activities. We will not disclose any of your information that is capable of
being used or interpreted in such a manner as to identify you.
2.2 We
collect and store your Service Usage and Transactional Information to:
(a) Determine
and verify the Service Charges payable by you and to administer our
relationship with you.
(b) Comply
with any statutory or regulatory requirement.
(c) Compile
statistical and demographical profiles about you for our business and marketing
activities and to customize our Services to you. While we are entitled to use
such information about you for our own internal business purposes without
limitation, we will not disclose any of your information which can be used or
interpreted in such a manner as to identify you; and
(d) Monitor
your use of our Services for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our Terms
& Conditions.
2.3 We
collect and store your Correspondence Information and Personal Identifiers
to:
(a) Comply
with our obligations under law; and
(b) Monitor
your use of our Services in order to ensure your compliance with our Terms
& Conditions.
Please note that when you place an order, some of your Personal
Information will be passed on to the others who shall need to have access to
some Personal Information like courier companies, credit card processing
companies, vendors etc. to enable them and MAHARASHTRA WATCH CO. & OPTICS to perform their duties and fulfill your order requirements.
Any Personal Information which we collect and which we may use
in an aggregated format ensuring you are not individually identified is our
property. We may use it, in our sole discretion and without any compensation to
you, for any legitimate purpose including (without limitation) the commercial
sale thereof to third parties.
Sometimes we use "cookies" so that we can provide you
with more customized information when you return to our website.
"Cookies" are used to store user preferences and to track user
trends, so as to enhance your interactive experience and generally improve our
Services to you. You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a
"cookie", giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept
it. If you do accept a "cookie", you thereby agree to our use of any
Personal Information collected by us using that Cookie.
You may update your Profiling Information at any time on the
website. You acknowledge and agree that in the interests of improving
personalization and Service efficiency, we may, under controlled and secure
circumstances, share your Personal Information with our affiliates (an entity
which is our subsidiary or holding company or a subsidiary of our holding
company or an entity which controls, is controlled by or is under common
control with us).
3.
GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
If we
are required to intercept, disclose, monitor and/or store your Personal
Information: (a) by law; (b) to conduct our
business; (c) to secure our systems; or (d) to
enforce our own rights, we will do so in the manner as prescribed by law.
Such interception, disclosure, monitoring and storage may take
place without your knowledge. In that case, we will not be liable to you or any
third party for any damages howsoever arising from such interception,
disclosure, monitoring and storage. In order to ensure that all our Users
comply with the Terms & Conditions, we may monitor your Personal
Information to the extent that this may be required to determine compliance
and/or to identify instances of non-compliance. To ensure that the security and
integrity of our Services are safeguarded, we may monitor your Personal
Information. This monitoring may include (without limitation) the filtering of
incoming and outgoing electronic data messages to identify, limit and/or
prevent the transmission of spam, viruses and/or unlawful, defamatory, obscene
or otherwise undesirable material or content. We may under certain
circumstances procure an element of the Services from a third party service
provider. To the extent that it may be necessary, and solely for the purposes
of providing the Service to you, you agree that we may disclose to such third
party any of your Personal Information that may be necessary for the
procurement of services from the third party.
BY
USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY
POLICY, MAHARASHTRA WATCH CO. & OPTICS RESERVES THE RIGHT, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, TO CHANGE, MODIFY,
ADD OR DELETE PORTIONS OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME.