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123India.com Privacy Policy

123India.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

This policy will let you know:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you;
  2. What cookies are and how they are used;
  3. How your information is used;
  4. Who is collecting your information;
  5. With whom your information may be shared;
  6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information;
  7. How you can access, update or delete your information;
  8. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;
  9. What else you should know about your online privacy.

  • What personally identifiable information does 123India.com collect from me?
123India.com collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of web sites.

Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, 123India.com asks for your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry and personal interests. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to 123India.com - you are given a 123India.com ID and are able to take full advantage of 123India.com's many offerings.

In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by 123India.com and/or our many partners; when you submit a listing for a web site; and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If you contact 123India.com we may keep a record of that correspondence. 123India.com also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever 123India.com collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

  • What are cookies and how does 123India.com use them?
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, 123India.com uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on 123India.com where you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies. (See "What are my choices regarding collection, use and distribution of my information?" for more information on cookies.)

    Generally, we use cookies to:

  1. Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services. 123India.com also uses cookies to store your zip code for other services, such as Yellow Pages.

  2. Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing 123India.com is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

  3. Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a 123India.com-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings.

  4. Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of 123India.com's network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on 123India.com a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.

Third Party Cookies :In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

  • How does 123India.com use my information?
123India.com's primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, 123India.com is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you.

123India.com does research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. 123India.com may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

Third Party Advertising: We use MaxOnline and other third-party advertising companies 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. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here http://www.maxonline.com/privacy_policy/index.php

For Privacy Policy on Ads served by the Adtegirity Network please click here http://www.adtegrity.com/privacy.asp

  • Who is collecting information?
When you are on a 123India.com site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with 123India.com alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. For example, some 123India.com services, like 123India.com Travel, are offered in conjunction with a partner company. In order to provide this co-branded service to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than 123India.com, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

Promotions that run on 123India.com may be sponsored by companies other than 123India.com or may be cosponsored by 123India.com and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.

Please be aware that 123India.com Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites linked to 123India.com are not covered by this privacy statement.

  • With whom does 123India.com share my information?
As a general rule, 123India.com will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

Business Partners & Sponsors: 123India.com may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms of Service or Use Agreements, and sweepstakes and promotions rules. Some or all data collected during a 123India.com promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.

Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give 123India.com permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.

From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these third parties, 123India.com will (with your permission) share your name and email address with them .

Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, 123India.com may match user information with third party data. Also, 123India.com discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: 123India.com may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating 123India.com's Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) 123India.com's rights or property, other 123India.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. 123India.com may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

  • What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?
123India.com may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from 123India.com and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only 123India.com (or agents working on behalf of 123India.com and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily edit your 123India.com Account Information to no longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your 123India.com ID and Password in order to access your 123India.com Account Information.

On some types of 123India.com promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no- email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion- related email messages may include targeted advertisements.

You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those 123India.com services that require registration in order to participate

123India.com does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.

  • What is 123India.com's policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?
You may edit your 123India.com Account Information and your public 123India.com Profile at any time by using your 123India.com ID and password.
Your 123India.com account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able to access any members-only area of the 123India.com network, including your 123India.com Mail account (if you have one). If you saved the confirmation email you received when you first created your 123India.com account, you can use the URL provided in that message to delete your account at any time. Please contact privacypolicy@corp.123india.com for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your 123India.com account. Residual information will remain within our archive records.

  • What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your 123India.com Account Information and 123India.com Profile are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your 123India.com Account Information and 123India.com Profile by using your 123India.com ID and password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. 123India.com will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your 123India.com account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, 123India.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

  • What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

Additional Information If you have a question that was not addressed in this privacy policy you may contact us at privacypolicy@corp.123india.com


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