PRIVACY POLICY
(Updated on April 4, 2009)
This is the Privacy Policy governing your use of the
AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com Site. By using this Site, you consent to our Privacy Policy set
out below.
All terms not defined in this document have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Terms of Use Agreement between you and
AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com which by use of this Site you agree to accept.
1. The Information We Collect
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Registration Information. At the time you
register to become a Member of the Site, you will be
asked to fill out a registration form which requires you provide
information such as your name, address, phone/fax number, email
address and other personal information as well as information
about your business (Registration Information). |
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Publishing Information. If you submit any information
to AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com through Add Your Company to be published on the Site then you are deemed to have given consent to the
publication of such information (Publishing
Information). |
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Statistical Information. In addition, we gather
aggregate statistical information about our Site and Users, such
as IP addresses, browser software, operating system, pages
viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors, etc. (Statistical
Information). |
1.4 |
Registration Information, Publishing Information, Payment
Information, Statistical Information and any information we may
collect from you through the use of cookies (see Section 5
below) or any other means shall collectively be referred to as Collected
Information. |
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2. How We May Use Information
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General. We use your Collected
Information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to
statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and to customize our Sites content, layout
and service specifically for you. We may use your Collected
Information to service your Account with us, including but not
limited to investigating problems, resolving disputes and
enforcing agreements with us. We do not sell, rent, trade or
exchange any personally-identifying information of our Users. We
may share certain aggregate information based on analysis of
Collected Information with our partners, customers, advertisers
or potential Users. We may use your Collected Information to
execute marketing campaigns, promotions or advertising messages
on behalf of third parties; however, in these circumstances,
your Collected Information will not be disclosed to such third
parties unless you respond to the marketing, promotion or
advertising message. |
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Registration Information. We may use your
Registration Information to provide services that you request or
to contact you regarding additional services about which
AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com determines that you might be interested. Specifically, we may
use your email address, mailing address, phone number or fax
number to contact you regarding notices, surveys, product
alerts, new service or product offerings and communications
relevant to your use of our Site. We may generate reports and
analysis based on the Registration Information for internal
analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions. |
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Publishing Information. All of your Publishing
Information will be publicly available on the Site and therefore
accessible by any internet user. Any Publishing Information that
you disclose to AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com becomes public information and you
relinquish any proprietary rights (including but not limited to
the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in such
information. You should exercise caution when deciding to
include personal or proprietary information in the Publishing
Information that you submit to us. |
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Statistical Information. We use Statistical
Information to help diagnose problems with and maintain our
computer servers, to manage our Site, and to enhance our Site
and services based on the usage pattern data we receive. We may
generate reports and analysis based on the Statistical
Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing
decisions. We may provide Statistical Information to third
parties, but when we do so, we do not provide
personally-identifying information without your permission. |
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3. Disclosure of Information
3.1 |
We reserve the right to disclose your Collected
Information to relevant authorities where we have reason to
believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact
or bring legal action against someone who may be infringing or
threatening to infringe, or who may otherwise be causing injury
to or interference with, the title, rights, interests or
property of AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com, our Users, customers, partners, other web
site users or anyone else who could be harmed by such
activities. |
3.2 |
We also reserve the right to disclose Collected Information in
response to a subpoena or other judicial order or when we
reasonably believe that such disclosure is required by law,
regulation or administrative order of any court, governmental or
regulatory authority. |
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If we have reason to believe that a User is in breach of the
Terms of User Agreement or any other agreement with us, then we
reserve the right to make public or otherwise disclose such
User's Collected Information in order to pursue our claim or
prevent further injury to AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com or others. |
4. Co-Branded Relationships
We have established relationships with other parties to
offer you the benefit of other products and services which we ourselves
do not offer. We offer you access to these other parties either through
the use of hyperlinks to their sites from our Site, or through offering
"co-branded" sites in which both ourselves and these other
parties share the same uniform resource locator, domain name or pages
within a domain name on the Internet. In some cases you may be required
to submit information for purposes of registering or applying for
products or services provided by such third parties or co-branded
partners. The privacy policy of such other parties may differ from ours,
and we may not have any control over the information that you submit to
such third parties or co-branded sites. We therefore encourage you to
read that policy before responding to any offers, products or services
provided by such other parties.
5. Cookies
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We use cookies to store specific information
about you and track your visits to our Site. It is not uncommon
for web sites to use cookies to enhance identification of their
users. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to
your browser and stored on your computers hard drive. A cookie
can be sent to your computer's hard drive only if you access
our Site using the computer. If you do not de-activate or erase
the cookie, each time you use the same computer to access our
Site, our web servers will be notified of your visit to our Site
and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern
of your usage. Generally, we use cookies to identify you and
enable us to access your Registration Information, Publishing
Information or Payment Information so you do not have to
re-enter it; gather statistical information about usage by
Users; research visiting patters and help target advertisements
based on User interests; assist our partners to track User
visits to the Site and process orders; and track progress and
participation in promotions. |
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You can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted by
configuring your browser's which is installed in the computer
you are using to access the Site. If you desire, you can change
those configurations in your browser. By setting your
preferences in the browser, you can accept all cookies, you can
be notified when a cookie is sent, or you can reject all
cookies. If you reject all cookies by choosing the
cookie-disabling function in your browser, you may be required
to re-enter your information on our Site more often and certain
features of our Site may be unavailable. |
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We also use third party advertisements on this website to support
our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as
cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will
also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google
AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP ,
the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether
you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting
purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York,
for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited
(such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking
sites). You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies
or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing
preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However,
this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well
as other websites. This could include the inability to login to
services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
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We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit
our website. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to
this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services 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
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Googles use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to
your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the
Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
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6. Minors
The Site and its contents are not intended to be
targeted to minors under applicable law and we do not intend to sell any
of our products or services to minors. However, we have no way of
distinguishing the age of individuals who access our Site and so we
carry out the same Privacy Policy for individuals of all ages. If a
minor has provided us with personal information without parental or
guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the
information.
7. Security Measures
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We employ commercially reasonable security methods
to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and
ensure correct use of information. |
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As a Registered User, your Registration Information,
Publishing Information can be
viewed and edited through your Account which is protected by
Password. We recommend that you do not divulge your Password to
anyone. Our personnel will never ask you for your Password in an
unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. If you share
a computer with others, you should not choose to save your
log-in information (e.g., User ID and Password) on the computer.
Remember to sign out of your Account and close your browser
window when you have finished your session. |
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No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network
can be guaranteed to be perfectly secured. As a result, while we
try to protect your information, no web site or company,
including ourselves, can absolutely ensure or guarantee the
security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at
your own risk. |
8. Changes to Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated
through our posting an amended and restated Privacy Policy on our Site.
Our posting the amended and restated Privacy Policy will make such new
Privacy Policy immediately effective. You agree that all Collected
Information (whether or not collected prior to or after the new policy
became effective) will be governed by the newest Privacy Policy then in
effect. If you do not agree to the new changes in our Privacy Policy,
you should contact AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com in writing (at the address set out in the
Notice provision of the Terms of Use Agreement) and specifically request
that AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com return and/or destroy all copies of all or part of your
Collected Information in AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com's possession. This Privacy Policy was
last amended on April 10, 2003.
9. Correcting Your Information
You can access, view and edit your Registration
Information, Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any)
through your Account with AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com. To update or correct such
information, please click
here.
10. Your feedback
AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com welcomes your continuous input regarding our
Privacy Policy or our services provided to you. You may send us your
comments and responses to support@AhmedabadYellowPagesOnline.com.
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