Privacy Policy
This page is an electronic
record, it is generated by a. Computer system and as such it does not require
any digital or physical signature to make terms under this policy binding. It
is an electric record in terms of the IT act (Information Technology Act, 2000)
and rules under the IT act as applicable and the provisions applicable to
electronic records in various regulations as amended by the Information
Technology Act, 2000.
User Privacy
We are utterly dedicated to our
commitment for complete protection of your personal information shared with
Onlinebazar.com. You trust to share data with the Website is most valuable to
us. We are dedicatedly working towards a goal to provide reliable services so
you can benefit from our services without any worries while also recommending Onlinebazar.com
to your family & friends for their convenience and welfare. As you go
through complete privacy policy you will be able to gain a clear understanding
of how your shared personal information will be used securely as you make full
use of our Website.
Privacy Assurance
Onlinebazar.com promises to never sell or rent any of your shared personal information with any third parties for their marketing or other purposes without your prior expressed consent. We might reveal information about statics of our Website from time to time. This information may include the number of visitors, analytics and type of goods & services purchased from us, etc. Customer’s trust and confidence on the Website is always our highest priority.
Information collected by Onlinebazar.com
As you use our Website, we
utilize some of your personal information. We collect your personal information
with a view to:
? Improve,
record, facilitate and support your participation in the actions that you
perform on Website,
? Track
your personal preferences, in order to provide you with a customized Website
user experience,
? Notify
you regarding any policies updates, information and new activities/features and
other related functions provided by Onlinebazar.com,
? Keep
you updated about the latest content available on the Website,
? Any
Vouchers, special offers, festive promotions and other products and services of
Onlinebazar.com,
? Assist
you with any technical support or customer support issues,
? After
your visit to follow up,
? Further
support your relationship & experience with Onlinebazar.com,
? Prevent
scams, fraud and any unlawful practise.
For these purposes, we are only
collecting such personal information that we consider useful & relevant to
understand you and your interests.
Sole purpose of using cookies is for user’s convenience while
using our Website. We do not use cookies to collect or use any other personal
information about you. Third party uses of cookies are not controlled by us.
If you are a seller on the Website, we would need some additional information, such as your billing address, Bank details, other payment instrument details and tracking information from money orders and cheques.
User Device Information
In order to provide you with the
right content in the right appearance, we might use some information about
device that your use.
Attributes of device: We might collect device attributes such as device operating system, hardware details, software versions, device battery level, device signal strength, available storage space on the device, device browser type, device apps, file names, file types, and installed plugins.
Device operations: information about device operations and behaviours performed on user’s device, behaviours such as whether the window is on foreground or background, or movements of mouse (to make sure that the user is human and not a bot).
Device unique Identifiers: unique identifiers such as device IDs and other identifiers, such as identifiers from apps being used or accounts that are being used by user.
Device signals: Information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, Bluetooth signals etc.
Information about device settings: information that a user allows us to receive through device settings (turned off or on), such as access to your GPS location, opening camera or accessing photos.
Networks and connections: network information such as the name of user’s mobile operator or internet service provider, user’s language, user’s time zone, user’s mobile phone number, the user's IP address and internet connection speed.
Our use of collected personal information
At Onlinebazar.com, we use your
personal information only to facilitate the services that you request. We do
not rate, trade, sell or exchange any user’s personally-identifying information
to anyone. We may provide our under contract affiliates and service providers
(i.e. customer care, data analytics, etc.) your personal information in order
to support the operations of the Website and to support our services. To a
certain extent, we use your personal information to market products or services
to you, however we will provide you the ability to choose and opt-out of such
uses. We only use your personal information to: resolve any disputes;
troubleshoot issues; help promote safe trading; collect fees; measure consumer
interest in the services being provided by us, inform users about our online
and offline offers, our products, our services, and updates; customize user
experience; detect and protect us against any flaws, gaps, frauds and other
criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement and to improve the user
experience in general to make it comparable to any other e-commerce platforms;
and as otherwise described to users at the time of collection. In our efforts
to continually grow & improve our offered products and services, we may
collect and analyze demographic, profile and usage behaviour data about our
users' activity on our Website.
Our Disclosure of user’s personal information
Personal information of any user
is a very important part of our values and we are not in any interest of
selling any of trusted information to others. Onlinebazar.com would only share
user’s personal information to certain people that are either subject to our
Privacy Policy or follow practices which are at least as protective as those
described in our Privacy Policy. Which in particular are as described below:
Advertisements
A. The information is simultaneously collected by Onlinebazar.com
and the advertiser when a user shares his personal information in any form of
the advertiser. The information is used by Onlinebazar.com in accordance with
the terms of our privacy policy and is used by the advertiser as per the
advertiser’s prevalent privacy policy. User should evaluate advertiser’s
privacy policy before sharing any of asked information as Onlinebazar.com do
not have any control of their privacy practices.
B. For other marketing or promotional purposes, Onlinebazar.com may also use personally identifiable information gathered in an aggregated form and disclose that information to advertisers and other third parties.
Classifieds Listings
When any user lists a classified
advertisement, and the advertisement receives an expression of interest by the
other interested user, the interested user will be provided with the contact
information of the user who listed the advertisement as provided in their user's
registration form.
Items and Services offered by third parties on
Onlinebazar.com
There are certain products and
services for which third parties request for user’s information to perform
services on our behalf. (For example: an image/picture shared for a customized
coffee mug or a t-shirt). The information provided by the user for such
purposes is simultaneously collected by the respective third party and
Onlinebazar.com. This information is utilized by the third party in accordance
with their own privacy policy and their terms of the offer. User should always
review their privacy policy and terms and conditions prior to using their
services as we do not have any control of their privacy practices.
Internal Service Providers
At Onlinebazar.com, we may employ
trusted third parties services to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects
of our business, product or service operations that we provide to you on the
Website (e.g., search algorithms, discussion boards, bill collection, co
branded credit cards, affiliate and reward programs) and therefore, we may need
to provide some of the user's personal information to such internal service
providers. These internal service providers are bound to confidentiality
agreements with us and other legal restrictions, which prohibits their use of
user’s your personal information for any other purpose except to facilitate the
specific outsourced service. However, in any event of user’s direct involvement
with any of these internal service provider, any additional information shared
by user shall be subject to internal service provider’s own privacy policy.
user should always review their privacy policy and terms and conditions prior
to sharing any such information as we do not have any control of their privacy
practices.
Other Affiliated Corporate Entities
We share much of our data,
including some personal information about users, with our parent, subsidiaries,
affiliates and joint ventures which are committed to serving user’s online
trading needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that
these entities may have access to user’s personal information, they always
remain bound by this Privacy Policy. As we continue to grow our business at
Onlinebazar.com, we might buy or sell stores, subsidiaries or business units.
In any such transactions, user’s personal information is also one of the
transferred business assets, which however remains subjected to the promises
made in any existing Privacy Policy.
Legal Requests
We cooperate with regulatory
inquiries and law enforcement, as well as other third parties which reinforce
laws, such as: IP rights (intellectual property rights), fraud and other
rights, to help protect users and the community from bad influences. Therefore,
in response to a verified request from government officials or law
enforcement relating to a criminal
investigation or any illegal activity, we may (and user authorizes us to)
disclose some of their personal information as it is reasonably necessary to
respond to court orders, subpoenas, or other legal process. We may have to
disclose personal information to law enforcement, third party rights owners, or
others in the good faith that such disclosure of information is reasonably
necessary to: enforce our Terms & Conditions or Privacy Policy; responding
to claims that any advertisement, posting or any other content which violates
the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or user’s personal
safety or the general public.
Your use of other
users' information
Our Website allows user to access
other user’s contact details in order to facilitate interactions among all Onlinebazar.com
members (buyers, sellers, service providers such as payment gateways and 3PLs.
Furthermore, as a buyer, user will be sent an email with Onlinebazar.com registered
user ID, email address and other information of seller. The same way, as a
seller, user will be sent via email the Onlinebazar.com registered user, ID
email address and other information of buyer.
By entering into Onlinebazar.com’s User Agreement, user agrees that, with respect to other user's personally identifiable information that user obtains through the Website or through a Onlinebazar.com related communication or Onlinebazar.com facilitated transaction, Onlinebazar.com hereby grants to users a license to use such information only for:
(b). using co-branded services
offered through Onlinebazar.com such as insurance, shipping and scam
complaints, and
(c). After adequate disclosure of
the purpose user can expressly opt into diclosing information for a particular
purpose.
You must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your collected database and give them a chance to review what information you have collected about them in all cases. Except as defined in this section, you can not disclose any personally identifiable information about another user to any third party without consent of that user and Onlinebazar.com under any circumstances
Onlinebazar.com and our users do not tolerate phishing/spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a Onlinebazar.com user (even if a user has purchased an item from you) to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their prior consent after adequate disclosure from you.
What about
children's privacy?
If you are under the age of 18,
you cannot buy or sell any items on the Website. Use of Onlinebazar.com is
allowed only to persons who can form a legally binding contract as per the
Indian Contract Act, 1872. If you still wish to sell or purchase an item on the
Website, such purchases or sale should be made by your legal guardian or
parents who have registered as users of the Website.
Change your
personally identifiable information
We will always verify your
identity before granting you access or making changes to your personally
identifying information to protect your privacy and security. If you have
registered your profile on Onlinebazar.com, your registered user ID and Password
are required in order to access or modify your profile information.
Security
When you place an order or access
your account information, we offer the use of a secured server. The secure
server software (SSL) encrypts all the information you put in before it is sent
to us. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security
guidelines in compliance with the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000, by
protecting it against any unauthorized access.
Your Consent
By using the Website and/ or by
providing your personal information, you acknowledge our use of your
identifiable information in a manner that is set out in this Privacy Policy. If
any, changes to our privacy policy will be communicated through our Website at
least 10 days prior to their implementation. Name and address of any entity
collecting and retaining your personal information shall be a contracting
entity stated in the Onlinebazar.com User Agreement.
Grievance Officer:
According to Information
Technology Act, 2000 and rules bound there under, the name or contact details
of the Grievance Officer are published on the Website in the User Agreement.