E-SHABDA recognizes that retaining your trust is one of the most important thing for our business and protecting your privacy is our highest priority.
We have prepared this Privacy Policy to help you understand how our website safeguards the personal information you provide to us on our websites, via email or through our service providers and distribution partners. E-SHABDA is not responsible or accountable for the privacy information or practices of any third party such as third-party operating any site to which our websites contains a link. By downloading, accessing or using our websites, or providing information to us in connection with our websites, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
E-SHABDA is committed to protecting your online privacy while you browse our website.
We urge you to read the privacy policy in its entirety so you will understand all of the practices and procedures we follow relating to your online privacy.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
In this privacy policy, E-SHABDA will inform you about the type of information that is collected about you on this website, how the information is collected, what the information will be used for and to whom it will be given. This privacy policy will also tell you how to limit our use of your personal information.
What Information Do We Collect?
Personal Information
When you sign up to become a Registered User/Client/Publisher/Purchaser/End user you may be required to provide us with personal information about yourself, such as your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (collectively, the “Personal Information”). We do not collect any Personal Information from you when you use our website or Platform unless you provide us with the Personal Information voluntarily (for example, by registering to use the Platform, requesting quote/live demo or joining our e-mail list).
Billing Information
In order to submit orders through the Platform, you will be required to provide certain information in addition to the Personal Information noted above. Such information may include a debit card number, credit card number, billing address, and similar information (collectively, the “Billing Information”).
Geo-location Information
In order to provide access to the Service while you are using a mobile device, we automatically collect geo-location information from your mobile device, your wireless carrier, or certain third-party service providers (“Geo-location Information”). Collection of such Geo-location Information occurs only when the platform is running on your mobile device. You may decline to allow us to collect such Geo-location Information, in which case e-Shabda will not be able to provide certain services to you. Because your Geo-location Information is subject to abuse by others, please be sure to manage your mobile device and privacy preferences on the Platform on an ongoing basis.
Other Information
In addition to the Personal Information, the Billing Information, and the Geo-location Information, we may collect additional information (collectively, the “Other Information”). Such Other Information may include:
From Your Activity.
Information that we automatically collect when you use the Platform, such as the type of device from which you access the Platform, your IP addresses, browser type and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, date and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, what sections of the Platform you visit, what you order, and similar information concerning your use of the Platform.
Cookies and How We Use Them?
Generally cookies identify the user and not the computer. Also it is required that if financial transaction are being carried out by the site every transaction is authorized explicitly by the user and no financial information is either cached or stored in cookies.
"Cookies" are pieces of information that are stored by your web browser on your computer's hard disk, for record-keeping purposes. Cookies only identify your computer and not you personally.
E-SHABDA makes use of cookies to store your preferences, record session information, collect information on how you visit and access our websites, and to tailor our web pages to your needs. We also use cookies to analyze and measure the effectiveness of our email communications, website features and offerings, and advertisements. Most web browsers allow you to turn off cookies; however, turning off cookies will limit your use of our websites.
How We Use and Disclose Your Personal Information
We use your personal information in the following ways:
- To provide you with the information you request about our services
- To send you email messages and information
- To confirm your orders
- To ensure you are correctly billed
- To measure and track demographic details about our customers
- To target content on our website to more closely match your interests
- To target the appropriate content for email marketing messages to better match your interests
- We will provide you with choices regarding the use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.
If you connect to E-SHABDA through any social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the information that you will share with those sites is governed by their privacy policies.
Some of the Personal Information we collect is shared with our service providers (e.g. CC Avenue, Adobe) who are directly involved in fulfilling the services you have made from us. We only provide our service providers with your name and your local contact details and not any other Personal Information. If you decide to provide any Personal Information directly to our service providers, we recommend that you review the respective service providers's privacy policy to determine how they may use or disclose your Personal Information.
We also share your Personal Information with third parties contracted to provide us with marketing and data reporting services who are bound by an obligation of confidentiality and with other third-party marketing partners.
We currently contract with several third-party online partners to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications. We use the services of third-party marketing companies to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our website. To do this, we use web beacons and cookies provided by such marketing companies in connection with our websites. The information we collect helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. If you do not want to help us learn how to improve our site, products, offers and marketing strategy, you can "opt-out" of our ability to analyze such data by clicking here..
We may also use or disclose Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, you or others; or (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information, as long as it is so combined.
Our Security and Storage Measures
E-SHABDA seeks to maintain the integrity and security of your Personal Information. We use industry-standard protocols while receiving and transferring your Personal Information.
We seek to store your Personal Information in secure operating environments that are not accessible to the general public. We also ensure that the security measures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your Personal Information by our employees or third parties, however, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage environment can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot give an absolute assurance that the information you provide to us will be secure at all times. E-SHABDA will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorized access to your Personal Information. We will rely on you for telling us if you experience any unusual events that may indicate a breach in your information security. We will then seek to investigate whether the security breach was related to the data transmissions from our website and let you know what steps can be taken to rectify the problem. Further action, such as reporting incidents to the police or other proper authorities, may also be required.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our website may contain links to other Internet websites. We encourage contributors and other third parties to implement policies and practices that respect your privacy. We are not, however, responsible for any other website’s privacy practices or website content.
We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by E-SHABDA. Inclusion of any linked website on our website does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by us. If you decide to leave our website and access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
E-SHABDA reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy by posting the changes on its website. You can determine when this Privacy Policy was last updated by reviewing the "LAST UPDATED" legend below. We ask that you review this privacy policy from time to time to ensure that you are familiar with the latest version of the policy.
Contacting Us
To correct or update any other Personal Information, or if you have any questions about E-SHABDA website’s Privacy Policy, then please email our Privacy Officer at privacy@e-shabda.com.
Acceptance of E-SHABDA’s Privacy Policy
By using this website, you agree to the terms of, as well as any posted changes to, this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy, DO NOT use our website.
