This Privacy Policy
describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared by worldebazaar.com (WEB) while you visit or transact at the site.
By visiting WEB,
providing your information or availing its product/service, you expressly agree
to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, the general terms of use as well as the applicable service/product terms and conditions. If you
do not agree, please refrain to use WEB.
Personal Information
Your Personal Information is collected and
stored by WEB as and when it is provided by you from time to time. You always
have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular
service, product or feature on WEB. This “Personal Information” is collected through two modes such as Device Information and Order Information.
Device Information – This is the automatically-collected
information as you visit WEB. The information collected
pertains to your device, including your web browser,
IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your
device. Additionally, information is
collected with respect to your browsing through WEB, the product pages and any other individual web pages that you view, the websites or search terms which has referred
you to WEB, and information about how you interact within the site. WEB identifies and uses your IP address to help
diagnose problems with its server, and to administer its platform. Your IP
address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic
information.
WEB uses this information to do internal research on its users’
demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve its
users. This information is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis.
Device
Information is collected using
the following technologies:
·
“Cookies” which are data
files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous
unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable
cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
·
“Log
files” that track actions occurring on WEB, and collect data including your IP address,
browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time
stamps.
·
“Web
beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” which are electronic files used to record information about
how you browse WEB.
Order
Information – During the process of your transaction or attempt to make a transaction through WEB, it collects certain order related information from you, including your name, billing
address, shipping address, email
address, phone number, payment
information (including credit card/debit numbers and other payment
instrument details).
Using your personal information
WEB collects Order Information generally to fulfil any orders placed through it including processing of your payment information, shipping management, publishing respective invoice and/or providing you with order confirmation.
Order
Information is also used to establish communication with you,
screen the orders for potential risk or fraud, and to forward you
necessary information. WEB may also approach
you to advertise its products or services based on
the preferences shared by you with it or your previous orders choices, to the extent that it
will provide you the ability to opt-out of such uses, in case you wish to.
If you choose to
post messages through the message areas of WEB or leave feedback, or even send
us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, it will collect and retain
this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and
troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
If you enrol into any
of WEB’s loyalty or similar promotional program, as and when it may be announced,
WEB will collect and store your personal information such as name, contact
number, email address, communication address, date of birth, gender, zip code,
lifestyle information, demographic and work details which is provided by you to
us.
Device
Information is used to
improve and optimize WEB’s site performance including by generating analytics about how customers browse
and interact with it, and also to assess
the success of its marketing and
advertising campaigns.
Moreover, Device Information
is collected to help it screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address).
Sharing your personal
Information
WEB shares your
Personal Information with third parties only where necessary to help it use your Personal Information. For example, it uses
software to power its online store.
WEB also uses Google Analytics to help it understand how its customers use it
·
details of how Google uses your Personal Information can be obtained from https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
·
In case you
with to opt-out of Google Analytics here:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Using demographic / profile data / your information?
WEB uses your
personal information to assist its logistic partners in handling and fulfilling
orders; enhancing customer experience; resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems;
help promote a safe service; collect money; measure your interest in its
products and services; inform you about online and offline offers, products,
services, and updates; customize and enhance your experience; detect and
protect itself against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce its terms
and conditions; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection of
information.
WEB and its affiliates
will share / sell some or all of your personal information with another
business entity should it (or its assets) plan to merge with, or be acquired by
that business entity, or re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business.
Should such a transaction occur that other business entity (or the new combined
entity) will be required to follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your
personal information.
WEB may
occasionally invite you to participate in surveys conducted by it, purely on
voluntary basis. These surveys may ask you for personal information, contact
information, date of birth, demographic information (like zip code, age, or
income level), attributes such as your interests, household or lifestyle
information, your purchasing behaviour or history, preferences, and other such
information that you may choose to provide. The surveys may involve collection
of voice data or video recordings. It use this data to tailor your experience
at the site, providing you with targeted content that you might be interested
in.
Finally, WEB may also share your Personal Information to comply
with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, court orders or
other lawful processes for information it receives, or to otherwise protect its rights. It may disclose
personal information to law enforcement agencies, third party rights owners, or
others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary
to: enforce its Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; respond to claims that an
advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party;
or protect the rights, property or personal safety of its users or the general
public.
Security precautions
WEB maintains
reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your
information. Whenever you access your account information, it offers the use of
a secure server. Once your information is in its possession it adheres to
security guidelines to protect against unauthorized access. However, by using WEB,
the users accept the inherent security implications of data transmission over
the internet and the World Wide Web which cannot always be guaranteed as
completely secure, and therefore, there would always remain certain inherent
risks regarding use of the platform. Users are responsible for ensuring the
protection of login and password records for their account.
Behavioural
advertising
WEB uses your personal information to provide you with
targeted advertisements or marketing communications that it believes may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted
advertising works, you can visit :
·
The Network Advertising
Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work
Data
retention
When you place an
order through WEB, it retains and maintains your Order Information for its records for the purpose of accounts and statutory
requirements in accordance with appliable laws. However, it may retain data related
to you if it believes it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse or
if required by law or for other legitimate purposes. It may continue to retain
your data in anonymised form for analytical and research purposes.
Cookie
Policy
WEB uses data collection devices such as cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your machine to help analyse our
web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety and generally to help it provide a better user
experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store
information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking
data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
As a rule, cookies
will make your browsing experience better. Most cookies are “session
cookies,” meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive
at the end of a session. You are always free to decline/delete our cookies if
your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain
features on WEB. The most effective way
to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.
Changes
This privacy policy may be updated to reflect changes
to our information practices from
time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational,
legal or regulatory reasons. In case of
any significant changes to this privacy policy, we will alert your by
posting the date our policy got last updated, placing a notice on WEB, or by
sending you an email when we are required to do so by applicable law.
Grievance Officer
In accordance with
Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made there under, the name and
contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below:
Indro Neel Sircar
Mob: 9953795119
Email: grievance@worldebazaar.com
Contact us
If you have a query, issue, concern,
or complaint in relation to collection or usage of your personal information
under this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e‑mail at worldebazaar@gmail.com.