Privacy Policy

This policy covers personally identifiable information collected or stored by the www.globalindianheritage.com , which may be referred as The Site, on its servers. The Site collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information. Your privacy is important to The Site and it takes its responsibility seriously to protect the data that you provide it in the normal course of interacting with it. Therefore, The Site has developed a comprehensive privacy policy below to help you better understand what data it collects and how it uses it.

The public and collaborative nature of The Site

 

The Contents developed by The Site are collaboratively posted by its users. All contributions made to The Site, and all publicly available information about those contributions, are irrevocably licensed and may be freely copied, quoted, reused and adapted by third parties with few restrictions.

This Policy

In general, this Policy only applies to the private information stored or held by The Site which is not publicly available.

User accounts and authorship

The Site requires the users to register and provide information as prompted by the Registration Form. All entries posted by the users are linked to their profile which contains the information derived from the Registration Page, except the email address and the date of birth. Those wishing to make comments on the contents are required to first login. The name of those commenting on the contents will be shown. Users that do register are identified by their chosen username. Users select a password, which is confidential and used to verify the integrity of their account. Except insofar as it may be required by law, no person should disclose, or knowingly expose, either user passwords and/or cookies generated to identify a user. The user accounts can be removed in terms of the Terms Of Use of The Site. It may not be possible for a username to be changed.

E.Mail, date of Birth and Address not to be shown:

 

While filling up the Registration Form, you are asked to provide many things including your E- mail, Date of Birth and Address. None of this information would be disclosed. The site would use your E –mail to send you Newsletters and occasional mails. The Site will not sell your E– mail to any third party. You can discontinue the receipt of such Newsletters and mails by sending a mail at info@globalindianheritage.com. This mail would take effect with in 90 days from the date of receipt. Your Date of Birth also would not be disclosed nor sold to anybody. The Site collects this information for internal purposes and to send you E – mail on your birth day. Your Address would not be shown or sold and would be used by The Site for official purposes only.

 

Referrel Mail not to be stored and shown:

 

While filling up the Registration Form you are required to provide two referrel E-mails of your friends and acquaintances. The Site would send only a single E-mail from your side informing them that you have joined it. No other E-mail would be sent on those addresses by The Site and The Site does not store those E-mail IDs in its data base. The text of the mails sent to these IDs is also mentioned on the Registration Form.

 

Invite Page:

 

There is an Invite Page on The Site. You can help The Site by inviting as many of your friends as possible (five at one time) to join it. The text of the mail is mentioned on the Invite Page. The Site would not store the E –mail IDs to whom you sent the mail. Moreover, the mails sent on your behalf would contain your E-mail ID.

 

IP and other technical information

When a visitor requests or reads a page, or sends email to The Site ‘s server, no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites. The Site may keep raw logs of such transactions, but these will not be published or used to track the legitimate users.

Cookies

The Site uses cookies (a piece of data stored on the user's computer) and other technologies to provide you with a quality experience and to learn how you use its services so that it can continually innovate to improve its services.

Reading information

No more information on users and other visitors reading pages is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites. Aside from the above raw log data collected for general purposes, page visits do not expose a visitor's identity publicly. Sampled raw log data may include the IP address of any user, but it is not reproduced publicly.

 

Deletion of matter

The content posted by the users can be edited but not deleted. The previous version is not retained by The Site. The article links posted by the users can be deleted.

Notification of Changes:

The Site will occasionally update its Privacy Policy. If there are any material changes , it will notify via email and provide you the opportunity to opt-out prior to any substantial change that has been taken. The Site encourages you to periodically review its privacy policy to be informed of how it is committed to protecting your privacy.

Purpose of the collection of private information:

The Site limits the collection of personally identifiable user data to purposes which serve the well-being of its contents, including but not limited to the following:

1.    To enhance the public accountability of the Contents. The Site recognizes that any system that is open enough to allow the greatest possible participation of the general public will also be vulnerable to certain kinds of abuse and counterproductive behavior. The information asked by The Site may contribute to the accountability of the contributors. Moreover, the IP addresses of users (derived either from those logs or from records in the database) may be used to identify the source(s) of the abusive behavior. This information may be used to control any misbehavior.

2.    To provide site statistics. The Site statistically samples raw log data from users' visits. These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public.

3.To solve technical problems. Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems.

 

Disclaimer:

Though The Site would make every effort to preserve your privacy, it may need to disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith and belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on it or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims.

The Site believes that maintaining and preserving the privacy of user data is an important value. This Privacy Policy, together with other policies, resolutions, and actions by The Site, represents a committed effort to safeguard the security of the user information that is collected and retained on our servers. Nevertheless, The Site cannot guarantee that user information will remain private. The Site acknowledges that, in spite of its committed effort to protect private user information, determined individuals may still develop data-mining and other methods to uncover such information and disclose it. For this reason, The Site can make no guarantee against unauthorized access to information provided to it.