Y-India Privacy Policy
Y-India offers an online place to meet friends. This Privacy Policy is intended
to inform you of Y-India's policies and practices regarding the collection, use
and disclosure of any Personal Information you submit to us through our Sites.
Y-India ("Y-India", "us" or "we") respects the privacy
of the visitors to its Sites. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Y-India Terms of Service.
"Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable
to you, like your name, address, email address, or phone number, as well as other
non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
"Anonymous Information" means information that is not associated with
or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the
identification of individual persons. We collect and use Personal Information and
Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our Sites, you agree to the terms of
this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information
according to this Privacy Policy. Your Personal Information may be processed by
Y-India in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including
the United States of America) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information
may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
General
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our Sites.
- When you register for the Y-India network, we will collect your name, email address,
your gender, date of birth and ZIP code.
- We may collect your telephone number from a mobile device and send you messages
if you decide that you want to receive SMS, MMS, or other text messages from the
Services.
- When you save other Personal Information in your profile we will collect any such
information you enter.
- When you enter Personal Information throughout the Y-India network using one of
the features of the Y-India network, for example journals, testimonials, groups,
or message boards, we will collect any such information you enter ("Publicly
Posted Information").
- When you contact us by sending us an email, we will collect your email addresses
and any information contained in the email you send us.
Once you register with Y-India and sign in to our Services, you are not anonymous
to us. If you are browsing the Sites without registering with Y-India, you are anonymous
to us, but we will collect the information listed below under Personal Information
Collected Via Technology. If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a
friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation,
such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email inviting
him or her to visit the site. Y-India stores this information to send these invitations,
to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the
success of our referral program.
Uses of information
Any visitor of the Sites can view your profile information and photos that you have
uploaded to the Y-India community. You can control what part of your profile information
and photos is visible to visitors of the Sites and which network of Y-India members
can see what information.
To provide you with some of the features that the Y-India community offers to its
members, we may use Personal Information that is stored in your profile after you
have requested such features, for example to send invitation emails to people that
you specified as being interested in joining the Y-India community. In order to
provide useful information about social networks to people who might be interested
in joining the Y-India community, we may use your profile information and photos
on the Sites and when we send emails, for example when we send birthday reminders
to Y-India members or when we send general newsletters to members of the Y-India
community. When you decide to view a Member's profile, we may show that Y-India
Member that you chose to view their profile. If you don't want us to show to other
Y-India members that you viewed their profile, you can change this in your privacy
settings. When you provide us with your telephone number, we may use the telephone
number to send you the communications that you have requested to receive. If you
decide to use certain features of the Y-India network (like journals, testimonials,
groups, message boards, locations, and the like), some of the Personal Information
you entered into your Y-India profile and any information, including Personal Information,
that you enter using one of these features, might be used and displayed.
Y-India members can use the search feature to search for other members by different
criteria, like location or gender. The Personal Information that Y-India members
enter into the Y-India profile will be used for these searches. Please note that
if you choose to show your location, as provided by you or by the Carrier of the
mobile device you are using, the information that is provided to the Services by
the Carrier about your location will be used within your Member profile and can
be viewed and searched by other Members and visitors of the Sites.
Please be aware that any information that is publicly posted throughout the Y-India
network can be accessed by every visitor of the Sites.
Y-India may analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes. In
addition, Y-India may remove personally identifying information from collected information
to render it anonymous. Y-India may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and
disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Y-India does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other
people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've
requested, when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in this privacy
policy.
We provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on
behalf of or with Y-India under confidentiality agreements to provide some of the
services and features of the Y-India community and to help us communicate with Y-India
Members. These service providers may use your personal information to communicate
with you about offers and services from Y-India and our marketing partners. However,
these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information.
If you decide to use one of the additional services that are offered by our partners,
we may forward Personal Information to these partners to enable them to provide
the services that you requested.
We also provide information to third-party advertising companies, as described in
the next section.
Please be aware that the handling of your Personal Information by our partners or
the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy, not ours.
If you would like to know (1) the categories of Personal Information about you that
we disclosed in the prior calendar year to third parties for the purposes of the
third parties’ marketing and/or (2) the names and addresses of such third parties,
please contact us.
We will disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process,
or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We
may disclose information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent,
or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving
the physical safety of any person, violations of Y-India's terms of use, or as otherwise
required by applicable law.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will
possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and
obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit
our Sites. These companies may use Personal Information, such as gender or age,
and other information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to the Sites and other websites, such as time of day of
the login, IP address or information about the internet service provider (ISP) or
mobile device Carrier, in order to provide advertisements on the Sites about goods
and services that may be 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.
Personal Information Collected Via Technology
As you navigate the Sites, certain information may also be passively collected and
stored on our server logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type,
and operating system. If you send SMS, MMS, or text messages to the Services, we
will collect the telephone number (if any) from which such communication was sent.
We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to
gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and
information for which you searched and viewed, or on which of the advertisements
displayed on the Sites you clicked. This type of information is collected to make
our Services and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the Y-India community
experience to meet your special interests and needs. If you search the Y-India community
by using a toolbar that Y-India, or a third party provides, we may collect Anonymous
Information about you automatically, but we will not collect Personal Information.
An "Internet protocol address" or "IP Address" is a number that
is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases
your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you
use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session
to session. We track your IP Address when you login to the Sites.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your
computer's hard drive while you are viewing a web site. Y-India may use both session
Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which
stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal
and interactive experience on the Sites. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following
your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable Cookies, some
areas of the Sites may not work properly.
Other third parties may place advertisements and cookies on webpages within the
Y-India network. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy
policies, not this one.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Service,
such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Y-India Newsletter,
that are considered part of your Y-India account. If you would like to opt out of
certain messages, log into Y-India and go to your account settings by clicking the
account link in the top right hand corner. On that page you can edit your preferences.
If you would like to delete your account, log into Y-India, go to your account settings
page by clicking the account link in the top right hand corner. On that page, right
below the email address field you will see a link to cancel your account.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees and third parties
who we reasonably believe need access to that information to provide products or
services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information
about you and your Y-India account information is protected by a password that you
select. Y-India uses industry-standard SSL encryption in certain areas of the Sites
to protect data transmissions.
However, no company, including Y-India, can fully eliminate security risks associated
with Personal Information.
Other Sites
Our provision of a link to any other Sites or location is for your convenience and
does not signify our endorsement of such other Sites or location or its contents.
We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for these outside
Sites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy does
not apply to these outside Sites.
Regarding Children
We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under
the age of 10.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Y-India may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant
changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary
email address specified in your Y-India account or by placing a prominent notice
on our Sites. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using our Sites.
Continued use of our Sites following notice of any such changes shall indicate your
acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions
of such changes.