Privacy Policy
Privacy issues are a high priority for us at Patna Market
and we follow standard industry practices to maintain your
personal information. Please read the following to learn
more about our privacy policy.
Patna Market does not spam or sell/lease its user information
to third parties.
Policy Coverage
This Privacy Policy covers Patna Market's treatment of personally
identifiable information that Patna Market collects when you
are on the Patna Market site, and when you use Patna Market's services.
This policy also covers Patna Market's treatment of any personally
identifiable information that Patna Market's business partners
share with Patna Market. This policy does not apply to the practices
of companies that Patna Market does not own or control, or to
people that Patna Market does not employ or manage.
Personal Information Collected by Patna Market
ONLINE REGISTRATION: In order to become
a Patna Market member, you must first create a member account
on Patna Market by providing information about yourself including
but not limited to name, email address, country, ZIP/postal
code, birth date, a brief summary of yourself and a password.
Patna Market checks for the validity of the email addresses.
OPTIONAL PROFILE INFORMATION: Once your
provide the basic information to create an account, you
will have the opportunity to provide additional information
in the Profile section describing your skills, interests,
professional and academic background and favorites. Provision
of this additional information beyond what is required at
registration is entirely optional; it allows you to better
identify yourself and create superior networking opportunities
with other through shared contexts. but enables you to better
identify yourself and find new opportunities on Patna Market.
Your Profile information can only be viewed by other Patna Market
visitors or registered members or members of your personal
network only depending on the option you choose.
FORMING YOUR OWN PERSONAL NETWORK: You
can invite others to connect with you directly in Patna Market
by entering their names and email addresses. This information
will be used by Patna Market to send your invitation along with
a message that you write. The names and email addresses
of people that you invite will be used only to send your
invitation and reminders. You will also have the option
to upload your contact information either manually or via
a computer upload directly from most of your personal email
accounts into your own private address book on Patna Market. All
information entered there will only be viewable by you and
will not be searchable by others in the Patna Market network
without your permission. All information that you enter
or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same
terms of this privacy policy as cover your own personally
identifiable information.
RECOGNIZING YOU AS A Patna Market MEMBER: For Patna Market to recognize you as a registered member, you
must login with your login email and password. At the time
of login, you will have the option to instruct the site
to remember you so when you come back the next time to use
Patna Market, you would not have to login with your email and
password. As is common in the industry, Patna Market uses the
technology of cookies and site log files to monitor user
registration, to recognize registered members when they
revisit the site and to track site usage. Our ability to
identify you as a registered member allows us to customize
the Patna Market experience and to protect your personal information
based on your account settings.
INTERNET COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL INFORMATION: The communication standards of the Internet industry transmit
the URL of the site from which you visit Patna Market, the IP
address of your computer, the IP address of your ISP, various
attributes of your computer such as operating system, resolution
and browser software, and the date and time of your various
requests for pages on Patna Market. Patna Market file logging system
automatically logs all of this information in its log files
for its analysis.
NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS: Visitors to Patna Market may also
sign up with their name and email address for a variety
of newsletters that Patna Market produces with varying frequency
(e.g., News headlines) without having to register. Patna Market
confirms the subscription by sending an email to the email
address specified before sending the newsletter.
Use of Information by Patna Market
Patna Market is an online website that offers a variety of
services designed to connect people from around the world.
The information, whether personal or non personal or in any form of
self-expression is used to help you describe yourself
to other users. Patna Market also collects additional information
in order to operate and improve our service. PatnaMarket.com is the sole owner of
the information collected on this website.
PROFILE SHARING CUSTOMIZATION: Whether
you register on Patna Market, what parts of your profile you
fill, who you add to your network and what visibility levels
you want to set for your profile are entirely up to you
in the form of settings you can make on your profile. You
also have the ability to change these at any point in time.
Patna Market will show the information to enable personal networking
only based on your preference.
VISIBILITY OF NETWORK LINKAGES: Where
applicable, the path of members that connect you with another
member of your network will be displayed to that member.
This network path will not be shown to those who are not
members of your personal network.
VISIBILITY OF PUBLIC CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS: In addition to being a social and professional networking
site, Patna Market also provides a variety of forums for its
members to express themselves in the form of articles, columns,
opinions, comments, reviews, art and photographs. Since
this expression is linked to the member's identity and the
expression is in the public domain, the compilation of a
member's creative contributions to Patna Market will be visible
to all visitors of Patna Market whether or not they are registered
members of Patna Market.
VISIBILITY OF PRIVATE MESSAGES WITHIN NETWORK: You will be able to create and share messages within
your personal network. The visibility of these private notes
will be restricted to your network unless you or one of
the members in your network choose to forward it to others
within or outside Patna Market.
SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES: Patna Market takes your privacy very seriously. Patna Market will
never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable
information to any third parties unless it is to carry out
your instructions and to provide specific services. As an
example, we send your information to a credit card processing
company to process a payment you have made for the use of
a Patna Market service. These third parties are bound by strict
confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such
information. In addition, Patna Market may share your information
to send direct mailers or complimentary coupons/offers to
a mailing agency to process postal mailing. Again, such
an agency would be bound by strict confidentiality agreements
that limit their use of such information.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS: Patna Market generally
communicates with you as a registered member of Patna Market
through the primary email that you have specified at the
time of registration. This is also used as the login text
string in conjunction with the password to authenticate
you on the Patna Market site. Your email and password are never
shared with anybody within or outside Patna Market. Patna Market uses
this email address to send you three types of communications:
- Sending you emails related to the proper functioning
of your account (e.g. when you receive a response to
a classified you have posted on Patna Market or when you
receive an invitation to join the personal network of
another person)
- Sending you newsletters that you have subscribed
to
- Sending you occasional announcements about changes
in Patna Market's policies or promotions introduction of
new services
- Please note that these email communications may
contain commercial messages of advertisers; however,
Patna Market does not provide your personal information or
emails to any of the advertisers; we just include the
advertising banners they provide us in the emails that
we send. As always you can opt out of the newsletters
or promotional announcements.
PARTNERING WITH OTHERS: Patna Market may
partner with other online services to offer a combined service.
Whenever we offer such combined services, it will be entirely up
to you to use or not to use the service.
PROVISION OF AGGREGATE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
TO THIRD PARTIES: Patna Market reserves the right to
provide aggregate demographic information of its member
base to advertisers and others so as to attract pertinent
advertisers to advertise on Patna Market.
COMMUNICATIONS TO OTHERS FROM YOU THROUGH Patna Market: You will be able to send emails to others -- members
and non-members -- through the Patna Market system. For example,
you may send a comment on an article written by another
member. Or you may send an email invitation to a non-member
to join your personal network. In these instances, these
emails will list your name and email address in the header
of the message. The recipients of these emails initiated
by you will get to know your name and email address. Patna Market
is not responsible for how these recipients use this information.
Your contact information will only be shared with another
member only if both of you indicated you would like to establish
contact with each other.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHERS TO YOU THROUGH Patna Market: Only registered members of Patna Market are allowed
to communicate with you through Patna Market through a form on
Patna Market. Unless and until you respond to this email, they
will not get to know your email address. You may, however,
choose an account setting that prevents any other member
from contacting you or inviting you to join their personal
network.
DISCLOSURES REQUIRED BY LAW: It is possible
that we may need to disclose personal information when required
by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have
a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with
a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal
process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights
or defend against legal claims.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided
us and make any desired changes to the information, or to
the settings for your Patna Market account, at any time by logging
in to your account on the Patna Market website and editing the
information on your Profile page. You can also close your
account through the Patna Market website by sending your request
to info with your login email address. You request
will be processed within 7 business days
Policy on Abuse on PatnaMarket.com
PatnaMarket.com is committed to ensuring and enforcing a
safe and friendly online community space for all our members.
To this effect, we have come up with a Policy on Abuse that
we would like all our members to be aware of. These rules
govern the use of the PatnaMarket.com website and its product/service
offerings and we would like all our members to cooperate
in complying with these rules so that everyone can have
a pleasant experience.
Conduct and use of language:
- Member contributions must be civil and tasteful
and must not be malicious or designed to offend. Use
of swear-words or profanity is strictly prohibited.
- Do not refer to the personality of other participants
or attack an individual's character or personally insult
another member. Do not use the Network to harass, threaten
or verbally abuse or intimidate anyone, or behave in
any manner that would cause annoyance or distress to
other members.
- Members of PatnaMarket.com may not insult or defame
the site, including any of its employees, moderators
or freelancers. You may not post the contents (in part
or whole) of any email that you may receive from any
PatnaMarket.com employee(s) and/or moderator.
- Do not to post any material that is obscene, defamatory,
profane, libelous, threatening, harassing, abusive,
hateful or embarrassing towards other person(s) or an
entity. We encourage a healthy exchange of opinions
and disagreements. By all means challenge an opinion but please do it respectfully. Name-calling, insults
and use of foul or abusive language will not be tolerated.
This includes the use of offensive member Display Names
and URLs (your personal website address on PatnaMarket.com).
- Please be sure before you divulge the details of
your identity or personal information in your post(s),
including photos of yourself or your family and friends.
Anything posted online is accessible to the entire internet
community and PatnaMarket.com is not liable in cases where
such information is misused. Please be aware of the
general dangers of online information sharing like identity
theft, phishing and other fraudulent activites.
- Members of PatnaMarket.com are not permitted to collect
or distribute personal data concerning other members
at any time.
- Do not post messages more than once. This is also
known as flooding. PatnaMarket.com reserves right to delete
such posts and may terminate the accounts of such members.
- A member of PatnaMarket.com must not impersonate another
member.
Advertising and Spamming:
- Commercial messages or promotional messages from
businesses or organizations are not permitted on the
Network. PatnaMarket.com provides a platform for its members
to express themselves in the form of articles, columns,
opinions, comments, reviews, art and photos but the
website must not be used as a medium for marketing or
selling to our members.
- No advertising or promotion is allowed except where
it is for an event, publication or similar item that
has direct relevance to the subject of discussion and
is non-commercial in nature. Please bear in
mind that the space on the Network is for creative contributions
by members and not for personal advertising or promotion(s).
Information about locating and sharing knowledge and
expertise is welcomed, but must have relevance to the
topic on which an opinion is expressed or a discussion
is initiated.
- Do not post chain letters, promote pyramid schemes
or recruit members for any network marketing or multilevel
marketing businesses.
- Do not recruit members to join another website forum
or chat group, whether personal or otherwise. If you
have a suggestion for a new forum, please contact us
or send your queries to info.
- PatnaMarket.com encourages healthy discussion on the
topics that members contribute to in forums and where
relevant, members are allowed to post links to their
content. However, overt promotion of, or inappropriate
links to other known commercial websites on any forum
are not permitted and will be removed. If you are unsure
whether a link or a posting is allowed, please send
your queries to info. The definition of an appropriate link is one that is relevant to both the posting and the
forum topic. A commercial site is considered as one
which promotes a product or service for a price or for
other consideration that suggests it is a for-profit
business.
Copyrighted Material:Uploading copies
of copyrighted material as a whole or in part on PatnaMarket.com
without explicit permission from the copyright owner shall
be deemed to infringe on the copyright and this applies
to materials such as text, images, music, movies, games,
and other software in digital and analog format. PatnaMarket.com
reserves the right to immediately delete such material without
prior permission/consultation from the member. If you suspect
that an image submitted to PatnaMarket.com is copyright protected
and has been used fraudulently, please contact us immediately
or send us an email to: info
Safety Guidelines:PatnaMarket.com is always
reaching out to a wider audience by showcasing the best
of our member contributions. However, in doing so, we will
not allow to be uploaded anything on the site that we think
could be potentially endangering or is inflammatory or embarrassing
to our members. It also helps members to be aware of certain
things in the interest of their safety.
- All members are responsible for the safety of their
personal information. We recommend that members do not
disclose their names, addresses, email addresses, telephone
numbers or other personal information online.
- All members need to be aware that when they upload
their photos to the site, the photos are not only visible
to the entire internet community but can also be downloaded,
since any image that can be displayed on a computer
screen can be saved by the person viewing it. It is
technically not possible to prevent this and hence PatnaMarket.com
cannot be held liable in such cases. If you are worried
about someone else viewing or saving your images then
please do not submit them.
- Do not post chain letters, promote pyramid schemes
or recruit members for any network marketing or multilevel
marketing businesses.
- Do not recruit members to join another website forum
or chat group, whether personal or otherwise. If you
have a suggestion for a new forum, please contact us
or send your queries to info.
- PatnaMarket.com encourages healthy discussion on the
topics that members contribute to in forums and where
relevant, members are allowed to post links to their
content. However, overt promotion of, or inappropriate
links to other known commercial websites on any forum
are not permitted and will be removed. If you are unsure
whether a link or a posting is allowed, please send
your queries to info@PatnaMarket.com. The definition
of an appropriate link is one that is relevant to
both the posting and the forum topic. A commercial site is considered as one which promotes a product or
service for a price or for other consideration that
suggests it is a for-profit business.
Legalities:
- All members are reminded that they may be held legally
accountable for what they say or do online. In particular,
members may be held liable for any defamatory comments,
threats and/or untrue statements or other illegal and
fraudulent claims made by them.
- PatnaMarket.com does not endorse the opinions expressed
by its members.
- If any member fails to observe the above rules of
conduct at any time, PatnaMarket.com reserves the right
to terminate the membership of the member and/or delete
all their contributions (either temporarily or permanently)
from the site, depending on the nature and severity
of the breach and without prior warning or consent of
the member.
Registration as a PatnaMarket.com member at any time past
or present and use of the PatnaMarket.com website and all its
product/service offerings will be taken as acceptance of
the above rules of conduct. PatnaMarket.com's decision on all
matters is final and binding on its members. Legal jurisdiction
for all disputes is the High Court of Patna, India.
PatnaMarket.com endeavours to foster a vibrant online community
of Indians worldwide by providing a platform with global
reach to express themselves and connect with other people,
thus forming mutually beneficial relationships. We are here
to serve our members 24x7 and use all feedback to refine
and improve the online experience for our members. You can
reach TEAM Patna Market anytime by writing to infoand we will respond to you in a timely manner. We hope
you have an enjoyable and rewarding experience on the PatnaMarket.com
Network. Welcome aboard!
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