Privacy Policy
Introduction
We at Kuch Kuch (“Kuch Kuch”, “us”, “we” or “our”), are committed to respecting your (“User”, “you” or “your”) online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us. In order to provide a personalized browsing experience, Kuch Kuch may collect information from you, this may include technical or other related information from the device used to access Kuch Kuch including without limitation contact lists in your device and its location.
“Personal Information” means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, phone number and an email address or other contact information whether at work or at home. Kuch Kuch continues to strive to provide the safest possible environment for you to search and post your Contents.
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, shared, and secured, as well as your choices regarding use, access, and correction of your personal information.
By using this Site, you agree to the collection, use, and transfer of your data as described in this Privacy Policy. You may revoke your consent to this policy. To revoke your consent, please contact us.
Information collected on our Site is stored in the U.S, therefore, your information may become subject to U.S.A law.
About Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about activity on the web site. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a Web user. Cookies enable us to serve secure pages to our users without asking them to sign in repeatedly. If a User's system is idle for more than an hour, however, the cookie will expire, forcing the user to sign in again to continue their session. This prevents unauthorized access to the user's information while they are away from their computer, laptop and mobile. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set your browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies, but please be aware, however, some Kuch Kuch features or Services may not function properly without cookies.
Tracking technologies may record information such as internet domain and host names; internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Site and your web experience.
Third-Party Services
Third parties provide certain services available on the Site i.e. www.KuchKuch.com on Kuch Kuch’s behalf. ‘Kuch Kuch’ may provide information, including Personal Information that ‘Kuch Kuch’ collects on the web to third-party Service providers to help us deliver Products, Information, and Services. Service providers are also an important means by which ‘Kuch Kuch’ maintains its website and mailing lists. ‘Kuch Kuch’ will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party Service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on Kuch Kuch’s behalf. ‘Kuch Kuch’ does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on Kuch Kuch’s behalf unless such transfer is legally required. Similarly, it is against Kuch Kuch’s policy to sell Personal Information collected online without consent.
Information Kuch Kuch Collect
We collect information about you when you use our Site. We receive and store this information when you enter it on our website, send it to us, or provide it to us in any other way. The information posted on Kuch Kuch is obviously publicly available. Our servers are located in the United States. We collect information when you choose to give it to us.
This includes:
- The contact information like name, email address, street address, and phone number.
- Your demographic information (such as zip or postal code, occupation, education and experience, and if you choose to provide it, credit card, age, gender, and race or ethnicity).
- The information used to post Contents on Kuch Kuch.
- Information you provide to us when you contact Kuch Kuch.
- Information about your business, such as company name, size, and business type.
No system can be completely secure. Therefore, Kuch Kuch does not promise, and you should not expect, that such information may be inadvertently collected and that such personal information will remain secure. You also may give us permission to access your information on other services. If you connect to the Services using your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram or other third-party service credentials (each, a “Supported Platform”), you authorize us to collect your authentication information, such as your username, encrypted access credentials, and other information that may be available on or through your Supported Platform account, including but not limited to your username, pictures, and friends/followers lists. The information may get from Supported Platforms may depend on your settings and their privacy policies.
KUCH KUCH DOES NOT STORE ANY USER FINANCIAL INFORMATION, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY REQUEST INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR CREDIT CARD AND/OR BANK ACCOUNT. KUCH KUCH DOES NOT STORE CERTAIN FINANCIAL DATA DUE TO ITS USE OF THIRD PARTY AGENTS, AS ITS FINANCIAL TRANSACTION FACILITATOR.
Information Collected Automatically
We gather certain information automatically when you visit our Site. This information includes:
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Your internet protocol (IP) address and internet service provider (ISP).
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Your browser type and languages, as well as access time.
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The Content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from Kuch Kuch.
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The referring website address.
In order for Kuch Kuch to work with your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, BlackBerry, or another mobile device, Kuch Kuch must collect your Device Identification Code (DIC). The DIC is a special type of identifier used in software applications in order to provide a unique reference number for applications like those used by your mobile device. Your DIC is not shared with other Users.
This data is collected about you automatically and is processed for Kuch Kuch’s legitimate interest. We combine this information with personal data to help detect and prevent fraud.
Information Collected by Third Parties
Kuch Kuch may allow third parties, advertising companies, and ad networks to display advertisements on the Site and via the Services. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about Users who view or interact with their advertisements.
If you connect your Kuch Kuch account to a Supported Platform, the default setting is generally that Kuch Kuch automatically allows users to share users’ activity and activity-related stories with these services. You understand that such information may be attributed to your account on Supported Platforms and may be published on such Services either directly by you or by other users.
You understand and agree that Supported Platforms’ or other third parties’ use of the information they collect from you is governed by their privacy policies, and Kuch Kuch’s use of such information is governed by this privacy policy.
How Kuch Kuch Use Information
We use the information we collect to provide our Services, respond to you, operate and improve our Sites, and foster positive user experience. We use information with your consent as described at the time we collect that consent. This may include the creation of User Account and uploading/posting Content.
We use personal data for our legitimate interests, namely:
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To operate Kuch Kuch Services.
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Place, fulfill, process and/or track your requests, payments, orders and/or purchases.
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Facilitate and maintain access of, registration with and use of the Site and/or their respective products and Services.
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Facilitate and maintain your accounts and profiles with the Site.
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Allow you to communicate with others through the Site, for example, through online messages.
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Provide Consumers with information about Providers and their respective product and service reservations and purchases.
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Monitor the activities of you and others on or through the Site.
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Provide you with information about Kuch Kuch, its parents, its subsidiaries, its affiliates and/or their respective business, products, and services.
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Provide you with information about third-party businesses, products and/or services.
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To contact and communicate with you when you contact us.
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To analyze, improve and optimize Kuch Kuch services.
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To protect Kuch Kuch Services and the rights of users and others.
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To enforce terms of Kuch Kuch’s Services and prevent fraud and abuse of Kuch Kuch systems.
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To provide you the best offers, Services, and products from Kuch Kuch and third-party Provider.
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For you improved interactions and communications.
We also use non-personally identifiable information and certain technical information about your computer and your access to the Sites (including your internet protocol address) in order to operate, maintain and manage the Sites. We collect this information by automated means, such as cookies and web beacons.
Kuch Kuch may also release your personal information to a third-party in order to protect, establish, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims: comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process, or other legal requirement: or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, threats to our property, or as necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.
Kuch Kuch only uses your Personal Information that is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or as permitted by law. If we seek to use the information we obtain about you in other ways, we will provide specific notice and request your consent at the time of collection.
Your Consent
By using this Website, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to Kuch Kuch’s processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where ‘Kuch Kuch’ collects Personal Information on the Web.
Data Retention
Kuch Kuch may retain your personal information and non-personal information as long as it believes necessary. Kuch Kuch may dispose of or delete any such personal information and non-personal information at any time, except as set forth in any other agreement or document executed by both you and Kuch Kuch concerning the same or as required by law.
Information Security
Kuch Kuch takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. Kuch Kuch restricts access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
REGARDLESS OF THE FOREGOING, PLEASE OBSERVE THAT “PERFECT” OR “100%” SECURITY DOES NOT EXIST ON THE INTERNET. THEREFORE, YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE SITE, AND YOUR OPENING OF ANY COMMUNICATIONS SENT THROUGH OR AS A FUNCTION THE SITE ARE DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
To help maintain the security of your personal information, Kuch Kuch asks that you please notify it immediately of any unauthorized visit, access or use of the Site, or the loss or unauthorized use of your user access information for the Site (e.g., Username and Password).
Children’s Privacy
Kuch Kuch does not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13 without a parent's permission. If you are under 13, please do not use the Sites. In the event that Kuch Kuch learns that Kuch Kuch has collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13 without a parent's permission, Kuch Kuch will delete that information as quickly as possible.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Kuch Kuch does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people (save with your consent) or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested when Kuch Kuch have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
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We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with ‘Kuch Kuch’ under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help ‘Kuch Kuch’communicate with you about offers from ‘Kuch Kuch’ and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
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As part of the buying and selling process, We will facilitate the sharing of the buyer’s shipping address and other information with the seller.
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Sellers may use this information only for Kuch Kuch – related communications or for Kuch Kuch – facilitated transactions.
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We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
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We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Kuch Kuch’s Terms and Conditions, or as otherwise required by law.
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We have not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages or unauthorized transactions.
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We transfer information about you if ‘Kuch Kuch’ is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ‘Kuch Kuch’ will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Public Spaces
Kuch Kuch is both a marketplace and a community. We offer several features that allow members to connect and communicate in public or semi-public spaces. Please use common sense and good judgment when posting in these community spaces or sharing your personal information with other Users on Kuch Kuch. Be aware that any personal information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others, or could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Kuch Kuch generally does not remove Content from community spaces, and your posts may remain public after your account is closed. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to post in community spaces on Kuch Kuch, including but not limited to store and product reviews.
Confidentiality and Security
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Kuch Kuch limit access to personal information about you to partners and employers who Kuch Kuch believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
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Kuch Kuch has physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in the U.S to protect personal information about you. Kuch Kuch seeks to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
‘Kuch Kuch’ reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification.
Contact Information
‘Kuch Kuch’ welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy at the contact address given at the Kuch Kuch website. It is however clarified that ‘Kuch Kuch’ is not obligated to comply with any requests or changes suggested by the User and Kuch Kuch shall have the exclusive decision making right in this regard. Should there be any concerns about infringement of this Privacy Policy, ‘Kuch Kuch’ will employ all commercially reasonable efforts to address the same.
Note
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The terms in this Privacy Policy are to be read along with the ‘Terms and Conditions’ (as applicable from time to time) for the Site.
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The terms of this Privacy Policy may be changed by Kuch Kuch at any time at its sole discretion and without any obligation to inform the Users of the said changes.
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Kuch Kuch is free to offer its services to any client/prospective client without restriction.
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The Governing Law, Jurisdiction and related matters with regards this Privacy Policy shall be in accordance with the ‘Terms and Conditions’ of the Site.