This section covers VahoraRishta.com's treatment of personally identifiable information that VahoraRishta.com collects when you are on our site.

Read on for information on the following aspects about our Privacy Policy:

Q. What information does VahoraRishta.com collect/track about me?

Ans: VahoraRishta.com is a matchmaking platform providing services for the purpose of finding a match. In order to do provide the services, we ask for certain personal information which is displayed on the site. (Of course, all VahoraRishta.com visitors may browse the site, search member profiles and view any articles or features our site has to offer without entering any personal information.)

Information Collected / Tracked by VahoraRishta.com VahoraRishta.com gathers two types of information:

1. Information users submit.
2. Information not directly submitted.

1. Information users submit

Members: There are two types of user-submitted information we collect: Public and Private. We define Public information as personal information that may be displayed on the site at the behest of the member, such as gender, age, height, telephone number etc. Private information is defined as any information that allows others to contact a user other than through VahoraRishta.com or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site.

Public: To order to improve our services we gather personal information, which may or may not include: customer-specified VahoraRishta.com username, gender, age, religion, profession, telephone number, general geographic location.
VahoraRishta.com also allows members to submit public and private information on behalf of others - child/ward, sibling or friend. If such child/ward, sibling or friend does not wish this information to be displayed, she/he has the option to request removal of such information after providing the necessary evidence that the information pertains to her/him.

Surveys: From time-to- time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, and age).

Additional Features of the Site :

TESTIMONIALS: Satisfied users of VahoraRishta.com have chosen to post testimonials on our web site. All permissions have been obtained to post these testimonials.

2. Information not directly submitted

AGGREGATE: This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the site.

Q. What does VahoraRishta.com do with the information it collects / tracks?

VahoraRishta.com uses the information it collects in the following ways:

1. Information users submit

Public: Public information supplied by members is an advertisement intended to be viewed by visitors to the site. This information is used by visitors for searching and matching purposes. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific member by address, etc All members also have to post their telephone number and email id. All members can view telephone number(s) and email id(s) of other members.

Private: We primarily use member's email addresses to verify enrollment and to send system emails on behalf of other members. Email addresses are disclosed to members. We may also use user's email address to send news regarding our site or our group sites, Email addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer service issues.

Updating public information:

* Login to your VahoraRishta.com account
* Click on My Profile
* Use Edit options in the page to update relevant information and submit

NOTE: To prevent misuse of the system, some information can be changed only on request.

Updating private information:

* Login to your VahoraRishta.com account.
* Click on My Account.
* Update relevant information and submit.

SURVEYS: Survey information collected is used to monitor or improve the site usage experience.

OTHERS: VahoraRishta.com allows members to send proposals to other members to advertise there personal profile for matrimonial alliance. While VahoraRishta.com exercises reasonable care to prevent site misuse, we strongly recommend you establish the authenticity and intent of members before giving out personally identifiable information.

2. Information not directly submit

We use your server IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our website.
As a matrimonial service we endeavour to provide transparency in the dealings of members on our website. Hence, we display details such as Last Online date in member profiles.
We may store member login ids of users and their IP addresses for certain activities they perform for security purposes in order to track down the person in case of illegal activities.

Q. With whom does VahoraRishta.com share the information it collects/tracks?

Except where you are expressly informed on the site or as described in this privacy policy we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information. However, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
However, VahoraRishta.com will never share your personal information, without your express permission. Still, we encourage you to review the privacy policy of the partner for questions about their use, any personally identifiable information that you may separately submit to such partner

Tell me about Cookies.

* Help a website recognize repeat users
* Facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site
* Allow a site to track usage behavior
* Compile aggregate data for content improvements
* Undertake targeted advertising

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers contain a function that allows a user to deny the cookie feature. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Please note that the use of cookies is a necessary part of the VahoraRishta.com technology and is necessary if you wish to access VahoraRishta.com. Disabling the cookie feature on your browser or deleting cookie files from your computer will render you unable to access certain features on VahoraRishta.com and participate in its services. Cookies may also be necessary to provide the user with certain features such as customized delivery of information. Consequently cookies we serve are tied to the user's personally identifiable information.

VahoraRishta.com uses cookies to provide its services, to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit different pages on our site, and for other purposes.

Please note that cookies are used only to recollect information sent to your computer from VahoraRishta.com. We CANNOT access any information not sent by VahoraRishta.com.

Tell me about VahoraRishta.com policy on correcting, updating or removing personal information.

VahoraRishta.com allows you to modify or remove both public and private information from our database.

How will I know of changes in VahoraRishta.com privacy policy?

If we make a material change to our privacy policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our Homepage so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by way of an email. We will give you a choice as to whether or not we can use information in this different manner and act accordingly.

Tell me about security of my personal information.

VahoraRishta.com takes every precaution to protect your information, both online and offline.

When our registration/order process asks you to enter sensitive information such information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect your information offline. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transaction and once we receive it. All your information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only administrators who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.

Tell me about VahoraRishta.com's email policy.

We use email extensively to help you find your match on VahoraRishta.com. Our main email products and services include:
- Member responses to your profile.

Occasionally, we may also send you:
- Announcements of special events which VahoraRishta.com is associated with, or
- As a VahoraRishta.com member, you are automatically subscribed to all of the above, as an integral part of our matchmaking services to you.
- We reiterate that we will never sell / rent out your email address to any third party, unless you expressly permit us to do so.

Tell me how to contact VahoraRishta.com

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please E-Mail us at contact@VahoraRishta.com