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What
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This section of
Kayastha.org is an online matrimonial service designed
to provide an easy way for our members to meet each other
on the Web. To accomplish this, our members create their
own unique profiles and our matching technology provides
them matches based on their pre-selected criteria. In
order to do this, we must ask for certain personal
information. None of the information we gather can be used
by the public (visitors, other members, or anyone not
employed by Kayastha.org or the financial institutions
used to process membership charges) to identify specific
individuals. We are
a membership-based service. We collect credit card,
address, or bank information only from those who choose to
join. All visitors to our site may browse the site, search
the ads and view any articles or features our site has to
offer without entering any personal information.
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Information Collected/Tracked by
Kayastha.org.
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Kayastha.org gathers
two types of information: information users submit to us
and information not directly submitted by users.
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Information submitted to Kayastha.org.
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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, such as gender, age and
height, but cannot be linked to a particular user. Private
information is defined as any information that allows
others to contact a user other than through Kayastha.org
or allows the collection of information about the user
other than what is displayed on the site.
PUBLIC: To accomplish our
goal of bringing compatible people together, we must
gather personal information, which may or may not include:
customer-specified Kayastha.org username, gender, age,
religion, income range, occupation, preference/lifestyle
information and general geographic location.
PRIVATE: This information
is gathered from members and guests who apply for the
various services our site offers. This information
includes, but is not limited to: email address, first
name, last name, credit card number or checking account
information for payment, a user-specified password,
mailing address, zip code and telephone number.
CONTESTS & SURVEYS: From
time-to-time our site requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or
contests 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).
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Information for Kayastha.org AFFILIATE
PARTNERS.
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The Affiliate Partner
program is a vehicle for other relationship-based sites to
link to the Kayastha.org site. No personal member
information is exchanged with the Affiliate Partner.
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Information that users do not submit to
Kayastha.org.
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GENERAL: We use your
server, IP address, and browser-type related information
in the general management of Kayastha.org.
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With whom does Kayastha.org share the
information it collects/tracks?
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Except where you are
expressly informed otherwise or as described immediately
below, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any
of your personal information except to the financial
institution that processes your credit card or check
transaction unless required by law or for the protection
of your membership.
If you register with
Kayastha.org through one of our co-branded versions,
your registration and profile information may be shared
with the co-branding partner solely for the purpose of
fulfilling the services provided by the co-branded site
and any related promotional offers. We encourage you to
review the privacy policy of the co-branded partner for
questions about their use of your personally identifiable
information and how you can modify or delete it.
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About links with other sites.
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This site may contain
links to other websites. Please be aware that
Kayastha.org is not responsible for the privacy
practices of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be
aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies solely to information collected by this
Web site.
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About Cookies.
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Kayastha.org uses
cookies to deliver the various services and to keep track
of your personal preference. A cookie is a small text file
that can be entered into the memory of your browser to
help a web site recognize repeat users, facilitate the
user's ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a
site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data
that allows Internet services to make content improvements
and 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 Kayastha.org
technology and are necessary if you wish to access
Kayastha.org. Disabling the cookie feature on your
browser or deleting cookie files from your computer may
render you unable to access certain features on
Kayastha.org and participate in its services. Cookies
may also be necessary to provide the user with certain
features such as customized delivery of information.
Kayastha.org may use
cookies to provide the 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. We do not and
will not use cookies to collect private information from
any user!
Please note that cookies
are used only to recollect information sent to your
computer from Kayastha.org. We CANNOT access any
information not sent by Kayastha.org.
Some of our business
partners may use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
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Kayastha.org policy on correcting,
updating or removing personal information.
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Kayastha.org gives
users several options for modifying or removing their
information from our database please visit the Member's
Area or contact us.
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Changes in Kayastha.org privacy policy.
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If we change our privacy
policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes
on our Homepage so our users 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 different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users
will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner, and we will then use
information in accordance with the privacy policy under
which the information was collected.
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Security of personal information.
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Kayastha.org takes
every precaution to protect our users' information. When
users submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order
process may ask users to enter sensitive information (such
as a credit card number) that 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 user
information off-line. All of our users' information, not
just the sensitive information mentioned above, is
restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the
information to perform a specific job (for example a
billing clerk or a customer service representative) are
granted access to personally identifiable information.
If you have any questions
about the security at our website, please contact us.
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About E-mail Choice/Opt-out policy.
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Our users are given the
opportunity to 'opt-out' of having information used for
purposes not directly related to our site at the point
where we ask for the information.
Users who no longer wish to
receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our
partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by
following the instructions contained in the email.
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How to contact Kayastha.org.
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If you have any
questions about this privacy statement, the practices of
this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please
contact us by sending email to
contact@kayastha.org.
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