1.
Visits: When you visit this website, we record your visit as a "hit"
only and do not collect any personally identifiable information from you.
2. Registration: Certain areas of this portal are open to members
only. In order to use such areas, you must complete the online registration form.
During registration, you will be required to give us your contact information,
including your name, email address, correspondence address, telephone number,
and facsimile number. If you fail to provide such data, you will not be able to
complete your registration with us. 3. Order: We request data
from you on our order form. On such form, you must provide contact information
(such as name and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card
number and expiration date). If you fail to provide such data, you will not be
able effect any purchase of services on this portal. 4. Main Purposes:
The main purposes for which data relating to you may be used are as follows:
(a) Contacting you on the
services on this portal for which you have expressed interest; (b)
Filling orders, conducting credit checks, effecting delivery and collecting payment
for services purchased
by you on this website; (c)
Designing services or related products for users of this portal; (d)
Marketing services or related products; (e)
Fulfilling internal administration requirements;
(f) Completing requirements for the subscription agreement; (g)
Meeting the requirements to make disclosure under laws binding on us; (h)
Purposes relating thereto. 5.
In particular, based on the personal data collected, we may send promotional
material regarding our services and related products to you on a regular basis.
All such promotional material will be stopped if you inform us of your preference
not to receive such material. 6. Disclosure: Data held by us
relating to you will be kept confidential but we may provide such information
to the following parties for the purposes set out in paragraph 5 above:
(a) Any agent, contractor or third
party service provider who provides administrative, telecommunications,
computer, payment, delivery, security audit or other services
to us in connection with the operation of our business; (b)
Any seller of any consignment sales affected on this portal; (c)
Any co-branded service provider appearing on this portal; (d)
Any credit card issuer through which you have effected payment for any purchase;
(e) Any person to whom we
are under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirements
of any law binding on us. 7. Sharing: We will share aggregated
demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked
to any personal data that can identify any individual person. In addition, we
partner with other parties to provide specific services. When you sign up for
these services, we will share names or other contact information that is necessary
for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowable
to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing
these services. 8. Portal Usage Information: We automatically
collect IP addresses and Portal usage information from you when you visit our
Portal. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use
and navigate our Web sites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency
of visitors and subscribers to each Web page, and the length of their visits.
Cookies. A
cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your browser for future reference. When you revisit
this website, the cookie enables our systems to recognize you as a returning member
and offer you services tailored to your preference. In addition, some of
our business partners use cookies on this website (for example,advertisers).
We have no access to, or control over, these cookies. If you do not wish to accept
any such cookie, you may make appropriate adjustments to the configuration
of your browser. 9. Links: This website contains links to
other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave this website
and to read the privacy policy statements of each and every website that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy policy statement applies solely
to information collected by this website. 10. Security: We take
reasonable precautions to protect your data on this portal. When you submit sensitive
information (such as your credit card number) via this portal, your data is protected
both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks you to enter sensitive
information (such as your credit card number), that information is encrypted using
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and Secure Electronic Transactions (SET)
protocol, the two most widely used public key security protocol on the Internet.
For more information on SSL and SET, please visit the following websites:
SSL http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/S/SSL.html SET http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/S/SET.html
11. Data Access/Correction Request: In accordance with the terms of
the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, you have the right upon proof of your identity:
(a) To check whether
we hold data relating to you, which is inaccurate; (b)
To require us to correct any data relating to you which is inaccurate; and
(c) To ascertain our policies
and practices in relation to data and to be informed of the
kind of personal data held by us.In accordance with the Personal Data (Privacy)
Ordinance, we have the right to charge a reasonable fee for the processing
of any data access request.
12. Making a Data Access/Correction Request:
Requests for access to data or correction of data or for information regarding
policies and practices and kinds of data held should be sent to [the Data Protection
Officer] by email at webmaster@aepcindia.com .
13. Notification of Changes:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the
homepage of this portal 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 different
from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify you by way of an
email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in
this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy
policy under which the information was collected. |