ComputerGyan PRIVACY POLICY

Version: 1.0
Effective From: January 1, 2007

We at ComputerGyan understand the importance of privacy. We value your privacy as much as we value our own. This policy is applicable to all the products, sites and services offered by ComputerGyan.

Information we Collect:

Direct Information (User provided information):

Some of the services we offer do not require any registration with us. Some other services require you to register with us.

When you register for an account with us, we collect certain personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). Some other services (such as shopping) may also require additional sensitive information (such as postal address, and payment or credit card information).

When you communicate with us by email or postal communication, we may retain the information you provide us.

Indirect Information (Collected information):

Cookies: When you visit our sites / use our services, we may send one or more cookies to your computer, to identify your browser software.

Logs: When you visit our websites / use our services, our server/s software automatically records information sent by your browser whenever you vist any website. The server logs may contain information such as your browser software version, your Internet Protocol address, the request your browser made, the date and time of your visit.

Affiliated sites: We offer some services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to ComputerGyan in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy policies. We encourage you to read their privacy policies.

How we use this Information:

Directly collected personal information is used:
1. To provide the offered services that you requested for.
2. For Analysis and Audit to ensure and improve the quality of services offered.
3. For Research and Analysis to develop new services.

Directly collected sensitive information is:
1. Banking / Credit Card / Financial data is never stored by us. We use third party payment gateways to process our payments. The payment status information returned by the payment gateway is used to provide the requested service.
2. Shipping Address details are used for delivery of the purchased material.
3. For Analysis and Audit to ensure and improve the quality of services offered.

Indirectly collected information is used:
1. For Analysis and Audit to ensure and improve the quality of services offered.
2. For Research and Analysis to develop new services.
3. For ensuring the technical functioning of our network and services.

ComputerGyan stores and processes this information on its servers in the United States of America and in India.

Choices for personal information:

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we propose to use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case ComputerGyan may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing:

ComputerGyan only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of ComputerGyan in one or more of the following limited circumstances:

1. We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
2. We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to
(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,
(b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof,
(c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
(d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of ComputerGyan, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If ComputerGyan becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of non-personal information, such as the number of users who purchased a particular item, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to ComputerGyan employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity

ComputerGyan processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use ComputerGyan services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Policy Enforcement

ComputerGyan regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy by contacting us through this web site. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is our policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between OSDeals and an individual.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we believe most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on our web site and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site.

LIMITATIONS:

The ComputerGyan Privacy Policy applies only to web sites and services that are owned and operated by us. We do not have any control over other sites that may be displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.