Here are the answers to the most common questions regarding our privacy policy.

Information we gather

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use Desibusinesses.com services or products that require you to sign in , and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. Desibusinesses.com uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:

•   Require you to re-enter your password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents
•   Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Desibusinesses.com Sites, Products and Services.
•   Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
•   Conduct research to improve the content and services provided on Desibusinesses.com Sites, Products and Services.
•   Ensure that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize advertising based on browser type and user profile information.

Desibusinesses.com may occasionally obtain IP addresses from users depending upon how you access our web sites. IP addresses, browser and session information may be used for various purposes, including to:
Diagnose and prevent service or technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.

•   Estimate the total number of users visiting Desibusinesses.com 's web sites from specific geographical regions.
•   Help determine which users have access privileges t o certain content, services or resources that we offer.
•   Monitor and prevent fraud and abuse.
•   Provide more relevant advertisements to you.
  

Desibusinesses.com lets other entities that show advertisements or provide services on some of our web pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, and not this policy. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to 's cookies.

Information use, sharing and disclosure

• From time to time, Desibusinesses.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on one of our Internet properties. You may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. Desibusinesses.com may transfer personal information to certain advertising partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
• Desibusinesses.com does not share personal information we learn about you from your use of the Desibusinesses.com web sites, products and services with others except as described in this policy.
• When you provide personal information through using Desibusinesses.com you are however sharing your personal information with Desibusinesses.com and its affiliated entities. The use of your personal information by these organizations is subject to this policy.
• We do not share your information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, Desibusinesses.com may display targeted advertisements based on personally non-identifiable information (such as browser type and IP address) and/or personal selection (See the Section entitled
• Third Party Advertising
• below for more information on how your information is shared with advertisers).
• Desibusinesses.com may use or share your personal information where it is necessary to complete a transaction, to operate or improve the Desibusinesses.com products and services, to do something that you have asked us to do, or tell you of products and services that we think may be of interest to you.
• Where you are contacted with an offer or service based on information you have shared with Desibusinesses.com , we will do our best to provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of receiving such further communications at the time you are contacted, however, in connection with any of our products and services (i.e., products or services that you license or use for a fee), we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to those products and services, such as service announcements, administrative messages, and newsletters that are considered part of your Desibusinesses.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• When you register for one of our Internet properties, Desibusinesses.com collects user-submitted account information (such as name, email address and age) to identify users and send notifications related to the use of the service. Desibusinesses.com also collects user-submitted profile information, including additional contact information, location, biographical information and photos. This additional profile information will assist other users in finding and communicating with you.
• Desibusinesses.com will display your Display Name (either your username or real name, according to the preferences you set in your account) on our various Internet properties, where appropriate.
• To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the Service, Desibusinesses.com allows users to search for other members using your Display Name. Additionally, Desibusinesses.com will allow users to search for you by your first and last name and email address according to the preferences you set in your account.
• Email addresses and full names are used when a user invites a friend via email to join one of the Internet properties of Desibusinesses.com , when a user requests to add another user to their network, and when Desibusinesses.com sends notifications to a user related to their use of one of our Internet properties.
• When you post a message on one of Desibusinesses.com 's Internet properties, you have the ability to post a message which may include personally identifiable information about yourself. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
• Desibusinesses.com may share personally identifiable information about you under the following circumstances:
  
  
  1. In the course of operating our business it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your personal information to others such as our service providers, contractors and select vendors so that we can operate Desibusinesses.com Internet properties. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this policy and that limit others' use or disclosure of the information you have shared.
  2. We may share your personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights or, defend against legal claims and if in our judgment in such circumstances disclosure is required or appropriate.
  3. We may share your personal information if we believe it is necessary 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 our various terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  
• As we continue to develop our business, we may also buy or sell all or part of our business. In such transactions, personally identifiable information you have shared with us is generally one of the business assets that will be transferred. The transferred personally identifiable information will remain subject to the promises made in this privacy policy or subsequent policies to which you have consented.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Desibusinesses.com may revise, modify or update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your particular Desibusinesses.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Confidentiality and security

No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make efforts to ensure security on our systems including, but not limited to, the following ways:

•  We use physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
•  Your account information is password-protected.
  

Third party advertising

Advertisements appearing on any Desibusinesses.com Site, Product or Services may be delivered to users by Desibusinesses.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Desibusinesses.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Desibusinesses.com does not share any personally identifiable information with advertisers. Desibusinesses.com may share general demographic information (such as aggregated statistics about member interests and occupations) and non-personally identifiable information (such as browser type and IP addresses) with advertisers and partners. Desibusinesses.com does not give advertisers access to your individual personal account information. However, by selecting, interacting with or viewing an ad, you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

From time to time, Desibusinesses.com or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Desibusinesses.com. You may be asked to provide personal information, including name, email address or home address, or to answer questions in order to participate. Desibusinesses.com may transfer personal information to certain advertising partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Contacting Desibusinesses.com

If you have a privacy concern regarding Desibusinesses.com , or this policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the use of those sites, products or services, you should contact us using this web form.

If you object to any sharing of your personal information that may be permitted under this policy, you may do so by contacting us as specified above. We will take reasonable steps to accommodate your requests as they relate to our advertising practices. In some instances, honoring your requests may interfere with or preclude your ability to use Desibusinesses.com or may require us to terminate our relationship with you.