Privacy Policy

This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage (“Transactions”), and data gathered, on the www.sindhuwedding.com website and “App” (the “Website” or “App”) and does not apply to any other website or offline point of contact between www.sindhuwedding.com or any other company, and you. 

The website www.sindhuwedding.com the “App” Mobile Application is currently operated by Rhizomatic Web Services (“Company”), whose office is at 3rd Floor, Shanta Bld, St Inez, Panaji Goa. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to the Website / App to comply with data protection legislation. This Privacy Policy regulates the processing of information relating to You and grants You various rights in respect of the information You provide us with.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless defined here under, all terms referred herein shall have the same meaning as ascribed to, in the Terms of Use available at www.sindhuwedding.com/terms-conditions/ terms, unless the context otherwise requires.

By accessing or using the Website / App, You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If You do not agree please do not use or access Our Website / App. By mere use of the Website / App, You expressly consent to Our use and disclosure of Your Information (as defined below) in accordance with this Privacy Policy, however obtained. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Service.

• The website/App www.sindhuwedding.com and “App” (the “Website/App”) is operated by Rhizomatic Web Services (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “COMPANY”).  The Company is committed to protecting your privacy and will only use the information Company collect about you lawfully and in accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2011, the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 and other applicable laws of India        
• This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) relates solely to the information collection and use practices of Company’s Website and app, and any individual website/s and / or Mobile App, city-specific, or state-specific website/s now or hereinafter contained within or otherwise available through external hyperlinks with our Website/App (the “Minisites”). The Company recognizes that many visitors and users of this Website and/or the Minisites (“User(s)”) are concerned about the information they provide to Company, and how Company treat that information. This Policy, which may be updated from time to time, has been developed to address those concerns. The Company encourages you to review the Privacy Policy, and become familiar with it.
• Your use of this Website/App indicates to Company that you have read and accepted Company’s privacy practices, as outlined in this Policy.

2. Types of Information Collected 

• The Company collects two types of information about its Website/App Users: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
• Our Policy ensures that any information you provide to the Company remains private and secure.  To reassure you, Company provide details of the information you provide to Company, how it will be used and more importantly, will not be used. The Company will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.  The information Company holds will be as is provided by you.  You shall also have the right to review the information you have provided and ensure that that any personal information or sensitive personal data or information is accurate.  In the event, you find the personal information or sensitive personal data to be inaccurate or deficient, you shall bring such inaccuracy or deficiency to attention of the Company and Company will carry out such corrections or amendments as feasible.  However, Company shall not be responsible for the authenticity of the personal information or sensitive personal data supplied by you.

3. Personally Identifiable Information

• Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) is information that identifies a specific end user. When you engage in certain activities on the Website/app, such as creating an account, ordering a product or service from the Merchants, submitting content and / or posting content in discussion forums, entering a promotion sponsored by the Merchants, filling out a survey, posting a review, sending feedback to Company or the Merchants, requesting information about services of the Company or applying for a job (collectively, “Identification Activities”), Company may ask you to provide certain information about yourself. 
• During the Identification Activity, Company may ask you to provide it with certain personal information about yourself, such as your first and last name, mailing address, email address, cell number, telephone number and date of birth with supporting documents.
• When you order products or services, Company may also ask you to provide it with financial information, including but not limited to, your credit card or debit card number, expiration date and authentication codes or related information.
• Depending on the activity, some of the information Company asks you to provide is identified as mandatory and some is identified as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory information for a particular activity that requires it, you will not be permitted to engage in that activity.
• The Company use PII to provide products and services to you, administer promotions, enhance the operation of the Website/App, improve marketing and promotional efforts, analyze Website/App use, improve product and service offerings, and to tailor your experience with the Company’s Services. The Company may also use PII to troubleshoot, resolve disputes, accomplish administrative tasks, contact you, enforce agreements with you, including Terms of Use, and this Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.
• In the event there is any change in your PII like your address, phone number or email ID, you may send Company intimation about the changes and Company will make the necessary amendment in its records.
• You may also withdraw your consent, authorizing Company to use and collect, disseminate and analyze your PII. Such withdrawal of consent must be sent to Company in writing.  However, once such consent is withdrawn, COMPANY will no longer provide the Services to the User.

4. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

• Non-Personally Identifiable Information (“NPII”) is information that does not identify a specific end user. This type of information may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited before coming to Website/App of the Company, the URL of the website you visit after leaving Website/App of the Company, the type of browser you are using and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address.
• The Company, and/or its authorized Third Party Service Providers that perform function on Company’s behalf like sending out and distributing Company’s administrative and promotional emails and authorized Third Party Advertisers that provide advertising services to Company, may automatically collect this information when you visit Website/App of the Company through the use of electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags, as described elsewhere in this Policy.
• The Company uses NPII to troubleshoot, administer the Website/App, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. The Company may also share this information with Third Party Service Providers and Third Party Advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming.

5. LOCATION

• By using this Website / App, You hereby agree and understand that the Services provided to You are based on Your location and function best when the Company has the permission to access Your location from Your mobile device/Computer. Whenever You open the Website / App, the Company uses the location information from Your mobile device to tailor Your experience of the Website / App to suit Your needs. THIS INFORMATION IS NOT SHARED WITH ANYONE and is solely for providing Services. If You do not permit the Company to ascertain Your location, the functionalities of the Website / App would be greatly restricted.

6. Sources of Information

• If you choose to become a registered member of this Website/App, you must provide your name, address, telephone or cell phone number, e-mail address, a unique login name, password, and password validation, and a password hint to help you remember your password. This information is collected on the registration form for several reasons including but not limited to the following:

                     (i) Personal identification purposes.

                     (ii) Completing purchases.

                     (iii) Allowing Company to contact you for customer service and promotional purposes.

(iv) If necessary, customizing the content of this Website to strive to meet your specific needs.

                      (v) For making product or other improvements to our site.

• In addition, Company needs your e-mail address to confirm your new member registration and each transaction you conduct on its site/App. As a registered member of this Website/App, you may be entitled to savings and benefits on deals including, but not limited to restaurants, hotels, holiday packages, etc. You could, in addition, look forward to receiving by e-mail monthly newsletters, daily promotions offering special deals, updates for new services, and other noteworthy items. 

7. Member Profile

• As a registered member of this Website/App, you can choose to complete your online profile by providing Company with personal preferences and other personal information. This information is primarily used to assist you in providing efficient facilities. Further, please note that the website/App of Company does not store any of your credit / debit card or billing information.

8. Online Surveys

• The Company value opinions and comments from members, so Company frequently conduct online surveys. Participation in these surveys is entirely optional. Typically, the information is aggregated, and used to make improvements to Website/App of the Company and the Services and to develop appealing content, features and promotions for Website/App members. Survey participants are anonymous unless otherwise stated in the survey.

9. Promotions

• The Company may sponsor promotions to give Website/App members the opportunity to win prizes. Information collected by Company for such activities may include contact information and survey questions. The Company uses contact information to notify the winners and survey information to develop promotions and product improvements to Website/App.

10. Automatic Logging of Session Data

• The Company automatically log generic information about your computer’s/ Mobile’s connection to the Internet, which Company call “session data”, that is anonymous and not linked to any personal information. Session data consists of things such as the IP address, operating system and type of browser software being used and the activities conducted by the user while on the Website/App.
• The Company collect session data because it helps it to analyze such things as what items visitors are likely to click on most, the way visitors are clicking through the Website/App, how many visitors are surfing to various pages on the Website/App, how long visitors to the Website/App are staying and how often they are visiting. It also helps Company to diagnose problems with servers and lets the Company better administer its systems. Although such information does not identify any visitor personally, it is possible to determine from an IP address a visitor’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the approximate geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.

11. Cookies

• “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s/Mobile’s hard drive. The use of cookies is very common on the Internet and Company’s Website’s/App’s use of cookies is similar to that of other reputable online companies.
• The Website/App of the Company uses cookies to personalize your experience on the Website/App, and with respect to advertisements. As to the former, these types of cookies allow you to log in without having to type your log – in name each time (only your password is needed). The Company may also use such cookies to display an advertisement to you while you are on the Website/App.
• A cookie may also be placed by Company’s advertising server. Such cookies are used only for purposes of tracking the effectiveness of advertising served by Company on its Website/App and no PII is gathered from you by the use of these cookies, nor is this information shared with any third party. Similarly, a cookie may be placed by Company’s Third Party Advertisers. These entities may use aggregated statistics about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements. The information they collect does not include your PII.
• The Company’s Website/App supports your right to block any unwanted internet activity, especially that of unscrupulous websites. However, blocking the Company’s Website’s/App’s cookies may disable certain features on the Website/App, and may make it impossible to use certain services available on the Website/App. Please note that it is possible to block cookie activity from certain websites/Apps while permitting cookies from sites you trust.

12. Access by Third Party Advertisers

• The Third Party Advertisers may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. Any such information is anonymous. They may use this anonymous information about your visits to this and other sites/Apps in order to provide advertisements. No PII is collected during this process. The information is anonymous, and does not link online actions to an identifiable person.

13. Personalized Services

• From time to time Company may add or enhance services available on the Website/App. To the extent these services are provided, and used by you, Company will use the information you provide to facilitate the service requested. For example, if you email Company with a question, Company will use your email address, name, nature of the question, etc. to respond to your question. The Company may also store such information to assist it in making the site the better and easier to use.

14. Compliance with law

• In addition to the circumstances described above, Company may disclose its Website’s/App’s member information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect the rights or properties of Company or any or all of its subsidiaries and associates, and its employees, directors or officers, or when Company has reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with Company’s rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities. In addition, if COMPANY or substantially all of its assets are acquired, Company’s customer information will most likely also be transferred in connection with such acquisition.
• Apart from the above, Company may collect information from you for providing complete range of services like issuing vouchers for products and/or services, maintaining discussion forums, interacting with Website/App Users for customer feedback and resolving customer queries and issues, processing requests for signing up for special offers and maintenance of Website/App.
• The Company may collect information from you to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of Our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by Law.

15. Sharing of PII

The Company will not share your Personally Identifiable Information with other parties except as provided below:

• The Company may issue eVouchers for services to be provided by Merchants (both restaurant and non-restaurant merchants with whom Company has an association for providing you with value deals at discounted price). The Company shares some of your PII with Merchants in order to help them provide you with better service and track the value of its facility. Sharing this information will allow a Merchant to market directly to you should they choose to do so. However, Company will only share PII with a Merchant if you engage in an Identification Activity, and then only to the Merchant involved in that Identification Activity. However, the Company is not at all responsible for any loss, damage, usage, legal injury caused because of the dissemination of the information to such Merchants or by such Merchants to any person. 
• The Company provides some of its services through third parties. Third Party Service Providers perform functions on Company’s behalf, like sending out and distributing Company’s administrative and promotional emails and text messages.
• As part of any PII sharing which Company list above, Company may send your information internationally. Some places outside of India may not have adequate data protection laws at all or may offer differing levels of protection of personal information which are not as high as in India, for which the Company is not responsible for any loss, damages or legal injury.
• The Company may also collect personal information from individuals and entities with whom Company has business relationships and may have to also share their information with Third Party Service Providers to accomplish Company’s administrative tasks. Nonetheless, the Company is not responsible if any, Merchant, Third Party Service Provider, Third Party Advertiser receiving the PII from Company discloses it further.
• The Company may also disclose PII when Company believes release is appropriate to comply with the law or a court order to enforce or apply this Policy, Terms of Use or other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of the Website, its Users or others.

16. Sharing of NPII

• The Company may disclose or share NPII with Third Party Advertisers. The Company may use Third Party Advertisers to serve advertisements when you visit our Website/App. These companies may use NPII about your visits to this and other websites/Apps in order to provide, through the use of network tags, advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. The Company also uses Third Party Service Providers to track and analyze NPII usage and volume statistical information from its Users to administer Website/App and constantly improve its quality. The Company may also publish this information for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for Third Party Advertisers. Please note that this is not PII, only general summaries of the activities of Users. Such data is collected on behalf of the Company, and is owned and used by it.

17. Data Security

• The Company takes reasonable steps to maintain the security of the PII that it collects, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to its database servers, as well as installing electronic security systems that guard against unauthorized access.  The Company has a comprehensive document information security program and information security policies that contain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are commensurate with the information assets being protected. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, Company cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to Company, so you do so at your own risk.
• The Website and App comply with the IS/ISO/IEC 27001 code.
• The PII Company holds will be held within Company’s systems in accordance with Company’s internal security policy and the law.  The Company holds data until ___ years after it is last accessed or used by us.

18. Minor

• The Company is wholly committed to protecting the privacy of the minors. The Company’s site is not designed to attract minors under the age of 18 and the Company does not knowingly collect personal information from minors on its website/App. It is possible that by fraud or deception the Company may receive information given to Company or pertaining to minors under the age of 18 or persons otherwise incapable of entering into valid contract. If the Company is notified of this, as soon as company verifies the information, the Company will immediately delete all the said information from its servers. 

19. Disclaimer

• The Website/App of the Company contains links to other websites/Apps. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website/App for which Company has no responsibility. The Company encourages you to read the privacy statements of all such sites as their policies may be materially different from this Policy. Of course, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords, and your Website’s/App’s membership account information.
• The Company makes no representations or warranties that any information or content provided herein is accurate, complete, or authentic; and Company shall have no liability whatsoever for information or content provided by third parties. The Company reserves the right to modify any information, content or services at any time without notice. 
• The Company cannot ensure that all of Your Information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although the Company is committed to protecting Your privacy, the Company do not promise, and You should not expect, that Your Information or private communications will always remain private. As a User of the Website / App, You understand and agree that You assume all  responsibility and risk for Your use of the Website / App, the internet generally, and the information You post or access and for Your conduct on and off the Website / App. 
• This Policy is effective as of 05.01.2021. Any material changes in the way the Company uses personal information will be described in future versions of this Policy. Of course, you may always submit concerns regarding Policy or privacy practices via email to support@sindhuwedding.com Please refer the Privacy Policy in your subject line. The Company will attempt to respond to all of your reasonable concerns or inquiries within [15] business days of receipt of your email.

20. Indemnification

• User agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless COMPANY, its subsidiaries, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including Lawyers’ fees, arising out of the use of this Website/App and/or the Mini sites/Apps by User.

21. Severability 

• If any provision of these Privacy Policy is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the enforceability of any other provisions contained in this Policy and the remaining portions of this Policy shall continue in full force and effect. The failure of either party to exercise any of its rights under this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver or forfeiture of such rights or any other rights provided hereunder.