You are advised to please read the Privacy Policy carefully. The Policy does not apply to the procedures and practices followed by entities that are not managed, owned or controlled by KISAN.com or to the people that are not engaged, employed or managed by KISAN.com. We want you to feel comfortable using our websites, and for that you need to understand certain things.
Collection of information:
A. What information is, or may be, collected from you?
To share or read any information on this site you have to become its member. We will collect certain information from you before you become member of Kisan.com. Some of the information we will automatically receive in standard usage logs through our Web server, including computer-identification information obtained from "cookies," sent to your browser from:
B. Who collects this information? The information is collected for your profile, to show your details to other members.
Registration: In order to access, post or read any agriculture related information on KISAN.com, you must first create an account on this web site. Once your account is created you become a registered member. To create an account you are required to provide your name, email address, contact details and if your are working then name of your organization and to set a password.
Public Profile Information: If any other member of Kisan.com visit’s your profile he will be able to see basic information about you like your name and name of your company if it is provided by you.
C. Why this information is collected?
We use your contact details like your email id, mobile no. or address to communicate with you. This is usually done through emailsor sms. Communication is regarding updates (information) about the services in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as occupation, education) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience and information on our site.
In short during registration you are required to give us your basic information (such as name, Organization, email address, address, pin code, etc). Once your registration is complete receive communication letters from KISAN.com (e.g. newsletters, updates).
D. How can you increase your contacts here?
Here with the invite option available on our site you can invite your friends, colleagues to join Kisan.com. For this we will ask you for your mobile number and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. KISAN.com does store this information and the information is used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at support@kisan.com or call on +91 20 30252000 to request that we remove this information from our database.
E. What kind of emails you will receive? We use your email address to send you email:
Note: We send users newsletters and updates upon registration. We send newsletters and/or promotional emails on behalf of our alliance partners.
We use your personal information to:
We use contact information internally to:
Generally, we use anonymous traffic information to:
F. With whom will your information be shared?
We do not share or rent your email address or any other contact details with third parties except our alliance partners etc.
Alliance Partners
We will share your information with our Alliance Partners who work with us or on our behalf to help provide you the services powered by KISAN.com. We share email addresses with Alliance Partners. The Alliance Partners use the email address to confirm the deliveries, send notices andoffer services related to the service.
The Site contains links to other Websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Websites which we do not own, manage or control.
We make scrapbook, forums, message boards, Comment box and other services available to you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. We have no control over its use and you should exercise caution when disclosing your personal information to anyone.
We are the sole owners of your information collected by us at several different points on our Website. We do not rent, sell or share your personal information and we will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to third parties unless:
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.
We share your information with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.
G. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of your information?
Supplying some of the personally identifiable information is entirely voluntary. You are not required to register with us in order to use our sites up-to a certain limit. However, we offer some services only to members who do register.
KISAN.com reserves the right to send you certain service related communication, considered to be a part of your KISAN account without offering you the facility to opt-out. You may update your information and change your account settings at any time.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you can write to us at support@kisan.com or you may contact us at +91-(0)20 30252000.
H. How can you deactivate your account?
Upon request, we will remove/block your personally identifiable information from our database, thereby canceling your registration. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.
If your personally identifiable information or email address changes then also you will have to write a mail to our administration, by which you can correct or update it.
Even in case of loss of your login details you can contact our administration.
In all the above situations you will have to send a request to our administration, then only your account can be deactivated or changes can be made. You can communicate with us by writing to support@kisan.com or you may contact us at +91-(0)20 30252000.
Security of your data:
a. What security steps are taken to protect your information?
To protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, we have in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures. Although we will endeavor to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. By using this site, you agree that we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information and email addresses submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information and email address, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
b. When sharing it with third party?
If we plan to use your personally identifiable information for any commercial purposes, we will notify you at the time we collect that information and allow you to opt-out (deny) of having your information used for those purposes. The security of your personal information and email address is important to us.
c. what are Cookies ?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information that you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier and secured for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. Reference for cookies can be found at http://www.cookiecentral.com/.
We use session cookies to store the secure session and browsing preferences of the user. We set a persistent cookie to store your username and interests so you don't have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited. Cookies are used in shopping cart to enable enhanced security and ensuring there is no URL based spamming.
You can accept or decline the cookies. All sites that are customizable require that you accept cookies. You also must accept cookies to register as someone for access to some of our services. For information on how to set your browser to alert you to cookies, or to reject cookies, go to http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
POLICY UPDATES
We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by means of a notice on our homepage.
In case you have:
then please feel free to write to us at support@kisan.com or you can also call us at 020-30252000.
Contact Details:
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