Privacy Policy

This website (the "Site"), wholly owned by Rajkamal Rao, takes your privacy very seriously.  This privacy policy is intended to inform you about the information that is collected from you when you visit the Site; how this information may be used and disclosed; how you can control the use and disclosure of your information; and how your information is protected. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at rajkamal.rao@relocationtoindia.com. 

Content:  All content on this site is original and was developed by the author Rajkamal Rao.  If content refers to an external source, links are provided and the source is acknowledged.  This site is not responsible for information contained in any site not developed by us.

Terms of Use:  You may copy, distribute and display any content on our website only if you acknowledge that it came from www.relocationtoindia.com.  You may make a derivative work based on our content but you must indicate that the content originally came from www.relocationtoindia.com and that you have modified it for your use.  Content on our site should not be construed as legal, tax or investment advice.  For tax advice or more technical questions about how tax laws apply to you, please consult your tax advisor. 

By using our website, you agree to these terms and those below. 

Scope: This privacy policy applies only to the Site. This policy does not apply to information collected through any other website or to the practices of companies that this site does not control.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and we recommend that you read the privacy policies of each website that you visit.

What information the Site collects
Information you provide directly to us:
You are not required to provide information directly to us in order to view the Site.

Information automatically collected when you visit and interact with the Site:
When you visit and interact with the Site, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
  • your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address;
  • your browser type and operating system;
  • the web pages you were visiting immediately before and after you came to the Site;
  • activities within community discussions;
  • web pages and advertisements that you view, and links that you click on, within the Site;
  • your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs that are installed on your computer;
  • aggregated data about email click-through rates and user video viewing;
  • standard server log information; and
  • information collected through HTML cookies, Flash cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies.
How we use the information that we collect (Email Communications):
We may use the information that we collect to send you e-mail communications, such as editorial updates, information about your account or changes to the Site, and promotional messages about our own or our marketing partners' products and services. If you signed up for one of our email newsletters, we also will send you the newsletter that you requested.

Advertising:
In order to provide our readers with free access to our content, we may decide to display advertisements on the Site, many of which are targeted based on information about you.  For example, using information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other sources, we may use demographic data or information about your online activities or interests to display targeted advertising that may be relevant to your preferences. Through this process, advertisers reach Site visitors who are most interested in their products, and you see advertising for products or services in which you may be interested.  Third-party advertisers and advertising platforms also may serve targeted ads on the Site.  Please remember that the information practices of third-party advertisers or platforms collecting data on our site are not covered by this privacy policy.

User Accounts:
To provide you with an open, but also civil, discussion forum, we track user involvement in our community discussions.  Please refrain from engaging in comments which are offensive.  All comments are moderated and offensive/inappropriate comments will not be published. 

Statistical Analysis:
In order to learn more about how our Site is used, we aggregate and analyze the data that we collect. We may use this information, for example, to monitor and analyze use of the Site, to increase our Site's functionality, and to better tailor our content and design to suit our visitors' needs.

Enforcement:

We may use the information that we collect to prevent illegal activities, to enforce the Site's Terms and Conditions, and to otherwise protect our rights and the rights of our users. In addition to the uses identified above, we may use the information that we collect for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.

Information sharing:
We value your privacy, and will not share information about you to anyone.  If you choose to engage in public activities on the site, such as posting comments on community message boards, any information you submit can be read, collected, or used by others. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in public activities or submissions.
  • We may share information about you in the event that the Site is acquired by or merged with another company or a similar corporate transaction takes place. However, the Site will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our site or sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account before your information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • We may share information about you to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety or other rights and interests of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We may share information about you to respond to subpoenas, search warrants, judicial proceedings, court orders, legal process, or other law enforcement measures, to establish or exercise our legal rights, or to defend against legal claims.
  • In addition to the scenarios identified above, we may share information about you for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.
Please note that third parties may independently collect data about you, including your IP address and information about the websites you visit and the links you click, through cookies, clicks on links, or other means when you visit or view ads on the Site.

Access
: If you choose to share contact information with us, you may update or amend this information by contacting us at rajkamal.rao@relocationtoindia.com.

Confidentiality and security: We limit access to contact information about you to employees or service providers who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We also have adopted commercially reasonable technical, physical, and administrative procedures to help protect information about you from loss, misuse, and alteration.

Please note that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We want you to feel confident using the Site, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

Children under 13
: We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible. If you believe that we may have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at rajkamal.rao@relocationtoindia.com.

Changes to the privacy policy:
We may update this privacy policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices and service offerings. If we modify this privacy policy, we will update the "Effective Date." We will notify you of any material changes in the way we treat your information by placing a prominent notice on our site or sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account.

Questions and suggestions
: If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact rajkamal.rao@relocationtoindia.com.

Effective Date:  March 19, 2013
We thank www.Huffingtonpost.com.  Our privacy policy is largely modeled after the privacy policy of this site.

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