Ninelinkers
Privacy Policy
Ninelinkers is committed to safeguarding its users' privacy. We
request all our users to read the following 'privacy policy' to understand how
their personal & business information will be treated, as they make full
use of our services to their benefit. This policy is applicable only to the
entire network of marketplaces operated by ninelinkers and not by any other
company.
Collection of Information
ninelinkers collects information from its users when they register to gain
access to our services or at other specific instances when they are requested
to provide us with their personal & business information. During
registration, we ask the users for their name, email address, business information
and other personal details. Once a user registers, he/she is no longer
anonymous to ninelinkers and it is deemed that the user has given ninelinkers
the right to publish the desired business & personal details throughout its
marketplaces, including but not limited to, business directory, trade leads,
catalogs etc.
When you are on our network and are asked for personal information, you are
sharing the information with ninelinkers alone, unless it is specifically
stated otherwise. Promotions that run on our network may be sponsored by
companies other than ninelinkers or may be co-sponsored by ninelinkers and
another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared
with the sponsor. However, you can decide not to participate in the promotion
if you don't want your data to be shared.
We also gather usage statistics such as pages viewed, number of unique
visitors, browser software, screen resolution etc. For analysis that helps us
provide you improved user experience and services.
Use of Personal &
Business Information
ninelinkers's primary goal in collecting personal or public information is to
provide the user with a customized experience on our network of sites. This
includes personalized services, interactive communication and other services,
most of which are completely free and remaining are paid. Business information
is used to display the user's business listing or product offerings across our
network to fetch maximum business opportunities for the user.
In order to provide free services, ninelinkers displays advertisements based
upon the site usage statistics and visitor trends. Ninelinkers uses user's
personal & business information to serve targeted advertisements through
its websites, newsletters and customized mailers. In addition to it, once the
user's personal and business information is displayed on our network, the user
may start receiving business enquiries through email, phone calls or SMS
notifications, from various buyers and sellers that might or might not be of
their interest. Ninelinkers does not exercise any control over its users for
sending business enquiries to the listed members.
We record buying and browsing activities of our users including but not limited
to their client's contact details and profiles and uses the same to provide
value-added services to our users.
Sharing of Information
As a general rule, ninelinkers will not disclose or share any of the user's
personally identifiable information except when ninelinkers has the user's
permission or under special circumstances, such as when ninelinkers believes in
good faith that the law requires it or as permitted in terms of this
policy.
Ninelinkers does not display user email addresses on marketplace to avoid
extraction by email extractors.
Ninelinkers may also disclose account information in special cases when ninelinkers
has reasons to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating ninelinkers's
Terms of Services or may be causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) ninelinkers's rights or property, other ninelinkers
network website users, or if ninelinkers deems it necessary to maintain,
service, and improve its products and services. Personal information collected
may be transferred and shared in the event of a sale.
Distribution of Information
ninelinkers may, from time to time, send its users emails regarding its
products and services. Ninelinkers constantly tries and improves the
marketplace tools for better efficiency, more relevancy, innovative business
matchmaking and better personal preferences. Ninelinkers has many match making
tools on the marketplace to be used by its users for making relevant business
contacts with each other. Ninelinkers may allow direct mails using its
own scripts (without disclosing the email address) with respect/pertaining to
the products and services of third parties that it feels may be of interest to
the user or if the user has shown interest in your company for business requirement
by way of our paid buyers-sellers contact services.Only ninelinkers, its
registered members or its agents working under confidentiality agreements will
send these direct mailers. Relevancy of the contacts made between users would
depend upon the information sought & given by various users.
Updation of Information
A user may edit his/her account information and profile by logging onto our
website and/or by sending a request to [email protected] the requested changes
may take upto 30 days to appear online because of verification process and
server cache policies.
A user account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in the
user not being able to access any members-only area of the network. Residual
information will remain within our archive records.
Protection of information
As with all information, ninelinkers do not sell any data in bulk to third
party that can be misused for telemarketing or bulk mailing or any other wrong
purposes. In addition, ninelinkers does not sell any user's personal
information or business information until and unless it is permitted by the
user. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or
partners regarding product or service usage on ninelinkers network is provided
in an aggregate form only and does not include any personally identifiable
information about any individual user.
We request our users to sign out of their ninelinkers account and close their
browser window when they have finished their work. This is to ensure that
others cannot access their personal or business information and correspondence,
if the user shares the computer with someone else or is using a computer in a
public place.
Ninelinkers takes necessary steps, within its limits of commercial viability
and necessity, to ensure that the user's information is treated securely.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be
100% secure. As a result, while ninelinkers strives to protect the user's
personal & business information, it cannot ensure the security of any
information transmitted to ninelinkers and you do so at your own risk. Once ninelinkers
receives your transmission, it makes best efforts to ensure its security in its
systems. Please keep in mind that whenever you post personal & business
information online, that is accessible to the public, you may receive
unsolicited messages from other parties.
Changes in Privacy Policy
The policy may change from time to time so please check periodically.