About eDholki.com's Privacy Policy
We at eDholki.com, Inc. understand that your privacy is very important to you. That's why we've developed this policy to ensure that your privacy is protected while using eDholki.com.
This privacy policy only applies to transactions, activities and data gathered that you engage through eDholki.com's website. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on November 5, 2004. Each time you visit this site or provide us with information you are accepting the practices described herein.
Participation and Eligibility
eDholki.com is an Internet site based in providing useful tools and communities used to build relationships online. Our basic service is Free to all qualified members.
Age Restrictions
Those individuals who are under eighteen years of age are not eligible to use eDholki.com's services. We ask that children not submit information to us.
Information Collected and How it's Used
eDholki.com collects a variety of information. This information should only be used in order to find matches that offer the highest possible chance for a successful long-term friendship, romance and/or marriage. Information collected during the profile set, which may be shared with other users of eDholki.com, will be displayed in a strictly anonymous manner with no personally identifiable details. Such details will only be shown to potential eDholki.com candidates. Non-subscribing visitors to eDholki.com are not allowed access to this information.
In our online membership form, we ask you to provide us with certain information, such as your birth date and type of relationship you are looking for, etc. We only collect address, credit card, and bank information from those who wish to acquire Gold membership privileges.
At your discretion, you may choose to post additional facts about yourself in your profile, such as your occupation, level of education, religious denomination, marital status, etc. While some members freely elect to include their names in their profile, it is not requested or required, and the eDholki.com 'Terms of Use' forbids posting personal contact information for any reason.
If you choose to post messages in our chat rooms or other message areas, we will only display such information about you as you choose to reveal. If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in our chat rooms or other message areas. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with our 'Terms of Use'.
Letters, emails or other forms of correspondence from you, a third party, or another subscriber from our website relating to activities or inappropriate conduct will be held on file. This information will be accessible to authorized individuals within the company or an appropriate party designated to deal with any specific violation. We may also collect other users' comments about you in our complaints department.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we may ask you for your friend's name and email address. We may automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. eDholki.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at Customer Service to request that we remove this information from our database.
Information We Collect From You
In an effort to improve operations associated with the eDholki.com website, we may choose to collect information in the future that will help in providing better service to it's customers. The information could include, but not be limited to, personal, demographic, and financial information.
Personal
Real full name, address, phone number, email address, etc.
Demographic
Zip code, province/postal code, hometown, gender, user name, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history information, searching history information, registration history information, and the content of communications between you and other members over the site.
Financial
Credit card number, expiration date, type of card, etc.
Information Supplied by your Browser
Cookies
The eDholki.com website uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the site. Our intension is to enhance your experience on the site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific information related to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. If you wish to disable these cookies you may wish to use the 'help' item on your browsers menu for specific instructions on how to disable cookies. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the site.
How we use Personal Information
By providing a matching service and information about products or services that are of interest to you, we may collect personal information that could be used to contact you directly. This information may be your full name, postal address, phone number or email address. With collection of financial information this may consist of your credit card numbers or passwords. Demographic information submitted by you, that is not personal or financial information may include zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, user name, age/birth date, purchase history, browsing history, searching history, registration history, and the content of communications between you and other members over this website.
Please beware when entering personal or financial information into your 'Profile' such as your address, password or your user name, to include your name or address in your written responses. This may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information will then be treated as 'demographic information' that is 'public information'.
Please note that we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. Users who enter their information on the eDholki.com website need to comply with our 'Terms of Use' and are in compliance with the age requirements contained in this 'Privacy Policy'. As a user of this site we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old.
Your email address and other personal information help us to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the site. This includes, but is not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with eDholki.com. Additionally, in the case messages are forwarded to you from other eDholki.com users. These types of communications are known as operational communications. Operational communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We may use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for eDholki.com or third parties', to include goods or services. You are provided with options to decline to receive communications from eDholki.com other than those contained in operational communications. Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communication; others might be general. By posting your profile on our website you are opting in to receive the eDholki.com email. To stop receiving eDholki.com email go to the 'Edit Profile' section and select 'Do Not Notify Me' in the 'Notify me about news and tips' item.
With the processing of your transactions in support of your activities on eDholki.com's website we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they are able to provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services or order fulfillment. We require these entities not use your information for any other purpose.
Your use of other Users' Information
You may not use other user's information for commercial purposes, to spam, to harass, or to make unlawful threats. eDholki.com reserves the right to terminate those who misuse other user's information or who otherwise violate the eDholki.com 'Terms of Use'.
What You Are Responsible For
Control of Your Password
You may not disclose your password to any third parties or share it with any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
Security
eDholki.com has security measures in place to protect and prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. eDholki.com uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information such as firewalls. While perfect security does not exist on the Internet, our technical experts at eDholki.com work hard to ensure your secure use of our services.
To help make your experience on the eDholki.com website as beneficial as possible, we provide links that direct users outside of the Site to resources that might be useful to them. eDholki.com is not liable for problems or damages that might result in the use of these links outside of our site.
Special Cases - Disclosure of Your Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of eDholki.com or other visitors to our website. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our other affiliated legal entities and businesses which are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to, the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the 'Profile' or 'Control Panel' sections of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the site. We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information through the 'Profile' or 'Control Panel' sections of the site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from eDholki.com, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future communications from eDholki.com. These changes and deletions will not change or delete e-mails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy.
Modify/Delete
eDholki.com Members have the following choices to modify or delete their information from our database:
- Send an email to our Customer Service department.
- Log in with your password and modify/delete your profile.
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