You are at Hamarishaadi.com^TM which is an online most confidential International matrimonial site endeavoring constantly to provide you with premium matrimonial services every time with new offers and unique way. This privacy statement is common to all the matrimonial sites operated under Hamarishaadi.com^TM . Since we are strongly committed to your right to privacy, we have drawn out a privacy statement with regard to the information we collect from you.
We use a secure server for credit card transactions to protect the credit card information of our clients.

Requisite information to use this site

• We gather information from members and guests who apply for the various services which our site offers. It includes, but may not be limited to, email address, first name, last name, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and telephone number or fax number.
• If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, including a billing address, a credit card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money orders.

Use of the information collected

• Hamarishaadi.com^TM collects information from our clients primarily to ensure that we are able to fulfill your requirements or provide services better & effective.

We use your personal information to:

• help us provide personalized features
• tailor our sites to your interest
• to get in touch with you when necessary
• to provide the services requested by you
• to preserve social history as governed by existing law or policy

We use contact information internally to:

• direct our efforts for product improvement
• contact you as a survey respondent
• notify you if you win any contest; and
• send you promotional materials from our contest sponsors or advertisers and contact you by phone/sms/e-mail or otherwise for promotional offers.

Affiliate Partners of Hamarishaadi.com^TM Information submitted by the Affiliate Partner is used for establishing and maintaining a business relationship. No personal or business information is shared outside the relationship between Hamarishaadi.com^TM and the Affiliate Partner. Affiliate Partners may view or access your information.

Sharing of information provided

• The information collected from any of our clients is not shared with any individual or organization.
• Hamarishaadi.com^TM does not use your financial information for any purpose other than to complete a transaction with you.
• 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 have your permission
• to provide products or services you've requested
• to help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of any person, violations of Hamarishaadi.com^TM terms of use or to defend against legal claims;
• special circumstances such as compliance with subpoenas, court orders, requests/order from legal authorities or law enforcement agencies requiring such disclosure.

We share your information with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.

No payment by visitors

• All visitors to our site may browse the site, search the ads and view any articles or features our site has to offer without entering any personal information or paying money.

Users entitled to see unlimited profiles

• As a paid member of this site, you have the privilege to contact unlimited profiles in a single day. However, there is a specified limit for security reasons per day. If you want to contact more profiles than the specified limit in a single day, he/she can do so after the completion of 6 hours of their last login time.

Security of Information Transmission

We have also done everything in our power to prevent misuse of photographs. No photographs can be downloaded or copied from our site. This acts as a further deterrent for illegal use elsewhere.

To protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, we have in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures. For example, our servers are accessible only to authorized personnel (for example, a billing clerk or a customer service representative) and that your information is shared with respective personnel on need to know basis to complete the transaction and to provide the services requested by you.
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, unauthorized acts of third parties or otherwise.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, please email us.

No responsibility for Linked Web Site

Change in privacy policy

• We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments or feedback or suggestions or otherwise without your prior intimation.
• 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.

SMS policy

• Pre-requisite

The member must have an Indian Mobile or Cell or Telephone or some other Number (hereinafter referred as Mobile Number) where SMS can be sent. (As we don’t provide SMS on International Mobile Number).

• Registration Process

For registration for SMS services, the member is supposed to enter his/her Mobile Number. The Member is deemed to be registered on completion of authentication process unless otherwise intimated.

• Authentication Process

On input of Mobile Number, a unique code would be generated by our site for your mobile and it will be sent to your Mobile Number. The same unique code has to be re-entered by the recipient on our site to complete the authentication process.

Our main SMS products and services include:

• Interested Member responses to your profile (called Contact Alert);
• Interested Partner matches for you (called Match Mail); and
• Invitation updating you of the latest features on our site.
  
  Occasionally, we may also send you:
• Announcements of special events offers or scheme which Hamarishaadi.com^TM is associated with; or
• Special offers from partner sites, which we believe are useful for you.
• As a Hamarishaadi.com^TM member, you are automatically subscribed to all of the above, as an integral part of our matchmaking services to you. However, at any time, you may choose to manage your subscriptions to one or more of the above (except Contact Alert).
• All our SMS will carry sender Indentity to help you to recognize the sender. You can also independently manage your SMS subscription using the SMS Manager option.

Email policy

We use email extensively to help you find your match on Hamarishaadi.com^TM . Our main email products and services include:

• Member responses to your profile (called Contact Alert);
• Partner matches for you (called Match Mail); and
• Newsletters updating you of the latest features on our site.
  
  Occasionally, we may also send you:
• Announcements of special events which Hamarishaadi.com^TM is associated with; or
• Special offers from partner sites, which we believe are useful for you.
  
  As a Hamarishaadi.com^TM member, you are automatically subscribed to all of the above, as an integral part of our matchmaking services to you. However, at any time, you may choose to manage your subscriptions to one or more of the above (except Contact Alert).
• All our emails will carry a link to help you do this. You can also independently manage your email subscription using the My Alert Manager option.

We reiterate that we will never sell / rent out your email address to any third party, unless you expressly permit us to do so. In fact, we do not allow ANYONE to see your email address, not even our other free members.

You have the option to send interesting profiles / articles to your friends. Do make full use of this option, because your friends are also covered by spam-free privacy policy. We will use your friend's email address or your invitations only to send your message to them. Then they will never ever hear from us again unless they voluntarily subscribe to our services.

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