The privacy of our customers and site visitors are very important to us. We do not publish, sell or rent client details to third parties for their marketing purposes without any explicit consent. Read this privacy policy to know more about the ways in which your personal information is used and protected. The privacy policies of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and sub-domains of Semamart.com (the “Site”) and apply generally to our parent, affiliates, subsidiaries or joint venture websites. By accepting the Privacy Policy and User Agreement in registration, you agree to disclose your personal information. Our policies describe the information regarding regular site operations; information we collect from you and what may happen to that information. The policies are incorporated into and subject to the terms of User Agreement. The policy is effective upon acceptance in registration for new or all registering users.

Note

Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this page periodically. By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or access our Site.

1. Your Privacy

At Semamart.com, our commitment is to protect your privacy. We value trust over anything. We will work hard to earn your confidence so that you can enthusiastically use our services and recommend us to friends and family. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our Site.

2. Privacy Assurance

We promise that we will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. From time to time we may reveal general statistical information about our website and visitors, such as number of visitors, number and type of goods and services purchased, etc. Your trust and confidence are our highest priority.

3. Information collected

When you use our Site, we collect and store your personal information. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to make your experience safer and easier. Importantly, we only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for this purpose. In general, you can browse the Site without revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. To fully use our Site, you will need to register using our online registration form, where you may be required to provide us with your name, date of birth, contact number, email id, user id, password, residence / place of business information, billing information, shipping information, bank account details and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the Site. We may automatically track certain information about you based upon your behaviour on our site. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users. We use data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the Site to help analyse our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. “Cookies” are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a “cookie”. We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. You are always free to decline allowing cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on the Site and you may be required to re-enter your password more frequently during a session. For more details on the usage data collected please refer to our Cookie Policy. If you choose to buy or sell on the Site, we collect information about your buying and selling behaviour. We also collect other users’ comments about you in our feedback area such as product review, merchant rating etc. If you are a seller, we also collect some additional information, such as a billing address, banking information other payment instrument details and tracking information from monetary transactions. If you choose to post messages on our chat rooms, message boards or at other places in the Site or leave any messages for other users to view, that information will be collected as provided to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.

4. Usage of your information

We use your personal information to facilitate your service requests. Your personal information available with us including and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site is used to customize your experience on the Site; resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in the services provided by us, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve the Site’s content and product offerings, and customize the Site’s content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and tailor it to better meet your needs to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Site.

By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications in your profile under My Account or by clicking unsubscribe any email communication. You may make changes to your profile at any time.

5. Disclosure of your information

Your information maybe used to deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as new services and promotions. The following are examples of some categories of persons to whom we would share your information with from time-to-time.

• Advertisements: If a user enters personal information on any form of an advertiser on the Site, the information is collected by the advertiser and us simultaneously. This information is used in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy and is used by the advertiser as per the advertisers’ prevalent privacy policies. Since we do not control the privacy practices of these advertisers, we encourage you to evaluate their practices before deciding to provide the said information.
• Third Party Products and Services: Certain items and services are provided by a Third Party for which they may request for information before the item/service is listed on the Site. If a user enters personal information on any form of an advertiser on the Site, the information is collected by the advertiser and us simultaneously. This information is utilized by the third party in accordance with its privacy policy and the terms of the offer. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, we encourage you to evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services and provide such personal information.
• Internal Service Providers: We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations that we provide to you on the Site and therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers. These internal service providers’ are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced Site related operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses.
• Other Corporate Entities: Semamart.com and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or any combination of such, may share some or all of your personal information with another business entity should we plan to, merge with, or be acquired by that business entity. In such a case, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
• Legal Requests: We are committed to cooperate with regulatory and law enforcement agencies as well as other third parties to enforce laws such as intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the community from bad actors. In this context, we can (and you authorise us to) disclose your name, city , state, telephone number, email address, registered user id and usage history, fraud complaints and listing history sought by a law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to Intellectual Property Right’s owners under confidentiality agreement, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

What about children’s privacy ?

Children are not eligible to use the Site and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, you cannot buy or sell any items on the Site. If you wish to purchase or sell an item on the Site such purchase or sale may be made by your legal guardian or parents who have registered as users of the Site provided that such purchase or sale is not in relation to any adult material/mature audience items displayed on the Site, the sale or purchase of which to/by minors is strictly prohibited.

Access or change your personally identifiable information

In case you need to make changes to your personal information, we will need to verify your identity to allow you access to modify. If you have registered your profile on Semamart.com, your registered user ID and Password are required in order to access your profile information.

Security

We offer you the use of a secure server to place order or access your account information on the Site. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you put in before it is sent to us. Additionally, all customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of information, we will employ reasonable security practices and procedures and current Internet security methods and technologies in compliance with Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules made there under.