Effective Date: July 27, 2008
Last Updated: July 27, 2008
DirPal's commitment to your privacy
Our privacy policy is a document which elucidates why we collect, how we use and safeguard your information that we receive to run DirPal.com smoothly and safely. When you sign up or register, you provide your basic personal information. By using or participating in the DirPal, you understand, accept and agree to this privacy policy. From time to time, we may revise or update our privacy policy without a prior notice. Updated document will automatically take place the present document.
To give you great, safe and efficient services, every so often, we need your personal information such as your contact information, business or work information, etc.
For DirPal, security and integrity of our users’ personal information is very important. We take every reasonable step to safeguard and protect personal information of our users while offering the high level of services they expect.
DirPal does not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those for which it is collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required by law. DirPal retains personal information only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes. We do not spam, sell emails, or otherwise indulge in illegal activities.
Why we need your personal information?
It’s simple. We require your limited and brief business information and IP information to give you a great DirPal experience which is not possible without knowing you briefly. Your business information is just your primary introduction to DirPal and its members. Your information may be required due to one or more than one of the following reasons:-
1. To run DirPal applications and operations securely and smoothly;
2. To make a contact with you;
3. To set up your personal profile;
4. So that you can post your content;
5. So that you can edit your posted content;
6. So that you can delete your content or cancel your account;
7. So that if you need to contact a member, you should know whom you are going to contact. It will safeguard your interests;
8. So that when other members contact you, you can come to know who is contacting you. It’ll make your online experience more efficient and safe;
9. To manage and develop iHues Media Ltd as a corporate company and operations;
10. If somebody is misusing or abusing our services, so that we can terminate that account and if necessary we can inform adequate law enforcement authorities;
11. To meet legal and regulatory requirements.
In a nutshell, we need your information in the same way as your doctor, your school or college, your employer, etc. need your information to provide you better and personalized services. Therefore, if we don’t know you, we can’t provide you the customized service.
Why we collect your IP?
Our purpose of creating Dirpal.com is to help business owners to promote their business by adding their business and to help clients to find and contact them. However, we don’t want to anybody to misuse our services to flood business owners’ email inboxes with messages. Secondly, clients are not allowed to spread spam and send unsolicited messages. Clients are only allowed to make reasonable contact with the business owners for genuine shopping interest; however they are not allowed to send marketing or promotional messages. So, keeping this in mind, we collect your IP and browser information.
DirPal doesn't claim the accuracy of information
DirPal only knows the information which is provided by its users, so accuracy of the information is all depends upon a particular user. We don’t separately verify the information we receive from our users. We only know what they themselves type in sign-up or registration forms. Therefore, DirPal can not be held responsible of false, incomplete, abbreviated, incorrect, illegal, stolen, misleading, profane, and obscene information is has of its users. But, it requests its users to provide legal, complete, un-abbreviated, and accurate information according to laws of your land. Some people use IP hiders, so our systems may also not know proper IP addresses.
Limited personal information
It's DirPal's policy to ask just limited personal information. We only ask questions which we require to run our website. We don’t ask questions which are not required. It is our strict policy not to ask following questions:-
1. Social Security or Insurance Numbers;
2. Financial information such as credit or debit cards or bank accounts;
3. Driving License Numbers.
Information Controlled By Users
All the information contained in DirPal.com is directly controlled by users. They are users who choose what kind of information they want to share with the other members. In other words, you (as a user) control and manage who shares your information. Furthermore, you have full ability to edit or hide or delete your account information and preferences. We are not responsible for your any kind of posting, messaging, or account activity.
Policy Regarding Children
We do not deliberately and knowingly collect personal information about users who are under the age of 18 years. We request parents, legal guardians, school authorities, etc. to write DirPal with their full address and signatures with some proof and profile link if they come know about their kid’s or student’s account presence so that we may terminate it immediately.
Links to Other Sites
This website contains links to other websites that are not operated or controlled by DirPal. Please note that we, DirPal, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Please do study their Privacy Policies if you’re using those websites for any purpose.
Sharing and Disclosure
We will release information due to court orders, subpoenas, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or protect against legal suits. We may share information, if we believe it is necessary to scrutinize, prevent, or take action regarding alleged illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of DirPal terms of use, or as otherwise required by pertinent law or regulation.
