What this policy covers?
· This policy covers how OnlineKerala.com! treats personal information that OnlineKerala.com! collects and receives, including information related to your past use of OnlineKerala.com! products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available
· This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that OnlineKerala.com! does not own or control, or to people that OnlineKerala.com! does not employ or manage.

What information is, or maybe collected from you?
We will automatically receive and collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our Web server, including computer-identification information obtained from "cookies," sent to your browser from a
· web server cookie stored on your hard drive
· an IP address, assigned to the computer which you use
· the domain server through which you access our service
· the type of computer you're using
· the type of web browser you're using
We may collect the following personally identifiable information about you:
· name including first and last name
· alternate email address
· mobile phone number and contact details
· ZIP/Postal code
· demographic profile (like your age, gender, occupation, education, address and durables owned);
· preferences and interests (such as news, sports, travel and so on);
· financial information (like account or credit card numbers); and
· opinions of features on our websites.
We may also collect the following information:
· about the pages you visit/access
· the links you click on our site
· the number of times you access the page
You can terminate your account at any time. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

· OnlineKerala.com! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
o We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with OnlineKerala.com! under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help OnlineKerala.com! communicate with you about offers from OnlineKerala.com! and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
o We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of OnlineKerala.com!'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law
o We transfer information about you if OnlineKerala.com! is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, OnlineKerala.com! will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy
o OnlineKerala.com! displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
o OnlineKerala.com! does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad
o OnlineKerala.com! advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
o OnlineKerala.com! works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business

WHO COLLECTS THE INFORMATION?

We will collect anonymous traffic information from you when you visit our site

We will collect personally identifiable information about you only as part of a voluntary registration process, on-line survey, or contest or any combination thereof.

Our advertisers may collect anonymous traffic information from their own assigned cookies to your browser.

The Site contains links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Web sites which we do not own, manage or control.

We make chat rooms, forums, instant messenger and message boards and other services available to you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. We have no control over its use and you should exercise caution when disclosing your personal information to anyone.

HOW IS THE INFORMATION USED?

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
Generally, we use anonymous traffic information to:
· remind us of who you are in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service from both an advertising and an editorial perspective;
· recognize your access privileges to our Web sites
· track your entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests to indicate a player's progress through the promotion and to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings
· make sure that you don't see the same ad repeatedly
· help diagnose problems with our server
· administer our Web sites
· track your session so that we can understand better how people use our sites
Cookies

o OnlineKerala.com! may set and access OnlineKerala.com! cookies on your computer
o OnlineKerala.com! lets other companies· that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to OnlineKerala.com!'s cookies

WHAT CHOICES ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU REGARDING COLLECTION, USE AND DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR INFORMATION?

Supplying personally identifiable information is entirely voluntary. You are not required to register with us in order to use our sites. However, we offer some services only to visitors who do register.

You may change your interests at any time and may opt-in or opt-out of any marketing / promotional / newsletters mailings. OnlineKerala.com.com reserves the right to send you certain service related communication, considered to be a part of your OnlineKerala.com account without offering you the facility to opt-out. You may update your information and change your account settings at any time.

Upon request, we will remove/block your personally identifiable information from our database, thereby canceling your registration. See Contact information below. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

If we plan to use your personally identifiable information for any commercial purposes, we will notify you at the time we collect that information and allow you to opt-out of having your information used for those purposes.

You can accept or decline the cookies. All sites that are customizable require that you accept cookies. You also must accept cookies to register as someone for access to some of our services. For information on how to set your browser to alert you to cookies, or to reject cookies, go to http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.

POLICY UPDATES

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.

You are can offer your views, suggestions, if any, by submitting the filled feedback form.