PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY STATEMENT CAREFULLY
This Privacy Statement applies to our site www.shemaroo.com At
Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd., protecting the privacy of our customers is
of utmost importance. You can browse through most of our site without
giving any personal information. But we do request some information from
you during your visit to certain parts of our site like the Online
Shopping section and so on. We allow only our registered users to shop
on our site. This is done in order to ensure a safe and pleasant
shopping experience for our valued customers. We intend to use our
site as a powerful communications platform in order to build a long
lasting relationship with our valued customers. We, thus, share our
customers' privacy concerns. The following guidelines have been created
in order to help you better understand the kind of information collected
and its intended use on our site.
Information Collection and Use
In order to use certain portions of our site, you will be
requested to complete a registration form in order to create your
Shemaroo account. It is optional for our users to provide this
information but we encourage our users to register in order to help us
provide them with a more personalized experience on our site. During
registration, you will be asked to choose a Login ID and password. You
will also be asked to provide some personally identifiable information
such as your real name, age, gender, address, telephone number and email
address.
This information will primarily be used to ensure that ONLY
registered users shop at our site. This information will also be used
for filling our customers' orders. If we have trouble processing an
order, this information will be used to contact the customer. For this
purpose, please ensure that you provide us with true, accurate, current
and complete information.
We may also use this information to contact our users about
services on our site for which they have expressed interest. In
addition, you may be asked to provide certain personal information in
connection with your use of our feedback form. This information is
mainly demographic in nature and will merely be used for future
enhancement of our site.
You may also be asked to provide certain non-personally
identifiable information during your participation in certain surveys,
newsletters, contests and so on. This information again will only be
used for providing a better experience on our site to our users.
Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. is the sole owner of the information
collected on the Chanakya Speaks website. Shemaroo does not disclose,
share, sell or rent any personally identifiable information to any third
parties. We take all reasonable and necessary steps to protect your
personal information.
However, if required by law or legal process, we are bound to
provide information about a customer should a situation arise that
demands full co-operation from our side. We may also share
non-personally identifiable information that is statistical or
demographical in nature with our marketing partners, advertisers or
other third parties. However, this would be mainly for marketing,
advertising and research purposes.
We use an outside shipping company for delivery of orders. This
company, to the best of our knowledge, does not retain, share, store or
use personally identifiable information such as postal addresses or
telephone numbers for any secondary purposes.
Cookies
A cookie is essentially a piece of data stored on the user's
computer. This is an industry-wide technology that is simply used for
customizing and enhancing the user's experience on a website or for
facilitating easier user login. Users can set their browsers to reject
cookies and/or provide a warning before storing a cookie. Cookies can
also be easily deleted from your computer's hard drive.
On our site, we make use of "Session ID" cookies, which simply
terminate once the users close the browser. This provides additional
protection for our users' usernames and passwords. No personal
information is collected through a cookie while on our site.
However, you may encounter cookies while visiting some of our
business partners / linked sites. We have no control or access over
these cookies. You are encouraged to read the privacy policies of these
sites for more information regarding cookies.
Communications from our site
We send a welcoming email to verify username and password to all
new members to our site. We also send an email confirming the orders
placed by our customers, which can be tracked online. We may also
communicate with our users regarding their accounts or orders via email
or phone. We may provide our established members with occasional
information regarding products, services, special deals or newsletter in
the future. We will provide an opt-out option along with any of these
for the convenience of our users.
Contests & Surveys
The Contests section on our site is for the entertainment of our
registered users only. From time-to-time, we may request information
from our users via surveys. Participation in these surveys will be
completely voluntary. The survey information will be used for further
improving this site and satisfying our users' expectations from the
site. Users' personally identifiable information is not shared with any
third parties.
Chat Rooms, Message Boards, and Public Forums
Please keep in mind that if you choose to voluntarily disclose
personal information online, whether in chat rooms, on message boards,
through email or any other method of communication, that information can
be collected and used by others. Posting personal information online
that can be publicly accessed may lead to unsolicited messages from
other parties. We cannot ensure safety or confidentiality of such
personal information provided by you and Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. is
not liable for any damages thereof. We, thus, encourage you to exercise
discretion when using the Chanakya Speaks Chat rooms.
Hyperlinks
The Chanakya Speaks site may contain links to other websites.
Similarly, other sites may also provide a link, reference or advertise
the Chanakya Speaks site. Please be aware that we, Shemaroo
Entertainment Ltd., are not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such other sites. We expressly disclaim all liability
associated with the content and its use thereof by you on all such other
sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and
every Web site that collects personally identifiable information from
you. This Privacy Statement solely applies to the information collected
by the Chanakya Speaks website.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
We provide our users a way to correct or update any personally
identifiable information such as zip code, phone, email or postal
address. This can be done at the Account Information page under 'Help'
in the Online Shopping section or at the member information page or by
contacting us at the contact information provided below.
Useful information
Shielding Children from Internet Pornography
Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. as a socially conscious media
company would like to contribute towards facilitating a shield for
families to guard children from Net pornography in various forms.
Whether to filter the content your kid is accessing or not is
obviously based on your personal convictions and values. Many filters
have already hit the market, with provisions ranging from keeping
history off accessed content to blocking access to chat and undesirable
content. The following sites may be of help to the discerning parent.
- WiseChoice.Net
- Net Nanny
- Cybersitter
- Cyber Patrol
- SurfWatch
Reporting of Cyber Crimes
Cyber Crime Investigations Cell (Mumbai Police) - 022 2630829 or www.mumbaipolice.com
Periodic Changes to this Statement
We will periodically update this privacy statement. We will also
ensure that we revise the "last updated" date at the bottom of this
statement. We, however, reserve the right to change this policy at any
time. In case of any major material changes, we will notify you by
placing a prominent notice on the Chanakya Speaks website. Please do
review this statement from time-to-time for other minor changes.
Contact Information
We are dedicated to protecting your personal information. We
welcome any comments or questions regarding this statement. Please feel
free to contact us via email or postal mail.
Address: Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd.,
Shemaroo House,
Plot No. 18, Marol Co-op Industrial Estate,
Marol Naka, Andheri-Kurla Road,
Andheri (East) Mumbai - 400 059
Telephone: 2 852 9911
Fax: 2 851 9770
Email: customerservice@shemaroo.com
