Privacy Policy
General Information
The Marriage World commits privacy of information to each and every member of the website. The Marriage World collects, uses, stores and discloses information, in accordance with the Indian Privacy Act. The privacy policy of The Marriage World states the privacy practices for the website, which are available to visitors. This privacy statement (along with the terms and conditions and other documents) is based on the data collected from members, or from the data provided to us by the members. We process all this data, when you agree to the usage of the products and services offered by us, you give us the permission to use all the personal information provided by you, in confirmation with the privacy policy of the company and the terms and conditions set out by us.
How we collect and use information
Log files
Whenever you visit our website, we will collect all kinds of information about the way you use our website. Some of the aspects analyzed by us include; IP address, browser type, internet service provider, pages referred, exit pages, platform type, date- time and the number of clicks. These factors are used to evaluate the ongoing trend, administer the website, keep a track of the movement of visitors on an average and to collect broad demographic information. It also helps us to understand which part of our website is the most popular.
What information we collect
The Marriage World collects two types of data:
- Personally identifiable information (PII) – this consists of data that represents you as an individual
- Non-personally identifiable information (non-PII) – this consists of all the other information that does not specifically represent you. It is also called ‘sensitive personal data’.
Registration/ subscription
Once you register with the services of The Marriage World, our team collects a wide variety of knowledge about you, in order to understand you completely, as an individual. It is also uses to find the most compatible match for a long-lasting relationship. A personality profile is built on the basis of your answers in the questionnaire. All the personal information provided to us through the questionnaires, are kept strictly confidential. However, a member can share the personal information with other members on the website by making changes in the privacy settings.
Emails and telephone calls
Every new subscriber has to provide us with an email id. Notifications are sent on your email, when we identify a potential match for you, in accordance with your profile and information provided to us.
For subscribers of the community service, such as ‘Advice’, newsletters are sent on the email-address upon consent. Email address is also used to notify the subscriber about the latest developments, events, new products, promotion and other important information. If a subscriber wishes to stop getting emails, he/she can write to us or unsubscribe us.
Our team can also contact you through on the telephone number provided to us solely regarding the services provided by The Marriage World. In case you do not want us to contact you through telephone calls for marketing or other suggestions, you can email us or write to us.
Complete information
AAlong with the personality profile, we also collect other types of information from members. These include, name, age, location, occupation, height, weight, religion and ethnicity. This information is necessary to give a more detailed information to prospective matches about you. When you provide us with these aspects of information, you agree to the fact that The Marriage World has the right to disclose this information to other members of the website upon requirement.
Candidates are also allowed to provide us with their photos and videos for online sharing. However, when you do so, you allow us to share them with other members of the website and users of The Marriage World’s services. If you are using our community services, you would have complete control over what kind of knowledge is disclosed to the people visiting your profile. The PII information is not disclosed in any case. It is only shared when the owner of the profile allows us.
Purchase Information
Along with other services, The Marriage World offers a subscriber-based service to people seeking our services and for individuals who purchase our products in relation to successful relationships and personal growth. In order to confirm purchases or subscription of services with us, important information is collected by us. Some of these include, name, billing address, phone number, email address, shipping address and credit card information.
Profile data
We use this data to learn about the experience of visitors to our website. Keeping that in mind, content is altered and only those aspects are displayed in which the audience is interested in and the content that we think is essential.
General forums
Sometimes discussion boards are opened to visitors and subscribers. The Marriage World does not take responsibility for any information shared on this platform. All the information shared on public forums are available for everyone to read. Hence, we advice everyone to be extremely cautious
Usage for research
When you start using the services provided by The Marriage World, you agree to let us your complete information for research. The research may also be used in an academic journal. All responses and PII are never published.
Security
The Marriage World use high-class security measures to ensure the safety of information in our database. Extensive technological advancement is carried out to make sure there is no loss, misuse and unnecessary alteration on data. Reasonable amount of care is taken to ensure that the information submitted to us over the internet is protected. However, 100% guarantee or warranty cannot be given for submission of information through the internet.
Disclosure of your information to third parties
Disclosure by law
You permit The Marriage World to disclose personal information, if the law requires it to do so or if we feel the disclosure is important for:
- Requests from law enforcement or by any other legal process
- To protect the rights of The Marriage World or that of a third party
- To protect the life, health and safety of a person, in case it is threatened
Disclosure to protect abuse victims
If The Marriage World suspects that any kind of information provided to the website involves a party that is the victim of abuse, then we will have the right to report the information to legal authorities. The abuse could be in any form, such as, domestic violence, elder abuse, spousal abuse or child abuse.
Disclosure to trusted third parties by us
We might share the PII provided by you, with third part service providers that are associated with us. These third parties will help in providing better services to you. The PII would be kept confidential by these third parties. We seek consent from you through email or telephone before sharing the information with third parties, who are dedicated towards providing goods and services that suit your interest. This facility can be stopped by write to us.
Disclosure to trusted third parties at your request
After subscription to our website, we offer a number of promotions, advertisements and sweepstakes to our members on behalf of third parties. A subscriber is completely responsible for accepting such offers and submitting information directly to the third parties. We will transfer your information only after obtaining your consent.
Age Restrictions
The terms and conditions of our website clearly state that our services are not targeted towards serving individuals below the age of 18. If we believe that the user is below 18 years of age, then their profile will be deleted from our database.
Withdraw of Service
We store your PII for only as long as it is necessary for the purpose it was meant for. If you are a subscriber of the services of The Marriage World and wish to withdraw the services provided by us, you can remove your information from our database in the following manner:
- You can go to our website and select the help link at the bottom of the page. You can search for answers in our FAQ section.
- You can also email us. Our staff would be glad to assist you.
- You can send us a mail at our postal address
Access to information
In accordance with the law and various Acts, you have the right to access the information that we hold about you. However, a nominal fee would be charged if you want to know about the details, we have in our database about you.
Correction/Changes
The ‘My Settings’ option on the home page can be chosen for making changes in the password, credit card or any other kind of information. The link of ‘Account Settings’ will give you a list of all the information that you can edit. Furthermore, assistance from our staff can be taken in case of a problem.
Acceptance of Privacy Statement
In case of any dispute regarding the privacy of information, your use of our services, is subject to the terms and conditions set out by us. If we make any changes in our privacy policy, this page will be updated and notifications will be sent out to our subscribers through email or any other means of communication. If you continue to use the website after the notifications have been sent out or make any changes, it will be assumed that you accept the update privacy policy of the company.