A. Introduction:
Your Privacy Matters!
1. At Search Koro, we care about your privacy and understand how important it is to keep your information safe. This Privacy Policy tells you how we (that’s us at searchkoro.com) collect, use, and share your personal information when you visit our website, use our mobile app, or check out our mobile site (we call all of these the “Platform”).
2. This Privacy Policy is an online agreement made under the Information Technology Act, 2000. It follows the rules about keeping your information safe. You don’t need to sign anything for this policy to be important. By using our website or app, you agree to this policy.
Please read this policy carefully along with our Terms of Service here.
3. When you visit our website or use our app, you agree to follow the rules in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. By using our services, you allow us to collect, use, and share your information as described here. If you don’t agree with this, please don’t use our website or app.
4. You understand that when you share your personal information, you’re doing it voluntarily. If you don’t want to share certain information while signing up or using our services, you can choose not to. But keep in mind that if you don’t provide the needed information, you might not be able to complete the sign-up or use our services.
If you’re a business customer, we might have a special agreement with you that keeps your information private. This Privacy Policy won’t change anything in that agreement.
B. Application of Policy:
1. This policy applies to all websites, apps, and services we offer at Searchkoro.com. It covers everything we do, including services like listings and searches.
2. Everyone who uses our services, including our partners and employees, must follow this policy. We promise to only collect personal information that you choose to share with us. You can look around our platform without giving us any personal details. However, to register or use certain services, you will need to provide some basic information.
3. This policy applies to everyone involved with Searchkoro.com, including contractors, suppliers, customers, and employees. It covers all data about identifiable individuals, even if it doesn’t strictly fall under privacy laws. This data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and any other information collected while using our services.
4. This Privacy Policy is part of SearchKoro’s Terms of Service and explains how we handle user information, including personal information collected when you use our platform or services. Unless stated otherwise, this policy applies to all personal information shared on our platform. It does not cover the practices of organizations we don’t own or individuals we don’t employ or manage.
C. Objectives of policy:
SearchKoro must collect and use certain information about individuals, such as customers, suppliers, business contacts, employees, and others with whom we have a business relationship. This policy explains how we collect, store, and handle personal information, including sensitive information, and ensures that you can review it. We collect and manage this information to meet data protection standards and legal requirements. This policy ensures compliance with data protection laws, protects the rights of everyone involved, and outlines how we store and process data to prevent data breaches.
D. Collection of Information:
In performing its activities, SearchKoro.com collects information from individuals and third parties, creating a variety of data stored on our platform. This information can include corporate records, financial documents, legal records, contracts, emails, employee records, invoices, application forms, contact lists, photos, and more. We collect this information to provide and improve our products and services. Whether collected online or offline, all data, including personal information, is protected under the same privacy standards.
We collect personal information from you in several ways when you interact with our services, such as:
- – Installing, accessing, or using our services
- – Creating an account
- – Requesting customer service or contacting us
- – Conducting transactions where we need to collect personal information, as required by law
- – Submitting testimonials, ratings, reviews, or other user-generated content
- – Sending us personal information along with any related communication content.
E. SearchKoro Doesn’t Collect the Information:
1. Searchkoro.com does not collect sensitive personal data or information. It only collects the sensitive personal data or information which is considered necessary to provide the service or to fulfill the purpose and for a lawful purpose connected with a function or activity of Searchkoro.com. User can continue to browse / search on Searchkoro’s platform without giving any information; however, PI is required for availing the certain services on Searchkoro’s platform.
2. SearchKoro.com does not collect email addresses, physical addresses, or other contact details from your mobile address book, except for names and mobile phone numbers. We do not store past location information, except for the last known location from which the SearchKoro software was accessed if current location data is unavailable. The SearchKoro App integrates with the Firebase SDK and may send aggregate usage statistics to Firebase occasionally. The use of this information is governed by Firebase’s data usage policies, which you can find at Firebase Privacy and Security.
3. When collecting information, Search Koro ensures that you are informed about:
– The fact that your information is being collected
– The purpose of the information collection
– The intended recipients of the information
– The name and address of the agency collecting the information and the agency that will retain it.
4. Data and information will not be collected unless:
You have given valid, informed, and voluntary consent
Processing is necessary for fulfilling a contract to which you are a party
Processing is required to comply with a legal obligation
Processing is necessary to protect your interests
Processing is essential for carrying out a task in the public interest.
F. Usage of Information:
The data collected will be used for the purposes for which it was gathered, as well as for the following:
Providing Services: Fulfilling your requests for products and services and communicating with you about them. If you search for products without logging in or call our hotline, we collect your mobile number and generate leads with our vendors. If you log in, we share your available information (name, mobile, email, etc.) with our vendors to fulfill your requests.
– Contests and Promotions: Administering contests, promotions, and surveys.
– Feedback Response: Responding to reviews, comments, or feedback you provide.
– Personalization: Helping us personalize our service offerings, websites, and advertising.
– Performance Analysis: Analyzing performance, fixing errors, and improving the usability of our services.
– Recommendations: Recommending features, products, and services that may interest you and personalizing your experience.
– Service Improvement: Operating, developing, and improving our products and services.
– Core Business Functions: Supporting our core functions, including order fulfillment, marketing, authentication, fraud prevention, public safety, and legal functions.
– Interest-Based Ads: Displaying ads for features and products that may interest you.
– Fraud Prevention: Preventing and detecting fraud to protect our customers and services.
– Communication: Contacting you for service promotions.
– Legal Purposes: Using your personal data for legal proceedings related to improper use of our services.
– Maintenance: Performing operation and maintenance tasks.
H. Disclosure of Information:
1. Other users of the SearchKoro service may see your ratings and submissions as part of the service’s functionalities. For instance, if you rate “XYZ Restaurant” on SearchKoro, that rating will be visible to all users of the platform.
2. We do not sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information (like your mobile phone number) with third-party companies for their commercial or marketing purposes without your consent. You will have the option to opt-in or opt-out for specific programs or features.
We may disclose personal information if required by law or in good faith belief that it is necessary to:
(a) Respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal requests from government or law enforcement agencies.
(b) Enforce our Terms and other applicable policies, including investigating potential violations.
(c) Detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud, illegal activities, security, or technical issues.
(d) Protect the rights, property, and safety of our users, companies, or others.
(e) Verify identity or for the prevention, detection, and investigation of cyber incidents, as well as prosecution and punishment of offenses.
Cookies
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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our platform (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.