Karnataka Parent's Association For Mentally Retarded Citizens

Karnataka Parents Association For Mentally Retarded Citizens (KPAMRC) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of KPAMRC’s websites (the "Site"). By accessing the Site, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.

We will collect personally identifiable information about you only as part of a voluntary registration process, on-line survey, or contest. We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you to provide a service or carry out a transaction that you have requested such as receiving information about our products and services, entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, signing up for an event or training, or when purchasing, downloading and/or registering our products. The personal information we collect may include your name, title, company or organization name, e-mail address, phone, work or home address, information about your job function, information about your company, demographic profile (like your age, gender, occupation, education and durables owned); interests (such as news, sports, travel and so on); financial information (like account or credit/debit card numbers); and opinions of features on our websites.

In the process of your visiting our Site, we may be receiving anonymous traffic information from you. The Site may receive certain information about your visit, such as the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the type of web browser you're using; the type of computer you're using; the date and time you access the Site; the pages that you access while at the Site and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.

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. Upon request, we will remove your personally identifiable information from our database, thereby cancelling your registration.

Although we will endeavor to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. By using this Site, you agree that we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. To correct, update or remove any information you have provided, send an email to Customer Support.

The Site contains links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Web sites.

KPAMRC uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, to contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing

Personal information collected on the Site may be stored and processed in India or any other country in which KPAMRC or its affiliates or associates or subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of information either within or outside your country.

KPAMRC 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, help us provide personalized features, tailor our sites to your interest, get in touch with you when necessary, direct our efforts for product improvement, contact you as a survey respondent, notify you if you win any contest; and help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Web sites, track your session so that we can understand better how people use our sites, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with KPAMRC under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help KPAMRC communicate with you about offers from KPAMRC and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
To Conform to Legal requirements and/or Legal process that requires disclosure.
To Protect and defend the rights or property of KPAMRC and/or any company affiliated to KPAMRC or defend against legal claims.
Enforce the Terms of Use of KPAMRC websites.
To investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of KPAMRC' Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if KPAMRC is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, KPAMRC will notify you before information about you are transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We will not use your financial information for any purpose other than to complete a transaction with you.

Use of Cookies

KPAMRC may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or other Web sites you visit.

Use of Web Beacons

KPAMRC web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow KPAMRC to count users who have visited those pages. KPAMRC may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.

Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views. KPAMRC prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. KPAMRC would endeavor that the Users' data made available to its employees or consultants is not subjected to misuse or abuse. However, KPAMRC shall not be held liable in any manner, in case of loss or damages that are caused to the user, directly or indirectly, resulting from an act of theft or fraud committed by an employee or employees of KPAMRC or consultants.

KPAMRC reserves the right to change or update these policies at any time upon reasonable notice, effective immediately upon posting to this site.

Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this policy will be governed by the laws of India under the jurisdiction of the courts in Bangalore, Karnataka, India only.