Privacy Policy
At Glomantra we recognize that privacy is important. BY USING OUR SERVICES YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR SERVICES.
Glomantra is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.mybantu. com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Privacy Department at Privacy Matters C/o GloMantra Inc., 440 N wolfe road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url. will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer a number of services which may be accessed in multiple ways. We may require you to register for an account upon your use of the Services. However, you may also choose to access the Services through one of our affiliate partners or widget hosting partners ("Partners"). We may, however, combine the information you provide to our Partners with information that you do submit to us to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services, including customizing your experience to your personal tastes.
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Information you provide - If you sign up for a Glomantra account or other Glomantra service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). With your consent, we may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Glomantra Services, Partners or third parties for ex: your other account information like twitter id, amazon id etc., if you choose and provide, may be stored along with your GloMantra account information.
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Transactions - From time to time, the Services may direct you to a third party website to complete a transaction. The third party website may request credit card or other payment information, Glomantra does not store or maintain such information on our secure servers.
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Log information - When you access Glomantra Services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more anonymous cookies that may uniquely identify your browser but not the user personally.
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User communications - When you send email or other communications to Glomantra, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Services. Also, in order to allow you to send and receive personal messages to other registered users of the Services, we record the mes sages that you send and receive.
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Location data - When you send email or other communications to Glomantra, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Services. Also, in order to allow you to send and receive personal messages to other registered users of the Services, we record the mes sages that you send and receive.
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Links - Glomantra may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
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Other's Information/Refer and Friend - You may choose to provide us with another person's email address so that person may be invited to use our Services. We use this information to send a one time invite on your behalf, only when you choose to send and remind that person about the invitation. By providing us with another person's email address, sign-in or profile identifying information on Partner or third party websites, you represent to us that you have obtained the consent of the person concerned as regards such disclosure to us of their personal information. Your contacts can block your invitations(sent in the form of emails or facebook notifications) from you by either using regular email blocking mechanisms or other available mechanisms specific to the platforms on which you chose to send the invites Import Contacts: We utilize an import contacts feature to help you keep in touch with your contacts [ and/ or other members]. We make it easy for you to invite people from your email address books to join you on our Site. At your request we will search your email address book to help you import your contacts to the application. For ex: you can choose to import all your contacts into GloMantra application like you can import the contacts from your gmail, yahoo accounts etc., if you choose to.
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Affiliated Glomantra Services on other websites - We offer some of our Services on or through other websites. Personal information that you provide to those websites may be sent to Glomantra in order to deliver the Services. We process such information under this Privacy Policy. The affiliated and Partner websites through which our Services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies. However, if you do access Glomantra Services through Partner websites or widgets, you shall be subject to Glomantra's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Other websites - This Privacy Policy applies to Glomantra's Services only. We do not exercise control over the websites displayed as search results, websites that include Glomantra applications, products or services, or links from within our various Services or our site. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect aggregate data or solicit personal information from you.
Glomantra only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and any supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
1. Providing our Services, including the display of customized content and advertising;
2. Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our Services;
3. Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
4. Protecting the rights or property of Glomantra or our users; and
5. Developing new Services.
Glomantra processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country.
If you have a Facebook account, we will allow you to log in using Facebook Connect ("Connect"), a Facebook, Inc. application that enables the Site to work just like the platform applications you find on Facebook.com ("Facebook"). Once you allow the Site to connect with Facebook, you will be able to use your Facebook login information to log into the Site, and you will be able to publish your activity on the Site to your Facebook profile. Whenever you do anything on the Site that might be publishable to Facebook, we will ask you whether you want to publish that activity on your Facebook news feed. We will not generate or publish any Facebook news feed and/or other stories about actions you take on the Site without your permission. Additionally, by using Connect, you permit the Site to: access Facebook information related to you (including your profile information, friends, and privacy settings) so you can use your Facebook information on the Site, and so that we can help improve your use of the Site; and allow you to interact with your Facebook friends on the Site. In order to make Connect possible, you agree to allow Facebook to check your Facebook cookies when you are visiting the Site, and allow Facebook to receive information concerning the actions you take on the Site (which we will only send with your permission). The information shared with Facebook will be transmitted to and stored by Facebook on servers in the United States. In the event you no longer want the Site to publish stories about you, or want to otherwise limit the ways in which the Site interacts with your Facebook account, you can always disable this feature by changing your application settings in Facebook. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by us through your Facebook Connect login; however, your activities on Facebook are covered by the Facebook's privacy policy and other terms of use ( http://www.facebook.com/policy.php) (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php)
Choices for personal information
It is our strong belief at Glomantra that information sharing should be "opt-in", you will have full control over the information that is publicly displayed and shares through the settings under your personal account.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies to provide the convenience for ex: to maintain the session information etc.,, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can decline to submit personal information to any of our Services, in which case Glomantra may not be able to provide those Services to you..
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. [We use] cookies on this site. [We /do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use [both] session ID cookies. [We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.] A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Blogs and User public pages
We have a corporate blog and as a user you can have a public user page. The public user page is a way to express yourself for ex: the recommendations you have got, opinions you are looking for etc., so that you can let your friends know what you are lookin for. The information can be made public only if you choose to and if youchoose to make certain information public (becomes searchable on internet) on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums or your public user pages.
Information sharing
Glomantra only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Glomantra in the following limited circumstances:
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We have your consent.
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We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies and Partners for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
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If our Partners provide targeted services or advertising, all personal information, customization and targeting will be analyzed on Glomantra's side.
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We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, warrant, subpoena, court order or legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable terms of service (see here for Glomantra's Terms of Use), including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Glomantra, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If Glomantra becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, aggregated statistical information - for ex: 25% of the users look for buying camera from Amazon, 32% of the users like to get an opinion for their movies before they watch the movie, etc.,. Such information does not identify you individually. Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data, including physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. We restrict access to personal information to Glomantra employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our Services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
Glomantra processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable Service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our Services or as otherwise permitted under this Policy. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Glomantra Services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our Services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users' personal information. If you wish to update the personal information pertaining to the information collected to register your account you can do so by logging into your account and changing the information online.
Enforcement
Glomantra regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Glomantra's treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters c/o Glomantra Inc. 440 N Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is Glomantra's policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Glomantra and an individual.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if there are material changes, we will provide a more prominent notice on our homepage. Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time at: Privacy Matters c/o Glomantra Inc. 440 N Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA
