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HumSubka is an online community
that lets you Earn points, Blog, get ranked and meet
your Friends' Friends.
Check out whats hot in
the network, your Friends, your school and your neighbourhood.
HumSubka Media Group is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy
Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization
whose mission is to enable individuals and organizations
to establish trusting relationships based on respect
for personal identity and information by promoting the
use of fair information practices.
This privacy statement covers the site www.HumSubka.com.
Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment
to our users' privacy, it has agreed to disclose its
information practices and have its privacy practices
reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
Please contact HumSubka with questions regarding this
statement. If the website has not responded to your
inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily
addressed, please contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/users/watchdog.html
Effective March 5, 2004:
About HumSubka.com
. HumSubka.com is an online service that allows our
members to set up unique personal profiles that can
be linked together through networks of friends.
. HumSubka members can view each others' profiles, communicate
with old friends and meet new friends on the service,
share photos, post journals and comments, and describe
their interests.
. To enrich our members' experience, we request and
display some personal information to other members and
visitors, which allows our users to identify each other
and expand their network of friends.
. HumSubka members can change their profile information
at any time and can control how other members and the
service communicates with them.
HumSubka.com cares deeply about online privacy. If
you have any questions concerning this privacy policy,
please email us at info@HumSubka.com
Information Collection and Use by HumSubka.com
. HumSubka.com collects user submitted information
such as name, email address, and age to authenticate
users and to send notifications to those users relating
to the HumSubka.com service. HumSubka.com also collects
other profile data including but not limited to: personal
interests, gender, age, education and occupation in
order to assist users in finding and communicating with
each other.
. HumSubka.com also logs non-personally-identifiable
information, such as IP address and browser type, from
all users and visitors to the site. This data is used
to manage the website, track usage and improve the website
services. User IP addresses are recorded for security
and monitoring purposes.
. User Profile information including members' pictures
and first names are displayed to people in order to
facilitate user interaction in the HumSubka.com social
networking community. Email addresses are used for the
purposes of inviting new friends to join HumSubka, to
add users to members' friends' networks, and to send
notifications related to the service. With the exception
of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications,
a user's email address is not shared or displayed to
people within a user's personal network. Users within
a personal network communicate on HumSubka.com with
each other through the HumSubka.com service, without
disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names
are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate
searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the
service, HumSubka.net allows users to search for other
members using first and last name, email address, and
schools and/or companies where users may have attended
or worked.
. We may also use a user's email address to send updates,
a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may
choose not to receive email of this type by changing
their "notification" setting to "Do not
send me notification emails" in the user "Account
Settings".
. From time to time, HumSubka.com or a partner may sponsor
a promotion, sweepstake or contest on HumSubka.com.
Users may be asked to provide personal information including
name, email address or home address or to answer questions
in order to participate. We may transfer personal information
to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested
to receive information from. It will be clear at the
point of collection who is collecting the personal information
and whose privacy statement will apply.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
. HumSubka members can invite friends to join the service
by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation
system. HumSubka.com stores the email addresses that
members provide so that the respondents may be added
to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations,
and also to send reminders of the invitations. HumSubka.com
does not sell these email addresses or use them to send
any other communication besides invitations, invitation
reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients
of invitations from HumSubka.com may contact HumSubka.com
to request the removal of their information from our
database.
. HumSubka members may also store email addresses of
people they know in their internal HumSubka address
book and may also choose to send invitations and other
communications to those addresses.
. You may prevent HumSubka.com email invitations and
other messages from being sent to any email address
you control by sending a single email with the subject
"BLOCK" to info@HumSubka.com
Please note that the email must come from the account
you wish to block.
Use of Cookies
. HumSubka.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences
and to record session information, for purposes including
ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the
same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising,
and Web page content based on browser type and user
profile information.
. You may be able to configure your browser to accept
or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a
cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check
the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how
to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must
enable cookies from HumSubka.com in order to use most
functions on the site. Please note that HumSubka allows
3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements
on some of our pages to set and access their cookies
on your computer.
. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own
privacy policies, not the HumSubka Privacy Policy.
Links
. HumSubka.com contains links to sites. HumSubka.com
is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices
on other sites. When linking to another site a user
should read the privacy policy stated on that site.
Our privacy policy only governs information collected
on HumSubka.com.
Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards,
Classifieds and Public Forums
. Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post
public information to Journals, WebLogs, Rumors, Message
Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that
that information can be accessed by the public and can
in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited
communications.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
. HumSubka.com users may modify or remove any of their
personal information at any time by logging into their
account and accessing features such as Edit Profile
and Account Info.
Email Choice/Opt-out
. Members who no longer wish to receive updates or
notifications may choose not to by selecting 'Do not
send me notification emails' in the user profile 'Account
Settings'. Users who do not wish to receive HumSubka.com
newsletters may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send
me HumSubka newsletters' in the user profile 'Account
Settings'. All notification emails and HumSubka.com
newsletters also include the above instructions for
opting-out of those communications in the future.
Third Party Advertising
. Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to
users by HumSubka.com or one of our Web advertising
partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies.
These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your
computer each time they send you an online advertisement.
In this way, ad servers may compile information about
where you, or others who are using your computer, saw
their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked
on. This information allows an ad network to deliver
targeted advertisements that they believe will be of
most interest to you. This privacy statement covers
the use of cookies by HumSubka.com and does not cover
the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
. HumSubka.com member accounts are secured by member-created
passwords. HumSubka.com takes precautions to insure
that member account information is kept private. We
use reasonable measures to protect member information
that is stored within our database, and we restrict
access to member information to those employees who
need access to perform their job functions, such as
our customer service personnel and technical staff.
Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of
member account information. Unauthorized entry or use,
hardware or software failure, and other factors may
compromise the security of member information at any
time. For any additional information about the security
measures we use on HumSubka.com, please contact us a
info@HumSubka.com
Sharing and Disclosure of Information HumSubka.com
Collects
. Except as described above, HumSubka will not disclose
personal information to any third party without a user's
explicit permission unless required by law. HumSubka
reserves the right to transfer personal information
to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that
information as a result of the sale of HumSubka or substantially
all of its assets to that successor in interest. For
more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy
Policy" section below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
. From time to time we may make changes to our privacy
policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our
site to make users aware of what the changes are so
users will always be aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is
bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or
he uses the site after those changes have been posted.
If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable
information in a manner materially different from that
stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting
a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this site, or your dealings with this
Web site, please contact us at: info@HumSubka.com (Rohini
Sector - 3, Delhi - 85).
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