AwakIND is India's first socio-political network for people who want to raise their voices on a common platform.
It is a web-based portal that has been designed to initiate a change in the society and existing systems. It gives the citizens of India a unique platform to voice their concerns and find a solution to them by active participation from everyone and all the stake holders in the society.
To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other visitors and members, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network. Members can change their profile information at any time.
AwakIND.com cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at AwakIND@gmail.com
Information collection and use by AwakIND.com
We collect the following user submitted information to authenticate user and serve you better:
AwakIND.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: professional interests, gender, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.
AwakIND.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site.
This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members.
User profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the AwakIND.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new members to join 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 other members or people within a user's personal network or groups. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, we allow users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or colleges and/or companies where users may have studied or worked respectively.
We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service or issues run on AwakIND and its associated portals.
Invitations and other communications to non-members
Members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. AwakIND.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. AwakIND.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders.
Use of cookies
AwakIND.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. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. 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 AwakIND.com in order to use most functions on the site. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the AwakIND privacy policy.
Links
AwakIND.com contains links to sites. AwakIND.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 AwakIND.com.
Message boards and public forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to, message boards or any other public forums that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Updating or removing information
AwakIND.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 settings.
Third party advertising
Ads appearing on this web site may be delivered to users by AwakIND.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 AwakIND.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
AwakIND.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. AwakIND.com takes precautions to ensure 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 technical staff and customer service personnel. 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 AwakIND.com, please contact us: AwakIND@gmail.com
Sharing and disclosure of information AwakIND.com collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, members will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary:
(1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by AwakIND.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law;
(2) to enforce the AwakIND.com terms of use agreement or to protect our rights; or
(3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service.
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: AwakIND@gmail.com
It is a web-based portal that has been designed to initiate a change in the society and existing systems. It gives the citizens of India a unique platform to voice their concerns and find a solution to them by active participation from everyone and all the stake holders in the society.
To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other visitors and members, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network. Members can change their profile information at any time.
AwakIND.com cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at AwakIND@gmail.com
Information collection and use by AwakIND.com
We collect the following user submitted information to authenticate user and serve you better:
- Name
- Email address
- Age
- Location
- Your concerns
AwakIND.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: professional interests, gender, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.
AwakIND.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site.
This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members.
User profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the AwakIND.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new members to join 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 other members or people within a user's personal network or groups. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, we allow users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or colleges and/or companies where users may have studied or worked respectively.
We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service or issues run on AwakIND and its associated portals.
Invitations and other communications to non-members
Members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. AwakIND.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. AwakIND.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders.
Use of cookies
AwakIND.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. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. 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 AwakIND.com in order to use most functions on the site. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the AwakIND privacy policy.
Links
AwakIND.com contains links to sites. AwakIND.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 AwakIND.com.
Message boards and public forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to, message boards or any other public forums that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Updating or removing information
AwakIND.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 settings.
Third party advertising
Ads appearing on this web site may be delivered to users by AwakIND.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 AwakIND.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
AwakIND.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. AwakIND.com takes precautions to ensure 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 technical staff and customer service personnel. 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 AwakIND.com, please contact us: AwakIND@gmail.com
Sharing and disclosure of information AwakIND.com collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, members will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary:
(1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by AwakIND.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law;
(2) to enforce the AwakIND.com terms of use agreement or to protect our rights; or
(3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service.
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: AwakIND@gmail.com