Summary: Srutam.com is a clean website.
We are against mass email campaigns, SPAM, unethical exploitation,
and the sale of personal information to third parties for commercial
exploitation or monetary gain. We use cookies in our forms. Unless
otherwise specified, we do not directly process any monetary
transaction with our site visitors through the use of our forms
or interface on the website. Monetary transactions are usually
carried through trusted and reliable third party vendors.
Srutam.com has no direct access to information gathered by
affiliate merchants through the advertisements and banners
displayed on the website.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our
site, place an order, or fill out a form. When ordering or registering
on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your:
name, e-mail address, website information, country of residence,
mailing address, or phone number, or any other information that
may be required to establish your identity or eligibility for
a particular transaction or registration. You have the option
not to provide this information by not availing our services,
and also the option to restrict your use to certain areas of
our website anonymously.
Google Ads
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads
on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it
to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites
and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use
of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network
privacy policy.
Third-party banners and advertisements
We display advertisements and banners of our affiliate merchants
over which we have no control. These advertisements may contain
cookies and may track user activity when you click on the
advertisements or visit their websites. When you visit these
sites and avail the services and products offered by them,
you may have to provide personal information to them to avail
their services. Srutam.com has no access to such information.
Podcast Hosting and Audio Advertisements
The podcasts and audio files on this site are hosted and streamed
by Libsyn (Liberated Syndication Inc.), a third-party podcast
hosting and distribution service. When you play a podcast on
this site, your connection is made directly to Libsyn’s
servers at traffic.libsyn.com. Libsyn may collect listener
data such as your IP address, device type, geographic location,
and listening behaviour in accordance with their own privacy
policy.
Some or all podcasts on this site may include short advertisements
inserted by Libsyn at the beginning or end of the audio. These
advertisements are served by Libsyn as part of their hosting
and revenue-sharing arrangement with podcast publishers.
Srutam.com does not select, control, or endorse the content
of these advertisements. Any revenue generated through such
advertisements is shared between Libsyn and the podcast publisher
under Libsyn’s standard hosting agreement. Please refer
to Libsyn’s privacy policy at
libsyn.com/privacy-policy
for further information on how they collect and use listener data.
Third-party links
We also provide links in our directories to various websites
on the internet. We have no control over the services they provide
or the manner in which they collect information about their users.
You have to verify their respective privacy policies before
making use of them. The information which is collected by the
third party services with which we are affiliated or to which
we have subscribed to service our customers is the sole responsibility
of the third party service providers and subject to their own
privacy policies.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience or provide a service (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs).
- To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
- To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).
- To process transactions. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
- To send periodic emails. The email address you provide for order processing will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the
safety of your personal information when you access your personal
information.
We do not directly process any monetary transaction on the
website through the use of forms or user interface. In the case
of all monetary transactions, you are directed to a trusted
and reputed third party vendor or vendors, where all supplied
sensitive or credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into the payment gateway
provider's database, only to be accessible by those authorized
with special access rights to such systems, and are required
to keep the information confidential. Your private information
(credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will
not be stored on our hosting servers. However, after a transaction
is completed and service is provided, we may keep some general
information about your name and email address in our offline
servers and storage systems for further follow-up, communication,
and correspondence.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider
transfers to your computer's hard drive through your web browser
(if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's
systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain
information.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items
in the site submission, login, and feedback forms; record session
information; understand and save your preferences for future
visits; keep track of registered members, advertisements, and
compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction
so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the
future. We may contract with third-party service providers to
assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service
providers are not permitted to use the information collected
on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn
you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn
off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites,
if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function
properly.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties
your personally identifiable information. This does not include
trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website,
conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those
parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may
also release your information when we believe release is appropriate
to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect
ours or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally
identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties
for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party links
We include or offer third party products or services on our
website. These third party sites have separate and independent
privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability
for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless,
we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any
feedback about these sites.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not collect any information
from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and
services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years
old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected
through our website and not to information collected offline
such as emails we may send through other interfaces not available
on the website.
Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing
the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing
the use of our website at terms.aspx.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our
online privacy policy
and our terms and conditions of use specified above.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page.