We hope the following information can help answer any questions you might have. And if you still want to know more, please drop us a line at contact(at) SMSTI (dot) IN.

The following Privacy Statement discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for SMSTI (dot) IN’s Network of Web sites (which we collectively refer to below as the “Site”).

Our Site, like most other sites, uses cookies to provide you with a more personalized and user-friendly experience. A cookie is a message that is sent to a browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help us keep track of the size of our audience, the frequency of visits to our Site and the areas that are most popular. If a guest makes a purchase, cookies are used to keep the shopping cart active during the shopping process. We may also use cookies to help us deliver content or advertising specific to your interests, and to save your preferences or passwords so you don't have to re-enter them each time you visit our Site. Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, but then your preferences, passwords and other information will not be saved, and you may have to re-enter information to use certain features of our Site.

We may use an outside ad company to display ads on our Site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies delivered through banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information. SMSTI (dot) IN may also serve banner ads that contain cookies. We will only share such information with our advertisers and sponsors on an aggregate basis to determine the success of any given banner, logo or advertisement.

We may also log IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration or to report information in aggregate form to our advertisers (e.g., how many visitors logged in to our Web site). In some cases your IP address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer Internet access provider such as AOL or Earthlink or Satyam, chances are that your IP address varies each session - thus making it effectively impossible for us to use your IP address (by itself) to determine who you are.

In general, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties except to the extent necessary to provide you with a requested service, or under circumstances required by law. We will disclose your personal information when we believe in good faith that any applicable law, regulation, or legal process requires it, or where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of another user. We also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services and reach to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties. However, aggregate data is not traceable to you specifically. We may use contractors to help us with our operations. Some or all of these contractors may access our databases of user information. These contractors will enter into an agreement with us that places restrictive provisions on their use and disclosure of all information they obtain through the relationship.

Specific uses of personal information that vary from this Privacy Statement (if any) may be found in the policies applicable to the service or feature you are signing up for. To the extent that you are notified of uses of your personal information that are different from those described in this Privacy Statement during your enrollment in any particular service, special program, contest or promotion, those uses will govern. For example, if you purchase a T-shirt from a specific celebrity fan site, that celebrity may be entitled to receive and use your personal information for limited purposes such as e-mailing you information about their next film or television appearance. Please be on the look-out for additional terms of service and privacy statements applicable to the services for which you sign-up or participate in.

The Site contains links and advertisements to other sites. If you click-through a banner ad or link and submit your information to that advertiser or site, you will be subject to their own privacy practices. SMSTI (dot) IN is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.

Of course there are many other ways we conceivably could get information from or about you that are not described elsewhere in this Statement. For example, you might email us through one of our customer service email addresses, or we may get a complaint about you from a third party. Our practices with respect to such information are pretty much as you’d expect -- we use and disclose this information in a commercially reasonable business manner.

This site has industry consistent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. But since the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure, SMSTI . IN assumes no liability for disclosure of data due to errors in transmission or unauthorized third parties.

If you are a minor under 12, you are prohibited from submitting any personal information to us.

What information is or may be collected from you

We will automatically receive and collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our Web server, including computer-identification information obtained from "cookies," sent to your browser from:

• an IP address, assigned to the computer which you use

• the domain server through which you access our service

• the type of computer you're using

• the type of web browser you're using

We may collect the following personally identifiable information about you:

• name including first and last name

• alternate email address

• mobile phone number and contact details

• ZIP/Postal code

• demographic profile (like your age, gender, occupation, education, address and durables owned);

• preferences and interests (such as news, sports, travel and so on);

• financial information (like account or credit card numbers); and

• opinions of features on our websites.

How is this information used

We use your email address to send you:

• Password reminder and registration confirmation

• Special offers

• News letters

• Changes in the service's policy or terms of use

• Event based communications such as order information, renewal notices, invites, reminders etc.

Note: We send users newsletters and updates upon registration. We send newsletters and/or promotional emails on behalf of our alliance partners.

We use your Mobile number to send you:

• Password reminder and Registration confirmation

• Special feature updates

• Event based services such as renewal notices, invites, email alerts , reminders etc.,

• Promotional SMSes on behalf of our alliance partners

We use your personal information to:

• help us provide personalized features

• tailor our sites to your interest

• to get in touch with you in the case of password retrieval and policy changes

• to provide the services requested by you

• to preserve social history as governed by existing law or policy

We use contact information internally to:

• direct our efforts for product improvement

• contact you as a survey respondent

• notify you if you win any contest; and

• send you promotional materials from our contest sponsors or advertisers

Generally, we use anonymous traffic information to:

• remind us of who you are in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service from both an advertising and an editorial perspective;

• recognize your access privileges to our Web sites

• track your entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests to indicate a player's progress through the promotion and to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings

• make sure that you don't see the same ad repeatedly

• help diagnose problems with our server

• administer our Web sites

• track your session so that we can understand better how people use our sites

Information Sharing And disclosure

 We do not share or rent your email addresses or Mobile number with third parties except our alliance partners.

SMSTI.IN will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

• We have your consent to share the information;

• We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;

• We need to share the information with certain service partners in order to respond to your comments or to resolve service issues.

• We respond to requests from any Indian or foreign government, security, defence, revenue, regulatory or other authority, agency or officer;

• We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable and email address information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

We share your information with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information and email address, Mobile Number submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Youe SMSTI.IN Account is password protected.No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information and email address and Mobile Number, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Policy Updates

We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by means of a notice on our homepage. 

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing information from SMSTI (dot) IN and our partners. We also provide instructions for how to unsubscribe to future mailings at the bottom of each communication. Please remember to check the registration screens applicable to the service or promotion for which you are signing up for specific instructions from our partners on how to update your user profile and/or opt out of receiving offers and mailings.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: contact(at)SMSTI (dot) IN

By using the Site, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy Statement, you may feel free to e-mail us with questions or concerns, but your only remedy is to discontinue use of the Site. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time.

Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please email us at contact(at) SMSTI (dot) IN .

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