Privacy Policy

Overview

This Pri­vacy Pol­icy sets forth the poli­cies of ICT Trends with respect to non­pub­lic infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to us through the web site ictTrends.com (the “Site”). These poli­cies may be changed at any time, in which case the revised Pri­vacy Pol­icy will apply to infor­ma­tion col­lected after the date the Pri­vacy Pol­icy is posted. By access­ing the Site, you agree that you have read and under­stand the terms and con­di­tions of this Pri­vacy Policy.

Our Pol­icy

We rec­og­nize the value of your pri­vacy and appre­ci­ate con­cerns you may have about infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to us when you visit us online and how we treat that infor­ma­tion. We encour­age you to read this entire Pri­vacy Pol­icy as it sets forth our poli­cies with respect to per­sonal infor­ma­tion you pro­vide us through our Site. Other pri­vacy prac­tices may apply to infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to us through other chan­nels. “Per­sonal Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion” refers to infor­ma­tion that allows us to iden­tify you, such as your name, address, zip/postal codes, tele­phone num­ber, orga­ni­za­tion name if applic­a­ble, e-mail address, etc.
We are com­mit­ted to safe­guard­ing your pri­vacy and uphold­ing the high­est lev­els of infor­ma­tion secu­rity. To that end, we adhere to the strictest con­sumer pri­vacy guide­lines and use spe­cial care in order to pro­tect any per­sonal infor­ma­tion you pro­vide through the Site.

If you have any addi­tional ques­tions or con­cerns about this Pri­vacy Pol­icy, please feel free to con­tact us any time through this web site or at

shkhanal@gmail.com

Suresh Khanal

Kalanki, Kath­mandu

Note: We use third-party adver­tis­ing com­pa­nies to serve ads when you visit our web­site. These com­pa­nies may use infor­ma­tion (not includ­ing your name, address, email address, or tele­phone num­ber) about your vis­its to this and other web­sites in order to pro­vide adver­tise­ments about goods and ser­vices 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, click here.

Infor­ma­tion Collection

We will never sell, rent, loan or oth­er­wise dis­trib­ute any of your Per­sonal Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion (includ­ing your name, e-mail address, phone num­ber or any other iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion about you) to any third party with­out your prior expressed writ­ten con­sent, other than to our affil­i­ates, as per­mit­ted by law, such as to our attor­neys, audi­tors, and to cer­tain ser­vice providers, such as a third party that hosts this Site, but, in all such cases, only as nec­es­sary to facil­i­tate the accep­tance and man­age­ment of our Site. We will also release infor­ma­tion about you if you direct us to do so, if com­pelled to do so by law or in con­nec­tion with any gov­ern­ment or self-regulatory orga­ni­za­tion request or investigation.

From time to time, ICT Trends may use aggre­gate data col­lected through the Site to ana­lyze web­site usabil­ity, sys­tem per­for­mance and usage trends. While this data, in its aggre­gate form only, may be shared with third par­ties with whom ICT Trends works to ana­lyze it, the data will only be shared under the strictest terms of con­fi­den­tial­ity and will never con­tain any Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion per­tain­ing to any user of the Site.

1. What We Col­lect

   When you browse through our Site we collect:

   • Basic infor­ma­tion about your com­puter, browser and con­nec­tion to make sure that we can give you proper infor­ma­tion and cus­tomer ser­vice and for secu­rity purposes.
   • Aggre­gate infor­ma­tion on what pages con­sumers access or visit to improve our site.
   • All infor­ma­tion vol­un­tar­ily sub­mit­ted by users (relat­ing to pro­files, ques­tions and answers, com­ments, and point bid­ding). If you choose to reg­is­ter to become a mem­ber of our site (“Mem­ber”), which by becom­ing a Mem­ber enables you to post infor­ma­tion, we will ask you for more infor­ma­tion, includ­ing the following:
   • Your e-mail address so we can con­tact you;
   • Your date of birth which, among other things, ensures that all of our users are of legal age and pro­vides us with gen­eral demo­graphic infor­ma­tion; and
   • A login and pass­word that enables you to update your per­sonal infor­ma­tion on our Site at any time in the future.
2. Chang­ing and Updat­ing Per­sonal Infor­ma­tion; Choos­ing Options:

   You may change any of your per­sonal account infor­ma­tion. You may change your e-mail address, pass­word, as well as your pri­vacy settings.

Pro­file

We store infor­ma­tion that we col­lect through cook­ies and log files to cre­ate a pro­file of our users. A pro­file is stored infor­ma­tion that we keep on indi­vid­ual users that details their pref­er­ences. Con­se­quently, col­lected infor­ma­tion is tied to the users’ Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion to pro­vide offers and improve the con­tent of the Site for the user. This pro­file is used to tai­lor a user’s visit to our Site. This infor­ma­tion may also be used to help improve our over­all ser­vices. We do not link the infor­ma­tion we store in cook­ies to any

Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion you sub­mit while on our Site.
A. Cook­ies:
A “cookie” is a piece of data stored on the user’s com­puter tied to infor­ma­tion about the user. Usage of a cookie is not linked to any Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion while a user is vis­it­ing our Site. We use both “ses­sion cook­ies” and “per­sis­tent cook­ies”. For the “ses­sion cookie,” once users close the browser, the cookie sim­ply ter­mi­nates. A “per­sis­tent cookie” is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Per­sis­tent cook­ies enable us to track and tar­get the inter­ests of our users to enhance their expe­ri­ence on our site. By set­ting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a pass­word more than once, thereby sav­ing time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still browse our site, but they will not be able to buy or sell reser­va­tions. Per­sis­tent cook­ies can be removed by fol­low­ing Inter­net browser help file directions.

B. Log Files:
Like most stan­dard web­site servers, we use “log files”. Log files include inter­net pro­to­col (IP) addresses, browser type, inter­net ser­vice provider (ISP), refer­ring pages, plat­form type, date/time stamp. IP addresses, etc. are linked to Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion. We use log files in error diag­nos­tics, ses­sion man­age­ment and in deter­min­ing our adver­tis­ing effi­cacy. Com­mu­ni­ca­tions from the Site.

A. Trans­ac­tions and Ser­vice Announce­ments:
Mem­bers who reg­is­ter on the site will receive a num­ber of e-mails through­out the trans­ac­tion process. We may also occa­sion­ally send out service-related announce­ments (e.g., if our Ser­vices are tem­porar­ily sus­pended for main­te­nance). These com­mu­ni­ca­tions are not pro­mo­tional in nature, and users will receive them as long as their accounts are open.

B. Spe­cial Offers, Newslet­ters and Updates:
Out of respect for the pri­vacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of com­mu­ni­ca­tions, as explained in the Choice and opt-out sec­tion below.

C. Cus­tomer Ser­vice:
We will com­mu­ni­cate with users on a reg­u­lar basis to pro­vide requested ser­vices. We respond to issues relat­ing to a user’s account via e-mail, in accor­dance with each user’s preference.

D. Choice and opt-out:
A user can change their opt-in or opt-out sta­tus in the fol­low­ing ways:

1. From a Newsletter/E-mail: Click on the “Unsub­scribe” link within the e-mail. The next step is to select the alerts which you no longer wish to receive and click the “unsub­scribe” but­ton. If the Site does rec­og­nize you, you do not have to enter your e-mail address. Sim­ply select the alerts which you no longer wish to receive and click the “unsub­scribe” button.
2. From the Site: If you have a user­name and pass­word, log into your account. Then go to your pro­file page where you can make changes as per your requirement.

Tes­ti­mo­ni­als and Photo Usage

If you sub­mit tes­ti­mo­ni­als, pho­tos, blogs, writ­ings, cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion sur­veys or other writ­ings or media (“Vol­un­tar­ily Sub­mit­ted Media”) in con­nec­tion with use of our Site and the Ser­vices, you thereby grant ICT Trends the per­pet­ual right to use any pub­lic infor­ma­tion on your account in con­nec­tion with ICT Trends’ mar­ket­ing and pub­lic­ity efforts in any and all media and you thereby agree to release any rights or claims you may have against ICT Trends with respect to ICT Trends’ use of such Vol­un­tar­ily Sub­mit­ted Media. Said media shall include, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, print, radio, tele­vi­sion, inter­net, e-mail, mag­a­zine and any other form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion whether now known or here­after devised.

No con­sid­er­a­tion is being paid for this release, and you hereby and acknowl­edge and under­stand that ICT Trends is rely­ing on this release with­out con­sid­er­a­tion if it avails itself of any or all of the rights granted herein.

Shar­ing Information

We may share your per­sonal infor­ma­tion with third par­ties in the fol­low­ing instances:

Within Our Cor­po­rate Fam­ily:
We may share infor­ma­tion with our par­ent com­pany, sub­sidiaries, joint ven­tures or other com­pa­nies under com­mon con­trol, where it may be used to pro­vide joint ser­vices or for pur­poses such as inter­nal sta­tis­tics, strate­gic decision-making, cus­tomer ver­i­fi­ca­tion, fraud pre­ven­tion and security.

Legal Dis­claimer:
Though we make every effort to pre­serve user pri­vacy, we may dis­close per­sonal infor­ma­tion when required by law or under the good-faith belief that such action is nec­es­sary under applic­a­ble law. We may dis­close per­sonal infor­ma­tion in order to estab­lish or exer­cise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We also share infor­ma­tion in order to inves­ti­gate, pre­vent, or take action regard­ing ille­gal activ­i­ties, sus­pected fraud, to pro­tect our prop­erty or inter­ests or that of our agents and employ­ees, and to pro­tect per­sonal safety or the public.

Aggre­gate Infor­ma­tion (non-personally identifiable):

We share some aggre­gated demo­graphic infor­ma­tion (age, zip codes) with some of our part­ners. This is not linked to any Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion. We may use third-party adver­tis­ing com­pa­nies to serve ads on our behalf. These com­pa­nies may employ cook­ies and action tags (also known as sin­gle pixel gifs or web bea­cons) to mea­sure adver­tis­ing effec­tive­ness. Any infor­ma­tion that these third par­ties col­lect via cook­ies and action tags is com­pletely anonymous.

Third Party Ser­vice Providers:
We may dis­close infor­ma­tion about indi­vid­ual users to third par­ties who pro­vide ser­vices to ICT Trends. These third par­ties pro­vide a vari­ety of ser­vices to us, includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, ver­i­fy­ing credit card infor­ma­tion, ful­fill­ing orders via courier deliv­ery, pro­cess­ing credit card trans­ac­tions, and dis­burs­ing pay­ments to sell­ers. In addi­tion, these ser­vices may include enhanc­ing the infor­ma­tion ICT Trends col­lects about its customers.

Busi­ness Tran­si­tions:
In the event ICT Trends goes through a busi­ness tran­si­tion, such as a merger, an acqui­si­tion by another com­pany, or a sale of all or a por­tion of its assets, users’ per­sonal infor­ma­tion will, in most instances, be part of the assets trans­ferred. Users will be noti­fied via promi­nent notice on our Site for 30 days after a change of own­er­ship or con­trol of their per­sonal infor­ma­tion, if per­sonal infor­ma­tion will be used con­trary to this pol­icy. If as a result of the busi­ness tran­si­tion, the users’ Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion will be used in a man­ner dif­fer­ent from that stated at the time of col­lec­tion, users will be given the option to con­tinue shar­ing their infor­ma­tion con­sis­tent with our noti­fi­ca­tion of changes sec­tion. How­ever, noth­ing in this Pri­vacy Pol­icy is intended to inter­fere with the abil­ity of ICT Trends to trans­fer all or part of its busi­ness and/or assets (includ­ing the Site), for any pur­poses, with­out any lim­i­ta­tion what­so­ever. ICT Trends specif­i­cally reserves the right to trans­fer or share a copy of Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Infor­ma­tion col­lected from its Site to the buyer of that por­tion of its busi­ness relat­ing to that information.

Exter­nal Links
The Site con­tains links to other web­sites main­tained by third par­ties. Please be aware that ICT Trends exer­cises no con­trol over linked sites and is not respon­si­ble for the pri­vacy prac­tices or the con­tent of such sites. Each linked site main­tains its own inde­pen­dent pri­vacy and data col­lec­tion poli­cies and pro­ce­dures, and you are encour­aged to view the pri­vacy poli­cies of these other sites before pro­vid­ing any per­sonal information.

Changes in this Pri­vacy Statement

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, by e-mail, or by means of a notice on our home page.

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 the changes are sig­nif­i­cant, we will pro­vide a more promi­nent notice (includ­ing, for cer­tain ser­vices, email noti­fi­ca­tion of Pri­vacy Pol­icy changes). 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.

Admin­is­tra­tor

ICT Trends

shkhanal@gmail.com

http://www.icttrends.com