To maintain your privacy and secure your personal data, we give due importance to transparency about how your data is collected, used and shared by us.
Hookupindia.in is a social networking cum advertising platform that offers focused advertising services for the purpose of matchmaking ("Service"). In order to provide the services, we need certain personal information from you which is displayed on the website/mobile application on your profile to find the perfect match for you. You agree to allow us to collect, process, and share of your personal details or information in order to provide the service.
We can track and collect the information about your activity on our portal, such as date and time you sign in, features you've been using or prefer to use, item you search, clicks and pages visited by you on our portal, your interaction with other members including messages exchanged.
We can track & collect information about your device(s) such as IP address, device ID, device type, device-specification and application settings, application error reports, browser type and version, operating system of your device, cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser.
We require SMS permission for authenticating and allowing transactions via OTP, sent by the Payment Gateway for verification.
Additionally, to the information provided by you directly, we receive information about you from other sources, such as:
You have a choice to use your social media login (such as Facebook Login) to create and log into your hookupidia.in account. This saves you from remembering one more login credentials. It decreases the chance of missing login credentials and provides you an option to you to share some information from your social media account with us.
We use the information collected on our portal in the following ways:
Except where you are expressly informed on the website/mobile application or as described in this privacy policy we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information.
we only publish the information shared by you with other users/members to provide the services. The information so published on our portal are provided by you and be cautious as what you share with other users/members. You can always manage your privacy settings by visiting the "setting/privacy option" page.
We can use the third party service providers to provide website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, payment processing, analysis and other services for us, which may require them to access or use information about you. If a service provider needs to access or use information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under close instruction from us, including policies and procedures is designed to protect your information. All of our service providers and partners agree to the strict confidentiality obligations.
We can disclose your personally identifiable information as required by the law and when we believe that disclosure is important to protect our rights, other members interest and protection and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website/Mobile Application.
You have been provided with tools to manage your information. You have the rights to access, rectify, or update your personal data that you shared with us and that is related with your Hookupindia.in account directly by logging into your account.
In addition to abovementioned privacy control, a member from EU, UK and California have the following rights.
Also, we may not be able to act upon certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore. For instance, we cannot provide our service to you, if we do not have your date of birth/gender/contact details.
For the protection of all our users, we may require your proof of identity to proceed with your requests.
While we have implemented safety measures to protect your data, no security system is 100% secure and due to the obvious nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our server, is absolutely safe from intrusion by hackers. When our registration/order process asks you to provide sensitive information (such as a credit card number), such information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry. We follow generally accepted industry standards to safeguard the personal information provided to us by our users. All your personal data, not just your sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted to our offices only. Only employees who need the data to perform a specific authorized job are allowed to access the personally identifiable data.
If you have any queries about the security of your data at our website, you are requested to email us.
We retain your personal data only as long as you use our service and also as permitted/required by applicable law. In practice, we delete or remove your information upon deletion of your account, unless the same is required for to comply with legal obligations/fraud prevention, we take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our website or our users/members, to resolve any dispute, and to enforce our agreements, to support our business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our services. We retain information for providing superior services, and we only use the information to analyze about the usage of our services, not to specifically analyze the personally identifiable characteristics about you.
We along with our third-party partners, such as our advertising and analytics partners, use various technologies and methods to collect your information, such as cookies and web beacons etc. to identify our user behavior.
We collect information on global level and primarily store that information in India and other jurisdiction. We may transfer, process or store your information outside of your country of your residence, to wherever we or our third-party service providers operate for the purpose of providing you the better services. Data collected within the European Economic Area ("EEA") may, for example, be transferred to countries outside of the EEA for the purposes as described in our policy. Whenever we transfer your data, we take required steps to safeguard it and it is done with standard contractual data protection.
If we make a significant change to our privacy policy, we will send an email notification about the updates so that you are always aware of what information we are gathering, how we are utilizing it, and under what circumstances, if any, we can disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable data in a manner substantially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will inform you by way of an email. We will give you an option as to whether or not we can use information in this different manner and act accordingly.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this website/mobile application, or your dealings with this website, you are requested to email us.