A. Personal Data Protection Act
Data privacy is important to MeddyConnect, and when it comes to your data, we’re committed to
protecting it and providing transparency about the information we collect from you and how we use
it. This Privacy Policy describes MeddyConnect's privacy practices in relation to the use of the
Websites, and the related applications and services offered by MeddyConnect (collectively, the
“Services”), as well as individuals’ choices regarding use, access and correction of personal
information. In this Privacy Policy, the terms “MeddyConnect,” “we”, “our” and “us” refer to
Pem Zem Infotech Private Limited. doing business as MeddyConnect. This policy covers the MeddyConnect
website meddyconnect.com and all the subdomains under meddyconnect.com.
This Privacy Policy is designed to let you know the information we collect about you on our websites
(the “Websites”), including from individuals who register to use the MeddyConnect online platform or
mobile application. The terms and conditions applicable to our Services are set forth in our
Terms and Conditions.
B. Type of Information Collected:
When you visit the Platform, we may collect certain non-personal information such as your Internet
Protocol ("IP") address, operating system, browser type, and Internet service provider. This type of
information does not identify you personally. When you register with the Platform, we may also
collect personal information that you provide such as your name, mailing address, email address,
phone/mobile number, home country, zip code, and certain other information in the event you log in
via Facebook depending on your privacy settings including but not limited to your name, email
address, profile picture, list of friends, education, etc. ("Registration Information"). You have
the option of also providing to us your fax numbers, gender, age, and/or company name, career
details, award details, working hours, specialities, blog details if you choose to register with
MeddyConnect. If you provide your phone number, it may be displayed in your posting. Further, if you
have provided your phone number and posted an advertisement using your account, you agree to receive
communications on the provided phone number from our site which may include but not be limited to
automated calls or text messages. The communication may require you to confirm and verify that your
account has been used to post the relevant advertisement on the Platform. We may also collect
additional information that our users provide, such as new or deleted postings, new or deleted
comments, keyword searches, scam reports, and new contact sellers. We use a third-party payment
gateway for purchases, and other third-party companies to monitor site traffic, which may, in some
instances, store your information (see Section xxi(D) below). By using this Platform or the Service,
you consent to the collection, storage, and use of the personal information you provide for any of
the services that we offer, and you consent to our collection of any changes or updates that you may
provide to any information you provide that is collected by MeddyConnect.
By using this Platform, you consent to share your geolocation data in order to publish
information/advertisements of advertisements offered by users close to your location and vice-versa.
C. Cookies
We may use cookies to manage our users’ sessions and to store preferences, tracking information, and
language selection. Cookies may be used whether you register with us or not. "Cookies" are small
text files transferred by a web server to your hard drive and thereafter stored on your computer.
The types of information a cookie collects include the date and time you visited, your browsing
history, your preferences, and your username. In some instances, our third-party service providers
may use cookies on the Platform. We cannot control or access cookies used by third-party service
providers. This Privacy Policy covers only Cookies used by us and not any cookies used by third
parties. You have the ability to either accept or decline the use of cookies on your computer,
whether you are registered with us or not. Typically, you can configure your browser to not accept
cookies. However, declining the use of cookies may limit your access to certain features of the
Platform. For example, you may have difficulty logging in or using certain interactive features of
the Platform, such as the MeddyConnect Forum or Comments feature.
D. Third Parties
We use third-party service providers to assist us in measuring purchases and sales on our Platform
and generally improving our Platform and monitoring our users’ interests and activities. You hereby
authorize MeddyConnect and/or third-party service providers engaged by MeddyConnect to collect, use,
store, analyze, reproduce, publish, and adapt (either on its own or through a third-party service
provider) the information in relation to your use of the Platform for the purpose of data analysis
and for improving your experience on the Platform. In addition, the Platform may occasionally
contain links to Third-Party Sites or provide you with information in relation to services that you
may avail from any third parties. Information about services that you may choose to avail from these
third-party service providers may be actively provided to you by MeddyConnect in any manner
including through its various marketing and communication channels. You acknowledge that this is
solely undertaken by MeddyConnect to improve your experience in relation to the use of the Platform
and the provision of such services shall be subject to such additional terms and conditions of
MeddyConnect and/or third-party service providers. MeddyConnect may also offer for free or for a
fee, deliverables produced by third-party service providers in furtherance of any services that you
may have availed from these third-party service providers in connection with the advertisement
posted on the Platform, without any obligation (monetary or otherwise) towards you. MeddyConnect
shall not be responsible for any service availed by you from such third parties or any payment made
by you to such third parties in connection with the services. Any concern or claims in relation to
such services should be directed by you to such third parties. If you click on the links to
Third-Party Websites, you leave the Platform. We are not responsible for the content of these
Third-Party Websites or for the security of your personal information when you use the Third-Party
Websites. These third-party service providers and Third-Party Sites may have their own privacy
policies governing the storage and retention of your personal information that you may be subject
to. They may collect information such as your IP address, browser specification, or operating
system. This Privacy Policy does not govern personal information provided to, stored on, or used by
these third-party providers and Third-Party Sites. We recommend that when you enter a Third-Party
Site, you review the Third Party Site’s privacy policy as it relates to safeguarding your personal
information. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Platform.
These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone
number) about your visits to the Platform and Third-Party Websites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. On the Platform, Google, as a
third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads. Google’s use of the DoubleClick DART Cookie enables
it to serve ads to the Platform’s users based on their visit to the Platform and Third-Party
Websites. For more information on the DART Cookie see http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. You
may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by Google by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network
Privacy Policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. You may opt-out of targeting advertising
for all NAI member ad networks by visiting: http://www.networkadvertising.org/. By publishing an ad
on the Platform, you acknowledge and agree that the Content is public and accessible by any third
party and that it may appear in search engine results (such as Yahoo!, MSN, Google, Altavista, and
other search engines) and in the cache of those search engines, in feeds and Third-Party Websites
pursuant to co-branding agreements, and that it is the sole responsibility of each of those search
engines, Third-Party Websites or RSS web feed resources to update and/or to remove Content from
their indexes and their cache. You agree and acknowledge that MeddyConnect is not liable for the
information published in search results or by any Third-Party Website that carries MeddyConnect
postings.
E. How Your Information is Used
We may use the information provided by you to: (i) enforce our Terms of Use, monitor user activity,
such as keyword searches or new postings, and more effectively manage traffic on the Platform; (ii)
provide customer services, create and manage user accounts; and (iii) assist you with technical
difficulties. Also, we may share with third-party service providers certain information, such as
your browser capabilities or operating system, that we have collected in order to better understand
which advertisements and services may interest you. We may block users located in certain countries
from using the Platform. We may retain such information for as long as is required to fulfill our
business objective, even after your account is terminated.
F. Protecting Your Personal Information
You are a valued customer, and we recognize that protecting your privacy is important to you. For
this reason, we are committed to protecting the personal information you provide in a variety of
ways. We do not directly process any payments and do not store your credit card information. Secured
socket layer ("SSL") technology is used for processing payment transactions with third-party service
provider partners, such as PayU, PayPal, and RazorPay. Your Registration Information may be
protected by a unique customer password and user ID. You should not disclose your password
information to anyone and you should always remember to log off if using a shared computer. Lastly,
you may utilize the Platform as an anonymous user by not registering. We have taken certain security
protections in safeguarding your personal information. However, as with most electronic
transactions, no method is 100% safe. While we strive to use a commercially acceptable means to
protect the personal information you provide, we cannot guarantee its security. Therefore, you
acknowledge and agree that we assume no liability regarding the theft, loss, alteration or misuse of
personal or other information or Content, including, without limitation, such information that has
been provided to third parties or other users, or with regards to the failure of a third party to
abide by the agreement between us and such third party. You may participate in our Forum or utilize
our Comments feature. For postings to the Forum, your username will be posted. For postings using
the Comments feature, your name and email will only be posted if you provide it in the comment. We
strongly discourage posting any information on these features or in any Content posted by you that
you do not want others to see. You agree that you are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your username and password, and all uses of your account, whether or not you have
authorized such use.
G. Accessing and Modifying Personal Information and Communication Preferences
You may access, remove, review, and/or make changes to the personal information that you have
provided to us via the Contact Support form. You need not register in order to post or respond to
advertisements on the Platform. If you register or respond to advertisements or posts on the
Platform or post any content on the Platform, we may send you certain notifications, advertisements,
promotions, surveys, text messages, specials, and phone calls in relation to the Services.. We may
also send you any legally required notifications and certain notifications, including but not
limited to, service-related notices or notices regarding a change to any of our policies. For
example, we may send you a notice regarding server problems or scheduled maintenance to the
Platform. In order to opt-out of receiving these notices, you may need to deactivate your account.
You can opt-out of certain e-mail communications from us, including our newsletters, advice on
buying and selling on the Platform, notifications that a user has commented on your posting, and
notifications that you can refresh your posting. We will not change your preferences without your
consent. You cannot opt-out of receiving transactional communications from MeddyConnect related to
your account.
H. Disclosures
On rare occasions, we may be required to disclose your personal information due to legal or
regulatory requirements. In such instances, we reserve the right to disclose your personal
information as required in order to comply with our legal obligations, including but not limited to
complying with court orders, warrants, subpoenas, service of process requirements, or discovery
requests. We may also disclose information about our users to law enforcement officers or others, in
the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms and/or
Privacy Policy; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect
the rights, property, or personal safety of MeddyConnect, our users or the general public; or we are
in notice of any criminal activity being conducted via the Platform. You agree and acknowledge that
we may not inform you prior to or after disclosures made according to this section. If substantially
all of our assets are sold or merged into another company, the acquiring company shall be given
access to your personal information without your consent. If we sell only a part of our business,
the acquiring entity shall have access to your personal information without your consent and we may
send you a notice regarding this sale.
I. Notification of Changes
We reserve the right to change these Terms from time to time, and at our sole discretion. We may
send you a notice regarding material changes to these Terms, including the Privacy Policy or the
Platform. You should make note of the "last updated date" at the beginning of the Terms. With this
information, you should be able to identify if the Terms have been updated recently.
J. Disputes
Any disputes regarding your privacy are subject to the Terms, including but not limited to any
provisions related to indemnification, limitations on damages, and choice of law and forum.
K. How to Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact MeddyConnect via the
support@meddyconnect.com.