This section of Aryashaadi.com is an online matrimonial service designed to provide an easy way for our members to meet each other on the Web. To accomplish this, our members create their own unique profiles and our matching technology provides them matches based on their pre-selected criteria. In order to do this, we must ask for certain personal information. None of the information we gather can be used by the public (visitors, other members, or anyone not employed by Aryashaadi.com or the financial institutions used to process membership charges) to identify specific individuals.

We are a membership-based service. We collect credit card, address, or bank information only from those who choose to join. All visitors to our site may browse the site, search the ads and view any articles or features our site has to offer without entering any personal information.

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Aryashaadi.com gathers two types of information: information users submit to us and information not directly submitted by users.

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There are two types of user-submitted information we collect: Public and Private. We define Public information as personal information that may be displayed on the site, such as gender, age and height, but cannot be linked to a particular user. Private information is defined as any information that allows others to contact a user other than through Aryashaadi.com or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site.

PUBLIC: To accomplish our goal of bringing compatible people together, we must gather personal information, which may or may not include: customer-specified Aryashaadi.com username, gender, age, religion, income range, occupation, preference/lifestyle information and general geographic location.

PRIVATE: This information is gathered from members and guests who apply for the various services our site offers. This information includes, but is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, credit card number or checking account information for payment, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and telephone number.

CONTESTS & SURVEYS: From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, and age).

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The Affiliate Partner program is a vehicle for other relationship-based sites to link to the Aryashaadi.com site. No personal member information is exchanged with the Affiliate Partner.

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GENERAL: We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general management of Aryashaadi.com.

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Except where you are expressly informed otherwise or as described immediately below, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information except to the financial institution that processes your credit card or check transaction unless required by law or for the protection of your membership.

If you register with Aryashaadi.com through one of our co-branded versions, your registration and profile information may be shared with the co-branding partner solely for the purpose of fulfilling the services provided by the co-branded site and any related promotional offers. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of the co-branded partner for questions about their use of your personally identifiable information and how you can modify or delete it.

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This site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Aryashaadi.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

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Aryashaadi.com uses cookies to deliver the various services and to keep track of your personal preference. A cookie is a small text file that can be entered into the memory of your browser to help a web site recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that allows Internet services to make content improvements and targeted advertising.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers contain a function that allows a user to deny the cookie feature. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Please note that the use of cookies is a necessary part of the Aryashaadi.com technology and are necessary if you wish to access Aryashaadi.com. Disabling the cookie feature on your browser or deleting cookie files from your computer may render you unable to access certain features on Aryashaadi.com and participate in its services. Cookies may also be necessary to provide the user with certain features such as customized delivery of information.

Aryashaadi.com may use cookies to provide the services, to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit different pages on our site, and for other purposes. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user!

Please note that cookies are used only to recollect information sent to your computer from Aryashaadi.com. We CANNOT access any information not sent by Aryashaadi.com.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

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Aryashaadi.com gives users several options for modifying or removing their information from our database please visit the Member's Area or contact us.

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If we change our privacy policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner, and we will then use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

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Aryashaadi.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order process may ask users to enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example a billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us.

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Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the email.

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If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us by sending email to aryashaadi@yahoo.com.

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