Privacy Policy Collection of information When you visit our website, we do not collect personally identifiable
information about you, except when you specifically and knowingly provide it.
For instance, while many areas of our website are free to all users, we do
require registration for some services such as Posting Trade Leads. If you
decide to register for these services, or if you request information from us,
you will be asked to provide certain information and details, including your
name, company, title, country and e-mail address. The information you provide
helps us create customized content like Product Search. You will receive
information only for the products that interest you.
Our system also
logs some basic and generic information about your computer, including its:
• IP address (your computer's unique
signature)
• Operating system (e.g.
Windows NT)
• Browser software (e.g.
Netscape Navigator)
We use this information about your computer
to perform routine web site maintenance and to generate various aggregate
reports for internal analysis, research and monitoring purposes, and to help us
develop and enhance our web site and services for our users.
Global Sources respects your privacy
We will not sell, trade or rent personally identifiable information about our
users to other parties not dealing in placement, without our
users' consent.
We do, however, share certain aggregate
information about our users with advertisers, i.e. XX% of site visitors is from
Asia. This enables us
to constantly build a large database of products and suppliers, giving you wider
sourcing options also. We may sell, trade or rent personally identifiable
information about our users only to person /company /corporate in Agro Industry
only, enabling the industry to interact with each other with a huge Details
database about each other
We also reserve the right to disclose user
information in special cases. For example, when we have reason to believe that
such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be infringing (or threatening to infringe) or who may otherwise
be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or
unintentionally), our title, rights, interests or property, or those of other
web site users, or of anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We
also reserve the right to disclose, without notice to you, personal information
in response to a subpoena or other judicial order or when we believe in good
faith that such disclosure is required by any law, regulation or listing
requirement, or by any stock/securities exchange, governmental or regulatory
authority.
The Information we collect
Registration Information: At
the time you register to become a Registered User of the Site, you will be asked
to complete a registration form which requires you provide information such as
your name, address, phone/fax number, email address and other personal
information as well as information about your business ("Registration Information.")
Publishing Information: If you
submit any information to SKHRC.com to be published on the Site through the
publishing tools, including but not limited to Company Profile, Product Catalog,
Trade Leads and any discussion forum, then you are deemed to have given consent
to the publication of such information ("Publishing Information").
Payment Information: If you
establish a credit account with us or our providers or if you purchase a product
or service from SKHRC.com or a vendor available through SKHRC.com, we may
collect additional information, including billing information, credit card
numbers and expiration dates and tracking information from cheques or money
orders ("Payment
Information").
Statistical Information: In
addition, we gather aggregate statistical information about our Site and Users,
such as IP addresses, browser software, operating system, pages viewed, number
of sessions, unique visitors and so forth. ("Statistical Information").
Registration Information:
Publishing Information, Payment Information, Statistical Information and any
information we may collect from you through the use of cookies (see Section 5
below), or any other means, shall collectively be referred to as "Collected Information".
Use
of information
We may use the information you provide to
respond to your requests for additional information, to contact you, if
necessary, to service your account or for other administrative purposes. We may
also access your information to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot problems, to
enforce agreements between us, or for marketing purposes. In addition, for
certain transactions, our system may use your transaction details to automate
and to streamline your transaction by checking for electronic data compliance,
providing reporting features, and transferring data from previous forms to those
of the current transaction.
We may also use the information you provide
for certain mailing initiatives. For example, you may sometimes receive an
invitation to answer surveys or try out new products and services from Global
Sources. Your feedback helps us develop new products and services based on your
needs.
You always have a choice about receiving
mailings, surveys or information about products and services from us. Each
e-mail you receive has an "Unsubscribe" option.
General: We use your Collected
Information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically
analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to
customize our Site's content, layout and service specifically for you. We may
use your Collected Information to service your Account with us, including but
not limited to investigating problems, resolving disputes and enforcing
agreements with us. We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any
personally-identifying information of our Users. We may share certain aggregate
information based on analysis of Collected Information with our partners,
customers, advertisers or potential Users. We may use your Collected Information
to execute marketing campaigns, promotions or advertising messages on behalf of
third parties; however, in these circumstances, your Collected Information will
not be disclosed to such third parties unless you respond to the marketing,
promotion or advertising message.
Registration Information: We may
use your Registration Information to provide services that you request or to
contact you regarding additional services about which SKHRC.com determines
that you might be interested. Specifically, we may use your email address,
mailing address, phone number or fax number to contact you regarding notices,
surveys, product alerts, new service or product offerings and communications
relevant to your use of our Site. We may generate reports and analysis based on
the Registration Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing
decisions.
Publishing Information: All of your
Publishing Information will be publicly available on the Site and therefore
accessible by any internet user. Any Publishing Information that you disclose to
SKHRC.com becomes public information and you relinquish any proprietary rights
(including but not limited to the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in
such information. You should exercise caution when deciding to include personal
or proprietary information in the Publishing Information that you submit to us.
Payment Information: SKHRC.com
will share your Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to the
transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed. In addition,
SKHRC.com may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness and,
in the process of such determination, SKHRC.com may make such Payment
Information available to banks or credit agencies. Any credit card information
that you provide through the Site is directly submitted to a payment server of
the credit card processing bank. SKHRC.com does not maintain electronic or
physical copies of your credit card information. While SKHRC.com has in place
up-to-date technology and internal procedures to guard your Payment Information
against intruders, there is no guarantee that such technology or procedure can
eliminate all of the risks of theft, loss or mis-use. SKHRC.com shall not be
liable to you or any other person for any damages that might result from
unauthorized use, publication, disclosure or any other mis-use of Payment
Information, including credit card information.
Statistical Information: We use
Statistical Information to help diagnose problems with and maintain our computer
servers, to manage our Site, and to enhance our Site and services based on the
usage pattern data we receive. We may generate reports and analysis based on the
Statistical Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing
decisions. We may provide Statistical Information to third parties, but when we
do so, we do not provide personally-identifying information without your
permission
Information relating to community
members
For those services which require
registration, you will be asked to provide certain personal and business
information. Upon registration, you will be enrolled as a member of our global
community network. As a community member, you have the right to opt-out of being
listed in our membership directory, which only other members and our relevant
partners will be able to access.
Corrections of inaccuracies
We are committed to providing reasonable and practical access to you to
identify and to correct any inaccuracies in or to update the information you may
provide. Our users who have provided information on our web site can contact our
Customer Services Department at contactus@skhrc.com or use the relevant
automated updating system (where applicable) to make corrections or updates.
Minors
The Site and its contents are not intended
to be targeted to minors under applicable law and we do not intend to sell any
of our products or services to minors. However, we have no way of distinguishing
the age of individuals who access our Site and so we carry out the same Privacy
Policy for individuals of all ages. If a minor has provided us with personal
information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should
contact us to remove the information
Security Measures
We employ commercially reasonable security
methods to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure
correct use of information.
As a
Registered User, your Registration Information, Publishing Information and
Payment Information (if any) can be viewed and edited through your Account which
is protected by Password. We recommend that you do not divulge your Password to
anyone. Our personnel will never ask you for your Password in an unsolicited
phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. If you share a computer with others, you
should not choose to save your log-in information (e.g., User ID and Password)
on the computer. Remember to sign out of your Account and close your browser
window when you have finished your session.
No data transmission over the Internet or
any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secured. As a result,
while we try to protect your information, no web site or company, including
ourselves, can absolutely ensure or guarantee the security of any information
you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
Co-branded and alliance relationships
We have established relationships with
other parties on the Internet to offer you the benefit of other products and
services which we ourselves do not offer. We offer you access to these other
parties either through the use of hyperlinks to their sites from our site, or
through offering "co-branded" sites in which both ourselves and these other
parties share the same URL, domain name or pages within a domain name on the
Internet. Generally, we do not own the co-branded and alliance parties and we do
not control how they use any information you supply them. It is therefore
important that you understand their privacy policy and/or terms of use if you
visit and use their sites.
Third party service providers
You may notice that some services available through our website are "Powered
by" or "Provided by" other third party content or technology service providers.
We contract with these third party providers to help us provide you with better
value and service. To fully access and use such services, you may sometimes be
required to register for them or to otherwise provide certain information and
data. In order to provide you with the services in question, such information
and data may have to be made available to the third party provider, who may then
process or update such information and data and transmit them back to us. We are
highly selective in choosing these third party providers, and they are allowed
to use your information and data only for the purpose of and in connection with
providing the services which we have contracted with them to provide.
Important Notice:
Although we adhere to industry standard practices to protect your personal
information and confidential data, we cannot ensure that such information and
data will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy
Policy.
COOKIES
What
is a cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string of
information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your
computer's hard disk, so as to help the website remember who you are, amongst
other things.
A cookie will typically contain the name of
the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a
value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Use
of cookies on our website
Cookies help us to arrange content to
match your preferred interests more quickly, and to make our website more
convenient and useful to you. Most major websites use cookies.
Cookies cannot
be used by themselves to identify you. Nor will acceptance of cookies on our
website result in you receiving any e-mail from us. However, when you signed up
for our services, you may have chosen to receive promotional or other types of
e-mails from us.
Two
types of cookies are used on our website:
Session Cookies: These are temporary
cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the
website.
Persistent Cookies: These are stored in
your computer and remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer. The
storage period will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.
How and why we use cookies on our website
and what information we collect
Session Cookies:
• | To allow you to access stored information
within a registration process. |
• | To allow you to carry information across
pages of our website and avoid you having to re-enter information. For example,
to help automatically fill in your inquiry or other forms with your contact and
other applicable details. |
• | To save or record your user ID and/or
password (at your option), so that you do not have to repeatedly log-in when you
visit our website. |
• | To allow you to maintain an inquiry basket,
and to help us determine which of our active supplier community members you are
addressing your inquiries to. |
• | To identify you as a member, customer or
referred user of an alliance or business partner, when you log-in using a unique
reference code previously issued to you. |
• | To determine if you have already visited or
logged-in to our website. |
• | To record the category or type of user to
which you belong, based upon the services for which you have registered,
subscribed or paid for. |
• | To determine which of our relevant computer
servers you will be directed to. |
• | To ensure that you do not receive "pop-up"
banners or advertisements, if you have opted not to receive such "pop-ups"
during the session. |
• | To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics
that allow us to understand how users use our website and to help us improve the
structure, services and features of our website. You will not be personally
identified in this way. |
Persistent Cookies:
• | To help us recognize you as a unique visitor
when you return to our website, for trend reports and analysis, or to allow us
to tailor content to match your preferred interests, or to avoid or minimize
showing you the same content repeatedly. |
• | To save or record your user ID and/or
password (at your option), so that you do not have to repeatedly log-in when you
visit our website. |
• | To help our system identify who you are, if
you have opted to "remember me" during the log-in process. |
• | To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics
that allow us to understand how users use our website and to help us improve the
structure, services and features of our website. You will not be personally
identified in this way. |
• | Within research surveys, to ensure you are
not invited to complete a questionnaire too often, or after you have already
done so. |
Third
Party Cookies:
• | Third parties serve cookies through this
website. These are used for counting the number of anonymous users referred to
our website by the third parties. These cookies do not carry any personally
identifiable information and are merely used to track the effectiveness of a
particular campaign. |
Web
Beacons
Some pages on our website may contain
images known as "web beacons" (also known as "clear gifs"), some of which may be
served by third parties. They allow us to count users who have viewed these
pages. Web beacons collect only limited information, including a cookie number,
time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web
beacon resides. These web beacons do not carry any personally identifiable
information and are merely used to track the effectiveness of a particular
campaign.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
There are a number of ways to manage your
cookies. You can decide to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings
in your browser. You can also set-up your browser to warn you every time a
cookie is sent, so that you can review the cookie before you decide whether or
not to accept it.
For example, if you are using Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.5 or earlier:
• | Click on "Internet Options" from the "Tools"
menu in your browser (older versions may have this option under the "View" menu
instead). |
• | Select the "Security" tab. |
• | Click the web content zone which you want,
and then click "Custom Level". |
• | Under "Cookies", select the options you
want, click "OK", and then click "OK". |
If you are using Netscape version 6:
• | Go to "Edit" in the menu, and click on
"Preferences". |
• | Click on "Advanced" and then select the
"Cookies" field. |
• | Choose your preferred cookies option by
checking the appropriate box. |
• | Click on "OK" to close the box and save your
changes. |
If you are using other versions or other
browser software, then you can select "cookies" from the "Help" function in your
browser for information on how to manage your cookies settings.
If you use different computers in different
locations to access our website, you will need to ensure that each browser is
adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
Some of our site services or features
require cookies. If you disable or do not accept cookies on our website, you may
not be able to use, access or participate in such site services or features
fully or at all.
Deleting Cookies
You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of
your browser.
For example, if you are using Microsoft
Internet Explorer version 5.5 or earlier:
• | Click on "Internet Options" from the "Tools"
menu in your browser (older versions may have this option under the "View" menu
instead). |
• | Under the "General" tab, click on the
"Settings..." button. |
• | In the "Settings" box, click on the "View
Files..." button at the bottom. |
• | You will now see a list of all the temporary
files that Internet Explorer has stored in your computer for quick access. This
is also where all cookies are stored. |
• | Select the cookie file(s) which you wish to
delete, then hit the "Delete" button on your keyboard. Press "Yes" at the prompt
to confirm your deletion. |
If you are using Netscape version 6:
• | Click on "Preferences" from the "Edit"
menu. |
• | Under the "Advanced" tab, go to the
"Cookies" option, then click on the "View Stored Cookies"
button. |
• | A "Cookie Manager" box will appear. Scroll
down to review and select the cookie file(s) which you wish to delete, then
click "Remove Cookie". You can also click on the "Remove All Cookies" button to
clear all cookies stored in your computer. |
• | Click "OK", and "OK" again, to close the
boxes and save your changes. |
If
you are using other versions or other browser software, then you can select
"cookies" from the "Help" function in your browser for information on where to
find your cookie folder to delete your cookies.
Our
Contact Information
If you have any queries, comments or
concerns, or require any help on cookie-related matters, please feel free to
contact us at: contactus@SKHRC.com or Customer
Services, Vikas Puri, New Delhi - 110018