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Welcome to Oli Network. All Products and Services on the Oli Network (as defined in our Terms and Conditions) are made available subject to this Privacy Policy. By using our Products and Services, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy or any other privacy or data collection policy applicable to any individual Oli Web site and to receive any required legal notices regarding our privacy practices through the continuous posting of a clear and conspicuous link to the current version of this Privacy Policy throughout the Oli Network near the bottom of most pages. If you become an inactive user, we will adhere to the policies and practices as described in this Privacy Policy, which may be revised from time to time.
The Oli Network Privacy Policy discloses our privacy practices and contains detailed information about the following:
- What information of yours does the Oli Network collect?
- What organization is collecting the information?
- What are "cookies" and how does Oli use them?
- What kinds of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
1. What information of yours does the Oli Network collect?
Our goal is to become your favorite Internet destination by providing the information, services, and product offerings that are most relevant to you. To achieve this goal, the Oli Network must collect information so we can understand what makes you different from its millions of other unique users. While you are not required to register for any services on the Oli Network, some Products and Services may not function properly or may not be accessible unless you do.
Information collected online is usually defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable.
- Anonymous information refers to data that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. For example, Oli collects some information each time a visitor comes to a Oli Network site so we can improve the overall quality of the visitor's online experience. Oli collects the visitor's IP address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from satyam.com or dishnet.com), referral data (e.g., the Internet address of the last Web page visited by a user before clicking over to a Oli Network site), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Internet Explorer browser on a PC platform). You do not have to register with the Oli Network before we can collect this anonymous information.
- Personally identifiable information refers to data that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name and postal address, which may be collected in addition to the anonymous data described above. Oli collects personal information in the following ways from different parts of its network of Web sites:
- Company or Business details
Oli Network collects company or Business details through online forms. The information collected are name, address, telphone numbers, fax, mobile, email, web site, product or services, picture and category of their business. These information are verified with the authorized telphone directory or by telephoning the concerned business. These informations are used for listing effective communication links to the business. These are also used for narrowing down the search for a business in a particular category or products and services.
- Customer Registration
When you register to use one or more sites on the Oli Network, you provide Oli with your name, postal address, PIN Code, email address, telephone number, mobile, date of birth, gender and Occupation. While not all of this data is required for our services to function, we are better able to customize your experience if you volunteer complete an accurate information. Users who complete the registration process are given a Oli Network ID and which can be used for placement of all advertisements across Oli Network.
2. What organization is collecting the information?
When you register for a service within the Oli Network, that information is generally collected and maintained solely by the Oli Network unless specifically stated otherwise at the point of collection. If data is collected and/or maintained by any company other than Oli, we will tell you at the point of collection. If you do not want to share your information with that company, you can choose not to use that service.
3. What are "cookies" and how does Oli use them?
In addition to the personally identifiable information that Oli actively collects when you register, we also collect anonymous information passively using cookies. This technology plays an important role in making the Internet work, but there is much confusion among Internet users about what cookies are and how they are used.
A cookie is a small text file about 1 KB containing a unique identification that is transferred from a Web site to the hard drive of your computer so that the site administrator may identify your computer and passively track its activities on the Web site. The cookie set in your hard drive can not be read by any other web site.
Cookies allow Oli to automatically remember your Web browsing preferences when you visit our Network of Web sites. To help serve you better, Oli generally uses cookies to
- Allow us to deliver products and services more efficiently. By storing certain registration and preference information on cookies or associating cookies with registration, preference or profile information stored on our computers, we can deliver products and services that use such information more quickly and efficiently for more users. This information is normally saved in an encrypted form that only Oli can interpret.
- Prevent others from using your account. On Oli Network sites, cookies help us efficiently determine that only one user is logged on under the same member name at a time.
- Measure statistics such as audience size and traffic patterns. This information is only collected in aggregate form and will not be linked to your personally identifiable information.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and they are currently used on most major Web sites. It is possible to adjust your Web browser preferences to alert you when a cookie is sent to your hard drive, or to refuse cookies altogether. While Oli does not require you to use cookies, keep in mind that certain sites and services will not function properly if you set your browser to refuse all cookies.
Without cookies, it would be difficult for Oli to know which services have a larger audience than others. Tracking audience size helps us to better understand when to launch new services and enhance the current offerings.
4. What kinds of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
The Oli Network has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control. Oli uses physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect any personally identifiable data stored on its computers. Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide us.
While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we take many precautions to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
You are ultimately responsible for the security of your Oli Network ID and password. Please take care when using and storing them. Oli recommends that you do not divulge your password to anyone. You should log out of your browser at the end of each computer session to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence, especially if several people have access to your personal computer or you are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Updates
The Oli Network will update this policy from time to time so please check back periodically. When such changes occur, you will see the word "Updated" next to the Privacy Policy link on the front page of each site on the Oli Network. 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 prominently post such changes prior to implementing them.
Last updated September 8, 2002.
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