MERATIFFIN IS NOT RESPONSIBLE, NOR DOES MERATIFFIN REGULATE, PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED BY ITS CUSTOMERS OR END USERS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR SERVICES THROUGH THE MERATIFFIN SERVICE. SUCH COLLECTION IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COLLECTOR, BE IT AN END USER OR CUSTOMER, AND IS GOVERNED BY THE POLICIES SET FORTH BY SUCH COLLECTOR. BY YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE YOU AGREE TO HOLD MERATIFFIN HARMLESS FROM ALL POTENTIAL COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY ANY CUSTOMER OR USER OF THE SERVICE OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF MERATIFFIN.
2. How and When Does the Company Use Non-Public Personal Information?
When you visit our Website or App, we may gather information about the use of your computer that we aggregate with similar information collected from other visitor's computers, for statistical and other purposes (see “Aggregate Information” described in Section 6 below). Please note that when you leave this Site, whether via a link provided by us or otherwise, you may enter a site owned and controlled by a third party (“Third Party Sites”). Accordingly, this policy does not apply to any information that you share on Third Party Sites. Before disclosing information, you should verify that you know the identity of the party to whom you are making a disclosure and their privacy policy that applies to the treatment of your information. We may occasionally contact you, mostly by email, to notify you of information that might affect your event experience, cancellations, or errors in your order. Additionally, we may contact you regarding offerings of future events, products, or services that may be of interest to you. You can unsubscribe at any time by logging in to your account. In certain instances, you may consent to share personal information via an “opt-in” or “opt-out” mechanism under the Account Preferences section of Your Account. Only upon receiving your consent via such mechanism, MERATIFFIN will disclose your personal information to third parties. MERATIFFIN may share personal information to trusted third parties, affiliates, or agents who assist us in operating our Site and App, conducting our business, or the provision of the Services to you. These third parties or agents may use your personal information only to the extent necessary to perform the services they agreed to provide to MERATIFFIN, and are expected to provide a comparable level of protection and confidentiality of your personal information.
MERATIFFIN uses Razorpay or another third-party service provider to manage credit card processing. To facilitate MERATIFFIN’s global operations, we may transfer and access Customers Data and personal information from around the world, including the Republic of India. This Privacy Statement will be in force even if MERATIFFIN transfers such data or information to other countries.
MERATIFFIN may release your information if, at our sole discretion, we believe the release of your personal information is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation such as ant legal proceedings,(b) disputes and difference in the eyes of law and defends the rights of MERATIFFIN, (c) protect and defend the rights, property or safety of others, or (d) to protect against any legal liability. Additionally, your personal information may be shared in the event of a business transfer with your consent.
3. Customer and Third Party Service Provider Use of Information
Services and applications provided by individual users of the MERATIFFIN Service are not subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, which means that they may use your personal information for purposes other than what is set forth within this policy. When you use an Individual User’s application, you should read and become familiar with their privacy policies of the specific user application. The Company has no control over the use of your personal information by any User or Third Party over whom we have no control or authority of and you agree that we are not liable for any use of your personal information by any such individual. If you have special preferences concerning use of your personal information by an individual user or customer you must communicate such preferences directly to them.
4. Opting-out, Correcting and Updating Your Information
MERATIFFIN utilizes Email and Phone as a vital and primary communication channel with registered users of this Site. By providing us with your Email address and phone number, you grant MERATIFFIN (and its service providers) permission to communicate with you via Email or phone for any purposes MERATIFFIN determines to be relevant to your use of their services or your relationship with MERATIFFIN including, but not limited to, system and service messages, product updates, service announcements and other marketing messages. You may opt out of receiving any marketing messages that we may send to you.
Users who do not wish to receive marketing and non-transactional Emails are requested to login in to the Account in MERATIFFIN and use Account Preferences to manage their preferences. Users experiencing any problems logging in their account online can contact MERATIFFIN at the given contact information below. Users cannot unsubscribe from system or service messages, which contain important information about service notices and responsibilities. MERATIFFIN occasionally communicates with its users via Email/Push Notifications to provide information about requested services and regarding issues related to their account.
5. How Long Is Your Personal Information Retained?
We will retain your information as long as you maintain your account is active with us.
6. What Is “Aggregate Information” And What Does the Company Do With It?
Typically, as visitors browse our App and Website, our computers automatically collect information related to how certain features of our Website are used, the geographic region our visitors are contacting us from, and how many people visit our Website at any given time. We only use this information in the aggregate, which means that we only derive meaning from the sum of all such information gathered for a period of time and accordingly, we refer to this information as “Aggregate Information”. Aggregate Information includes, but is not limited to, your computer's (i) Internet browser type (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5), (ii) IP address, (iii) resolution settings, (iv) platform type, and (v) originating URLs of referring web pages. We use Aggregate Information to (a) help diagnose problems with our computers, (b) administer our Website and App, (c) share certain generalized demographic information with Individual user or customer applications and our advertising partners about visitors of our Website, and (d) provide our advertising partners with information regarding which visitors saw and clicked on certain advertisements on our Website. Aggregate Information does not contain any personal information of any of our Website visitors.
7. What Are “Cookies”, Web Beacons, and IP Addresses, And How Does the Company Use Them?
The term “Cookie” is a nickname for files that a website's computer system can deposit onto a visitor's computer hard drive when the visitor is logged on to the website. Cookies are used to recognize a visitor's repeat visits to the website, what pages are accessed, and what functionalities are used while he or she is there. The use of cookies is commonplace on the Internet and they take up minimal room on your computer hard drive. Cookies work by assigning a number to your computer that has a specific meaning to the assigning website. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to determine the identity of any visitor. Unless you elect to provide us with information about yourself, we will not know your identity, even though our computer may have previously deposited a cookie on your computer's hard drive. In addition, you may modify your Internet browser's settings to notify you whenever any website requests to deposit a cookie on your computer's hard drive. This notification option generally gives you the opportunity to decide whether to accept or refuse a cookie before it is deposited. MERATIFFIN employs the use of cookies to enable our systems to recognize your browser, to identify how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. For example, to become a registered user of our Website and App, you must allow us to deposit a cookie on your computer's hard drive. Depending upon your browsers capabilities, you may choose to alter your browser settings to specify whether new cookies may be accepted.
Types of Cookies
Required Cookies. Required cookies enable you to navigate the Company’s Website and Apps and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Websites and Apps and using Services. If you have chosen to identify yourself, the Company uses cookies containing encrypted information to allow the Company to uniquely identify you. Each time you log into the Service, App, or Website, a cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier that is tied to your account is placed on your browser. These cookies allow the Company to uniquely identify you when you are logged into the Services and to process your online transactions and requests.
Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you and other Members and Visitors use our Website and Apps, including which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that individually identifies a Visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and remains anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Company’s Website and App functions. From time-to-time, MERATIFFIN engages third parties to track and analyze usage and volume of statistical information from visitors to the Company’s Web sites.
Functionality Cookies. Functionality cookies allow the Company’s Web sites and Apps to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as username, language, or your region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies also enable you to optimize your use of the Website, Apps, or Services after logging in. These cookies can also remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies. From time-to-time, MERATIFFIN engages third parties to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit the Company’s Web sites. MERATIFFIN sometimes uses cookies delivered by third parties to track the performance of Company advertisements. For example, these cookies remember which browsers have visited the Company’s Web sites. The information provided to third parties excludes personal information, but this information may be re-associated with personal information after the Company receives it.
MERATIFFIN also contracts with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from Web beacons (see below) on the Company’s Web sites, Apps, and Services from emails, and on third-party Web sites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time by collecting Web Site Navigational Information through automated means, including through the use of cookies. They use this information to provide advertisements about products and services customized to your interests. You may see these advertisements on other Web sites too. This process also helps us validate the effectiveness of our marketing strategies.
IP Addresses
When you visit the MERATIFFIN App, Web sites, or utilize our Services, the Company collects your Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses to track and aggregate non-personal information. MERATIFFIN also collects IP addresses from Customers when they log into the Services as part of the Company’s “Identity Confirmation” and “IP Range Restrictions” security features.
8. Data Quality and Security Statement
MERATIFFIN takes reasonable security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, and disclosure of data. Our electronic security measures are complemented by the physical security of our facilities and limited access to certain critical areas, such as our computer locations. Access and use of personal information is restricted to employees, third parties or agents on a need to know basis only. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations with penalties specified for any breach of such obligations, and our management team and its engineers regularly review and update the integrity of this Site and the security of your Information. However, because of the increasing sophistication of computer hackers and others who would seek to invade our computer systems for the purpose of stealing information, damaging our systems or denying our systems' ability to operate effectively to safeguard personal and financial information as intended, we make no guarantees as to the security of personal or financial information in our possession or the impenetrability of our computer systems under unusual circumstances or our computer system's resilience to future sophisticated attacks. MERATIFFIN also, cannot safeguard any data stored on your own personal computer, or any public computer upon which you might elect to access this Site.
9. Public forums, refer a friend, and customer testimonials
MERATIFFIN, or its Customers, may provide bulletin boards, forums, blogs, or chat rooms on the Company’s Web sites or App. Any personal information you choose to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. MERATIFFIN is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit on these forums.
Customers and Visitors may elect to use the Company’s referral program to inform friends about the Company’s Web sites and App. When using the referral program, the Company requests the friend’s name and email address. MERATIFFIN will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Company’s Web sites or download the App. MERATIFFIN does not store this information.
MERATIFFIN posts a list of Customers and testimonials on the Company’s Web sites that contain information such as Customer names and titles.
10. When Might Information Be Disclosed As A Matter Of Law?
We may disclose nonpublic personal information to unrelated parties in special cases when we have reason to believe that that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against a person or persons who may be causing injury to, or interference with, the rights or property of the Company Services (including our Websites and Apps), computer users accessing our Website, or any third party. In addition, we may disclose information about individuals who access our Website to law enforcement agencies, judicial or government authorities, or to other individuals or entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes.
11. Links To / From Other Sites and Apps
The Service, our customer or individual user services or applications may contain links to other Internet websites which we do not operate and, conversely, other Internet websites may contain links to our Website. We are not aware of and are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices, or content of such other external websites. We recommend visitors to read and become familiar with the privacy policies maintained by such other websites.
12. Information of Minors & Children.
We do not target our App or Website or our products or merchandise for sale to children, and our Website does not seek to collect contact information from children under the age of 18. However, should we become aware that a child under the age of 18 has provided us with personal information; MERATIFFIN will take the necessary steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
13. Terms of Use
Please also refer to our Terms of Use to view the terms and conditions governing the use of the MERATIFFIN Services.
14. Changes to Privacy Policy.
MERATIFFIN reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your personal information. In the event that MERATIFFIN, at its sole discretion, determines that updates to the Privacy Policy constitute a material change, we may inform you of such changes in a notice published via the Services or send an email to the email address associated with your User account. Notwithstanding the foregoing, MERATIFFIN is under no obligation to notify a User regarding changes to this policy. Users should periodically visit this page to review the then current Policy to which you are bound.