Privacy Policy
1) THE AGREEMENT
It is Index Startup's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to Index Startup (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "Index Startup"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
2) Website Visitors
- Like most website operators, Index Startup collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Index Startup's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Index Startup's visitors use its website. From time to time, Index Startup may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
- Index Startup also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Index Startup only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
3) Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
- Certain visitors to Index Startup's websites choose to interact with Index Startup in ways that require Index Startup to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Index Startup gathers depend on the nature of the interaction.
4) Age Restriction
- You must be at least 18 (eighteen) years of age to use this Website or any Services contained herein. By using this Website, You represent and warrant that You are at least 18 years of age and may legally agree to this Agreement. The Company assumes no responsibility or liability for any misrepresentation of Your age.
5) Intellectual Property
- You agree that the Website and all Services provided by the Company are the property of the Company, including all copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents and other intellectual property ("Company IP"). You agree that the Company owns all right, title and interest in and to the Company IP and that You will not use the Company IP for any unlawful or infringing purpose. You agree not to reproduce or distribute the Company IP in any way, including electronically or via registration of any new trademarks, trade names, service marks or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), without express written permission from the Company.
6) User Obligations
- As a user of the Website or Services, You may be asked to register with Us. When you do so, you will choose a user identifier, which may be Your email address or another term, as well as a password. You may also provide personal information, including, but not limited to, Your name. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of this information. This identifying information will enable you to use the Website and Services. You must not share such identifying information with any third party and if You discover that Your identifying information has been compromised, You agree to notify Us immediately in writing. An email notification will suffice. You are responsible for maintaining the safety and security of Your identifying information as well as keeping Us apprised of any changes to Your identifying information. Providing false or inaccurate information, or using the Website or Services to further fraud or unlawful activity is grounds for immediate termination of this Agreement.
7) Security
- The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8) Advertisements
- Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Index Startup and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
9) Links To External Sites
- Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit.
- We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
10) Index Startup uses Google AdWords for remarketing
- Index Startup uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.
- You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
11) Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
- Index Startup discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Index Startup's behalf or to provide services available at Index Startup's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Index Startup's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Index Startup will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Index Startup discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Index Startup believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Index Startup, third parties or the public at large.
- If you are a registered user of http://indexstartup.com and have supplied your email address, Index Startup may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Index Startup and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Index Startup takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
12) Aggregated Statistics
- Index Startup may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Index Startup may display this information publicly or provide it to others.
- However, Index Startup does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
13) Cookies
- To enrich and perfect your online experience, Index Startup uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
- A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Index Startup uses cookies to help Index Startup identify and track visitors, their usage of http://indexstartup.com, and their website access preferences. Index Startup visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Index Startup's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Index Startup's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
- By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Index Startup's use of cookies.
14) Privacy Policy Changes
- Although most changes are likely to be minor, Index Startup may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Index Startup's sole discretion. Index Startup encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.