SANTHAI.COM PRIVACY POLICY
APRIL 18, 2007
At santhai.com we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to
all of the products, services and websites offered by santhai.com or its
subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, santhai.com's "services").
In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy
practices, we post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services
process personal information, which are accessible from the navigation bar to
the left of this notice.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us
through our website or write to support@santhai.com
Information we collect and how we use it:
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account
or provide any personal information to us, such as santhai.com Search. In order
to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of
information:
* Information you provide - When you sign up for a
santhai.com Account or other santhai.com service or promotion that requires
registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email
address and an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising
programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information which
we maintain in encrypted form on our/ shared servers. We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other
santhai.com services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we
may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
* santhai.com cookies - When you visit santhai.com, we send
one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your
computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the
quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends,
such as how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies,
but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a
cookie is being sent. However, some santhai.com features and services may not
function properly if your cookies are disabled.
* Log information - When you use santhai.com services, our
servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you
visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web
request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and
time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your
browser.
* User communications - When you send email or other
communication to santhai.com, we may retain those communications in order to
process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
* Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in
connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those
sites may be sent to santhai.com in order to deliver the service. We process
such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have
different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
* Links - santhai.com may present links in a format that
enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this
information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content
and advertising. For more information about links and redirected URLs, please
see our FAQs.
* Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and
services that are owned and operated by santhai.com. We do not exercise control
over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various
services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
santhai.com only processes personal information for the purposes described in
the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In
addition to the above, such purposes include:
* Providing our products and services to users, including the
display of customized content and advertising;
* Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain,
protect and improve our services;
* Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
* Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process personal information by
referring to the privacy notices for particular services.
santhai.com processes personal information on our servers in the United States
of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal
information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal
information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal
information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party,
such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you
to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner
different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your
consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those
described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer
you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those
other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes
other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service
notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which
case santhai.com may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
santhai.com only shares personal information with other companies or individuals
outside of santhai.com in the following limited circumstances:
* We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the
sharing of any sensitive personal information.
* We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated
companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing
personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to
process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this
Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
* We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation
or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,
(b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential
violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or
technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property
or safety of santhai.com, its users or the public as required or permitted by
law.
If santhai.com becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of
some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for
example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such
information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the
management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include
internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to santhai.com employees, contractors
and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations
and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
santhai.com processes personal information only for the purposes for which it
was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and
processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the
personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their
personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use santhai.com services, we make good faith efforts to provide you
with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it
is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise
required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask
individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be
accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may
decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any
case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service
free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some
of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users'
personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the
specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
santhai.com regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free
to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or santhai.com's
treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site. When
we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is santhai.com's policy
to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate
with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection
authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data
that cannot be resolved between santhai.com and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we
expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy
changes on this page and you agree it is your responsibility to visit this page
periodically to note any changes that might be applicable to you. If the changes
are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice on the website. Each
version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its
effective date, and we may not keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy for
your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel
free to contact us any time through this web site.