Grooveindia.com is owned and operated by Geist Enterprises. Geist Enterprises and its affiliates respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy provides the manner in which your data is collected and used by Geist Enterprises. You are advised to please read the Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing the services provided by Geist Enterprises you agree to the collection and use of your data by Geist Enterprises in the manner provided in this Privacy Policy.

At the outset, please understand that we want you to:

• feel comfortable using our website
• feel secure submitting information to us
• contact us with your questions or concerns about privacy on this site
• know that by using our sites you are consenting to the collection of certain data.

If you want to know more about us, please visit at http://www.grooveindia.com/about-us.php.
You need to register to surf www.grooveindia.com in detail.

We do not have access to your credit card number or any financial details, all transactions take place on secure servers provided by our Payment Gateway provider. To know more, please visit www.ebs.in

We will NOT rent or sell your name, address, email address, personal details to any third party without your permission and unless:

• we have your permission
• to deliver a product or service your order/request
• to help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of any person, violations of Geist Enterprise's terms of use or to defend against legal claims
• Special circumstances such as compliance with court orders, requests/order, notices from legal authorities or law enforcement agencies requiring such disclosure.

This information is collected primarily to ensure that we are able to fulfil your requirements and to deliver you a truly personalized experience. However, we must cooperate fully, should a situation arise, where we are required by law or statutory obligation or legal process to provide information about a customer. If you have purchased from our store or subscribed to one of our forums, we may occasionally update you via e-mail of special new product arrivals, features or schemes, updates in the forums on our site.

We do not rent, sell or share your personal information and we will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to third parties unless:

We will automatically receive and collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our Web server, including computer-identification information obtained from "cookies," sent to your browser from:

• web server cookie stored on your hard drive
• an IP address, assigned to the computer which you use
• the domain server through which you access our service
• the operating system of the computer you're using
• the type of web browser you're using

We use cookies only to improve the responsiveness of our websites for our users. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our current or future advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control.

Similar electronic tools may be used to collect information on visitors. (Such as: a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the Identified Computer). Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer.

We may collect the following personally identifiable information for the purpose of user registration

• Name including first and last name
• Email address, alternate email address
• Contact Number including mobile phone number or other phone number
• ZIP/Postal code
• Gamertag, PSN Id, Steam Id
• Opinions of features on our websites; and
• Other information as per our registration process

We may also collect the following information

• about the pages you visit/access
• the links you click on our site
• the number of times you access the page
• the number of times you have shopped on our web site

Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data - such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site and view the geographic locations from where our visitors come.

Our website includes links to other websites. Such sites are governed by their respective privacy policies, which are beyond our control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.

When we present information to our advertisers - to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website - it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site. When you register with us, we contact you from time to time about updation of your content to provide the users such features that we believe may benefit you.

All the information mentioned above enables us to

• help us provide personalized features from both an advertising and an editorial perspective
• tailor our sites to your interest
• to get in touch with you when necessary
• to provide the services requested by you
• to preserve social history as governed by existing law or policy
• recognize your access privileges to our Website
• help diagnose problems with our server
• administer our websites, track your session so that we can understand better how people use our sites
• direct our efforts for improvement
• contact you as a survey respondent
• notify you if you win any contest; and
• send you promotional materials from our contest sponsors or advertisers

All information gathered on our website is stored on secured servers; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited.

However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.

However the internet is an ever evolving medium. We may change our privacy policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.

We may in future, use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

If we plan to use your personally identifiable information for any commercial purposes, we will notify you at the time we collect that information and allow you to opt-out of having your information used for those purposes.

You can terminate your account at any time. However, your information may remain stored in archive on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.

We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.

Any questions or clarifications with respect to this Policy can be sent to info@grooveindia.com