Updated On 01/08/2024
Courtyards.in knows that you care how information about you is used and
shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This
notice describes the privacy policy of the Courtyard Business marketplace
section on Courtyards.in only. By visiting Courtyards.in, you are accepting and
consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Controllers of Personal Information
Any personal information provided to or gathered by Vajrakavach Strategic
Solutions Private Limited under this Privacy Notice will be stored and controlled
by Courtyard.
What Personal Information About Customers Does Courtyards.in Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalise and continually
improve your shopping experience at Courtyards.in. We use your information
to assist sellers in handling your orders, delivering products and processing
payments, communicating with you about orders, products and promotional
offers with respect to our website, updating our records and generally
maintaining your accounts with us, display content such as wish lists and
customer reviews and recommend products that might be of interest to you. We
also use this information to improve our website, prevent or detect fraud or
abuses of our website and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical
or other functions on our behalf.
Here are the types of information we gather:
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our
website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain
information but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our
features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as
responding to your requests, customising future shopping for you, improving
our website, and communicating with you.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use
“cookies” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser
accesses Courtyards.in or advertisements and other content served by or on
behalf of Courtyards.in on other web sites. We may also receive/store
information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique
identifier for your device. We may use this information for internal analysis and
to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, search results,
and other personalized content.
E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting,
we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from Courtyard if your
computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists
received from other companies in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail
from us, please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences.
Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from
other sources and add it to our account information.
By using or continuing to use the website you agree to our use of your
information (including sensitive personal information) in accordance with this
Privacy Notice, as may be amended from time to time by Courtyards.in, in its
discretion. You also agree and consent to us collecting, storing, processing,
transferring and sharing information (including sensitive personal information)
related to you with third parties or service providers for the purposes as set out
in this Privacy Notice.
We may be required to share the aforesaid information with government
authorities and agencies for the purposes of verification of identity or for
prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution and
punishment of offences. You agree and consent for Courtyards.in to disclose
your information, if so required under the applicable law.
What about Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s
hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise
your browser and to provide features such as Recommended for You,
personalised advertisements on other Web sites (e.g., Courtyard
Associates with content served by Courtyards.in) and storage of items in
your Cart between visits.
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to
prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser
notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies
altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by
browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings
or visiting the website of its manufacturer. However, because cookies allow
you to take advantage of some of Courtyards.in’s essential features, we
recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or
otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Cart,
proceed to Checkout, or use any Courtyards.in products that require you to
Sign in.
If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish using
a shared computer.
Does Courtyards.in Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we
are not in the business of selling it to others. Courtyards.in shares customer
information only as described below and with vajrakavach.co, and the
subsidiaries which vajrakavach.co. Controls and that are either subject to this
Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in
this Privacy Notice. Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with affiliated
businesses. In some cases, such as Marketplace sellers, these businesses
operate stores at Courtyards.in or sell offerings to you at Courtyards.in. In
other cases, we provide services jointly with or on behalf of these
businesses. Click here for some examples of co-branded and joint offerings.
You can tell when a third party is involved in your transactions and we share
customer information related to those transactions with that third party.
Third Party Service Providers: We may employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling
orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail to our
customers, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and
links (including paid listings and links, processing credit card payments and
providing customer service. They have access to personal information
needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this
Privacy Notice and as permitted by the applicable law.
Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of
Courtyards.in customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this,
we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to
receive such offers, please adjust your Customer Communication
Preferences.
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell
or buy stores, subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, customer
information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains
subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of
course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that
vajrakavach.co. or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer
information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Protection of Courtyards.in and Others: We release account and other
personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with
the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or
protect the rights, property or safety of Courtyards.in, our users or others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies, organisations,
government or regulatory authorities for fraud protection and credit risk
reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing
or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers
for commercial purposes in a way that is contrary to the commitments made
in this Privacy Notice.
With your consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when
information about you might go to third parties and you will have an
opportunity to choose not to share the information. Whenever we transfer
personal information to countries outside India in the course of sharing
information as set out above, we will ensure that the information is
transferred in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by the
applicable
Laws including but not limited to Information Technology Act, 2000 and the
rules framed thereunder.How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission
by using Secure software, which encrypts information you input in
addition to maintaining security of your information as per the
International Standard IS/ISO/IEC 27001 on “Information Technology
Security Techniques Information Security Management System
Requirements”.
We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when
confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number
to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in
connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personal
information (including sensitive personal information). Our security
procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity
before we disclose personal information to you.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your
password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using
a shared computer
What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Web sites?
Our site may include third-party advertising and links to other Web sites. We do
not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these
advertisers or third-party Web sites.
These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies
working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or “serve”) the
advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They
automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use
cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel
gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to
personalise advertising content. We do not have access to or control over
cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of
these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy
Notice. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy
practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information
about Internet advertising companies (also called “ad networks” or “network
advertisers”), including information about how to opt-out of their information
collection.
Courtyards.in may also display personalised third-party advertising based on
personal information about customers, such as purchases on Courtyards.in or
visits to Courtyard Associate Web sites.
Although Courtyards.in does not provide any personal information to
advertisers, advertisers (including ad-serving companies) may assume that
users who interact with or click on a personalised advertisement meet the
criteria used to personalise the ad.What Information Can I Access?
Courtyards.in gives you access to a broad range of information about your
account and your interactions with Courtyards.in for the limited purpose of
viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. This list will change as
our website evolves.
What Choices Do I Have?
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information,
even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage
of such Courtyards.in features as Your Profile Wish Lists, Customer
Reviews and Courtyard Prime.
You can add or update certain information on pages such as those
referenced in the Which Information Can I Access? section. When you
update information, we usually keep a copy of the previous version for
our records.
If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust
your Customer Communication Preferences. (If you do not want to
receive Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this
Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of Courtyards.in
and orders placed with Courtyards.in, and it is your responsibility to
review them for changes.)
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to
prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable
cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data
used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add
on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of
Courtyards.in’s essential features, we recommend that you leave them
turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you
will not be able to add items to your Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use
any Courtyards.in products that require you to Sign in.
Are Children Allowed to Use the Courtyard Business marketplace on
Courtyards.in?
Use of the Courtyard Business marketplace on Courtyards.in is available only
to persons who can form a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract
Act, 1872, and who are business customers. If you are a minor i.e. under the
age of 18 years, who is responsible or operating or functioning a business
establishment or ordering products for the business or institutional usage of a
business establishment, you may use the Courtyard Business marketplace on
Courtyards.in only if you have been specifically authorized by your relevant
business establishment.Notices and Revisions
If you have any concern about privacy or grievances at Courtyards.in, please
contact us with a thorough description and we will try to resolve the issue for
you.
Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of
Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and
conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our
website frequently to see recent changes.
Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information
that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we
make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to
make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without
the consent of affected customers.
Examples of Information Collected
Information You Give Us
You provide most such information when you search, buy, bid, post or
participate in a contest or communicate with customer service. For example,
you provide information when you: search for a product; place an order through
Courtyards.in or one of our third-party sellers; provide information in Your
Account; communicate with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise complete a
questionnaire or a contest entry form; compile Wish Lists or other gift registries,
provide and rate Reviews; and employ other personal notification services such
as such as Available to Order Notifications. As a result of those actions, you
might supply us with such information as: your name; address and phone
number; content of reviews, credit card information; e-mails to us; and financial
information.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyse include: the Internet
protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e
mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser
type and version; operating system and platform; purchase history, which we
sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create
certain features; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to,
through and from our website (including date and time); cookie number;
products you viewed or searched for; and any phone number used to call our
customer service number. We may also use browser data such as cookies,
Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on
certain parts of our website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During
some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and
collect session information, including page response times, download errors,
length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling,
clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.Information You Can Access
Examples of information you can access easily at Courtyards.in include: up-to
date information regarding recent orders; personal information (including name,
e-mail, password, communications and address book); payment settings
(including credit-card information and gift certificate, gift card and cheque
balances); e-mail notification settings (including Alerts, Available to Order
notifications, Delivery notifications, Recommended for You and newsletters)
recommendations (including recent product-view history, prior-order history and
Favourites); Wish Lists and Marketplace seller accounts and Your Profile
(including your product Reviews, Requests and Recommendations, your lists,
guides, personal profile, people you tagged as interesting, and Courtyard
Friends).
Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources include: updated
delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which
we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication
more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information and
page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded
businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising or other
services; search term and search result information from some searches
conducted through the Web search features offered by vajrakavach Group
Companies, Alexa Internet and A9; search results and links, including paid
listings (such as Sponsored Links from Overture); and credit history information
from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer
certain credit or financial services to some customers.