PRIVACY POLICY
CHOTAMOTA.COM is an initiative of Native Roots. This online portal endeavors to bring to you the best of dry fruits, snacks and lifestyle products & Services from India and across the world. CHOTAMOTA.COM is built with a single intent in mind that is it serves as a one-stop solution to all your dry fruits and nuts needs.
Your privacy is our top priority. We are committed to keeping your trust. Native Roots, are committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to Native Roots Websites (referred to herein as “CHOTAMOTA.COM”) and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Your data will be stored and processed in whole or in part in the India. The information we gather on the CHOTAMOTA.COM may be shared within the Native Roots-affiliated companies on a worldwide basis in order to deliver the products and services we offer or in order to undertake analysis of our database such as aggregate profiling of our registered users. "Affiliated companies" means entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with Native Roots.
The CHOTAMOTA.COM contains links to other Web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other Web sites to which you choose to link from our Sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.
Collection and Use of Information by CHOTAMOTA.COM
In some areas of CHOTAMOTA.COM, we request or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, contact information, billing information and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, we collect or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your code, age, preferences, gender, interests and favourites. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on the CHOTAMOTA.COM where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you purchase a product, sign up to use a service, enter a contest .
We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of CHOTAMOTA.COM, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses, but is not linked to your personal information.
We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, preferential and/or life style information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular products or services.
Our Use of Your Information
We use the information we gather on CHOTAMOTA.COM, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the CHOTAMOTA.COM Sites, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer.
If you have provided consent for us to do so, we may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from us or our affiliated companies or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered.
We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the CHOTAMOTA.COM Site, and if you have information on new opportunities and additional job postings which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.
In addition, at the time of registration for an account, you have the option to elect or not elect to receive additional communications, information and promotions, including without limitation, free informational newsletters from us relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, this can be sent to us at chotamota@nativeroots.in.
We have areas on the CHOTAMOTA.COM where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.
Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
1. We disclose information to third parties if you consent to such disclosure. For example, if you indicate that you would like to receive information about the opportunities, products or services of third parties at the time you register for an account, we supply your contact information to third parties such as, data aggregators, marketers or others for the purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with you. We use data we have about you (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular third-party.
2. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our Web servers, data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
3. We disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
4. We disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party via email or through a prominent notice posted on the CHOTAMOTA.COM Site.
Other Uses of Information
We also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to CHOTAMOTA.COM (for example, the number of visitors to CHOTAMOTA.COM- Buy Online section) with its clients, partners and other third parties so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to the CHOTAMOTA.COM and how those visitors use the CHOTAMOTA.COM Sites.
Information gathered on a page in on a co-branded page (such as that of a contest co-sponsored by CHOTAMOTA.COM and another company), may become the property of the other company or of both us and the other company. In that instance, the use of such information by the other company will be subject to the privacy policy of that company. We are not responsible for that company's use of your personal or demographic information.
Posting to Public Areas of CHOTAMOTA.COM
Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of CHOTAMOTA.COM such as in online forums or chat rooms, or in the CHOTAMOTA.COM, such information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of CHOTAMOTA.COM
Use of Cookies
We use "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize CHOTAMOTA.COM pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences). Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience. When you return to CHOTAMOTA.COM, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. We also use cookies to track click streams and for load balancing.
You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on CHOTAMOTA.COM.
Use of Web Beacons
CHOTAMOTA.COM Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.
You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
Third parties are not permitted to use Web beacons on the CHOTAMOTA.COM Sites. Access to and Modification of Your Information You may review, correct, update or change your account information at any time.
To change your account information, simply log into your account, go to your view/edit Profile, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided.
If you opted to receive newsletters, commercial e-mails or other communications from CHOTAMOTA.COM or third parties at the time you created a account, but subsequently changed your mind, you may opt-out by mailing us the same at chotamota@nativeroots.in . If you previously opted not to receive such communications, you may later opt-in by mailing the same to chotamota@nativeroots.in
We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of CHOTAMOTA.COM more efficient, practical, and relevant.
Security of the Personal Information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
When you place an order online at CHOTAMOTA.COM your credit card information is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. SSL makes it difficult for your credit card information to be intercepted or stolen while being transmitted. We use a service company to process its credit card transactions. For further information on this company's privacy please visit their website.
Children
The CHOTAMOTA.COM website are not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.
Privacy Statement Concerns
If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at chotamota@nativeroots.in or call us at 6364659000 and speak to one of our representatives. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly answer your question or resolve your problem.
Contact Information
CHOTAMOTA.COM is the name under which Native Roots with its principal place of business at 38/1, 9th Main, Kuvempu Nagar, Vasanthapura, Kanakapura Road, Bangalore 560062. Native Roots is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered at the CHOTAMOTA.COM Site.
We Thank you for using CHOTAMOTA.COM.