Privacy Policy

This privacy policy identifies the type of information Home From India, its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Home From India”), collects from its customers and how Home From India uses this information. Your use of this website may also be governed by other terms and conditions contained on separate user agreements. If you have any questions about this policy, or the manner in which Home From India uses personal information, we encourage you to contact us at info@homefromindia.com.

Use of Customer Information

Home From India respects the privacy of its customers and takes steps to prevent unauthorized disclosure of customer information to third parties. Customer information includes any and all information received by Home From India from its customers, whether such information is received by email, online forms, telephone, facsimile, mail or otherwise. Home From India stores this information to enable it to fulfill orders or to improve the level of service to its Customers. Home From India also shares certain personal and/or financial information with its merchant account and banking vendors to process orders and payments and with common carriers to ship products to you. Unless required by law or by court order, Home From India will not disclose, share or sell any customer information to any other third party without your prior authorization. Unless otherwise stated, this privacy policy does not apply to information posted by users to publicly accessible portions of our websites, including but not limited to, online forums, blog comment areas, bulletin boards, dealer listings or online auction services.

Personal and Financial Information Collected by Home From India

Throughout our websites there are forms that request information from you and/or allow you to purchase products and services.These forms typically ask for contact information (such as name, mailing address and email address), membership, login and password information and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date and verification code) required to process your order and ship products to you. Home From India may collect similar information when processing orders or providing customer service via telephone. The provision of such information by you is entirely voluntary.

After making a purchase from us, we may inform you of other products or services via email. You may opt out of receiving future mailings from Home From India by clicking a link within the mailing to instantly unsubscribe, or by following the procedures detailed in the Choice/Opt Out section located below. You may also request that we delete any personal information from our customer databases at any time by contacting Home From India. In certain cases, Home From India, may forward purchasing and shipping information to vendors who ship products or provide services directly to consumers. Such third party vendors and suppliers are not bound by this privacy policy.

IP Address Logging

Home From India’ web servers collect domain names and/or IP addresses of users to measure what pages and features are accessed by our visitors. Home From India uses software such as Web Trends to collect and analyze this information. This information helps us administer the site, improve content and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Home From India links IP addresses to personally identifiable information submitted to Home From India. This information is used to verify whether a visitor has opted in to receiving additional information from Home From India.

Cookies

Home From India may use cookies or similar files or scripts throughout its website to enhance your convenience in using our websites, to improve search functionality or to hold information that you would otherwise need to re-key. Cookies are text files collected by a user’s web browser. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, you may configure your web browser so that it does not accept cookies; however, you may lose certain functions available on our website.

Links

The Home From India website may contain links to other websites not affiliated with Home From India, including websites of Home From India’ vendors and service providers. Home From India is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. By including links to other websites, we neither endorse such sites nor guarantee that the information they contain is accurate. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site to read the privacy statements of every linked website as the privacy policies of each may differ from ours. This privacy statement applies solely to websites owned or operated by Home From India.

Changes to Privacy Policy

In the future, Home From India may offer new and different programs that necessitate a change in this Policy. Home From India reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on this page and will be effective immediately upon posting.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Policy, and Home From India’ collection and use of customer information, shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States and the state of Maryland. Any disputes arising out of this Policy shall be adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction in the state of Maryland.

Security

We have reasonable and appropriate security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuses, and alteration of your personally identifiable information under our control. We have taken reasonable steps to confirm the information is retained in secured facilities and that reasonable measures have been implemented for protection from unauthorized access.
 
This Website utilizes industry-standard SSL technology to allow for the encryption of potentially sensitive information submitted to us in product orders, Account registrations and sign-ins. However, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our Website or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. We ask that you do your part by maintaining any usernames and passwords you use to access the Internet or this Website strictly confidential.
 
We suggest that you install anti-virus software on your computer and routinely check for viruses, keyloggers, spyware and other programs that may become installed on your computer without your permission. If you believe that you have received a virus from Home From India, please contact us as soon as possible so that we may take remedial measures to remove the virus.
 
Home From India does not send emails to customers requesting billing, login or password information. If you receive an email purporting to be from Home From India that asks you to provide personal or account information, or login and passwords, do not provide such information unless you have first verified that the website or email is from Home From India. Such emails may be fraudulent and used in connection with scams known as phishing. Home From India asks that you report any suspicious emails or websites to Home From India.

Choice/Opt Out and Contact Information

You may request copies of or have Home From India make changes or corrections to personal information in Home From India’s possession by contacting Home From India at info@homefromindia.com.
 
You may opt out of receiving further communications from us or others through any of the following methods:
  
Send an email to info@homefromindia.com
 
Send a request by mail to:
Home From India
PO Box 5778
Derwood, MD 20855
 
or call us at: 301-355-9942