Indiademocracy.com's Privacy policy & Disclaimer
This privacy policy covers the site www.indiademocracy.org, its functionality, services provided by it and the promoting company of the site, V-Empower Inc. V-Empower aims to demonstrate its commitment to the users' privacy, thus it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by legal experts. The listed practices are discussed below in detail.

• What personally identifiable information does V-Empower Inc. collect?
  
• What personally identifiable information do third parties collect through our Website?
  
• What organizations collect the information?
  
• How does V-Empower Inc. use the information?
  
• With whom V-Empower Inc. might share user information?
  
• What choices are available to users regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?
  
• What types of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under V-Empower Inc. control?
  
• How can users correct any inaccuracies in the information?

For any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact Customer Services at IndiaDemocracy at privacy@indiademocracy.com,

Mailing by post to

V-Empower Inc.
6800 Willow Creek Road,
Bowie, MD 20720
Phone:  301 805 9194
Fax:      240 465 0396
Email:   shukoor@v-empower.com

V-Empower respect your right to privacy on the Internet. We know that you care about how personal information is used and shared. This Privacy Policy describes how the information disclosed on www.indiademocracy.org will be treated. We suggest that you periodically review this policy because it can change over time. A link will be provided on www.indiademocracy.org, to this page detailing any updates to the Privacy Policy.

If, however, we intend to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we can use their information in this different manner.

Users who are not reachable, have deactivated or unsubscribed the use of our services will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner

Personal Information

V-Empower will not disclose your personally identifiable information to anyone. When you wish to use any feature, you will be asked to provide the following information: e-mail address, state, gender, race/ethnicity, education, occupation, age group etc.

This information will be stored so that you need not fill out the questionnaire again - unless you wish to update or change your profile.

We collect personal information at several other points on the site. For example, our feedback forms request for some of your personal details along with your valuable feedback or through our Registration form we collect personal information, but only for maintaining a record in our database.

Address Information

The information that you provide regarding your state, address and constituency is used to track your elected representatives.

We hope you and your legislator will appreciate this small gesture on our part to try and reduce the amount of irrelevant mail a legislator can get.

This feature is to ensure that your elected representative is targeted and is notified about your point of view.

Profile Information

We provide a medium for users to give their feedback on political issues/legislation. A user can vote on a bill and in the future will be able to keep track of which bills they have voted on and in which way. An individual's voting record is never shared with third parties without first stripping all personally identifiable information out of the record. i.e. we never share voting records that are associated with personally identifiable information, only in the aggregate.

The information you provide regarding gender, education, occupation and age group will only be used to maintain a database of information.

Individual e-mail addresses or personally identifiable information will never be transmitted or given to outsiders or people who are not associated with IndiaDemocracy. Such information will not be available to the general public. Moreover, we will never sell this information or give it to others for marketing or other purposes

Articles

We offer a platform for you to post blogs and articles on our network. It is entirely optional to post your personal information. However, please be aware that information posted to the forums or chats is considered public information.

Forums

We offer forums on our site. It is entirely optional to post your personally identifiable information. However, please understand that information posted to the forums should be considered public information.

E-mail Addresses

We may use your e-mail address to notify you about the results of cases in which you voted, or to give you information about cases or studies that may be of interest to you. www.indiademocracy.org will also alert you on various issues that may interest you via e-mail.

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send users an e-mail notification

Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.

Sharing

V-Empower will not disclose your personal information without your permission unless we need to do so in order to comply with applicable law, a subpoena, or other legal process or to protect the safety of other voters or the public.

Links

Users should note that when you are on the www.indiademocracy.org website, you may be directed to other websites that are beyond our control. V-Empower do not take responsibility of the privacy policies/statements or other content on websites linked from our website.

For Example: If you click on an advertisement banner, the click may take you away from www.indiademocracy.org. These other websites may independently collect data, solicit personal information, or send their own cookies to you. V-Empower recommends you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites to determine how they use the information they collect.

Use of cookies by IndiaDemocracy

Cookies are blocks of text placed in a file on a user's hard drive by www.indiademocracy.org.

As it is standard within the industry, cookies are used to automatically identify you as a user when you return to our website. By doing this, we eliminate the need for you to register each time you enter the site. We only use cookies to let you use our site more easily. We do not use cookies to track individual web activity.

You can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when your computer receives a cookie. Please be aware that rejecting www.indiademocracy.org's cookies may modify or limit your participation in some of the cases or services available on the site

Log Files

Like most standard Website servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personal information

A Message for users under the age of 18

We do not allow users under the age of 18 to participate in cases, in compliance with the Children's Privacy Protection Act. We will therefore not maintain any information from users who are under the age of 18.

Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information

If a user's personal information changes (such as phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to edit, update or delete users' personal information. This can usually be done by emailing our Customer Support at support@indiademocracy.com or, contact us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below:

V-Empower Inc.
6800 Willow Creek Road,
Bowie, MD 20720
Phone:  301 805 9194
Fax:      240 465 0396
Email:   shukoor@v-empower.com

For specific questions regarding the Privacy Policy of Indiademocracy.com, please click below to send us an e-mail at: privacy@Indiademocracy.com

Exceptions

Nothing in this Privacy Policy or the User Agreement may be construed as restricting or preventing V-Empower’s cooperation with law enforcement or investigative agencies or court orders

Furthermore, nothing in this Privacy Policy shall restrain V-Empower from investigating and prosecuting any users of our site who attempt to defraud or damage us, or who violate our user agreement.

Therefore, V-Empower may share otherwise protected data with law enforcement or investigative agencies, or as directed by court order. Also, when necessary to diagnose and repair technical problems, www.indiademocracy.org may examine or change any data, computer code, or other information. Such examinations and changes will be restricted to technical personnel on a need to know basis.

Disclaimer

While V-Empower inc., agrees to maintain certain security measures to protect User information, we do not take responsibility for the release of User information caused by hacking or other User's tampering with the www.indiademocracy.org Website. Users assume the risk that any information submitted, however secure, could be illegally misappropriated by others.

V-Empower agree to fully cooperate with law enforcement to protect and retrieve any information that may be illegally misappropriated by others.