8KMiles Webservices Private Limited (‘8KMiles’, ‘We’, ‘Our’) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website, www.8kmiles.com (“Website”). This policy outlines our personal information handling practices for both online and offline data. If you give us personal information, we will treat it according to this policy.
We encourage you to read this policy to ensure you understand 8KMiles’ privacy practices.
We adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by means of a notice on our home page. By continuing to use the 8KMiles service after notice of changes have been published on the Website, you are consenting to the changes.
8KMiles leverages collaboration, networking and technology to enable a new delivery model for software and other services, with a goal to make remote service delivery easy, secure, reliable and transparent. We advise you that if you do not wish to have your information used or displayed as described in the privacy policy and User Agreement, you should reconsider becoming a member of the 8KMiles community. You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to provide 8KMiles services. If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the 8KMiles website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you should not become a member of the 8KMiles community.
We collect your personal information in the following ways
a. Registration:
In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our Website. To create an account you are required to provide the following information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including 8KMiles, to identify you: name, User ID, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, age, phone number, password chosen by you and valid financial account information. Other information requested on our Registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers from 8KMiles, is optional. We may, in future, include other optional requests for information from you to help us to customize the Website to deliver personalized information to you. Without your agreement, we will not share, rent or sell any personal information with third parties in any way other than what is disclosed in this privacy statement. To post projects, we require a valid credit card number and name as it appears on the credit card. Credit card information is transmitted via a secure, encrypted connection for your protection. If you are a User of a ‘Team Account’, the information you provide to the Website may be accessible to other Users of the Account under which your Team Account was added, and Users of all related Team Accounts.
After becoming a member, in order to place bids, you must create a Profile. You will be required to provide some information about yourself, educational qualifications, your company or business. If you decide to offer a service, potential clients may review your Profile to help them decide whether to make a bid on your service. Information in your Profile is available for any other registered User to access. We will not have any obligation under this Privacy Policy with respect to information in your Profile or information you voluntarily provide to other Users via the Website.
b. Referral Programs:
8KMiles currently does not have any Referral Programs. But when we do design a program, we might collect some of the personally identifiable information such as name, email id etc. to provide you services under the Referral Program.
You can send project postings, providing or purchasing our Services, to your friends via email through our Website. 8KMiles uses your friends’ email addresses to send the requested posting, and we use your email address to copy you on the message or to send on your behalf. Our Website database will not be storing your friends’ email address.
c. 8KMiles Payment System
Our Payment Service requires Members to pay with a credit card, wire transfer, debit card or cheque. We will collect your credit card number and/or other financial institution information such as bank account numbers and will use that information for the billing and payment processes, including but not limited to the use and disclosure of such credit card number and information to third parties as necessary to complete such billing operation. Verification of credit information, however, is accomplished solely by the User through the authentication process. We will share your personal information as necessary for third parties to provide some of these services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes
d. Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the 8KMiles Website we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave 8KMiles. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the 8KMiles service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
e. Cookies and Web Beacons
Like most websites, 8KMiles uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing User preferences and tracking User trends. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. 8KMiles does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies.
We allow other companies, to serve advertisements to Users. These companies include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. 8KMiles may “target” some ads to Users that fit a certain general profile. 8KMiles does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.
f. Log files, IP addresses and other information about your computer
The internet communications standards allows us to automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came, Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, the name of your ISP and the like. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the 8KMiles service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
g. Processing information about you and modification of such information
All the information you provide 8KMiles, including sensitive personal information, is voluntary. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, but please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
You can access, modify, correct and eliminate the data about you which has been collected pursuant to your decision to become a User. If you update any of your information, we may keep a copy of the information which you originally provided to us in our archives for uses documented herein. We take your rights seriously and encourage you to use them if you deem this to be appropriate. You may exercise these rights by emailing us at privacy@8kmiles.com.
h. External links.
This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by 8KMiles. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you, for which 8KMiles is not responsible or liable. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of that website.
Your personally identifiable information you choose to provide on our Website is used to help you describe yourself to other Users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by 8KMiles from Users (such as, patterns of utilization described above) and is exclusively owned by 8KMiles. This information can be utilized by 8KMiles in such manner as 8KMiles, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
a. Communication and Update
8KMiles will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the 8KMiles Website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging.
b. Surveys, Contests and Polls
At times, 8KMiles conducts a User survey to collect information about our Users' preferences. These surveys are optional and if you choose to respond, your responses will be kept anonymous. Similarly, we may offer contests to qualifying Users in which we ask for contact and demographic information such as name, email address and mailing address. None of this information is shared with third parties, except in summary form, if at all. The demographic information that we collect during the registration process and through surveys is used to help us improve our Services to meet the needs and preferences of our Users. This may include targeting advertising to you about our Services. Information we gather through a contest may also be disclosed to third parties, as necessary, for prize fulfillment and other aspects of any contest or similar offering.
c. The Wokspace, Forum and Blogs
8KMiles has created a Workspace area on the Website for the benefit of Users to facilitate communication and the exchange and sharing of information between Clients and Service Providers once a bid has been accepted. The information contained in private Workspaces shared between Clients and Service Providers is not used for any purposes other than to facilitate communication and the exchange of information between the parties involved. This area may be monitored by 8KMiles in order to verify compliance to legal requirements and / or internal policies.
Information you submit on forums and blogs are accessible by public at large. Please re-consider before you submit information. 8KMiles is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
d. Legal Disclaimer
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, such as responses to civil or criminal subpoenas, or other requests by law enforcement personnel. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, subpoena, or other legal process or request to 8KMiles brought in any country throughout the world, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
e. Disclosures to others
We may also disclose your personal and other information you provide, to another third party as part of a reorganization or a sale of the assets of a 8KMiles corporation division or company. Any third party to which we transfer or sell 8KMiles’ assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.
f. Other uses:
g. Sharing information with third parties
To the extent necessary to provide you with the services on the Website, we may provide your Personal Information to third party contractors who work on behalf of or with 8KMiles to provide you with such services, to help us communicate with you or to maintain the Website. Generally these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information, however certain contractors who provide services on the Website, including the providers of online communications services, will have rights to use and disclose the Personal Information collected in connection with the provision of these services in accordance with their own privacy policies.
h. Other Members
We share the email addresses of Service Providers and Clients to each other once a project is awarded on our Site to enable work on the project to be completed. In addition, Members involved in a transaction may request full contact information of the other party, including name, company name, phone number and mailing address. If you request the contact information of another User, your contact information will also be released to that User. If another User requests your contact information, we will disclose it to him or her. You agree not to use the disclosed information of other Users for any purpose other than providing the applicable Services or resolving a dispute.
a. Closing your account
You can also close your account on 8KMiles. On closure, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable database. We may retain certain data contributed by you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the website, please send your request to accounts@8kmiles.com. You will receive a response to your requests within five business days of its receipt.
b. Retrieval of information
8KMiles internally has a process on information security and your information being accessed only by those who are authorised. In situations where you accidentally delete your information and would like to retrieve, then this core team may access the stored database and recover the same. Please be aware that this team may have to go through your personal information in order to restore the information sought by you.
As a User, you have certain obligations toward the other Users with whom you will be communicating. Certain of these obligations are imposed by applicable law and regulations, and others have become commonplace in user-friendly communities of like-minded member.
Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account by 8KMiles, as we take these principles seriously and consider them to be the basis on which our Users adhere to the 8KMiles website and the services which it offers.
Children below 18 years are not eligible to use our service and we hereby request children below this age group not to submit any personal information to us or use the service.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to 8KMiles employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
8KMiles may update this privacy policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on the website or send you an email, as provided for above. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
If you use the 8KMiles service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
Last updated : March 2, 2009