OSS Prime Linuxers 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 OSS Prime Linuxers. By visiting OSS Prime Linuxers and our network of websites and portals, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Notice. OSS Prime Linuxers respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that access the information and use the services provided through them. Individually identifiable information about the User is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving the User’s permission, as covered in this Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy covers personal information, including any information we collect, use and share from you, as described further below. This privacy policy applies to all websites in the OSS Prime Linuxers family, our products and services, and our mobile applications (collectively, the “Services”). This privacy policy does not cover how our Users may use or share data that they collect using our services.
When you purchase a Service from us, your personal information will be collected, used, and shared consistent with the provisions of this privacy policy as well as the following addendums related to particular products and services offered by OSS Prime Linuxers, which are a part of this privacy policy:
This Privacy Policy describes OSS Prime Linuxers’s treatment of personally identifiable information that OSS Prime Linuxers collects when User is on the OSS Prime Linuxers’s website. OSS Prime Linuxers does not collect any unique information about the User (such as User’s name, email address, age, gender etc.) except when the User specifically and knowingly provide such information on the Website. Like any business interested in offering the highest quality of service to clients, OSS Prime Linuxers may, from time to time, send email and other communication to the User tell them about the various services, features, functionality and content offered by OSS Prime Linuxers website or seek voluntary information from you.
Please be aware, however, that OSS Prime Linuxers will release specific personal information about the User if required to do so in the following circumstances:
a) in order to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, statute, or court order, or
b) if any of User’s actions on OSS Prime Linuxers’s website violate the Terms of Service or any of OSS Prime Linuxers’s guidelines for specific services, or
c) to protect or defend OSS Prime Linuxers’s legal rights or property, the OSS Prime Linuxers site, or OSS Prime Linuxers Users; or
d) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the security, integrity of OSS Prime Linuxers website/offerings.
Information We Collect From You
In the course of your use of the Services, we obtain the following information about you as described below.
Signing Up for Services; User Information
Information you provide prior to any registration process, such as your email when you provide it to us; Information that you provide during any registration process, including in connection with a co-branded offer (such as your name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address or credit card information, geographic location and industry), when you call or email us (for support or otherwise) or when you use our products or services; and Payment information that you provide to us (by way of our Services or otherwise) when you purchase some of our products and services, including credit card data.
How we use your personal information
The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on OSS Prime Linuxers’s latest announcements, updates, and upcoming events. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences.
We also use personal information to help us create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services, content and advertising, and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes.
We may use your personal information, including date of birth, to verify identity, assist with identification of users, and to determine appropriate services. For example, we may use date of birth to determine the age of OSS Prime Linuxers account holders.
From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with OSS Prime Linuxers, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.
We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve OSS Prime Linuxers’s products, services, and customer communications.
If you enter into a contest, or similar promotion we may use the information you provide to administer those programs.
Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information
We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, referrer URL, location, and the time zone where an OSS Prime Linuxers product or service is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.
We may collect information regarding customer activities on our website, social media services, and shopping stores and from our other products and services. This information is aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website, products, and services are of most interest. Aggregated data is considered non-personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
We may collect and store details of how you use our services, including search queries. This information may be used to improve the relevancy of results provided by our services. Except in limited instances to ensure quality of our services over the Internet, such information will not be associated with your IP address.
With your explicit consent, we may collect data about how you use your device and applications in order to help improve our mobile apps.
If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.
Cookies and Other Technologies
OSS Prime Linuxers’s websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for OSS Prime Linuxers to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate.
We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.
OSS Prime Linuxers websites, products, applications, and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Our products and services may also use or offer products or services from third parties - for example, a third-party banner ad link. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input in addition to maintaining security of your information as per the International Standards. 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 includes third-party advertising and links to other Web sites. For more information about third party advertising on OSS Prime Linuxers, including personalised or interest-based ads.
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 OSS Prime Linuxers features as Your Profile, Wish Lists, Customer Reviews etc. 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 preferences. (If you do not want to receive Terms of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Policy, those notices will still govern your use of OSS Prime Linuxers and orders placed with OSS Prime Linuxers, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.) If you do not want us to use personal information that we gather to personalise advertisements we display to you, please adjust preferences.
Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of OSS Prime Linuxers'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 Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any OSS Prime Linuxers products and services that require you to Sign in.
Are Children Allowed to Use OSS Prime Linuxers?
Use of OSS Prime Linuxers is available only to persons who can form a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you may use OSS Prime Linuxers only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Customer Responsibility
Each OSS Prime Linuxers customer is responsible for its activities and, by accepting products or services from OSS Prime Linuxers, is agreeing to ensure that its customers / representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. If violations of the OSS Prime Linuxers Acceptable Use Policy occur, OSS Prime Linuxers reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating OSS Prime Linuxers's AUP as we deems appropriate, without notice.
Privacy Questions
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or data processing or if you would like to make a complaint about a possible breach of local privacy laws, please contact us. All such communications are examined and replies issued where appropriate as soon as possible. If you are unsatisfied with the reply received, you may refer your complaint to the relevant regulator in your jurisdiction.
If you ask us, we will endeavor to provide you with information about relevant complaint avenues which may be applicable to your circumstances.
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 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 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 our partners; search results and links, including paid listings; 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.
Information You Can Access
Examples of information you can access easily at OSS Prime Linuxers include: up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personal information (including name, e-mail, password, communications and personalised preferences); payment settings (including order information, balances, etc); e-mail notification settings (including Alerts, Available to Order notifications, Delivers, Recommended for You and newsletters); recommendations (including recent product-view history, prior-order history and Favourites); Wish Lists and seller accounts and Your Profile (including your product Reviews, Requests and Recommendations, your Listmania lists, "So You'd Like to..." guides, personal profile, people you tagged as interesting).
Notices and Revisions
We may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. If you have any concern about privacy or grievances at OSS Prime Linuxers, 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 Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.