privacy policy

At makansutra.com, we committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be handled as you make full use of our services. This policy changes from time to time so please visit this page periodically.

1) What information does makansutra.com collect from me?

Personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, makansutra.com asks for your name, email address, and other personal information. The more information you provide (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to tailor your experience. Once you register, you are known as a MakanKaki to makansutra.com - you have a makansutra.com ID and are able to take full advantage of makansutra.com's many offerings.

In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by makansutra.com and/or our partners. makansutra.com also occasionally invites you to complete surveys. Wherever makansutra.com collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

2) How does makansutra.com use my information?

makansutra.com's aim in collecting personal information is to provide you with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of offerings, most of which are completely free to you. By knowing a little about you, makansutra.com is able to deliver better service to you by sending more relevant advertisements and content to you.

Advertisers at makansutra.com never have access to individual account information. Only makansutra.com has access to individuals' accounts. You will only receive special offers via email from makansutra.com if you have indicated in your account preferences that you would like to receive them. You can change your account preferences at any time.

To better understand and serve you, makansutra.com does internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, or from our server log files. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis.

3) Who is collecting my information?

When you are at makansutra.com site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with makansutra.com alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise.

Promotions that run on makansutra.com may be sponsored by companies other than makansutra.com or may be co-sponsored by makansutra.com and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared. Currently, most makansutra.com promotions are limited to residents of Singapore.

Please be aware that makansutra.com advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Web sites linked to Makansutra.com are not covered by this privacy statement.

4) With whom does makansutra.com share my information?

As a general rule, makansutra.com will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

makansutra.com may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms of Service or Use Agreements, and promotions rules.

Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give makansutra.com permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request.

If you make a purchase from a store hosted by makansutra.com, the information obtained during your visit to those stores, such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchants. This is to enable transactions to take place.

Merchants listed in makansutra.com have separate privacy and data collection practices. makansutra.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For information regarding the merchants' privacy policies, please visit the merchants' sites.

Under confidential agreements, makansutra.com may match user information with third party data. Also, makansutra.com discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

makansutra.com may also disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) makansutra.com's rights or property, other makansutra.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. makansutra.com may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

5) What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

If you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from makansutra.com and our partners, we may occasionally send you e-mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only makansutra.com (or agents working on behalf of makansutra.com and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily edit your makansutra.com Account, Personal and Optional Information to no longer receive such offers and mailings.

On some types of makansutra.com promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some promotions offer.

By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those makansutra.com services that require registration in order to participate.

makansutra.com does not sell or rent user information to anyone. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.

6) What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

Your makansutra.com Account, Personal and Optional Information are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your makansutra.com Account, Personal and Optional Information by using your makansutra.com ID and password.

Please do not divulge your password to anyone and remember to sign out of your makansutra.com account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that no one has access to your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, makansutra.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

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