PRIVACY POLICY

Ekatra (referred to herein as "We", "Our" or "Us") values your personal information and considers its protection a top priority when you ("You" or "Your") use Our Ekatra Service. Your visit to Our website and use of Our Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and Our Terms and Conditions of Use.      

1. Protection of Personal Information

•Ekatra takes precautions to safeguard personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
•We will protect personal information by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
•When We use trusted third parties to act on Our behalf, appropriate means are used to ensure compliance by such third parties with this Policy and all applicable privacy laws.
•We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of each and every web site that your connect to from Our site before its use.
•This Privacy Policy applies only to information We collect pursuant to the Ekatra Service.
•Please review the Terms of Use for more information..

2. Personal Information

•When purchasing and submitting content, the Our Services require a user to register for an account (the “User Account”). Personal information is required, including Your real name, email address, password, and country of residence (“Personal Information”).
•When making a purchase on Ekatra We may ask You for more Personal Information, and shall store that information in Your User Account until You tell Us to remove it.
•We may record information about Your Personal Information or usage anywhere within the Ekatra Service or website, and may share this information to trusted third parties, including Our publishers or other suppliers of content, as required for their internal use only. 
•When You visit and log into Ekatra, We will collect Your browser type, usage information, and IP address and may use that information to improve Your experience.
•We may send emails using clear web beacons in HTML-based emails to Our users.
•Any content, including personal information, that You voluntarily disclose online becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others forever.
• At the time your create a User Account, You can select whether We, or our trusted third parties, can send You emails related to the Ekatra Service or the products purchased by You. You can change this option at any time via Your account settings.
•We reserve the right to send You important account related emails, including changes to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, from time to time even if You have opted not to receive Our emails.
• Your User Account is protected by a password chosen by You. You agree it is your responsibility to protect your password from theft of unauthorized use.
• You are prohibited from directly or indirectly exposing the password of another user to public release.

3. Children Under 18 Years of Age

•You must be 13 years and older to register to use the Ekatra Service.  The Ekatra Service does not knowingly collect information about children.  Minors older than 13, but younger than 18 must receive their parents' permission before using Ekatra or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.

4. Cookies

Ekatra’s website, 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 website 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.

•The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct You on how to prevent Your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell You when You receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note that certain features of the Ekatra website will not be available once cookies are disabled.

•Some of Our business partners, like Our advertisers, may use cookies on Our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

5.  Private Logging

•Every time You visit a web page, You send information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using.
•These logs are used to produce site statistics; the raw log data is not made public.
•Log data may be examined by developers and administrators in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site. IP addresses of users, derived either from those logs or from records in the database are frequently used to correlate usernames and network addresses in investigating abuse of the Ekatra Service, including vandalism, harassment of other users, or other disruptions of the site.

6. Identifying Purposes

•We collect personal information in order to place Your orders, process and collectYour payments, respond to Your inquiries, communicate with You, develop our business relationship with you by understanding Your needs and improving Our Service to you, enforce Our Terms of Use, manage and administer Our Ekatra business, where required, to provide reports to trusted third parties, and as otherwise required or permitted by law.
•If not self-evident due to the nature of the transaction in question, We will identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected.
•For example, We require the name and address of the person to create an User Account to provide such user with access to the service.

7. Consent

•We will collect, use or disclose Your personal information only with Your knowledgement and consent, except where required or permitted by law or this Policy.
•We will not make Your consent a requirement to the supply of a Service other than required to be able to supply the product or service.
•Consent can be express or, in some circumstances, implied, and given in writing, by a check-off box, electronically, orally, or implied by Your conduct, such as use of a product or service.
•You may withdraw Your consent at any time, by reasonable, express written notice, subject to any legal or contractual restrictions. Your withdrawal will be applied to future collection, use or disclosure only.

8.  Limited Disclosure

•Personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with Your direct or implied consent or as required or permitted by law or this Policy.
•It will be retained only as long as necessary for these purposes or as required by law.
•For greater certainty, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is Our policy that personally identifiable data collected in the Ekatra Service server logs may be released by Our system administrators in the following situations:

1.In response to a court order, subpoena or other compulsory legal process;

2.With permission of the affected user;

3.To Our executives, legal counsel, and their designees, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints;

4.Where the information dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues;

5. Where the user is damaging or degrading the Ekatra Service or continuously disruptive, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to the relevant Internet Service Providers;

6.Where it is reasonably necessary to protect Our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of the users of the Ekatra Service or the public;

7.To trusted third parties, on Our behalf, and, in the case of newspaper and magazine subscriptions, to Our publishers and other suppliers of content, as necessary and in compliance by such third parties with this Policy and all applicable privacy laws.

•In addition, Your Personal Information may be used and disclosed or transferred to one or more other parties (individually, a "Third Party") during the course of a purchase and sale transaction, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, joint venture or other type of business combination, reorganization, change in control, or restructuring or financing of all or part of Our business or assets (a "Business Transaction"), including for the purpose of permitting a Third Party to determine whether to proceed with such business transaction. 

9. Individual Access

• Upon request, We will inform You of the existence, use and disclosure of personal information relating to You and, except in certain circumstances, give You access to that information. You have the right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of Your information and have it amended as appropriate.
• In certain circumstances permitted by law, access to Your Personal Information will not be provided to You. Some examples of these circumstances are where the information contains references to the Personal Information of other individuals, cannot be disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, or is subject to attorney-client privilege.
• We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of thirteen or knowingly allow such persons to create User Accounts.  In the event that We learn that We have collected personal information from an individual under the age of thirteen, We will remove that information as quickly as possible.

10. Contact Us

For anything to do with this Policy, including questions or concerns, please contact Us as follows:

contact@ekatrabooks.com

11.  Amendments to this Privacy Policy

Ekatra may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Ekatra Website and Ekatra Service following the posting of any changes to this Policy shall constitute Your acceptance of those changes.