The Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and protection of the personal information of those using the Selvams.com website. Personal information means information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy and become familiar with it, but you should know that we do not sell or rent our clients’ personal information to third parties. Please note that we review our Privacy Policy from time to time, and we may make periodic changes to the policy in connection with that review. Therefore, you may wish to bookmark this page and/or periodically review this page to make sure you have the latest version. Regardless of later updates, we will abide by the privacy practices described to you in this Privacy Policy at the time you provided us with your personal information.

What personal information we collect from you and how we use it?

When browsing our site, you are not required to provide any personal information unless and until you choose to make a purchase or sign up for one of our e-mail newsletters or other services as described below.

Engaging us for our Services

In order to engage us for our services through our site, you must provide us with certain personal information such as your name, payment instrument details such as your credit card number and expiration date, credit card billing address, telephone number and e-mail address. We require this information to set up an account with us and to keep you informed of the status of your matters from time to time.

Access to information

In the event of you subscribing to our newsletters, you will occasionally receive updates from us about developments in the field of IP law in India and other important updates. However, you may choose at any time to no longer receive these types of e-mail messages. Please see our Opt-out policy described below for details.

Automatic Logging of Session Data

We automatically log generic information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, which we call “session data”, that is anonymous and not linked to any personal information. Session data consists of things such as IP address, operating system and type of browser software being used and the activities conducted by the user while on Selvams.com site. We collect session data because it helps us analyze such things as what items visitors are likely to click on most, the way visitors are clicking through the site, how many visitors are surfing to various pages on the site, how long visitors to the site are staying and how often they are visiting. It also helps us diagnose problems with our servers and lets us better administer our systems. Although such information does not identify any visitor personally, it is possible to determine from an IP address a visitor’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the approximate geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.

Cookies

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. There are many myths circulating about cookies, but you should know that cookies are only read by the server that placed them, and are unable to do such things as run programs on your computer, plant viruses or harvest your personal information. The use of cookies is very common on the Internet and Selvam’s use of cookies is similar to that of such sites as NDTV, TRIPADVISOR, as well as Yahoo!, BBC.com and other reputable websites. First and foremost, you can rest assured that no personally identifiable information (“PII”) about you (e.g., name, address, etc.) is gathered or stored in the cookies placed by the Selvams.com site and, as a result, none can be passed on to any third parties. Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at our site. We use cookies to personalize your experience on the Selvams.com site. As to the former, these types of cookies allow you to log in without having to type your log – in name each time (only your password is needed. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies. Of course, by changing the options on your web browser or using certain software programs, you can control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your browser. We support your right to block any unwanted Internet activity, especially that of unscrupulous websites. However, blocking our cookies may disable certain features on the Selvams.com site, and may make it impossible to obtain or use certain services available on the Selvams.com site. Please note that it is possible to block cookie activity from certain websites while permitting cookies from sites you trust, like ours.

Other

From time to time we may add or enhance services available on Selvams.com site. To the extent these services are provided and used by you, we will use the information you provide to facilitate the service requested. For example, if you email us with a question, we will use your email address, name, nature of the question, etc. to respond to your question. We may also store such information to assist us in making the site better and easier to use.

Is your personal information is shared?

When you use our services through Selvams.com, we must provide certain of your personal information to certain Government Agencies to enable the successful fulfilment of your engagement. However, we do not sell or rent individual customer names or other personal information to third parties. We use non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful online services by performing statistical analysis of the collective characteristics and behaviour of our clients and visitors, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Selvams.com Site.

How you can opt-out of receiving our promotional communications?

A subscriber, on their consent, will occasionally receive e-mail and SMS updates from us about our services, IP updates and other important offerings. We hope you will find these updates interesting and informative. Of course, if you do not wish to receive any such communication, please click on the “unsubscribe” link or follow the instructions in each e-mail message or send us an email. You can also log in to ‘Your Account’ on selvams.com and make the desired changes under the Preferences section.

What safeguards we have in place to protect your personal information?

All transactions on the Selvams.com site is SSL secured. This means all personal information you provide to us is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. The same process happens when you avail our services on the Selvams.com site.

What other information should I know about my privacy?

Selvams.com site contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another web site for which Selvams has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all such sites as their policies may be materially different from this Privacy Policy. Of course, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords, and your Selvams.com site membership account information. Please be very careful, responsible, and alert with this information, especially whenever you’re online.

In addition to the circumstances described above, we may disclose the Selvams.com site member information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect the rights or properties of Selvams.com or any or all of its affiliates, associates, employees, directors or officers or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

This policy is effective as of Jan 1st, 2019. Any material changes in the way Selvams.com uses personal information will be described in future versions of this Privacy Statement. Of course, you may always submit concerns regarding our Privacy Statement or our privacy practices via email to info@selvams.com. Please reference the privacy policy in your subject line. Selvams.com will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns or inquiries within seven working days of receipt. We look forward to having the opportunity to serve you!!