Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how the Instakhatir.com website and related application (the "Site", "we" or "us") collects, uses, shares and protects the personal information that we collect through this Site. Instakhatir has established this Site to link up users who are looking for available khatir offers around his/her location or anywhere our service is available within Bangladesh. This policy also applies to any mobile applications that we develop for use with our services and references to this "Site", "we" or "us" is intended to also include these mobile applications. Please read below to learn more about our information practices. By using this Site, you agree to these practices.
About The Site
The Site is a platform through which our registered merchants sell goods, services, or
experiences, make available coupons, promotional sales offers, giveaways, samples; sell
dining experiences for specific dates and times; sell food, beverage and other products
for takeout and delivery; make available certain limited offers for specific time and
date.
Merchants are the sellers and issuers of the Merchant Offerings and are solely
responsible to you for the care, quality, and delivery of the goods and services
provided. Please note, Instakhatir is not an agent of its Merchants but a media to
connect the two parties to create win-win opportunities in exchange of money for
products availed.
For users, the Site also provides a platform through which you can purchase or refer
products and participate in other available programs or campaigns. Certain Merchant
Offerings, Products, other available programs and pricing on the Site may change at any
time in Instakhatir’s sole discretion, without notice.
How we collect information
We collect, process and use your information when you register for our Services or sign
in to an existing account, visit our website, access our application(s), connect to our
Services using third-party accounts such as your email, social media or payment
account(s), contact us for support, or, participate in our
campaign/programs/contest/promotion/survey or poll. Additional information’s are
collected by us and our service providers automatically through your interaction with
our Services, location-identifying technologies, cookies and other tracking
technologies, monitoring and analyzing trends, usage and activities.
Other than basic information that we need to establish your account, it will be up to
you to decide how much information to share as part of your profile. You can review and
revise your profile at any time but we strongly encourage you to think sensibly about
the information that you share and we recommend that you protect your identity and any
sensitive information. We may run future campaigns or promotions and ask for a postal
mailing address or any other related personal information. It will always be your own
choice whether to provide your personal information in order to participate in these
events.
Information provided by your web browser
You have to provide us with personal information like your name, contact no, mailing address and email id, our app will also fetch your location information in order to give you the best service. Like many other websites, we may record information that your web browser routinely shares, such as your browser type, browser language, software and hardware attributes, the date and time of your visit, the web page from which you came, your Internet Protocol address and the geographic location associated with that address, the pages on this Site that you visit and the time you spent on those pages. This will generally be anonymous data that we collect on an aggregate basis. We may also use Google Analytics or a similar service to gather statistical information about the visitors to this Site and how they use the Site. This, also, is done on an anonymous basis. We will not try to associate anonymous data with your personally identifiable data. If you would like to learn more about Google Analytics, please click here.
Personal information that you provide
If you want to use our service or contact any Instakhatir member, you must create an account on our Site. To establish your account, we will ask for personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, which may include your name, phone numbers, e-mail address, birth date, profession and other personally identifiably information. We may also collect demographic information about you, such as your zip code, and allow you to submit additional information that will be part of your Instakhatir profile.
Use of Cookies and Similar Technology
Session and Persistent Cookies
As is commonly done on websites, we may use cookies and similar technology to keep track
of our users and the services they have elected. A "cookie" is a small text file
containing alphanumeric characters that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and
uniquely identifies your browser. We use both "session" and "persistent" cookies.
Session cookies are deleted after you leave our website and when you close your browser.
We use data collected with session cookies to enable certain features on our Site, to
help us understand how users interact with our Site, and to monitor at an aggregate
level Site usage and web traffic routing.
If you have created an account, we will also use persistent cookies that remain on your
computer’s hard-drive between visits, so that when you return to our Site we can
remember who you are and your preferences. For example, after you log out of our Site,
these persistent cookies can enable you to return to our Site without the need to log
back in.
We may allow business partners who provide services to our Site to place cookies on your
computer that assist us in analyzing usage data. We do not allow these business partners
to collect your personal information from our website except as may be necessary for the
services that they provide.
You can manage these cookies. For example, you can configure your browser to accept all
cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you disable cookies,
however, it may interfere with the functionality of our Site and you may not be able to
use all of the Site’s features.
Web Beacons
We may also use web beacons or similar technology to help us track the effectiveness of our communications. For example, if you have elected to receive any of our e-mail newsletters, we may use technology that allows us to see how many recipients have opened the message and how many have clicked on one of its links.
Advertising Cookies
We may use third parties, such as Google, to serve ads about our website over the internet. These third parties may use cookies to identify ads that may be relevant to your interest (for example, based on your recent visit to our website), to limit the number of times that you see an ad, and to measure the effectiveness of the ads. You can disable these advertising cookies by opting out at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Anonymous Data
We use the anonymous data that we collect on an aggregate basis to gain a better understanding of the visitors to our Site and to improve our website and product offerings. We reserve the right to license or sell this aggregated information to third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes, but this information will not contain your individually identifiable personal information.
Your security is our priority
If you have registered on this Site, you should be sure to protect your user ID and
password to prevent others from being able to access the Site in your name. You should
also be on guard for “phishing” scams and similar types of identity theft schemes. We do
not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information, your account ID,
login password, or national identification numbers in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail
or telecommunication, please be careful what and where you share this sort of critical
information.
We will generally use the information that we collect to provide our services, to
monitor and analyze visitor activity on our website, promote and support our services,
and develop a knowledge base regarding our website users. As detailed below, certain
information that you provide may be available to visitors to the Site, and some
information will be shared between Our Team and Customers.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us.
Data Integrity and Retention
We use the information that we collect about you only for the purposes for which it is collected and consistent with this policy. We keep information provided to us for as long as we believe necessary for our business purposes and as permitted by applicable law.
Third party websites
This Site may contain links to other websites operated by companies that are not affiliated with us. Also, you may have come to this website from a website that is not operated by us. We are not responsible for the operation of these other sites or the information that they collect from their visitors. If you would like to know how another site collects and uses your information, please review its privacy policy.
Information shared with our business partners
We may use business partners to help us design and operate our Site and provide services
to support the Site. We may also hire a company to run certain website applications,
provide data storage and processing services, or help us analyze our data. These
business partners may have access to the personal information that we keep, but only so
that they may perform these tasks on our behalf. We do not allow these business partners
to make any independent commercial use of the individually identifiable information that
we store, to share such data with third parties or from making the data publicly
available. Keep in mind, however, that if you establish a separate relationship with one
of these business partners, the information you provide directly to that organization
will be subject to its terms of use and its privacy practices.
We may also provide your personal information to our business partners or other trusted
entities for the purpose of providing you with information on goods or services we
believe will be of interest to you. You can, at any time, opt out of receiving such
communications. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on
a user's prior visits to Instakhatir. You can disable these specific cookies that track
prior visits for the sake of follow-up advertising by opting out from the service.
Business operations, law enforcement and legal actions
We may release your information without prior notice when we believe it is appropriate to prevent fraud or to prevent or stop activity that we know or suspect may be illegal, unethical or legally actionable; to comply with law or to cooperate with law enforcement activity or other governmental request; to respond to subpoenas, court orders or administrative agency requests for information; to enforce our policies; to protect the rights, property and safety of our business and of others; or when otherwise required by law. If there is a sale or merger of the company, division or business unit that operates this Site, we may also transfer the information we have collected in connection with such sale or merger.
Permanent deletion of your information
You may review, update, correct or delete the personal information in your profile at any
time. If you would like us to remove your information from our records, please. We will
try to accommodate your request if we do not have a legal obligation to retain the
record.
We will use the information we collect to continuously improve our website development.
Your comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Please contact us if you have any
comments or suggestions.