Terms & Conditions

I) Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY .

VellalarManamalai.com (the “Site”) and the Licensed Mobile Application for Accessing the Site (including all associated media and online or electronic documentation) (“the Application”), are owned and operated by VellalarManamalai Team (“Company”). The Site and Application are hereinafter collectively referred to as “Platform”.

The Company makes available its services and products to you, through the Platform on the condition that you abide by these Terms and Conditions, as updated from time to time. If you do not accept the Terms and Conditions or you do not meet or comply with their provisions, you should not use or access the Platform and/or avail of the Company’s services or products via the Platform.

The Platform is an intermediary as defined under sub-clause (w) of Section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Visitors to the Platform are granted a nonexclusive, limited license to use and access the content and services offered in accordance with these Terms and Conditions (the "License").

A Visitor to the platform, whether or not he/she has made any payment for availing access and/or services on the Platform, including the general browsers of the Platform, whether registered or not, are hereinafter referred to as “User/Users”.

BY THE POSITIVE ACTS OF A USER ACCESSING THE PLATFORM, THE USER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW (“Terms”). IF A USER DOES NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, HE/SHE SHOULD NOT ACCESS OR USE THE PLATFORM.

1. The Platform is owned and operated by VellalarManamalai Team (hereinafter referred to as ”Company”), which term shall, for the purposes hereof, be deemed to include its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, shareholders, directors, executives, officers, employees, agents, attorneys, accountants and any person vested with any responsibility for any task relating to the affairs of the company).
2. The Platform is intended only to serve as a preliminary medium of contact and information for Users who have a bona fide intention to enter into a matrimonial alliance (“Purpose”). The Platform does not purport to be a marriage or business bureau or a dating /contact website.
3. Company presumes that every User who logs on to the Platform has a bona fide intention to get married / enter into a matrimonial alliance and not otherwise. Company under no circumstances shall be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone's use of the Platform or the services offered on the Platform and / or any content posted on the Platform or transmitted to Users. The exchange of matrimonial profile(s) through or by the Platform should not in any way be construed as a matrimonial offer and/or recommendation from or by the Company. Company shall not be responsible for any loss or damage to any individual arising in/out of, or subsequent to, matrimonial relations established pursuant to use of the service provided by Company.
4. In order to use the Platform, you may sign in using your Facebook/Google login. If you do so, you authorize us to access and use certain Facebook/Google account information that you choose to display publicly. For more information regarding the information we collect from Users and how we use it, Users are advised to visit our Privacy Policy.
   
   Company collects information / data including, without limitation, e-mail id, address, first name, last name, telephone/mobile number, date of birth, age, gender, ethnic/cultural background, appearance, religion, occupation, preferences, life style information, general geographical location (“User Data”) from Users in order to enable them to create their profiles on the Platform. Apart from this, certain other health related information, including physical and mental disabilities are also collected. The User Data so collected is entered in a program especially devised for matching profiles and to provide matches for Users based on their pre-selected partner preferences criteria. User Data is displayed only after taking prior consent of Users. Company does not collect financial information of Users such as credit card/debit card numbers/bank accounts numbers etc. Company shall not be able to provide access to the Platform and/or create profiles of Users if the requisite User Data is not provided by the Users. User hereby consents to usage of his/her User Data to be displayed to other Users on the Platform.
   
   Users hereby give us permission to use the information about their activities and actions that they have taken on the Platform in connection with ads, offers and other sponsored content that the Company displays on the Platform, without charging any fees to the Users. The Company uses data and information about Users to make relevant suggestions and recommendation to its Users.

5. The User Data is uploaded by the Users themselves or through any of the VellalarManamalai offline centers displayed on the Platform. Company may, at its sole discretion, include all or any portion of the listing intimated by a User for display on the Platform in any other media including the matrimonial sections of other platforms including but not limited to print media, community associations, websites, television shows, DTH/IPTV Services, mobile wap sites etc. at no extra costs to the Users and Company shall not be held liable for usage/publicity of such information / data.

6. Users undertake not to duplicate, download publish, modify and distribute material on the Platform unless specifically authorized by the Company in writing. Users undertake not to establish any deep link or other connection to any specific page of the Platform without obtaining prior written consent of the Company.

7. Users undertake to use the Platform for their personal purposes. Using content from the Platform for creating derivative works with a commercial motive without prior written consent from the Company is strictly prohibited.
   
   
8. The Company takes measures including technological means on the Platform to exclude robots, scripts, programs etc. from crawling or scraping content on the Platform. Users undertake not to circumvent these methods.

9. Any advice, counseling, recommendations or information provided on the Platform including information of Users may not be necessarily correct, true or reliable, and that any reliance placed thereon and any action taken on the basis thereof shall be entirely / solely at the risk of the concerned User. Users hereby agree that access to the content available on the Platform is provided by Company to Users on an ‘AS-IS’ and ‘AS-AVAILABLE’ basis. Users wishing to use the information so provided are advised to conduct their own due diligence, in respect of the content on the Platform, at their own initiative, cost and effort. Company does not advise / recommend a User to establish any contact / interaction with other Users or any based on the data / information as furnished in such User’s profile / photograph etc. and the User opting to build contact or interact shall do it solely at his / her own risk. Company cannot be held responsible or liable, in any manner whatsoever, in respect of any reliance placed on any information displayed / placed on the Platform, since the same purports merely to act as indicators of the general scenario in the related behalf.

10. Company does not authenticate, vet, screen, endorse or investigate any information or assertion comprised in the matrimonial listings, or any other content on the Platform, nor does it in any manner whatsoever certify or attest the same to be correct or true. It does not endorse matches and profiles in any manner, but an implied presumption is cast on the Users that the information(s) furnished are exclusively / solely to carve out / frame a suitable profile for the purpose of matrimonial alliance based on the partner preferences criteria set by the Users. All due diligence, effort and initiatives must be exercised by those wishing to use any information found on the Platform, and should take adequate precautions with the full and complete knowledge that all information contained in the matrimonial listings have been placed there directly by Users of the Platform without any prior intimation, consent or verification of or by Company.
    
    Users of the Platform are prohibited from uploading, posting, transmitting, updating or sharing any information that:

a) belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right to;

b) is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; harm minors in any way;

c) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;

d) violates any law for the time being in force;

e) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; impersonate another person;

f) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Platform ; threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation.

Company may, without notice in its sole discretion, and at any time, terminate or restrict a User’s usage or access to the Platform (or any part thereof) and/or take down any content uploaded by a User for any reason, including, without limitation, that Company based on its judgement and perception believes the a User has violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms.

11. Company is an online service provider for Users to create their own/unique profiles envisaging certain personal (optional) information(s) and User Data are to be displayed on the Platform, which information is used by Users for the Purpose. Company does not share User Data with other Users or third parties with the prior consent of the User. Although Company shall take all reasonable precautions, Company shall not be responsible in case such User Data so displayed on the Platform being unauthorisedly copied / printed / published / forged / superimposed / manipulated etc. or misused by any User. Users shall indemnify Company from all kind of losses / damages which Company may suffer from any activities carried out by them through improper use of the Platform/service provided by Company.

12. By listing a matrimonial profile, or a business or personal listing or a link, or any content or listing, on the Platform, the concerned User making or posting such listing, and the person or persons responsible for such posting or listing, shall be deemed to have agreed to hold Company harmless and protected against any suit or complaint, civil, pecuniary or criminal, and against any claims or damages (including, without limitation, interests, fines and penalties) which may be brought against or levied on Company on account of any matter arising out of, or relating to, such posting / listing or response received from such posting/listing.

13. Whilst using the Platform an obligation is cast upon Users to only provide true and correct information and in the case of creating a profile Users undertake at all times to keep the information up to date. Company does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any member / visitor profile, advice, opinion, statement or other information displayed / uploaded through the service by Company. Company or any of its owners, staff or agents are not responsible under any circumstances for any action/display whether direct or indirect, which occurs as a result of online display of information in the nature of illicit material / material that may be offensive to visitors / members or is patently offensive to the on-line community or any material which may promote racism, bigotry, hatred or physical/mental harm of any kind to any group or individual or transmit any chain letters or junk mail or unsolicited mass mailing or spamming or obscene material to other users / members. Company does not monitor the conduct of Users and therefore Company does not take the responsibility of any conduct by Users who may avail / obtain / use / exploit the online service provided by Company in order to harass, abuse or harm another Users or use the said online service to promote / advertise / solicit anything without their prior consent or an act in any manner which may threaten the safety of other Users.

14. Company reserves the right to remove / delete any content / message / photo(s) / profile or cancel the registration / membership of a User either upon a complaint received from another User or upon discovery of the same on its own or based on its sole judgment and perception and it shall without notice stop providing the service entitled to a User and forfeit all other incidental service(s) with immediate effect along with the fee/tenure of registration as well as take appropriate legal action against such User. By listing a profile on the Platform, it is deemed that the said User has an intention to get married and in case it appears to Company that at the time of listing the profile or subsequently such User had no intention to enter into a matrimonial alliance or has changed his/her intention, then Company shall reserve the right to remove / delete such profile from the Platform and initiate prosecution under the law or take such steps as may be advised from time to time. By using the Platform, it is deemed that the User agrees not to post any content or views that may be considered threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable or act illegally or otherwise harass another user; put wrong or misleading information in any of the details of his/her own profile; impersonate another or use the site for any commercial purposes; or interfere with or disrupt the operation of this site, or disobey any reasonable requirements, procedures or policies imposed by Company from time to time.

15. Nothing comprised in the contents of the Platform is intended or meant to induce or persuade or convince or invite any person whatsoever to perform any action or do any such thing, or not to perform or do, where such performance or doing, or non-performance or not doing, constitute any contravention of any law or regulation in force for the time being to which such person or action may be governed.

16. Company shall not be held responsible for any interactions/ passing of information(s) etc. between any User via e-mail, chat or any other medium with another User and Company has no obligation, to monitor any such disputes arising between the Users and Company shall not be party to such dispute/litigation etc.

17. Company reserves the absolute right to modify or amend or delete, in any manner as it deems fit, any content of any matrimonial listing placed on the Platform in order to ensure compliance with the rules of such placement (which may include, without limitation, the efforts and initiatives by Company to maximize response to matrimonial listings), prima facie accuracy and the prevailing laws in force for the time being, especially those relating to prohibition of any indecent, unlawful or obscene content. Company reserves the absolute right to delete any profile if it finds that the same person has created multiple profiles on the Platform. Even if different profiles have been created with the same contact details, Company will reserve the absolute right to delete all such profiles. If any member refuses to give consent to a physical address verification that Company has requested then Company will have the absolute right to either put a "Not Verified" stamp on the profile or to delete the profile.

18. Websites to which links are given on the Platform and the contents thereof are the sole responsibility of the promoters of such websites and Company does not, in any manner whatsoever, recommend, authenticate, endorse, verify or certify these websites or any contents or links there. Company does not take any responsibility for the privacy practice adopted by such other websites and therefore Company recommends Users to read the privacy statement of each and every website that they visits. Company also does not take any responsibility or endorse the authenticity of the other online services displayed on the Platform which may offer various services like a lucky draw, win a free trip, win free tickets, astrology, palmistry, numerology etc. User of the Platform shall at its sole risk and responsibility click and surf on to such other website(s) / links which is/are being displayed on the Platform. Users shall always bear in mind that at a single stroke/click of the mouse on such links/website, it gets connected through the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP) network of the said Users and not through the IP of the Platform. Company also does not suggest/encourage Users to furnish personal information and specially the Profile ID / User Name of the User on the Platform to such or any other website(s).

19. Company reserves the right to tie up with partners in future to come up with various other online services. However, Company shall never share the information / data collected from Users with such other partners without taking prior consent / permission from such Users. Company in such circumstances suggests that Users peruse the privacy policy of such partners before giving their consent or before furnishing personal identifiable information with such other website(s). Company is not privy to the privacy practice adopted by its partners and does not take the responsibility in respect of the privacy policy adopted / to be adopted by such partners. Company also reserves the right to use / share the information / data collected from Users with its partners if a User has already made public the information / data to Users of the Platform.

20. Company hereby specifically disclaims any liabilities or warranties or guarantees, express, specific or implied, which may be attributable, in any manner whatsoever, to the existence, promotion, canvassing, contents, links, information or discontinuance of the Platform. No claims for damages, restitution, loss-of-profits, or any other pecuniary, civil or criminal plaints, which may be said to arise out, or on account, of any matter contained or related to the Platform, shall lie or be deemed to be sustainable against Company.

21. Company assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of User communications. Company is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to Users or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials /information from the Platform.

22. Users who visit the Platform are classified by Company as Users with incomplete or complete profiles. Both these types could further be free members or paid members. Company reserves the absolute right to modify, amend, change, curtail or expand any privileges, rights, benefits, liabilities or responsibilities of all types of paid Users or free Users as it deems fit and these will be instantly applicable to all past, present and future Users. Company allows free Users certain benefits /privileges like initiating free contact via "Express Interest" functionality, like viewing contact details of paid Users under certain conditions etc. The quantum of these benefits and even the benefits in totality will be at the sole discretion of Company. Company will determine at its own discretion how many benefits it offers to every free User. Company will simultaneously offer different levels of benefits to different free Users Benefit restriction to free Users will be done via multiple means including restricting access, spam filters, quotas etc.

23. Payments for the services offered on the Platform shall be on a 100% advance basis. The payment for service once subscribed to by the User is not refundable and any amount paid shall stand appropriated. Refund if any will be at the sole discretion of the Company and it offers no guarantees whatsoever for the accuracy or timeliness of the refunds reaching the User’s card/bank accounts. Company gives no guarantees of server uptime or applications working properly. All is on a best effort basis and Company’s liability for losses, damages and claims hereunder is limited to refund of amount only. Company undertakes no liability for free services. Company reserves its right to amend / alter or change all or any disclaimers or these Terms at any time without any prior notice. All terms / disclaimers whether specifically mentioned or not shall be deemed to be included if any reference is made to them. The continued usage of the Platform by a User shall constitute deemed acceptance by the User of the amended Terms.

24. The User is solely and exclusively responsible for maintaining confidentiality of the User password and User identification and all activities and transmission performed by the User through his/her user identification and shall be solely responsible for carrying out any online or off-line transaction involving credit cards / debit cards or such other forms of instruments or documents for making such transactions and Company assumes no responsibility or liability for their improper use of information relating to such usage of credit cards / debit cards used by the subscriber online / offline. Company uses reasonable care as is necessary to ensure that all or any data / information does not fall in the wrong hands. The weak link in credit card transaction is securely storing the data once received; therefore Company does not store or keep credit card/debit card/bank account. For the purposes of ensuring the maximum security for the financial information of a user (such as credit card/debit card/internet banking data) all such online payment transactions are carried out directly on the secured platforms of payment gateways and not on the Platform.

25. Company does not warrant that the Platform will be uninterrupted or error-free. Company provides the service on an "as is" basis. However, Company will take all reasonable steps to provide its users with error free, uninterrupted user experience. There may be delays, omissions, and interruptions in the availability of the Platform. Users acknowledge that use of the Platform is solely at their cost and risk. Company is not responsible for suspension of the services on the Platform, irrespective of the reason for such interruption / suspension. Company may discontinue or change the services on the Platform or its availability at any time, and the User is also free to stop availing the services on the Platform at any time.

26. The Company uses third party payment gateways on the Platform and failures in these gateways would be communicated to the users as it is. Extra currency/conversion charges/deductions/error issues from payment gateway shall not be the responsibility of the Company.

27. Company has complete rights in the Platform and the services provided thereunder. The Platform contains to the extent protected by applicable laws, copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of its owners and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for any other information/display for which permission have not been obtained from Company, Company reserves the right to proceed/initiate appropriate steps under the prevailing law against infringement of the said proprietary rights for illegal copying, modifying, publishing, transmitting, distributing, performing, displaying, or selling of any such proprietary information.

28. Company reserves the right to verify the authenticity of Content posted on the site. Company if circumstances warrant may call for / ask any of its Users to provide documentary or other form of evidence supporting the information / User Data posted on the Platform and the User, without any protest shall produce such documentary / other evidence in support of such information and if the User fails to produce such information within a reasonable or stipulated time frame, Company may, in its sole discretion, terminate the profile/access to the Platform and forfeit the advance without a refund and take appropriate steps under the provisions of law. Company also reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action without limitation at its sole discretion against any User who violates / misuses the online services and terminating the profile/access to the Platform of such violators without prior intimation who utilise the Platform in any manner which brings into disrepute or impairs the interests and functioning of Platform or the Company.

29. Company also reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action without limitation at its sole discretion against any User who violates / misuses the online services and terminating the profile/access to the Platform of such violators without prior intimation who utilise the Platform in any manner which brings into disrepute or impairs the interests and functioning of Platform or the Company.

30. Company does not take the responsibility of any information posted by its Users on the Platform, any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights and in case Company receives/discovers any such infringement, the said User may be called for / asked to furnish / provide evidence / relevant information in support of such display like an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest or a description of the copyrighted work that may have been infringed or information or a written statement that the User under bona-fide faith belief that the disputed information does not lead to any authorized use or infringement of copyright etc, under the law or a statement that the User is liable to penalty of perjury in case any of the information/statement furnished is proved otherwise or a declaration that the information displayed/posted is accurate and the User is itself the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

31. Company has no obligation to monitor the activities of its Users. However, Company has the right to monitor the Platform electronically from time to time and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request, to operate the Platform properly, or to protect itself or its Users. Company also reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable, or violative of provision of law.

32. The usage of this Platform and any disputes/issues arising out of it shall be subject to the applicable laws in force for the time being in the NCT of Delhi irrespective of conflicting provisions of law and to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts located in New Delhi.

33. All members of Platform are restricted to the following number of contacts they can make via the "Express Interest" option on the Platform.
    
    Free Member Paid Member Formerly Paid Member Exclusive Member

Daily Limit 25 100 100 225

Weekly Limit 100 400 100 575

Monthly Limit 400 800 400 1400

Profile Lifetime Limit 400 Unlimited* Unlimited* Unlimited*

* Subject to monthly limits at the discretion of the Company.

34. In case Company receives any incriminating evidence/complaint against any User from other Users of the Platform or if Company, through data available to it from its servers, suspects misbehavior on any User’s part, it reserves the right to impose restrictions on the User’s account which include but may not be confined to preventing the User under question from making multiple contacts and restricting the user to only contact members whose desired partner profile the User satisfies.

35. All services which are defined by time period indicated in months shall imply 1 month to be equal to 30 days and for any longer durations service the total duration in days will be the number of months multiplied by 30.

36. Company guidelines prohibit members to give their name and/or contact details in any form - Email, Phone nos., Messenger Ids, Postal address etc in any fields other than the specific ones where the same information is asked. If any member who puts the above information in any field other than the one meant for that purpose then the Company screening team will remove the same.

37. Users of the Platform are consenting for receiving

a) Membership Emails: Emails conveying the benefits of paid membership to Users. These are sent to the Email address mentioned by the Users in their profile.

b) Important Notifications from the Platform – Messages/notifications are sent to Users to inform them of various alerts related to usage of the Platform. . These will be communicated to the Users by Email/app notifications etc. or on their Landline/Mobile from a non-140 number via SMS/MMS/VMS/USSD/IVR/Calls etc.

c) Membership SMSes/Calls: SMSes or phone calls shall be sent conveying the benefits of paid membership to Users. Users will receive these calls or SMS on any of the phone numbers mentioned by Users on their profile, if they have subscribed to calls/ SMS in their alert manager settings.

38. Promotional Mails - . Promotional emails are sent to members on their Email ids, if they have subscribed to promotional emails in their alert manager settings.

39. If a member does not wish to receive communication from the Company then he needs to go to the "Settings" section in his profile and choose/disable for the modes (Emails / SMS / Calls / USSD / Messenger messages / IVR) and types of communication which User either wants to or does not want to receive. Types of communication are the specific messages based on profile attribute or Platform interactions between members. Platform may also provide for different message types and modes, other alternative ways to unsubscribe".

40. Users who sign up for VellalarManamalai Exclusive services allow the Company to find suitable candidate/prospects on their behalf as per their instructions via Telephone, SMS, profile action on VellalarManamalai Platform, face to face interaction or any other means/modes of communication.

41. Creation of duplicate profile on VellalarManamalai is prohibited. In case the user has forgotten his password he can use the password retrieval option. Forgetting password, User ID, reaching contact limits or any other reason for creating a 2nd profile on VellalarManamalai is not allowed. VellalarManamalai reserves the right to delete/block this profile or restrict access of this profile to use the Platform. VellalarManamalai at its own discretion can decide to delete/block/restrict access of 2nd profile or the original profile or both profiles in all cases where duplicate profiles have been found.

42. Membership Renewal: People who have subscribed to VellalarManamalai Exclusive have an option to renew their services. If the renewal happens before the expiry date, then any unused "Contact Views" available with the original pack are carried forward except when renewing to ‘’Basic’’ plan . Contact Views are the facility wherein members can see contact details of other members who have not filtered/rejected/ignored them. If a member renews his membership after the expiry of current membership, then it is treated as a fresh membership and unused "Contact Views" of the previous membership are not carried forward. These conditions hold even if the renewal of the subscription is bundled with a special "Renewal/Repurchase/Loyalty" offer. Purchase before or after renewal date is the only criteria which determines if unused "Contact Views" are carried forward or not.

43. Your "Name" will be visible to other members who are VellalarManamalai Paid subscribers either if they "View Your Contact Details" or if you have sent them an Acceptance. Information filled by a member is visible on the profile page. This page is indexed by Google/Ask/Bing/Yahoo and other search engines. If a search engine user types a query then your profile page may be visible in Google/Bing/Yahoo etc. search results. All details which you have put will be visible unless the same has been explicitly hidden by you using appropriate Platform profile privacy settings.

44. Use of certain features on the Platform is governed by rules. For example if your phone number is not verified then you cannot contact other members via "Express Interest" or even if the same is happening then that privilege can be blocked by Company at any time without giving any notice. Similarly If your phone number is not verified then even as a person who has availed a "Paid Service" you will still not be able to view phone/email/contact details of other members via any option on the Platform. For verifying your phone number, there are verification prompts across the Platform which guide you on how to verify your phone. If the same is not clear then it is the member's responsibility to call customer care of Platform from the number which he/she wishes to verify.

45. Any paid membership are non-transferable. Any membership which is purchased is being purchased for that individual and cannot be used for any other profile in his/her family/friends/acquaintances etc. If a profile is deleted for whatsoever reason then that persons membership lapses.

46. At times when a member tries to access the phone/email of another member, he can get a message which asks him to "View Phone/Email tomorrow - Contact limits reached of recipient" or any message which means the same. In these cases the member just needs to visit the same profile again the next days and use his quota of "View Contacts".

47. 'Contact Details' may consist of one or more of the following details - a. Mobile number(s), b. Landline number and c. Email address. Having a paid subscription apart from Basic plan unlocks access to 'Contact Details' subject to the following conditions: i. Access to Contact Details may be restricted based on privacy settings with respect to phone number(s) or contact filters opted by the other person or if the other person has blocked, declined or cancelled interest, ii. A fair usage limit of at most 25 contact views per month of subscription duration applies for viewing contact details of people who are not 'Accepted members' or are excluded due to condition i) above, and iii. Access to contact details is not possible if the other person is not an accepted member and the other person’s contact details have already been viewed 10 times during the day. Except for those opting for Basic plan, there is no usage limit for accessing contact details of accepted members for paid subscribers.

48. Paid Membership is co-extensive with the profile, membership expires as soon as the profile is deleted and cannot be reactivated.

49. Taking photos and Data from the site and reused outside is prohibited.

50. 'Featured Profile' subscribers will be considered to be shown at the top of search results only if they regularly login to their account. If 'Featured Profile' subscribers don't access the Platform for more than 15 days, they will be removed from the pool of users considered for being shown at the top of Search Page.

51. Sending of Response Booster interests on behalf of Response Booster subscribers is subject to them regularly accessing their accounts. If an account is not accessed for more than 15 days, Response Booster interests will be stopped until the subscriber accesses his/her account.

52. Any profile deleted by the profile user cannot be retrieved under any circumstances.

53. Coupons generated for referrals on VellalarManamalai have an expiry date of one year from the date of generation. Coupons will only be awarded to the referrer and the referee if the referee registers from the link sent by VellalarManamalai (on Email or through share options). However, coupons are not valid for USD Payments, coupons are not valid on Plan upgrades, coupon code discounts cannot be combined with any other offer on the Platform and coupons cannot be availed on two (2) month and four (4) month plans.

54. Unless otherwise specified and notwithstanding anything contained in any other agreement or arrangement, by whatever name called, the performance obligation of Company (service provider) is to provide access of its on-line portal to the customer for the duration of the subscription period & reference to any usage, by whatever name called or any other performance obligation, if any, is to provide the upper limit for consumption, which by itself, does not create any additional performance obligation upon Company.

55. We do housekeeping of profiles which are not logged in for a period of 12 months. We remove all the data associated with the profile during housekeeping.

56. The pricing and the contact views allotted will be on prorata basis as computed by VellalarManamalai. The plan upgrades will be valid till the expiry of the original plan bought.

II) Restriction / Prohibitions

The following actions will inter alia constitute a misuse of the Platform and are strictly prohibited:

(i) Copying, extracting, downloading, sharing, modifying, selling, storing, distributing, making derivate works from or otherwise exploiting any content, data, information, including profiles, curriculum vitae, photographs and/or graphics, available on the Platform and/or any services or products of the Company, in any manner or for any purpose which is not, consistent with the Purpose and/or in accordance with the Terms of Use.

Users are expressly prohibited from using or exploiting the Platform and/or any content or data provided therein for:

(a) any commercial purposes such as creating alternate databases, extending access to the Platform to third parties without prior written consent of the Company; and/or

(b) undertaking any business activity which is in competition with the business of the Company; and/or

(c) for seeking fees in any name whatsoever; and/or

(d) approaching candidates/jobseekers for any purposes other than for specific existing vacancies; and/or

(e) Sharing access with persons who are not contracted with the Company.

(f) Reselling the products/services offered by the Company.

(ii) (Using or attempting to use any automated program, software or system or any similar or equivalent process (including spiders, robots, crawlers etc.) to access, navigate, search, copy, monitor, download, scrape, crawl or otherwise extract in any manner, any data or content including but not limited to adding or downloading profiles, contact details, or send or redirect messages from the Platform;

(iii) Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access (inter alia by hacking, password “mining” or any other means) to:

(a) any portion or feature of the Platform or any of the services or products offered on or through the Platform which are not intended for you;

(b) any server, website, program or computer systems of the Company or any other third parties and/or Users;

(iv) Modifying the services provided through the Platform or their appearance using any technology or overlay any additional offering on top of such services or simulate the Platform’s services or its functions in any manner whatsoever without explicit consent obtained in writing by approaching us at [email protected] .

(v) Accessing the Platform through interfaces other than those expressly provided by Company;

(vi) Attempting to breach or breaching any security or authentication measures set up by the Company in relation to the Platform and/or attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Company’s system or network;

(vii) Scraping, downloading (including bulk- downloading), replicating or otherwise extracting any information or data from the Platform (by any process, whether automatic or manual) to offer any products or services which are similar to or may in any manner compete with the products or services of the Company;

(viii) Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, deciphering or otherwise attempting to do any of the aforesaid or deriving the source code for the Site or Application or any related technology or any part thereof;

(ix) Circumventing or attempting to circumvent any technological protections used or employed by the Company or by any third party in order to protect the content on the Platform and/or to exclude robots, spiders etc. from crawling and /or scraping content from the Platform.

(x) Bypassing or Circumventing or trying to circumvent any service limits including but not limited to Search limits, Captcha limits and occurrences on different triggers

(xi) Interfering with or disrupting or attempting to interfere with or disrupt (including by using any device, software or routine), the use of the Platform or any computer networks connected to the Platform, by any other User;

(xii) Developing, using or attempting to use any automated program, scripts, robots, third party software or system or any similar or equivalent process (including spiders, robots, crawlers, browser plug-ins/extensions/add-ons, iframes on third party sites, mirroring, HTML parsers etc.) to access, navigate, search, copy, monitor, download, scrape, crawl or otherwise extract or modify in any manner, any data or content from the Platform without explicit consent obtained in writing by approaching us at [email protected] ;

(xiii) Impersonating any other person or entity, or making any misrepresentation as to your employment by or affiliation with any person or entity;

(xiv) Forging headers or in any manner manipulating identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any user information;

(xv) Stalking, threatening, or in any manner harassing any other User;

(xvi) Imposing an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Platform infrastructure;

(xvii) Engaging in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Platform (or any part thereof) and providing deeplinks into this Platform (or any part thereof) without prior permission of Company;

(xviii) Spamming the Platform/Company or any other Users including by uploading, posting, emailing, SMS, transmitting or otherwise making available either directly or indirectly, any unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail.

(xix) Using the Platform or the contact details of Users for transmitting marketing and promotional mailers/ Offensive messages/ messages or communications using any media that are unrelated to matrimony or sending unsolicited commercial communications with misleading subject lines in order to intentionally obfuscate the original message.

(xx) Hosting, modifying, uploading, posting, transmitting, publishing, or distributing any material or information that:

a. Violates any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation for the time being in force;

b. Belongs to another person and to which you have no right;

c. Infringes, breaches or otherwise contravenes the rights of the Company or any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary rights;

d. Contains computer viruses, or other computer code, files or programs designed to disrupt, destroy or interfere with or limit the functioning of the Platform, or any other computer system or resource;

e. Is grossly harmful, harassing, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling in any manner, any content which is or may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, blasphemous, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever;

f. Which constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law;

g. That deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;

h. That harms minors in any way;

i. That threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting to any other nation.

III) Fraud Alert

 VellalarManamalai.com is committed to provide you with a safe & secure platform in which you search and find your partner. We help our users discover the best matches but it is in the interests of a user to use their best judgment to assess another person’s genuineness and interest in marriage.

Despite all we do to make the platform secure, we advise some precautions while using our sites and apps:

If a user appears to have entered false, incorrect information about their education, profession, income, family etc., mark such profiles as ‘Report Abuse’ and refrain from contacting that user.

If a user asks for personal favors like transportation of goods, deposit of funds on their behalf, lend them some money etc., immediately cease any communication with the user and do as advised above.

Be cautious of fake or copy sites which may look similar but are actually owned by people who may have malicious intent. Many sites have a similar appearance as VellalarManamalai.com but they are not in any way related or affiliated to VellalarManamalai.com . Please check the URL of the site (it should be www.VellalarManamalai.com ) that you are visiting.

Representatives from these fake sites may reach out to you to get membership fee or for registering your profiles. Exercise caution and alert our customer service if and when this happens.

Beware of people who pretend to call from the VellalarManamalai team asking for your user id’s and passwords to login to your account. Please note that VellalarManamalai never asks you for user password information either on phone or in person.

Never share your financial details like bank account number, online banking credentials, credit card details etc. and be wary of those who ask for money from you. Use sound judgement and do not take any decision in a hurry.

Meet with prospective partners you find on the platform in a safe place and inform your family or friends of the meeting.

Do a thorough background research about the person before any commitments are made.

VellalarManamalai.com is merely a preliminary medium of contact and exchange of information. Users are strongly advised to conduct an independent check/due diligence prior to proceeding with any decisions based on the content of the profile. The onus of verifying the authenticity of the information displayed on a profile lies on the user.

In case you face any of the above stated situations or come across a probable fake profile, immediately notify us on [email protected] .

3) Third party T&C

Express disclaimers for Predictive Third Party Content

www.VellalarManamalai.com carries active links to another website “matchstro.com” which in turn provides predictive content. However, the said predictive content is not being generated by www.VellalarManamalai.com in-house but has been outsourced to another entity and such outsourced content is being delivered through the channel of www.VellalarManamalai.com .

An astrological prediction is just an opinion of the astrologer and has no scientific authenticity. These predictions are based upon the characteristics, placements, aspects, associations, strengths, weaknesses of the planets and the ability, grip over the subject and experience of the astrologer in Vedic astrology.

A Vedic astrological horoscope is the opinion of one person based on his or her training and experience in the subject. On receiving a particular enquiry from a client, this query is passed to a panel of astrologers for the predictions/remedies and answered within 7 working days or earlier. Generally 2-3 astrologers give their predictions for an enquiry. Another astrologer's opinion on any particular point might differ. Recommendation for astrological remedies such as gemstones, mantras, yantras etc. are often prescribed by astrologers, after a diligent study of the client's birth chart and with due exercise of his prudence and judgment. All Predictions are made based on Horoscope prepared on Birth Database provided by the Client in accordance to the principals of Vedic Astrology.

Though all the predictions are provided by a panel of eminent astrologers, the same should not be used as a substitute to an advice of a licensed professional, medical / psychiatric treatment, study, a curriculum, profession or life style or treatment that you would normally receive from a licensed professional, such as a lawyer, doctor, psychiatrist, or financial advisor. The predictions, opinions and remedial measures of two astrologers on one horoscope may differ and have varied results. It must be clearly understood that every such prescription is accompanied by a prescribed method and procedure, which is expected to be followed by our clients with due diligence.

DISCLAIMER

VellalarManamalai Team does not itself engage in astrological predictions and has instead, outsourced the work of astrological predictions to an expert third party content provider. As such, VellalarManamalai Team cannot be held responsible in any way for the inaccuracy of any prediction. VellalarManamalai Team makes no warranties or representations regarding the accuracy or significance of any aspect of the astrological horoscope, and cannot be responsible for any interpretation or use that may be made of it. Readings may differ from astrologer to astrologer.

Further, the management of VellalarManamalai Team does not guarantee the accuracy of predictions and disclaim any responsibility for any decision(s) or its consequences taken by any person based on predictions made on the information available from the client.

The web site www.VellalarManamalai.com makes no warranty or representation regarding the web site, any content or products provided in connection with the web site, including paid astrological services and consultations. We expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express or implied, including any warranty as to the availability, accuracy, completeness or content of information, products or services including astrological prediction services, which are part of www.VellalarManamalai.com .

VellalarManamalai Team also disclaims any or all warranties or fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or against infringement. In no event will VellalarManamalai Team or its employees, be liable for any damages or losses, including without, limitation, indirect, consequential, special, incidental or punitive damages resulting from or caused by the VellalarManamalai Team’s web site, its contents or any errors or omissions in its contents, even if advised of the possibilities of such damages.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances and under no legal theory, tort, contract, or otherwise, shall VellalarManamalai Team or its management be liable to the user or any other person for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character including, without limitation, damages resulting from the use of or the inability to use the www.VellalarManamalai.com service, including its predictive and /or other astrological services, or damages for loss of goodwill, business profit, business stoppage, loss of data or business information, computer damage, or damages resulting from unauthorized access to or changes made to user's transmissions or data, or any and all other commercial damages or losses. It is understood that the materials provided are for your personal information only and do not construe to be any specific advice to you.

We shall not be held responsible for personal or business losses arising from using or not using our services in any way. Please use your own discretion when following our advice including astrological prediction services.

Any action taken by the user on the basis of the information , astrological or otherwise, contained in this site is the user’s responsibility alone and VellalarManamalai Team will not be liable in any manner for the consequences of such action taken by the user.

The relationship between the user and www.VellalarManamalai.com shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of India without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

This site is the property of VellalarManamalai Team and is subject to Indian laws. www.VellalarManamalai.com reserves the right to make modifications and alterations in the material contained at this site without any prior notice of such modifications or alterations whatsoever. In no event will www.VellalarManamalai.com be liable for any damages.

You are advised to exercise due caution while relying, in any manner whatsoever, upon any astrological predictions or other predictive services of any kind whatsoever and any of your action, resulting from your reliance of astrological predictions on www.VellalarManamalai.com or the website(s) of its business affiliates or astrological and other service providers, shall purely be one for which VellalarManamalai Team and its business affiliates or astrological and other service providers has no responsibility or liability of any kind whatsoever and that for the same, the responsibility shall be entirely that of you absolutely and unconditionally.

4. Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

We, at VellalarManamalai Team and our affiliated companies worldwide (hereinafter collectively referred to as “NM”), are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how NM collects, uses, discloses and transfers personal information of users through its websites and applications, including through www.VellalarManamalai.com , mobile applications and online services (collectively, the "Platform").

This policy applies to those who visit the Platform, or whose information NM otherwise receives in connection with its services (such as contact information of individuals associated with NM including partners) (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Users”). For the purposes of the Privacy Policy, “You" or “Your” shall mean the person who is accessing the Platform.

2.Types of Personal Information collected by NM

“Personal information” (PI) - means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person including common identifiers such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person and any other information that is so categorized by applicable laws.

We collect information about you and/or your usage to provide better services and offerings.

The Personal Information that we collect, and how we collect it, depends upon how you interact with us. We collect the following categories of Personal Information in the following ways:

We may collect your Personal Information such as name, email address, date of birth, mobile number, mother tongue, password, country, state/nationality, gender, current location, city, pin code, marital status, height, occupation, income etc.

When you complete your profile, you can share with us additional information, such as details on your personality, family details, contact address and other details about you, as well as content such as photos. To add certain content, like pictures or videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, for example your ethnic origins, religious beliefs, sub caste, physical and mental conditions. By choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of the information., when the you sign up as a member or you set up an alert on the Platform, we may reach out to you as per your settings;

Information that one would usually include in a matrimonial profile, including name, contact details such as e-mail address and mobile number, date of birth, educational qualifications, data relating to your current employment, income photographs, visa and work status etc. when you register on the Platform;

Information about the services that you use and how you use them, including log information and location information, when you are a user of the services through the Platform;

We may collect your Personal Information such as name, age, contact details, preferences, etc. through surveys and forms, when you choose to participate in these surveys etc.;

We may collect your documents on age, address, income etc. for verification purposes to provide additional credibility to your profile.

When you communicate with NM or use the Platform to communicate with other members (including advertisers, Users (such as partners), we collect information about your communication and any information you choose to provide;

When you visit the Platform, we use cookies to automatically collect, store and use technical information about your system and interaction with our Platform;

When you use a device to access the Platform, NM may collect technical or other related information from the device as well as the device location;

To the extent permitted by law, NM may record and monitor your communications with us to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and our internal policies. This may include the recording of telephone conversations.

We may collect your and your partner’s information such as but not limited to name, gender, date and time of birth, city, state, country and email if you avail our horoscope services.

We may collect, process and store your user ID associated with any social media account (such as your Facebook and Google account) that you use to connect with us or to avail our services

When you use your social media account information to access the Platform, or otherwise connect your social media account with the services of the Platform, you consent to our collection, storage, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, of the information that you make available to us through the social media interface. Please see your social media provider's privacy policy and help centre for more information about how they share information when you choose to connect your account.

3. How NM may use your Personal Information

We will only use your personal data in a fair and reasonable manner, and where we have a lawful reason to do so.

Our use of your personal data depends on the purpose for which you interact with us. We may process your Personal Information for the following purposes:

Protecting our Users and providing you with customer support;

Our automated systems analyse your content to provide you customised search results and recommendations.

Send alerts and emails such as match alert mails, membership mails, visitor alert mails, new matches mails, contact alert mails, photo request mails, service mails, promotional mails, SMS alerts and call alerts(s) to you ( To unsubscribe, please visit the Alert Manager link on your profile).

We also process your chats with other users of the Platform, for purposes such as fulfilment of legal obligations, monitoring for offensive or menacing content etc.

We use information collected from cookies and other technologies, like pixel tags, to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services (for more information please refer to paragraph 4 below). When showing you tailored ads, we will not associate an identifier from cookies or similar technologies with sensitive categories, such as those based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health, improving the Platform and its content to provide better features and services.

Conducting market research and surveys with the aim of improving our products and services.

Sending you information about our products and services for marketing purposes and promotions;

Preventing, detecting, investigating and taking action against crimes (including but not limited to fraud and other financial crimes), any other illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of the Platform’s Terms of Use in any jurisdiction

To the extent required for identity verification and due diligence checks if so undertaken.

Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights in connection with legal proceedings (including any prospective legal proceedings) and seeking professional or legal advice in relation to such legal proceedings.

4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some of our web pages utilize "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about web-site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them.

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the Platform.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Platform and the overall website experience. We may also analyse information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.

For more information about our use of cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy.

5. The Basis/ Grounds which we rely on for collection and processing of your Personal Information:

Your Personal Information is collected and processed by NM based on the following legal grounds depending upon the nature of Personal Information and the purposes for which it is processed.

Consent:

NM relies on your consent in order to process your Personal Information in certain situations. If NM requires your consent to collect and process certain Personal Information, as per the requirements under the applicable data protection laws, your consent is sought at the time of collection of your Personal Information and such processing will only be performed where consent is secured.

Compliance with a legal obligation:

Your Personal Information may be processed by NM, to the extent that such processing is necessary to allow NM to comply with a legal obligation. An example of this would be if NM is required to disclose your Personal Information to respond to a court order or if NM is required to retain specific records for a fixed period to comply with requirements under any applicable law.

6. Information Sharing and Disclosure

Third Party Services: Third parties provide certain services available on the Platform on its behalf. Platform may provide information, including Personal Information and special/ sensitive personal information, that the Platform collects from its users to third-party service providers to help us deliver programs, products, information, and services. Service providers are also an important means by which the Platform maintains its services and mailing lists.

We restrict access to your Personal Information to employees who we believe reasonably need to know/or that information to fulfil their functions to provide, operate, develop, or improve our products or services.

NM does not disclose, transfer or share your Personal Information with others except with:

Our affiliates and group companies to the extent required for our internal business and/or administrative purposes and/or general corporate operations and for provision of services;

Third parties including enforcement, regulatory and judicial authorities, if we determine that disclosure of your Personal Information is required to a) respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or b) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Platform’s Terms & Conditions or as otherwise required by law;

In the event of a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets or any other situation involving the transfer of some or all of NM’s business assets we may disclose Personal Information to those involved in the negotiation or transfer.

Third party service providers and marketing partners that NM engages to a) provide services over the Platform on NM’s behalf; b) maintain the Platform and mailing lists; or c) communicate with you on NM’s behalf about offers relating to its products and/or services. NM will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect your Personal Information and are also subject to appropriate confidentiality / non-disclosure obligations.

Third party advertisers to display advertisements to you when you visit the Platform. The third-party advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies). These companies may use information about you and your visits to this Platform and other web sites to provide advertisements on this Platform.

The Company does not provide any Personal Information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement. However, if you interact with or view an advertisement, the advertiser may make certain assumptions and, in the process, learn certain Personal Information about you. For instance, if you view and click an advertisement that is targeted towards women in the age group 18- 24 from a specific geographic area, the advertiser may assume that you meet the relevant criteria.

NM does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on NM's behalf unless such transfer is legally required.

If your Personal Information is transferred outside India, we take the necessary steps to protect your Personal Information in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

7. Third Party Content:

Please be aware that the Platform sometimes contains links to other sites that are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Users may be directed to third-party sites for more information, such as advertisers, blogs, content sponsorships, vendor services, social networks, etc.

NM makes no representations or warranties regarding how your information is stored or used on third-party servers. We recommend that you review the applicable privacy statements and policies of each third-party site linked from the Platform to determine their use of your personal information.

8. Children

To use the Platform, you agree that you must be the minimum age (described in this paragraph below) or older.

The minimum age for these purposes shall be eighteen (18), however if local laws require that you must be older for NM to be able to lawfully provide the services over the Platform to you then that older age shall apply as the applicable minimum age.

If you are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must use the Platform under the supervision of your parent, legal guardian or responsible adult.

9. Retention of Personal Information

Your Personal Information will not be retained by NM any longer than it is necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Information is processed and/or in accordance with legal, regulatory, contractual1 or statutory obligations as applicable.

At the expiry of such periods, your Personal Information will be deleted or archived in compliance with applicable laws

You can delete your data by deleting your profile on VellalarManamalai . To know how to delete your profile, visit https://www.VellalarManamalai.com /help/index

10. Controlling your personal information

You have the right to invoke your rights which are available to data principals or data subjects (as per applicable laws and regulations) in relation to your Personal Information which is being processed by NM.

NM provides you the ability to keep your Personal Information accurate and up-to-date. If at any time you would like to a) rectify, update or correct your Personal Information; b) obtain confirmation on whether or not your Personal Information is processed by it; c) access your Personal Information or exercise your right to data portability; or d) exercise your right to restrict the continuing disclosure of your Personal Information to any third party by NM in certain circumstances, you are requested to contact us using the contact details mentions below. We will require you to provide a valid proof of your identity, in order to ensure that your rights are respected.

For the exercise of certain rights, you may be required to approach the relevant authority / designated officer as per the provisions of the applicable data protection laws.

NM may in accordance with the provisions of applicable data protection laws, charge a fee for fulfilling your request, in particular in case of excessive or manifestly unfounded request. Further you acknowledge that the abovementioned rights are not absolute and are subject to limitations as per the applicable data protection laws.

11. Confidentiality and Security

The security and confidentiality of your Personal Information is important to us and NM has invested significant resources to protect the safekeeping and confidentiality of your personal data. When using external service providers acting as processors, we require that they adhere to the same standards as NM does. Regardless of where your Personal Information is transferred or stored, we take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that personal data is kept secure.

We seek to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules made there under to ensure the protection and preservation of your privacy. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws prevalent in India to protect your Personal Information. By accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy, you agree that the standards and practices being implemented by us, are reasonable and sufficient for the protection of your Personal Information.

12. Social media

NM operates channels, pages and accounts on some social media sites to inform, assist and engage with customers. NM monitors and records comments and posts made on these channels about itself in order to improve its products and services.

Please note that you must not communicate the following information to NM through such social media sites:

sensitive personal data including (i) special categories of personal data meaning any information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation and (ii) other sensitive personal data such as criminal convictions and offences and national identification number ;

Excessive, inappropriate, offensive or defamatory content.

NM is not responsible for any information posted on those sites other than the information posted by its employees on its behalf. NM is only responsible for its own use of the Personal Information received through such sites.

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

NM reserves the right to update, change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. The Privacy Policy shall come to effect from the date of publication of such update, change or modification

14. Disclaimer

NM does not store any account related information or any credit / debit card details. NM shall not be liable for any loss or damage sustained by Users as a result of any disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise) of any information concerning the User's account, credit cards or debit cards in the course of any online transactions or payments made for any products and/or services offered through the Platform.

In case any Personal Information is shared by you with NM, which is not requested by NM during registration, (whether mandatorily or optionally), NM will not be liable for any information security breach or disclosure in relation to such information.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the protection of your Personal Information, please contact NM’s Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer at the following:

15. Data Protection Officer/ Grievance Officer

In case you have any complaints and/or grievances in relation to the processing of your Personal Information you can send your complaints via e-mail to our grievance officer:

VellalarManamalai Team

Contact us through Email /Website contact us

E-Mail: [email protected]

5. Privacy Features:

Privacy and confidentiality features and tools at VellalarManamalai.com

At VellalarManamalai.com we believe that protecting the confidentiality and privacy of our registered users is very important. For this reason, our basic features are designed to protect your confidentialty. Further we have sophisticated tools that enable you to set your privacy and confidentiality levels to those that you are comfortable with.

A. Universal Confidentiality features

Profile design

Our profile format is designed so as to prevent people from identifying you unless you wish them to do so. Thus the information that is gathered is general in nature - age, height, gender, caste, ethnicity, occupation, location, family profile, interests, desired partner profile etc. Typically information that will help generate interest among the right prospective life partners without individually identifying you. Uploading photographs is optional.

B. Protect your confidentiality

At VellalarManamalai.com we understand that different people have different needs for privacy and confidentiality. Thus For this reason we empower our registrants with tools to customize the privacy levels of their profile, photographs and contacts.

Some of these settings are :

For Profile

Allow my detailed profile to be viewed by all visitors or

Allow my detailed profile to be viewed only by registered users who pass my filters.

Don't show my detailed profile or summary profile to any user, I will search and contact profiles.

Profile visibility settings are available in the settings section which is accessible from the header and footer on all pages after login. We recommend that you go in for the first privacy setting as that will get you the maximum response. Frequently our site is searched by casual browsers who are highly qualified, eligible people or friends and relatives of a prospective bride or groom and thus your profile is visible to this important group of visitors.

Of course if you wish to maintain a higher level of privacy and confidentiality then you can go in for the second option. And if you want the maximum level of privacy then you can select the third option.

Please note that in the first two profile visibility options, your summary profile will be viewed by all visitors. It will show your username, age, height, caste, occupation, city and date of updation. Typically these are the details by which you cannot be identified. In the second case, an unregistered user will be prompted to register and it will be checked if they pass your filters and only then would they be able to view your detailed profile. Whereas in the third case nobody will be able to view your summary or detailed profile.

However, we would recommend you to go for the second option because the third option might minimize the number of responses your profile can get.

For Photograph

In case you wish to upload your photograph(s) along with your profile then you have the following options :

I want my photos to be visible to all members.

I want my photos to be visible only to members I contact and to members I accept.

Thus you get to set that privacy level for your photograph which you feel most comfortable with.

We would however recommend that you do upload your photographs and go in for the first privacy setting option as that is likely to get you the maximum relevant response. The photograph privacy settings options are available in the 'My Photos' section of the 'My Profile' page. This page can be accessed after you have registered your profile.

For contacts

When entering profile on VellalarManamalai.com you can specify criteria based on which people who do not match your desired partner profile are unable to contact you. Thus you are not bothered by people who you are clear you would not be interested in.

Filter setting are available once you have entered your desired partner profile.

So when you register with VellalarManamalai.com you register with the most confidential Indian matrimonial site. So register with confidence.

6. Cookie Policy

Introduction

This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains that we believe in being open and clear about how we use your information. In the spirit of transparency, this Policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies on our Websites. This cookie policy applies to any VellalarManamalai product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.

a) Does VellalarManamalai uses cookies?

VellalarManamalai uses cookies, tags and other technologies when you use any of the VellalarManamalai websites, mobile sites or mobile apps (collectively “the services”). Cookies are used to ensure everyone has their best possible experience. Cookies also help us keep your account safe. By continuing to visit or use our services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes we describe in this policy. If you prefer not to receive cookies or web beacons, then you should stop using our site, or consult your browsing and third party cookie settings as described below.

b)What is a cookie?

Cookies are small pieces of text stored by a website you visit in your browser and subsequently sent by your web browser in every request to the website. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Site or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you. Essentially, cookies are a user’s identification card for the VellalarManamalai servers. Cookies allow VellalarManamalai to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience on our site. Web beacons, tags and scripts may be used in the Websites or in emails to help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may analyse or perform analysis based on the use of these technologies and generate reports on an individual and aggregated basis.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie helps us recognize you as an existing user, so it’s easier to return to VellalarManamalai or interact with our services without signing in again. After you sign in, a persistent cookie stays in your browser and will be read by VellalarManamalai when you return to one of our sites or a partner site that uses our services. Session cookies only last for as long as the session (usually the current visit to a website or a browser session).

c) What are cookies used for?

When you visit our Websites, we may place a number of cookies in your browser. These are known as First Party Cookies and are required to enable to hold session information as you navigate from page to page within the website. For example, we use cookies on our Websites to understand visitor and user preferences, improve their experience, and track and analyse usage, navigational and other statistical information. Additionally, cookies allow us to bring you advertising both on and off the VellalarManamalai site, and bring customized features to you. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you elect not to activate the cookie or to later disable cookies, you may still visit our Websites, but your ability to use some features or areas of the Websites may be limited.

We may use any of the following categories of cookies on the Websites as detailed below.

Each cookie falls within one of the four following categories:

Category Description

1. Essential Cookies Essential cookies (First Party Cookies) are sometimes called “strictly necessary” as without them we cannot provide many services that you need on the Website. For example, essential cookies help remember your preferences as you move around the Website. Essential cookies also keep you logged in into a website. Without them the login functionality would not work.
2. Analytics Cookies These cookies track information about visits to the VellalarManamalai and partner ) websites so that we can make improvements and report our performance. For example: analyse visitor and user behaviour so as to provide more relevant content or suggest certain activities. They collect information about how visitors use the Websites, which site the user came from, the number of each user’s visits and how long a user stays on the Websites. We might also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features to see how users react to them.
3. Functionality or Preference Cookies During your visit to the Websites, cookies are used to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as your username, language or your region) on the Websites. They also store your preferences when personalizing the Websites to optimize your use of VellalarManamalai . These preferences are remembered, through the use of the persistent cookies, and the next time you visit the Websites you will not have to set them again.
4. Targeting or Advertising Cookies These Cookies are placed by third party advertising platforms or networks or VellalarManamalai in order to, deliver ads and track ad performance, enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant to you based upon your activities (this is sometimes called “behavioural” “tracking” or “targeted” advertising) on the Websites. They may subsequently use information about your visit to target you with advertising that you may be interested in, on the VellalarManamalai Websites and other websites. For example, these cookies remember which browsers have visited the Websites
5. When does VellalarManamalai place cookies?
6. We use cookies on our websites, mobile sites and mobile applications. Any browser visiting these sites will receive cookies from us which helps us identify you more quickly when you return. Cookies help us to determine which pages or information you find most useful or interesting at our own Web sites.
   
   VellalarManamalai may also have some cookies for its own analytics i.e. analytics not part of Google Analytics. Such cookies help generate statistics and reports about visitors and their activities on the website or app.
   
   
7. How cookies are used for online analytics purposes?
   
   We may use web analytics services on VellalarManamalai , such as those of Google Analytics. These services help us analyse how users use the services, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by such service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to online marketing, as described in the following sections.

8. How are cookies used for advertising purposes?

Cookies and other ad technology such as beacons, pixels, and tags help us serve relevant ads to you more effectively. They also help us provide aggregated auditing, research, and reporting for advertisers, understand and improve our service, and know when content has been shown to you. We work with website analytics and advertising partners, including Google Display Network, Facebook, etc. to deliver VellalarManamalai advertisements on third party publisher websites - these partners may set cookies on your computer's web browser. These cookies allow our partners to recognize your computer so that the ad server can show you VellalarManamalai advertisements elsewhere on the Internet, and so that our analytics software can measure your engagement and interactions while using VellalarManamalai services. In this way, ad servers may compile anonymous, de-identified information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw our advertisements, whether or not you interacted with our advertisements, and actions performed on subsequent visits to VellalarManamalai websites and applications. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you, and it allows VellalarManamalai to optimize the performance of our advertising campaigns and the usability of our website. In other words, we use analytics data in concert with data about our online ads that have been shown using the Google Display Network, Facebook for Advertisers, or other online advertising networks. By doing so, we can understand how anonymous users interacted with our website after seeing our ads.

9. What third-party cookies does VellalarManamalai use?

Please note that the third parties (advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies on our Services. Cookies on our sites. Also, note that the names of cookies, pixels and other technologies may change over time.

We use trusted partners to help us service advertising, who may place cookies on your device. We also pull through content from social networks into our own pages, such as embedded Facebook feeds. The social networks, such as Facebook, Google, etc. may themselves also put cookies on your machine. If a user logs into Facebook, Twitter or Google+ via our website, they will leave a cookie on the users' computer. This is the same process as if the user logs into these social networks directly.

We also use Google Analytics on our Services to help us analyse how our Services are used. Google Analytics uses performance cookies to track customer’s interactions. For example, by using cookies, Google can tell us which pages our users view, which are most popular, what time of day our websites are visited, whether visitors have been to our websites before, what website referred the visitor to our websites, and other similar information. All of this information is anonymized.

We suggest that you should check the respective privacy policies for these external services to help you understand what data these organisations hold about you and how they process it.

10. What are Web Beacons?

VellalarManamalai occasionally advertises on third party web sites. As part of our effort to track the success of our advertising campaigns, we may at times use a visitor identification technology such as "web beacons," or "action tags," which count visitors who have come to our site after being exposed to a VellalarManamalai banner ad on a third party site.

By navigating on our site, you agree that we can place cookie and web beacons on your computer or device. If you prefer not to receive web beacons, then you should stop using our site, or consult your browsing settings.

11. How to control cookies?

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you choose to turn off these cookies you will still see advertising on the internet but it may not be tailored to your interests. It does not mean that you won't be served any advertisements whilst you are online. Whilst we have mentioned most of the third parties involved in using targeting or advertising cookies in the preceding section (section g ‘hyperlink’), the list is not exhaustive and is subject to change. Therefore, even if you choose to turn off all the third party cookies listed in section g of this policy, you may still receive some tailored advertisements and recommendations.

There are a number of ways you can manage what cookies are set on your devices. Essential cookies, however, cannot be disabled. If you do not allow certain cookies to be installed, the website may not be accessible to you and/or the performance, features, or services of the website may be compromised.

You can also manage this type of cookie in the privacy settings on the web browser you are using. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access parts of our or others' websites. Please see below for more information.

Changing your Cookie Settings: The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari

More information: To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can learn more about opting out of receiving interest-based ads from other companies at optout.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org/choices.In addition, certain third party advertising networks, like Facebook (pixels) and Google, permit users to opt out of or customize preferences associated with your internet browsing. To learn more about this feature from Google, click here. For further information about the Facebook Pixel, click here.