Home Mart Shop
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PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to Homemart Shop Terms and Conditions of Use
We, Homemart Shop, firm having its registered address at Moreshwar Complex, Sector 18,
Kamothe, Panvel, Navi Mumbai, Raigad, Maharashtra- 410209 represented by its Proprietor,
hereinafter referred to as the Firm (where such expression shall, unless repugnant to the context
thereof, be deemed to include its respective legal heirs, representatives, administrators, permitted
successors and assigns) are operating this Website on the Brand Name Homemart Shops.
This legal agreement is an electronic record in terms of Indian Information Technology Act, 2000
and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions about electronic records in various
statutes as amended by the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is
generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.
This legal document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Indian Information
Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011 and Rule 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable
security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 of Information
Technology Act, 2000 amended through Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008 that require
publishing the Terms of Services and practices for access or usage of www.homemartshops.com
(website/platform)
The creator of this Privacy Policy ensures a steady commitment to Your privacy with regard to the
protection of your invaluable information that you may share across on this platform. This privacy
policy contains information about the Website www.homemartshops.com (hereinafter referred
to as the Platform).
To provide You with Our uninterrupted use of the Application, We may collect and, in some
circumstances, disclose information about you with your permission. To ensure better protection
of Your privacy, We provide this notice explaining Our information collection and disclosure
policies, and the choices You make about the way Your information is collected and used.
This Privacy Policy shall be in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) in effect from May 25, 2018, and any and all provisions that may read to the
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contrary shall be deemed to be void and unenforceable as of that date. If you do not agree
with the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy, including in relation to the manner of
collection or use of your information, please do not use or access the Site. If you have any
questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact our Customer
Support Desk at homemartshops@gmail.com.
ANY CAPITALIZED WORDS USED HENCEFORTH SHALL HAVE THE MEANING
ACCORDED TO THEM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. FURTHER, ALL HEADING USED
HEREIN ARE ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ARRANGING THE VARIOUS PROVISIONS
OF THE AGREEMENT IN ANY MANNER. NEITHER THE USER NOR THE CREATORS OF
THIS PRIVACY POLICY MAY USE THE HEADING TO INTERPRET THE PROVISIONS
CONTAINED WITHIN IT IN ANY MANNER.
1. DEFINITIONS
a. We”, “Our”, and “Us” shall mean and refer to the Platform and/or the Firm, as the context
so requires.
b. “You”, “Your”, “Yourself”, “User”, shall mean and refer to natural and legal individuals
who shall be Users of this Platform and may be either a Customer or a Vendor listed on the
platform and who is competent to enter into binding contracts, as per Indian laws.
c. “Services” shall refer to the Platform which is an e-commerce marketplace operated under
the domain name “Homemart Shops”. Services shall refer to providing an e-commerce only
platform for the sale of various products, goods and commodities that are listed by the
Vendors of the Platform. The detailed explanation shall be provided in Terms of Use.
d. “Third Parties” refer to any Application, Firm or individual apart from the Users and the
creator of this platform.
e. “Platform” refers to the Website created by the Firm which provides the User to avail
services of the Vendors of the Firm.
f. “Personal Information” shall mean and refer to any personally identifiable information that
we may collect from you. For removal of any doubts, please refer to the below Policy.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We are committed to respecting Your online privacy. We further recognize Your need for
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appropriate protection and management of any Personal Information You share with us. We may
collect the following information:
a. Personal data of the Customer or the Vendor as follows but not limited to it,
For Customers:
i. Name
ii. Date of Birth
iii. Mobile Number
iv. Email ID
v. Delivery Address
vi. Link to Mobile Wallets
For Vendor:
i. Name of the Firm/Vendor
ii. GSTIN
iii. Bank Account Details
iv. Products to be listed details
b. Tracking Information such as, but not limited to the IP address of your device and
Device ID when connected to the Internet. This information may include the URL that
you just came from (whether this URL is on the Platform or not), which URL you next
go to (whether this URL is on the Platform or not), your computer or device browser
information, and other information associated with your interaction with the Platform;
c. Details of Platform usage for analytics.
This privacy policy also applies to data we collect from users who are not registered as members
of this Platform, including, but not limited to, browsing behaviour, pages viewed etc. We also
collect and store personal information provided by You from time to time on the Platform. We
only collect and use such information from you that we consider necessary for achieving a
seamless, efficient and safe experience, customized to your needs including:
a. To enable the provision of services opted for by you;
b. To enable the viewing of content in your interest;
c. To communicate the necessary account and service related information from time to
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time;
d. To allow you to receive quality customer care services and data Collection;
e. To comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations;
Where any services requested by You involves a third party, such information as is reasonably
necessary by the Firm to carry out Your service request may be shared with such third party. We
also do use your contact information to send you offers based on your interests and prior activity
and also to view the content preferred by you. The Firm may also use contact information internally
to direct its efforts for service improvement but shall immediately delete all such information upon
withdrawal of your consent for the same through the unsubscribe button or through an email to
be sent to homemartshops@gmail.com.
To the extent possible, we provide You with the option of not divulging any specific information
that you wish for us not to collect, store or use. You may also choose not to use a particular service
or feature on the Platform and opt-out of any non-essential communications from the platform.
Further, transacting over the internet has inherent risks which can only be avoided by you
following security practices yourself, such as not revealing account/login related information to
any other person and informing our customer care team about any suspicious activity or where
your account has/may have been compromised.
3. OUR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
The information provided by you shall be used to provide and improve the service for you and all
users.
a. To provide you with services on your request.
b. For maintaining an internal record.
c. For enhancing the Services provided.
For more details about the nature of such communications, please refer to our Terms of Service.
Further, your data and Sensitive Personal data may be collected and stored by Us for internal
record.
We use Your tracking information such as IP addresses, and or Device ID to help identify you and
to gather broad demographic information and make further services available to you.
We will not sell, license or trade Your personal information. We will not share your personal
information with others unless they are acting under our instructions or we are required to do so
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by law.
Information collected via Our server logs includes users' IP addresses and the pages visited; this
will be used to manage the web system and troubleshoot problems. We also use third-party
analytics, tracking, optimization and targeting tools to understand how users engage with our
Platform so that we can improve it and cater personalized content/ads according to their
preferences.
4. HOW INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which
information is being collected. If the same is not identified to you, you have the right to request
the Firm to elucidate the purpose of collection of said personal information, pending the fulfilment
of which you shall not be mandated to disclose any information whatsoever.
We will collect and use your personal information solely to fulfil those purposes specified by us,
within the scope of the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law. We will only
retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. We will
collect personal information by lawful and fair means and with the knowledge and consent of the
individual concerned.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent
necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
5. EXTERNAL LINKS ON THE PLATFORM
The Platform may include advertisements, hyperlinks to other Websites or resources. We have no
control over any other website or resources or contents available on these other websites, which
are provided by companies or persons other than Us. You acknowledge and agree that we are not
responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and do not endorse any
advertising, services/services or other materials on or available from such platform or resources.
You acknowledge and agree that We are not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred
by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance
placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, services or other
materials on, or available from, such Websites. These external third party websites and resource
providers may have their privacy policies governing the collection, storage, retention and
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disclosure of Your Personal Information that You may be subject to. We recommend that you enter
the Website and review their privacy policy.
6. COOKIES
We use data collection devices such as cookies on certain pages of our Platform. Cookies are
small files sited on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. We also offer
certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us
provide information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies may be used to identify logged in
or registered users. Our Platform uses session cookies to ensure that you have a good experience.
These cookies contain a unique number, your 'session ID', which allows our server to recognize
your computer and 'remember' what you've done on the site. The benefits of this are:
a. You only need to log in once if you're navigating secure areas of the site
b. Our server can distinguish between your computer and other users, so you can see the
information that you have requested.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser settings if you prefer.
This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Platform. We also use various third-party
cookies for usage, behavioural, analytics and preferences data. The following are the different
types of cookies used on the Platform:
a. Authentication cookies: To identify the user and share the content that he or she
requested.
b. Functionality cookies: For the customized user experience and resuming past course
progress.
c. Tracking, optimization, and targeting cookies: To capture usage metric on the device,
operating system, browser, etc. To capture behavioural metrics for better content delivery.
To cater and suggest most suited services.
7. GOOGLE ADSENSE
Google AdSense is a tool that allows website publishers to deliver advertisements to site visitors
in exchange for revenue calculated on a per-click or per-impression basis. To do this, Google uses
cookies and tracking technology to deliver ads personalized to a website user/visitor. In this regard
the following terms are specified to the Users:
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a. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to
our website or other websites.
b. Google's use of advertising cookies enables us and our partners to serve advertisements to
you based on their visit to our Platform and/or other websites on the Internet.
c. You may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
d. All advertisements of third parties on our Platform are for informative purposes only and
neither the Platform nor the Firm guarantees or bears liability for the authenticity of the
advertisements.
e. At no point will the Firm permit its Competitors to advertise on the Platform
f. You may visit the links in the advertisements at your own risk or choose to not accept the
cookies permitting third parties to display their advertisements.
8. YOUR RIGHTS
Unless subject to an exemption, you have the following rights concerning your data:
a. The right to request a copy of your data which we hold about you;
b. The right to request for any correction to any personal data if it is found to be
inaccurate or out of date;
c. The right to withdraw Your consent to the processing at any time;
d. The right to object to the processing of personal data;
e. The right to complain about a supervisory authority.
f. The right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third
country or an international organization.
Where you hold an account with any of our services, you are entitled to a copy of all personal data
which we hold concerning you. You are also entitled to request that we restrict how we use your
data in your account when you log in.
9. CONFIDENTIALITY
You further acknowledge that the Platform may contain information which is designated
confidential by us and that you shall not disclose such information without our prior written
consent. Your information is regarded as confidential and therefore will not be divulged to any
third party, unless if legally required to do so to the appropriate authorities. We will not sell, share,
or rent your personal information to any third party or use your e-mail address for unsolicited mail.
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Any emails sent by us will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services, and you
retain sole discretion to seek for discontinuation of such communications at any point of time.
10. OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTORS
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the
use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your
information to other parties, whether they are on our Platform or other sites throughout the Internet,
different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. To the
extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their privacy policies. Since we do not
control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are subject to ask questions before you disclose
your personal information to others.
11. OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may host surveys for survey creators for our platform who are the owners and users of your
survey responses. We do not own or sell your responses. Anything you expressly disclose in your
responses will be disclosed to survey creators. Please contact the survey creator directly to better
understand how they might share your survey responses.
Information collected will not be considered as sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in
the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005, any rules made
thereunder or any other law for the time being in force.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private
communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not
otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and foregoing),
we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies or third
parties. Therefore, although we use industry-standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not
promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private
communications would always remain private. We do however assure you that any disclosure of
your personally identifiable information shall be personally intimated to you through an email sent
to your provided email address.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to
any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally
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identifiable information may be disclosed:
a. External Service Providers: There may be several services offered by external service
providers that help you use our Platform. If you choose to use these optional services, and in
the course of doing so, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or permit
them to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their
privacy policy.
b. Law and Order: We cooperate with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to
enforce laws, such as intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you
authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other government
officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an
investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or
may expose us or you to legal liability.
12. ACCESSING, REVIEWING AND CHANGING YOUR PROFILE
Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted at the stage of
registration, except Email ID and mobile number. An option for facilitating such change shall be
present on the Platform and such change shall be facilitated by the User. If you change any
information, we may or may not keep track of your old information. We will not retain in our files
information you have requested to remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Such prior information shall be
completely removed from our databases, including stored back up systems. If you believe that
any information, we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, or to remove your profile so
that others cannot view it, the User needs to remediate, and promptly correct any such incorrect
information.
13. CONTROL OF YOUR PASSWORD
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You must
protect it against unauthorized access of your account and information by choosing your password
carefully and keeping your password and computer secure by signing out after using our services.
You agree not to use the account, username, email address or password of another Member at any
time or to disclose your password to any third party. You are responsible for all actions taken with
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your login information and password, including fees. If you lose control of your password, you
may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to
legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised
for any reason, you should immediately change your password. You agree to notify us immediately
if you suspect any consistent unauthorized use of your account or access to your password even
after changing it.
14. SECURITY
We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ
many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by members
inside and outside the Firm. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the
Personal Information submitted to us and information that we have accessed.
However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. Our Firm
cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you provide
wont be intercepted while being transmitted to the Firm over the Internet.
15. SEVERABILITY
Each paragraph of this Privacy Policy shall be and remain separate from and independent of and
severable from all and any other paragraphs herein except where otherwise expressly indicated or
indicated by the context of the agreement. The decision or declaration that one or more of the
paragraphs are null and void shall not affect the remaining paragraphs of this privacy policy.
16. AMENDMENT
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. The most current version of the policy will
govern our use of your information and will always be at the Platform. Any amendments to this
Policy shall be deemed as accepted by the User on their continued use of the Platform.
17. AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING
As a responsible firm, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.
18. CONSENT WITHDRAWAL, DATA DOWNLOAD & DATA REMOVAL REQUESTS
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To withdraw your consent, or to request the download or delete your data with us for any or all
our services at any time, please email to homemartshops@gmail.com
19. CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you should contact us by
sending an e-mail to please email to homemartshops@gmail.com.
Information provided on the Website may not be 100% accurate and may be provided for
promotional purposes of the business.