Welcome to Loconomy!

Loconomy is your hyper local marketplace, Loconomy offers a complete information to a local customer. It starts at a stage when you are looking for information about a particular business or suggestions for the next evening out and goes much beyond than just merely displaying the results of a search engine.

In fact, Loconomy begins where typical search engines ends,

Privacy Policy

The Loconomy privacy policy describes what personal information we (LOCONOMY) collect, who we might share it with, and how we protect it. This information might be collected by us when you use Loconomy's products and services.

Loconomy is designed around the concept of local economy, we offer an online platform to promote and discuss local business. At Loconomy we recognize that privacy is important. Loconomy is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all members and also of visitors who visit our website.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing the services provided by Loconomy.com you agree to the collection and use of your data by Loconomy.com in the manner provided in this Privacy Policy.

This privacy policy is incorporated in and is subject to Loconomy Terms of Use.

This Policy does not apply to the procedures and practices followed by entities that are not managed, owned or controlled by Loconomy.com or to the people that are not engaged, employed or managed by Loconomy.com

What information do we collect?

The information collected by us, may be classified under the following heads:

a. Information collected during your visits to our website

When you use Loconomy, our servers automatically record certain information about your use of Loconomy. It is not the intention of the Loconomy projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.

The type of information collected by our web servers may be through:

We may also collect and track the following information:

These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about Two weeks.

b. Information collected through Cookies

Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard drive. When you log on to our web server you receive a cookie containing a session ID from us. These cookies are useful in maintaining a continuous session with our web server. These cookies are also used to record the preferences of visitors and this enables us to optimize the design of our web site. We also use cookies to provide you easy navigation, and increase the user-friendliness of a web site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier and secured for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We will maintain some encrypted authentication tokens in the persistent cookies which are mapped to persistent sessions on the server. These cookies can be used to determine whether there has been any contact between us and your computer in the past

Cookies also help us to identify the most popular sections of our web site. This enables us to provide content that is more accurately suited to your needs, and in so doing improve our service.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by setting your browser to not accept cookies. The exact instructions for this can be found in the manual for your browser. You can delete cookies already on your hard drive at any time. If you choose not to accept cookies, you can still visit our website, however this may result in a reduced availability of the services provided by our web site.

c. Information collected by third parties

We may contract with third parties such as advertisers who may also collect certain information from you via cookies web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies. These third parties may use the information to promote their product and services, to measure the efficiency of ads, tracking user trends, etc

In addition to our internal tracking servers we also utilize certain services from Google for ad serving and web traffic analysis. We do not make any representations or warranties regarding the information collected by these third parties the collection and use of such information by the third parties is not covered by the present privacy policy. We request you to please review Google's privacy policy for more information on how Google AdSense and Google Analytics stores your personal information

The types of links used by Loconomy may be image source or frame links linking to the contents hosted on other websites. The image mirror links or frame links may be implemented through a web page on the Locomnomy web site which consists of a frame or a mirror where the content of other website are displayed. While you visit these sites by using the links provided on Loconomy’s website these websites may collect certain information or place cookies on your computer.

Our website also contains http referrer links to other websites which might be owned by individuals, organizations, Government agencies or companies. These websites may collect certain information by using their own assigned cookies to your browser or by any other means. We do not endorse the contents of these websites. These links are provided for user convenience only or under an advertising contract and the users are advised to read the respective privacy policies of these websites. The collection and use of your personal information by these websites is not governed or covered by the present privacy policy.

d. Information voluntarily provided by the users

You can log onto our services by creating an account with a unique login id. You can create an account with us by filling personal particulars form. When you fill up this form you provide us with information like your demographic location, and information such as your ZIP code, age, gender, and interests. You will need to provide a valid email id and this email id is used to send registration confirmation.

We do not collect any of this personal information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information online or otherwise. A Loconomy account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.

Loconomy members can also invite their friends to join Loconomy. We use the name and email address you provide us to contact that person and, if necessary, remind that person that he or she has been invited to join Loconomy.

As a Loconomy member, you can create a profile or community that includes personal information, such as your gender, age, occupation, hobbies, and interests, plus other content, such as photos. This information is published information and may be accessed and viewed by all members.

The users may subscribe for our SMS services. Using this service, the users can get details of a business registered with Loconomy on their cellphone as SMS. Loconomy may also use your cell phone number to send SMS for few other services like alerts and deals. You can at anytime unsubscribe for our SMS services please mail us at admin[at]loconomy[dot]com

You can at anytime update your profile information at any time by clicking on the "edit" button in your profile setting. In order to enable us to provide you with efficient services we request you to provide us with your correct and updated information.

You can terminate your account at any time. Deleting an account will remove any personal information of the user like email, personal inbox, phone number, photo etc from the site. Anyhow, when you delete your account the reviews posted by you on Loconomy.com will not be deleted.

e. Information collected in person by our marketing team

Additionally we may organize various advertising camps wherein our marketing team may collect certain information through the forms filled in by you or your friends. These forms may ask you to give references of email ids of your friends. We may use this information to send you an invitation to you and your friends to join Loconomy.

How your information is used

We use the information provided by you to provide you with our services and as well as maintain your account with us.

By using Loconomy, you may choose to make some of your personal information public or you may choose to share some of your personal information with others. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Your account name and not your email ID is displayed when you send messages using Loconomy services (insert after checking). You may publish your views or other content on our website. Any personal information, photograph or video content voluntarily disclosed by you in our discussion forum, chat areas, your personal profile page becomes published information. By publishing any content on Loconomy you undertake that you are the original author of the information published by you and that there are no adverse copyright claims on that content. This information provided you can be collected, seen and used by others besides us. We do not undertake the responsibility to protect any such use by the third party.

We do not use your email IDs to send you any type of promotion or commercial emails. The email IDs are used only to send you Loconomy invitations and the promotional emails that you have voluntarily subscribed for. You can always opt-out from the promotional email services by unsubscribing to those services.

We may share the information collected by us with our advertisers, which will help them to identify and target their ads. If you like to unsubscribe for these services then you may mail us at admin[at]loconomy[dot]com

Disclosure of your personal information to third parties and co-brand partners

Information submitted by you or which may be collected by us may be viewed by limited employees within Loconomy. Additionally we may share your information with our Alliance Partners who work with us or on our behalf to help provide you the services. Alliance partner is a company or individual who manages (wholly or part of) online content and services of Loconomy.

Loconomy will not willfully disclose any individually identifiable information about you to any third party without unless otherwise provided by this privacy policy or without seeking your permission.

We may however access and/or disclose your personally identifiable data or the log information under the following circumstances:

In response to a valid notice or other compulsory request from law enforcement.

With permission of the affected user

To our Computer Emergency Response Team in order to investigate the cases of abuse.

Where the user has been vandalising articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers.

We may provide you certain services and content that may be co-branded with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Loconomy and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services. We also provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Information security

While Loconomy is committed to protecting your personal information, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information. By using this site, you agree that we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.

We adopt appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We limit access to personal information about you to employees, contractors and agents who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

We implement technology and procedures to try to make sure that external parties cannot access or modify users’ personal information on our servers.

Data Integrity

We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Notification of changes:

We reserve the right at any time to: change the terms of this Agreement; change the Services, including eliminating or modifying any content on or feature of the Site; or change/charge any fees or charges for use of the Services.

Any changes we make will be effective immediately on notice, which we may give either by posting the new Agreement on the Site or via electronic mail. Your use of the Services after such notice will be deemed acceptance of such changes. Be sure to review this Agreement periodically to ensure your familiarity with the most current version. You will always be able to tell when the version was last updated by checking the? Last Revised? date in the header of this agreement.

Contact Information

E-mail: info[at]loconomy[dot]com

Telephone: +91 080 41559050

Postal address: 2nd Floor, 219 Alif Arcade, 7th Main, 1st Block, 80 Feet Road Koramangala-34

Registered office Address: 2nd Floor, 219 Alif Arcade, 7th Main, 1st Block, 80 Feet Road Koramangala-34

We welcome your comments and questions.

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