PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the website www.minaragems.com (“Website”). Minara Gems respect your privacy and protection & security of your Personal Information is one of our top priorities. This online Privacy Policy discloses our information practices for the website and subscriber/membership-based services (“Services”) including the type of information being collected, the method of such information collection and use of such information.

By accessing or using this Website you expressly consent to Minara Gems collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not provide the information Minara Gems requires, Minara Gems may not be able to provide all its Services to you. This Privacy Policy extends to both, users who visit the Website but do not transact business on the Website as well as users who are registered and are authorized by the Website to transact business on the Website. “Personal Information” is the information that can be associated with a specific person and could be used to identify that specific person whether from that data, or from the data and other information that we have or is likely to have access to. We do not consider Personal Information to include information that has been made anonymous or aggregated so that it can no longer be used to identify a specific person, whether in combination with other information or otherwise.

Minara Gems is responsible for the collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your Personal Information in accordance with its privacy standards as well as any applicable national laws. Minara Gems may transfer data to other persons as described in this Privacy Policy. Minara Gems may process and retain your Personal Information on its servers in Canada where its data centers are located, and/or on the servers of its third party (in or outside Canada), having contractual relationships with Minara Gems.

INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED

• Minara Gems may collect and store any information that you may provide on our website. To enable you to become a member or subscriber of our website we need to have your basic Personal Information. Apart from this, when you visit our site, our systems collect details about your computer system. Personal Information like your IP address. Please note that your IP address does not identify you personally.
• We will only have Personal Information about you if you are willing to provide it. The Personal Information you provide should be accurate. Please make sure you update your Personal Information if any of your details change and immediately delete all inaccurate information provided by you without any delay.
• The details may be required may include your name, email address, delivery address, telephone number, membership account information, preferences, time zones, reviews, comment lists, searches, billing information, and payment information.

CONSENT FOR THE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Before submission of the Personal Information on the Website, you would be asked to give your consent on the Website to use your Personal Information by Minara Gems.
The consent given to use the Personal Information can be withdrawn by you at any time. All actions taken by Minara Gems before the withdrawal of the consent by you will not be affected due to the withdrawal of the consent. Further, upon withdrawal of the consent, you will not be able to subscribe to the services and membership of the Website.

INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES

We may collect, process and store your user ID associated with any social media account (such as your Facebook account) that you use to sign into the Services or connect with or use with the Services. When you sign in to your account with your social media account information, or otherwise connect to your social media account with the Services, 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. This could include, without limitation, any information that you have made public through your social media account, information that the social media service shares with us or information that is disclosed during the sign-in process. Please see your social media provider’s privacy policy and help center for more information about how they share information when you choose to connect your account.

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

HOW WILL WE USE THE INFORMATION

Minara does not allow any unauthorized persons or organizations to use any information that Minara Gems may collect from you through this Website. Minara Gems uses the Personal Information collected from you and about you for a variety of purposes, including to:
• Process and respond to your queries.
• To fulfill any order made by you and to communicate with you when necessary.
• To contact you about our news and offers that we think may interest you, or to tell you if we change anything important about how the Website works, or the terms of use of the Website. If you no longer wish to receive messages of this nature, please contact us and send an email to let us know at info@minaragems.com. Alternatively, you may unsubscribe by clicking on the option at the bottom of any of the emails you receive.
• To contact you about the Website and Website related news and Services available on the Website; monitor and improve the Website; calculate the number of visitors to the Website; update you on all the special offers available on the Website and provide you with a better shopping experience.
• To protect your vital interest or of another natural person, for carrying out the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in Minara.
• To respond to the summons, court orders or other legal processes, your Personal Information may be disclosed pursuant to such summons, court order or legal process, which may be without notice to you.
• We use the information you provide to us to enhance the functionality and improve the quality of our Services and to personalize your experience while using our Services. We also use this information to comply with our legal obligations.
• Administer our Services, diagnose technical problems, provide you with customer support and provide you with policies about your account.
• Send you communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to you by way of emails, or courier, or registered post, or telephone calls, or any other mode of communication.
• Enable us to show you ads that are relevant to you.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• Notify you about changes to our Services.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANYONE ELSE?

Unless expressly mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we will never release your Personal Information details to any outside company for mailing or marketing purposes. We may disclose Personal Information that we collect, or you provide, as described in this Privacy Policy, in the following ways:
• Upon placing an order, some of your Personal Information will be passed on to the others who shall need to have access to some Personal Information like the courier companies and payment gateway partner. We have a non-disclosure agreement with this third party. The payment gateways are certified by all the major card issuers to hold details securely.
• May share collective information such as demographics and Website usage statistics with our sponsors, advertisers or other third parties (such third parties do not include Minara Gems marketing partners and network providers). When this type of information is shared, such parties do not have access to your Personal Information.
• With our subsidiaries, affiliates or group entities.
• With a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Minara Gems assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Minara Gems about the users of our Services are among the assets transferred.
• If you interact with social media features on our Services or use your social media credentials to log-in or post content, these features may collect information about your use of the Services, as well as post information about your activities on the social media service. Your interactions with social media companies are governed by their privacy policies.
• To enforce or apply our Terms and Condition and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Minara Gems, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• In any other circumstances where we have your consent.

ACCESSING & CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will take reasonable steps to accurately record the Personal Information that you provide to us and any subsequent updates. If required by you, Minara Gems will delete the Personal Information provided by you on the Website. Upon deletion of your information from the Website by Minara Gems, copies of your information may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other users of our websites.

HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as necessary and consistent with the purpose for which you have given it to us. Except where needed to respond to a query from you or fulfill an order, we will delete your Personal Information on request by you.

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