At TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA)
we understand your privacy concerns and take them very seriously.
This document states the information management practices
relating to how your personal information is collected,
used or disclosed.

SCOPE OF THE POLICY


The privacy policy stated here is intended to describe
TWINCLING SOCIETY privacy practices and
make you aware about options you have about how your information
is collected, used or disclosed.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION


Personal information refers to any information about an
identifiable individual.
This includes information such as your name, address,
telephone number and email address.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT


When you provide TWINCLING SOCIETY with your
personal information, we inform you as to the reason
of collecting it. TWINCLING SOCIETY asks for your
permission to collect additional information that may
be useful in tailoring the services, website and
marketing plans.
For payment towards purchase of Linux distribution cd-roms
and subsequent verification,
the bank name, branch name, amount details
(Cash, Cheque, Pay Order) and your name, contact information
is collected.
This website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) does not collect any of your
personal bank account information or credit card information.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION


TWINCLING SOCIETY uses and discloses your personal information
only for its internal marketing and content tailoring purposes,
identified to you when your consent was obtained.
TWINCLING SOCIETY does not provide any of your personal information
to any third party under any circumstances, except wherein you
yourself have given it in writing to do so.

IPADDRESS INFORMATION


TWINCLING SOCIETY collects non-personal information such as
domain name, Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Internet Protocol (IP)
address of all visitors to its website.
Information is also collected on those who post messages to
the mailing lists, news groups, bulletin board and those who
communicate with TWINCLING SOCIETY via e-mail,
as well as those who provide their personal information through
surveys, site registrations,

COOKIES AND BROWSER INFORMATION


TWINCLING SOCIETY may use cookies to store visitors' preferences,
record user session information, record user-specific information
on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new
areas on the site, that the Society thinks would be of interest
to them, when they return to this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG),
and to record past activity in order to tailor or customize
website content based on visitors' browser type (User-Agent field)
or other information that the user provides the website with.

E-MAIL


If you have signed up with your e-mail address for periodic
updates or newsletters or mailing lists, you may receive
e-mails from TWINCLING SOCIETY with information on new products,
services or upcoming events.



TWINCLING SOCIETY will not rent, sell or share your e-mail
information with any third party under any circumstance.



If you send e-mail (encrypted or not) over the internet,
you are accepting the associated risks of lack of confidentiality,
and e-mail spoofing (From:, Sender: fields).



It is possible that someone may spoof e-mail address, purporting
to be from the domain (TWINCLING.ORG) and send information that
may not relevant to your interests, defamatory or libel in nature.
This could happen, given the nature of mail relay servers on the
internet.



If you have recieved any e-mail with spoofed e-mail address or
objectionable contents, please get in touch with TWINCLING SOCIETY
as soon as possible, with the objectionable material. The Society
will take up the matter with Cyber police and law enforcement
authorities in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
and with Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.

POSTAL MAIL


If you have provided us with your postal address, you may
receive periodic updates or newsletters from TWINCLING SOCIETY
with information on new products, services or invitation passes
for upcoming events.

PHONE


Persons supplying us with their telephone number online
may receive telephone contact from TWINCLING SOCIETY officers,
representatives or employees, regarding new products,
services or upcoming events.
Your telephone number may be used in the event of providing you
technical support or credentials verification.

ONLINE AD SERVERS


TWINCLING SOCIETY does not partner with, or have any relationship
with, any advertisement server companies.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES


This website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) may from time to time contain
links to other websites. These links are provided as a
convenience and do not constitute an endorsement, sponsorship
or recommendation by TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) of -- or
responsibility for -- the linked Web sites or any content,
services or products available on or through such sites.
Should you have any questions about the data collection
approaches or privacy policy of linked sites, please
contact those organizations directly.

HOW WE HANDLE DATA SECURITY


TWINCLING SOCIETY adopts security assurance practices which
are practiced across the organization. The Executive Team
is aware of the practices and trains its employees and agents
in handling customer data with utmost care.



The web application developers are trained in safe data
handling practices, workflow design audits and source code
vulnerability assessments.



The system administration and monitoring team proactively
conducts log analysis, e-mail headers
(X-Sender, X-x-sender, X-Originating-IP) investigation,
e-mail spoofing attempts,
spurious email address and data,
password strength checks and monitor
system usage and access patterns.



Should a compromise occur, IS Audit and Forensics team
can quickly estimate the nature and degree of compromise
and take the necessary remedial steps.

HOW TO CONTACT TWINCLING SOCIETY


Should you have any queries about any of the practices or
TWINCLING SOCIETY's use of your personal information,
please feel free to contact us by postal mail at:




TWINCLING SOCIETY

Legal Affairs, Licensing and Cyberlaws Committee

8-3-677/43, S.K.D. Nagar

Yellareddy Guda

Hyderabad 500073

Andhra Pradesh

INDIA.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY


TWINCLING SOCIETY reserves the right to change the
privacy policy from time to time, subject to review and
amendments commensurate with the prevailing law of the land.
The revised privacy policy will be posted on this
website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG)

This privacy policy was last updated on March 1, 2005.