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.