We value your privacy and safety online. This privacy policy explains how Ideawicket Innovations Private Limited (“Ideawicket”) treats the information you share with us. This policy may change from time to time, so please check it periodically.
Consent
Your use of Ideawicket.com signifies that you consent to Ideawicket collecting and using personal information in accordance with this privacy policy and any future revisions thereof.
Information collected from you
You provide information such as your name, screen name, email address, birthday, country and college at the time of signing up. This information is used to enable you to register on the site. Both your screen name and username are displayed on your profile. The college field is optional. You can choose to hide your age from the 'edit profile' page. You also have the option of adding more personal information when you edit your profile like your photo, city, state, highest education, specialization and academic and professional background and skills. You can also offer details about what you are looking for on the site.
While posting and editing your innovation you can choose to make it ‘public’ which is visible to anyone or ‘private’ which will only be visible to people you choose to share it with. When you share an innovation with someone, a private message is sent to them if they are already members of Ideawicket or else an email is sent to them with a link to the innovation. For someone to view a private innovation shared with them, they must sign up on the site. When you send a private message to someone on the site that message is stored on our server. You may receive unsolicited messages from other users. You have the option to block other users or report them through the Report abuse form.
When you access the site we may use cookies to uniquely identify your browser. You are free to reject all cookies but the site will not function properly if you reject all the cookies.
Our servers may store certain information that your browser sends automatically when you visit any website. This may include your IP address, country, browser type, landing page, pages viewed and other browser and session information.
Update- As of November 5, 2008 your real name ('name') is being displayed on your profile in addition to your username. If you have any concerns please write to us through the 'Contact Us' Form.
How Ideawicket uses this information
The information you submit is used to make different features and functionalities on the site available to you. Storing and tracking user preferences and behaviors helps us in improving the service.
Your personally identifiable information will not be rented or sold to third parties. We may use your email address to contact you for communications relating to our service such as administrative messages, site features and news, ongoing events or other announcements.
When Ideawicket may disclose this information
Ideawicket may share personal information about you in the following circumstances:-
- With our service providers, contractors and select vendors in order to operate the site. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this policy. Their access to your personal information is regulated on a need to know basis.
- To comply with subpoenas, court orders, requests/order from legal authorities or law enforcement agencies requiring such disclosure.
- To defend against legal claims or to exercise our legal rights.
- If it is necessary to protect the rights, property and security of Ideawicket, our users or the general public.
- If it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action against any illegal activities or fraud.
- If it is necessary to enforce our terms of use or take precautions against liability
Links to 3rd party websites
The site contains links to other web sites whose privacy policy may be different from ours. We are not responsible for the policies and practices of other sites.
Security Measures in place
We strive to protect your personally identifiable information and have instituted in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures for the same. Your account information is also password protected. But please be aware that transmissions over the internet cannot be made completely secure and we do not guarantee the safety or confidentiality of the data you transmit to us.
What happens in case of a sale, merger or bankruptcy
If Ideawicket merges with or is acquired by another entity, the information you have shared with us would get transferred to that entity. In the event of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or assignment for the benefit of creditors we may not be able to control how your information is used.
Changes to the policy
We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a notice on our site. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.
Contacting Ideawicket
You can contact us by filling out the Contact Us form.