At the DesiRoommate.com family of web sites, user privacy is of utmost concern. We are committed to your privacy and security, and to providing you the best possible user experience. This policy may be updated by us from time to time, so please check here frequently.

Here's how we collect and use information from you in our efforts to provide the highest quality user experience:

IP Address - Your IP or "Internet Protocol" address and other site usage data is used to gather broad demographic information. This data helps us serve you by allowing us to understand how visitors use our web sites.

Cookies - Our sites use a technology called "cookies," small files stored by your browser to help keep track of your user profile. Our cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, nor do we share them with anyone. We use cookies to remember your personal profile for your convenience, to deliver content specific to your needs and interests, and to ensure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We also use cookies to track user trends and improve areas of our sites that our users find valuable.

Ads - We sometimes use outside companies to display advertising on our web sites. These ads may place cookies on your computer, which are referenced by our ad companies. We do not have access to this information.

Sublicense agreement- You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all copyright and publicity rights, in any existing or future media, known or unknown, over the material or User Data displayed in Your listings. For the purpose of this Agreement, "User Data" shall mean all information (if any) submitted by You, (the "User") to Desi Roommate. or its sublicensees. "Individually Identifiable User Data" shall mean that subset of "User Data" which can be reasonably used to identify a specific individual such as their name, address, phone number, etc. The User Data shall be deemed to be the property of Desi Roommate.

Posting a listing- All information that you put into your posting on DesiRoommate.com and its family of sites will become public. Please keep this in mind when posting. You may want to use a "free" email address or decline to post a phone number if you do not want this information made public.

We use customer contact information from registration forms to send you information related to our products and services. Your contact information may also be used to contact you when necessary for administrative purposes related to your account. We use your email as a unique identifier in our record system, to verify communications from you, and to send you newsletters and promotion offerings or to tell you about changes to the DesiRoommate family of web sites.

Contests and Surveys - Online, we may also survey visitors for contact information, unique identifiers and demographic information. You are never required to answer these questions. The information you submit may be used for analyzing overall site demographics, user preferences and tastes, and similar "getting to know our customers" purposes. We may disclose this data to third parties in an aggregated form (such as summary reports for our advertisers) but never with user data or identification assigned to the information provided.

When you enter a contest, we will require that you submit a limited amount of personally identifiable data such as contact information. We may also ask you questions related to your preferences and age or background. We will designate which questions are required to be answered in order to enter the contest. The information you submit may be used to analyze site demographics and user preferences, and for similar "getting to know our customer" purposes.

Your Security - DesiRoommate.com. and its affiliates have taken the following important measures to protect against loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. First, we store no financial information on our sites. When we do transmit your data, we use only Secure Servers using current encryption technology to encode your data safely.

The personal data we do store on our system is protected by password. The password you select, along with your unique email address, prevents others from accessing your information. We suggest that you do not disclose your password to anyone.

Outside Links - While on a DesiRoommate family web sites, you may be led to other web sites. Be aware that other sites may collect data and personal information and operate according to their own privacy practices. Please remember that, once outside of our family of sites, any information you submit is outside of our control.

Check this page periodically for changes in our privacy policy. We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this policy at any time.

This Desi Roommate privacy policy does not extend to any information that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond the our control and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

Desi Roommate and its affiliates may disclose your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the requirements of the law or comply with governmental orders, court orders, or legal process served on Desi Roommate or its affiliates; (2) protect and defend the property or rights of Desi Roommate and its affiliates or the users of the Desi Roommate family of web sites.