Privacy Policy for Bidhannagar Municipality Website

Bidhannagar Municipality does not collect data for commercial or marketing purposes, and does not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute the data collected by this website for commercial or marketing purposes.
Information Submitted to this website
During a session on this website, a user may affirmatively submit information to Bidhannagar Municipality by, among other means, electronic mail, by filling in and submitting an on-line form, or by electing to personalize this website and use it as a customized portal. Such affirmatively submitted information is stored in a secure environment, and will be used by Bidhannagar Municipality in furtherance of its duties and/or obligations to its citizenry.

The governmental purposes to which affirmatively submitted information may be put include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Helping Bidhannagar Municipality respond to a request for information not readily available from this website
2. Investigating a problem reported to Bidhannagar Municipality via this website
3. Disclosure of such information pursuant to a request made under the Maharashtra Right to Information Act or court order, if such information is not protected by law.
Bidhannagar Municipality does not rent or sell personally identifiable information (i.e., information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc., that identifies a user as a particular person), nor would Bidhannagar Municipality exchange or trade such information with third-parties without a user's explicit permission. Bidhannagar Municipality does not disclose credit card or other personally identifiable financial information other than as necessary to complete a credit card or other financial transaction, or upon explicit permission from the applicable user.

If a user of this website has elected not to receive further information from Bidhannagar Municipality, this website will not send such information. If a user of this website has elected to receive further communication from Bidhannagar Municipality, this website will only send information in categories that have been authorized. If this website sends electronic mail to a user, such e-mail is NOT confidential, and is identical in nature to that information generally available to the public and news media.
Security
In certain instances, a user may have the opportunity to receive or create a password to access or submit personally identifiable information. One should not divulge a password to anyone, and Bidhannagar Municipality will never ask a user for a password in a telephone call, fax, e-mail or other form of unsolicited communication. When a user is finished with an application or applications that are password protected, such user should exit the relevant page(s). If the browser used to access said password protected pages is a publicly-accessible browser, users should close down the entire session and, if applicable or possible, flush any temporary caches or other areas where such a password might be stored subsequent to use.

Bidhannagar Municipality has integrated industry standard or better security measures and systems into the design, implementation and day-to-day operation of this website and its underlying servers and networks. Furthermore, Bidhannagar Municipality maintains ongoing efforts to identify and/or block unauthorized intrusions into or onto this website, and to upload to or change information on or otherwise cause damage to this website or the information resident hereon or submitted hereto.
Cookies
This website generally does not use persistent cookies. Cookies are text files, or entries in larger files, utilized to distinguish between visitors to a website, and to track information during multiple visits to a website. Bidhannagar Municipality uses temporary cookies on some parts of this website, and such temporary cookies expire upon the end of the browsing session. If a user registers to use this website as a customized portal, it uses a persistent cookie to facilitate such customization.

The use of cookies is a standard practice among Internet websites. Most Internet web browsers may be customized to reject cookies, to only accept or reject cookies by user intervention, or to delete cookies. Rejecting and/or removing cookies, however, may lead to loss of functionality on those this website pages requiring cookies to function fully. Additionally, if a user has created a customized version of this website, it will create a cookie that contains the user's unique identifier and indicator for any custom content modules requested and, if a user elected the "remember me" option for signing in to this website, the cookie will contain a user's password. Deletion of such a cookie could result in the loss of one's customized this website portal settings.
Web Bugs (a.k.a. Web Beacons)
This website does not use web bugs on its web pages or in any html e-mail generated by use of the portal, or otherwise sent from this website, for any purpose other than to identify site performance needs; to ensure compatibility with the technology used by this website's visitors, and to generally add and improve services offered on this website.
Children
No applications on this website specifically solicit information from minors or seek to determine whether the visitor is a minor. Consequently, because such information will not be specifically identified as being from minors, users of this website should be aware that personally identifiable information submitted to this website by minors will be subject to being treated in the same manner as information given by an adult.

Bidhannagar Municipality strongly believes that parental supervision is an important factor in Internet use by minors. Therefore, this website asks parents to guide their minor children when children are asked to provide any personal information online. This website further asks that children ask for and receive their parent's permission before providing any information online.
Third Party Links
This website provides links to, and may be linked from, local, state and central government agencies, and from, or to, other websites. The existence and/or provision of those links neither constitutes nor implies endorsement of the destination or departure website(s) or of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policy(ies), product(s), accessibility or privacy policy of said destination or departure website(s). Nor does any link between this website and a third-party website imply sponsorship of such website, or the creator of such website.
Links to this website from other web sites
Except as set forth below, caching and links to, and the framing of this website or any of the contents are prohibited. You must secure permission from Bidhannagar Municipality prior to hyperlinking to, or framing, this website or any of the contents, or engaging in similar activities. Bidhannagar Municipality reserves the right to impose conditions when permitting any hyperlinking to, or framing of this website or any of the contents. Your linking to, or framing any part of this website or its contents constitute acceptance of these Terms of Use. This is deemed to be the case even after the posting of any changes or modifications to these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you must discontinue linking to, or framing of this website or any of the contents. In no circumstances shall Bidhannagar Municipality be considered to be associated or affiliated in whatever manner with any trade or service marks, logos, insignia or other devices used or appearing on web sites that link to this website or any of the contents. Bidhannagar Municipality reserves all rights to disable any links to, or frames of any site containing inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topics, names, material or information, or material or information that violates any written law, any applicable intellectual property, proprietary, privacy or publicity rights. Bidhannagar Municipality reserves the right to disable any unauthorized links or frames and disclaims any responsibility for the content available on any other site reached by links to or from this website or any of the contents.

Some content on portions of this website resides on servers run by third parties. Each agency providing content for this website is bound by this website's privacy policy. Any agency using a third-party host, ISP, ASP or other combination of third-party transport, storage, content or application provision services shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with this website's privacy policy.
Intellectual Property
The content of this website's web pages is copyrighted, and contain some third party images/graphics that are used with permission. Users are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using images/graphics from this website.

This website may change this policy from time to time, and reserves the right to do so without notice.