Privacy Policy
This website skspaces.com is owned by SK Interiors, a firm providing interior design and execution services based in the city of Mangalore, Karnataka state, India. Wherever the term ‘SK SPACES’ or ‘SK Interiors’ or ‘skspaces.com’ is used it refers to SK Interiors and its branches, representatives, subsidiaries, controlled entities, affiliates and other related parties. SK SPACES provides its services through www.skspaces.com (referred to herein as 'Website' or 'Site'). SK SPACES is totally committed to the protection of your privacy, your shared data and personal information. We are focused on providing the best service to all of our customers and to visitors of the Website. This Privacy Policy is a statement of the overall principles and guidelines that govern this Website to protect your data and privacy.
Unless restricted by applicable law, you agree that all your personal information collected by SK SPACES through the Website may be used and disclosed as detailed in this Policy.
We urge you to read and understand this Policy carefully. By accessing the services provided by skspaces.com you agree to the collection and use of your data by skspaces.com and certain authorized third party service providers in the manner provided in this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, we request you not use the Website.
What is covered in this Policy?
This Policy covers how SK SPACES treats personal information that is collected and received in this website, including information related to your past use of the Website products and services.
To register with us for our service, you will be required to disclose your personally identifiable information like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and other information that is not otherwise publicly available and is essential for registering and receiving services from us.
SK SPACES is not responsible for any acts, deeds or things done or committed by any person not directly employed by our firm. Furthermore, we inform you that some of our associates/partner companies may have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on their respective links.
Privacy – Our Commitment
At SK SPACES, we are fully committed to protect your privacy. You may feel fully confident about us, use our services freely and recommend our services to your friends and family without any doubt or hesitation. We guarantee that we will not rent or sell your personal information to third parties (except as stated in this Policy) without your consent. In the day to day operations, we will provide your information to our authorised partners for the purpose of assisting in providing our services. We greatly value your comfort, trust and confidence in us.
Types of Information collected from you.
Profile Information
We collect all details provided by you during registration (email address, name, password, phone number, address and some profile details and interests). We also gather information we learn about you from your use of our service and your visits to our Site. We collect information about the transactions you undertake such as details of payments and type of cards used. We do not collect and store information related to your credit cards such as number, expiry date and CVV number.
The additional information we may collect may include your participation in any promotions or competitions offered by us and information you provide when giving us feedback or completing profile forms. We monitor customer traffic patterns and Site use in order to improve the service we provide.
We reserve our right to terminate your account at any time and, in such an event, the information you have shared with us may remain stored in our archives or on our servers even after the deletion or the termination of your account.
Anonymous Information
Further to the information that you explicitly provide during your interactions on our Site, we will also automatically receive and collect certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our Web server, including computer-identification information obtained from "cookies" sent to your browser from:
- web server cookie stored on your hard drive
- an IP address, assigned to the computer which you use
- the domain server through which you access our service
- the type of computer you're using
- the type of web browser you're using
Information Collection
Personal information about you is gained as part of the registration process, which is voluntary. Furthermore, we collect personal information through other means like contests, online events, surveys and such promotional activities.
We also automatically collect anonymous information like traffic information and hardware information when you visit our Site.
Our advertisers and partners may collect their own anonymous information through their own cookies for which we are not responsible for.
We acknowledge the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an online environment. Our sites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children 18 years of age or younger. We will never knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone below the age of 18.
Information Usage
The personal information that you disclose will be used mainly to process your registration, to process any orders that you may make for any products or services displayed on the Website, provide you with improved services, contact you when it is needed by telephone, facsimile and e-mail, and to advise you of products and services which may be of interest to you, inviting you to be a participant or a respondent to an online event that is hosted on skspaces.com. Further, the relevant information is used by SK SPACES to (i) provide you with statements of your account; (ii) to communicate with you on any matter relating to the conduct of your account; and (iii) to communicate the details of any orders / processing of any orders placed by you relating to products displayed on the Website.
We may also use aggregate information and statistics on non-personal basis* for the purposes of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop the Website, our products and services and may provide such Aggregate information to third parties on an aggregate basis. These statistics will not include information that can be used to identify any individual customer.
We may organize contests and surveys and the information collected during these events may be used by us to improve your overall customer experience. Such information will only be shared with third parties on an aggregate basis.
Personal data collected by the Website may be transferred to other sites of SK SPACES where it is necessary to meet the purpose for which you have submitted the information. By submitting data on this Website, you are providing explicit consent to transmission of data collected on the Website.
We use anonymous information like traffic and other data to provide us with information to recognize the access privileges to our Site, track your participation in any of the events, providing you with better content and advertisements, help diagnose the problems with our Site and for the purposes detailed in the Policy.
[*For the purposes of this Policy, "Aggregate information" shall mean and include information that is recorded about users and collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an individually identifiable user. Such information is basically statistical data which does not identify you individually and you will remain anonymous.]
Information Sharing and Disclosures
Profile Information
We do not rent, sell or share your personal information to third parties -
- Unless we have permission from you,
- Unless we have to provide products and services that are requested by you,
- Unless we have to help investigate, prevent or take action regarding unlawful and illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threat to the safety or security of any person or organization or property or asset or rights of the Website from unauthorized use or misuse of the Website, violations of skspaces.com terms and conditions or to defend against legal claims/proceedings
- Unless upon occurrence of special circumstances detailed hereunder -
- respond to subpoenas, court orders, judicial proceedings, or other legal processes;
- to enforce the terms of the Website User Terms and Conditions or the terms of this Policy;>
- to respond to claims that any photo, text, or other material violates the rights of third parties; or
- to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of SK SPACES, its users, or the general public.
We may provide certain required personal and contact information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted business partners for the purpose of providing the required service on our behalf. However, such sharing will require these concerned parties to agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and all other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
In the event of SK SPACES becoming involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, you will be informed through e-mail before such personal information is transferred and that may become subject to a different privacy policy.
We may also share certain pieces of Aggregate information with third parties.
Information Security
Adequate security measures are put in place to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data gained through our website. We hold regular internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices, as well as our security measures to guard against unauthorized access to personal data. Access to personal information is restricted and provided to only persons qualifying on ‘need to know’ basis, mainly employees, contractors and agents for the purpose to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are further obligated to observe confidentiality conditions and may be subject to severe penalties, including termination of services or criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Although we guarantee the confidentiality of your personal information from our side, we are sure you will understand that transmissions made via Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. Hence, by using this Site, you are deemed to have agreed that we will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to reasons beyond our control, such as errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.
By using this Website, you further agree to take sole responsibility and liability for, and shall indemnify SK SPACES against any and all costs, expenses, damages, fees, etc. that SK SPACES may incur or suffer due to any personal information or other materials that you post, upload, submit, and otherwise make available on the Website, including areas of the Website that are available to the public. We regret in our inability to control and protect personal information that you disclose in public areas of the Website. If you disclose your personal information in public areas, where it may be collected and used by third parties, without our or your knowledge. We also deem that understand that by displaying your information or photographs on the Website and the internet, for the intention of showing the information / those photographs to your friends, family, acquaintances, clients, business partners, and others, that you directly intended to see the photographs, you are relinquishing certain traditional privacy rights, wherein anyone with access to the internet has the potential ability to view your information / photographs. If you do not wish to relinquish these traditional privacy rights, we urge you and advice you not share such information / photographs.
Policy Compliance
We regularly review our compliance with this Policy. You are free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or our treatment of personal information by contacting us through this Website. Upon receiving your complaint, we will contact you regarding your concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities to resolve any complaints that cannot be resolved between us.
Redressal of Disputes
In the event of any dispute, controversy or claim directly or indirectly caused by, arising out of or relating to this Policy will be subject to the laws of India and will be referred to confidential, mandatory and binding arbitration in Bengaluru, India. The arbitration will be conducted on an expedited basis before a single arbitrator appointed by SK SPACES in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The arbitrator's award shall be substantiated in writing and will be final and binding on you and SK SPACES. Subject to the above, you agree to submit yourself to the exclusive jurisdiction of competent Courts in Bengaluru, India.
Your Rights
Your submission of information to this website is deemed to be consent for the use of that information as stated in this Policy. Submission of your personal information to us is entirely voluntary and we guarantee protection of all data thus provided. This website may be browsed freely by anyone and mere browsing does not require you to register with us. However, some of our services are offered only to visitors who do register with us.
You are free to correct or update any changes to your personal information at any time. Just log in to My Account section of the Site.
You may also subscribe or unsubscribe from our mailing list, our marketing / promotional / newsletters communications. However, skspaces.com reserves the right to send you important service related communications without offering you the facility to opt-out.
If at any time we feel the need to use your personal information for any commercial purpose, we shall so only after gaining your consent and you have the right to refuse our request or opt out of database.