Privacy Policy

1.0               Introduction

This Privacy Policy has to be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use for the website: locatexpert.com.

locatexpert.com can be considered a digital exhibition platform, like a commercial exhibition center, where Experts and Service Providers can showcase their qualifications, skills, other credentials and services they can and want to offer to the public. Thus, this is an online platform for professionals to connect with each other and to find and be found to provide their expertise in a wide variety of services needed in the community. In other words, these professionals and service providers, who are called Members, on their own register in this site, thereby being a member of this exclusive professional community, to publicize and/or to provide services based in their education, skill, experience, etc.

Our registered Members (as detailed in clause 2.1 of the Terms of Use) share their basic personal and professional identities, both for the purpose of professional networking and providing service offers to non-members, or public at large called Customers. This Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Customer. In order to use the site effectively, even customers should login using a preregistered username and password.

locatexpert.com even within its limitations as a small enterprise, is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy on the World Wide Web. locatexpert.com, even as a start-up, has taken ample steps for website security, including paid daily backups by a leading global hosting provider, which automatically and constantly checks for malware and other attacks. But even large and highly secure government and corporate IT infrastructures are sometimes hacked. In the physical world too, even the best locks and security systems are sometimes broken and public money stolen. While using any website such as this that operates on a world-wide network, the threats are even more and rapidly evolving too! We, therefore, advise our users to store only very essential data under their profiles, just enough to meet the purpose of promoting their services.

While we have taken many steps to ensure privacy of your personal data, there could be malicious attempts by third parties against websites such as this. It is also possible that very rarely some unknown technical glitches can also result in vulnerabilities to data protection. You, as a user of our website, understand and acknowledge such potential vulnerabilities while using applications such as locatexpert.com hosted in a world-wide open network such as the Internet, and agree to indemnify locatexpert.com, its owners and staff from any possible personal, business or other loss or damage resulting from such eventualities.

2.0         Consent to store and use data (IMPORTANT): locatexpert.com provides a platform for professionals (Experts – E or ES) and Service Providers (S) such as you to showcase their professional credentials to public to offer certain services that are required in daily life. Service providing Experts or Firms thereby promote their business activities through this site for their own benefits.  In order to do this, you as an expert or a service provider, will have to exhibit some basic information about you, without which your potential customers cannot decide on the suitability of you for providing the service.

At the same time, to build and maintain a reliable professional platform, locatexpert.com requires that: (a) your identity is verified through possible means such as e-mail and/or mobile phone verification and/or through reference for enrollment by existing members; (b) certain minimum amount of your and your firm’s data be provided by you; (c) the locatexpert.com team is convinced about the credentials you provided; (d) you agree to the storage of these data in locatexpert.com database and (e) you also agree to show some data to the public based on which they can decide to seek your service. Customers, on the other hand, will have to provide their names and e-mail address so that those who access the site are real men/women and not machines or the like.

By registering as an E, ES ,S or Customer, as stated above, you give locatexpert.com the full consent to store all the data provided by you and display a few data (such as name, area of expertise, location, etc. and those chosen by you to display in public) and shall keep locatexpert.com, its owners, associates and employees indemnified against any possible risks or losses on account of this.

3.0   Why we need your information?

Our primary aim to collect personal information about you is to ensure you a unique customer identity in our database and by so provide you with smooth, efficient and personalized service while you use our web services. Your providing us with data allows us to present you with customized features and services that most likely meet your needs. We collect these information through the online forms that are voluntarily filled up by you after having agreed to the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy of this website.

4.0   What is included in the personal information?

Generally, the personal information held by locatexpert.com includes your name, location, your contact number, personal email address and your locatexpert.com username and password. We also hold details of your locatexpert.com services and transactions data including their status as well as certain details about your personal interests. In the case of our experts and service providers and in the case of some customers, we may also have more data collected, purely at the will of these users, that are needed for some specific services or engagements.

5.0   How we use your personal information?

We use the collected personal information to enhance your website user experience. We also use personal information for statistical analysis of usage of the site to enable us to improve site contents, layout, customization of offerings on products and services. We use your personal info to send you email on our newsletter, response to online queries or comments and any update on Forum that you have requested.

6.0   Disclosure to Third Parties

locatexpert.com do not sell, trade, rent or release any personal information about you to any third party. We, however, reserve the right to disclose about you to Law Enforcement or Judiciary at our discretion if deemed necessary or appropriate in connection to any investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other activity that is illegal or may expose to legal liability.

7.0         Change of Privacy Policy

locatexpert.com reserves the right to add, change or modify the privacy policy. If we make any changes in our privacy practices that will affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on the website OR notify via email as found appropriate. You reserve the right in such case to decline to let us know the new information requested. In this case, it is possible that some of our services may not be available to you thereafter.

8.0         General condition

By using any of the features including but not limited to browsing the contents, searching through databases, sourcing data or information, reserving/buying services through this website, exchanging ideas or opinions and transacting through this website in any manner, you (the user) agree to the detailed Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of locatexpert.com.